Alisa Bosconovitch

**Alisa Bosconovitch** is a character from the *Tekken* franchise.

A robot girl created in the image of Dr. Bosconovitch's daughter. She just woke up and the first person she saw was Lars, thus she ended up accompanying him in his quest. She's not really sure of her purpose, however it turns out that her main objective is to protect Jin Kazama, which he used immediately to his advantage, by spying and later, betraying Lars. She's knocked out and was shut down by Lars, and after everything is over, Lars sent her to Lee so she could be restored.

In 7, Alisa recovers from her ordeal in the previous game and once again accompanies Lars, now also assisted by Lee and the Reporter, in saving Jin Kazama from being captured by Heihachi and Kazuya Mishima.

In the AWA fics, Alisa is set to appear in a future AWA storyline.

## **Appearance**

Alisa is a beautiful android with the appearance of a human teenage girl. She has green eyes and medium-length half-dark pink and half-pink hair, styled in a short bob. Under Jin's influence, her eyes become red.

Alisa's primary outfit consists of a light and dark purple ombre dress with a slanted split down the front that ends in a back skirt, a white belt decorated with chains and three blue roses on the side, uneven black thigh-high stockings, one of which has a garter that connects to her short black shorts, white gloves covering her hands along with uneven, detached, purple sleeves covering her arms and white boots with black cuffs. Her breasts are covered in a criss-crossed, halter-like manner, with the strings securely attaching to a white collar which has a blue rose on the left-hand side. She also has three flowers embedded into the hair on the right-hand side of her head. In some cutscenes in the Scenario Campaign, the three flowers which are embedded in her hair can commonly be seen falling off, either while she is under Jin's influence or being defeated by Lars.

Her second outfit consists of red shoes, white socks, a red sarafan (decorated with two horizontal stripes, one gold and one white, and an ornate vertical decoration), and white bracelets around her gloves' cuffs.

In *Tekken 7: Fated Retribution*, Alisa wears a new main outfit; she now wears a purple, white and pink turtleneck dress with three pink gems in the center, long white fitted sleeves and a frilled cyan underskirt, along with white gloves with gold outlines, purple stockings and white thigh-high boots with gold outlines. She also gains four spiked hair clips as opposed to the three flowers on the left-hand side of her head. Her jet packed wings have had a drastic change of appearance, and are now made of gold and have several spikes attached. The flames from her wings are now purplish pink instead of purple.

## **Personality**

Unlike most robots, Alisa possesses emotions and acts more like a human than a robot. She is a very kind-hearted individual who speaks in a polite manner and is sensitive to others' feelings. Alisa can also appear rather childish, resembling Ling Xiaoyu characteristically. In *Tekken: Blood Vengeance*, it is shown that she is also very capable of deception, as well as being quick to make friends with anyone, even Panda. Also in the CGI movie, Alisa cheers Xiaoyu up, telling her that she can stop the fighting between the father and sons of the Mishima house, as well as insisting that she owed Xiaoyu her life as she once saved her. She does not like to fight or hurt anyone, but when push comes to shove, she is a formidable fighter.

As a robot, she is very intelligent and often speaks in technical terms. In some situations, when people call Alisa a robot, she denies the fact and insists that she is a human being, though it was never known if she insisted as such in *Blood Vengeance*because only a handful of people knew her to be a robot. When she was commanded by Jin, she didn't recognize Lars, and performed Jin's commands at full efficiency. In *Blood Vengeance*, while she still recognized Xiaoyu when she was ordered to take Xiaoyu out, she puts her mission as her top priority, so much so that she does not hesitate in her attempt to kill Xiaoyu. It is shown both in the game as well as the CGI movie that Jin has full control of her, and Alisa obeys his every command without any resistance.

## **Abilities**

Alisa is an average character. Most of her attacks are very powerful (especially her chainsaw attacks), as well as very fast, although some of her moves are tricky to execute: her *Bull Shoot* requires the player to quickly move the correct buttons and must be paired up with timing to be executed effectively and her *Sand Box* requires good timing as the player can only do this attack immediately after hitting the opponent in the front. Overall, she is a pressure-heavy character, with fast pokes and good low attacks.

