"Clone" Characters in fighting games?

[Mo-Nercy]

Can someone explain he was a Law clone? They are not related and Tekken doesn't really mention its storyline in full until Tekken 4 (and more so Tekken 5) - He is semi-part of Hehachi's familly, so if Lee had to be a clone, why not someone of his own familly?

Prior to the events of the first Tekken game, Lee was shipped off to the U.S. to train with Marshall Law and Paul Phoenix by Heihachi (Lee's db+1+2 unblockable is the same as Paul's, he also shared the 'Shredder' kicks with Paul in TTT and T5 but could only do them out of Mist Step. Good juggle ender though). This is from his Tekkenpedia entry. This is presumably why he does not use any Mishima Fighting Style Karate, even though Heihachi supposedly adopted him to groom him to become a rival to Kazuya. Stranger yet, he's had no side-stories to do with Law and Paul. All his story modes to date have revolved around his rivalry with Kazuya. Maybe he wasn't in the U.S. for that long? (he does speak Japanese in the games, not English, even though he resides in the Bahamas and is of Chinese origin. What a confusing man.)

In any case, I'm glad he's not just another Mishima, because there's enough of them. And he doesn't have the eyebrows or hairstyle for it. xD. It's kinda sad though that he's spent the greater part of his life trying to compete with Kazuya and in the drop of a hat, Lars (SPOILER) (his other step-brother) comes out of nowhere and does a far better job of beating up Mishimas than he ever did.

I think Namco just needed a sub-boss for Law in Tekken 1 and 2 and couldn't be arsed coming up with something original so they did what fighting games did back then and made the penultimate fight for Law in his story mode some guy who fights almost exactly like him. He was awful back then too. Like Law, but less backflipping action, which was about 90% of Law's game back then.

Maybe it was because I played Tekken 5 before I played Tekken 4, but to me, T4 seamed almost like the test version of T5...

But Lee was so broken in T4, I loved it. =]

... but Christie and Eddy, now that's definitely a by and by clone. Those two don't bother me as much though, because I guess one is for masculinity and the other is for sexuality. Still is a little irksome though.

eehhhhh... yes and no. Same moves, but different body sizes and leg lengths. Some combos and juggles are that may be easy for one to perform are harder for the other. I guess this comment just goes to prove that even when characters are clones, they aren't perceived as such by people who play the game a lot.

Also, the level of human players can often be judged on whether they choose Eddy or Christie. It's not that one is better than the other, but a button-mashing noob's first choice is often Christie. Yay for sexually provocative characters with 'bouncy' moves.