Tekken: Blood Vengeance

What happens when a video game producer gets angry enough from the Adaptation Decay of his video game?

He makes the adaptation itself, of course.

Tekken: Blood Vengeance is a CGI film based on the Fighting Game series Tekken. It is produced by Digital Frontier and written by Dai Sato (Cowboy Bebop). The film was directed by Youichi Mouri, the same person who directed the Tekken 5 and Tekken 6: Blood Rebellion opening cinematics. The soundtrack is composed by Basiscape. Unlike the (somewhat decent) live action movie that come in 2010, this one was more directly supervised by Namco themselves.

The plot follows Ling Xiaoyu as she is tasked (by Anna Williams from the G Corporation) to infiltrate an international school in Kyoto to gather information on a mysterious and very handsome student named Shin Kamiya, who seems to know something VERY important that the Corporation wants BADLY. Not so long after that she makes friends with Alisa Bosconovitch, who was also sent to check on Shin by the Mishima Zaibatsu for similar reasons. . . but all of a sudden, Shin gets kidnapped by an unknown assailant. Now it's up to Xiaoyu and Alisa to find Shin and solve the mystery behind him, but both girls are swept into the conflict between Xiaoyu's best friend and prospect Love Interest Jin Kazama (an old friend of Shin), his cruel father Kazuya, and his also evil grandfather Heihachi. . .

The film was released on a special Tekken Hybrid Blu-ray Disc in November 2011. The Blu-ray also includes an HD remake of the original Tekken Tag Tournament which can be run on PlayStation 3 along with a demo version of Tekken Tag Tournament 2. Nintendo 3DS owners also got to join in the fun, as Namco brought Blood Vengeance in the same package as Tekken 3D as part of the Tekken 3D: Prime Edition bundle.

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This series provides example of:

