In the first Tekken Tag Tournament, True Ogre was the ultimate, broken partner, forming the backbone of nearly every team in every competition. Mountains of quarters were wasted on conquering this behemoth. When we first saw this beast in Tekken 3, we were intimidated, and that was before he started breathing fire. Tekken 3 was enough and it springboarded the Mishima bloodline feud into a new direction upon his death." Kevin Wong of Complex said of True Ogre in 2013: "Heihachi + Ogre = Holy shit. Ogre was rated the 23rd-best Tekken character in 2017 by Gavin Jasper of Den of Geek: "True Ogre has the overkill you’d want in a final boss, but the understated green statue of an Aztec warrior has its own ominous feel to it." However, he considered it "for the best that he never became a recurring villain. Tekken 3 action figure of True Ogre in 1999. The character appeared in several Tekken-related comic books published between 19. While he is not physically seen, Ogre's presence is felt in the final scene of Tekken: The Motion Picture.
Mods like Shao Kahn, Darksiders War and Gouken can also be used. Ogre is selectable in the 2012 crossover fighter Street Fighter X Tekken, in which he serves as a final boss and is part of the storyline of the game's characters traveling to the Antarctic in pursuit of an artifact called "Pandora's Box". Ogre makes a cameo appearance in the 2005 tactical role-playing game Namco x Capcom as a non-playable boss. He achieves his "True Ogre" form after defeating and absorbing the soul of Heihachi Mishima (or his grandson if the player plays as Heihachi).
Ogre does not have a specific fighting style, as it is borrowed from those of many different series characters. His language however was Japanese lines reversed, although there is a video that has the Japanese lines re-reversed. In 2014, after a fan posted a still image from Tekken 3 on Twitter showing a silhouetted Ogre holding a disembodied head, Harada repeatedly denied it was that of Jun Kazama. A swimsuit costume for True Ogre was included with pre-orders of Tekken Tag Tournament 2. His True Ogre form differs greatly in appearance, resembling a gargoyle sporting large wings and horns with his neck enveloped in fur, and massive claws on his feet and left hand with the right composed of a series of writhing snakes. He is also has a small round shield that is said to be the fabled Stone of the Sun, the Aztec calendar attached to his left arm. He adorns various types and pieces of old Aztec jewelry and a large golden helmet/crown with very long orange hair.
His first form resembles a tall, muscular humanoid with dark green skin and red glaring eyes. Ogre is the Tekken series' first main villain unrelated to the Mishima family. Ogre appears in the noncanonical games Tekken Card Challenge and Tekken Mobile, and is playable in the spinoff titles Tekken Tag Tournament and in Tekken Tag Tournament 2, with a version of the character called Ancient Ogre exclusive to the console version of the latter as a download.
In Tekken 5 (2004), Ogre is playable in the "Arcade History" mode and is the final boss of the "Devil Within" minigame, where clones of him and Heihachi are defeated by Jin Kazama. Heihachi then collects blood samples and skin tissue from the creature in order to splice his genomes with his own, but the project is unsuccessful, as he is missing a key ingredient called the "Devil Gene", which the series protagonist Jin Kazama and his father Kazuya possess. Paul Phoenix defeats Ogre in the tournament, but he then quits the competition under the impression that he has won, when he had one last opponent remaining in Ogre's true form, True Ogre. In the meantime, Ogre kills King in combat, beats Baek Doo San into a yearlong coma, and supposedly kills Jin's mother Jun Kazama. Having witnessed his power firsthand, Heihachi seeks an opportunity to use him in hopes of creating the ultimate life form while staving off his own aging process, and therefore stages the third edition of the King of Iron Fist Tournament held throughout the Tekken series in order to draw Ogre out. In Tekken 3 (1997), Heihachi Mishima sends his personal army, the Tekken Force, to search a temple in central Mexico, but they are promptly obliterated by Ogre. Ogre is believed to be a biological weapon abandoned on earth by an ancient alien race, while he is additionally worshipped by ancient Aztecs as the "God of Fighting".