King II

King II, also known as Anger of Beast and The Silent Jaguar, is a character from the Tekken series.
== Charactah Account ==
A new boy from the first King's orphanage who takes up the name King and his mask, later trained by Armor King, and learns about the death of the first King. He enters the tournament for revenge, and although he didn't win, he is satisfied to see his predecessor's killer dead. But then comes another news, Armor King is killed in a bar brawl, which spurs him to another revenge-bout by releasing the said murderer Craig Marduk from prison and beats the pulp out of him in the 4th tournament. But later, he realizes that revenge is not his style... until suddenly Marduk came back and challenged King while disgracing Armor King. King beats him again, but this time forgives Marduk and they become best buds. But soon after, King learned that somehow Armor King is Back from the Dead, acts differently, and has assaulted Marduk. He decides to investigate his mentor's old home, and discovers that one of his photos bears a secret compartment, revealing another man in the same outfit. King watches the showdown between the second Armor King and Marduk at the first Armor King's grave site, and is shocked when they both knock each other out. King now enters the 7th tournament to pay their hospital bills and try to help them make amends when they wake up, so they don't end up killing each other.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Tekken: Bloodline
=== Video Games ===
* CR Tekken
* Fist of the North Star LEGENDS ReVIVE
* Galaga: TEKKEN Edition
* Namco X Capcom
* Street Fighter X Tekken
* Tekken (Mobile)
* Tekken 3
* Tekken 3D: Prime Edition
* Tekken 4
* Tekken 5
* Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection
* Tekken 6
* Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion
* Tekken 7
* Tekken 7: Fated Retribution
* Tekken Advance
* Tekken Arena
* Tekken Card Challenge
* Tekken Card Tournament
* Tekken Bowl
* Tekken Hybrid
* Tekken Resolute
* Tekken Revolution
* Tekken Tag Tournament
* Tekken Tag Tournament 2
== Trivia ==
* King does not speak, but instead growls like a jaguar. These growls are however translated into speech via subtitles, and the people he interacts with seem to clearly understand what he says.
* The original King was inspired by the legendary Japanese pro wrestler Satoru Sayama (better known as Tiger Mask) and a Mexican wrestler named Fray Tormenta, a Catholic priest who became a masked wrestler in order to support an orphanage. Fray Tormenta inspired one of the children in his orphanage to take up his mantle after he retired. This new masked wrestler's identity is unknown, but he calls himself Fray Tormenta Jr. This person likely inspired King II, who is also an orphan who takes up King's mantle and adopts a name in homage to him.
* Not surprisingly, King also shares moves with other fighting game wrestlers, such as the Giant Swing also used by Wolf Hawkfield (Virtua Fighter), Bass Armstrong (Dead or Alive) Antonio Cesaro (WWE 2K) and R. Mika (Street Fighter V). Also, his Tekken 5 incarnation has a version of the Spinning Pile Driver (often abbreviated as SPD), the trademark command throw of Zangief's (Street Fighter).
* King's grapples and strikes come from various famous wrestlers: This includes Undertaker's (and Kane's) Tombstone Piledriver, Kinnikuman's Kinniku Buster, Jake the Snake Roberts' DDT, Sting's (and Bret Hart's) Scorpion Deathlock/Sharpshooter, and Iron Sheik's Camel Clutch.
* His Basic pro-wrestling grapples includes the Inverted Atomic Drop, Frankensteiner, Wristlock, Knee Cross Lock, Power Bomb, Suplex, Back Slam, STF, Boston Crab, Russian Leg Sweep, Giant Swing and German Suplex.
* One of King's victory poses shows him side-stepping in a manner displayed by Rey Mysterio. King is also seen in the Tekken 5 opening FMV performing a 619 after being thrown across the wrestling ring by Marduk, in order to prevent a collision with the outside of the ring. The 619 is Mysterio's trademark move.
** Furthermore, both King and Rey Mysterio are masked Mexican wrestlers, who carry on the tradition from their predecessors, also named King and Rey Mysterio respectively. For a further similarity, "Rey Mysterio" means "The King of Mystery" in Spanish. Also, the 619 was known throughout Japan as "Tiger Feint Kick", made famous by Tiger Mask II (Mitsuharu Misawa).
* According to Alisa's journal in the Scenario Campaign, King is not easily classified as human.
* King's Tekken 3 theme can be heard in Sebastian's Tekken Tag Tournament 2 ending when he changes the radio channel for the first time.
* King II's customization items in Tekken 5 and Tekken 6 allowed part of his face to be shown, revealing just his mouth. Interestingly, King, despite having his jaguar mask removed and having his mouth exposed, still makes jaguar sounds, rather than human sounds. Additionally, his mouth never moves while making these sounds.
* Unlike his predecessor King I who had dark skin, King II's skin color is a lighter shade of brown.
* Several of King's moves were motion captured from Minoru Suzuki
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* King II at Tekken Wiki
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