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Jin

Jin

Jin
Name	Jin Saotome
Gender	Male
Weapon/Power	Various energy attacks, Blodia
Affiliation	Hero
First Appearance	Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness (April 1995)
Game	Cyberbots series
Company	Capcom

Jin Saotome is a character from the game Cyberbots: Full Metal Madness, where he stars as the main character. He also appears in Marvel vs. Capcom and Marvel vs. Capcom 2 as a playable character.

1 Backstory
2 Gameplay
3 Theme Song
4 Artwork
5 Sprites
6 Trivia
7 Also See

Backstory Edit

Jin's father (Ken Saotome) belonged to a unit that was killed in an accident one year before the start of Cyberbots. To honor his memory, he seeks to become the best VA (Variant Armor, used for robot combat) pilot alive and wants to prove his worth through the VA battle circuit. He begins to question his father's death after meeting SHADE for the first time. Jin's mood goes from calm to rage within seconds, but he remains a good guy. He is also friends with Gawaine Murdock. Jin has guest appearances in the Marvel vs. Capcom series and Tech Romancer as a playable character. His main mech is BX-02 Blodia.

GameplayEdit

Since Jin isn't a fighting character (he pilots robots instead of fighting himself) all his moves are new to this game. Most moves involve trapping opponents on special moves and summoning his mech, Blodia, for a strike. Most of Jin's normal attacks set the opponent on fire and are good enough without much need of his specials, but most of his normals are rather laggy. He can also inflict chip damage with his flame-based normals attacks (rivaling Hulk for example), as well as perform better air combos/aerial raves in Marvel vs.Capcom 2.

Command Normals Edit

Saotome Diving: Jin spins quicly transforming his feet into a small tornado. An aerial version of his crouching hard kick.

Special AttacksEdit

Saotome Typhoon: Jin moves forward in a typhoon hitting the opponent multiple time. Strength and distance the move travel is dependent on the button pressed.
Saotome Dynamite: Jin releases energy (and his clothes) and shoots them out around him. This move will cause knockback if the opponent gets caught in it, and has brief invinciblity and acts as an energy attack.
Saotome Crush: A blockable command grab. If Jin successfully grabs his opponent wil will drag them around the screen then proceeds to slam them down.
Saotome Fire: In his taunt, Jin takes a towel and rubs it on his body. When you are using Jin's taunt continue to hold the taunt button and repeatedly press other buttons very quickly and Jin will rub the towel faster and faster until his skin turns red, then will burst into flames. If the opponent touches Jin while he is doing this, he (the opponent) will be damaged.

Assist AttacksEdit

	Type	Assist	Counter	Cross-Over
α	Expansion	Saotome Typhoon	Saotome Typhoon	Saotome Cyclone
β	Anti-Air	Saotome Dynamite	Saotome Dynamite	Blodia Punch
γ	Launcher	Medium Punch	Medium Punch	Blodia Punch

Hyper CombosEdit

Blodia Punch (Level 1): Jin proceeds to punch his opponent and Blodia's fist also proceeds to punch as well. Last hit will force the opponent to fly off the screen.
Blodia Vulcan (Level 1): Jin snaps his fingers, summoning Blodia to shoot his opponent with a machine gun. Jin then jumps into Blodia and the screen turns into Jin's point of view and proceeds to hit the opponent with the machine gun.
Saotome Cyclone (Level 1): Jin creates a big cyclone which only needs to hit once to do full damage, causing the opponent to get stuck on the giant tornado if it hits. Jin's most powerful Hyper Combo, but hard to connect. Also covers the whole vertical protion of the screen.
Saotome Shine (Level 0): If Jin is the last surviving member of his team and only has 25% or less health (30%in Marvel vs.Capcom 2) he will flash automatically when he is on his feet. This enters him a state of power and defense increase. Despite being a Hyper Combo, it doesn't take any power.

Theme SongEdit

ArtworkEdit

SpritesEdit

TriviaEdit

Jin is the only character in the Marvel vs. Capcom series where his Saotome Shine is considered "passive" and "permanent" ability and doesn't require a Hyper Combo Level unlike all the other characters that uses Hyper Combo abilities that always requires Level 1 and comes with a time limit.
The Japanese writing on Jin's back read "Uchuu Ichi". This literally comes out as "Space One", but more likely means "Number One in the Universe".
Jin has a cameo appearance in UMvC3 in Hawkeye's ending, as a member of the new West Coast Avengers. He also appears as a Heroes and Heralds card, and in the Days of Future Past stage in the giant wanted poster (along with others MvC2 characters), he's shown he has been slain.