Kangaroo that boxes was kicked out of Tekken 7 because of the fighters for animal rights

Tekken 7 will have a massive list of fighters to be found in the game, but one specific absence in comparison to the version of the game for arcade machines has an interesting explanation. Namely, there will not be a character called Roger Jr., a boxing kangaroo that appears in the Tekken series from the fifth part and is present in the Japanese version of Tekken 7. What about the kangaroo, has it become a father and can no longer perform its martial duties at the Iron Fist tournament?

Nothing like that - Roger Jr. was kicked out of the roster so the animal rights fighters would not accidentally rebel for his role. Although it is not a real kangaroo, and besides being a virtual character with that also with the help of genetic engineering, executive producer of Tekken 7 claims that people are particularly vulnerable to kicking the kangaroo due to ... the last year's video where a real kangaroo got on the nose after it attacked one dog.

The participants of that hilarious conflict did not even dreamt that their conflict would leave the consequences for one game, but in the case of Tekken 7 that is exactly what happened - we will have one character less because some kangaroo got on the nose and so many people felt sorry for it.

But other animals, Panda and Kuma bears have not been thrown out of Tekken 7, why is that? How producer Harad says - animal rights fighters have nothing to complain here because the bears are physically stronger than humans.

Tagged with: Japan, Animals in Games