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Julia Chang
'Tekken' character
Julia Chang in Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion
First gameTekken 3

Julia Chang (ジュリア・チャン, Juria Chan) is a fictional character in the Tekken series of fighting games, first introduced in Tekken 3 in 1997. Julia is an adopted daughter of a Native American fighter Michelle Chang and her storyline typically involves saving her tribe's forest.

In video games

Julia studies archeology in Michelle Chang's tribal lands. As a baby, Julia was deserted in the ruins of ancient Native American settlements, where Michelle found her. Michelle rescued Julia and brought her up with love. Julia loved Michelle and her adopted tribe, training with Michelle to protect her beloved homeland. Ganryu has fallen in love with her since Tekken 5.

When Julia was 18, stories of sudden disappearances of famous martial artists all over the world began to reach the tribe. The tribe knew the cause, which was contained in the tribal legends, the legend of The God of Fighters. People in the tribe feared that Michelle's pendant, the key to their sacred treasure, had something to do with the disappearances. With apprehension spreading through the tribe, Michelle left for Japan to ask Heihachi Mishima why he had sought to take the pendant during The King of Iron Fist Tournament 2. Michelle hoped to learn about the origin of The God of Fighting's power, but did not return. Julia suspected Heihachi and now seeks him out to discover the truth. One day, she discovered that her native homeland was in danger of being covered by an encroaching desert; this was brought on by today's rapidly changing global ecosystem. Julia wanted to save her home, and she began her studies on ecosystem restoration. Julia joined an advanced genetic research group led by Professor T that studied the biological mechanism of reforestation. Professor T's research grant came almost exclusively from G Corporation. In fact, G Corporation's supercomputers located at their high security research center were used for computationally intensive biogenetic analysis and ecosystem modeling. All their project data was stored on G Corporation's file servers as well. Julia was absorbed in her daily research, waiting for the day when her work on ecosystem restoration would be complete. When her project was completed, she would save her home.

A few years after The King of Iron Fist Tournament 3, Michelle had gone missing, leaving Julia to continue where she left off. One day, Julia learned from Professor T that their project was on hold indefinitely. The Mishima Zaibatsu attacked G Corporation's high security research center and stole all their project data. Julia didn't know a thing about G Corporation's secret research projects nor did she care about them. Yet she knew that she had to retrieve her data from the Mishima Zaibatsu in order to save her home from becoming a desert in a few years time. Julia searched the net to gather information regarding the Mishima Zaibatsu. Her eyes lit up when she saw a web page announcing The King of Iron Fist Tournament 4, and entered in order to recover her data. Disappointed that she was unable to recover the reforestation data during the fourth tournament, Julia returned home and resumed her research. One day she received a letter addressed to her in a foreign language. Attached was an announcement of The King of Iron Fist Tournament 5. In order to fulfill her hopes for forest rejuvenation, Julia decides to enter the fifth tournament. Along the way, she comes face to face with her friend, King, whom she attempts to talk out of taking revenge against Craig Marduk, but King does not listen. Julia was able to recover the lost forest rejuvenation data needed to turn the wasteland back into its original form.

When Julia returned to her homeland of Arizona, she was met by the chief of their tribe and an old woman capable of hearing the voice of the Great Spirit. The old woman told Julia of a premonition, "If Jin Kazama and Kazuya Mishima were to engage in combat, it would bring about the resurrection of a demon from Hell." Julia doubted the old woman's story, but on her way to The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 due to it being sponsored by the Mishima Zaibatsu, she suddenly realized what the premonition means and accepted it as true. Julia decided to personally enter the tournament to prevent it from happening.

Julia also appears as a playable character in the uncanonical games Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken Tag Tournament 2, as well as in Tekken Card Challenge, and makes a cameo appearance in the spin-off game Death by Degrees.[2] Julia also appears as a playable character in the crossover game Street Fighter X Tekken, where her official partner is Bob.[3]

Jaycee

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Jaycee in Tag Tournament 2

In Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Julia Chang appears under the alias Jaycee (ジェイシー, Jeishī) or J.C.[4], who is a luchadora (female lucha libre wrestler). She is seen on the trailer as a wrestler who team tags with Armor King.[5]

Series producer Katsuhiro Harada has confirmed that Jaycee is actually a pun on the name Julia Chang in a lucha mask taking the place of a friend of hers who was injured in a fighting accident. It was also stated that removing her mask in the games customization feature will change her name back to Julia in-game.[6]

Gameplay

Julia Chang's fighting style is Xing Yi based kung fu.[7] Julia is considered to have many powerful mid-level attacks and is considered one of the swiftest characters in Tekken 6.[8] In Tekken Tag Tournament 2, Julia gains some luchador moves, while still keeping moves she had in Tekken 6.

