Kazuya Mishima

**Kazuya Mishima** (三島 一八 Mishima Kazuya) is one of the main characters in the Tekken series. He appears in all of the Tekken games except Tekken 3, in which he only made two cameo appearances. Though seen as the protagonist and hero of the first Tekken game, Kazuya is one of the major villains in the rest of the series. Most importantly, Kazuya is the son of Heihachi Mishima and Kazumi Mishima and the father of Jin Kazama. He's also the half-brother of Lars Alexandersson, the adoptive brother of Lee Chaolan, and the grandson of Jinpachi Mishima.

## Appearance

Kazuya's appearance change throughout the Tekken series. Kazuya has a black spiked hair and brown eyes, however, as of Tekken 4, his left eye is glowing red. When he was a young boy, Kazuya wore a white karate Gi with a black belt and red padded gloves and foot guards.

When he was wandering all over the world to fight in tournaments, he was wearing a black leather jacket with sleeves rolled up, a white tank top, ripped blue jeans, red converse sneakers and red gloves, embedded with ten metallic studs arranged in an upside down triangle. When he faced opponents, he usually took off his jacket.

In the first King of Iron Fist Tournament, Kazuya wore tattered and torn white karate gi pants with a black black, red foot guards and his signature red gloves. After winning the tournament and becoming the head of the Mishima Zaibatsu, he wore a purple tuxedo jacket, purple pants, black dress shoes, and a V shaped vest that is connected to his white collar in his both hands is shown. He also wears a orange-yellow scarf underneath his vest. The outfit represented that Kazuya was the head of Mishima Zaibatsu at the time.

Twenty years after his defeat, he reemerged. During Tekken Force raid at G Corporation, Kazuya wore a gray dress shirt, black corduroy pants and black dress shoes. During the fourth tournament, he wore his trademark white karate pants with a yellow cloud and lighting-like design on the left leg, along with his trademark red gloves, footpads and black belt with yellow outlines. He regained the attire during the fifth, sixth and seventh tournaments, but with a with gold flame designs on the individual right and lower left sides of his pants with respective purple and red colors on the insides of the flames.

## History

### Early Years

Kazuya was born to his parents, Heihachi and Kazumi Mishima. Unknown to him at the time, he was born with devil's power through his mother. He was taught the Mishima Style Karate with his grandfather, Jinpachi.

At five years of age, Kazuya was thrown off a cliff by his father, who claims that his son is weak and will have to survive and climb back up if he is to be his true son as well as his successor. Kazuya survives the fall, and due to a results of being thrown off a cliff by his father, it awakens Kazuya's Devil Gene in order to survive solely to murder his father.

### Participating in Tournaments

For years, Kazuya set out around the world to become the greatest fighter. He entered martial arts tournaments and defeated many opponents around the world, becoming an undefeated champion due to the Devil Gene within him.

One year before the King of Iron Fist Tournament, Kazuya came back to Japan to enter a Yakuza-run underground tournament. During the tournament, he defeated Naga Tanaki, who was one of the toughest fighters in the Yakuza and made a deal with head of the Nakamura Yakuza family, Yoshiro Nakamura to represent him at the tournament.

After winning the tournament, he encounted an American martial artist named, Paul Pheonix and ended up managing a draw with him during a fight.

### Tekken

When the first King of Iron Fist Tournament is announced, Kazuya takes the opportunity to get back at Heihachi, setting the stage for his confrontation against his father.

Kazuya enters the tournament and faced many opponents at the tournament. He faced Paul Phoenix again during the tournament and this time, he defeated him. He also fought and defeated his adopted brother, Lee Choalan.

He eventually headed to finals against his father, Heihachi. Apathetic towards the tournament's considerable prize money, Kazuya engages his father in a vicious, bloody battle in which Kazuya emerges victorious.

Kazuya then proceeds to throw Heihachi's broken body off the same cliff Heihachi threw Kazuya off many years ago, and smiles with his revenge completed.

### As the Mishima Zaibatsu leader

After winning the tournament, Kazuya became the head of the Mishima Zaibatsu and engaged in much more evil actions beyond that of his father. He caused the death of Eddy Gordo's parents and the creation of Roger and Jack-2. He also hired Anna Williams and Bruce Irvin as his bodyguards.

