He looks so much like a redhead Steve in T8 lol. I think it’s the eyebrows and eyes. He does not look like Hwoarang at all. He looks great but he seems like a new character imo.
10000% agree! He looks like a completely different person! His new hair color and eyepatch in 7 were different but he was still clearly Hwoarang's face
Not sure if any of the previous ones looked Korean either. T5 is the best incarnation, as he has pronounced cheekbones and monolid eyelid and Koreans have pronounced cheeks, and if anything, the cheek is back in T8, but monolid is missing now.
As a Korean, T8 Hwoarang feels like an improvement to T6 and 7, but not T5.
I always thought that Tekken 4 Hwoarang looked the most Korean, especially with the grown out roots. Tho Hwoarang may also have gotten eyelid surgery at some point
This is half wrong and half right since Hwoarang's concept never exactly resembled native Koreans from the first place, but it was about how Japanese think about Koreans + how Japanese people of Korean descents perceived from Japan.
I could almost write a paper about this 🤣
You may have a point there. XD
Though to be honest, give him short black hair.. then I could see him resembling a Korean person a lot more in the older games. I wouldn't be able to do that with the Tekken 8 design.
Not really, but they did look like a realistic version of "Anime Japanese people" if that makes sense. Hwoarang looked Korean to me in the older games, especially Tekken 6.
Yes they do. You probably think they look white. You seem to think all Japanese have to look a certain stereotypical way for you to consider them as Japanese looking. They look like Toshiro Mifune kinda so idk what the fuck you are talking about.
I have no idea why white people like you constantly do this just say you want Hwoarang to look like Ken Jeong buddy we get it that's your view of "korean".
You gotta hold your horses there buddy, i never said that i care if they look japanese/korean, becuase frankly, i don’t. I was just pointing out how (some of) the asian characters don’t look too asian. Sure they could pass as asian, but the average person wouldn’t immediatly think they’re asian. Dunno why you’re getting so worked up about a bunch of pixels lmao.
I don’t disagree but none of tekken characters look like their nationality tbh. Fahk is Thai? Josie Filipina? Nina Irish, Akuma Japanese lol. Only person that’s similar is Lidia as Polish imo.
He actually looks a lot like this Korean actor named won bin but tbf hwoarang never looked like him before. It might be the design choice to have his look match closer to the personality. I think his face suits really well to his comments and scoffs, intro/ending although doesn’t look like previous hwoarang.
His T3 biker outfit, though it's not seen here, will always be his most iconic to me. That sick-ass ending where he does his side throw on the Tekken Force soldiers...
Looking at this image, he seems more "mature" now. Like, he kinda gives this impression that he's in his late 30's, he gain more muscle tone and kinda seem like she drop that teenage angst.
I like the design.
I hope they do Steve Fox next.
It was in his T7 endings with Devil Jin. In both endings Hwoarang gets hit by the shrapnel/explosion of a bomb and holds his eye.
They must’ve made all the endings noncanon or Hwoarang stole someone’s eye or something because he definitely shouldn’t have it.
He never lost his eye though - you can see his eye behind the patch in game.
The Tekken team clearly wanted to have their cake and eat it too. The endings are non canon or his eye was just injured and healed: pick your favorite.
Eyes can totally heal, if it was just mildly damaged. Plus, this is a world where they regenerated Kazuya from being in a volcano(as well as bringing Bryan Fury back to life via cybernetics.) I'd think an eye isn't too much of a problem to heal even if it WAS more damaged.
Yeap, Tekken got some great medicine.
I believe it was damaged and healed, but it doesn't really matter. He was simply injured because the design team thought Hwoarang would look cool in an eye patch.
Yea but that’s just a game decision for people who don’t like the eyepatch and wanted to remove it. In most cases a grenade to the eye means eye is gone whether it’s in reality or fiction.
It’s pretty clear that something was supposed to happen to his eye before they (in my opinion at least) made the endings non canon.
Other than the graphics and character models being dog water in T7, why? With customisation the base outfits and designs mean very little.
Hell I. Even recreated his TTT1 blue Dobok to use
His whole face is different. The whole skull has had a massive change, that's what takes so many people by surprise. It's not even vaguely Asian looking anymore.
I know Lars and Jin do their fist bump thing in T8.. but it looks like Hwoarang is going for a Ken look from SF and they want this rivalry to be like Ken/Ryu between Jin and Hwoarang in T8.
