So Tekken 8 is only a couple of months away now, so why not get a bit of a primer on the story & lore of the main characters of the Franchise, the Mishima's! To say the Mishima family has problems is an understatement as they basically all hate each other, and their ongoing feuds and issues have helped basically destroy the planet by the time Tekken 8 rolls around. So give a watch, maybe drop a like if you could since the video took a good while to make, and understand that Kuma is Heihachi's favourite son!

You know your family's messed up when Akuma is the wacky uncle.

Since Heihachi has 18-25 kids plus Kuma, I want a game that's just a Mishima battle royale for the inheritance money.

let's be honest here Kuma is the only son Heihachi ever loved and hes a bear 😭

The Mishima Zaibatsu is actually very worker friendly for a large corporation, every employee gets at least three weeks of being presumed dead per year.

And if you want to know what a Mishima Thanksgiving looks like? Look up Heihachi's ending where he straps his son, his grandson, and his father to rockets and sends them into space.

Jinpachi was such a good person that even in his devil form when he got a little consciousnes he organised an iron fist tournament so a fighter could defeat him.

y'know what sucks? Even if Kazuya and Jin stop having kids; to prevent the bloodline from continuing, they still have to worry about the numerous unknown kids Heihachi has had over the years lol

I feel like toxic is being nice here but that is one way to describe this family

Lee remains one of my favorite "Mishimas", going from a complete joke to a major benefactor in the fight against Kazuya. He also has a very clear character arc, starting out as an arrogant rival who gets easily decked by Kazuya, then distancing himself from the Mishima family and founding Violet Systems(though that doesn't stop him from taking revenge upon Heihachi and Kazuya when the opportunity presents itself) and finally using his company to back up the other good family member Lars. Sure, he's still somewhat of an arrogant jerk, but like the Kumas, Jun and Lars, he's easily the least evil among the family.

Look all I want to add to all of this is that Kazuya seemingly loves his Grandfather and I just have to say that is kind of sweet. Cause he always seems found of him in 5 which is interesting. His Mother and Grandfather were the things he cares about most and unfortunately dear old dad ruined that.

I think it's possible that Heihachi liked Reina a lot more than any of his male kids (assuming he even knew about her, that is). He seemed to have a soft spot for Xiaoyu of all people and never treated her anywhere near as badly as he did his actual blood relatives. I've always assumed that he'd be similarly biased towards his female kids, and him leaving the Zaibatsu to his daughter fits perfectly with that idea.

Heihachi isn't exactly a normal human being. I don't think regular people can generate electricity from their body on such a level where it can be visible 😂.

The fact that only the bear and the 18 year old girl are smiling should tell you something

We need a 90s family sitcom about the Mishima's, laugh track and all

(Project X zone 2) Heihachi: You and your brother are not get along each other? That’s normal. Dante(Devil May Cry): At least we’re better than Mishima.

*Protect KUMA at all cost!* He is the nicest & kindest Mishima member

Most wholesome family in video game history.

You forgot about Pikachu. He's also a Mishima.

“Heihachi screwed a lot of people over” Figuratively or Literally?

up to tekken 7 (where heihachi died). i was CONVINCED that the entire tekken story was just heihachi telling kid jin and kid asuka a story to make kazuya look bad. he's telling this story because heihachi was forced to retire due to old age and kazuya took over the family company. I imagine jun is just taking care of housework, jin and asuka is just sitting around listening to heihachi, kasumi is just there sitting somehow looks young for her age, and kazuya walking in from work just annoyed with the story that heihachi is telling.

The reason why heihachi loves Kuma so much cause animals aren’t as complex as his other kids, when kuma plays he means it lmfao

I belive Reina spends a lot of hair gel like Sepiroth to keep her hair somewhat normal.

Jin didn't want to kill Azazel just to get rid of devil gene but mainly because if Azazel was reincarnated fully in the future no one would've been able to fully stop him. At least according to info he had

"Meet the Mishimas" 😭😭 bro I would watch that sitcom

The Mishimas equivalent of thanksgiving dinner would be global thermonuclear war

The mishimas hair standing up because of their electric powers is a cool theory that but reina doesn’t have spiky hair for some reason so it’s not consistent anymore

Something has to be said about Heihachi showing affection only to his bear 'child" vs everyone else in his family tree. It might just come off as a joke/gag but it kinda displays his desire for control to other beings. He's only amicable with a pet he can order around or play with. Yes Kuma has a consciousness and intelligence but it's still limited.

