Lee Chaolan
Lee Chaolan is a male video game character that features in Tekken.
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Biography
Lee Chaolan (Chinese: 李 超狼; pinyin: Lǐ Chāoláng; Japanese: リー・チャオラン; Hepburn: Rī Chaoran) was a male human whose parents died when he was very young leaving him to live on the streets as an orphan. In this time, Heihachi Mishima was on a business trip where he encountered Lee in a Chinese city. He came to be impressed by the boy's fighting potential leading to him adopting Lee Chaolan who he took back with him to Japan. However, in reality, the reason for the adoption of a child was simply to create a rival for his biological son Kazuya Mishima. This was because Heihachi felt that Kazuya was too weak to lead his company the Mishima Zaibatsu. It was shown that he was raised with the same strict upbringing as Kazuya and learned Mishima Karate alongside him.
Both Lee and Heihachi were defeated by Kazuya Mishima, who then took charge of the Mishima Zaibatsu. His defeat by Kazuya left him both physically and spiritually shattered. was forced to serve Kazuya as his underling, working as his secretary and handling menial matters to his utter chagrin. Secluding himself in the mountains, Lee decided to train diligently and rashly but as became more absorbed in his training his talented techniques became less and less precise. Just when he had given up all hope, a mysterious old man appeared before him and taught him how to hone his skills. Lee was later approached by Wang Jinrei who warned him about Kazuya, and asked his help in returning honor to the Mishima Zaibatsu. Lee's talent returned to him but in exchange for the old man's tutelage Lee had to do something for him. Kazuya later opens The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2. Determined to face his brother once again, Lee decides to take part in the tournament to take Kazuya out, even if it kills him. This time, Lee faced his adopted father, Heihachi Mishima, who was quite angry with him for helping his traitor son, Kazuya. Heihachi then defeated Lee Chaolan quite easily.
Lee was later noted to had been was cast out of the Mishima Clan itself. Twenty-one years after the second Iron Fist Tournament, Lee presented himself in disguise as Violet at the fourth King of Iron Fist Tournament. He was now CEO of Violet Systems, a very successful robotics company whose aim was to create a utopian world where menial labour was carried out by androids. Lee himself lived in private luxury in a mansion in the Bahamas, and seems to have spent the last twenty years quietly building power and trying to keep off the radar from Heihachi. After initially being hungry for revenge, he saw the error of this way of thinking and instead distanced himself from fighting and the Mishima legacy. Despite this claim, he did keep a careful watch on Mishima Zaibatsu interests, and was drawn back into his family’s troubles after he noticed G Corporation stock prices plummeting, after a Mishima Zaibatsu raid on their laboratories. Lee’s resentment for the Mishima clan and his interest in fighting was rekindled, and he took the opportunity to enter one of his robots, Combot, into the tournament, whilst dyeing his hair purple and going under the name ‘Violet’. During the tournament, Lee was shocked to find that his brother, Kazuya, was still alive. He was thrown by this revelation and lost his focus and the fight to Kazuya.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In the fighting world, he gained a fearsome reputation where he was called the Silver-Haired Demon. For a time, he briefly changed his appearance and name where he referred to himself as Violet as part of an attempt to hide his identity during a tournament.
He was an incredibly smug and conceited ladies' man with an immense sense of class, unafraid to flaunt his wealth.
Lee had the same imperialistic teachings that were driven into Kazuya driven into him. Those teachings drove him to master martial arts.
Chaolan was a tactical expert, as he successfully rescued Jin with the help of Alisa and Lars, and was even willing to blow up his own property, unafraid of the potential losses.
He came to be physically and spiritually shattered after his defeat at the hands of Kazuya.
Powers and abilities
He was considered a prodigy both in smarts and martial arts. Lee fought using Mishima Style Fighting Karate combined with his own style of "Martial Arts". Being a variation of Marshall Law's moveset.
After being adopted by the Mishima Family (三島一族 Mishima Ichizoku?), he came to be trained in their unique Mishima Style Fighting Karate (三島流喧嘩空手 Mishima-ryū Kenka Karate?) style.
He was the founder and CEO of the robotics corporation Violet Systems (ヴァイオレット システムズ?).
Notes
- Lee Chaolan was created by Seiichi Ishii where he made his first appearance in Tekken (1994).
In other media
Films
- In Tekken: The Motion Picture, Lee Chaolan appeared in the setting of the 1997 OVA where he was voiced by Japanese actor Shin-ichiro Miki and by English actor David Stokey in the dub.
Appearances
- Tekken:
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