Heihachi Mishima

"もう一度会う、父. 私は時間があなたにあまりにも良いされていない参照してください、ええ？"

- Heihachi after to Jinpachi after his resurrection

Heihachi Mishima is a Japanese CEO and one of the main villains in the Tekken fighting video game series. A vile and power-hungry master, he is almost always responsible for the events of the games but later his impact seems to decrease as of Tekken 5 and onward reduced. Though in Tekken 7, he seems to regain his prominence.

Heihachi is the main villain of the first Tekken 1 game, the anti-villain of Tekken 2, the secondary villain of Tekken 3, the main villain again in Tekken 4, a minor anti-hero for both Tekken 5 and Tekken 6, and the main villain in Tekken 7.

Biography
Heihachi is the son of Jinpachi Mishima, the former head and founder of the Mishima Corporation. However, Heihachi takes over the company and imprisons his father beneath Hon Maru for years.

He married a woman named Kazumi Takoyada and had a son named Daiko. In order to find out if he is strong and a true Mishima, Heihachi threw his son over a cliff to see if he can climb back up. Daiko succeeded, but only because he inherited the "Devil gene" which made him extremely powerful. Later he adopted the Japanese orphan Lee Carla, but he did this only for giving Daiko a rival as he never cared about him.

Tekken
Heihachi announced the King of Iron Fist Tournament in the WWE Studio in US in 1994 to test his son's fighting skills. Daiko defeated him, but got thrown into the same cliff as a child by him soon after.

Daiko manages to survive the fall but his father's tyranny expends more and more. Heihachi also went to the mountains with his bear Kuma and started training. Two years later, the Mishima Corp. announces The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2 in WWE. After much deviant acts, Heihachi vows to take back the Corporation and enters the tournament. Along the way, he encounters Lee Carla and encourages him to defeat Daiko, but Lee is defeated by Daiko nonetheless. But Heihachi himself finally succeeds by defeating Daiko and throwing him off the roof of the building. After this he made Lee the director of the Corporation despite not making a job well done.

Heihachi got back to the Mishima Corp. after defeated Daiko. He joined forces with Dixmor Project and Zin Empire and he ordered his company workers to feed poor people on the street in order for them to gain support from the public.

In 2005, Mishima's men in the Middle America dug a still a mysterious creature. Heihachi learned that the creature is the legendary God of Sun, Blood and War: Kotal Kahn. Heihachi thought that if he captured Kotel he would rule the world.

One day, Heihachi was visited by his daughter-in-law's ancestor Jin Kazama, who came on Earth from the Never Never Land. Jin told him what happened to his daughter, Jun Kazama and Heihachi convinced him that Kotal is the reason for her disappearance. A few weeks after, Heihachi announced the King of Iron Fist Tournament 3. He also saw that Jin has a dangerous force that Daiko had too. Heihachi decided to kill Jin after he captured Kotal.

When Jin defeated Kotal, Heihachi's men, along with him, started shooting at him. Then in Jin awakened his Devil gene. He attacked Mishima's men and Heihachi escaped away with a tail between his legs.

Heihachi failed to capture Kotal, but with the help of scientists, he collected his blood and tissues. It was used to create a new life form by combining Heihachi's and Kotal's genetic material/DNA. The experiment failed, but Heihachi learned that the Devil gene is necessary to integrate Kotal's genome with his own. To get the Devil gene Heihachi searched Jin, who had transformed into the Devil in the last Tournament.

To create a new life form, Heihachi needed the body of Kazuya Mishima or Jin, because both have the Devil genes. He decided to announced the King of Iron Fist Tournament 4.

During the tournament, Heihachi ordered Lee to capture Jin. In the final battle he was fighting with Daiko, and defeated him. He didn't kill him, but just took him to the Mishima Mansion. When Jin saw Daiko and Mishima, he defeated them both. When he awakened, Daiko was seen unconscious lying beside him. Heihachi decided to kill his son, but Jin was nearby and transformed into a demon. He was ready to charge at and kill Heihachi, but Heihachi's escape helicopter came there just in time and shoot Jin down, taking the former aboard and flying away.

