Do all fighting games do this?

[Mo-Nercy]

Lee did indeed come back for Tekken 4, disguised as Violet. In 5 and 6 he's back in all his silver haired glory (though you can still customise him to look like Violet).

Baek's also back since 5. They've made enough changes to him and Hwoarang for the two of them to play completely differently.

[Pheesh]

Yeah, Baek can kick you in the nuts now D:

[Seraphic]

I wonder if they'll ever bring back Jun now that they have Asuka who pretty much plays the same as her.

[MJN SEIFER]

It was never implied that Lee had died, they just stopped talking about him.

But Baek, yeah. Tekken 5 claims that he was simply knocked out by Ogre, and left for dead. Still an excuse, but it's passable.

They could bring Jun back a similar way, it would be kind of silly though - I don't really like these "Oh they were alive the whole time!" things usually, I get that fighting games have the whole "Canon/Non-Canon" thing going on, but I don't always see the point in keeping a character dead for so many games and then reving him/her, it's alright if s/he dies in the end of part 1 and is alive in part 2 - it's more forgivable, because the ending is more open.

Time to bring up those damn Soul games again! (what can I say, I'm a fan ) In SC1 a character dies in his ending after being injured in the final battle (I think it was Maxi), but he is alive in SC2, because in canon, he never got to the place where the final battle takes place (makes sense), so he's alive, and I can ignore that, because it was solved in the very next game and believeable. However in Soul Blade (Soul Calibur 0 so to speak, SB came first) we see one of the characters die in that game (Li Long), and he is not in SC1, or SC2 - it is apparently implied he is dead in SC1. However he is in SC3 (albeit as a bonus character), so is he alive or not, I personally think he should have stayed dead, as he's been believed to be dead for years. Same with Advent Children really...

[Roogle]

I see. I do not mind if a character death in a fighting game is permanent if the character has a successor like in the Tekken series of games.

You do not need Michelle Chang if you have Julia Chang; you do not need Jun Kazama if you have Asuka Kazama.

I find comic book deaths more relieving if the character has no successor: Rose and Gen were pretty much left in the dust after the Street Fighter Alpha series concluded, one being possessed and badly injured, and the other dying of a fatal illness, but they were both brought back for Street Fighter IV without adequately explaining what happened to them. This is fine to me because neither of them had any successor or character that played the same. If Gen has a student, or if Rose dies and passes her powers to someone else, then you can do what you will with the character.

[Depression Moon]

I think they could make Jun play a lot different than Asuka. There are three fighters with the Mishima style karate that play differently so they could make a 2nd Kazama style karate fighter play differently from Asuka.

[Pheesh]

If they do take away Asuka then I'll start cracking skulls.