Armor King

**Armor King** is a professional wrestler from unknown origin and a playable character in *Tekken* fighting game series.

## Armor King

Armor King in Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection

### Aliases

Armor King II
Second Armor King
Armor King's successor
Current Armor King

### Relatives

King (rival)
Craig Marduk (rival)
Jaycee (ally)

## Story

Armor King debuted in the expansion of the fifth Tekken game presenting himself as a mysterious fighter who emerges from the shadows and who identifies himself with the same image as the deceased first Armor King. This one even confronts and injures Craig Marduk after the event of him being defeated by King. In the same week, Armor King even hits King using his tombstone piledriver, the same move the late first Armor King used.

Some months after the assault of the mysterious wrestler who attacked King and Marduk, the true identity of the supposed Armor King is finally revealed, as he himself reveals that this is the younger brother of the original Armor King who was killed by Marduk, and says he will never forgive Marduk for what he did to his brother.

A few months after the current Armor King revealed his true identity, he challenges his brother's killer to a death match according to the stipulation that whoever wins or loses, each will either take off their mask or retire from wrestling. However, even though it was announced, the booker never set the release date for the match.

## Personal life

King is the adopted son of Armor King's older brother, and their relationship means that Armor King would be his adoptive uncle.

## In wrestling

* **Finishing moves**
	+ *Armor King Driver* (Electric chair twisted into a sitout powerbomb)
	+ *Burning Hammer* (Inverted Death Valley driver)
	+ *Demon Bomb* (Sitout scoop slam piledriver)
	+ *Hades Drop* (Fireman's carry dropped into a roundhouse kick)
	+ *Jaguar Screwdriver* (Vertical suplex piledriver)
* **Signature moves**
	+ Ankle lock
	+ Asian mist
	+ Backhand chop
	+ *Corporate Elbow* (Twisting elbow drop)
	+ Crossface
	+ Discus lariat
	+ Diving double axe handle
	+ Diving elbow drop
	+ Frankensteiner
	+ *Heavy Fall Reverse DDT* (Inverted brainbuster)
	+ *Human Necktie* (Stretch muffler)
	+ *Knee Bash* (Side headlock transitioned into a facebreaker knee smash)
	+ *Knee Vault* (High knee)
	+ Kneeling reverse piledriver
	+ Multiple DDT variations
		- Inverted
		- *Phenomenon* (Springboard moonsault onto a standing opponent transitioned into a inverted)
		- Regular
	+ Multiple kick variations
		- Big boot
		- *Brilliant Brawler Kick* (Shining wizard)
		- *Buzzsaw Kick* (High-speed roundhouse to the opponent's head)
		- *Dark Inferno* (Spin)
		- Drop
		- Enzuigiri
		- *PK* (Soccer to the chest of a opponent)
		- Scissors
		- Super
	+ Multiple suplex variations
		- Half nelson
		- Swinging double underhook
		- Vertical
	+ *Round Out Elbow* (Cartwheel back elbow to a cornered opponent)
	+ *Seesaw Whip* (Catapult)
	+ *Shadow Lariat* (Lariat)
	+ *Shadow Press* (Spear)
	+ Sleeper hold
	+ Standing moonsault
	+ Stunner
	+ *Underhanded* (Low blow)

## Trivia

* Armor King is physically inspired by the fictional professional wrestler called Black Tiger, as he is the dark version of Tiger Mask.

* Armor King's main costume references the attires that were worn by real-life tag team partners the Road Warriors.

* Armor King's fighting-style is based on Japanese professional wrestling or as it is called Puroresu.

* King was his tag team partner on a rare occasion.
	+ Their tag team moves are part of a reference to the pair of Perfect Chojin ranking characters from the *Kinnikuman* manga series, referring to the Hell Missionaries (Neptuneman and Big the Budo).