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Ling Xiaoyu (Chinese: 凌曉雨 Líng Xiǎoyǔ; Japanese: リン・シャオユウ Rin Shaoyū; It may be written with given name first as Xiaoyu Ling) is a fictional character who was introduced to the Tekken franchise in Tekken 3 and has returned in every subsequent release. Xiaoyu's initial goal in the games is to build her own amusement park, which got her involved with...
Ling Xiaoyu was a young, talented martial artist who dreamed of building the perfect theme park in China. Her teacher and distant relative, Wang Jinrei, told her about Heihachi Mishima, owner of the wealthy and resource-rich Mishima Zaibatsu. Xiaoyu wished to seek him out to make her dream a reality, but was unsure how to get to Japan. Her chance came when she was on holiday with her family in Hong Kong. She left her family and stowed away on a yacht marked with the Mishima Zaibatsu's name. She was discovered by the staff on the yacht after they left port, and Heihachi Mishima was alerted to the situation.
When Heihachi arrived, he discovered that Xiaoyu had beaten up his staff. She approached him and threatened to fight him too. Amused, Heihachi promised to build her theme park if she won the King of Iron Fist Tournament 3. Xiaoyu became a ward of the Mishima Zaibatsu. She began attending the Mishima Polytechnical School and befriended Heihachi's grandson, Jin Kazama. She also had a panda bodyguard who doubled as a good friend.
Xiaoyu did not win the tournament. She continued to attend school, but grew bored of her daily routine with her theme park ambitions out of reach. One day, she received an anonymous email warning her that Heihachi Mishima had evil intentions and that she may be in danger. Xiaoyu suspected that the email had been sent by Jin, who had disappeared without a trace at the close of the tournament. She began to distrust Heihachi. When the King of Iron Fist Tournament 4 was announced, Xiaoyu entered in hopes of being reunited with Jin, and to unveil the truth behind Heihachi Mishima and the Mishima Zaibatsu.
During the tournament, Xiaoyu was rescued by Yoshimitsu. He told her about the Mishima Clan's history, and Xiaoyu began to believe that the family's misfortunes could be traced back to Heihachi's cruel upbringing of his son, Kazuya Mishima.
Upon hearing news of Heihachi Mishima's supposed death, Xiaoyu became upset. She began to wish that she could turn back time to make things right. Some time later, she met a scientist who claimed he would be able to make a time machine for her, albeit for a high price. Xiaoyu entered the King of Iron Fist Tournament 5 with the intention of winning the prize money to finance her time machine.
Xiaoyu did not win the prize money. She was relieved to learn that Heihachi Mishima was alive, but discovered that Jin, who had won the fifth tournament and gained control of the Mishima Zaibatsu, was planning to kill his grandfather. She wanted to persuade Jin to stop, but was unable to approach him due to the Mishima Zaibatsu's military build up. When the King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 was announced, Xiaoyu entered in hopes of getting close to Jin to make him change his ways.
Tekken 3
Manual, NTSC, PAL & PlayStation Classic Official Website Profile (Japanese) Official Strategy Guide Ending Description, Heihachi Mishima keeps his promise, and builds Xiaoyu a theme park. Xiaoyu imagines a place full of happiness and color named "Xiaoyu Land". However, when her daydream ends, Heihachi unveils the real theme park, which is a gloomy place he calls "Heihachi Land". Heihachi roars with laughter. Xiaoyu gets angry, and beats up Heihachi, yelling "Jerk". Oddly, this ending is combined with anime-like animation & CGI.
Tekken 4
Manual, NTSC & Prologue Manual, PAL Official Strategy Guide Ending Description Victory for Xiaoyu in the Tournament is not only a victory that few believed possible but also one that reveals the Mishima Zaibatsu's evil deeds for all to see. Soon after, Miharu Hirano is shown visiting an executive's office, and the chair behind the desk swivels around to reveal Xiaoyu, who has taken over the Mishima Zaibatsu. Miharu wonders what Xiaoyu is doing in the office, and when she replies that she's working, Miharu replies that she looks like she sits there and does nothing. Xiaoyu casually asks her friend how she did in her college entrance exams, and Miharu confesses that she has flunked all of them. Wanting to help her friend, Xiaoyu offers her a job with the Mishima Zaibatsu, stating that from now on, she is going to make her own dreams come true. She tells Miharu that she saw Jin after the tournament and that he told her if she has a dream that she wants to come true, she should make it happen herself. Miharu lightly teases her, but recognizes a change in Xiaoyu, who used to depend on everybody else. Miharu agrees to work together and asks her friend what her dream is. Xiaoyu points out the window and responds, "Help me build that." The camera reveals a massive theme park being built with Mishima Zaibatsu funding and resources.
