Daiko Mishima

"You should have been begging for your life beforehand."

- Daiko

Daiko Mishima is the character that first appears as the main protagonist and later as one of the main antagonists in the Tekken series. To list, he is the main protagonist of 1, later the main antagonist of 2, the protagonist villain/secondary antagonist of 4, anti-villain in 5 and 6, and as the main protagonist/anti-villain in 7.

History
As a young boy, Daiko grew up as a gentle boy, trained under the tutelage of Jinpachi Mishima. However, when Jinpachi "disappeared", Daiko's father, Heihachi Mishima took over his training and began to train him harshly. When Daiko proved to be too gentle for him, Heihachi tossed him off a cliff to test his strength. The abuses took their toll on Daiko's psyche and thanks to the Devil Gene within the Mishima bloodline created by the atrocities of their ancestor, Kazuya Mishima, Daiko discarded his compassion and transformed into an evil man with demonic strength and climbed back to the cliff he's been tossed into and swore revenge on Heihachi, hating him for everything. When he was thirteen, Heihachi adopted a friend of Daiko's, Lee Carla, but he did only for the purpose of having a right-hand in the Mishima Corporation, as even a child Daiko claimed he doesn't want anything to do with the family business. Heihachi also hoped this would cause a deep hatred between the two, but it didn't.

To improve his strength, Daiko participated in various local tournaments, reigning as a champion everywhere. There is only one man that ever came to a draw with him, the American judoka Paul Phoenix. However, Daiko paid no mind to that.

In WWE
Participating in the WWE tournaments in Miami, Florida, US, Daiko eventually made it to the finals and with his new strength, surprised Heihachi and defeated him. As payback for what he did in the past, Daiko tossed Heihachi into a similar cliff that he was thrown into in the past. This made the son like-figure of Heihachi, Lee Carla tear up and swear revenge on Daiko.

Carla fails to inherit the Mishima corp. from his adoptive father, despite Heihachi's great pride in him. With his victory, and realising that the corp. was indeed not for his liking, Daiko instead opened the second Tekken tournament to get rid of all oppositions in WWE.

One participant, however, caught his attention: a woman named Jun Kazama. Daiko became intimate, lured by her and spent a night with her, impregnating her.

In one round, confronting him was the depressed Lee Carla. Daiko was very angry with Lee, claiming he "turned on him" as he was always seen in Heihachi's good grace, despite not even being related to Heihachi at all. Lee lost to Daiko in a matter of minutes. Thanks to that, a returning Heihachi approached Daiko and threw him off of the building, and barely declared Lee his secretary once again in the corp.

Meanwhile, Jun bore two daughters for Daiko, Asuka Kazama and Xiaoyu Mishima. Asuka would have little to do with the family business, whatsoever, even going as far as conspiring against the corp., while Xiaoyu would be a true Mishima, dreaming to one day lead the corporation.

Daiko would eventually somehow rise up from the ground he was thrown on from the WWE Studio, however, and forever rebel against his father and those he saw as 'traitors' in the corporation (presumably Lee and his advisers). After putting his shit together, he ventured back to Asia, seeking aid from the corp's rivals, the Black Dragon Clan.

After the Black Dragon gave little to no damns, as they have buried their hatred for the corp. long ago, Daiko contacted a rich army leader Maxwell Morris Shepherd and asked to work for him and his private army as they were allied to the Dixmor Project, a secret organisation Heihachi Mishima and his corp. were a part of. With Maxwell's allowance, Daiko started working for him as his bodyguard, hoping he would climb up through the ranks of his Military Company in order to learn more about Maxwell's connection to the Project and gain his trust, just so he could learn more about Heihachi's whereabouts.

Journal Entry
Daiko Mishima... Thrown by his own father off a cliff back in Japan.

As he came to, he would swore revenge on his father, something that changed his psyche and life forever.

After defeating Lee Carla in a battle in the Iron Fist Tournament, he was confronted by an appearing Heihachi, and thrown off the building mercilessly.

After he came to once again, Daiko swore revenge on the entire Corporation more than ever and fled back to Japan. Will Daiko ever get his revenge?

Personality and traits
With a few words, Daiko is generally presented as an arrogant, self-righteous, aggressive, lonely, cold-blooded man. He always sees himself as the hero and the one who has every right to take everything he wants from others. According to many other people, including his wife, Jun, Daiko has delusions of grandeur.

In the original entry to the franchise, Daiko was considered to be the primary protagonist, and for all intents and purposes, there was no reason to believe differently. Daiko was actually quite frail, reticent, vulnerable, and timid as a boy and was the victim of years of abuse at the hands of Heihachi and suffered various losses and provocations by his father: he lost the only persons who loved him, his mother Kazumi and his grandfather Jinpachi, both killed by Heihachi; despite his father's wealth, Daiko was not allowed any joy nor was spoiled and had only one true friend; but he was seen in Heihachi's good grace too much, and even that caused Daiko to dislike him slowly. He was thrown down a cliff for being too weak and an "insolent brat"; then after he returned home from his fall he found Lee Carla sucking up to his father and getting a place in the Mishima Corporation. Indeed, Daiko originally entered the King of Iron Fist Tournaments in order to face off against his father, who was played up to be a rude, corrupt, corporate, duplicitous, materialistic, unscrupulous, calculating, and collaborative tyrant, but was made to face Lee before Heihachi or the original sponsor of the 5th tournament (who was actually a revived Jinpachi Mishima).

After defeating Lee, he was eventually thrown of the WWE Studios by Heihachi.

After reviving once again, Daiko's personality hasn't changed one bit. He is still an arrogant, cold-blooded bastard with no apathy, as he was before.

Trivia

 * Daiko is an atheist, according to his wife.
 * Daiko was the winner of the first King of Iron King Tournament, and he threw Heihachi Mishima into a cliff, as he threw him years ago. But like with Daiko, Heihachi returned.
 * The only reason Daiko joined Shepherd Private Military Company was to get closer to Heihachi.