Tekken 8 gives Kuma an attack with shocking implications

polygon.com:

Tekken 8’s latest character reveal focuses on Kuma, a bear once raised and trained by series antagonist Heihachi Mishima. But there’s more to this furry former bodyguard than meets the eye.

In a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment near the end of the gameplay demo, Kuma is seen unleashing attacks that hold special significance to Tekken fans. While the uppercuts shown at the 1:29 mark in the video below may look like normal fighting game moves, what Kuma is performing is actually the Wind God Fist, a martial art ubiquitous to the Tekken series known only to a select few fighters.

The Wind God Fist (originally “rising uppercut”) debuted in the first Tekken as a move exclusive to Heihachi and his son Kazuya (both normal and Devil Kazuya), practitioners of the in-universe Mishima-style Fighting Karate. (Armor King’s move list also included an identical rising uppercut before being retconned later in the series.) Think of it like the Shoryuken in Street Fighter, a move that also defines the franchise to which it belongs but can only be performed by a handful of characters.

As the series continued, more members of the Mishima clan would gain access to the Wind God Fist as well as a more powerful version of the attack dubbed the Electric Wind God Fist (colloquially “EWGF” or “electrics”), which eventually supplanted the base move as the defining trait of the franchise’s Mishima-style fighters. It’s so iconic, in fact, that real-life Tekken competitors who can string together several electrics in a single combo are often celebrated for their high-level execution.

So, going back to the Street Fighter comparison, Kuma learning the Wind God Fist is like Blanka suddenly being able to do Shoryukens, though with a unique history to make