List of Tekken characters

The following is a list of playable characters from the fighting game, Tekken. The characters are listed in order of the games they debuted in:

Anna Williams
Anna Williams (アンナ・ウィリアムズ) is the younger sister of Nina Williams. She is a playable character only in the console version of the game.

In Tekken 2, Nina is hired to kill the tournament's sponsor, Kazuya Mishima. Whether at Kazuya's discretion or Anna's own volition, Anna becomes a bodyguard for Kazuya, along with Ganryu and Bruce Irvin. It is likely that Anna's interference prevents her sister from carrying out her contract, and Nina is later captured by Mishima Zaibatsu forces and used in Doctor Boskonovitch's cryogenics ('cold-sleep') research. Learning about this, Anna volunteers to be another test subject, requesting that she be woken in the future at the same time as Nina. Her reasons for doing so remain ambiguous, though the game suggests that Anna would have felt lonely without Nina and/or jealous at the thought of her sister's youth being preserved.

In Tekken 3, Anna is awakened at the same time as her sister, eighteen years after the second tournament, but she does not fall under Ogre's influence like Nina does. Nina also begins to suffer side effects from the 'cold-sleep', resulting in long term memory loss. In an act of compassion, Anna sets out to stop Nina from once again becoming an assassin, and to help her recover her memory loss. For reasons unknown, Nina eventually resumes her life as an assassin and loses touch with Anna.

Unfortunately, when Nina decides to contact Anna in hopes of restoring her memory, 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. The two eventually meet and fight, but Nina wins and quickly goes into hiding after the tournament's conclusion.

Anna, longing for revenge, hears rumors that Nina has become the bodyguard of Jin Kazama, the new head of the Mishima Zaibatsu, so Anna decides to join forces with G Corporation. She enters the sixth Iron Fist tournament to intercept her sister, who enters with the same intent as Anna.

GameDaily listed Anna as one of its top 50 hottest female characters in video games, placing her at number 47 on the list.

Anna appears in the anime Tekken: The Motion Picture as one of the primary antagonists. Her rivalry with Nina is also one of the film's subplots, only with a few minor 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 killed by a biologically enhanced dinosaur-like being. She also appears in the live-action film Tekken portrayed by Marian Zapico. Anna appears also in the 2011 CGI movie Tekken: Blood Vengeance, where she's voiced by Tara Platt in English and by Akeno Watanabe in Japanese. In the film she works under Kazuya Mishima and forces Ling Xiaoyu to find Shin Kamiya who possesses and survived the M-cell experiment.