A History of Cut Tekken Characters 

9:15 Believe it or not there is actually a reason why Nina is wearing a wedding dress, she assassinated a man at his wedding and she stole the brides wedding dress to get close to him...the bride was Anna. That also explains why Anna's costume is a widow's dress.

The funny thing regarding Eliza's turn from vampire to succubus, is that a very recent Harada's Bar episode actually talked about it, where he basically revealed they turned her into a succubus without him knowing.

Harada straight up wanted the Hulk and Magikarp in Tekken.

"Sake was a big salmon that just started flopping around the stage." That just tells me they wanted a Magikarp.

Fun fact: in 2006 the Baki manga had Baki fight a giant mantis. So a little less than 10 years before Baki fought a mantis, tekken could have been first

I remember hearing about Miguel's sister being the Zombie Bride a few years ago. That sounds crazy but you remember Tekken has The Devil Gene, robots, and mythical beings so having a zombie doesn't sound so crazy.

Morrigan and the Zombie Bride are become Top Tier for a Tekken Game in an alternate universe

"Because speaking as a DarkStalkers fan, yes, we do just go around asking people at random if they'll include them in their game because that's all we have to hope for at this point." This is so true and it HURTS SO MUCH When Ono left I just lost all my hope And its frustrating cuz capcom still is trying to capitalize with skins but never give us a game I just dont need AAA game, just let some indie devs do a game

To think.. at one point in this crazy Tekken universe.. instead of Eliza being in Tekken Revolution.. we would of gotten a salmon. I'm so glad that we got Eliza over a fish.

Man imagine that alternate reality if Morrigan was a DLC character in Tekken 7

Thorgi: “I know this is a video about TEKKEN, but let me tell you about Darkstalkers”

You're meaning to tell me that we literally could have had a CORPSE BRIDE in Tekken THIS WHOLE TIME?!?!

Seeing a darkstalkers character in tekken would be dope

9:13 Fun fact: When Anna was added into Tekken 7 as DLC, she wore a widow outfit and the reason behind it was because her fiance was offed by Nina before their planned wedding (Harada tweeted about this during her release). In fact it's the reason Nina's wearing bridal gear... Cuz that was actually meant to be Anna's. Here's hoping they don't give my girl Anna more bad luck when she comes back

I am INFURIATED that I can't fight a boxing velociraptor as a salmon 😤

I think Kyo Kusanagi would have been amazing for Tekken. The move lists for modern Tekken are brain-rendingly huge, and Kyo's rekka chains always get something new added in each game, so he could have every existing rekka plus some new ones created for Tekken, plus a bunch of DLC costumes that each have a different Rage Art or Super.

Darkstalkers really honor their name with so many almost happening, slightly in the background moments. Imagine what could have happened if Morrigan would have been in Tekken and popular. Back at Capcom at least someone must have wondered if that could mean something...

My brother always theorised that Eliza was a Darkstalkers character, so I really love the speculation at the end there. I 100% believe it

I'm sorry did I see that right was that Morrigan? For Tekken? Dear God imagine the soul fists

Let's be real, if Sake the Salmon DID become a fighting game character because of the poll Eliza won, what would Sake's moveset be like?

The whole Eliza having a super bar could also be the team testing out super meters, EX moves, etc to see how they would work in Tekken X Street Fighter cuz that game was also in development at the time. Adding those types of characters that rely on Super meters like Eliza, Akuma and Geese was definitely them figuring out how that system could work in a Tekken game.

Morrigan almost being in Tekken 7 is kinda funny considering I made my Lili look like Morrigan

Man, Darkstalkers can't catch a break

I'm betting Tekken 8 will have Morrigan as a DLC guest character like Akuma & Geese, but I'm hoping for the best if Harada is okay with it, and Capcom is okay having her in a guest character. Also, they better put a rival dialogue with Eliza to know she took her spot in Tekken 7 as a reference.