In other media and merchandise

Julia's dossier is briefly seen in the CGI film Tekken: Blood Vengeance when Anna Williams opens a file containing dossiers on various persons of interest.

Julia appears in the manga Tekken: Tatakai no Kanatani and in the comic book Tekken Forever.[9]

A resin garage kit figure of Julia from Tekken 4 was released by Heihachi Zazen in 2003.[10] A prepainted 1/7 scale PVC figure of Julia as Jaycee from Tag Tournament 2 was released by Kotobukiya in 2012.[11]

Reception

In 2006, the Polish edition of GameStar had her voted at 11th place in the poll for the title of "Miss of the Video Game World".[12] In 2009, GameDaily listed her among "chicks that will kick your ass" along with three other Tekken 5 characters,[13] also featuring her among the "Babes of Tekken", saying, "if all environmentalists looked like Julia Chang, we would have gone green ages ago" and "all we know is that we still think her shorts aren't short enough,"[14] and listing her among the "All-American Girls".[15] In 2011, UGO Networks featured Julia as one of the fighting games' "Finest Female Fighters", adding that she is their favorite Native American fighting game character.[16] Dorkly listed her as one of the most stereotypical Native American characters in fighting game history, ranking her at seventh place, tying with Michelle Chang.[17] PlayStation Official Magazine listed her Cross Assault team-up with Nina Williams in Street Fighter X Tekken as one of the eight best ones in the game.[18] In the official poll by Namco, Julia was the 20th most requested Tekken side character to be added to the roster of Tekken X Street Fighter, raking up 6.37% of votes; additional 3.98% votes were also cast on Jaycee, counted separately.[19]

References

  1. ^ "Characters - Voice Of Julia Chang". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  2. ^ "Death By Degrees Walkthrough". Psxextreme.com. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  3. ^ Hussain, Tamoor (2011-09-12). "News: Street Fighter X Tekken video shows Rufus, Zangeif, Julia". ComputerAndVideoGames.com. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  4. ^ By Spencer . January 12, 2011 . 3:02am (2011-01-12). "A New Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Challenger Enters The Ring". Siliconera. Retrieved 2012-07-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ January 17, 2011 at 9:58 am (2011-01-17). "New TTT2 Footage Revealed, 'Jaycee' Unveiled". Gossipgamers.com. Retrieved 2012-07-23.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ^ "Tekken Tag Tournament 2 Exclusive Details & Series Preview". Godisageek.com. 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  7. ^ "Julia Chang Tekken 6 Character Profile". Tekken Zaibatsu. 2011-03-09. Retrieved 2012-07-24.
  8. ^ "Tekken 6 Guide & Walkthrough - PlayStation 3 (PS3) - IGN". Guides.ign.com. 2009-10-30. Retrieved 2012-07-24.
  9. ^ "Julia Chang (comic book character)". Comicvine.com. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  10. ^ "Databases › Figures › Tekken 4 - Julia Chang (Heihachi Zazen Namco) - MyFigureCollection.net (Tsuki-board.net)". MyFigureCollection.net. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  11. ^ "Databases › Figures › Tekken Tag Tournament 2 - Jaycee - Julia Chang - Bishoujo Statue - Tekken Bishoujo Statue - 1/7 (Kotobukiya) - MyFigureCollection.net (Tsuki-board.net)". MyFigureCollection.net. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  12. ^ "GameStar - Wybory Miss: Miss Ĺšwiata Gier 2006". Web.archive.org. Retrieved 2012-08-05. Template:Pl icon
  13. ^ "Internet Archive Wayback Machine". Web.archive.org. 2009-04-30. Retrieved 2012-07-23. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  14. ^ "Babes of Tekken - Babe of the Week Gallery and Images - GameDaily". Web.archive.org. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  15. ^ "Babe of the Week: All-American Girls Gallery and Images - GameDaily". Web.archive.org. 2008-07-07. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  16. ^ Sitterson, Aubrey (2011-01-14). "Fighting Games' Hottest Women - Julia Chang". UGO.com. Retrieved 2012-07-23.
  17. ^ Bridgman, Andrew. "The Dorklyst: The 7 Most Stereotypical Native American Characters in Fighting Game History". Dorkly Article. Retrieved 2012-07-30.
  18. ^ "The 8 best Street Fighter X Tekken tag team finishers | PS3 Features | Official PlayStation Magazine - page 3". Official PlayStation Magazine. 2012-06-20. Retrieved 2012-07-27.
  19. ^ "Tekken vs Street Fighter". Fb.namcobandaigames.com. Retrieved 2012-07-23.

External links

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