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Richard Williams (リチャード・ウィリアムズ Richādo Wiriamuzu?) is a minor character in the Tekken games. He was an Irish assassin, and is the father of Nina Williams and Anna Williams, making him one of the Williams Family.

Biography[]

Richard Williams worked as an assassin for the Irish Republican Army.[1] He retired to marry a British Aikido champion and the two lived in the Republic of Ireland, where they had two daughters. Both daughters were raised to know both their father's assassination techniques and their mother's aikido. The elder daughter, Nina Williams, had an aptitude for Richard's art that meant he favored her. His younger daughter, Anna Williams, craved his attention and affection, but was of little interest to him as she was more reluctant to become an assassin.[2] Richard expected both his daughters to continue on the family business as assassins-for-hire. He may have been involved in sending Nina off for experiments in emotional repression when she was young.[3] His favoring of Nina over Anna begun a lifelong rivalry between the two which has not yet been resolved.

Richard died, likely of natural causes, around the time of the second King of Iron Fist Tournament, in 1996. Both his daughters held a temporary truce when they visited his grave.

Personality[]

From the way his daughters regard him, Richard seems to have been an aloof and hard-to-please individual, more like his daughter Nina than Anna. He openly favored Nina over Anna and pressured both into following in his footsteps to be assassins. In a tweet, Katsuhiro Harada revealed that, failing to impress Richard with her martial arts, Anna took up cooking in order to show her father she was good at something Nina was not. Richard told her such an endeavour was pointless as it did not further the family status as assassins.[4]

Appearance[]

In the main Tekken series, Richard's appearance is never specified or referenced. He appears however in the spin-off game Death by Degrees, in which he is depicted with receding auburn hair and a close beard and moustache.

Character Relationships[]

  • Mrs. Williams - His wife.
  • Nina Williams - His eldest daughter. Richard seems to be one of the few people Nina respects and cares for. He showered Nina with attention and was keen to see her follow in his footsteps.
  • Anna Williams - His youngest daughter. She desperately vied for his attention and never received it. She resents him deeply, though still visited his grave and was upset by his death.
  • Steve Fox - His grandson. Richard died before Steve was born. The two have never met.

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Trivia[]

  • In the non-canonical Tekken: The Motion Picture, Anna mentioned that Richard always called her a brat and liked Nina better, which may be one reason for Nina and Anna's rivalry. Anna's Tekken biography mentions that her father only showed Nina affection, and that he resented Anna, who wanted a normal life rather than the life of an assassin.
  • Richard's grave features in Nina's Tekken 2 ending, where she is shown placing flowers at it. The grave seems to show he was born in December 1961 and died in March 1996. Anna also lays flowers at the grave, and, despite initially being alarmed, Nina allows her to without attacking her, making this scene one of the few where the sisters are not at odds with each other.
  • Richard made several appearances in flashbacks in the non-canonical Tekken spin-off game, Death by Degrees. He was shown being killed by gunfire while trying to protect his two daughters.

References[]

  1. ^ See Nina Williams' Tekken biography
  2. ^ See Anna's Tekken and Tekken 2 biographies
  3. ^ See Nina Williams' Tekken biography
  4. ^ https://twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/305198034495631361

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