In 2008, Jinpachi announces the King of Iron Fist tournament 5. Heihachi himself, having fully recovered, was determined to enter the tournament and find out what the heck was going on.

In the tournament, his sons Lee and Daiko battled. Lee lost to Daiko, but Heihachi appeared on the scene and killed Daiko, proclaiming Lee the winner and letting him be his director once more in the corp. Daiko did however, defeat the resurrected sponsor Jinpachi Mishima, saving Heihachi all the work.

Heihachi has yet to open up the King of Iron Fist Tournament 6.

Assassinating De Foxe
While the Shirai-Ryu Clan leader De Foxe managed to avoid many assassination attempts well into his later years, he was eventually killed by a squadron of JACKs. It was never known if the Lin Kuei Clan paid Mishima corp. for his death. The animosity between the Lin Kuei and Shirai-Ryu clans continued after his demise, as the Shirai-Ryu clan became more prominent.

Forest Fox helped De Foxe fend of the JACK attackers for some time before betraying him and leaving him to battle the robots alone.

Quotes
"私は簡単に死なないでしょう、あなたは農民です."

- Heihachi before a fight

"私はバグのようにあなたを押しつぶすでしょう！ あなたを殺すことは、私を大いに満足させるでしょう、農民."

- Heihachi taunting his opponents

"あなたが戦う準備ができたら元に戻ってください！"

- Heihachi after winning a fight

"私はここに戻って来た...この肥沃なトーナメントを開始したばかのネクタイをスナップ！"

- Heihachi pissed

"あなた...私は戦うために作ったマシンの一つです！ あなたは非常に私と戦って後悔します."

- Mishima to JACK

"死んでおもちゃ、笑."

- Heihachi

"ダン大子と彼の価値のない隠れ家！ 私の悲惨な体に息が残っている限り、私はあなたが私の監督になれるようにします."

- Heihachi to Lee

"クマ、私の恋人！ 私はあなたがコーポレートをよく守っているのを見ます. あなたはうまくいった！"

- Mishima to Kuma after defending his corp.

Journal Entry
Heihachi Mishima... Head of the Mishima Corporation and sponsor of the King of Iron Fist Tournaments and WWE Tournaments.

For some yet unknown reasons, Heihachi's group of JACKs cornered the leader of the Shirai-Ryu Clan, De Foxe, in Hon Maru. Foxe and his boy Forest Fox began to fight off the JACKs together, but Forest fled and Foxe was caught in the explosion when the JACKs detonated.

The tremendous explosion killed De Foxe... It was all Heihachi's work, but the Shirai-Ryu never founded out about his involvement.

A month later, Heihachi learned that someone had taken control of the Mishima Corp. and planned to hold the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5. Heihachi, having fully recovered, was determined to enter the tournament.

"私は誰の背後にあるのか分かりませんが、三島株式会社は私のものです！" - Says Heihachi.

Trivia

 * Heihachi Mishima is one of the four Tekken characters that has appeared in all of the Tekken games to date, the others being Nina Williams, Paul Phoenix and Yoshimitsu.
 * His given name in Japanese is literally "flat eight" in English. His surname Mishima means "third island".
 * Heihachi's fighting styles are heavily based on Okinawan karate such as Shorin-ryu and Goju-ryu.
 * The tiger's head design at the back of Heihachi's karate gi outfit is for the memory of Tony Montana's tiger, who was presumably killed by Sausage's Army in 2008.
 * When Ogre is defeated, he absorbs Heihachi for more power. However, if Ogre is defeated with Heihachi, Kotal Kahn will be absorbed instead.
 * Heihachi is unlocked by beating story mode 9 times with a different character in Tekken 5.
 * Also, in Tekken 5, Heihachi's sub-bosses are JACK and Kazuya Mishima.
 * Heihachi's first two opponents in the "Arena" mode are Jack-6 and Kazuya Mishima.