Professor T (T教授 T Kyōju?) is a minor character in the Tekken series and head of the advanced genetics GENOCELL research team at G Corporation that Julia Chang is a part of. He primarily appears in Julia's Tekken 4 prologue.
Story[]
Professor T is the head researcher on the forest rejuvenation project known as GENOCELL. His grant for the project came exclusively from G Corporation and the data his research produced was stored on G Corporation supercomputers in a highly secure research base. Julia Chang was one of the researchers on Professor T's team.
The aim of Professor T's research was to study the biological mechanism of reforestation, and to manipulate the cells of plants to grow in arid conditions, thus combatting desertification. The project was a success and GENOCELL was created, an agent that had biological purifying qualities that were able to stimulate biological growth.
Before Julia Chang could apply GENOCELL to her home state of Arizona, however, the Mishima Zaibatsu's Tekken Force raided G Corporation's highly secure labs under the orders of Heihachi Mishima, and stole all GENOCELL data for use in the Zaibatsu's Devil-Human Integration Program. Following the disaster, Professor T informed Julia that their research had been indefinitely halted.[1]
The GENOCELL data seems to have been recovered from the Mishima Zaibatsu by Julia after the 5th King of Iron Fist Tournament,[2] and she was once again working in genetic biology for G Corporation in Tekken 6. It is likely that Professor T was also still an employee of G Corporation at this time, though his team may have been disbanded after it was discovered that Julia was secretly spying on G Corp on behalf of Lee Chaolan's Violet Systems.[3]
Character Relationships[]
- Julia Chang - Researcher on his team, he informs her of GENOCELL's lost data.
- Heihachi Mishima - Ordered the raid on G Corp and stole Professor T's data.
- Kazuya Mishima - Research related to Kazuya caused Heihachi to raid G-Corp, also robbing Professor T of his work. Kazuya is likely now Professor T's boss, since he took over the corporation before Tekken 6.
- Doctor Abel - Used Professor T's stolen data for the Zaibatsu's Devil-Human Integration Program.
Trivia[]
- The stolen GENOCELL data was used by the Mishima Zaibatsu in their Devil-Human Integration Program.
- Professor T worked for G Corporation at the same time as Emma Kliesen, though her expertise is in human genetics.
- It is likely that Professor T's research laboratory was based in the United States, since G Corporation are likely based there, and the GENOCELL teams target of research was the Arizona desert.
- However, it is likely that the secure data on GENOCELL that was stolen by the Mishima Zaibatsu was being stored on supercomputers based in G Corporation's Nepalese research facility. This laboratory was decimated by a Mishima Zaibatsu raid and the secure servers were airlifted out by Zaibatsu helicopters.[4]
References[]
- ^ See Julia's Tekken 4 prologue.
- ^ See Julia Chang's Tekken 6 prologue
- ^ As described in the events of Tekken 6 Scenario Campaign.
- ^ See Tekken 4 Story.