Tekken 2 saw Kazuya's true nature revealed in full. There was only one clue as to Kazuya's true intents and nature: his secret PS One palette swap, which turned out to be Devil. So most people (both within the game and in real life) simply wrote Kazuya off as the cliché fighting game hero. Kazuya's clothing of choice, simple white pants and red gloves and footpads, even helped to draw parallels to another 'mysterious loner' hero, Street Fighter's Ryu. Indeed, Kazuya originally entered the first King of Iron Fist Tournament in order to face off against his father, who was played up to be a corrupt corporate tyrant. According to differing sources (such as Tekken: The Motion Picture and a brief scene in Ling Xiaoyu's Tekken 5 ending), Kazuya was actually quite frail and timid as a boy and was the victim of years of abuse at the hands of Heihachi Mishima. In the original entry to the franchise, Kazuya was considered to be the primary protagonist, and for all intents and purposes, there was no reason to believe differently. Kazuya is unique in the franchise as the only one to have a mutual partnership with 'The Devil' as opposed to Devil Jin, who's powers result from uncontrollable transformations. His first appearance is as the main character in the first Tekken game, following on to be in all Tekken games barring Tekken 3 (in which he has a small cameo in Eddy Gordo's ending and the Arcade intro) and Tekken Advance (Nintendo Game Boy Advance in 2002). Kazuya Mishima is one of the major characters in the Tekken franchise along with his father, brother, step-brother and son. He originally appears as the main protagonist of the original Tekken, later main antagonist of Tekken 2, then the villain protagonist of Tekken 4, one of the 2 main antagonists(alongside Jinpachi )in Tekken 5, one of the main antagonists (alongside his son Jin Kazama) in Tekken 6, and the main antagonist at the end of Tekken 7 onwards. Kazuya Mishima is one of the main antagonists (alongside his father Heihachi Mishima) from the Tekken franchise, also serving as one of its three main protagonists (alongside his father, Heihachi Mishima, and his son, Jin Kazama). ' They all thought I was out of the game.but I'm holding all the cards now.'

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