• Absolute Cleavage: Nina Williams' catsuit, unsurprisingly.
• Action Girl: Every single one of the female characters.
• Adaptational Heroism: Arguably, Nina.
• All Part of the Show: In the School Festival, there's a video contest where the KIS students can send their videos to be broadcasted. Shin's own video has him suddenly being kidnapped, and only Xiaoyu and Alisa realise that Shin has been abducted for real.
• Anti-Villain: Kazuya Mishima (Type I), which is pretty ironic since in games, he'd be the Big Bad while Heihachi is more the occasional Anti-Villain. Perhaps because in the movie, at least, his concern was beating the crap out of Jin rather than the tortures committed to Shin (and he's at least shown not to be a Bad Boss to Anna). Doesn't quite excuse him for some Kick the Dog moments, though.
  • Moreso with Jin (Type III), if his parting words to Xiaoyu (where he tells her that humanity isn't exactly beyond salvation, then points out that she might be the one to defeat him) are any indicator.
  • Xiaoyu herself falls under Type IV during her stint as an unwilling Villain Protagonist in the first half.
• Artistic License Martial Arts
• Ascended Extra: Xiaoyu and Alisa, until the end.
• Badass Adorable: Xiaoyu, Alisa, and Panda.
• Badass Grandpa: Heihachi. The guy is in his 70s, yet he can hold his own against Kazuya and Jin.
• Bandage Babe: Shin is a Rare Male Example, since his left arm is covered in bandages. Which hide his Power Tattoo and his untapped powers.
• Barrier Maiden: Shin can easily be seen as a Rare Male Example.
• Batman Gambit: Shin deliberately let himself get captured so he can lure the one who mutated him, Heihachi, out of hiding. It does work... but it leads to his death, since Heihachi was using HIM to lure out his son and grandson.
• Big Damn Heroes: Panda manages to score one when she rescues Alisa and Xiaoyu from Anna. And she scores another via shielding the two from the Mokujin Mecha, which convinces the Mokujins to stop aiding Heihachi.
  • Alisa pulls one to rescue Xiaoyu when she's blown across a room, crashes into its wooden walls and plummets to what could've been her death.
• Big Fancy House: Lee's mansion. Which gets destroyed by the Williams sisters.
• Big Screwed-Up Family: The Mishima Clan, full stop. Nina and Anna are a close second.
• Big No/Say My Name: Xiaoyu after Shin is killed.
• Boarding School: The Kyoto one that Xiaoyu is sent to. Heck, she has to sneak into the boys' dorm early in the story to check on Shin.
• Boyfriend Bluff: Shin says Xiaoyu is his date in front of Alisa and makes her play the part so they can talk alone.
• Break the Cutie: Shin was badly, badly broken in the past. And it goes into Kill the Cutie.
  • The last third of the movie is a full-blown Break the Cutie process for Xiaoyu, especially after her newfound friend Shin is murdered by Heihachi, she fails to stop her beloved Jin from fighting Kazuya and Heihachi (one of the things she fears the most), Jin taps willingly into the Devil Gene when he normally does not, and a severely damaged Alisa is torn in half by Kazuya which equals to her being near fatally wounded. She does recover, but it takes quite the effort.
• Call Back: In the ending, Xiaoyu reveals to the restored Alisa that she wants to make the world into one big amusement park so everyone can smile and be happy. This was her original goal for entering The King of Iron Fist Tournament in the first place, as seen in Tekken 3.
• Calling Your Attacks: Rocket Punch!
• The Cameo: Various other Tekken characters (Bob, Bruce, Lili, King, and Raven among others) were seen in a list of possible spies for the G Corporation before Anna and then Kazuya settle in on Xiaoyu. Makes sense, as it wouldn't be the best idea to send a Masked Luchador or a super rich heiress to capture a supposedly-immortal high-school student.
  • Lei Wulong also sent an phone message to Nina at one point.
• Chainsaw Good: Alisa, who else?
• Can't Catch Up: Xiaoyu and possibly the rest of the characters against the superpowered Mishima family. They can fly and shoot Wave Motion Guns from their eyes. Even Heihachi, who has no superpower, has an Eleventh Hour One-Winged Angel mode here.
• Canon Foreigner: Shin.
• Car Fu: Anna attempts to ambush Nina by running her over with a truck!
• Catch Phrase: Lee's "Excellent!", of course.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Xiaoyu's skill at martial arts somehow allows her to be kicked through a concrete wall, fall three stories, and have a robot's head explode in her hands, all with very few bruises.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Alisa.
• Combining Mecha: Mokujin Megazord sequence, initiate! Heihachi's way of keeping up with Kazuya and Jin's devil forms is to call on the spirits of the Mokujin, combining all of them into a giant demon-looking version of himself.
• Continuity Snarl: Despite taking place between 5 and 6, several events seem to disregard pre-existing canon. ie, it has Ganryu still associated with the Zaibatsu (and even is the Polytechnic School's PE teacher) even when he's supposed to have left, Lee is seen as a Kyoto school teacher rather than as a CEO in his own right (though nothing says he cannot be both), Jin having more control over his Devil form than he actually has in the games, and considering what happened in 5, Heihachi probably shouldn't even have been featured. . .
• Cool Teacher: Lee Chaolan, without a doubt. For starters, how many teachers let you spend the night in their Big Fancy House?
• Covers Always Lie: Although the scene on the cover (with Xiaoyu holding Alisa) does happen in the movie, there's a big difference: in the actual scene, Alisa's body is NOT intact.
• Dark Action Girl: Anna.
• Decoy Protagonists: Xiaoyu and Alisa, who are the leads for around 2/3 of the story until the Mishimas are reunited.
• Despair Event Horizon: Poor Xiaoyu nearly crossed it after witnessing the depths of the Mishima family feud, swearing off that humanity is better off disappearing if all they do is fight . Luckily for her, Alisa re-awoke and managed to set her straight, plus there Jin's final words state that maybe humanity has a hope if they're the one to fix themselves.
• Destination Defenestration: Xiaoyu is kicked through a window by Alisa, after her programming is activated.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Shin, in the arms of both Xiaoyu and Alisa.
• Disney Death: Alisa, twice, both in the very same scene. Shin wasn't as lucky...
• Driven to Suicide: Xiaoyu meets Shin when he tries to kill himself and fails. And it's not he first time he attempts it and survives. It's because he was cruelly experimented on and more or less immortal as a result. And it fucking sucks.
