Kazuya Mishima (Tekken)

* Kazuya
* Devil Kazuya

### Moral Event Horizon

Killing his father Heihachi and continuing the war after his death, leading to many deaths.
Shooting a beam at Heihachi's satellite, destroying an entire city in the process and killing countless people.
Framing the populicide incident on Heihachi.

### Crimes

Mass murder
Attempted genocide
Mass destruction
Drug dealing
Smuggling
Terrorism
Usurpation
Populicide
Attempted filicide
Assault
Arson
Vandalism
Crimes against humanity
Patricide

### Type of Villain

Delusional Martial Artist

**Kazuya Mishima**, also known by his alter ego of **Devil Kazuya**, is one of the main antagonists of *Tekken* franchise alongside his father, Heihachi Mishima. He is also the arch-nemesis to both his son and father.

In Japanese, he was voiced by Jouji Nakata in all games up to *Tekken Tag Tournament*, Masanori Shinohara in all games afterward (alongside *Tekken: Blood Vengeance*), Kazuhiro Yamaji in *Tekken: The Motion Picture*, and Minami Takayama in *Tekken: The Motion Picture* as a child. In English, he was voiced by Jordan Byrne in *Street Fighter X Tekken*, Adam Dudley in *Tekken: The Motion Picture*, Jacob Franchek in *Tekken: The Motion Picture* as a child, and Kyle Hebert in *Tekken: Blood Vengeance*.

## Roles

He is the main protagonist of *Tekken*, the main antagonist of *Tekken* *2*, a mentioned antagonist of *Tekken 3*, the secondary antagonist of *Tekken 4*, a supporting antagonist of *Tekken 5*, a major antagonist of *Tekken 6*, the secondary antagonist of *Tekken 7,* and the main antagonist of the upcoming *Tekken 8*.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

### In General

* One could argue that he felt sorrow for Heihachi upon killing him in *Tekken 7.* However, considering he hated him for so long and his immense sadism, it is possible he just felt sad from no longer getting to fight him, or he felt depressed from knowing that his mom was secretly wanting him dead and that Heihachi was forced to kill her for self defense, and that was a convenient timing for such thoughts to get to him due to nothing chaotic going on.
* Although he did care for his grandfather, considering he never thinks about him or mentioned him, it's possible he just moved on from him.
* While he seems to have some form of friendship with Bruce Irvin, Kazuya only views him as a loyal minion at best.
* He cared greatly for his mother Kazumi Mishima, to the point of wanting to avenge her years after her death, but it may have been subverted when Akuma told him he was tasked to kill him. However, he laughs afterwards, which is basically him laughing out of his mental instabilty.
* While he had a tragic past with Heihachi abusing him, it doesn't excuse his crimes in the slightest and isn't ever portrayed sympathetically.
* While he used to have moral agency issues due to his possession the devil gene influencing him to commit some of his crimes in *Tekken 2*, in *Tekken 4* he takes complete control of the devil gene and now has morality even in his devil form, meaning he commits the rest of his crimes out of his free will and not because of his genes.
* Unlike most of the Mishimas, Kazuya has no remorse, honour, genuinely well-intentioned goals or other redeeming traits, losing nearly all of them overtime, making him the worst of the Mishima Clan.
* Despite *Tekken*'s high standards, his actions make him stand out to be one of the evilest villains in the entire franchise.
* While there are some endings where he has comedic moments, none of them are canon, so it doesn't detract from his dark and serious portrayal.

### In the *Tekken* games

* While he was the anti-heroic protagonist of the first *Tekken* game, it was for pragmatic reasons. He joined the Tekken Tournament, beats up multiple people around the world just to kill his father, and after defeating him, he took sadistic pleasure of throwing him off the cliff.
* As the 2nd Leader of the Mishima Zaibatsu, he was involved in mass crime sprees including mass murder, drug dealings and animal experimentation.
* Even though he was attracted to Jun Kazama, he didn't care for her due to the fact he had no concern for Jun's well-being. This is also pointed out by his son Jin Kazama, as when he confronted Devil Kazuya, he said that Kazuya abandoned his mother.
* After discovering that Jin is his son and half of his devil gene were inside him, he joined the fourth tournament to kill Jin and take his Devil gene.
* During his fight with Jack robots, he allied with Heihachi to destroy the robots. After his devil genes acted up, he later threw him inside Honmaru as a bait while he escaped the fight, which later resulted the destruction of Honmaru.
* He conducted mass murder of G Corps associates with the help of his associate Bruce.
* He manipulated the citizens of the world during the war into believing that he is the true hero of the war due to him being the leader of G Corps and his enemies, Jin and Mishima Zaibatsu, declared the war. However he was involved in the mass destructions across the globe and he continued the destruction after Mishima Zaibatsu have been completely destroyed.
* He shoots a devil beam at Heihachi's satellite, destroying an entire populated town and killing thousands, which would be dubbed as the 'worst man-made disaster in history. It is also implied that Kazuya framed the Incident on Heihachi.
* He killed his father, Heihachi, though he somewhat deserved it.
* He chose to continue the war after Heihachi's death.
* Although he does eventually stop trying to kill his son, Jin Kazama for his devil gene, it's because he simply doesn't see it as worth his time rather than any care or standards.