Heihachi Mishima
Heihachi Mishima is a male video character that features in Tekken.
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Biography
Heihachi Mishima (Japanese: 三島 平八, Hepburn: Mishima Heihachi?) was the son of Jinpachi Mishima who was a famous martial artists that founded the Mishima Zaibatsu company. Jinpachi maintained a dojo where Heihachi trained and it was during this time he encountered another younger student by the name of Kazumi Mishima. The pair trained into their adulthood and eventually fell in love with the pair marrying. Years later, Kazumi gave birth to a son that was named Kazuya Mishima where during one night he awoke to find his wife seemingly possessed and she attacked him. She intended to kill him as she was claimed by the power of the Devil Gene and stated that she had married into the Mishima family to destroy them. Heihachi resisted the attempts to kill her but ultimately decided to murder her due to the danger she possessed to the world. Afterwards, he overthrew his father and forcibly took control of the Mishima Zaibatsu where he sought to establish it as an industrial company. His father would attempt to retake the business but Heihachi would quickly captured him and imprison him within the Mishima company at Hon-Maru where Jinpachi was left to starve to death. When Kazuya was five years old, he came to fear that the boy could have inherited the Devil Gene from his mother. To determine whether the boy had the gene, Heihachi threw the boy off a ravine in order to see whether he inherited that power. Heihachi believed that if the child was truly his son than he would be able to survive and climb back up. At some point, Heihachi had an affair with a woman that gave birth to Lars Alexandersson with this illegitimate child being an attempt to see whether he had the Devil Gene whereupon he did not have any contact with his other son. To further motivate Kazuya, he would adopt the orphaned Chinese boy Lee Chaolan and raise him as a rival to his own biological son. Kazuya would manage to survive the experience and travelled abroad over he following years where he competed in various martial arts championships. During these competitions, he became the undefeated champion in all the engagements except one where he fought to a draw against Paul Phoenix. Eventually, Heihachi decided to test his son Kazuya's strength and worthy by announcing the King of Iron Fist Tournament.
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. 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. Upon taking control of the company, Kazuya had all known pro-Heihachi elements within the Conglomerate being been dealt with in a purge of its ranks. After being beaten by Kazuya in the last tournament, Heihachi lost his dignity and fortune. Grief-stricken over his past transgressions and for neglecting his studies drove Heihachi to a life of seclusion deep within the mountains with his dear friend, Kuma, where he refined his Mishima Combat Karate. Heihachi descended from the mountains after catching wind of Kazuya's new Tekken tournament with the intentions to participate with him being determined to reign supreme from his throne once again. 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 a second 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 with Lee coming to flee as a result.
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.
Overview
Personality and attributes
He was at one time held the title of being the King of Iron Fist.
After his defeat at Kazuya's hands, Heihachi felt he lost both his fame and family. Having spent his previous time indulging in deviant acts instead of training, he vows to regain what he had lost.
He was shown as being a cruel figure who demonstrated no sympathy or feelings towards his own children. Heihachi believed his son was weak and in an effort to eliminate it he decided to throw the 5 year old child over a ravine. He believed that if his son was truly his child than he would have climbed up from the bottom of the ravine. Afterwards, he would attempt to cultivate rivalry to inspire Kazuya by adopting another child as his godson.
It was shown that he had an insatiable desire for power, which has included plans for world domination, enhancing his own power through genetic experimentation, and trying to attain eternal youth. He has fought against all of his relatives for his own personal gain.
Heihachi Mishima was shown as being the son of Jinpachi Mishima (三島 仁八 Mishima Jinpachi?) who had been the founder of the Mishima Zaibatsu. His father was shown to had been an honorable fighter with a strong sense of wisdom who abhorred needless violence and was devoted his family's legacy solely to martial arts. Heihachi though would turn against his father and stage a coup of the company where he imprisoned Jinpachi who would later die of starvation.
He came to marry Kazumi Mishima (三島 一美 Mishima Kazumi?) who was a childhood friend and she later became his wife. She would become the mother of his child Kazuya Mishima (三島 一八 Mishima Kazuya?).
Among the closest people to Heihachi was his pet bear Kuma (クマ? ; literally meaning "Bear") who he trained in Kuma Shinken.
Powers and abilities
He was well-versed in various forms of combat from around the world.
Among the techniques known to him included:
- Electric Wind God Fist (最速風神拳 Saisoku Fūjinken, Fastest Wind God Fist) :
- Demon Slayer (鬼哭連拳, Kikoku Renken, Demon Weeping Chain Fists) :
- Demon Uppercut (鬼神拳, Kishinken, Demon Godfist) :
- Stonehead (超ぱちき, Chō Pachiki?, Super Headbutt) :
- Heaven's Wrath (天国の怒り, Tengoku no Ikari, Diamond Wall Reversal)
Heihachi was the head of the giant multi-national business conglomerate that was the Mishima Zaibatsu (三島財閥?). Within the corporation, he came to serve as the inaugural 'Commander' of the Tekken Force Unit.
Notes
- Heihachi Mishima was created by Seiichi Ishii where he featured in the setting of the Tekken universe.
In other media
Television
- In Tekken: Bloodline, Heihachi Mishima appeared in the setting of the Netflix anime television series where he was voiced by Japanese actor Taiten Kusunoki and by English actor S. Hiroshi Watanabe in the dub.
Films
- In Tekken: The Motion Picture, Heihachi Mishima appeared in the anime film where he was voiced by actor John Paul Shepard. In the beginning, Heihachi throws Kazuya off a cliff as a child, and sixteen years later, hosts the King of Iron Fist Tournament in order to lure Kazuya out in the hope that he will accept his destiny as his heir. In the climax, Heihachi battles Kazuya and initially takes the upper hand, but is ultimately defeated. Kazuya, however, spares his father's life, and Heihachi escapes the battleground in a jet.
- In Tekken, Heihachi Mishima appeared in the 2009 live-action film where he was portrayed by actor Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. Heihachi Mishima was the chairman of the Tekken Corporation and lived in the late 2010s in a time when the world was ruled by 8 megacorporations. To placate the masses, he sponsored the King of Iron Fist Tournament, or Iron Fist where fighters from the 8 corporations battle until one is left standing and received a lifetime of stardom and wealth.
- In Tekken: Blood Vengeance, Hehiachi Mishima appeared in the setting of the 2011 CGI animated film where he was voiced by Japanese actor Unshō Ishizuka and by English actor Jamieson Price in the dub. He was supposedly killed by Kazuya four years ago, though in reality he was in hiding and had conducted the M-Cell (Mutare Experiment) experiment that was said to had been taken from the Devil Gene and conducted on a high school class to test immortality. However, all of the subjects died with the exception of Shin Kamiya, who managed to gain immortality as Heihachi desired. He appeared at the culmination of the experiment where he revealed that the M-Cell was just a ruse; he instead tries to take the Devil Gene from Kazuya and Jin, which gives its users increased power. After killing Shin, he fights Kazuya and Jin, awakening the Mokujin spirit for help, though he is ultimately defeated by Jin.
Video games
- In Soulcalibur II, Heihachi Mishima appeared as a playable guest character in the setting of the fighting video game.
- In Namco x Capcom, Heihachi Mishima appeared as a playable character in the crossover video game.
Appearances
- Tekken:
- Tekken 7:
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