### Tekken 2

Two years later, Kazuya heard the news that Heihachi is coming for him and to take back the Mishima Zabatsu. He announced the King of Iron Fist Tournament 2 in order to lure his foes out for the pleasure of destroying them. During the tournament, Kazuya encountered a contender, Jun Kazama, and impregnated her with his son before leaving her to raise the child alone. Eventually, Heihachi made it to the final round to face Kazuya and defeated him due to battle between the light in him, represented by Angel who was brought forth after his meeting with Jun Kazama, and the darkness within him, represented by Devil. As a last resort, Kazuya transformed into his Devil Form and continued the fight atop the roof of the Mishima Zaibatsu headquarters, but Heihachi still emerged victorious due to his training to take back the Mishima Zabatsu. In retribution, Heihachi threw Kazuya's body into the mouth of a volcano and escaped on a helicopter as the volcano erupted.

### After Tekken 2

Shortly after his demise at Heihachi's hands, Kazuya is recovered by G Corporation, a cutting edge biotech firm and rival to the Mishima Zaibatsu. With help from the scientists, Kazuya slowly learns to control the power of the Devil Gene within him over the next twenty years, but as he begins preparing to take revenge and gain power, G Corporation is raided by Tekken forces on Heihachi's orders to acquire Kazuya's remains. Kazuya ambushes the Tekken Force and promptly defeats them, promising to come for Heihachi next. Around the same time, Kazuya learns of the existence of his son, Jin Kazama, and seeks to capture him with the intention of stealing Jin's devil power.

### Tekken 4

Kazuya enters the King of Iron Fist Tournament 4, despite knowing it is a trap by Heihachi. At the seventh stage, Kazuya is slated to fight Jin, who disappears. Kazuya is declared winner by default and sent to the final round, where he meets Heihachi and demands to know his son's whereabouts.

After winning the fight, Kazuya is taken by Heihachi to Hon-Maru, a Mishima compound in the woods, where Jin is being held captive. Once inside the compound, the Devil Gene brainwashes Kazuya's mind again and tries to steal Jin's Devil power, but is unsuccessful because of Jin's Kazama blood.

Kazuya regains control and awakens Jin through psychic taunts, but is unable to defeat Jin in the following fight, and knocked unconscious.

### Tekken 5

Following their defeats to Jin, Kazuya and Heihachi are ambushed by a squad of Jack-4s, who have been sent by G Corporation to destroy Kazuya as they no longer need him. Kazuya and Heihachi are forced to work together to fight the Jacks, until Kazuya throws Heihachi into a group of Jack robots and leaves him to die in the ensuing explosion. When a mysterious man takes over the Mishima Zaibatsu and announces the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5, Kazuya enters to track down those who betrayed him, and discover the sponsor's identity.

During the tournament, Kazuya crosses paths with Raven, who calls Kazuya a "coward who ran away from danger". He defeats Raven and interrogates him, it is during this little conversation that Kazuya finally learns who is holding the tournament: his grandfather, Jinpachi Mishima.

### Tekken 6

Despite not winning the fifth tournament, Kazuya discovers the division of G Corporation that tried to kill him, thinking that he may be too much of a threat; in retaliation, he kills them all in revenge to gain all the power for himself, becoming the head of the company and opposing the Mishima Zaibatsu, led by Jin who has begun world conquest and declared war on the world to destroy a greater evil. By this time, the world's population sees G Corporation as its only savior, though Kazuya plans to destroy Jin and take over the world himself with an iron fist. Kazuya uses the company's influence to his advantage: to stop Jin from taking over his plans for world domination, Kazuya places a bounty on Jin's head for whomever can manage to capture him dead or alive and decides to enter the King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 (announced by Jin) to settle the score once and for all with his son.

During the tournament, Kazuya along with the G Coporation arrive at a remote area somewhere in the desert and he feels an overwhelming power within a large corridor/temple and is soon confronted by an entity named Azazel, who is believed to be the reason for the Devil Gene but they are interrupted by the arrival of Jin who has also felt this power and believes that he must win this battle to save the world and destroy the Mishima curse or blood line but he believes that in order to achieve this, Kazuya, Azazel, and himself must all die. Kazuya later encounters Lars Alexandersson, a rogue Tekken Force leader who he discovers to be his half-brother. The battle ends without an outcome with Kazuya merely leaving and warning his half-brother about their fate being Mishima.

## appearences

### street fighter V

kazuya appears as a guest fighter in street fighter V.