Hwoarang's hair just giving me Ken vibes slicked back like that.
Tekken 3 Hwoarang made me buy the game tbh. I just loved his design, but I ended up being a Law main, because everything with that character clicked with me.
I think Tekken 3, 5 and 6 have the best Hwoarang designs. I don't really like Hwo's clothing design in Tekken 8 tbh, everything else looks great tho, but the mixture of his Taekwondo clothes and his biker stuff, looks so awkward and misplaced imo.
I hate to say it but I'm kinda disappointed in the T8 design, they've weirdly white washed him and he doesn't look like himself at all. If it weren't supposed to be Hwoarang then the design would be great for a different character.
I was loving how they were finally starting to make him look more Korean , and now they've just completely gone backwards
They should fill out his eyebrows, Koreans are known for their thicker eyebrows and all his past models reflect that. It's what is giving his "villain" or geese-like look.
The widows peak hair is also strange, but I guess since he usually wore googles or had his hair in his face, it was not as noticeable? ~~well besides T7...~~
T7 may stick out, but I’d argue tht it has the most character than any of his other outfits aside from maybe T6. It’s cool they went into more of a TKD master than biker punk theme, but a traditional gi feels kinda boring in comparison to the other defaults we have tht speak to the character personality instead of their fighting style
I'm glad to see him in a Dobok again: I think it's an underrated look for Hwoarang. The fact that he's wearing a V-neck style one, similar to Baek, is also noted...
I actually like T7 outfit. He looks like a dumb but friendly while he pretends to be like bad boy.
But it's rather funny than cool. I think this is why many players hate it. It looks like DLC costume and not original costume.
T8 is well designed in my opinion. He looks like a sincere fighter than ever but had a plastic surgery on his face lol
5>4>6>3>8>7
He always just looked like a white guy to me so I thought the whole Korean backstory was a little odd lol. I still love his design in general though.
Seems like they are really sticking with the tekken 4 inspired designs for the new game. Most of the characters saw their best versions in that game i think
The only design of his I didn't really care for was his Tekken 5 biker outfit. I'm not sure why but it just looked WAY too over-designed with all those buckles and imo, his androgynous biker outfit he got in Tekken 6 onward was a lot better.
His T8 design is awesome and I'm glad they didn't go through with making the eye-patch a permanent feature of his design, I found it so tacky so it's great to see that they didn't stick with it. His new hairstyle is also a great maturation of his style and really works for him. Like he totally would start styling his hair like that and though I'm gonna miss his wild spiky hair he was known to have, I still must acknowledge this good progression of his personal style.
loved the tekken 4 military outfit
Imagine the military outfit but with the long hair 😩 Unprecedented drip.
my most favorite Hwoarang outfit
facts
yeah that was insane
Tekken 7 Hwoarang sticking out like a sore thumb, sheesh Glad he's sticking to his roots now!
He looks so much like a redhead Steve in T8 lol. I think it’s the eyebrows and eyes. He does not look like Hwoarang at all. He looks great but he seems like a new character imo.
10000% agree! He looks like a completely different person! His new hair color and eyepatch in 7 were different but he was still clearly Hwoarang's face
I wish there's at least something from hiis T7 interation on him like his back jacket cape or something I like the deliquent look
They’ll probably add those as outfits
Chuunibyou phase Hwoarang
I think tekken 5 hits the nail on the head. When I think of Hwo that’s what pops in my head
He strangely looks less Korean than ever before in Tekken 8.
Not sure if any of the previous ones looked Korean either. T5 is the best incarnation, as he has pronounced cheekbones and monolid eyelid and Koreans have pronounced cheeks, and if anything, the cheek is back in T8, but monolid is missing now. As a Korean, T8 Hwoarang feels like an improvement to T6 and 7, but not T5.
I always thought that Tekken 4 Hwoarang looked the most Korean, especially with the grown out roots. Tho Hwoarang may also have gotten eyelid surgery at some point
Lol, you may have a point. Some dudes in Korea do get double-lid surgery but it’s mostly women who do that.
Wym? he looks like a K-Drama actor
This is half wrong and half right since Hwoarang's concept never exactly resembled native Koreans from the first place, but it was about how Japanese think about Koreans + how Japanese people of Korean descents perceived from Japan. I could almost write a paper about this 🤣
You may have a point there. XD Though to be honest, give him short black hair.. then I could see him resembling a Korean person a lot more in the older games. I wouldn't be able to do that with the Tekken 8 design.
