Panda (Tekken)

Panda is a character from the Tekken franchise.

Panda, as her name implies, a giant Panda and the loyal pet, best friend, and bodyguard of Ling Xiaoyu.

Appearance
Panda is, as her name implies, always depicted as a giant panda with pink or orange glowing bands and a green holster wrapped around her shoulder. The holster has grass inside of it.

Personality
Panda is the pet of Ling Xiaoyu in the games since Tekken 3. Kuma is in love with Panda, but she is not interested in him romantically. Panda is cared for at Ling Xiaoyu's high school. To participate in the tournament, Ling moved to the Mishima Industrial College in Japan. Heihachi taught Panda advanced bear fighting so that she could act as a bodyguard for Xiaoyu throughout the series.

Abilities
Her Rage Art has her doing a volleyball routine to hit his/her opponent with a serve and toss and knocks them with a devastating spike dealing a massive damage.

She has the same fighting style as Kuma II.

Trivia

 * Panda is the first female animal character in the Tekken series.
 * Panda is the tallest (animal) female character, standing at 277 cm (9′1″), and also the heaviest, weighting at 200 kg (441 lbs).
 * Despite being female, Panda cannot be attacked by Anna's Slap Happy (b+2), which is usable against females; but by Heihachi's Headbutt Carnival (F, F+1+4), which is usable against males.
 * Panda is one of the five characters that are palette swaps; the others include Alex, Angel, Tetsujin, and Tiger Jackson.
 * The noises and grunts Panda makes from Tekken 3 to Tekken 5 sound similar to that of a dingo. In Tekken 6, she sounds much more like a bear.