This was low-key an episode of build-a-roster for tekken tag 3

Perfect timing, just got done of learning literally every bit of tekken lore and watched all the endings in anticipation for the new game, never been into tekken till I seen this one, I’ve played but never dove deep till now, hype as hell for this game

In the game files of T4, there was characters names pronounced by the announcer, many of them were previous characters being absent from the game ! Characters like Armor King, Anna, Devil, Jun, Unknown, Ogre and even Jinpachi even if it was years before Tekken 5 !

12:34 "THIS is not a T for teen costume" *Laughs in Soul Calibur*

I can't help but feel that Sake just became Boskonovich.

Really wanting Morrigan to become the go to guest character like she was in the 90s. Seriously would love to see her make an appearance in Tekken 8

Every one on the Tekken crew is a different kind of pervert, each with their own niche interest. Its a delicate balance, but it works.

14:26 You're telling me Tekken was going to have his own version of freaking Hinako from KOF? Lmao

A man fighting in a walrus costume sounds like the most tekken thing ever. Season 3 DLC I’m calling it.

I'm kinda hoping if they revisit the idea of a Darkstalkers character in Tekken, then they choose to add Lord Raptor. Morrigan makes the most sense since she is THE Darkstalkers character, but it would be nice to see some more representation across the whole series. Also I just feel Raptor would fit in with cast really well, however, if I were to pick any character it would be Hsien-ko.

I thought I was going crazy bc I could’ve sworn I read that having Tekken Hybrid save data would unlock a Shin costume for Jin in TTT2. Turns out he was a cut character completely

Now I can imagine Harada looking at the polls sweating bullets, hoping the fish didn't win.😂

I was in love when Walrus Guy was mentioned. roflmao how is that not a costume choice. Give the Walrus to Paul

If you want to see what a giant praying mantis would like in a fighting game, look at the secret characters in WCW Thunder...

Tekken 8 should have a guest character from Dead or Alive and also Bloody Roar.

Eliza was the reason i started playing Tekken revolution when that game came out bc she felt like a lost Darkstalker and it made me really happy when she got to come back in t7 but im getting conflicting feelings now bc Morrigan is my favorite character period and learning about not getting her in something kind of hurts. I hope at least that Eliza can come back for another game eventually bc i still really like her either way

First Street Fighter, now Tekken! This should definitely be a series. All we need now is videos about cut characters from Mortal Kombat, Darkstalkers, Soulcalibur, Dead of Alive and the SNK fighters (Art of Fighting, Fatal Fury, King of Fighters and Samurai Showdown) :)

That taekwondo girl's design looks amazing! 😍 Her color scheme might be a bit too close to asuka but I hope she makes it in 8 somehow! Also can't say I'm not at least a little bit salty knowing that we were the closest we've ever been to bringing darkstalkers back to life and making it popular again 😅

I still hope they'll add Morrigan. I mean Eliza clearly takes some moves from her, that sharp pointed foot has a glow strike to make it appear even sharper like a needle. That airborn upper-cut thing she does is a literal Morrigan move.

Okay but between the skinny scientist turning into a hulking (heh) monster (giving me Jekyll and Hyde vibes) and the zombie bride and outright Morrigan... now I wanna see the Tekken devs do their own take on a horror themed fighting game.

Man I just want a Yakuza character in Tekken. Kiryu, Ichiban, Majima, don't care which of them just add them

The idea of spending money at the arcade to accidentally pick a nonfunctioning fish does sound like it would hurt, but then you got to see other people go through the same thing and laugh about it too. Might have made it worth it.

"Scrapped her because they thought that her outfit would be too revealing..." Christie, Zafina, Katarina: "Are we joke to you?!"

This week? ITS TONIGHT BABY

12:34 I want to see this lady be playable in Tekken 8 ngl

I miss unknown, unknown was so fun and hard to fight especially with friends and family in tag team

I'd love to have either Terry Bogard or Mai Shiranui be the KOF rep DLC for Tekken 8. Also we were truly robbed of not having Morrigan. Would really be interesting to have her fighting style translated in a tekken game. Minus the Astral Vision Soul Fist spam.