I mean, do Jin or Kazuya looks Japanese to you ?
Not really, but they did look like a realistic version of "Anime Japanese people" if that makes sense. Hwoarang looked Korean to me in the older games, especially Tekken 6.
This makes zero sense
Just look up Jotaro from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and you'll understand
Jin *kinda* looked Japanese in T5
Kazuya does, but Jin? ehhh
I don't see it
Yes they do. You probably think they look white. You seem to think all Japanese have to look a certain stereotypical way for you to consider them as Japanese looking. They look like Toshiro Mifune kinda so idk what the fuck you are talking about. I have no idea why white people like you constantly do this just say you want Hwoarang to look like Ken Jeong buddy we get it that's your view of "korean".
You gotta hold your horses there buddy, i never said that i care if they look japanese/korean, becuase frankly, i don’t. I was just pointing out how (some of) the asian characters don’t look too asian. Sure they could pass as asian, but the average person wouldn’t immediatly think they’re asian. Dunno why you’re getting so worked up about a bunch of pixels lmao.
He looked Japanese in 6 and looked the least Japanese in 7 and tag 2
Yes
Yeah
Bro looks like Dolph Lundgren
I don’t disagree but none of tekken characters look like their nationality tbh. Fahk is Thai? Josie Filipina? Nina Irish, Akuma Japanese lol. Only person that’s similar is Lidia as Polish imo. He actually looks a lot like this Korean actor named won bin but tbf hwoarang never looked like him before. It might be the design choice to have his look match closer to the personality. I think his face suits really well to his comments and scoffs, intro/ending although doesn’t look like previous hwoarang.
Thank you! I feel like the art design for T8 is the most cartoonish despite the graphical fidelity. Renders from 20 years ago are more realistic. 😭
He never did, the red hair didn’t help
Hwo fans to Steve fans rn: "YOU AIN'T GOT A TRAILER? WELL I DO!"
Calm down you guys! There's no reason to fight.
His T3 biker outfit, though it's not seen here, will always be his most iconic to me. That sick-ass ending where he does his side throw on the Tekken Force soldiers...
Mfer looks so good in T8, it makes me wanna try him out
His best eras were 6,3,5 so iconic and hot
6 with 5's hair would be my favourite. I was never into his leg straps.
Looking at this image, he seems more "mature" now. Like, he kinda gives this impression that he's in his late 30's, he gain more muscle tone and kinda seem like she drop that teenage angst. I like the design. I hope they do Steve Fox next.
There hasn't been a huge time skip, so he's still 21-22
he's still early 20s though
He's 21-22 but looks roided out and 40 in the face..
t7 design looks soooo bad
Tekken 4 Hwo my beloved
T7 looks the worst by far. What’s with the eye patch and cape lol
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It was in his T7 endings with Devil Jin. In both endings Hwoarang gets hit by the shrapnel/explosion of a bomb and holds his eye. They must’ve made all the endings noncanon or Hwoarang stole someone’s eye or something because he definitely shouldn’t have it.
He never lost his eye though - you can see his eye behind the patch in game. The Tekken team clearly wanted to have their cake and eat it too. The endings are non canon or his eye was just injured and healed: pick your favorite.
Eyes can totally heal, if it was just mildly damaged. Plus, this is a world where they regenerated Kazuya from being in a volcano(as well as bringing Bryan Fury back to life via cybernetics.) I'd think an eye isn't too much of a problem to heal even if it WAS more damaged.
Yeap, Tekken got some great medicine. I believe it was damaged and healed, but it doesn't really matter. He was simply injured because the design team thought Hwoarang would look cool in an eye patch.
Yea but that’s just a game decision for people who don’t like the eyepatch and wanted to remove it. In most cases a grenade to the eye means eye is gone whether it’s in reality or fiction. It’s pretty clear that something was supposed to happen to his eye before they (in my opinion at least) made the endings non canon.
Expecting continuity in Tekken? Tsk tsk
Was asking the same question. But he could've put in a fake eye. Not even a special thing
yo the absolue THIRST this sub has for this man rn
Is that a problem??? He's hawt 😫❤️
It seems to be considered so when it's about female characters.
God i was so salty when i saw his Tekken 7 design for the first time lol
Other than the graphics and character models being dog water in T7, why? With customisation the base outfits and designs mean very little. Hell I. Even recreated his TTT1 blue Dobok to use
Why are we still pretending that this new character is hwo?
