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词条 Paul Phoenix (Tekken)
释义

  1. Appearances

     In video games  Design and gameplay  In other media and merchandise 

  2. Reception

  3. References

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|name=Paul Phoenix
|image=Paul Phoenix (T7).png
|caption= Paul Phoenix in Tekken 7
|series=Tekken
|creator=Seiichi Ishii
|firstgame=Tekken (1994)[1]
|voice={{Ubl|English|Scott McCulloch (TK1—TK2)|Eric Kelso (TK3—TK6 (grunts); TK3D:PE)|Jamieson Price (TK6 (dialogue), TTT2, Tekken Revolution, TK7)|Mike McFarland (Street Fighter X Tekken)|Japanese|Hōchū Ōtsuka (drama CD)|Kanehira Yamamoto (Street Fighter X Tekken)}}
|fighting_style= Judo[2]
|origin= United States
|nationality=American
|occupation= Motorcyclist
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{{nihongo|Paul Phoenix|ポール・フェニックス|Pōru Fenikkusu|lead=yes}} is a player character from the Tekken fighting game franchise by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Making his debut in the original Tekken in 1994, he is one of four characters (the others being Yoshimitsu, Heihachi Mishima, and Nina Williams) to appear in every installment of the main series.

Paul is a short-tempered biker and judo practitioner who repeatedly enters the series' King of Iron Fist tournaments in hopes of winning the prize money and to prove he is the world's best fighter, all while developing a rivalry with the anthropomorphized fighting bear Kuma. He has received mixed critical responses for his personality and his signature hi-top fade hairstyle and has been considered a joke character following his later Tekken series appearances.

Appearances

In video games

Paul Phoenix is a hotheaded American biker and martial artist who regularly enters the King of Iron Fist fighting tournaments to prove he is "the toughest fighter in the universe" while hoping to use the prize money to pay off his debts, yet he falls short of victory each time due to various circumstances.[1] In the first Tekken, Paul is eliminated late in the competition by Kazuya Mishima after an hours-long fight. He battles his way to the final round in Tekken 2, only to end up having to forfeit after getting stuck in traffic and therefore unable to make the match on time.[2] Paul goes undefeated throughout the tournament in Tekken 3, but after defeating Heihachi Mishima and Ogre, he abruptly leaves the competition under the impression that he has won, when he had one last opponent in Ogre's alter ego, True Ogre.[5] As a result, by Tekken 4, Paul's dojo has gone out of business due to lack of students and he ends up a homeless alcoholic.[3] He again enters the tournament in an attempt to get his life back together.

During the first two competitions, Paul had fought and defeated Kuma, a large brown bear trained in combat by Heihachi.[4] After the animal dies of old age, Heihachi trains a replacement, also named Kuma, who beats Paul in the fourth tournament.[4] Paul adopts a new training regimen and gets his revenge against Kuma in Tekken 5,[1] but the match leaves Paul too exhausted to continue in the competition and he is forced to drop out.[2] Again departing the tournament penniless and already burdened by his increasing debt, he wastes no time in entering the sixth tournament in Tekken 6 in hopes of finally easing his financial troubles.[5] This time, he believes assembling a team would increase his chances of victory, and so he joins forces with old friend Marshall Law and boxer Steve Fox.

Paul is selectable in noncanonical spinoff Tekken games such as Tekken Tag Tournament, Tekken Card Challenge, Tekken Advance, Tekken Tag Tournament 2, and Tekken Revolution, in addition to the crossover fighting game Street Fighter X Tekken. He is an unlockable character in the 2005 beat-'em-up multiplayer game Urban Reign.[6]

Design and gameplay

Tekken producer Katsuhiro Harada revealed that Paul was inspired by Japanese manga,[7] specifically a character from the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure series.[8] Paul is canonically 25 years old at the time of his 1994 Tekken debut.[15] His default costume throughout the series is a red sleeveless judogi and black padded gloves,[9] sporting a scorpion tattoo on his right arm.[2] Paul is given a new look for Tekken 7, with his red gi replaced with casual costumes featuring red, white, and blue themes.[10][11] A downloadable costume for Paul in Street Fighter X Tekken resembles Street Fighter character Rufus.[12]

Paul's fighting style is officially classified as "judo".[13] GameSpy considered Paul "one of the most devastating characters" in Tekken 6, with "one of the best low attacks" and a "powerful wall game".[14] Neidel Crisan of 1UP.com wrote of Paul in Street Fighter X Tekken that he had "a fairly straight forward character with solid combos that may not be flashy, but do a ton of damage,"[15] but Tristan Damen of VentureBeat claimed that "Paul Phoenix, a powerhouse in his native series, is neutered by his inability to fling fireballs."[16]