I feel like the zombie bride could be a Benjie like Sindell maybe some attacks with screams, transparancy, nails and hair would be cool

That info about Morrigan/Eliza is fucking FASCINATING I had no clue

I was actually looking up the Revolution poll a few hours before this was posted. I thought I imagined it, "Did they really make one of the options a praying mantis and an old guy? I must have imagined it." Yeah, in hindsight, no wonder Eliza won. Edit: What, no mention of the illustrious "Average, run-of-the-mill old man" which was a choice in the poll for some reason? A fighter that would've rivalled Akuma's reveal.

everyone knows jcvd is in mortal kombat now because johnny cage was based on him but what many don't know is that mk was originally pitched as basically a van damme fighting game. it's also not that weird that he was considered as inspiration for a tekken character when you have law & lei in there

I take pride in giving Eliza a Morrigan skin in T7 and I had no idea about that wild fun fact.

Another great video. You're on a roll, dude!

Well glad you release this right on time on Tekken 8 releasing

Sake The Salmon is cannonically the strongest character in the Tekken universe.

This video was super fun and informative! Thanks

Well, technically, Dimitri from Darkstalkers is a vampire and has moves similar to Morrigan, so it would make sense for Eliza, the vampire, would be similar, too. I'm surprised a Dimitri skin wasn't used for Eliza.

Of everything mentioned here, I want to see "Paulina" the most. Another great video as always, Thorgi!

for the dragunov fans: according to a source i found he was meant to be in tekken 3, his design has been around since the 90s, he was scrapped for put in the series later then in this case

Man Sake wouldve attained daytona car levels of legendary

We need Sake, the mantis, and Lovely the cow in a game please! Also I'm surprised you missed Kazuya in 3.

Hope the smash 6 btr well be the next video good video man

to think that we didn't get Morrigan in T7... but we got fucking Neegan

man I love this channel 'cause how Aron deliver his presentation

Tekken love naming animals as just the animal it self, sake means salmon

I hope they bring back that one Velociraptor character back. I haven't been following Tekken 8 so I don't know if he's in it but I would love if he was because I love characters like him and Riptor from Killer Instinct

My hope for Guest Fighters in Tekken 8: Tifa Lockhart Morrigan Albert Wesker, Leon Kennedy or Ada Wong 2B

Came for the Morrigan thumbnail. Was not disappointed.

Trying to imagine what it would have been like if the scrapped Tekken 1 characters stuck around. - Walrus Guy: he would have been an early Marduk. Perhaps, there could have been a history between him and King (or Armor King). Maybe, he could have even taken Marduk's place in Tekken 4 (I doubt they would have created Marduk if they already had a big, buff wrestler around), maybe making him more serious and keeping the storyline that Marduk had. I hope so, because try to imagine that infamous King-Marduk-Armor King cutscene, but "Marduk" wears a walrus suit and, probably, makes walrus noises; - Mr. Hanuman: Maybe, he could have been among the original generation, and being eventually scrapped. Perhaps, Tekken 7's Fahkumram could have been his apprentice, as we see an older version of him training Fahkumram; - Lula, the "Yoga Aura" girl: maybe she could have been an early Xiaoyu/Lili character in terms of "her story is full of typical high school anime shenanigans". Since she was a teenager, this means that, in the "current" generation, she could have been in her 30s. I would have appreciated it, because Tekken's female characters are either schoolgirls/20somethings or, when they are older, there's a reason why they are still youthful looking. Perhaps, she could have been a character akin to Zafina? - "Hulk" character: first of all, I can't wrap my head around HOW this was going to be handled, legally. Second, I wonder if he was going to fill the role of either Dr. Abel or Dr. Boskonovitch. Him changing forms could have been something fun, though, because this only ever happens with main characters, or villains (in case of Ogre); - The Van Damme-like character: first of all, I wonder how they would have handled having a Van Damme-inspired character while Street Fighter was having a movie adaptation where he was playing the main character. Second, I can see him being used in the same way as Lei Wu Long, with his own storyline inspired by Van Damme's movies. Perhaps, down the line, he could have been asked to voice this character; (Side note: for the Tekken live action movie, they planned on featuring Jackie Chan and Jet Li. Now, imagine if there was also a character inspired by Jean Claude Van Damme, and then the movie tried to include him. We could have had a Tekken movie wiith Jackie Chan, Jet Li and Jean Claude Van Damme!) These characters do seem like they could have changed the tone of Tekken. It was clear that Tekken 1 was meant to have a more colourful, funny angle. What do you think?

