Lili (Tekken)

Lili (リリ), full name Émilie Rochefort (エミリ・ロシュフォール), is a video game character from the Tekken series by Namco Bandai. Along with Sergei Dragunov and Armor King II, she is one of the three characters that were first introduced in Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection in 2005. She also appears in Tekken 6, the non-canon Tekken Tag Tournament 2 and confirmed to appear in the crossover Street Fighter X Tekken. Lili's storyline in the Tekken series typically involves pleasing her father and her rivalry with Asuka Kazama. Since her introduction, Lili has gained a lot popularity and is known as a fast character with many reviewers praising her fighting style.

Character design
Lili is a Monegasque teenager with long blonde hair. She is very confident in her fighting abilities, as shown by her winning and pre-match quotes.

In her first-player outfit, she dresses in a grey corset and grey jeans with white sneakers. Her second-player outfit (also her primary outfit, as shown in promotional pictures and her epilogue) is a white satin Victorian-style skirt dress with long sleeves. She keeps both outfits in Tekken 6, in which she also gets an extra outfit designed by the manga artist Ito "Oh! great" Ōgure (a revealing dress with a corset, chaps and open-toed boots). In Tekken: Dark Resurrection, one of Lili's customization parts includes having the Prince of All Cosmos from Katamari Damacy on her head. Her secondary hair colors are black and pink.

In video games
Lili is the only daughter of a wealthy and pacifistic oil magnate. She resides in a very luxurious suburban mansion with her father and her butler, Sebastian. At the age of 12, Lili struggled violently to free herself from a group of kidnappers, and she unexpectedly took out one of her captors. At that moment, she first realized she took pleasure in defeating her opponents. Lili only wants to please her father, but she knows that he despises fighting because he wants his daughter to be a prim and proper lady and not a thug. Her desire to fight could not be controlled, and for this reason, she secretly used her family's private jet to travel abroad to take part in worldwide street fighting tournaments, which she enjoyed immensely. This was done under the guise of a vacation from her homeland. One day, after defeating an opponent in San Francisco, she acquired an invitation to The King Of Iron Fist Tournament 5. Lili noticed that the sponsor of the tournament, the Mishima Zaibatsu, had caused her father much trouble in the past. With the assumption of the Mishima Zaibatsu being a useful potential asset to her father, she was determined to take part in the tournament and win to put an end to her father's business troubles.

However, her chances of winning the tournament were completely destroyed at the hands of Asuka Kazama. To make matters worse, her father discovered her involvement in the tournament, and as punishment he forbade her from leaving the house until further notice, thwarting her chances of a rematch with Asuka. Sometime later, the Mishima Zaibatsu seized the oil fields her father owned. Rochefort Enterprises fell into disarray, and Lili's father (who was forced to cope with the takeover) collapsed from overexertion. Lili, who was worried about her father's well being, believed that if she were able to reclaim her father's oil fields somehow from the Mishima Financial Group, she would without a doubt remove his anxiety. While she deeply thought how best to act, the Mishima Financial Group announced the opening of the King of the Iron Fist Tournament 6. Believing this was her big break, Lili entered the tournament for her father's sake.

Gameplay
Lili's fighting style is a mix of classical dance, ballet and basic Krav Maga moves. Other moves derive from gymnastics techniques, such as cartwheels, handstands and backbend kickovers.

Relying on speed, Lili's counterattacks, juggles and wall fighting are known to cause a lot of damage, however, she is lacking when it comes to low attacks and in Tekken 6, her crush attacks leave her vulnerable.

In other media and merchandise
Lili is the main character in the gamebook Queen's Gate Lili in the Queen's Blade series. She is also is a playable character in the role-playing video game based on the Queen's Blade franchise, Queen's Gate: Spiral Chaos.

Lili is featured on the cover of Play's Girls of Gaming Vol. 7, where she is seen at a beach in a bikini. A model portrayed Lili in the Tekken Maxim Photoshoot gallery in Maxim. A Lili wall poster was released to promote her appearance in Street Fighter X Tekken.

A live-action Lili is featured in the Spike Video Game Awards 2011 trailer for the console versions of Tekken Tag Tournament 2 where she, Asuka Kazama, Kazuya Mishima and Bryan Fury are all fighting each other.

In 2009, two Lili action figures were released by Bandai and manufactured by Super Modelling Soul for their Tekken 6 toy line, one of them featuring Lili in a pose resembling one of her Tekken 6 promotion images. In 2011, Hobby Japan released another Lili action figure, based on her appearance from Queen's Gate.

Reception
The initial reception for her debut in Tekken: Dark Resurrection was mostly favorable, in particular praised for her smaller repertoire of attacks when compared to other characters in the series,  and called by IGN a "deadly Lolita-looking warrior that relies on speed". She is also called one of the best newer Tekken characters by 1UP.com. In GameZone's review, however, Lili was stated to have stiff moves compared to other Tekken females and that she just feels like a rehash, but is still a decent character. GameSpot commented in the preview of Tekken 6 that Lili looks "great", complimenting her hair and clothes. GamesRadar calls Lili a "baby-faced girl who dresses like a pop star". PALGN complimented the addition of Lili in Tekken 5: DR, saying she fits well into the game and doesn't feel tacked on. TeamXbox included Lili among the "Hotties in the Xbox Universe", commenting that her self-confidence is part of what makes her appealing and "her graceful movements only emphasized her physical beauty—which her many outfits made sure to accentuate." NowGamer praises Lili for her "flowery girly-girl" appearance and "light-footed" fighting style", concluding that "everyone will love her." ComputerAndVideoGames.com called Lili "attractive" and a "classic Tekken femme fatale", citing both her looks and her fighting style, as well her choice in clothing and a "very pretty face".