Jin Saotome

Jin Saotome is the main protagonist from the Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness series.
== Charactah Account ==
Jin's father belonged to a unit that was killed in what was thought to be an accident one year before the start of Cyberbots. To honor his memory, he descends to Earth from a space colony and seeks to become the best Variant Armor pilot alive to prove his worth through the VA battle circuit. He begins to question his father's death after meeting Shade for the first time, who, it turns out, was the one responsible.
Jin strives to follow in the footsteps of his father, a very traditional Japanese soldier. Though modeled after his father, Jin's fighting techniques on and off a VA are self-taught.
Being self-taught and not actually enlisted, many of Jin's traits are an exaggerated parody of that image, including an adherence to Bushido. Incredibly hot-blooded, his mood regularly goes from calm to rage within seconds, but he remains a good guy. He is also friends with Gawaine Murdock, his father's former mentor.
== Appearance ==
=== Video Games ===
* Capcom Arcade Stadium
* Capcom Fighting Collection
* Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness
* Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes
* Marvel vs. Capcom Origins
* Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes
* Tech Romancer
* Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3
== Trivia ==
* In Project X Zone, Devilotte can summon Jin's Blodia (along with Mobilesuits Alpha and Beta from Side Arms Hyper Dyne) as part of her attack.
* Jin's surname, Saotome, is most likely a reference to Dr. Saotome from the Getter Robo series. His given name is also (probably) taken from Hayato Jin from that same series.
* Rather than aiming to glorify the traditional elements, many of Jin's are played for comedy, such as his insistence on wearing fundoshi underwear he washes himself and other corny quirks. Design notes insist he look short and have cartoonier proportions around others to emphasize his brattiness.
* The back of Jin's uniform originally had a quarter of an Imperial Japanese flag sewn on that used to adorn his father's VA. His costume already being very complicated to draw, it was changed for Marvel vs. Capcom with the kanji of "Best in Space" since that could also be flipped on sprites.
* In Street Fighter V, Ryuy has Jin's outfit as one of his alternate costumes. In E. Honda's character story as an opponent, Ryu also wears a white fundoshi and headband similar to Jin.
* In his debut game, despite Jin himself being based on Domon Kasshu from Mobile Fighter G Gundam, he is voiced by another Gundam character before Domon, Tooru Furuya, the voice actor of the original Gundam protagonist, Amuro Ray from Mobile Suit Gundam.
* In both Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes and Marvel vs. Capcom 2: New Age of Heroes, Jin is voiced by Yuuji Ueda, who also voiced Strider Hiryuu in the same games as well.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Jin Saotome at Capcom Database
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