Players can choose from a diverse cast that hails from a variety of ethnic backgrounds and fighting styles. A few characters have supernatural origin, such as Devil and Ogre, while animal characters like Kuma the bear provide comic relief. In the story mode of the game, each character generally has their own personal reasons for entering the tournament and competing for the prize.
Only four characters have appeared as playable characters in all seven main Tekken installments to date: Heihachi Mishima, Yoshimitsu, Nina Williams, and Paul Phoenix. King have appeared in all seven main Tekken games with two different characters.
Two characters: Kazuya Mishima and Marshall Law also come close having appeared in six installments. Kuma have appeared as playable in six installments with two different characters, and Jack with six (Jack, Jack-2, Gun Jack, Jack-5, Jack-6 and Jack-7).
Notes:
^1 Update version only (Console Version).
^2 Skin/palette swap.
^3 Playable in console versions only.
^4 Playable boss.
^5 Unlockable.
^6 Unplayable boss.
^7 Unplayable in Tekken 5.
^8 Unlockable in Tekken 5.
^9 Only in Tekken 5: DR.
^10 Only in Tekken 6: BR.
^11 Unlockable in Tekken 5: DR.
^12 Skin/palette swap in Tekken 5.
^13 Playable in a campaign level.
^14 Characters appearing only in cinematics.
^15 The characters are only enemies in a certain mode.
^16 Unplayable in Arcade version.
^17 Update version only (Arcade Version).
^18 Unplayable boss (release date (Arcade)) / Playable Update Character (Later (Arcade)).
^19 Only in Tekken 7: FR
Bryan Fury (Japanese: ブライアン・フューリー, Hepburn: Buraian Fyūrī) is a fictional character from the Tekken fighting game series released by Namco Bandai Games. He first appeared in Tekken 3 and has returned to all the other Tekken games since. A brutal and power-hungry kickboxer, Bryan was once an American detective and officer in Interpol. After he was killed during a shootout in Hong Kong, Dr. Abel revived him with the use of cybernetic equipment, which effectively made him a zombie cyborg. Bryan is popular among fans for his ruthless personality, hard-hitting fighting style, and trademark evil laughter.
In his former life, Bryan was known as a skillful detective, but on the other side, dark rumors often followed him. While investigating illegal drug trade in Hong Kong, Lei Wulong discovered that Bryan had connections with drug dealers. Once an officer in the International Police Organization, Bryan was killed in a shootout in Hong Kong. His corpse was transported to the laboratory of a mad scientist named Dr. Abel. This 88-year-old man was fairly famous in the underground society, but Dr. Bosconovitch's findings often preceded his. However, Abel finally came to the last step in completing his master project: a cyborg army. Abel thought that a perfect cyborg must have the mechanics built by his rival Boskonovitch, so he reanimated Fury's body and sent him off to collect this data. Bryan sneaks into the King of Iron Fist Tournament 3, targeting Yoshimitsu, who has strong ties with Boskonovitch.
Tell her I'll be waiting in the usual place
With the tired and weary and there's no escape.
To need a woman you've got to know
How the strong get weak and the rich get poor.
Slave to love
slave to love.
You're running with me
don't touch the ground.
We're the restless hearted
not the chained and bound.
The sky is burning
a sea of flame
Though your world is changing I will be the same.
Slave to love
slave to love.
Slave to love
slave to love
I can't escape
I'm a slave to love.
The storm is breaking or so it seems
We're too young to reason to grown up to dream.
Now spring is turning your face to mine
I can hear your laughter
I can see your smile.
Slave to love
slave to love
. . .
Slave to love
slave to love
. . .
Slave to love
I can't escape
I'm a slave to love.