Marshall Law

Marshall Law is a character from the Tekken games.

A fighting chef, with a son named Forest, and best buds with Paul. At first Marshall plans to open his own dojo. He successfully did after the 1st tournament, but said dojo was shortly wrecked by Baek Doo San. Law beats the hell out of him, but forgives him. He later retires to resume his restaurant business, and is succeeded by his son Forest for the 3rd tournament.

By the 4th tournament, however, business was bad for his restaurant, and he was forced to declare bankruptcy. Law tried to boost his business again with the 4th tournament and horribly failed, now working as a dishwasher (illegally), until he learned that Forest got in an accident (thanks to Paul). He tried to win the money in the 5th tournament for his son, but was deported after his illegal work activities were discovered. He finally teams up with Paul and Steve Fox for the 6th tournament.

Appearance
Marshall appears to have a short black hair with a full fringe. In the first Tekken, his eyes are green but in Tekken 2 and onwards the color of his eyes are brown. He is based on the legendary martial artist and actor, Bruce Lee.

He is shirtless, and wears golden yellow jogging pants with black and white lines. He gains a pair of red sneakers & a tail on his red sash. He also regains his black wristbands from Tekken 1.

He wears a white long sleeved loose button Cheongsam with matching white pants and blue kung fu shoes. The back of his jacket has a blue and red dragon motif and the inside of his jacket is blue.

Personality
Marshall usually gets along well with his friends and family. Marshall has been friends with Paul Phoenix since Tekken 1 and have shown to not only friends, but fighting partners also. Marshall also got along with Steve Fox when they teamed up in Tekken 6. Law also likes to joke or make fun of his friends. For example, in his Tekken 6 ending, Marshall puts laxatives in his "special-recipe" pizza, and feeds it to Paul and Steve. Also, Marshall also likes to make fun of Paul's inability to perform a somersault kick at times. It's also shown that Marshall Law is a very good martial arts teacher. He has taught his son very well, and in some cases, Forest performed moves that his father could not. Marshall also taught Lee Chaolan some of his moves before the events of Tekken 1. It's also shown that Law cares deeply not only for his family, but his dojo students also. After he finds out that Baek Doo San attacked his students, he would go find Baek and would successfully avenge his students.

However, Marshall is also quick tempered at times. In his Tekken 4 ending, he causes brawl in his restaurant only because someone criticized his food harshly. He also became angry when he found out that his son joined the 3rd King of the Iron Fist Tournament, but with good reason. It also seemed Law and Paul weren't that good of friends in Tekken 4, since they looked to be rather distant from each other, possibly due to the fact that Marshall was still holding a grudge against him for allowing his son to participate in the 3rd Tournament. However, it appears they're friendship has been revived, since in Tekken 6, Law and Paul would team up along with Steve Fox.

Abilities
Law is an up, close and personal fighter that has a strong poking game and very scary mix-up game. He relies on completely conditioning the opponent, whether its making them duck through his highs and hitting them with a mid, or annoying his opponent with high/low mixups only for them to hesitate for a split second in order for them to eat a damaging counter hit combo. Law also has a stance pro players call DSS, or Dragon Sign Stance, which gives Law even more offensive capabilities and a wall game that is to be feared.

Law suffers from poor range, and struggles when he is outside of his opponents face. Law also struggles heavily when he is not in control of the momentum, as he has to rely on a hard read in order to get his opponent off of him.

Law is a character that forces his opponent to play his game, and puppets them to their death with offensive shenanigans.

Fighting Style
Law's fighting style is listed simply as "Martial Arts". His actual moveset, however, is heavily inspired by Bruce Lee's moves, so it's safe to assume that Law's actual fighting style is based on Jeet Kune Do.

Trivia

 * Marshall is the only character excluded from Tekken Tag Tournament to reappear in further games.
 * Marshall seems to have financial troubles in almost every game, which serves as his motivation for joining the tournaments (winning the prize money).
 * In his son's Tekken 3 ending, Marshall could not do a "Frogman" (d+3+4). However, in Tekken 4 and Tekken 5 / Dark Resurrection, he can successfully do it. Though the player can purposely make him fail to do so by holding the down directional button (i.e. D+3+4).
 * Marshall's voice actor in Tekken 6, David Vincent, also voices Shin Kamiya in Tekken: Blood Vengeance, T. Hawk in the Street Fighter IV, and Jin Kisaragi and Hakumen in the BlazBlue series.
 * Law's 1P pants in Tekken 5, TK6, TTT2 and Tekken Revolution resemble Maxi's 2P pants ("Dragon Slacks") in Soul Calibur 2, SC4 and Soul Calibur: Broken Destiny. The two characters are also their games' respective Bruce Lee homages.