It is worth mentioning that Jin's goal in awakening Azazel was to lure out Kazuya and kill him, then die in the process of killing Azazel so the Devil Gene would be no more. Granted, plan still failed spectacularly with Azazel being the only dead one. Jin thinking two people with the Devil Gene is two too many, is likely the reason he's been avoiding Xiaoyu for years. He doesn't want to take any chances. While it's a case of things being made worse, retroactively, Jun deserves some blame for more than just seeing *something* in Kazuya. She's the one who told Jin to seek out Heihachi if anything ever happened to her, which wouldn't be as bad if Asuka Kazama wasn't introduced in Tekken 5, meaning Jun had living family who probably wouldn't shoot her son in the face.

My theory is Jun named her son Jin after Jinpachi. We know Kazuya and Jinpachi trained as a child and was extremely fond of him calling him Ji-chan (grandpa). Yes he neck stabbed him with his hands in Tekken 5, but on the wiki Jinpachi is listed as one of the few people Kazuya likes. Probably told Jun about him as pillow talk and the rest is history.

8:14 Lee's the most stable since he realised the Mishima family feud was pointless, moved to the Bahamas and started his robotics company.

Kuma the only wholesome member of the family, plus his T8 bio makes it even more depressing given that he doesn’t know Heihachi is died and he’s doing his best to protect the company until he returns.

"I had a dream my father/son/grandson/daughter/wife/grizzlybear kills me for the money...."

"Heihachi Mishima is... Completely ded!" -Harada.

The fact that Reina calls Jin "Senpai" in her trailer makes me wonder whether it's because they both learned under Heihachi, or attended the same educational facility at some point. The age of the various Mishimas and how it works together is always a bit of a headache. At the time of Tekken 7 Heihachi was 75, Kazuya 49, Lee 48, Lars 28, Jin 21, and Kuma the 2nd 10 years old. This implies that Heihachi had Kazuya at the age of 26, then adopted Lee at 27 when Kazuya was 1 years old, then had Lars at 47. Meanwhile Kazuya had Jin at 28, and Jin was old enough to vote when Kuma the 2nd was born. Additionally, since Kazuya was 25 at the time of the first Tekken's release in 1995, where the year the tournament takes place is stated to be 1995 as well. Thus, since Kazuya was thrown off a cliff by Heihachi at 5 years old, the feud between the two started in 1975 and-assuming likely incorrectly that Heihachi truly died during the events of Tekken 7-ended in 2019. Though it's important to note that the games stopped giving timeline details since Tekken 5, and the official ages have been modified retroactively a few times in the past.

Most people dont actually know that Kuma 1 and 2 are basically Mishima's Ever since the story progressing they inherited some of Heihachi's signature moves. Ff2, Demon paw and even hellsweep I hope Kuma is gonna have electrics in the 8 Edit: Don't wanna brag but, CALLED IT

Bro everybody is throwing each other off that mountain 💀

You do have a good point about the Mishima family throwing people off the cliff. But Jin is the only person in the family they never got thrown off. Lucky of him.

While the Mishimas may be the MOST toxic family in fighting games i'd like to give an honorable(?) mention to the Goketsuji family from Power Instinct.

Not gonna lie while making this video its been a long while since I played any Tekken 6 and I was like "Is Jin really as stupid and bad as I remember him to be?" and, yep lol. Who knows where the Tekken 8 plot will go but I hope it has a heartwarming moment with Kuma looking for papa heihachi, and Paul retaking the throne as strongest human CAUSE HE'S THE ONE WHO BEAT OGRE, JIN ONLY BEAT THE SOFTENED UP VERSION

Heihachi: I have a what!? I really should've thought about putting on protection back then. His kids: A little too late for that. Heihachi: You had a part in this too.

Really enjoyed this video Roofle! I find it funny that Jin basically had a reverse villain origin story. Starting out as a plucky protagonist and then the evil thoughts got in his head and became a world destroying tyrant NOW he wants to be the good guy again because he made an Oopsy. Nonetheless, shoutout to Lars, Kuma and Reina for being the MVPs when it comes to the Mishima bloodline. Also, I look forward to the next one of these lore/history lesson videos. Maybe we can see one for Granblue or Under Night.