In other media and merchandise

Paul makes a cameo appearance in The Motion Picture as one of the tournament competitors, and is seen carrying an unconscious Michelle Chang out of the exploding Mishima resort near the conclusion, while he has no dialogue. He additionally had main and minor roles in several Tekken comic book series published between 1997 and 2017.[17][18]

In 1998, Epoch Co. released an action figure of Paul in a black leather outfit as part of their Tekken 3 collection, which was packaged with a display stand and an extra set of interchangeable hands.[19]

Reception

{{quote box|quote= Paul got his start in Tekken as the Ken to Kazuya's Ryu, but things didn't stay that way for Paul, as more and more he became a joke character. Sometimes he's begging his old friend Law for money, sometimes he beats the first form of the final boss and leaves before the second appears, and other times he's fighting a bear. A motorcyclist with an impressive head of hair, Paul Phoenix might be silly, but he at least is determined (or too dumb to know when he's beat).|source=—Henry Gilbert, GamesRadar, 2012[20]|width=30%}}

Paul has received mixed critical reviews for his gameplay, characterization, and distinctive hairstyle. Matt Swider of Gaming Target ranked him the tenth-best Tekken character in 2006.[21] In his 2012 preview of Street Fighter X Tekken, Nate Ming of Crunchyroll described Paul and Marshall Law as "get-rich-quick schemers".[22] Kevin Wong of Complex ranked Paul third among his twenty best Tekken characters in 2013.[23] Wesley Yin-Poole of Eurogamer wrote that Paul was his preferred character to play in the original PlayStation port of Tekken 3 due to his design and hard-hitting punch,[24] while Gavin Jasper of Den of Geek wrote in 2016 that Paul was deserving of being the central character in an eighth Tekken installment.[25] In an official fan poll held by Namco in 2012, Paul was the third-most requested Tekken character for inclusion in Tekken X Street Fighter, receiving 15.83% (13,975) of 88,280 votes.[26]

Rich Knight of Complex ranked Paul's "ridiculous" Tekken 5 ending second in his 2012 list of the series' fifteen "craziest" moments.[27] 4thletter.net ranked it 127th in their 2013 selection of the top 200 fighting game endings, while comparing him to Street Fighter joke character Dan Hibiki.[28] While Assassin's Fist actor Joey Ansah called Paul his favorite Tekken character in a 2014 interview, he was critical of Paul's role in later series installments as "a fucking joke."[29]

Print advertising for Tekken 2 featured the slogan: "Paul Phoenix is about to face 23 fighters. Who's the first person he should kill? His barber."[30] In 2010, Michael Grimm of GamesRadar expressed his desire for a matchup between Paul and Street Fighter character Guile for the then-unreleased Street Fighter X Tekken, citing "their awful hair."[31] Tom Goulter of GamesRadar described it as "Street Fighter's Ken [having] stuck his finger in an electrical socket."[32] Alex Langley of Arcade Sushi rated it among the "10 Greatest Video Game Character Hairdos" in 2013.[33] Liana Kerzner of 411Mania.com rated it fourth in her selection of the "Top 8 Video Game Hairstyles" that same year: "Paul takes the title of King of the Stupid Hair, even if he can never quite win a fighting tournament."[34] ShortList included Paul in a feature titled "The Rules of Video Game Hairstyles": "How he manages to maintain such a cliff-like structure is beyond our grooming knowledge. Oceans of hair spray?"[35]

