Nina Williams

Nina Williams is a character from the Tekken franchise.

Nina is an Irish, cold-blooded assassin and has a lethal fighting style, consisting of throws, grapples, and holds. She has a rivalry with her younger sister, Anna Williams.

During the end of Tekken 2, both Nina and Anna undergo Cryogenic Sleep. They are experimented upon for 15 years (this is the reason why they both remain physically young throughout the tournaments). While in Cryogenic sleep, her ovum was taken without her consent and used to create Steve Fox (who first appears in Tekken 4 and onwards).

Nina also starred in her own game, Death by Degrees, an action-adventure title released in 2005 for the PlayStation 2.

Appearance
Nina is notable for her blonde hair and blue eyes. Her look contrasts from that of her sister, Anna, who is a brunette.

Nina's signature color is purple, as she has at least one purple outfit per game. Her trademark costume is the "catsuit," as she has worn many different designs of catsuit in both Tekken and Death By Degrees, which are made of materials resembling spandex, PVC and leather. She wears her hair tied into a ponytail or a braid. Her skin is ivory-colored and she has an hourglass shape. Nina almost always wears lipstick, from violet (DbD) to red (TK1, TK2,TK:BV) to bronze (TK3) to peach (TTT, TK4, TK5, TK6).

In T7 however, she wears a white wedding dress. Though the reasons unknown, the dress is presumably used for an undercover mission. It was revealed she was wearing a wedding dress as her first private assassination job was to infilitrate a Mafia wedding.

Personality
Nina's persona seems to be cold and indifferent. In fact, she had been drugged by an underground force when she was young in order to create the perfect assassin, regarding the chronology of Death by Degrees. Her bitterness and hatred towards men could be a result of her defilation after Tekken 2. The only man she had ever trusted was her father, who died shortly before Tekken 2. Ironically, after her father's death, Nina was controlled by Ogre, and was thus unable to feel any emotion.

Nina's personality remains monotonous yet sadistic when it comes to teasing Anna. Nina's win poses range from tomboyish and masculine to flirtatious, usually by placing a foot on top of the opponents body or showing off her body figure. Although she is an assassin, most of her missions are inclined for the good of the world, though she was hired to kill Steve by the syndicate during Tekken 4 and also assisted Jinwhen he started a world war during Tekken 6.

Abilities
Ever since her debut, Nina instantly became a fan favorite, due to her speed, lethal moves, and chain throws. Her strength is on par with most characters, and she can even evade and counterattack. Her combos are something to watch out for, as they are elaborate, strong, and even lethal. However, her chain throws are difficult to perform and require precision and patience (the same goes to Anna as well).

Nina's fighting styles is comprised of martial arts of Aikido & Koppojutsu in ways of an assassin.

Trivia

 * Like Paul Phoenix, Yoshimitsu, and Heihachi Mishima, Nina has been playable in every Tekken game and is the only female character to have kept that record.
 * Her move list is inspired by ex-assassin Geneviève Lefèbvre.
 * Nina bears a number of similarities to Sarah Bryant from the Virtua Fighter series.
 * Both have blonde hair worn in a ponytail.
 * Both wear catsuits, Sarah in dark blue and Nina in dark purple. Nina's alternate costume in the first Tekken also bears a strong resemblance to Sarah's in Virtua Fighter.
 * Both were assassins brainwashed by an evil force (Ogre in Tekken 3, J6 in pre-Virtua Fighter 4).
 * Both feud with siblings that usually wear red (in Sarah's case, her older brother Jacky while she was brainwashed).
 * Since Virtua Quest, Sarah has been voiced by Lisle Wilkerson, who also voiced Nina in Tekken 4 and 5, later in gameplay achieved voice clip only.
 * Nina is the first and only character in the Tekken series to get their own game: Death by Degrees.
 * At 43 years old, Nina is the oldest female human character along with Jun Kazama.
 * In The Tekken Chronicle Book, Nina's hair color is brown instead of blonde and her occupation is listed as a boxer instead of an assassin.
 * Nina has a purple outfit for her Player One in every game (except in Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection, where her outfit from Tekken 5 changes to white, but her Player 2 changes to purple).
 * Nina is also an acronym for "No Irish Need Apply", a phrase that was sometimes found in employment ads, due to Anti-Irish sentiment. Ironically, Nina herself is Irish, but doesn't have an Irish accent.
 * Despite being Irish, Nina speaks with a distinctly American accent in Tekken 5 and Tekken 6.
 * Prior to TTT2 (for Lili and Leo only, since Lili speaks French, while Leo speaks German starting from TTT2), Nina and her sister Anna are both Irish fighters while Lili and Leo are both female European fighters despite using a complete form of American English (like speaking in an American accent, etc.) due to the restrictions on using certain regional variations of English (than AmE) in a Japanese-developed media.
 * Nina greatly resembles Samus Aran in her Zero Suit from the Metroid Series (blonde hair in a ponytail, blue catsuit), coincidentally both characters deal with motherhood at some point during their respective games.
 * It is very likely that Capcom character Jill Valentine's design in Resident Evil 5 was based off Nina.
 * Both of them possess pale skin, blue eyes, similar clothing and even blonde hair.
 * Coincidentally, both of them have been put into cryosleep. In Jill's case, her battle suit is black and indigo instead of purple.