Kazuya Mishima

Kazuya Mishima, also known as Devil Kazuya and The Iron Fist of Darkness, is one of the main characters from the Tekken series.
== Charactah Account ==
Kazuya plans to take over his family's company, the Mishima Zaibatsu, by defeating his father Heihachi in the King of Iron Fist Tournament.
With a few words, Kazuya is generally presented as an arrogant, destructive, self-righteous, aggressive, misanthropic, and cold-blooded man. He always sees himself as the hero and the one who has every right to take everything he wants from others. In Tekken 6 Kazuya refers himself as "the world's chosen hero". According to many other characters, including his father, Kazuya has delusions of grandeur.
Kazuya is one of the most basic characters in the series. His moveset furthers powerful single strikes, and despite them being mostly slow and/or unsafe on block, they do a lot of raw damage. Most of Kazuya's best moves are predictable and hard to surprise with, so his most rewarding method of play is centered around block punishment. In fact, Kazuya's greatest assets are his punishing moves, like the Electric Wind Godfist, one of the best, if not the best punisher in every game he's in. In summation, he's overall best used as a defensive character, and a good timing is required to main him. Despite his rather heavy reliance on aforementioned good timing and strong defense, Kazuya is a formidable force of steady aggression in the hands of an experienced player. A certain rhythm of dodges, sidesteps and blocks is required to maintain the upper hand and with creative use of stuns, Kazuya's onslaught is virtually unstoppable. This is very much a high-risk tactic and requires a lot of nerve from the player.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Tekken
* Tekken: Blood Vengeance
* Tekken: Bloodline
=== Manga ===
* Tetsuman: Tekken Comic
=== Video Games ===
* Fist of the North Star LEGENDS ReVIVE
* Full Bokko Heroes X
* Galaga: TEKKEN Edition
* Namco X Capcom
* Project X Zone 2
* Street Fighter X Tekken
* Super Smash Bros. Ultimate
* Tekken
* Tekken (Mobile)
* Tekken 2
* 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 Card Tournament
* Tekken Resolute
* Tekken Revolution
* Tekken Tag Tournament
* Tekken Tag Tournament 2
* The King of Fighters: All Star
== Trivia ==
* Kazuya's fighting style is heavily based on Shotokan style of karate.
* Possibly because of the Devil Gene, Kazuya's left eye glows red. However, it is also a possibility that Kazuya gained this red eye due to the reconstruction G Corporation implemented on him, especially since the red-eye only first appeared in Tekken 4. However, Devil Jin's eyes glow red at times too.
* Despite fan misconception, Kazuya does not consider Jun Kazama his wife. There has never been any confirmation on his civil status either.
* In Kazuya's Tekken 4 prologue, it states that his body was recovered by G Corporation days after he was thrown into the volcano. Despite this, however, it likely took at least fifteen years to resurrect Kazuya, since Devil's other half was still attempting to make contact with another Devil Gene host all through this time, and was only able to brand Jin Kazama once his mother went missing when Jin was fifteen. If Kazuya had been successfully resurrected before this time, it is highly likely that Devil would have returned to its original intact host, especially since its primary goal is to reunite its two halves.
* In Kazuya's Tekken 4 prologue it states that he willingly subjected himself to G Corporation's experimentation. It is possible that some of these experiments maybe have been psychologically traumatic, however, as implied in the Devil Within (Mode) of Tekken 5. Deep in G Corp's underground facilities there are testing chambers of a child's bedroom, populated with clones of Heihachi Mishima.
* In Tekken 7, the Journalist claims that Kazuya's takeover of G Corporation first involved an explosion at a G Corp lab causing heavy casualties, followed by the deaths of number of G Corp executives in a series of separate incidents. Following this was a possibly separate event of a huge fire in a privately owned G Corp building. The Journalist claims that Kazuya disposed of the "guilty parties" (implying a number of separate parties beyond just G Corp's executives) "without even dirtying his hands". It is known that Bruce Irvinhelped Kazuya undertake his revenge against G Corporation, and shortly thereafter was immediately placed in control of a budding military wing that directly answered to Kazuya.
* In Kazuya's youth (TK1, TK2) it was stated that he collects sneakers. Harada confirmed that this is still a passion of his even now in his later years.
* Part of Kazuya's techniques are performed by the same motion actor as Jin Kazama, Ryu Narushima (Narushima Ryuu).
* In Heihachi's Tekken 2 ending, Kazuya is wearing his purple tuxedo outfit (his extra outfit). However, in the Tekken 4 intro, he is shown wearing his 1P outfit.
* Kazuya is playable in every Tekken game with the exception of Tekken 3 as he was believed to be dead.
** As was revealed by his Tekken 4 prologue, he was resurrected mere days after the events of Tekken 2, meaning that he was alive when the third tournament was held 19 years later in Tekken 3 but did not participate. This was apparently due to him being fully focused on unlocking the full power of his Devil Gene with the help of G Corporation, which would then later get interrupted by Heihachi during the events leading to Tekken 4, causing Kazuya to join the fight once more. It is possible Kazuya feared he was not ready to fight Heihachi as he did not yet have control over his gene (and he did indeed lose to Heihachi in the King of Iron Fist Tournament 4), or that he had no knowledge of the tournament, since he was being heavily experimented on and does not seem to have left G Corporation labs for the entire interval between Tekken 2 and Tekken 4.
* Kazuya is the only Tekken character that has appeared in all motion pictures based on the game franchise. He has appeared in Tekken: The Motion Picture, Tekken (2010 film), Tekken: Blood Vengeance, Street Fighter X Tekken: The Devil Within, Tekken Tag Tournament 2 live-action short film, and Tekken: Kazuya's Revenge.
* Also, he is the character that has been portrayed the most as a live-action character. He has been portrayed by 4 actors; Ian Anthony Dale, Mark Musashi, Kefi Abrikh, and Kane Kosugi.
* After his crossover debut as an NPC in his Devil Form in Namco x Capcom, Kazuya (with his ability to change into his Devil Form) finally made his playable debut in Project X Zone 2, paired with his son, Jin.
* Some of Kazuya's character design may have been inspired by the late Japanese author and writer Yukio Mishima who also shares his family name, though Harada confirmed that no characters were physically modeled on any living people.
* With the exception of Tekken Tag Tournament, Kazuya laughs and/or smirks in all of his endings throughout the series. While he does not have an ending movie in Tekken 7, he still laughs at least once in the Story Mode.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Kazuya Mishima at Tekken Wiki
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