List of Tekken Characters - Introduced in Tekken 6 and Tekken 6: Bloodline Rebellion - Bob/Slim Bob

Bob/Slim Bob

Voiced by: Patrick Seitz (T6~, SFxT (English)), Tsutomu Isobe (SFxT (Japanese))

Bob (ボブ, Bobu?) (Full name: Robert Richards) is a fighter who hails from America as a martial arts legend. However, due to being unable to defeat larger opponents, Bob disappeared from the fighting world and remains in hiding for a few years, with many wondering about his whereabouts. With The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6 drawing near, Bob finally returns, stuns everyone with his new figure, that of a morbidly obese man. Though Bob claims to have engineered his body to increase his weight and strength while maintaining his speed (and thus having "the perfect body" as he describes it), few believe him, and most of his fans lose their faith and respect for him. In order to test his new power and regain his popularity, Bob enters The King of Iron Fist Tournament 6. Tekken developer and Executive Producer of Tekken 6 Katsuhiro Harada describes Bob as a " Freestyle Karate" practitioner from the U.S."

Bob appears as a playable character in Street Fighter X Tekken, with his official tag partner, Julia. His alternate version, Slim Bob, is playable in the console version of Tekken Tag Tournament 2, where he is based on the skinny version of himself from his Tekken 6 ending. Slim Bob was released as part of a free update for the game on October 9, 2012.

Bob ranked 10th on GameDaily's list of the ugliest game characters, who commented "If the bright red shirt covering the gigantic frame isn't insulting enough, he also has a bleach blonde mop on his head". Complex ranked him 14th out "The 25 Most Badass Fat Guys In Games".