Although silent save for grunts in the game, an interview with one of the creators of the Russian character revealed that Dragunov is perfectly capable of speaking, just that he doesn't want to, and that he also enjoys singing outside of battle.His name may also be based on a famous Sambo practitioner, Sergei Kharitonov.Dragunov's name is based on two russian sniper gun designers, Sergei Simonov and Evgeny Dragunov.Dragunov shares his special mounting ability with Craig Marduk in that he does not do mounted punches as other characters can when tackling the opponent.

Dragunov using the fighting art known as Sambo, his character has numberous locks and throws off of moves that when hit, they switch into his throwing arts.Dragunov was actually a character design that was going to be used during Tekken 3 but was scraped and replaced by newcomer Bryan Fury.(King, Mokujin, Roger/RogerJr and Kuma/Panda do not speak words but have subtitles indicated some form of speech with other characters during cinematics). Dragunov has the unique characteristics in that he is only one of two characters to not speak any audible dialogue along with Armor King during the Tekken series.As Raven is being shot at by the Russian army, Dragunov slips a charge on his plane and detonates it. He then extracts the orb and tries to escape. In his Tekken 6 ending the Russian army have ceased Azazel's body, but out of nowhere Raven shows up on a plane. Although this has not been confirmed nor in his ending canon in the series) (It has been rumored to be Ogre or Azazel on numerous occasions. During the test, energy is transferred to another tank carrying an unidentifiable character/monster which after the energy transfer is complete awakens. Endings:Dragunov's ending has him bringing back Devil Jin to Russia and allowing Russian scientist to perform an unnamed test on him while he remains floating in a tank of fluid.

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