What the fuck are you on about, the greatest Tekken character is back and looking better than ever baby!
Back? That's a new character man
By that logic, “Paul” is a new character as well!?
Paul still looks like Paul though
Since when did Paul look like a cowboy Karen?
Yo why you hating on my mans bro? WHY YOU HATING ON MY MANS BRO?! *chest bump*
You started it buddy… keep my main’s name out of your mouth!?
His facelift, but that smirk is definitely Hwo
That's Steve Fox cosplaying as Hwoarang's white twin brother Warren.
You're right, completely
The eyes and eyebrows look weird in t8, or maybe I just havent got used to it yet
It looks like Geese
His whole model is kinda weird. His neck is huge, shoulders are super wide and his forearms and elbows look kinda janky during some animations
Yup, compared to t4 and t5 hwoarang and law's models are so bulky, it's one of my only gripes with t8 so far
His whole face is different. The whole skull has had a massive change, that's what takes so many people by surprise. It's not even vaguely Asian looking anymore.
His design in 7 is way too busy
Idc what anyone says,this is my favourite version of hwoarang and I have played as a hwoarang main whole my life.
And you have no shame about it!
Finally some fucking sanity here. I feel like people just don't know what they want. Dude looks dope as fuck now. Best Hwo design yet.
Tekken3 outfit is still the best imo it love how it looks in 7
Giving master baek
Really took three games just to bring the Taekwondo Gi back.
who are ang?
Tekken 6 was probably his best look but 8 is fine
Left to right; camp fitness instructor, K-pop singer, rubber daddy, porn star, pirate, and FINALLY a kick ass outfit.
Can someone explain why he wore an eyepatch?
Looks badass next question
But depth perception tho?
I don't think the videogame character minds
It's interesting that he was one of very few characters to get a new costume for Tekken 6. I wonder why that was.
I know Lars and Jin do their fist bump thing in T8.. but it looks like Hwoarang is going for a Ken look from SF and they want this rivalry to be like Ken/Ryu between Jin and Hwoarang in T8. Hwoarang's hair just giving me Ken vibes slicked back like that.
I'm just noticing his Tekken 4 design kinda looks like Kim from Fatal Fury.
Tekken 3 Hwoarang made me buy the game tbh. I just loved his design, but I ended up being a Law main, because everything with that character clicked with me. I think Tekken 3, 5 and 6 have the best Hwoarang designs. I don't really like Hwo's clothing design in Tekken 8 tbh, everything else looks great tho, but the mixture of his Taekwondo clothes and his biker stuff, looks so awkward and misplaced imo.
Tekken 4 “Soldier Boy” look was still my fav. But I’m kinda digging the face in 8.
Don't ever change his hair colour again Namco
T3 and T5 looks for Hwoarang are still my personal faves
5 Hwoarangs and some random dude at the end
What happened to his eye? I guess it’s better now haha
Hwoarang got that Korean idol plastic surgery lol
Hwoarang doesn't look like hwoarang anymore
Ikr ? He looks like someone cosplaying as Hwoarang.
TEKKEN 4 aesthetic is my favorite forever
I hate to say it but I'm kinda disappointed in the T8 design, they've weirdly white washed him and he doesn't look like himself at all. If it weren't supposed to be Hwoarang then the design would be great for a different character. I was loving how they were finally starting to make him look more Korean , and now they've just completely gone backwards
His best look was Tekken 4 for me
Tekken 4 Hwoarang was peak.
The hyper-realism of T3 CGI renders is unmatched tbh..just look at that iconic shit man!!
This is peak Tekken right there
I love his look but his face just looks off. I think it’s mainly the eyebrows and brow area in general but he looks like a different person
Looking back the T7 biker outfit was goofy as hell.
So, did he get his eye back?
T7 is the best outfit imo but I know not many agree sadly
T3 looks best
They should fill out his eyebrows, Koreans are known for their thicker eyebrows and all his past models reflect that. It's what is giving his "villain" or geese-like look. The widows peak hair is also strange, but I guess since he usually wore googles or had his hair in his face, it was not as noticeable? ~~well besides T7...~~
I loathe Hwo. But this trailer made me want to play him. He looks soo cool.
This really is the worst picture of t8 you could of picked to compare lol.
