Characters K - O

Kazuya Mishima

Story - The son of Heihachi and father of Jin Kazama. When he was a child, Heihachi threw him off a cliff because he was too weak to be heihachi's successor. To assure his survival, Kazuya made a deal with the devil. Over the years, he entered various martial arts tournament to honed his skills. When the first King of Iron Fist Tournament was announced, Kazuya took the opportunity for revenge. Kazuya defeated his father and dropped Heihachi's unconscious body off the same cliff. He claimed the Mishima Zaibatsu for the next two years, but Heihachi returned to defeat him and threw he into a volcano. Before his defeat, he became intimate with Jun Kazama and they both had a son. Just when he was thought to be dead, Kazuya reappear 20 years later to reclaimed everything he had lost and to take out those who betrayed him.

Rating - 10/10. Come on! To even say this guy is one helluva badass is an understatement.

King

Story - A famous luchador and an orphanage manager. Note that there are two Kings in the series. King I (appeared in Tekken 1 and 2) was a friend/rival of Armor King. He participates in various pro-wrestling and martial arts tournaments to fund his orphanage. After he was killed by Ogre pre-T3, King II become his successor under the mentorship of Armor King.

Rating - 3/10. He and Marduk should just hop into bed and cuddle up.

Kuma

Story - Heihachi's pet bear, bodyguard and training partner. He joined the second tournament to defeat Paul Phoenix but lost and died of old age shortly after, leaving behind a cub. Heihachi raised and trained Kuma Jr. whom also losses to Paul due to his docile upbringing. Nevertheless, Kuma had always remained a faithful pet and has been helping Heihachi retain ownership of the Mishima Zaibatsu. He is also in love with Panda!

Rating - 4/10. Fatal Wind owns!

Kunimitsu

Story - A member of Yoshimitsu's ninja clan who was dismissed after caught stealing from the clan's funds. She entered the first Iron Fist tournament to steal Michelle's pendant, a Native American treasure, but she failed and went into hiding. She sought her grandfather, who was a reputable swordsmith. From him, she learned that Yoshimitsu's sword is a relic with unimaginable powers passed down to each leader of the Manji clan for generations. The swordsmith has spent his entire life trying to forge a copy but failed. Kunimitsu decided to enter the second tournament so she can defeat Yoshimitsu and claim his sword for her grandfather. She failed, and was never seen again, possibly killed by Yoshimitsu or Ogre.

Rating - 5/10. She is the most obscure Tekken character to date. I find her pretty intriguing at first, but her storyline sort of trailed off after T2, and she plays like a handicap Yoshimitsu when she returns in TTT.

Lee Chaolan

Story - Heihachi's foster son. He was sent to the US to handle the Mishima Zaibatsu's operations over there. He also studied under Marshall Law and Paul Phoenix. After Heihachi's downfall at the hands of Kazuya, he sided with his foster brother. When Heihachi reclaimed the Zaibatsu, he was disowned and went into seclusion in the Bahamas, where he eventually runs a successful robotics company. One day, Lee founds out that the main research lab of the G Corporation, a company he holds stock in and a rival of the Mishima Zaibatsu, was attack by the Zaibatsu agents. He enters the fourth Iron Fist tournament under the alias "Violet" (pretty fruity, huh?), but was defeated by Kazuya in the end. Now he's out to seek revenge on Kazuya and take over the Mishima Zaibatsu.

Rating - 7/10. The silver-haired chick-magnet everyone believe to be gay, but he's a womanizing bastard.

Lei Wulong

Story - A respected police officer who was investigating the Mishima Zaibatsu for trading endangered animals and Bryan Fury for drug dealing before Bryan became a cyborg. After that, he was out to stop Nina Williams from killing Steve Fox, and then to help Asuka find Feng Wei whose been destroying dojos around China and Japan. Basically, he is joining each tournament to catch a criminal. He is also trying to bring down the Mishima Zaibatsu with Steve Fox's help.

Rating - 6/10. Drunken fist and Five animals has never looked better in a video game. Now, if only he's not based on Jackie chan...

Lili (Emily Rochefort)

Story - The only child of an oil tycoon who owns the Rochefort Enterprises. Four years ago, she was kidnapped by a group of criminals for ransom. With some luck, she defeated one of her kidnappers. At that moment, she realized the pleasure of beating an opponent, but deep down inside, Lili only wants impress her pacifist father. Torn between the desire to fight and her father's disapproval of violence, she uses a private jet and travels abroad to take part in street fights, secretly honing her skills. During one of her travels, she acquired an invitation to the Iron Fist Tournament 5 and noticed that the sponsor is the Mishima Zaibatsu, one of the Rochefort Enterprises' trading partner and the source of her father's troubles. She ignorantly assumes that the Zaibatsu would be a useful asset to her father and enters the tournament to win it.

