Sean Akizuki's Fantasy Critic

I personally thought that Cobra Commander in the cartoon was simply murdering the real him in the comics. The comic version was less cowardly, a lot less that is. So while he was initially portrayed to be like Adolph Hitler, however the writers were SO STUPID to write him in the vein of Yosemite Sam or worse, Starscream as he was voiced by the late Chris Latta. He was later given such dumb plots like vandalizing the moon (which was really dumb) or that he frequently called for retreat, which was another trademark not in the comics but certainly Megatron did keep saying "Retreat!". It came to a point that his incompetence caused Dr. Mindbender to organize a meeting between Destro and the Crimson Twins to create the Cobra Emperor. He discovered them but later his own guards turned on him. What the? I felt like he may not be paying the Crimson Guards properly either. Even his own confidant Scrap-Iron betrayed him and he was inevitably usurped by the new leader, Serpento...

If there was any part of G.I.Joe that I found worth questioning was the existence of the Cobra-La. Sure these guys are more vicious than the Taliban or anybody who would send Osama bin Laden a.k.a. the real life Cobra Commander but I felt like these guys were just written out of a sudden plot twist. So it turns out to be they are some missing branch of humanity and I thought that they were pretty cool as a child but then, as I grew up, my critical thinking had them analyzed. So I thought they are not so necessary for the G.I.Joe plot plus the part where Cobra Commander is part of them doesn't make sense. In the first place, Cobra Commander being sent by them to form the Cobra army to dispose of humanity was just stupid in writing. Why? Cobra Commander organized Cobra for his own benefits. He organized an army of humans to work for a human-hating society?! WTF? Also there was the plot of Serpentor as part of Cobra-La's plans. Again, Cobra-La hates humans and Serpento...

As great as the Tekken franchise is, however I can't help but think that something's not right about the scenario where there are mixed language dialogues. For example, in Wang Jinrei's ending, he speaks in Chinese and Jinpachi Mishima replies in Japanese. I thought of it though what if the characters in Tekken can understand each other in the mixed language. Still, I wish they just used English all throughout.

I think Kazuya Mishima has to be Tekken's most unique character- he was the protagonist in Tekken 1 and he became a recurring antagonist in the later series. Somehow, this made him popular. So what's the big deal? He was starting of as a frail child much to the frustration of his father Heihachi Mishima so he got thrown from the cliff by his despicable father. Down there, he nearly died but the Devil gene triggered. So he entered into the first tournament much to the pleasure of his father. He won the tournament and threw his father off the cliff and took over the Mishima Zaibatsu. However instead of righting the wrongs, he under the influence of the Devil gene within made the Mishima Zaibatsu more corrupt. He through the technology of the company had created biological weapons like Roger and Alex. Also, he had entered into a meeting with Jun Kazama, who he had raped out of his insanity. From that rape came his son Jin Kazama. His father Heihachi Mishima whom he tosse...

Somehow Tekken's recurring antagonist is a pretty interesting character. Well rather than just your regular villain, he has some noble intentions at the same time, a self-serving person. He can be compared to Zeus and Cronus in Greek mythology, more likely Cronus. Why? Well he overthrew his own father Jinpachi Mishima (an act that would later cause the Devil gene to manifest further) and that how he treated his son Kazuya Mishima would create a more evil villain than he was. He was pretty much a bad father. Who in the right mind would throw away their son into a cliff to instill the values of hardness? It could have killed Kazuya Mishima. In the process, he ended up creating the curse which backfired, then he would backfire. He raised Lee Chaolan as another son only to provide a rival for Kazuya Mishima. In the first tournament, he was thrown off the same cliff that his son Kazuya Mishima was thrown to. However he came back to the second Tekken tournament... for revenge. ...

Another interesting plot in Tekken is the rivalry between the two sisters, Nina and Anna. Somehow something started their rivalry. If there was anything else, I think it had to do with the fact that their parents were playing favorites- their father chose Nina and their mother chose Anna. Whatever, it was a dysfunctional family. The two never got along from Tekken 1 to present, the rivalry briefly stopped in Tekken 4- only because Anna Williams was absent during that game. Somehow the rivalry is still not fully explained.

If there was anything more interesting in Tekken was the recurring protagonist Jin Kazama- he was a result of Kazuya Mishima raping Jun Kazama thus he carries his mother's surname. He first appeared in Tekken 3 when he trained under his paternal grandfather Heihachi Mishima who would later use him as bait against Ogre. He entered the third Tekken tournament to avenge his mother's death at the hands of Ogre. It was also there he met a rival in Hwoarang. After he defeated Ogre, Heihachi Mishima tried to kill him despite their blood relations because of the Devil Gene inside him. However he revealed that he wasn't easily dispatched off and revealed his Devil form. Hmmm Devil Jin sounds like Devil Gene, get it? In Tekken 4, he found out his father had been revived by G-Corporation and worse, his grandfather Heihachi Mishima was once again sponsoring Tekken. He unlearned the Mishima karate style for traditional karate, changing his style making him his very own characte...