12:34 i mean they could of still added her with the outfit tho. Ivy Valentine from soul caliber has a similar outfit and both series are from bandai namco. I wouldn't be surprised if they gave that outfit to ivy for soul calibur 6 and i wouldn't be surprised if zoey was based off of ivy

Spoiler warning! 15:14 Lady Paul is actually in Tekken 8 you can find her in the Arcade Quest mode at the "Phoenix" arcade. Her name is Jet, she wears a helmet, when you fight her she will play as Paul with a skull helmet, after you win she takes off her helmet essentially revealing herself as female Paul. If it wasn't for this video I would have never caught this hidden Easter Egg.

I don't think the Walrus Man will not fit in on the roster when there is a Tiger mask wearing luchador that only speaks in roars, 2 bears, a kangaroo with boxing gloves and a raptor with boxing gloves at one point.

I'd really love to see a Zombie Bride in a Tekken game, and to show her in Tekken 6. It'll be one awesome reveal. Also Sake should make his debut on Tekkwn 8 as a secret DLC character. Also for guest character, I want Yujiro Hanma to be included in Tekken 8.

Something I want to note was that according to an episode of Harada’s bar, he actually said that Geese wasn’t the first pick as the snk rep, and that the original pick was Ryuji Yamazaki. But it never happened because the team/him figured you can’t have the henchmen before big boss Geese. Which I for one would’ve loved to see those interactions if we did get him… or if we can get him now considering Geese was in Tekken 7.

Zombie Bride could've been an interesting character gameplay wise. No idea how they'd keep the T rating with it, but it would've been cool to see her have moves where she uses one of her own limbs as a club. Kinda like the main character from Medievil

Don't ever give up hope on Darkstalkers, Thorgi. I haven't, and part of that is because of you making the amazing videos about the series. I will believe until my dying breath that Darkstalkers Are Not Dead, and I think somehow, some way, we, the fanbase, can make that dream a reality some day.

The Hulk type character would be cool! We have a lot of stance characters, but changing shape and weight class is something I've only seen in Smash Bro

Early to a Thorgi video finally :)

Im surprised that you didn't mention that pacman was gonna be in Tekken revolution or how a cod soldier, angry birds, and colonel sanders was considered for Tekken 7. Still a great video though

Lars is my favorite Tekken character just because he’s honestly the only Mishima worth rooting for

If Kuma was any indication the walrus guy would have looked butt ugly with Tekken 1's graphics

Another good throgi video

8:05 Zombie Liu Kang: am I a joke to you

very interesting and very unique premise for this channel can you do more of these like one for Mortal Kombat or one for Street Fighter of their cut/original concept characters.

So Sake was made technically playable with Kuma's T7 Rage Art?

Anyone noticed in T8 art pictures (where u can c Tekken story so far) there's a picture of loads of present & past fighters? In that Eddy Gordo, Heihachi Mishima, Morgan, Armor King & the guy that has tattoos all over him including his face. I think they all will be DLC by the time T8 is done with.

Morrigan was considered? Oh man, that would’ve been neat.

Always cool video ideas

honestly bring me Zoe and give her Krav Maga, that character would go crazy

I really like the "cut characters" videos!

this may sound like a technicality but Lord Raptor is more a Ghoul or demonic mutant than a zombie

Makes me wonder if we'll get a video featuring characters that were cut from Mortal Kombat or Soul Calibur.

Bruh , theres a story behind Nina's Wedding outfit. She disguised herself as Anna during Anna's wedding, to assassinate her fiance. She ran away after the assassination and bumped into Steve. And that's why Anna wore that black/red dress with feathers , because she went to her fiance's funeral.

Harada also wanted to include Ryuji Yamazaki as the initial Fatal Fury villain pick, but went with Geese because he didn't feel it was right to have Yamazaki before him.

Oh boy that Tekken retrospective is going to be fun because oh man,Jinpachi Mishima and Azazel are two of THE hardest bosses in the series.

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