The new saga of Tekken is probably Jin on the run while the world is on the hunt for him. A few would probably be protecting him (like Xiaoyu). Reina is probably going to be the new head of a new company (a combination of the Mishima Zaibatsu and G Corp). Not sure how they are going to handle Kazuya though at the end of T8.

Imagine the carnage of Thanksgiving with the Mishima family. Bonus if the Kazama get to attend.

Wang jinrei and Jinpachi were childhood best friends. Wang also believed that Heihachi would be a good successor until he got to know about his deeds.

i think it'd be pretty stupid if heihachi came back cause that was such an impactful moment and was HUGE for kazuya's like development (i'm guessing since he finally did what he wanted to do for like 30 years) and namco now also knows that people dont like it when characters do smth thats very big and could change them forever... for nothing (looking at you jin)

I've been telling people for YEARS! So glad Lee got out of that hellhole. I don't know why the Mishimas are so inclined of preserving the devil gene. Its great that Jin changed tho. Anyway, Lee's smart enough to distance himself from the family. On top of that he's also mentally stable, unlike the Mishimas. Lee may be a Mishima back then, but he will always be "LEE Chaolan" to me. He's chinese, just used to speaking japanese

Thank you for covering this! I've always wanted to learn the Heihachi family story, and I'm glad you Rooflemonger was my outlet!

Technically Kazuya is the good guy for the first two games simply because didn't asking for any of this. Its all a reaction to his corrupt father's ambition and poor decision making. Yhe fact that Heihachi jas tormented not only his own fathwr, but son, adopted son and grandson makes him actually worse then all of them especially considering all of the non Mishima's he effected. His company is directly related to wgy Leroy s family was killed Léo's family trouble Nina & Anna's cloned and Steves superhuman abilities. Kazuya is just extremely self destructive and unintentionally turned into a version of his father Jin just became Sasuke with Itachi's mission of ending himself along with his family. Had Jun not died then we'd actually have an even better character in Jin who'd think more clearly and would ne more open with people. Lars is technically the only undamaged person in all of this due to having actualove around.

I see Heihachi returning as DLC/ playable, but dead lore wise due to the fact that both of Heihachi's VAs (voice actors) have passed away. Bandai made a short statement after the 2nd VA passed away in 2018 saying that they weren't going to recast for Heihachi.

Waiting for Mecha Heihachi with his literal brain inside krang style

This was awesome! Very informative. Thanks for taking the time to make it

I legit want the story of Tekken 8 to end with Kuma being the victor and becoming the new leader of the Mishima Zaibatsu, with Lars by his side, to undo all the wrongs done by Mishimas.

This was a really entertaining summary of the family history. Thanks for the laughs!

Enjoy these lore focused videos you do in addition to your other content. Thanks for it all

Honestly one of my favorite videos from you, please make more fg lore videos!

Amazing videos, I never really dived into lore but the Reina trailer got me so interested in it suddenly

Reminder that literally the only family member Heihachi cared about besides his wife before he killed her is his pet bear Also, I know they already said he's her father, but I can't wait for Reina turning out to be either literally Heihachi in another body or Heihachi's ghost just following her around lol

This may be one of your best videos yet, so freaking funny.

Man you really killed it with this one Rof, great stuff 💪

heihachi also tanked and survived akumas raging demon which means hes not actually a "bad guy". if jin or kazuya received that attack, theyd be dead for good 100%.

