10 Awesome Video Game Characters REPLACED In Sequels

10. Marshall Law (Tekken 3)

Back in 1999, Tekken 3 made the bold choice to replace a number of its predecessor's cast. This was done to offer a clean slate and entice new fans into the fold. Given that the game sold over 8 million copies, making it the higest selling one-on-one fighter in history, it's safe to say that the strategy worked.

However, while many of Tekken 3's newcomers would become staples of the franchise, the same could not be said of Forest Law, Tekken's forgotten son.

Forest replaced his father Marshall in Tekken 3, and was such a smash hit that... he was immediately replaced by his dad in all subsequent installments of the franchise.

Unfortunately for poor Forest, his father completely overshadowed him as a personality. As his dad-joke name suggests, Marshall Law is Tekken's comedic backbone. Whereas other fighters' storylines feature revenge killings, patricide and global domination, Marshall's contain such emotionally weighty topics as an unexpectedly high MOT bill and laxative-laced pizza.

Tekken 3's writers failed to give Forest the kind of personality that could compete with his father's, and the end result is that he's spent the past twenty-odd years sitting on the sidelines.