When it comes to boring 90s fighting game protagonists Kazuya is certainly right in line with several others — at least upon first blush. If you were to walk up to the arcade cab and watch the demonstration for 30 seconds, once Kazuya comes on screen you immediately know he is the central character. He looks like an action figure that would simply be named “Martial Arts Man” but he gets more interesting if you know his backstory: mainly that his father threw him off a cliff when he was five years old and that he has the devil inside of him! Very dramatic! But he is simply presented as calm & cool and devoted to martial arts, its pretty generic. Later on in the series they ramp it up and give him a purple coat and plaster a permanent stern expression of his face to know how bad of a dude he really is. Long gone are the days when he could enjoy the simple pleasure of throwing his father off a cliff: