Tina Armstrong

Tina Armstrong (ティナ・アームストロング) is a player character in the Dead or Alive fighting game series by Team Ninja and Tecmo (Tecmo Koei). She was introduced in the original Dead or Alive in 1996.

In video games
Tina Armstrong is an American wrestling star who dreams of even greater fame. In the English versions of the games, she speaks with a thick Southern accent.

She first joins the Dead or Alive tournament, hoping that she can use it as a vehicle for becoming discovered as a supermodel, but her father Bass forbids it. To ensure that she does not achieve her goal, he also joins Dead or Alive to put an end to her fame-seeking. After competing in the first tournament, Tina is apparently defeated by her father, and enters the second tournament to achieve her dream of becoming a model. During the transition between the two tournaments, Tina dyes her brown hair blonde.

In her subsequent entries into the Dead or Alive tournament, she changes interests, from wanting to be a model to wanting to become an actress and finally a rock star. These actions had further disappointed her already-disgraced father, who only wanted one goal for her. Tina enters New Zack Island in Dead or Alive Xtreme 2 to escape the clutches of her overprotective father, whom she needed to stay away from to prevent any more conflicts between her and her father.

Other appearances
In the film DOA: Dead or Alive, Tina (portrayed by Jaime Pressly) is trying to escape her wrestling background and prove to be a real fighter. She is constantly bothered by Zack who has a crush on her. She is also bothered by Bass who wants her to return to wrestling. In the Tournament, she beats both Bass and Zack to advance to the semifinals, and is one of the four women to beat Donovan near the end.

Merchandise items featuring the character have been released, such as several figures.

Reception
The character has been often noted for her sex appeal. Due to it, Tina won G4's Video Game Vixens of the year award for 2005. Including Tina on the 2007 list of 50 greatest heroines in video games, Tom's Games commented that "she absolutely oozes sex appeal in between fights." PLAY ranked her as the third top "hottest" blonde in games in 2010, also jokingly calling her breasts "the undisputed #1 and #2 of all Dead or Alive’s features." In 2011, UGO Networks included her among the "hottest girls in games", adding: "This female wrestler hits harder than any of the other DoA characters while still managing to show off the maximum amount of skin. We call that a perfect recipe for both in and outside of the fighting ring." That same year, UGO also ranked her as the 11th "foxiest fighting females to be ever pixelated," describing her as their "perennial favorite when it comes to Dead or Alive Xtreme 2's totally-classy, not-objectifying-women-in-the-least bikini-clad Butt Battles," while Joystick Division chose Tina's breasts (together with Kasumi's) as the seventh "most incredible chest" in video games. In the article "Battle of the Beauties: Gaming's Hottest Female Characters Face Off" by Complex Tina faced and won against Rainbow Mika from Street Fighter in the female wrestlers category. In addition, she also featured at the 83rd place on Complex's list of most humiliating victory quotes in fighting game, and made third place on GameDaily's list of top wrestling characters in video games.