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Revision as of 12:52, 22 November 2017
- This article details King (TK - TK2).
For his successor (TK3 - TK7), see King II.
King (キング Kingu?) is a title that two characters have taken in the Tekken series. Even though there have been two characters who have taken the name, each is simply called King in their respective games, though a numerical value is sometimes given to them to separate them as different characters.
Both King I and King II are luchadores from Mexico who support orphans across the world. In the games, they are never seen without their jaguar masks (except on only one occasion). There has been a King in every game in the Tekken series, and this, along with their unique appearance and trademark "point", has made them one of the most recognizable characters, not only in the series but also in the fighting game genre.
Biography
King used to be a street brawling orphan with no care in the world except fighting. In one of his fights, King was grievously wounded and collapsed in front of a monastery. The Marquez priests saved him from death. After recovering, King realized the error of his ways and resolved to start a new life. He became a Catholic priest and renounced his old fighting ways. He then became a man with a mission; he dreamed of building an orphanage for street children, hoping to save them from becoming the kind of fighter he used to be.
Personality
Appearance
Outfits
Main Article: King/Outfits
Story
Tekken
King, the friendly rival of Armor King, was in need of money to fund the orphanage that he was taking care of. With the little money he had, King decided to enter The King of Iron Fist Tournament in the hopes of winning the prize money. King entered the tournament, but accidentally damaged Armor King's eye during their fight. Nonetheless, he emerged the victor and in the end, managed to get third place, winning enough prize money for the orphanage.
Tekken 1 King - Church
Tekken 2
After winning 3rd place in the first tournament, an orphan died within King's care. Depressed and enraged, King threw away his jaguar mask and ran away. Armor King worried about his rival, and went in search of him. After a long and tiring day of searching and finding no clues as to where King may be, he found him in an alleyway behind a bar. Armor King saw how his friend's life had crumbled and convinced him to return to the orphanage in order to take care of the kids who were still in need of him. Armor King also convinced him to go back to training for The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2.
King, fully recovered from his depression and alcoholism, trained intensely in order to enter the tournament, with the intention of winning the prize money again to fund the orphanage. However, King lost in the tournament, and resorted to teaching the orphans his fighting skills instead, as a means of self-defense.
Tekken 2 King - Children
Sometime after the second tournament, King is attacked and killed by Ogre, the god of fighting. This led one of the orphans in his care to don the jaguar mask himself and take on the title of King II, in order to provide further funding for the orphanage and continue the first King's legacy.
Other Appearances
Tekken: The Motion Picture
King briefly appeared in Tekken: The Motion Picture. King is seen in a minor scene, standing among other fighters.
Gameplay
Fighting Style
King and Armor King fight using Pro Wrestling. However, King uses the "catch" variation, focusing more on holds and submissions, whereas Armor King uses the "Shoot" variation, which focuses more on strikes.
Moves
King Moves King I/Tekken Movelist
Character Relationships
- Armor King - His friend and rival.
- King II - His successor.
- Ancient Ogre - Ogre killed King prior to the events of the third tournament.
Trivia
General:
- King does not speak, but instead growls like a jaguar.
- King was inspired by the legendary Japanese pro wrestler Satoru Sayama (better known as Tiger Mask) and a Mexican wrestler named Fray Tormenta, a Catholic priest who became a masked wrestler in order to support an orphanage.
- Not surprisingly, King also shares moves with other fighting game wrestlers, such as the Giant Swing also used by Wolf Hawkfield (Virtua Fighter), Bass Armstrong (Dead or Alive) Antonio Cesaro (WWE 2K) and R. Mika (Street Fighter V).
- King's grapples and strikes comes from various famous wrestlers.
- This includes John Cena`s STF, Undertaker's (and Kane's) Tombstone Piledriver, Samoa Joe's Muscle Buster (taken from Kinnikuman's Kinniku Buster), Jake the Snake Roberts' DDT, Brittany's Headjammer (dubbed the "Russian Leg Sweep'), Sting's (and Natalya's) Scorpion Deathlock/Sharpshooter, Joseph "Abyss" Park's Boston Crab, Antonio Cesaro's Giant Swing (named the Cesaro Swing), and Iron Shiek's Camel Clutch.
- His Basic pro-wrestling grapples includes the Atomic Drop, Frankensteiner, Wristlock, Knee Cross Lock, Choke Slam, Power Bomb, Suplex, Back Slam, and German Suplex.
- King was 47 at the time of his death.
- King is the first character with a known religion (in his case, Catholic), the second being the Muslim Shaheen.
- King's sub-boss is Armor King.
- In King's ending, he was seen wearing his Player 2 outfit while being surrounded by children from the orphanage after finishing the tournament in third place.
- Tekken is the only game to have ever shown King's full face. It can be seen during the console intro on PS1, before he puts on the mask.
- Also during the PS1 intro, King seems to have a cape made of a jaguar hide, but it is never seen in-game as part of any costume.
- King's sub-boss is once again Armor King.
- In the console opening, King is not seen wearing a jaguar mask. Instead, Armor King throws him the mask after finding him drunk in an alleyway. King's face is not seen, however, staying hidden from view in the scene.
- In his ending, King is seen wearing a brown trenchcoat over his Player 2 outfit while standing in the snow, watching the children from the orphanage enjoying Christmas, before he turns to walk away.