Her long range attacks (i.e her *Rocket Punch*) can be very useful for hitting enemies that are distancing themselves. Her attacks that are paired up with her *Reboot* command are also very powerful, knocking over and sometimes sending them flying up in the air. Their main flaw, however, is that they can be easily sidestepped.

Alisa's fighting style (referred to as "Unique" in *Tekken Tag Tournament 2* and later as "High Mobility Combat" in *Tekken Revolution* and *Tekken 7*) appears to incorporate dance into some of her moves, similar to Lili's fighting style.

Alisa has a mechanical device built into each of her lower legs. These are extra thrusters used for steering during flight, as seen in the Scenario Campaign cinematic 16 *Battle in the Sky*(her ending in the Playstation Portable version), and to power up her kicks. Alisa is also able to sprout butterfly wing-like jets from her back, allowing her to briefly fly at great speed during fights, sprout chainsaws from her arms (this is one of her stances, "Destroy Form"), and remove her head during moves, such as one of her grapples, "Spam Bomb".

## **Trivia**

* Alisa is the robotic clone of Dr. Bosconovitch's deceased daughter (whose name was also Alisa), but with self-defense enhancements and fighting skills. This could be a nod to the *Astro Boy* anime, in which the titular character's original purpose was to replace the dead son of Dr. Tenma, but was later reworked to be a defense robot.
* The flowers that she wears in her hair are "daisies", a symbol of innocence; this being an important trait of Alisa's personality.
* Alisa's name is Russian/Hebrew for "Alice".
* Katsuhiro Harada made a comment that Alisa was partially inspired by Ashley Williams from the *Evil Dead*series since both of them use built-in chainsaws, (Ash uses a chainsaw as a prosthetic after he loses his hand).
* Despite being Russian, she speaks Japanese (due to being built to work for Jin, and also because she communicates with Miharu and Xiaoyu in *Tekken Tag Tournament 2*).
* In *Tekken 6* dialogues, Alisa sometimes denies being a robot, claiming she is a human. However, in the canonical endings she doesn't hide being a robot. In *Blood Vengeance* and *TTT2*, Alisa freely admits to Xiaoyu that she is a robot.
* As with Yoshimitsu's "sword" attacks, Alisa's "chainsaw" attacks are also blockable.
* Alisa has characteristics matching that of Pyrrha Alexandra from *Soul Calibur V*:
	+ Both are the female protagonists in their games' respective story mode.
	+ Both are sidekicks to the male protagonists (Lars and Patroklos).
	+ Both betrayed the male protagonists and switched sides with the villain they're opposing against in the climax (Jin has Alisa's Safe Mode disabled and Tira gets Pyrrha possessed by the sword, Soul Edge).
	+ Also, their eyes changed from normal to abnormal under the villain's influence (Alisa has red under Jin's influence, Pyrrha has gold under Soul Edge's influence).
	+ Both are turned back to their normal selves only by being defeated by the protagonists.
* Elphelt Valentine from *Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-* has characteristics matching Alisa.
* The *Bakugan* character Alice Gehabich shares many similarities to Alisa.
* Alisa was likely an inspiration for the character of Penny in web-series *RWBY*.
* Alisa has similar designs to characters from Xenosaga. Alisa's wing design could be compared to KOS-MOS', while her hair is similar to the style MOMO Mizrahi has, particularly from *Xenosaga Episode III*.
* She and her creator are based on the main characters in the fairy-tale *Pinocchio*, including parts of their storyline.
* Despite being a robot, Alisa's breasts are revealed to bounce whenever she moves, as one confused player asked Harada via Twitter about her physical appearance, where he confirmed that Alisa's body is made of metal composites, such as her skeleton being composed of tungsten carbide and her outer armor being made up of both titanium and uranium while the rest of her body has artificial skin. He also mentions that Alisa's breast physics are due to shock absorbers.