Jin Kazama (Tekken series)
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It's pretty obvious from the fact that he got in
the SC2K5 contest that he's one of the "main" characters from the
Tekken series (Jin is to Tekken as Nightmare is to Soul Calibur). But in fact,
for a fighting game character, Jin and his game have a rather convoluted plot.
He is the grandson of Heihachi Mishima (Who looks a LOT like Revolver Ocelot),
and let's just say that their relationship isn't the best one. He is also the
son of Jun and Kazuya Mishima. A devil inside Kazuya attempted to possess Jin
while in the womb, but was stopped by Jun, who decided to raise Jin alone.
These are the events of Tekken 2.
Then, in Tekken 3, Heihachi used Jin as bait for his own evil purposes to find
True Ogre (the main boss in the game), but Jin had grown so powerful that
Heihachi decided to have him killed straight away (this is seen in Heihachi's
ending, but this isn't cannon - the cannon story is always Jin's ending). But
Jin escapes to Brisbane, where he replaces his old fighting style with
conventional karate, which completely changed his mechanics come Tekken 4.
In Tekken 4, he becomes all angsty and wants to kill all his family. Who can
blame him, to be honest? But yeah, he enters the tournament, but it's actually
Heihachi's idea.
So Jin kicks ass, and then Heihachi's private army surrounds him and knocks him
out. He's taken to Heihachi's building and captured. But then his father,
Kazuya, appeared and disposed of Heihachi (who had thrown Kazuya (his son,
obviously) into a ravine as a child - Kazuya sold his son to the devil and
that's how the Devil Gene was born, creating Devil Jin), and tried to awaken
the Devil Gene within Jin. But Jin resisted and beat his father, but as he was
about to kill Heihachi, he saw his mother and ran away.
Then, seconds later, Tekken 5 begins, and a rival corporation attacks Heihachi
using Jack Robots. They kill him, and Heihachi's father (and Jin's great
grandfather), Jinpachi, was released from where Heihachi had been attacked.
He's the final fight of the game, but the sub-boss fight is against Devil Jin,
who apparently is Jin, but completely consumed by the Devil Gene.
In the Devil Jin ending of the game, Devil Jin siphons off power from Jinpachi
and becomes ridiculously powerful (he's already just as powerful, if not more
powerful, than Original Jin. Geddit? >_>), and then undergoes a
transformation (presumably a reaction after two Devil Genes collide). The real
Jin just walks down a street having taken over Heihachi's "Zaibatsu"
company.
Which one is canon is as yet unknown, though both could technically have
happened. Guess we'll find out in Tekken 6...
"I am in control of the Devil" - Devil Jin
(Writeup courtesy of XIII is cool; phillipe_schillipe@hotmail.com)
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Jin Kazama's Contest History
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Win-Loss Record
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Summer 2005 Contest
Chaos Division - 8 Seed
Chaos Round 1 --- Lost to (1) Sonic the Hedgehog, 21715 [23.85%] - 69317 [76.15%]
Extrapolated Strength --- 54th Place [16.83%]
Taking on Sonic in the first match of your contest career is a rough way to get started, though given that Jin made the contest with zero help whatsoever from Board 8, him not doing well in the seeding shouldn't come as a surprise. This also goes a long way in proving how well Jin will do in future contests, because half the battle is nomination strength. He has next to none of it.
The bright side to all of this is that many people expected Jin to do worse against Sonic than Terry Bogard did in Summer 2004. He managed to go out and do a lot better, which is a decent note for Jin's series. Tekken's main representative doing worse than the main rep from Fatal Fury/King of Fighters would have been damn strange.
-Ulti
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