Tekken 5
Manual, NTSC Manual, PAL Manual, PAL Official Strategy Guide Prologue Ending Description After winning the tournament, Ling Xiaoyu is the first to use her time machine. She travels back to the time when Heihachi Mishima was about to throw Kazuya off of a cliff, intending to avert this event that will rip the family apart. Unfortunately, Xiaoyu had lost control of the time machine and it barreled into Heihachi and Kazuya, sending Kazuya falling off of the cliff, while Heihachi is nearly sent over himself. Xiaoyu is disheartened because of her failure, and the old scientist comes to her, laughing, and tells her that nobody can really change the past, remarking "The best you can hope for are minor improvements." This ending is also animated in 2D rather than 3D.
Tekken: The Motion Picture
Ling Xiaoyu was shown in the opening of Tekken: The Motion Picture movie.
Tekken Tag Tournament
Ling Xiaoyu is featured as a playable character in Tekken Tag Tournament. She retains her moveset from Tekken 3 with a few more moves added. In this game, like Tekken 3, she continues to seek her dream of a world-renowned amusement park and is still slightly concerned for her classmate, Jin Kazama. She has two different endings. Ending Description She admires a beautiful evening sunset at the beach. She rides Panda towards the beach. Alternate Ending Mishima Polytech lets out for the day. She catches up to Jin whom is in solitude and his school bag over his shoulder, as he continues and she is walking backwards having a conversation with him briefly. She then continues on her way saluting Jin goodbye, but looks forward in a slightly worried state. While Kuma can be seen at the end with a bouquet of flowers looking for someone (presumably Panda). Tekken Tag Special Alliance Partners: •Jin Kazama •Heihachi Mishima •Panda •Kuma II •Yoshimitsu •Wang Jinrei
Project X Zone
Xiaoyu is featured as a playable character in the tactical role-playing game Project X Zone, with Jin Kazama as her partner. Prologue Xiaoyu meets Jin somewhere in Tekken universe and asks him to wait, to which he tells her not to follow him and it's his problem to handle. Xiaoyu argues that it's not, and she notices that something is wrong with Jin. He tells her that he came here to find out what's happening to him. Suddenly some kind of demons appears in the fountain next to them. Xiaoyu gets terrified and asks Jin what those are, to which Jin says that they're demons that came after Jin. Jin's genes start to react to the demons. Out of nowhere, something else appears, to what Xiaoyu refers to as "silver skin freak", which is in fact Dural form the Virtua Fighter universe. Jin does not feel good and Xiaoyu starts to worry. Later, Akira and Pai from the Virtua Fighter universe appear and ask if Xiaoyu and Jin are okay. They introduce themselves and Jin tells them to get Xiaoyu out of this place. Akira and Pai decide to help Jin and Xiaoyu to fight monsters and Dural. After a while, they meet Juri from Street Fighter universe who also came looking for Dural. Then, Ryu and Ken come and ask Juri about what's happening. They have a conversation. Xiaoyu asks Jin who those guys are and Jin says they're the ones who get involved in things too easily, just like him. They greet each other. Suddenly, something happens and everyone, except Pai and Akira disappear.
Ling Xiaoyu uses various Chinese martial arts, which focuses on speed, evasion, and spins, flips, and back turned maneuvers to keep her opponent constantly guessing on what she'll do next. Although she lacks in damage, she has very good combo potential and is able to keep momentum and pressure on her opponents fairly easily thanks to her various flips and low attacks that are tricky to see coming. She's also known for her Phoenix stance that can avoid high attacks as well as mid attacks if she does butterfly while in this stance, which allows her to duck mid attacks, however there is a catch: It will not avoid true mid attacks, mid attacks that will hit the opponent on the ground regardless of whether they lay down or not.
Despite her lack of damage in some instances as well her range in some attacks, she stands as a formidable opponent, and is very effective and often used in Tekken 7. While not the easiest character in the game to use, she is one of the more simplistic stance based characters in the game to utilize.
•Panda - Her best friend, bodyguard, and pet.
•Jin Kazama - High school friend and former classmate. Xiaoyu is infatuated with Jin and considers him a close friend. Shortly before the fourth King of Iron Fist Tournament, she received an anonymous email warning her about the danger she was in by associating with Heihachi Mishima, which she believed to have been written by Jin. She also entered the sixth tournament to stop Jin from committing evil, and in Tekken 7, she infiltrated the Mishima Zaibatsu to learn more about Jin's disappearance. Prior to the events of Tekken 8, she spent months looking for him alongside Claudio Serafino and Panda, eventually aiding Jin against Kazuya and in his attempts to regain control of his Devil Gene. Jin is also her partner in the non-canon Street Fighter X Tekken and Project X Zone.
