| “ | I'll take on any challenge that you got. | „ |
| ~ Steve. |
Steve Fox is a supporting character in Bandai Namco's Tekken franchise, having made his first appearance in Tekken 4. He is a middleweight boxing champion that is later revealed to be the son of Nina Williams and an unnamed boxer, conceived through lab experiments in Mishima Zaibatsu.
Appearance
Steve has blonde hair and blue eyes. His hair is shoulder-length and feathered, and is usually worn slicked back. Steve's entire left arm is covered in a large scar due to the experiments conducted on him in his childhood.
Personality
Steve is a measured individual who values fair professional fighting, as evidenced by his refusal to throw a fight despite threats from a corrupt group, and his response to Marduk's poor and unsportsmanlike conduct during a match. He is personable and has made several allies through the series, including Lei Wulong, Marshall Law, and Paul Phoenix. Steve is troubled by his mysterious past, and a raw, angry side of him can emerge when he is confronted with the Mishima Zaibatsu's human experimentation.
Steve is quick to try to protect people who are important to him, even hostile parties; he prevents Lei from arresting Nina Williams, his biological mother, in his Tekken 4 ending despite her aiming a gun at him moments before, and then draws Tekken Force fire away from her in Tekken 7 even though she has just told him she wants nothing to do with him.
Story
Tekken 4
Steve Fox is a boxer who was created by the Mishima Zaibatsu. After reclaiming the Mishima Zaibatsu from his son and witnessing the power of the Devil firsthand in the second King of Iron Fist Tournament, CEO Heihachi Mishima began his own research into the terrifying power of the Devil Gene. In an attempt to replicate this superhuman strength, the Mishima Zaibatsu started a genetic modification plan with the goal of replicating the effects of the gene on regular humans through the creation of a synthetic Devil Gene. Heihachi used eggs from the assassin Nina Williams, who was cryogenically frozen by Dr. Bosconovitch at the Zaibatsu at the time, to create babies that he used to conduct these experiments. Most of the children died as a result of the experiments and the supersoldier program was ultimately considered a failure.
One of the children in the program was known as Subject NT01, or Steve. A doctor supervising the experimentation on Steve, Emma Kliesen, developed a bond with the boy, much to the disparagement of her more clinically minded colleagues. It was also Emma who helped Steve escape the laboratories at the age of six by faking his death in an experiment. At some point following this, it is likely that Steve was adopted and subsequently raised in the United Kingdom. It is unknown to what extent the childhood experiments affected Steve's physical capabilities. Regardless, by the age of 21, Steve Fox was a middleweight boxing champion. Steve remembered very little about his early childhood, and his driving motivations prior to his King of Iron Fist Tournament debut were to find out who his birth parents were and to discover how he got the large scar on his left arm.
Steve entered the fourth King of Iron Fist Tournament after becoming embroiled in trouble with The Syndicate. Despite the danger, Steve believed the tournament would bolster his chances of connecting with his birth parents.
Tekken 5
At the tournament, he met Lei Wulong, who was able to help Steve discover that he was created by the Mishima Zaibatsu.
Steve entered the fifth King of Iron Fist Tournament to 'settle the score' with the Mishima Zaibatsu, and succeeded in destroying the Mishima Zaibatsu's research institute.
Tekken 6
When the world was plunged into war by the Mishima Zaibatsu under Jin Kazama's leadership, many major boxing meets were cancelled, leaving Steve without a livelihood. Around this time, Paul Phoenix and Marshall Law invited Steve to train with them, and he became training buddies with the two.
Tekken 7
Steve continued to search for information about his past. He eventually met Nina Williams by chance and learned that he had been created using her genetic material. Nina was completely disinterested in Steve. Now that his search for his past was over, Steve became listless.
Tekken 8
He entered the eighth King of Iron Fist Tournament regardless, winning the Europe A Block preliminaries and progressing to the next round of the tournament in Italy. The tournament came to an abrupt end when Kazuya Mishima clashed with Yggdrasil and United Nations forces. Following this, he is recruited by Lars Alexandersson to help defend Yakushima from G Corporation.
Alongside Shaheen and King II, Steve helps distract Dragunov's forces to allow Victor Chevalier to ambush the commander. In the good ending, Steve is seen helping Marshall, Paul, King II, Kuma II, and Panda run a free soup kitchen for the ravaged New York.
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