• Doomed by Canon: No one from the game is dead per se. But since we know that most characters will survive in Tekken 6, it might be jarring by how much Genre Blindness Jin (and Xiaoyu to some extent) has.
• Dying as Yourself: Shin.
• Enhance Button: Alisa has one built in and can determine any hidden contents of a photo just by looking at it.
• Evil Sounds Deep: The Mishimas, who else? Especially Jin Kazama, and he's not as evil as Dad and Grandpa.
• Falling Into His Arms: Given some pretty mean spins. As Xiaoyu arrives to the Kyoto International School to look for Shin, she looks up and sees a boy literally falling from the sky - or better said, the nearest rooftop. She uses her martial arts skills to pull a Wall Jump and then a Diving Save to catch him and land safely, but the boy refuses her help and says he just slipped before limping away. It turns out the boy is Shin, and he did NOT slip - he was trying to kill himself.
• Fan Service: Including...
  • Modesty Towel: Courtesy of Xiaoyu.
  • She's Got Legs: The film clearly loves to focus on the ladies' legs.
  • Shower Scene: Courtesy of Xiaoyu and Shin. Shin's scene doubles as Foreshadowing.
• Foreshadowing: Lee's blackboard drawings foreshadow the final battle.
  • Also, the mentions of the Mokujin exhibit throughout the movie.
  • While at Lee's mansion, Alisa decides to mimic an attack from a TV show which involves shooting her arms like missiles. She ends up using said attack for real against Heihachi in the final battle.
• Genre Blindness: Jin, did you really think that Heihachi and Kazuya would die just by falling from a very high place?
• Good Wings, Evil Wings: Though "good" is a relative thing, Jin's perfected Devil form has wings that are more feathery than Devil Kazuya's batlike ones.
• Half The One They Used To Be: Alisa, courtesy of Kazuya.
• Heel Face Turn: Surprisingly, pulled by a hero. Xiaoyu is gangpressed into the service of G Corp by Anna and is only in it because she likes her target, Shin. But when Alisa, who's supposed to be her enemy, goes out of her way to save her life, the two decide to investigate on their own why their superiors are targeting Shin.
• He Is Not My Boyfriend: Xiaoyu says this about Jin in one of her early talks with Alisa.
• Hero Antagonist: Alisa is revealed to be this after Shin gets kidnapped. She later drops the "antagonist" part and sides with Xiaoyu so they can start their own investigation of what their superiors want with Shin.
• It Has Been an Honor: The dying Shin tells this to Xiaoyu and Alisa, before telling Jin that the rest is up to him and then perishing.
• Joshikousei: Xiaoyu, of course.
• Just a Machine: Anna and Kazuya's opinion of Alisa. Xiaoyu does not take this well.
• Kick the Dog: After Jin orders Alisa into standby mode so she won't interfere in the fight with his father... Kazuya, who's in Devil form, responds to his coaching her in such a manner by taking the opportunity to stomp her in half.
  • Also Anna, who attacks Xiaoyu, near chokes her, orders her to destroy her new friend Alisa and then mocks her over Alisa turning out to be an enemy.
• Kill the Cutie: Poor, poor Shin. . .
• Kung Shui: Better hope that castle's insured. Three generations of Mishimas together for a family reunion will not end well.
• Lap Pillow: Xiaoyu pulls this with Alisa.
• Late for School: Even if you ride on a panda to avert it!
• Masquerade: A variation: Ganryu expels Xiaoyu from Mishima Polytechnic and transfers her to KIS. When Anna reveals herself and assigns Xiaoyu her mission immediately afterwards, it becomes clear that the whole "expulsion for property damage, bad grades, and a really crappy attitude" thing was just a cover for Xiaoyu's new assignment.
• Melee a Trois: The three-way battle between Kazuya, Heihachi, and Jin. And Jin wins it!
• The Mole: Xiaoyu and Alisa, both for opposing evil corporations. They soon go on their own together to find out what their superiors are really up to.
• Neutral Female: Xiaoyu turns into one at the end. It's very hard to blame her, considering the circumstances: the girl has no real way to interfere between the REALLY overpowered Mishimas without getting either severely wounded or straight-up killed (she DID try and got accidentally thrown off a tower for it, and if not for Alisa she'd be dead), and both Heihachi's murder of Shin AND Alisa being torn in half by Kazuya had a huge impact on her psyche.
• Not So Different: Alisa has a moment of this about Shin, when she and Xiaoyu find out that he also has a sort of unusual body.
• Oh Crap: Xiaoyu, during her fight with Alisa, once she finds out that her opponent is a robot.
  • Shin, when Heihachi shrugs off his punch and proceeds to murder him.
• One-Winged Angel: Naturally, Jin and Kazuya's devil forms; both of whom have been redesigned to represent their true power (also noteworthy for being the first appearance of Jin in control of his Devil form). Heihachi also has one, using the power of the Mokujin spirits under the Kyoto castle to transform himself into a giant demon-looking version of himself. He is however held back by said spirits, who are impressed by the bonds between humans (read: Alisa and Xiaoyu), and is defeated by Devil Jin and a wounded Alisa.
• Only In It For The Guy: The only reason why Xiaoyu (unknowingly and later unwillingly) serves as a Villain Protagonist for the first half is because the target Anna set her up to capture is a hottie.
• Pet the Dog: Lee offering shelter to Xiaoyu, Alisa and Panda.
  • Maybe, Nina saving Alisa and Xiaoyu from being killed by Anna and her mooks.
  • Jin rebooting and pretty much reviving Alisa, then telling Xiaoyu that there's still hope for humanity (plus that she might be the one to defeat him, and he'll wait for that day) before he leaves.
• Playing with Syringes: Shin and his classmates were horribly experimented on by Heihachi, and Shin was the Sole Survivor. No wonder he doesn't want to live anymore.
• Plucky Girl: Both Xiaoyu and Alisa, the latter even more so.
• Power Tattoo: When Shin rips out his shirt later in the movie, it turns out his arms, back and torso are covered in these. And they glow.
• Punch! Uh Oh...: Shin attempts to lay Heihachi out with a powered-up punch to the gut. Heihachi is not amused.
• Qipao: Worn by Xiaoyu at one point, along with Modesty Shorts. It more or less becomes her fighting outfit later in the games.
  • Also worn by Anna.
• Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: Heihachi is not quite dead. He is most definitely hard to kill.