References

1. ^1 2 {{cite web|url=http://uk.ign.com/characters/paul-phoenix |title=Paul Phoenix – IGN |work=IGN|publisher=Ziff Davis |date= |accessdate=May 23, 2014|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140524023532/http://www.ign.com/characters/paul-phoenix|archivedate=May 24, 2014}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cheatcc.com/psx/sg/tekken_3.txt|title=Tekken 3 Manual|first=Ben|last=Cureton|work=cheatcc.com|date=1998|accessdate=December 14, 2016}}
3. ^1 {{cite web|url=https://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/518042-tekken-4/faqs/20087|title=Tekken 4 Paul for PlayStation 2|first=Mike|last=Hamlin|work=GameFAQs|publisher=CBS Interactive|date=2002|accessdate=December 9, 2016}}
4. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.ign.com/characters/kuma-tekken|title=Kuma (Tekken)|work=IGN|publisher=Ziff Davis|date=|accessdate=December 10, 2016}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesradar.com/the-warriors-of-tekken-6/2/|title=The warriors of Tekken 6: Page 2|first=Shane|last=Patterson|work=GamesRadar|publisher=Future Publishing|date=February 13, 2009|accessdate=December 10, 2016}}
6. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.ign.com/articles/2005/08/20/tekken-characters-in-urban-reign|title=Tekken Characters in Urban Reign|first=Juan|last=Castro|work=IGN|publisher=Ziff Davis|date=August 19, 2005|accessdate=December 13, 2016}}
7. ^{{cite web|url=https://mobile.twitter.com/Harada_TEKKEN/status/437057628003250176|title=Is Paul Phoenix based on Chuck Norris?|author=Katsuhiro Harada|work=Twitter.com|date=February 21, 2014|accessdate=December 13, 2016}}
8. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesradar.com/making-tekken/|title=Tekken: The Making Of...|author=Edge Staff|work=GamesRadar|publisher=Future Publishing|date=February 24, 2015|accessdate=December 23, 2016}}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.fightersgeneration.com/characters3/paul.html|title=Paul Phoenix (Tekken)|work=Fighters' Generation|date=October 1, 2015|accessdate=December 11, 2016}}
10. ^{{cite web|url=http://attackofthefanboy.com/news/new-default-costumes-revealed-in-tekken-7-fated-retribution-graphics-further-improved/|title=New Default Costumes Revealed In Tekken 7: Fated Retribution; Graphics Further Improved|first=Damian|last=Seeto|work=Attack of the Fanboy|publisher=Modern Media Group|date=February 5, 2016|accessdate=December 14, 2016}}
11. ^{{cite web|url=http://shoryuken.com/2016/02/04/tekken-7-fated-retribution-screens-reveal-updated-designs-for-hwoarang-paul-phoenix-and-steve-fox/|title=Tekken 7 Fated Retribution Screens Reveal Updated Designs for Paul, Hwoarang, Steve, Devil Jin, and Alisa|first=Ian|last=Walker|work=Shoryuken|date=February 4, 2016|accessdate=December 14, 2016}}
12. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.engadget.com/2012/03/04/street-fighter-x-tekken-characters-raid-each-others-wardrobes-i/|title=Street Fighter X Tekken characters raid each other's wardrobes in DLC|first=JC|last=Fletcher|work=Engadget.com|publisher=AOL Inc.|date=March 4, 2012|accessdate=December 16, 2016}}
13. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|url=http://www.tekken6-official.eu/pages/en/54/character.html|title=Tekken 6: Paul Phoenix|work=tekken6-official.eu|accessdate=December 9, 2016}}
14. ^{{cite web|url=http://psp.gamespy.com/playstation-portable/tekken-next/guide/page_42.html |title=Tekken 6—pep—Walkthrough & Guide—Page 42|work=GameSpy|publisher=IGN Entertainment|date=January 15, 2009|accessdate=August 5, 2012}}
15. ^{{cite web |last=Crisan |first=Neidel |url=http://www.1up.com/previews/speculation-street-fighter-tekken?pager.offset=1 |archive-url=https://archive.is/20121206023129/http://www.1up.com/previews/speculation-street-fighter-tekken?pager.offset=1 |dead-url=yes |archive-date=2012-12-06 |title=Street Fighter X Tekken Preview for PS3, 360, Vita |work=1UP.com |date=2012 |accessdate=February 8, 2015}}
16. ^{{cite web|url=https://venturebeat.com/community/2013/01/15/the-high-horse-audit-2012-part-2-the-most-disappointing-game-of-2012/|title=The High Horse Audit 2012, Part 2: The most disappointing game of 2012|first=Tristan|last=Damen|work=VentureBeat|date=January 15, 2013|accessdate=December 11, 2016}}
17. ^{{cite web|url=http://comicvine.gamespot.com/paul-phoenix/4005-59551/issues-cover/|title=Paul Phoenix Comics|work=Comic Vine|publisher=CBS Interactive|accessdate=December 15, 2016}}
18. ^{{cite web|url=http://4thletter.net/2007/11/fighting-game-comics-round-up-featuring-raul-julia-wolf-hawkfield-and-paul-phoenix/|title=Fighting Game Comics Round-Up: Featuring Raul Julia, Wolf Hawkfield and Paul Phoenix!|first=Gavin|last=Jasper|work=4thletter.net|date=November 28, 2007|accessdate=December 16, 2016}}
19. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.figurerealm.com/actionfigure.php?universeid=&FID=16162&figure=paulphoenix |title=Action Figure Gallery |publisher=Figurerealm.com |date= |accessdate=2012-08-05}}
20. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesradar.com/street-fighter-x-tekken-roster-meet-all-43-characters/|title=Street Fighter X Tekken roster: Meet all 55 characters|first=Henry|last=Gilbert|work=GamesRadar|publisher=Future Publishing|date=October 23, 2012|accessdate=April 8, 2015}}
21. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gamingtarget.com/article.php?artid=5787&pg=3&comments=|first=Matt|last=Swider |title=Tekken: A Look Back|work=Gaming Target |date=July 25, 2006 |accessdate=July 28, 2012}}
22. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2012/01/18-1/vicious-street-fighter-x-tekken-screens-featuring-newcomers-paul-vega-and-more|title=Vicious 'Street Fighter X Tekken' Screens Featuring Newcomers Paul, Vega, and More!|first=Nate|last=Ming|work=Crunchyroll|date=January 18, 2012|accessdate=December 16, 2016}}
23. ^1 {{cite web|url=http://www.complex.com/video-games/2013/09/best-tekken-video-game-characters/paul-phoenix |title=3. Paul Phoenix—The 20 Best Tekken Video Game Characters of All Time |publisher=Complex|date=September 3, 2013|accessdate=September 8, 2013}}
24. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-09-30-ps1-at-20-tekken-and-a-devastating-counter-in-a-dulwich-living-room|title=PS1 at 20: Tekken and a devastating counter in a Dulwich living room|first=Wesley|last=Yin-Poole|work=Eurogamer.net|publisher=Gamer Network|date=September 30, 2015|accessdate=December 9, 2016}}
25. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/tekken/248318/tekken-the-strange-history-of-the-mishima-family|title=Tekken: The Strange History of the Mishima Family|first=Gavin|last=Jasper|work=Den of Geek|publisher=Dennis Publishing|date=June 19, 2016|accessdate=November 23, 2016}}
26. ^{{cite web|url=https://fb.namcobandaigames.com/fbtekken/statistics_user.php?sid=78423 |title=Tekken vs Street Fighter |publisher=Fb.namcobandaigames.com |date=2012 |accessdate=July 28, 2012 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120813063608/https://fb.namcobandaigames.com/fbtekken/statistics_user.php?sid=78423 |archivedate=August 13, 2012}}
27. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.complex.com/video-games/2012/10/tekkens-15-craziest-moments/paul-prepares-to-battle-aliens |title=Tekken's 15 Craziest Moments|first=Rich|last=Knight|work=Complex.com|date=October 12, 2012|accessdate=December 16, 2016}}
28. ^{{cite web|url=http://4thletter.net/2013/05/the-top-200-fighting-game-endings-part-four/|title=The Top 200 Fighting Game Endings: Part Four|first=Gavin|last=Jasper|work=4thletter.net|date=May 25, 2013|accessdate=May 25, 2013}}
29. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.denofgeek.com/us/games/street-fighter-assassins-fist/235906/interview-with-street-fighter-assassins-fists-joey-ansah|title=Interview with Street Fighter: Assassin's Fist's Joey Ansah|first=Gavin|last=Jasper|first2=Joey|last2=Ansah|work=Den of Geek|publisher=Dennis Publishing|date=May 23, 2014|accessdate=December 9, 2016}}
30. ^{{cite magazine|last=|first= |title=Advertisement|magazine=Next Generation|issue=25 |publisher=Imagine Media|date=January 1997 |pages=4-5}}
31. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesradar.com/12-matchups-we-want-to-see-in-street-fighter-x-tekken/ |title=12 matchups we want to see in Street Fighter|first=Michael|last=Grimm |work=GamesRadar|publisher=CBS Interactive |date=August 3, 2010 |accessdate=July 28, 2012}}
32. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.gamesradar.com/tekken-tag-tournament-2-characters-meet-55-here/|title=Tekken Tag Tournament 2 roster: Meet all 55 characters|first=Tom|last=Goulter|work=GamesRadar|publisher=Future Publishing|date=September 4, 2012|accessdate=December 9, 2016}}
33. ^{{cite web|url=http://arcadesushi.com/greatest-video-game-character-hairdos/ |title=10 Greatest Video Game Character Hairdos |first=Alex|last=Langley|work=Arcade Sushi|publisher=Townsquare Media|date=July 29, 2013|accessdate=December 16, 2016}}
34. ^{{cite web|url=http://411mania.com/games/the-8-ball-8-27-13-top-8-video-game-hair-styles/|title=The 8 Ball 8.27.13: Top 8 Video Game Hair Styles|first=Marc|last=Morrison|first2=Liana|last2=Kerzner|work=411Mania.com|date=August 27, 2013|accessdate=December 16, 2016}}
35. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.shortlist.com/style/the-rules-of-video-game-hairstyles#|title=The rules of video game hairstyles|work=ShortList.com|date=|accessdate=December 16, 2016}}
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