Heihachi Mishima

• Character Name: Heihachi Mishima
• Also known as: The King of Iron Fist, Resurrected King of Iron Fist
• Fighting Style: Mishima Style Fighting Karate
• Origin: Likely Japan (Refuted by Japanese government)
• Height: 179 cm (5′10½″)
• Weight: 88 kg (194 lbs)
• Eyes: Brown
• Hair: Grey
• Likes: Likes His deceased wife Kazumi, Kuma I & II, World conquest, Ultimate power, Proclaiming to be invincible
• Dislikes: Weak people, People who interfere with his plans, Explosions[8], JACKs, His wife's devil form, His father Jinpachi, His son Kazuya, His son's devil form, His adoptive son Lee, His illegitimate son Lars, His grandson Jin, The Manji Clan
• Species: Human
• Gender: Male
• Age: 76
• Date of birth: June 10th
• Occupation: Tekken Grand High Priest
• Hobby: Collecting Geta sandals, Meditation & Bathing, Playing with Kuma II
• Family: Jinpachi Mishima (Father), Kazumi Mishima (Wife), Kazuya Mishima (Son), Lee Chaolan (Adoptive son), Lars Alexandersson (Illegitimate son), Reina (Illegitimate daughter), Jin Kazama (Grandson)
• Biography: Heihachi Mishima is the son of Jinpachi Mishima, a man who founded a family corporation that grew in size selling weapons during World War Two. Jinpachi became more pacifist after the war, and desired to distance himself from weapons manufacturing and focus on developing his martial arts style, Mishima Style Fighting Karate. He trained his son Heihachi, and Heihachi's future wife, Kazumi Hachijo. Heihachi and Kazumi married and, when Heihachi was 26, they had a son named Kazuya Mishima. Heihachi grew to become a formidable martial artist and shrewd businessman. He coveted his father's corporation and disagreed with the direction his father had taken it. When he was around thirty years old, Heihachi launched a coup and seized control of his father's corporation from him. He began restyling the corporation into its present form as the Mishima Zaibatsu. Jinpachi and Kazumi were both alarmed at this action, and Jinpachi sought to retake the corporation from his son. Jinpachi failed and Heihachi imprisoned him beneath the family temple, Hon-Maru. Heihachi seems to have kept Jinpachi alive for a significant amount after this, and the first time he was confirmed as dead was when Wang Jinrei heard the news, some fifteen years later. Heihachi would have been forty-five at this time.

Shortly after imprisoning his father, Heihachi was confronted by his wife Kazumi, who asked him to forgo the dark path he was on. Heihachi ignored her pleas, and over the coming weeks Kazumi fell ill frequently, and seemed to exhibit a violent second persona. Heihachi nursed her back to health, but all came to a head when Kazumi attacked him one day in the family dojo. Kazumi transformed into a demonic creature and claimed her family had received a premonition that Heihachi would bring great darkness to the world. She told Heihachi that her task all along had been to stay at his side and either dissuade him from his path or kill him should he be intent on pursuing it. The two fought, and despite his love for her, Heihachi ended up killing Kazumi. Heihachi's five-year-old son, Kazuya, discovered that Heihachi was responsible for Kazumi's death, and confronted him. Heihachi beat the boy and threw him off a cliff. His motivations for this seem to be mixed. He later claimed that he wished to see if Kazuya had the same 'illness' as Kazumi, though various other accounts state it was to see if Kazuya was strong enough to climb back up, since Heihachi considered him too weak to be his heir. Kazuya did indeed climb back up the cliff, and Heihachi seems to have taken this as a sign that Kazuya was a worthy inheritor of his teachings. Some time after Kazumi's betrayal and learning of her Devil Gene, Heihachi destroyed the remnants of the Hachijo Clan, sparing only a single baby girl.

Now unopposed and in sole control of the Mishima Zaibatsu, Heihachi began rapidly expanding it and building back up its weapons manufacturing capacities. One of the first things Heihachi was involved in was the Big Apple War in New York, in which the Mishima Zaibatsu backed gang violence in the area and manipulated control over local politicians and the police, resulting a huge number of civilian deaths. Another incident he was involved in was the search for an ancient pendant, a Native American treasure. He sent out employees to retrieve the treasure but one man instead fell in love and chose to conceal the treasure's whereabouts from Heihachi. Heihachi had him assassinated for this betrayal, setting the stage many years later for the man's daughter to seek vengeance on him. Some time likely still in his early thirties, Heihachi went on a business trip to China and saw a boy scrapping in the street. Impressed with the child, he adopted him and brought him home to Japan to serve as a rival to Kazuya and to force him to better himself. Heihachi raised his adopted son, Lee Chaolan, alongside Kazuya, giving them both an aristocratic education, business knowledge, teaching them Mishima Style Fighting Karate, and raising them with his own ruthless code: All that matters is who's left standing, nothing else. Both of his sons grew to deeply resent Heihachi and his cruelty towards them. When he was around 47 years old, Heihachi fathered a son to a Swedish woman in order to determine whether his offspring aside from Kazuya might be born with this as yet unquantifiable devil phenomena. On apparently discovering that the boy was without this ability, Heihachi lost interest in him.