Heihachi: It feels good to be back. Hiding in the shadows after faking your own death is a bore. In fact, it's downright tedious. Kazuya: I thought I've thrown you into the depths of Hell. Heihachi: Ha! If you thought that was enough to kill me, you are gravely mistaken.

• Rides Like Crazy: How we are introduced to Ling Xiaoyu and Panda in the movie.
• Rocket Punch: Courtesy of Alisa.
• Romantic Two-Girl Friendship: Alisa and Xiaoyu.
• Rule of Cool: Quite possibly set the bar for future Rule of Cool entries. All sorts of insanity from start to finish, though it goes Up to Eleven when the three Mishimas start going at it (Heihachi actually pulls off a juggle combo during the battle)... and then it gets even crazier once Kazuya and Jin start tapping into the Devil Gene's power.
• Ship Tease: Xiaoyu has this with Jin, Shin, and Alisa.
• Shout-Out: Contains several to various action movies.
  • To The Matrix: The first scene is set on a highway with high walls like the car chase scene of The Matrix Reloaded, the first character we see is a woman dressed like Trinity, who rides a motorbike like she did in said scene, and who jumps off the motorbike like Trinity did in the first scene of The Matrix Reloaded.
  • To Total Recall: Xiaoyu kicks Alisa in the head after discovering her to be a robot. Alisa's head lands in Xiaoyu's hands, says something and then it explodes.
  • To Transformers: The truck we see in the first scene looks like and has the same paint job as Optimus Prime.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: For nearly much of the movie, the story follows Xiaoyu and Alisa as they try to keep tabs on Shin with occasional run ins with Lee and the Williams sisters. . . Then for the last final act, Heihachi, Kazuya and Jin, who have barely even been in the movie take over by that point for the climax.
• Spy Catsuit: Nina's costume of choice.
• Stalker with a Crush: Alisa tells Xiaoyu that she's one to Shin, though she more or less lied about that to cover the fact that she was gathering intel as well. Xiaoyu then says that she's also one to Shin, but she's lying about that too.
• 3D Movie
• Tall, Dark and Handsome: Not only Jin, but Shin as well.
• Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe: Averted, a good part of the action takes place in Kyoto. At some point Xiaoyu and Alisa run around what seems to be one of Kyoto's traditional districts, littered with old-syle houses and stores.
  • Alisa and Xiaoyu's fight happens in a shrine that looks a LOT like the Kiyomizudera temple
• Took a Level In Jerkass: Anna has always been a bitch, but this time around, it's like Nina is nicer than her.
• Unwitting Pawn: Anna uses Xiaoyu as this. She even lampshades it via calling her "my little pawn", and Xiao is logically unhappy about it.
• Villain Protagonist: Subverted: Xiaoyu seems to be an Anti-Villain version, but as it turns out Anna pressured and manipulated her.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Shin.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Anna, who is more extremist than well-intentioned. Her sister Nina is better-intentioned than extremist and definitely more heroic than her sister, who orders her men to kill Xiaoyu and Alisa in their sleep only to discover that Nina had indirectly helped them flee. And let's not go into the Mishima family's problem with the patriarch.
• Wrestler in All of Us: Holy hell, Heihachi. Torture Rack on Shin. (Considering his English voice actor, this could count as an Actor Allusion as it visually look similar to GIGANTIC TAGER!)
  • As Jin Kazama can bear witness, Heihachi has added a German Suplex to his movelist. He also breaks out a Power Bomb From Hell on his grandson as well.
• You Are Number Six: Heihachi refers to Shin solely as "78M", his 'test name'.
• You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: SHIN!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! Heihachi, You Bastard!!!
  • Anna attempts this on Xiaoyu and Alisa, but Nina ruins it.
• Zettai Ryouiki: Alisa, since she's wearing her Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion outfit.
  • Also, Xiaoyu.