Anna Williams

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Anna Williams
Anna Williams in Tekken: Blood Vengeance
Series	Tekken
First game	Tekken (1994)
Voiced by (English)	Claire Hamilton (The Motion Picture) Lenne Hardt (5-6) Debra Jean Rogers (Death by Degrees) Tara Platt (Blood Vengeance)
Voiced by (Japanese)	Kaori Yamagata (The Motion Picture) Akeno Watanabe (Blood Vengeance)
Portrayed by	Marian Zapico (film)
Fictional profile
Birthplace	Ireland
Fighting style	Koppo and aikido
Weapon	Bazooka

Anna Williams (アンナ・ウィリアムズ, Anna Wiriamuzu^?) is a fictional character in the Tekken fighting game series, first appearing in Tekken in 1994. She is the younger sister of Nina Williams and the aunt of Steve Fox. Anna is known for her rivalry with Nina, a trait that has been around since the original Tekken game. She originally shared most of her moves with her sister, but has since gained a more unique moveset.

In video games

Anna plays only a very minor role in the first game. In Tekken 2, as in the first tournament, Nina was once again hired to assassinate the sponsor of the current tournament, Kazuya Mishima. Whether at Kazuya's discretion or Anna's own volition, Anna became a bodyguard for Kazuya, along with Ganryu and Bruce Irvin, who were all charged with Kazuya's protection. Nina was later captured by Mishima Zaibatsu forces and used in Doctor Boskonovitch's cryonics research. Learning about this, Anna volunteered to be another test subject, requesting that she be woken in the future at the same time as Nina. In Tekken 3, after being placed in suspended animation during the second tournament, Nina was awoken 19 years later by the influence of the recently excavated Ogre, who compelled her to assassinate Jin Kazama. As per her request, Anna was awoken at the same time as her sister, though she was unaffected by Ogre's influence. Nina also began to suffer ill effects from the 'cold-sleep', resulting in long term memory loss. In an act of compassion, Anna set out to stop Nina from once again becoming an assassin, and to help her recover her memory loss.

Anna is absent in Tekken 4, though she is mentioned in Nina's Tekken 4 prologue. In Tekken 5, Nina decides to make contact with Anna in hopes of restoring her memory, but their meeting triggers Nina's lost feelings of hostility towards her sister, and she immediately opens fire. Anna retaliates, and the reunion descends into a gunfight which lasts for days. The sisters eventually reach a stalemate and agree to settle things for good at The King of Iron Fist Tournament 5. A portion of their gunfight can be seen in the introductory sequence of the game. In Tekken 6, after being defeated by her sister Nina, Anna seeks revenge. However, Nina has already gone into hiding. Anna hears rumors she has become Jin's new bodyguard, thus being involved with the Mishima Zaibatsu, so Anna decides to join forces with G Corporation.

Anna appears in Nina's own spin-off action game Death by Degrees as a member of the Tekken Force. Like in the Tekken games, Anna fights using her fists and her feet, appearing in several encounters. After Nina wins the game's final boss fight against her, Anna almost falls into the water below. Nina grabs her hand, and then she reminisces about when her father Richard Williams was killed with gunfire and Anna comforted her afterwards. Another explosion almost sends them both into the water, but Anna jumps rescues Nina in turn. She then smiles and says, "Now we're even, sis." Once the game is completed, Anna becomes a player character in her own mini-game ("Anna Mode").

Anna also appears in Tekken Card Challenge, Tekken Tag Tournament and Tekken Tag Tournament 2.

Design

Anna is sexy, sultry and curvy,^[1] wearing stylish outfits in matches. Usually, she's shown wearing a modified silk qipao/cheongsam with matching gloves and shoes, often high heels, and she keeps her hair well-coiffed and cut to the neckline. She is often among the few characters who are given a third outfit option, as opposed to the standard two. Her third outfit is usually a catsuit with white fur trimmings running over the shoulders and black-striped white pants.

In Death by Degrees, Anna is wearing a more Nina-style high-tech combat outfit and has a different haircut. Her look got also revamped for Tekken Tag Tournament 2.^[2]

Gameplay

Anna was featured as Nina's sub-boss in the original Tekken game (also appearing in Anna's ending) and did not become a playable character until the console version of the game. She is Nina's sub-boss in the other Tekken games as well, except for Tekken 4. In Tekken 5 she is also a sub-boss for Craig Marduk. She is also the final boss of Death by Degrees. In the first games (before Tekken Tag Tournament, she was available only as an unlockable/secret character.

Anna uses bone breaking martial arts (koppou) and aikido^[3] and she shares some similar moves with Nina, but has developed a more unique moveset overtime. Anna's grappling moves have changed over the series, reflecting less of her bone breaking martial arts. Anna only appears as a playable character in the console release of Tekken 3; in the arcade version, she was just an alternate costume for Nina, and therefore had the same move set as her.

In other media

Anna appears in the anime Tekken: The Motion Picture as one of primary antagonists. Her rivalry with Nina is also one of the film's subplots, with a few differences, such as the two vying for the attention of Lee Chaolan (their unfaithful contractor) and Anna being responsible for the death of their father. During her fight with Nina, Anna is attacked and apparently killed by Alex.

In the live-action film Tekken, portrayed by Marian Zapico as a Yakuza assassin working alongside Nina. They are also Kazuya's lovers. Kazuya sends them to assassinate Jin Kazama, but the ensuing fight attracts Christie Monteiro's attention and Nina and Anna flee. Unlike the games, she and Nina are in good terms and has no relation to Steve Fox.

Anna also appears in the CGI-animated film Tekken: Blood Vengeance, in which she works under Kazuya Mishima and forces Ling Xiaoyu to find Shin Kamiya.

Her manga and comic book appearances include Tekken: Tatakai no Kanatani, Tekken Saga, Tekken Forever and Tekken 2.^[4]

In merchandise

In 2000, Epoch Co. released a 1/6 scale Anna Williams action figure, based her appearance from Tekken 3.^[5] A small PVC figure was also released by Yujin in the SR Namco Girls Part 5 series in 2004.^[6]

Reception

Anna was often noted for her sex appeal. In 2008, GameDaily listed Anna as one of its top 50 "hottest game babes".^[7] In 2011, both UGO.com and Complex also featured her in their own respective lists of the 50 "hottest" female characters in video games.^[3][8] Play included her on the lists of top ten "bitches in games" and ten of best chat-up lines.^[9][10] GameFront ranked Anna's breasts as the 24th best in gaming history.^[11] She was also included in Unreality’s Queen of the Iron Fist Tournament, but lost in the first round against Sonya Blade.^[12]

Others noted her similarity to her sister Nina. In 2011, Joystiq wrote they "can't help but be saddened by the news" that Capcom producer Yoshinori Ono wanted Anna to be included in the character roster of Street Fighter X Tekken, but "the director was against putting Anna because we already had Nina in."^[13][14] Dual Shockers, however, did not mind Anna's exclusion, stating that "Nina and Anna are simply too similar in some ways."^[15] GamesRadar commented that "We can only hope that the Irish femme fatale finds her way into Tekken X Street Fighter."^[16]

References

External links

• Anna Williams - The Tekken Wiki
• Anna Williams - IGN
• Anna Williams - IMDb
• Anna Williams - Giant Bomb