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Eventually, Heihachi comes back and reclaims his place, killing Kazuya by throwing him into a volcano. The third game takes place after a [[Time Skip]] and deals with Kazuya's son, Jin Kazama. The fourth deals with the [[Back From the Dead|return of Kazuya]], and later games continue to cover the struggle inside the Mishima family, with the Devil Gene complicating matters.

 

 

Lately, the series has been going from strength to strength; ''Tekken Tag Tournament 2'' was confirmed in late 2010 [[And the Fandom Rejoiced|to much fanfare and approval]], and looks to be one of the most expansive and exciting entries of the series so far. Nintendo fans are finally seeing some ''Tekken'' love for the first time since ''Tekken Advance'' also, with ''Tekken 3D: Prime Edition'' for the [[Nintendo 3DS]] and a title for the [[Wii U]] currently in development. Lastly, but certainly not least, the series is finally going head-to-head with its old rival, in the form of ''[[Street Fighter X Tekken]]'' and ''Tekken X Street Fighter'', 2 separate [[Crossover]] games developed by Capcom and Namco respectively. An updated version of ''Tekken Tag Tournament 2'', ''Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Unlimited'' is set to be released soon for consoles, featuring handicap matches, one on one battles and character re-balancing.

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* [[All Love Is Unrequited]]: There's Kuma for Panda, Ganryu for Michelle, and later her replacement Julia, and Xiaoyu for Jin.

* [[Ambiguous Gender]]: Leo. {{spoiler|[[Word of God]] says female.}}

* [[Badass]]: [[World of Badass|Everybody]]. It's a fighting game.

* [[Badass Army]]: The Tekken Force.

* [[Badass Family]]: The Mishima clan, natch. And, in what could be seen as a subversion of [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]], this even applies in-game. The Mishima family characters have consistently appeared in the top tiers of every ''Tekken'' game up until they were finally bumped down to upper-mid and mid-tier characters in ''Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion''.

* [[Badass Grandpa]]: Heihachi, Jinpachi, and Wang.

** Parodied with Alex, a [[Palette Swap|boxing]] ''[[Everything's Better with Dinosaurs|velociraptor]]''.

* [[Bruce Lee Clone]]: Marshall and Forrest Law.

* [[But for Me It Was Tuesday]]: Kazuya pulls this on Leo when confronted about the death of {{spoiler|her}} mother.

* [[Button Mashing]]: Noobs love to do this using Eddy or Christie, and Hwoarang to a lesser extent. Lili's been added. The ''CPU'' used to do this with Law in ''Tekken 2''.

* [[Calling the Old Man Out]]: Kazuya to Heihachi, later Jin to BOTH of them, and even later on {{spoiler|Lars to Heihachi}}.

* [[Chainsaw Good]]: Alisa Boskonovitch is built and fights with this.

* [[Character Roster Global Warming]]: Each game tends to feature two heavy characters, Jack and the bears. Now contrast this with the character roster of ''Tekken 6'', which is gigantic.

* [[Chef of Iron]]: Marshall Law, called "the fighting chef."

* [[Comeback Mechanic]]: ''Tekken 6'' has "Rage Mode", which activates when a character is low on life and does more damage the lower their life gets.

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]: Kazuya during his reign as Zaibatsu CEO. Heihachi subverts this in that he uses the Zaibatsu behind the scene for his own machinations but does a lot of good with the organization on the surface (legitimate good, not just [[Villain with Good Publicity]] stuff).

* [[Crossover]]: Yoshimitsu's ancestor shows up in the ''[[Soul Series]]'' series.

** Leo looks a lot like [[Fatal Fury|Rock Howard]].

* [[Extremity Extremist]]: Steve.

** Heihachi inverts this as a fallen villain when Kazuya pays him back. His reply? "You should have found a steeper cliff."

** Like his father, Jin has gone from primary good guy to even worse than those who came before him.

**** Except for the fact Lars {{spoiler|is half Japanese}} and has been working for a Japanese company, it would make sense that he would be bilingual, why he preferred Japanese is beyond this troper.

**** It's actually not too strange since Lars himself is well aware how big a deal his father is and that he probably have to deal with issues revolving around his father's family sooner or later. In the end, the final decision to make him speak Japanese is probably its easier that way while still remaining feasible.

