The Tekken Force (鉄拳衆 Tekkenshu?), is the private corporate army of the Mishima Zaibatsu, featured in the Tekken fighting game series. They first appeared in Tekken 3. They were built up by Heihachi Mishima who greatly expanded the military capacity of the Zaibatsu after he retook the corporation from his son, Kazuya Mishima.
The Tekken Force motto (or at least the motto of the Special Forces Operational Group) is Potius mori quam tradere - 'It is better to die, than to betray'.
At the beginning of Tekken 6 the size of Tekken Force was just under 60,000 soldiers. Lars Alexandersson states that he led over half of Tekken Force's soldiers into rebellion, and one of Heihachi Mishima's bodyguards in Tekken 6 informs Heihachi that Lars's rebel army consists of around 30,000 soldiers, making the approximate total number of Tekken Force units prior to desertion at this time just under 60,000. As well as Lars's forces which seceded from Tekken Force before the start of Tekken 6, a number of special forces also left Jin's Tekken Force in order to join Heihachi and remained loyal to him rather than Jin.
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- According to Bruce Irvin's Scenario Campaign Dialogues, numerous Tekken Force members graduated from Mishima Polytechnical School, which was recognized as the official school of the Mishima Zaibatsu.
- According to Katsuhiro Harada, there are various different ways to enter Tekken Force, beyond just the Mishima Polytechnical School. There are recruitment and training facilities around the world for Tekken Force in different counties. He also states that there are 'scouts' which is a way to join, though it is unclear if he means people scouting out potential members, or youth organizations that lead one into Tekken Force. It's likely he meant the latter, however, since he mentions in the next sentence that Lars Alexandersson likely joined Tekken Force when he was a teenager before progressing to the main part of their army.
- A notable base of Tekken Force is their Tekken Force 4th Special Forces Operation Group Compound, which appears to be quite close to G Corporation Headquarters.
- A number of Tekken Force soldiers remained loyal to Heihachi after Jin took over the Zaibatsu, they formed a Secret Service, and served him at the Mishima Estate during Tekken 6.
- Of the Secret Service, a number are women, suggesting regular Tekken Force consists of male and female soldiers.
- In Heihachi's Scenario Campaign Playthrough, he comes across multiple Tekken Force soldiers using force against Zafina, who is alone. He says that the way Tekken Force are behaving goes against the 'Code of Conduct' of his Tekken Force, suggesting that Tekken Force were nominally meant to adhere to an honorable way of acting whilst serving under Heihachi's Zaibatsu.
- Via cheat device, Crow, Falcon, Owl and Hawk could become playable in the console version of Tekken 3.
- Multiple Tekken Force Members in Tekken 4 were named as references or easter eggs regarding both the development team and the development itself.
- A member is named "Dean Earwicker", the concept of what would eventually become Steve Fox
- A member is named "Director Harada", after then-director Katsuhiro Harada
- A member is named "Okubo Sensei", presumably after Hiroshi Okubo, a longstanding composer of Namco that recently joined the series's composing team.
- A member is named "Programmer Okubo", after Takeshi Okubo, one of the programmers of the game.
- A member is named "Modeler Tsuchiya", referencing either Takehito Tsuchiya or Fuminori Tsuchiya, both of which are designers for the game.
- In Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection and Tekken 6, Lee Chaolan can be customized to look like a member of the Tekken Force.
- In Tekken 6, Bryan Fury can be customized to resemble Crow or any other member of the Tekken Force.
- The Tekken Force resembles the Umbrella Security Service from Capcom's Resident Evil series.
- Despite not having a Tekken Force side game in the console version of Tekken 6, they make appearances in the console version opening, some characters' endings and in Scenario Campaign.
- The Tekken Force appears in the 2010 live-action film adaptation, but are named "Jack-hammers" since they are actually the Jack robots from the video games.
- The concept of a playable female Tekken Force soldier was considered for Tekken 5 and Tekken 6 and later became one of the candidates (labelled as "Sexy Tekken Force") for a new original character in Tekken Revolution's character poll on the official Tekken Facebook page in June 2013. She got in 2nd place in the poll, losing to Eliza.
- Tekken Force soldier makes a cameo in Street Fighter X Tekken on Urban War Zone stage, hiding under a giant Servbot head.
- A few members make cameo appearances in Tekken 7 at Twilight Conflict.
- In Tekken 7, Lars can be customized to wear two variations of the Tekken Force helmet, both of which are the same used for Lee in Tekken 6. The rest of the uniform is not available, however.
- In a tweet, Katsuhiro Harada said that there had been a plan for a playable Tekken Force soldier who used Mishima Style Fighting Karate and had gone insane after surviving the Tekken Force attack on Ogre in Mexico, during which all the units sent by Heihachi Mishima were brutally wiped out. The idea was later dropped.