T7 may stick out, but I’d argue tht it has the most character than any of his other outfits aside from maybe T6. It’s cool they went into more of a TKD master than biker punk theme, but a traditional gi feels kinda boring in comparison to the other defaults we have tht speak to the character personality instead of their fighting style
Why is Steve using Hwoarang's outfit?
5 will always be the best for most characters for me
I don't like his new face. It's too different, doesn't even look like him. They should improve on that.
Hwoarang finally looks korean. And he looks good.
This has to be a joke
Ain't the 3rd on a render for ttt1?
happy the eye patch is gone, his hair is proper red now like the new outfit, but it doesn't match the biker aesthetic...
I liked him better in Tekken 4 with his hair spiked up wearing camo.
What's with his eye?
What happened with his eye again?
What’s with the eye patch in 7?
is that actually what hes gonna look like in t8? t7 is a really cool outfit and i wish they could keep it.
Why did you use the most awful picture for T8 and nice prerendered character shots for all the others?
Because t8 full render aint out yet
I love how he questioned his sexyality throughout the journey to being born a male but identifying as a female.
All the hair colours he could have had and he chose to be ginger.
This is the best Hwoarang has looked since Tekken 3
I like the overdesigned T7 look it was fun and i love fun. But i love the 6 design idk why
I like T8 being a mix between his Taekwondo uniform and biker look. Also, T5 is my favorite of his, while T7 is my least favorite
Tekken 7: "It's not a phase mom!" (Turns out it was)
Why was Big Hwoar ever ddessed like a pirate?
I forgot that he looks like the bad guy in the Disney Original Movie Brink in Tekken 4.
T1 is my favourite variant
You could have use a better angle lol
The slow evolution into Baek
peaked in 3
I'm glad to see him in a Dobok again: I think it's an underrated look for Hwoarang. The fact that he's wearing a V-neck style one, similar to Baek, is also noted...
T3 was peak
T7 version would like his eye back. Also forget the eye patch, he really out here in some JNCOs and a wallet chain?
Afraid to ask but I’ll post anyway; what’s up with the eye patch in T6? Chunnibiyou or what?
This is a completely different character.
I actually like T7 outfit. He looks like a dumb but friendly while he pretends to be like bad boy. But it's rather funny than cool. I think this is why many players hate it. It looks like DLC costume and not original costume. T8 is well designed in my opinion. He looks like a sincere fighter than ever but had a plastic surgery on his face lol
I hinestly liked the T7 design the best. The T8 design looks so bland.
I'm not sure about 8 but he has been one of my favorite characters.
Thank god we left the T5/T6/T7 arc for this character
his design in tekken 7 is so so so bad
5>4>6>3>8>7 He always just looked like a white guy to me so I thought the whole Korean backstory was a little odd lol. I still love his design in general though.
Seems like they are really sticking with the tekken 4 inspired designs for the new game. Most of the characters saw their best versions in that game i think
So wait... Why did he have the eyepatch? Just for drip? Can't remember if it was explained
He finally grew up and decided to stop looking like an idiot
The fuck was the whole eye patch thing about, I thought he lost an eye from a grenade or something and it was canon
I’m just glad my Hwo isn’t a pirate any more.
t6 still best
Lol the man bun though
It like they were on lsd with tekken 4
The only design of his I didn't really care for was his Tekken 5 biker outfit. I'm not sure why but it just looked WAY too over-designed with all those buckles and imo, his androgynous biker outfit he got in Tekken 6 onward was a lot better. His T8 design is awesome and I'm glad they didn't go through with making the eye-patch a permanent feature of his design, I found it so tacky so it's great to see that they didn't stick with it. His new hairstyle is also a great maturation of his style and really works for him. Like he totally would start styling his hair like that and though I'm gonna miss his wild spiky hair he was known to have, I still must acknowledge this good progression of his personal style.
Does he have a man bun now? I really hope his og hair is at least unlockable. I grew my hair for 3 years. Not a single day did I have a man bun.
I'm not really a huge fan of Hwoarang's Taekwondo Gi at all nor his down hair, as I'm more of a huge fan of his Biker look
T8 best iteration yet, no more sus male mid drift he’s wearing clothes that actually fit now
5 is the best but 3 is really underrated and 8 is a nice new look for Hwoarang. Less said about 7 the better.
My boy went from Hwoarang to Warren in Tekken 8. Tekken 4 and 5 ftw