In Tekken and Tekken 2, Heihachi is half-bald with spiky black hair on the sides of his head. In Tekken 3 and onwards his hair is grey due to his old age. However, in the non-canonical spin-off Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and in Tekken 7′s flashbacks sequences, Heihachi is depicted with black hair. Heihachi has thick spiky eyebrows, a mustache, tanned skin and brown eyes. In Tekken 8, His half-spiky hair was let loose when he wears his third outfit.
Tekken[]
Player 1 outfit:
Heihachi wears a black long sleeved karate gi with a tiger head design on the back and white hand/footwraps. He wears the same karate belt as his son, which is black with yellow outlines.
Player 2 outfit:
His Player 2 outfit is almost identical to his Player 1 outfit except his karate gi is blue and his sleeves are ripped up to his shoulders.
Tekken 2[]
Heihachi's hair is dark brown in his CGI render and black in game.
Player 1 outfit:
Heihachi wears a black sleeveless karate gi with a red obi tucked into his waist. He retains the white hand/foot wraps and the tiger head design on the back of his gi.
He wears this outfit in the console opening and in both his and Kazuya's endings.
Player 2 outfit:
Heihachi is shirtless, revealing the cross-shaped scar on his chest, and wears a violet hakama, geta sandals and a kimono top that hangs loosly off his back. His hair is slicked further back than in his Player 1 outfit.
Tekken 3[]
As of Tekken 3 and onwards, Heihachi has grey hair and his appearance looks more elderly.
Player 1 outfit:
Heihachi wears an outfit similar to his Player 2 outfit in Tekken 2. In his CGI renders his loose kimono shirt is gold with brown and red designs and the interior of the shirt is white. His hakama is blue with gold designs and he wears geta sandals. He also has two katanas attached to the left of his hakama and wears black wristbands. In-game his kimono shirt is purple, his hakama is dark blue, its designs are white and he does not have katanas.
He wears this outfit in Jin's ending.
Player 2 outfit:
Heihachi wears a red winter jacket with a white fur collar. Underneath, he wears a formal white vest with a dark blue tie, white pants, white shoes and black gloves.
He wears this outfit in the console opening and in both his and Xiaoyu's endings.
Tekken Tag Tournament[]
Player 1 outfit:
Heihachi's Player 1 outfit is a palette swap of his Player 1 outfit from Tekken 3. His loose shirt is now dark blue and his hakama is olive. He also wears white tape wrapped on his forearms instead of the metallic black wristguards.
Player 2 outfit:
(See Tekken 3 Player 1 outfit)
Player 3 outfit:
Heihachi's Player 3 outfit is a palette swap of his Player 2 outfit from Tekken 3. His winter jacket is now dark teal instead of red.
Player 4 outfit:
(See Tekken 3 Player 2 outfit)
Tekken 4[]
Player 1 outfit:
Heihachi wears his infamous white modified fundoshi with a body wrap, leaving his chest bare. He also wears the geta sandals from his Player 1 outfit in Tekken 3. In Street Fighter X Tekken, Akuma wears this as his Swap Costume.
In Tekken 7 his modified fundoshi can be worn by all male characters as part of the Swimsuit DLC.
Player 2 outfit:
Heihachi regains his Tekken 2 Player 1 outfit, although the hand wraps now extend further down his forearms.
He wears this outfit in Jin's, Kazuya's, and his own ending.
- In the arcade and console openings Heihachi wears a tiger stripe patterned jacket with the white vest and purple tie from his Player 2 outfit in Tekken 3. He also wears this outfit in Kuma's and his own Tekken 5 ending.
- Heihachi wears a black jacket with a red kimono and geta sandals in Kuma and Yoshimitsu's endings.
Soulcalibur II[]
Player 1 outfit:
(See Tekken 3 Player 1 outfit)
He wears an updated version of his black wristbands that resemble gauntlets.
Player 2 outfit:
(See Tekken 2 Player 1 outfit)
Instead of foot wraps, he wears his geta sandals and gains red gauntlets along with his hand wraps.
Death by Degrees[]
Heihachi wears a white hakama with red flame designs, a red kimono shirt, red gauntlets and dark gray armbands. He now wears white tabi (socks) with his geta sandals.
Tekken 5/Dark Resurrection[]
Player 1 outfit:
(See Tekken 4 Player 2 outfit)
Heihachi's gi is now faded black and gray. He only wears white wraps around his wrists and fights barefoot.
In Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection his gi is recolored to dark teal.
Player 2 outfit:
(See Tekken 3 Player 1 outfit)
His hakama is now dark blue and he wears black wristbands.
In Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection his hakama becomes olive green and he wears dark teal wristbands, referencing his Tekken Tag Tournament palette.
Tekken 6/Bloodline Rebellion[]
Player 1 outfit:
(See Tekken 5 Player 1 outfit)
Player 2 outfit:
(See Tekken 5 Player 2 outfit)
In his Tekken 6 prologue he wears his Player 2 outfit with his kimono shirt on. His hakama has changed colors from dark blue to indigo. In the PlayStation Portable version, his hakama is instead red violet.
Street Fighter X Tekken[]
Player 1 outfit:
(See Tekken 5 Player 1 outfit)
Swap Costume:
His Swap Costume is based on Sodom. Heihachi wears a dark blue samurai-esque mask, a red short sleeve genji shirt with kanji at the center, blue tights with a yellow belt, black and gray samurai-esque open-toed sandals and red gloves with gray studded designs.
