Michelle Chang is a young Native American woman of mixed descent, from Arizona. Her father is a man from Hong Kong, sent to America by Heihachi Mishima with the task of finding a treasure on Native American land. Mr Chang found romance and stayed in America to marry his new love. Michelle was born shortly after, and they lived together happily until, on her eighteenth birthday, Michelle learns from her mother that her father has been killed by Heihachi's men.