Lei Wulong

Lei Wulong is a character from the Tekken franchise.

Lei is the man called "supercop" from Hong Kong, famous for taking down many criminals. Lei at first investigates the Zaibatsu to check the crimes of Kazuya. He continues to do so on the Zaibatsu years later in the 3rd tournament. In the 4th tournament, however, Lei got hammered with misfortunes where his girlfriend dumped him for being too Workaholic and his career plummeted. He got back on track by foiling the plan of a syndicate that planned to kill Steve Fox. Later, he investigates the issue about Feng Wei alongside Asuka Kazama, but doesn't produce good results. But before he can rest, he then starts another job: arresting Jin Kazama.

After the events of  6, Lei's investigation of Jin is halted when he suddenly disappears off the face of the Earth. He goes on holiday, and becomes a fan of Lucky Chloe in the meantime. When Kazuya is revealed as a literal Devil on live television, Lei is assigned to investigate Kazuya and G Corporation. Secretly, however, he wants to meet Lucky Chloe, as she's a G Corporation employee.

Appearance
Lei has medium length black hair which is tied in low ponytail and brown eyes. His appearance is based on the real martial artist and cultural icon, Jackie Chan. Lei's primary outfit consists of both his Kung-Fu attire and his police gear. From Tekken 3 and onwards, his hair becomes longer and has long fringes in each side of his hair. However around "Tekken 5" his hairstyle is shortened to about a shoulder length ponytail although he retains his long fringes. In Tekken 7, his long hair is cut short and is styled in a slicked back and ragged style with small fringes. He now has gray streaks in his hair due to his age.

Personality
A man who lives for his job. Dedicated to the point of obsession, Lei is a law abiding and gifted cop. He is fair minded and affable to those around him (unless they break the law). In his Tekken 5 interludes, he is shown treating his friends (such as Wang Jinrei and Steve Fox) with compassion and respect. For his enemies however, he attains a stern and direct approach to their arrest. Although his attempts can sometimes be clumsy, Lei's intentions are always virtuous in nature.

Abilities
Lei is a high risk/high reward character that has to make very good and creative use of his stances in order to throw off and confuse his opponents. Lei is one of the more difficult characters to use because he requires a good understanding of the game mechanics in order to know what situations are in his benefit. Players usually have to know a good deal of their opponent before Lei can be deadly.

Lei requires players to be patient and smart, since he is a very unsafe character, but if Lei can get a good momentum going, his damage output is very high and he gets rewarded heavily either through mix-ups or stance setups that are riddled with throws, cancels, and tricky mids and lows.

Lei's fighting style is based on the Five Animals form of Chinese martial arts and on Drunken Boxing.

Trivia

 * Lei Wulong's name is in Mandarin Chinese despite being from Hong Kong. In Cantonese, his name would be read as 'Lui Molung'.
 * A similar word, Oolong (wūlóng) is a kind of Chinese tea. It is also the name of an anthromorphic talking pig character from the Dragon Ball series.
 * Because Lei is based on Jackie Chan, there are a lot of similarities in the games:
 * Lei can be customized to resemble a few characters portrayed by Jackie Chan (ex. Kevin Chan, or Wong Fei Hung).
 * Lei's Double Foot Stomp throw is very similar to that of Jackie Chan's throw at Jackie Chan Stuntmaster game, although it has a different distance to succeed it.
 * Coincidentally, his voice actor since Tekken 4, Hiroya Ishimaru, is also the official Japanese dub-over voice artist for Jackie Chan.
 * Lei once appeared in a SONY commercial.
 * Lei is one of the three characters that work for a government rather than a private company. The other two are Sergei Dragunov and the original Jack.
 * Lei is the second fighter who can recover his health after being attacked by an enemy. The first is Yoshimitsu.
 * It is sometimes shown that Lei's age is catching up with him. Often after he lands a move, he starts to have back problems (much like Wang does, especially in his TTT ending). This also happens In Street Fighter X Tekken after performing his Super Art. In Tekken 7, Lei recoils both of his hands after he accidentally hits the camera during his victory animation.
 * Also, noticeably, in Tekken 7 Lei is the only one of the now middle-aged fighters from before Tekken 3, whose hair starts to show signs of graying.
 * Laguna Loire from Final Fantasy VIII bears some resemblance to Lei (in some Tekken games). In Tekken 6and Tekken Revolution, he even sounds like him too, despite not having the same voice actors.
 * Hon Fu from the games of SNK share the same status as Lei but, uses elements from Bruce Lee mixed with Jackie Chan (Police Story) instead. Conincidentally, he can be "customized" as Hon Fu in Tekken 6 too.
 * He also share several similarities to Brad Wong from Tecmo's Dead or Alive series.