•Heihachi Mishima - Her now deceased tutor. Xiaoyu knocked out the entire security personnel of a Mishima Zaibatsu yacht after being discovered trespassing, impressing and amusing Heihachi. He offered to take her on as a ward of the Mishima Family, training her in martial arts and granting her a position in his Mishima Polytechnical School. Heihachi also trained a Panda security guard to protect her. Xiaoyu was also warned by Jin about Heihachi's evil intentions via an anonymous e-mail she received in Tekken 4, and he also warned her about Heihachi and Mishima Zaibatsu in an interlude with him in Tekken 5. Although Xiaoyu began to distrust Heihachi after this, she still mourned his apparent death in Tekken 5. She seems to genuinely care about Heihachi and even affectionately calls him "grandpa" like she does Wang. Additionally, she also seems to be one of the very few people that Heihachi himself cares about in turn.
•Wang Jinrei - Her distant relative and teacher. Ling affectionately calls him "grandpa", but that is not reflective of their actual blood relationship.
•Miharu Hirano - One of her best friends at Mishima High School and mutual friends with Jin Kazama as classmates.
•Yoshimitsu - She was saved by him from Heihachi's unspecified evil plans before Tekken 5. He also told her about the Mishimas' backstory, which kickstarted Xiaoyu's desire to save Jin from their dark family dynamics.
•Xiaoyu's name is written in Chinese as Líng Xiǎoyǔ (凌暁雨/凌曉雨). "Ling" is actually her family name and "Xiaoyu" is her given name; in Chinese culture, the family name is given first and the given name is given second.
•An inversion of her name can be heard in the English dub of Tekken: Blood Vengeance, where Ganryu pronounced her name as "Xiaoyu Ling".
•Xiǎoyǔ (暁雨/曉雨) is her given name. The Chinese characters for her name mean dawn (暁/曉 xiǎo) and rain (雨 yǔ ).
•Among all the characters whose full name is arranged by family name to given name, she is the only character who is called by the given name, as the other four Chinese characters, Lei Wulong, Feng Wei, Lee Chaolan, Wang Jinrei, and Korean character, Baek Doo San, are referred to as Lei, Feng, Lee, Wang and Baek, respectively.
•Miharu Hirano, Alisa Bosconovitch, and Jin Kazama call Xiaoyu "Xiao", the shorter version of her name (indicating their friendship).
•Líng (凌) is her family name. The Chinese character for her family name means surpass.
General:
•Despite being 18 since Tekken 4, Xiaoyu is still portrayed as a high school student as late as Tekken 7: Fated Retribution, even though, by this age, she should have finished high school. An explanation may be that she is in her last year and therefore close to finishing.
•Xiaoyu's fighting style influenced in part by her Chinese master, Wang Jinrei.[citation needed]
•Xiaoyu stands at 157cm, the shortest official height of any human character in the Tekken series.
•Until the release of Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, Xiaoyu was the youngest human fighter in the series, having entered the tournament aged 16 in Tekken 3 and aging up to 18 for subsuquent games. Lili took the mantle of youngest human fighter when she was introduced in Dark Resurrection aged 16.
•Despite being Chinese, Xiaoyu speaks only in Japanese, even to her master and distant relative, Wang Jinrei, in an interlude in Tekken 5. This is likely to reflect her time spent in Japan.
Ling Xiaoyu (Chinese: 凌 曉雨, Japanese: リン・シャオユウ Rin Shaoyuu,? ) is a fictional Chinese character from the Tekken video game series. She attends the Mishima Polytechnical School with Jin Kazama and her friend Miharu Hirano.
Ling Xiaoyu is a Chinese martial arts master who has feelings for Jin Kazama. She infiltrates the Mishima Zaibatsu building in search of clues to find a missing Jin and to obtain data that would prove helpful in her search.
Ling Xiaoyu is a Chinese martial arts master who has feelings for Jin Kazama. She infiltrates the Mishima Zaibatsu building in search of clues to find a missing Jin and to obtain data that would prove helpful in her search.
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The Dancing Phenix, Ling Xiaoyu, dresses in traditional Chinese attire with plenty of flair and golden accents. She wears her hair in two twin ponytails. She is a young adult, being only 19 years of age.
