Heihachi Mishima has risen from the dead once again, just like the events of Tekken 5. In Tekken 7, Heihachi was considered dead following the great battle against his son Kazuya Mishima. The battle took place in the mouth of the volcano location in Tekken 7. It was an intense battle that went back and forth between the two titans of the Tekken world.

With the two titans fighting to the death between the both of them, the fight came to an end when Kazuya dealt a final blow to his father's chest.

Kazuya then carried his father's perceived corpse and threw it off a volcano cliff right into the lava down below. Just as he did in the events after the first Tekken game.

Now since everyone who has played Tekken 7 has accepted the death of Heihachi, it was not expected that he would be back after all that has happened in the franchise. Especially when you have the maker of the game reiterating that Heihachi is "completely dead". But let's be honest with ourselves, this is Tekken we are talking about, of course nothing stays dead forever. With the events of Evo 2024, Katsuhiro Harada walked out with his colleague/ translator to talk about the next trailer of the franchise which a lot of fans thought would be an extra character release of some sort. Some fans thought it would be Craig Marduk who would be an extra DLC to the game but to everybody's surprise, it was the main man himself HEIHACHI MISHIMA! Down below is a trailer you can check out of Tekken 8 with the returning Heihachi Mishima.

I am excited about this and I hope you are too. I was always hoping that his death was not the case but it seem my hopes come true. With the ending of Tekken 8, having Heihachi back could make things interesting now because his daughter Reina is around and Jun being alive and more active could add a more interesting twist to the story.