Alternate Costume:
Heihachi wears an outfit consisting of a gray tunic with dark red designs on the shoulders, dogi pants, black boots and a traditional headband.
Tekken Tag Tournament 2[]
Heihachi regains his black hair due to the effects of the rejuvenation serum that he drinks during his arcade ending. As evident by his hairstyle in this game, this appearance is prior to the event of Tekken first occur. His younger appearance is later seen during the flashbacks in Story Mode of Tekken 7.
Player 1 outfit:
(See Tekken 5 Player 1 outfit)
Player 2 outfit:
(See Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection Player 1 outfit)
Player 3 outfit:
Heihachi wears a ragged, road warrior style black gi with a claw on his right hand, a tiger pelt draped over his shoulder, a sabretooth skull on his right shoulder, black kung fu shoes and more curved hair spikes. This outfit was designed by comic book artist Simon Bisley.
Player 4 outfit:
Heihachi wears a purple t-shirt with black lettering, gray wristbands, gray trousers and black shoes.
Tekken 7/Fated Retribution[]
Player 1 outfit:
(See Tekken 5 Player 1 outfit)
He gains a recolored version of this outfit with his gi becoming white and his wrist tape becoming black.
In Tekken 7: Fated Retribution, Heihachi has a new main outfit. He wears a traditional samurai-esque outfit made up of an orange haori with Mishima Zaibatsu insignias and a gold and black decorative pauldron on his right shoulder. He wears dark gray pants with red and orange designs on the right pant leg, black socks and golden knee-high samurai boots with purple straps. He retains the white wrist wraps from his karate gi outfits. In the Story Mode, he wears this outfit when he was reclaiming the Mishima Zaibatsu, and when he was having a conversation with the Journalist about the dark secrets of the Mishima Clan.
- In the Story Mode, Heihachi wears an outfit similar to his tiger stripe suit in Tekken 4 but recolored; his suit is navy blue, his dress shirt is white, his formal tie is replaced with a light purple neck tie and he gains a long yellow scarf. He can be customized to wear this outfit outside the Story Mode.
- In the climax of the Story Mode, during his showdown against Devil Kazuya, Heihachi's karate gi outfit becomes damaged. The gi is tattered by Heihachi's own electrical power, revealing white leg wraps beneath his karate pants, and loosening his arm wraps.
- This outfit was used by his final power-up state known as Ascended Heihachi. To differentiate from his normal counterpart, Ascended Heihachi’s body is burning up with blue aura; his skin color becomes little red, similar to his Pandora Mode from Street Fighter x Tekken, in addition of having visible blue/white-veins across his body (not counting his head). However, while the torned gi is customizable for normal Heihachi’s custom costume loadout in later patches, his Ascended skin color isn’t.
Tekken 8[]
Player 1 outfit:
Heihachi returns in Tekken 8 wearing an updated version of the outfit he first wore in Tekken 2, using the updated design from Tekken 5 which has persevered ever since. In this version, the sleeves of his gi top are no longer torn, and instead rolled up to reveal his arms from the shoulder. He wears the left side of the gi properly, while his arm is removed from the right side, allowing it to hang loosely around his torso. New to the gi top is a gold emblem embroidered on the left side over his chest. He also wears white wrapping around his lower torso (possibly the wrappings of a fundoshi) along with the white wrappings around both wrists. Also new to the outfit are long, red prayer beads which hang around Heihachi's neck, and black beads wrapped around his left arm. He also now dons a yellow karate belt, replacing his traditional red belt. On both of his gi pants legs are a flame design motif similar to his son Kazuya's classic gi pants.
- In his reveal trailer, Heihachi wears this same outfit, but it is damaged similarly to the "Awakened" version of his outfit from Tekken 7. He retains the gold emblem on the chest, but the sleeve and right side are now ripped, and he does not wear prayer beads. This version of the outfit appears in the updated Story Mode, "Unforgotten Echoes".
- Similarly to Paul's sleeve becoming damaged in his default outfit after performing his Rage Art, Heihachi's prayer beads will break when he performs his Rage Art.
Player 2 outfit:
Heihachi's Player 2 outfit is a palette swap of his Player 1 outfit, changing the color of his gi to white and his prayer beads to gold. His yellow belt is changed to his traditional red belt.
Default 3 outfit:
Heihachi's third outfit consists of a white tiger mask with black markings, black eyes with yellow irises and black pupils, and gold trim around the edges, matching the gold teeth and nose. This mask is slightly obscured by a kasa hat, under which his hair comes down and reaches his shoulders. He wears a modified kasaya robe which is black with gold trim, bearing the same gold insignia as his updated Player 1 outfit on the left of the chest, while his right arm is uncovered. The robe is tied with white cloth at the waist around a wide, gray and black belt, and has a studded, black shoulder pad over the left shoulder. This wide belt has thin red rope hanging from open front, which is tied around a gold medallion. He wears this with loose-fitting white pants with black and gold designs stylized like brush strokes along each pant leg, with the left leg bearing a design of a tiger. These pants are tied at the ankles with white wrappings. Matching white wraps can be seen around his waist and forearms. The outfit is accessorized with a black scarf around his neck which trails behind him, each end fading from black to white, large gold bangles around both his wrists, gold circlets around both his upper arms that have a single bare circular plate in the center, and red prayer beads around his neck.
Default 4 outfit:
As with all returning characters, Heihachi's Tekken 7 Player 1 outfit returns as his fourth outfit.