This video was a good but there was misinformation in certain parts of the video and a misunderstanding of Jin’s motivation in T6. 1. Kazuya wasn’t raised by Heihachi after being thrown off the cliff originally. He disappeared and trained himself with revenge as motivation only to reappear in the King of Iron Fist Tournament 1. 2. Kazuya was indeed the protagonist in Tekken 1 and the “hero.” It was in Tekken 2 where he became the villain due to the devil gene taking control. This was why Jun fell for Kazuya during and after Tekken 1, before Tekken 2. 3. Jin didn’t just want to fight Azazel to get rid of the devil gene. It was already inevitable that Azazel was going to awaken when “two evil stars” clashed and this was implying devil gene users. This implies Kazuya and Jin. It can be said that their first battle in T4 sparked the dreams Jin was having by Azazel. But a battle to the death by Jin and Kazuya would have awakened Azazel in full power. Azazel was not only the “father” of the devil gene, but also a world destroyer which was remarked by Zafina. If Azazel was unleashed at full power, the world would have ended. Jin’s motive was to cause as much suffering with WW3 as possible kill Azazel while also getting rid of the devil gene completely. Especially since only one with the devil gene could kill Azazel. A weakened Jin after the Kazuya fight would not be able to defeat Azazel. Jin was quite literally trying to save the world from utter destruction from Azazel while also getting rid of the devil gene which was bad for the world. A MASSIVE double edged sword with it facing the blade more. There are plot holes here but all in all. That’s it.

Thanks for the lore dump. It all makes sense now

dude ive wanted to play tekken for the longest time but never knew where to start but im finally starting with tekken 8 since it released recently. downloading while im at work & this video was so informative & helpful in getting me caught up on the story. this is great, definitely deserved a thumbs up!

Great video! Honestly I am a big fan of these lore videos by you, very comprehensible and entertaining!

You know a family is so toxic to the point that a dream about them actually getting along is considered a _nightmare_ (Lars’ TTT2 ending)

Thanks for the video Roofle, pretty interesting stuff, I never followed Tekken's story much and this was legit very cool

Jin was not a moron for that, he did it to capture Azazel, a thing that could destroy everything forever… it was a hard price to pay but longterm thinking it was the right choice

Steve Harvey need to host a Family Feud with the Msihima family..

Amazing video, absolutely love Lars and Jin man.

Great summary roofle

this is great ,hope more lore are coming

Jin ain't having weird dreams about killing all of mankind, he had premonitions in the future if Azazel we're to fully awaken... So he had some sacrifices to be made just so he could kill Azazel himself and possibly killing himself along with it.. Because he wants to put a stop of Devil Gene spreading and that's why he had to leave Xiaoyu.

I will watch every Roofle vid but the Tekken vids are always an especially awesome surprise! And yes, I totally agree with your opinion about Jin, it's kinda crazy how he is being portrayed as the good guy again in Tekken 8 after all the horrible shit he's done.

I appreciate you making this video. I grew up playing tekken but this field in a lot of blanks

I needed this video . Awesome 🙌🏽

great video. I've been a Mishima stan since the 2nd grade. (Tekken 2)

Y'know, it's kinda funny to think that Heihachi treated a pet bear better than he ever did his own son!!!

Thank you for the summary :)

Great video.. Reina is my new fighting game mommy.. 🥵 Nice touch with the Capcom vs. SNK 2 OST song at the end of the video.. 💪🏽

I consider Jin in T6 turning from neutral good to lawful evil. After causing the death of millions he should've kill Zafina to kill that loose end and finish the initial idea. Maybe then Kazuya will lose his supernatural powers and becomes an easy target for the "good ones". But we all want Jin and Kazuya to clash...

Heihachi met Lilith and it was a sweet but very sad ending.

Great video roofie

Brother, I have to say I think you have one of the best video openings out there. I put it up there with Guru Larry’s “ello you”

Would be interested in seeing the vile eyes analysis on Heihachi and Kazuya Mishima. Not sure if you’re familiar with the creator himself but that’s fair

So here’s hoping that Reina throws Lars or Kazuya into a volcano next. But I wouldn’t mind her throwing Jin into a volcano

Thanks for making the video

great video ❤️

The legendary ledge: *damn it's the Mishima's again* 🗿🗿🗿

Jinpachi is a lovely old dude who likes hanging out with his bestie Wang. He’s the nicest person with the name Mishima.

great video :D

I'm rolling the way you are explaining everything lmao 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 great job bro

You're really good at this kind of video, too.

I bet Heihachi will come back as a DLC. Perhaps a non-canon appearance, but he will be back in the game.

amazing video

I can't imagine the amount of family therapy the Mishimas would have to go through

No Jinpachi in the thumbnail 😢 My favorite is the grandpa Mishima 😁

Keeping up with the Mishimas would be a hit show

I always love this history videos. As with King of Fighters, I now finally understand Tekken.

Nice video, mongo! 👍