
MARSHALL LAW TEKKEN 4 SERIES
Though this has never been publicly confirmed by Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada, he expressed regret in a 2015 interview for modeling many series characters such as Law after real-life personalities: "They may have been unique, but they didn’t really have any meaning." Harada voiced both Marshall and Forest for the first five installments of the main series over a sixteen-year span, then quit after he considered himself incapable of duplicating the voices for Tekken 6 and onward. Marshall Law is widely accepted as an homage to famed martial artist and actor Bruce Lee in his design and fighting style. Marshall also appears in the noncanonical Tekken games Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Tekken Revolution, Street Fighter X Tekken, and the 2005 Namco beat 'em up Urban Reign. They later add boxer Steve Fox to their ranks. Paul approaches Law with the proposition of forming a team for the upcoming sixth tournament, believing that the odds of victory (and winning the prize money) would be better as a group than individually, and Law accepts. While participating in the fifth tournament in Tekken 5 in hopes of being able to cover medical bills stemming from Forest being hurt in a motorcycle accident, Law is deported to the United States upon discovery that he was employed illegally in Japan. He attempts to use the fourth tournament as a crutch to ease his money troubles, but is unable to do so and he is afterwards relegated to taking a dishwashing job in Japan, where the tournaments are held. Similar to Paul's storyline in Tekken 4, Law's restaurant business goes under and he is consequently bankrupt. Meanwhile, Paul convinces Marshall's son Forest Law to enter the third tournament, which causes friction between Law and Paul. Law is not playable in Tekken 3, but is included in the game's storyline as having rebuilt his dojo while running a successful restaurant chain called "Marshall China" in the United States. However, in Tekken 2, his students are soon attacked and his dojo destroyed by Baek Doo San, provoking Law into entering the second tournament to seek revenge. He enters the first King of Iron Fist Tournament in the original game in hopes of opening his own dojo with the winnings, which he accomplishes despite not winning the tournament. Sometimes known as "The Fighting Chef", Law is the father of Forest Law. Marshall Law is a martial artist who owns a restaurant in San Francisco's Chinatown, and like his close friend Paul Phoenix, financial difficulty becomes his primary motive for entering the King of Iron Fist fighting tournaments held throughout the Tekken series. Law has made limited appearances in alternate Tekken media such as the 2009 feature film, and is often described as a tribute to martial artist Bruce Lee, with whom Law shares many characteristics and for which he has received mixed critical and public reception. He has a son named Forest Law who becomes playable later in the series, and is close friends with fellow contestant Paul Phoenix.


He makes his series debut in the original Tekken, in which he is a Chinese-American restaurateur who wants to open a martial arts school that he hopes to fund with the prize money from the Tekken series' King of Iron Fist fighting tournaments. Marshall Law ( Japanese: マーシャル・ロウ, Hepburn: Māsharu Rou), or just Law, is a player character from the Tekken fighting game franchise by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Keisuke Fujii ( Street Fighter X Tekken).Katsuhiro Harada ( Tekken– TK5: Dark Resurrection) (grunts).Robert Clotworthy ( TK5, Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection) (dialogue segments).Julian Macfarlane ( TK4) (dialogue segments).