Rating - 7/10. She's pretty cool compare to the rest of the female cast, except for her ridiculous story and how the hell a 16 year-old with no serious training learn to fight like that!

Ling Xiaoyu

Story - Xiaoyu's lifelong dream is to build an amusement park at her homeland. When she learned of the wealthy and powerful Mishima Zaibatsu, she decided to seek out Heihachi Mishima to make her dream come true. During a family vacation in Hong Kong, she stowed away on one of Heihachi's yacht and beat up his lackeys. When she finally faced Heihachi, she challenge him. Heihachi laughed it off, and promised to build her a theme park if she wins T3. Xiaoyu also enrolls at the Mishima Polytechnic School where she met Jin Kazama and Miharu Hirano. After losing at T3, she continues to live and study in Japan as a ward of the Mishima Zaibatsu. Just before the next tournament, she received an anonymous e-mail warning her not to trust Heihachi. Convinced that the sender is Jin, Xiaoyu decided to enter the fourth Iron Fist tournament hoping to reconnect with Jin and unmask the Mishima Zaibatsu’s evil deeds. At the end of T4, Yoshimitsu rescued her and told her everything about the Mishima family. She then met a scientist who claimed that he can make a time machine if there's funding. Under the condition that she will be the first to use the machine, Xiaoyu joins the fifth Iron Fist Tournament to obtain the needed funds, so that she can go back in time to make things better for the Mishimas.

Rating - 4/10. She's so frickkin' retarded! Although her tactical fighting style made her interesting to play, her cutesy attitude is still an annoying factor.

Marshall Law

Story - A close friend of Paul Phoenix and father of Forest Law. At first, he was thought to be the warrior who would defeat Heihachi Mishima and end the evil bloodline, but he proved otherwise when Wang Jinrei fought him at the first Iron Fist tournament. He owns a restaurant chain and dojo for a while, but his business went bankrupt and his son was badly hurt in a major accident. Now, he's broke and has been joining the King of Iron Fist Tournaments in hopes of winning the prize money and get his finances back together.

Rating - 3/10. He's as pathetic as his pal, Paul. Well, at least his T5 ending is funny enough.

Michelle Chang

Story - A half-Chinese, half-Native American from Arizona and foster mother of Julia Chang. She owns a pendant said to have the powers to control spirits that is coveted by Kazuya who failed to take it from her. Eventually, her father was killed by the Mishima Zaibatsu (at that time owned by Heihachi) after refusing to reveal where the pendant is. During T2, her mother was kidnapped by Kazuya, driving her to enter the tournament. 15 years later, she was kidnapped by Heihachi who also wanted her pendant in hopes of controlling Ogre. It is assumed the Julia rescued her and she retired from fighting.

Rating - 4/10. Booorriiiing!!

Miharu Hirano

Story - Xiaoyu's friend and schoolmate. She shares all of Xiaoyu's moves and appeared at her ending.

Rating - 1/10. The single most pointless character ever.

Mokujin

Story - A wooden training dummy, carved from an ancient tree and comes to life at the presence of powerful evil. He has the ability to mimic the fighting styles of various fighters.

Rating - 4/10. Well, there's only enough room for one mimicry character and that's Mokujin.

Nina Williams

Story - The cold-blooded assassin, elder sister of Anna Williams and mother of Steve Fox. When their father was murdered, both sisters blamed each other and had become bitter rivals since then. She was contracted to kill Kazuya, but failed and was captured to be put into a "cold sleep" as a cryonics test subject. 19 years later, she was awoken with preserved youth and memory loss as the results. During the cold sleep, she conceived Steve Fox through in-vitro fertilization. Nina returned to her life as an assassin while she tries to regain her lost memories. Somehow, she is yet to succeed in an assassination mission since her appearance. She is also the star of her own Tekken spin-off game, Death by Degrees.

Rating - 5/10. I like Nina up until T3, and there hasn't been anything new or interesting about her character after that, despite being in every single Tekken and having her own spin-off game. She looks really ugly, like an over-makeup crack whore from T4 onwards.

Ogre

Story - Supposedly an ancient war weapon left behind by aliens and later worshipped as the legendary Aztec God of Fighting. He was released when Heihachi sent his own army, the Tekken Force, to excavate an ancient temple site in Mexico. Ogre went on to attacked many world renowned martial artists, majority of them consist of the T2 cast (the older generation of Iron Fist Tournament participants), but most made a comeback in T5. When Heihachi learned of Ogre's powers, he sought to capture Ogre. At the end of T3, Ogre transformed into True Ogre and was killed by Jin, leaving behind specimens containing his DNA which Heihachi intent on using to make himself the ultimate warrior. However, Ogre's genome needs to be integrated with the devil gene that both Jin and Kazuya possess in order to fuse it with another living person. Hence, Heihachi announced the fourth Iron Fist tournament to lure them out.

Rating - 0/10. He's the lamest, gayest thing ever.