Editing Heihachi Mishima

|name           = Heihachi Mishima

|image         = {{tabber|width=250px|height=300px|title1=Young|content1=<br><br>[[File:Heihachi_TTT2.png|x250px]]|title2=Old|content2=[[File:SSBU_spirit_Heihachi_Mishima.png|x300px]]}}

|caption       = {{symbol|tekken}}<br>Official artwork of Heihachi from ''{{iw|wikipedia|Tekken Tag Tournament 2}}'' and ''{{iw|wikipedia|Tekken 7}}''.

|universe       = {{uv|Tekken}}

|firstgame     = ''{{iw|wikipedia|Tekken|video game}}'' (1994)

|games         = ''[[SSB4]]''<br>''[[Ultimate]]''

|lastappearance = ''{{iw|wikipedia|Tekken 8}}'' (2024, via DLC)

|console       = Arcade

|species       = Human

|gender         = Male

|homeworld     = Japan

|creator       = {{iw|wikipedia|Seiichi Ishii}}

|voiceactor     = {{iw|wikipedia|Unshō Ishizuka}}

|interwiki     = wikipedia

|interwikiname = Wikipedia

|interwikipage = Heihachi Mishima

'''Heihachi Mishima''' ({{ja|三島 平八|Mishima Heihachi}}, ''Mishima Heihachi'') is a main character from the {{uv|Tekken}} universe.

Heihachi Mishima is a major antagonist/protagonist in the ''Tekken'' series of fighting video games, and the archenemy of his son [[Kazuya Mishima]]. He was born to Jinpachi Mishima, a renowned martial artist and the founder of the Mishima Zaibatsu corporation. Heihachi's ancestors had been fighting a demonic army led by a Devil Gene progenitor, [https://tekken.fandom.com/wiki/Azazel Azazel] since ancient times. Sometimes after Heihachi was born, in his early adult life, he met his then-future wife, Kazumi Hachijo, who had been sent to train under Jinpachi Mishima, Heihachi's father, and with time she and Heihachi fell in love, got married and had Kazuya.

However, when Kazuya became five years old, Kazumi's personality becomes completely different from the one whom Heihachi and Kazuya knew, after she was temporarily fell ill where Heihachi nursed her. In later days, Kazumi confronted Heihachi, by saying he would one day become a threat to the world, and revealed that her real intentions in marrying him were to murder him on behalf of the Hachijo clan, which then reveals to be a remnant clan of one of Azazel's original servant. As they fought, she manifested the Devil powers she awakened few days ago, and Heihachi had no other option but to kill the only woman he ever loved. This led to Heihachi overthrew Zaibatsu to take control of the company and begin a criminal empire, where he foil Jinpachi's attempt coup d'etat, and sealed him beneath Hon-Maru, and Jinpachi lost his humanity when a demonic entity unrelated to the Devil Gene possessed him to keep him alive for decades. Just as Heihachi suspected Kazuya inherited Kazumi's demon blood, he was confronted by a vengeful five years old Kazuya, due to the former's actions on killing Kazumi. As Kazuya's rage was too weak to awaken his devil, Heihachi knocked his son out, and threw him off of a cliff in order to test his strength and to see if he had the Devil Gene inherited from Kazumi, out of fear. Ultimately, as Kazuya's devil awaken, Heihachi discovered that Kazumi awakened her Devil Gene through experiencing near-death. Years later, Heihachi owned a pet named Kuma, who would gave birth of a son bearing a same name; later adopted a would be independent billionaire robotisist Lee Chaolan; and lastly sired multiple illegitimate children across the globe, such as his son Lars Alexandersson, out of paranoia, whether one of them whose mothers secretly Devil Gene carriers. Thankfully, Lars is confirmed not to inherit the Devil Gene which Kazuya has, nor Heihachi's fallen ambition, but carries Jinpachi's former heroic will.

When Heihachi hosted a martial arts tournament called the King of the Iron Fist, Kazuya returned in order to exact revenge on his father. Kazuya defeated him, threw him off the same cliff, and assumed control of the Zaibatsu, continuing his father's criminal practices.

Heihachi would later return and retake control of his corporation by defeating Kazuya in the next King of Iron Fist tournament and dropping him to his death into a volcano; it was around this time that he discovered that his son had been saved by the Devil Gene, and he now seeks this in order to attain ultimate power, going so far as to manipulate his grandson, Jin Kazama, who also bears the Devil Gene, into entering a new King of Iron Fist tournament 19 years after the last one in order to obtain the power of an ancient battling deity known as Ogre, whom Jin wanted to defeat to avenge the supposed death of his mother, Jun Kazama. One of his illegitimate daughter, Reina was born at some point after Jin's birth. As Reina is secretly also a Devil Gene carrier like Jin and Kazuya, but ironically worships her father, who despise Devil Gene, it is unclear what Heihachi's feelings to his daughter, if any, were in return.

 

 

 

Barring Banjō Ginga in the first and Wataru Takagi in the second ''Tekken'' games, Daisuke Gōri was famous for providing his voice in subsequent titles, until ''Tekken 6'' as he passed away on January 17, 2010 with Unshō Ishizuka voicing him from ''Tekken: Blood Vengeance'' until ''Tekken 7'' until his passing on August 13, 2018. Currently, he is now voiced by Taiten Kusunoki, who first voiced Heihachi in the Netflix animated series ''Tekken Bloodline''.

Heihachi is the basis for a paid [[downloadable content]] [[Alternate costume (SSB4)#Wave 2|costume]] for {{SSB4|Mii Brawler}}s. The costume resembles Heihachi's rejuvenated appearance that debuted in ''{{iw|wikipedia|Tekken Tag Tournament 2}}''. It was first shown at the end of {{SSB4|Ryu}}'s reveal trailer,  with Ryu and a Mii Brawler with the costume attacking each other simultaneously, referencing how Heihachi and Ryu had previously appeared together in the crossover titles ''{{iw|wikipedia|Namco × Capcom}}'', ''{{iw|wikipedia|Street Fighter X Tekken}}'' and ''{{iw|wikipedia|Project X Zone}}''.

Heihachi cameos in pixel form during {{SSBU|Pac-Man}}'s [[Namco Roulette]] taunt. The sprite is taken from ''{{iw|wikipedia|Tekken Tag Tournament 2}}'', and is based on his older, gray-haired appearance from ''{{iw|wikipedia|Tekken 3}}'' onwards.

Heihachi appears on [[Mishima Dojo]] as a background character, using his aforementioned older appearance. If parts of walls and ceiling are broken, he will get up and react to it with his arms crossed. The voice clips that accompany these reactions are from ''Tekken Tag Tournament 2'', and were provided by the late Unshō Ishizuka.

In his costume trailer in ''Ultimate'', Heihachi is seen performing a forward throw on [[Wolf]] into Maka Wuhu on [[Wuhu Island]], as a direct reference to Heihachi tossing his son, Kazuya, into a volcano after defeating him in ''{{iw|wikipedia|Tekken 2}}'' as revenge for Kazuya throwing him off a cliff after defeating him in the previous game. He is then shown fighting {{SSBU|Yoshi}}, as a reference to the ''Tekken'' character {{iw|wikipedia|Yoshimitsu}}, who is sometimes called "Yoshi" by his fanbase. Additionally, it could serve as a reference to Alex, a dinosaur fighter from the same series.

The design of the Heihachi Wig was notably updated from ''Smash 4'' to be consistent in style with {{SSBU|Kazuya}}'s new character model for ''Ultimate''.