Tekken is a series that has left a colossal imprint on the fighting game industry. It holds multiple acco🍃lades, even🌌 being the owner of the.
What really cements its role as one of the most prolific fighting franchises of all time is its cast. The diverse 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:roster of (sometimes pecul💜iar) characters leaves no player without a favorite, even when playing for the first time. The charm exuded by these characters is what makes fans care about their fighter's backstory and ambitions, be they a self-aware robotic warrior or a grizzly bear i🌌n a bandana. This attachment is why their ending cinematics are so important, often offering fans closure or, at the very least, cheap comic relief.
10 ⛦ Yoshimit🎶su/Kunimitsu: Tekken Tag Tournament
The track used in this ending scene (and every other in Tekken Tag Tournament) is one that inspires hope and triumph but also melancholy and defeat, completely dependent on the accompanying visuals. This duality lends itself particularly well to Yoshimitsu and Kunimitsu (th💜e enigmatic and sometimes forgotten warrior now rightly availab🃏le in Tekken 7)'s cutscene.
Players seeไ the duo facing off before charging each otꦯher. One falls, one stands, depending on the character you used. Is it just for the thief, Kunimitsu, to be apprehended, or is it a relief to see her escape? The player's allegiances affect the tone of these scenes.
9 Mars🍃hall Law: Tekken 4 🧸
Part-time martial arts instructor and part༒-time restaurant owner, Marshall Law's Tekken 4 ending offe♊rs a special type of closure. After winning the tournament, Law uses his earnings to restore his restaurant, Martial China.
All seems to be going well until the tone of a complaining customer rings out: "Man, the food here sucks!" Law concludes that the best course of action is to deliver an uppercut to the angry customer's chin and promptly goes out of business again. The customer may not have deserved such treatment, but it's a thrilling sceneꦬ to watch.
8 🎀﷽ Wang Jinrei: Tekken 5
Wang is an elderly merchant and martial artist from China, often sharing his skills and knowledge with other combatants (such as Ling Xiaoyu). However, there is one fighter with whom he holds the longest and perhaps strongest relationship: 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the formidable Jinpachi Mishima. Wang and Jinpachi are repeatedly referred to ꦜas childhood friends throughout the series, and as Wang clocks in at age 105 i😼n Tekken 5, it can be assumed that the duo has known each other for around a century.
This lifelong friendship makes this cutscene particularly bittersweet as, desp🃏ite being reunited with each other, Jinpachi dies in Wang's arms, wishing for just a little more time together. Considering the fact that Wang's whole reason for entering the tournament was to fulfill the wishes of the assumed-dead Jinpachi, this scene is one of the most poignant in the series.
7 🐟 🔯 Ogre: Tekken 3
Ogre is a not-so-jolly green giant lovingly referred to as the 'God of Fighting,' with hobbies such as absorbing all living things. Not surprisingly, he is one of the last unlockable characters in both Tekken 3 and Tekken Tag T𝄹ournament.
Ogre's Tekken 3 ending is particularly memorable, as it consists of him transforming violently into his final form, True Ogre, bulging and doubling over in pain as he does so. Now fully transformed, complete with a lion's mane and snake arm, True Ogre sets fire to an attacking helicopter and glares at the camera. This grotesque yet stunning sequence adequately pumps up the player for what's to come: being able to play as True Ogre, the final ar🥀cade unlock in the game.
6 𓄧 Ganryu: Tekken 6
Definitely not a fan favorite, Ganryu is a sumo wrestler often referred to as one of the least popular characters in the series. A them𓄧e running throughout his tale is his unrequited love for Michelle and Julia Chang, but without much else unique to him, he is often forgotten.
Thankfully, Tekken 6 adds a few extra facets to him. No longer trying to win the heart of another, he enters the tournament to promote his new restaurant. Upon the defeat of the final boss, though, he absorbs the devil gene. This transforms him into Devil Ga꧒nryu, a fierce-looking yet completely powerless purple warrior. This comed𓃲ic scene gives Ganryu's appeal the boost it so desperately needed.
5 ♔ꦆ Ling Xiaoyu: Tekken 3
Tekken 3 marked the first appearance of series staple Ling Xiao♋yu. Xiaoyu is first shown as a fast-hitting high school student with a pet panda and a dream to open her own amusement park. Fighting through arcade mode with Xiaoyu awards her with just that: or so she thinks, before the sign 'Xiaoyu Land' falls to reveal 'Heihachi Land.' This, in turn, lands Heihachi a rightly deserved smack in the face.
What's notable a🐻bout this particular cutscene is that it is the first Tekken cutscene to differ stylistically from the usual 3D models, instead opting for a hand-drawn style.ꦡ This difference really drives home the contrast between Xiaoyu's happy, cheerful, somewhat childlike personality and that of the rest of the cast.
4 🍌 Wang Jinrei: Tekken Tag Tournament 2
As Tekken 🉐Tag Tournament 2 is non-canon, many of the end cutscenes are more comedic, occasionally functioning as 'what if?' scenarios. This scene is a prime example of both.
Wang is again joined by his lifelong friend Jinpachi Mishim♛a, along with two other elderly side characters, Dr. Bosconovitch and Sebastian, Lili Rochefort's butler. The group expresses discontent with their roles as unpopular or deceased characters, deciding that the best course of action is to equip their bodies with cybernetics to prolong their lives. Seeing the characters interact and poke fun at each other like this makes for one of the most charming scenes in the series to date.
3 ꧟ Heihachi Mishima: Tekken 5
Heihachi serves as one of the series' major antagonists, introduced in the original game as a military mogul wanting to collect the world's strongest fighters for nefarious purposes. More is revealed about Heihachi with each installment of the game and fans discover the incredible skeletons in♓ the Michima famiཧly's closet.
This sinister persona is blown into cartoonish super-viꦏllainy in this (thankfully non-canon) ending, in which he literally straps his son, grandson, and undead father to a rocket and sends them into space. So iconic was this ending t🐓hat it became one of his finishers in PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale and was parodied in Lee Chaolan's Tekken 6 ending.
2 King📖:🐓 Tekken 3
King, actually King II, is a jaguar-mask-wearing luchador who takes after the first King, a priest who looked after him when he was an orphan. After the murder of King I, King I's old sparring partner Armor King becomes the mentor of the grief-stricken and unskilled Ki🀅ng II.
King II's Tekken 3 cutscene shows him finally emerging victorious at a wrestling match and lifting the title belt. When his mentor disappears from ringside, King runs to the back room. The sound dro🔯ps to a low hum. Armor King sits maskless, staring at the ground. It's not explicitly stated what's 🍷wrong, but viewers know it's bad. Very bad. This is an unusual change in tone for Tekken and it works phenomenally.
1 Kazuya Mishim🍒a: Tekken 1
What Kazuya's ending lacks in polish, zani🔯ness, or normal facial movement, it makes up for in significance. This scene is the starting point, the seed that became the fighting game giant that Tekken is today.
Kazuya walks his father to a cliff, similar to that which he had been thrown off by Heihachi as a child, and returns the favor. Kazuya proceeds to give the camera one of the most unnatural smiles possible. This sets the Tekken sto🍒ry in motion, remaining one of the moღst important scenes to date.