Kazuya in particular despised his father and had been set on killing him ever since he was five years old. Biding his time and strength, Kazuya saw his opportunity when Heihachi put on an illustrious international martial arts competition - the King of Iron Fist Tournament. Hosting the first tournament, Heihachi offered substantial prize money and even ownership of the Zaibatsu itself to those who could defeat him. Kazuya succeeded in defeating his father and took him back to the same cliff he had thrown him from twenty-one years ago, and cast him over the edge. Heihachi survived the fall but was in no position to challenge Kazuya, who had seized the Mishima Estate and Zaibatsu as his prize. Allowing his sons to believe him dead, Heihachi trained in secret in the mountains with his pet bear, Kuma, for company.

Kazuya's tenure as head of the Zaibatsu was marked by accusations of criminal operations, assassinations, illegal animal trafficking and experimentation, and seizure of land in order to try and create his own nation state. When Kazuya declared the second King of Iron Fist Tournament to prove his martial superiority, Heihachi entered. Despite Kazuya transforming into a Devil, like Heihachi's late wife, Heihachi was able to exploit an internal moral conflict within Kazuya and defeat him. To ensure his son truly died, Heihachi took a helicopter to a volcano and rolled his son's body into the active crater. Lee Chaolan, who had sided with Kazuya and worked for him at the Zaibatsu, was banished by Heihachi. Lee fled from Japan and would not return for twenty-one years.

Having dealt with his sons' treachery, Heihachi, now the head of the Zaibatsu once more, founded his own private army, the Tekken Force. Likely at a similar time, he also founded the Mishima Polytechnical School, which masqueraded as a high school and polytechnical college, but doubled as a secret Tekken Force training facility. During the second tournament, Kazuya had imprisoned Nina Williams who had attempted to assassinate him. When Heihachi took over the Zaibatsu, Nina was frozen in experimental cryosleep machines. Heihachi kept her in this machine and had eggs harvested from her for use in a supersoldier program. The experiment claimed the lives of all the children involved, save one, and Heihachi had the experiment closed as a failure. Also during this time, Heihachi worked on the Zaibatsu's image and used Tekken Force to cultivate a benevolent image, sending them on humanitarian and peacekeeping missions. In actuality, Heihachi was hunting down a rumoured source of great power, a creature known only as Ogre. Possession of this creature's genetic material was rumoured to extended life and increase power. Heihachi succeeded in finding this creature, but, on awakening it in its temple in Mexico, the entire Tekken Force team on the mission was wiped out, and the creature vanished. Some sixteen years after Heihachi overthrew Kazuya, a fifteen-year-old boy came before Heihachi, claiming to be the son of Kazuya and Jun Kazama. The boy, Jin Kazama, drew Heihachi's interest when he claimed that his mother had been killed by a creature matching Ogre's description. At this time, Ogre seemed to be preying on the strongest martial artists. Utilizing the boy's desire for revenge, Heihachi undertook to train him, intending to use the boy to lure Ogre out into the open once he was strong enough.

Heihachi trained Jin for four years and the two seem to have had a relatively amicable relationship during this time. Heihachi took Jin on business trips, including to South Korea, and trained him alongside a young girl, Ling Xiaoyu, who had previously stowed away on a Mishima freighter, and impressed Heihachi into taking her on as his ward. When Jin was strong enough, Heihachi called the King of Iron Fist Tournament 3. Ogre appeared at the event and Jin succeeded in killing it. With Ogre's DNA secured and Jin no longer needed, Heihachi acted on a suspicion he had that his grandson may have a latent devil tendency like his father and grandmother. He pre-emptively shot Jin. Jin took the bullet to the head and the near-fatal experience awakened his Devil Gene, much the same way the cliff fall did Kazuya's. Heihachi was attacked by Devil Jin, who then flew off into the night.

• Personality: Heihachi is a clever, shrewd businessman, who is charismatic and excellent at manipulating others. He has a sense of humor that is often sadistic, and others sometimes find it hard to tell whether Heihachi is joking or being deadly serious. He once claimed that Kuma would inherit the Mishima Zaibatsu rather than any of his relatives, for example, and, on finding a young stowaway Xiaoyu on one of his ships, was so amused by her request that he build her a theme park, that he took her on as a ward of the Mishima Zaibatsu. Heihachi has a noticeably cruel streak, from throwing his five-year-old son off a cliff, to ordering the assassination of his former employees. He imprisoned his father for years until he finally starved to death, killed his wife (though in self-defense), shot his grandson, and frequently resorts to kidnapping, assassination, and physical intimidation. Both Kazuya and Lee, Heihachi's adopted son, bitterly resent him, suggesting he was also cruel to them in their childhood.
• Appearance: Heihachi is an elderly yet well-muscled man. He is half-bald with spiky grey hair on the sides of his head. Heihachi has thick spiky eyebrows, a mustache, tanned skin and brown eyes.
• Attire: Heihachi wears an updated version of an outfit he previously wore before. In this version, the sleeves of his gi top are no longer torn, and instead rolled up to reveal his arms from the shoulder. He wears the left side of the gi properly, while his arm is removed from the right side, allowing it to hang loosely around his torso. New to the gi top is a gold emblem embroidered on the left side over his chest. He also wears white wrapping around his lower torso (possibly the wrappings of a fundoshi) along with the white wrappings around both wrists. Also new to the outfit are long, red prayer beads which hang around Heihachi's neck, and black beads wrapped around his left arm. He also now dons a yellow karate belt, replacing his traditional red belt. On both of his gi pants legs are a flame design motif, His moustache was also grown.