Steve Fox

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**Steve Fox** is a character in the *Tekken* series. He made his first appearance in *Tekken 4* and returned for all subsequent games as well as *Tekken X Hazbin Hotel*. Steve is a young British boxer who was adopted at a young age and whose origins long remained shrouded in mystery. Throughout the games, Steve's main objective has been to learn more information about his past, including the origin of the mysterious scar on his arm, and to get revenge against those responsible. In *Tekken X Hazbin Hotel*, Steve has some connections to the Hazbin Hotel, Immediate Murder Professionals, cherubs, and the spider family.

## Biography

Steve Fox still remembers of his terrifying past life, Mishima Zaibatsu, and his mother. More than just those, with the rumors about Hazbin Hotel and Immediate Murder Professionals come to existence, Steve decided to go to the cities of hHell. When he is in there, he discovered the new things that are connected to something that he remembers, mostly two of his friends and training partners named Paul Phoenix and Marshall Law working at the Hazbin Hotel, the other one is Nina's inability to care about him likely because she doesn't want Steve to be involved with her dangerous mission, especially eliminating the I.M.P. and her other enemies. Speaking of her mission, nevertheless, Steve kept following her until the discovery about I.M.P.'s responsibility to three cherubs' banishment from heaven, while speaking of Law and Paul, Steve made his decision to go to the hotel to assist their work. However, one day, Steve was captured by the Mishima Zaibatsu, but it was not Heihachi as he thought, rather Arackniss, Henroin, and Sir Pentious, those three who are also members of it, took him to the airship. When Steve woke up there, he tried to find out the way to escape from that ship, but he had to fight Henroin for blocking his way to make his escape until he did it so. Later, Steve hung out with his friends and the new ones in the Hazbin Hotel again for a short time until he learned of the new tournament. Steve then seeks revenge on the Mishima Zaibatsu again by entering the King of Iron Fist Tournament and is helped out by his friends.

## Character Relationships

### Williams Family

* Nina Williams - His mother. He was conceived through in vitro-fertilization using her egg without her knowledge while she was cryogenically frozen by the Mishima Zaibatsu. Steve is constantly seeking Nina in search of answers, and when the two do meet, it is usually very brief.
* Anna Williams - His aunt. The two have never physically met before so their actual relationship is unknown.
* Richard Williams - His deceased grandfather. Richard died before Steve was born.
* Mrs. Williams - His grandmother.

### Kliesen Family

* Emma Kliesen - His guardian who treated him as a human during his childhood in the Mishima laboratories between *Tekken 2* and *Tekken 3*. Emma was also the one to help Steve escape and get adopted at the age of 6.
* Leo Kliesen - Talked to each other about Leo's mother who had helped him and the death of her until ended up becoming good friends.

### Mishima Zaibatsu

* Heihachi Mishima - Ordered Steve's synthetic creation as part of his Devil Gene research. Steve was created with the sole purpose of being strong enough to withstand the treatments which had led to deaths on earlier test subjects. Steve understandably detests Heihachi for this.
* Sir Pentious, Arackniss, and Henroin - Three of his enemies, whom Steve realized that they are other Mishima Zaibatsu members once Steve got captured by them. Henroin is also his opponent in the character episode.

### Hazbin Hotel Staffs and Visitors

* Angel Dust - His good friend. The two share their hatred to the Mishima Zaibatsu and Angel Dust's brother and father.
* Alastor - TBA
* Oksana Orlovskaya - Tried to cure him for the mysterious scar on his arm.
* Shin Kamiya - His good friend, who also share the hatred to the Mishima Zaibatsu.
* Marshall Law and Paul Phoenix - His friends and training partners.
* Lee Chaolan - Steve looks up to Lee and knows of his reputation as the "Silver-Haired Demon".
* Lei Wulong - His good friend, who helped him uncover information about his past and the Mishima Zaibatsu.

### Immediate Murder Professionals

* Blitzo, Moxxie, Millie, and Loona - Steve has extremely negative thoughts on them due to their murderous thoughts on Nina as well as their responsibility for three C.H.E.R.U.B. members' banishment.

### Others

* Hwoarang - His friend and occasional rival.
* Darth Vader - His enemy, whom Steve realized he is allied with Mishima Zaibatsu.

## Quotes

### Intro

* "*One, two.*"
* "*Don't let me down!*"
* "*Come on.*"
* "*Ha!*"
* "*You will answer me, even if I have to force you to do it!*" (against Nina)
* "*Another Zaibatsu member? Amazing...*" (against Arackniss, Henroin, or Sir Pentious)

## Trivia

* Steve's character was originally given the name **Dean Earwicker**. This was changed after a substantial amount of negative feedback from the *Tekken* community.
* Other possible names for Steve were **Leonard Gardner**, **Ryan Lewis**, and **Sugar McGregor**.
* Steve's full name may be Steven, since Alisa refers to him as Steven in her journal entry about him.
* Steve maybe have been given his name by Emma Kliesen, as he was born and raised in a Mishima Zaibatsu laboratory, and she appears to be the only adult who calls him Steve in his early childhood.
* According to a tweet by Katsuhiro Harada, Steve's father is a legendary boxer, who's DNA was used to create Steve.
* The motion capture done for several of Steve's attacks was supervised by the Yokohama Sakura Boxing Gym.
* Because he is a boxer, Steve Fox does not have normal kick attacks. However, there are a few instances where Steve uses his legs to attack, such as his get-up kicks, jumping kicks, and a single attack where he stomps on the opponent's foot.
* Steve is most likely unaware that Anna Williams is Nina's sister and thus his aunt, or that Emma Kliesen was killed by Kazuya Mishima.
* Steve shares a number of similarities with Shin Kamiya.
	+ Both were experimented on by the Mishima Zaibatsu.
	+ Both have markings on their left arms due to the experiments done on them.
	+ Both hate being called by their test subject names.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYvM8JeeO\_o&t=81s
2. ↑ https://twitter.com/Harada\_TEKKEN/status/22193288813