Paul Phoenix has been in Tekken since the beginning, and his defining characteristic has always been the gap between his self-assessment and his results. The hair is immaculate. The power is genuine. The tournament victories at the very top level of Tekken keep not quite materializing, which is the game's affectionate running joke with a character who earns the joke by being consistently entertaining in his sincerity. The no coincidence is Paul's complete cosmology.