* [[The Old Convict]]: Eddie Gordo's backstory from ''Tekken 3'' is that he was framed by the Mishimas, and while in prison, was trained in Capoeira by the oldest convict interned there. [[Distaff Counterpart]] Christie Monteiro is the old man's granddaughter.

* [[Old Master]]: Wang Jinrei.

** His son, Jin, has been [[Cursed with Awesome|"cursed"]] to inherit his father's devil gene. Since the fifth game, a second Jin aka Devil Jin has been playable. This version of Jin is not only [[Crazy Awesome|bat]][[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|shit]] [[Ax Crazy|insane]], but embraces his devil powers and uses them in combat, in conjunction with a new fighting style (a mix of the Mishima-style Karate that normal Jin unlearned and the more traditional Karate that post-Tekken 4 Jin uses).

** Even the supposedly innocent Jun Kazama is not safe from this trope. The latest gameplay footage from ''Tag Tournament 2'' shows (and confirmed many a fan theory) her one-winged angel form is Unknown, the final boss of the ''Tag Tournament'' games. [[Fan Nickname|Junknown]] uses other characters' fighting styles (ala Mokujin) but can willingly change her style mid-battle (not like Mokujin).

** Another [[Final Boss]] example is ''Tekken 6'''s Azazel. Fulfill the right conditions, and a powerful golden Azazel (confirmed in ''6's'' Scenario Campaign to be Azazel's ultimate form) can be fought in the place of the normal variant.

** Yet [[Rule of Three|another]] example in the form of Jinpachi Mishima. His true demonic form is fought as ''Tekken 5's'' final boss (worth noting that a [[Kill It with Fire|fiery]] variant is fought as the final boss of ''5: Dark Resurrection''.) This is actually more of an inversion, as Jinpachi's (supposedly) regular form can be used as a playable character in ''Tag Tournament 2'' (where he is downgraded to a sub-boss; being a sub-boss battle with Heihachi).

* [[Rule of Cool]]: Realistically, certain characters like [[Everything's Worse with Bears|Kuma]], [[Pandaing to the Audience|Panda]], [[Kangaroos Represent Australia|Roger Jr.]], [[Cool Sword|Yoshimitsu]], and [[Chainsaw Good|Alisa]] should not have been allowed into fighting tournaments alongside humans, for the simple reason that they'd kill all of their opponents within seconds. Then again, who cares about being realistic when you can pit a panda bear against a kangaroo?

* [[Running Gag]]: Lee Chaolan's Thumbs Up.

* [[Ryu and Ken]]: Eddy and Christie. As of ''Tag 2'', that also extends to Kuma and Panda.

* [[Samus Is a Girl]]: Kunimitsu was a [[Palette Swap]] of Yoshimitsu in the first game, but clearly female in subsequent installments. {{spoiler|Leo now counts too.}}

** To go along with the above Julia example, Marshall Law gains some customizations that pretty clearly give him the appearance of Kenshiro from ''[[Hokuto no Ken]]''. As both men derive inspiration from [[Bruce Lee]], this is a justified nod.

*** ''Tekken 6'' also lets the player buy a series of tracksuits for Marhsall Law with the [[Game of Death|yellow tracksuit]] costing around three times as much as the rest

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Come on, a luchadore who spends all his money on a mexican orphanage and--[http://www.cracked.com/article_18626_6-real-people-with-secret-identities-nobody-saw-coming.html holy shit.]

** And of course, the martial arts displayed are impressively well researched.

** In COMBOT's ending for ''Tekken 4'', Lee shows up to yell at him when he's busy celebrating in front of everyone else. He promptly gets spanked and thrown aside.

** Also happens in ''Tekken Tag Tournament'' when you choose Lee and Heihachi.

** Heihachi's item move in ''Tekken 6'' lets him spank anyone, [[Running Gag|adopted son]] or otherwise.

* [[Spinning Out of Here]]: Yoshimitsu possesses a special in his [[Stance System|Indian mediation stance]] allowing him to spin so fast (while sitting down) that he instantly warps on the other side of his opponent.