Soldat J

Only known surviving member of the Soldato Battalion a series of combat cyborgs developed by the Red Planet039s leader Abel. They would function as commanders of the JArk fleet and perform Fusion with them to fight the ZMaster. Abel039s extensive preparations would not be enough however as the failure to unite Soldato Alma bioweapon living computer and JArk battleship into a cohesive team would lead to the failure of the world039s defenses and eventually the planet039s mechanization. As a Cyborg Soldato J has impressive strength and speed. The green scarf attached to his armor can extend and harden into a pair of wings for flight and the left gauntlet contains a Radiant Ripper an energy sword. While normally used with both hands the Radiant Ripper can be used while still attached to the gauntlet as seen in FINAL. As one of the two surviving members of the Battalion Soldato J 002 fought alone his JArk039s main computermdashTomoro 0117mdashhad been lost to Zonder infection and his JArk was sent into space to protect its infant Alma onboard going so far as to confront Arm Primeval one of the leaders behind the offensive on his world. J would confront Arm alone and barely lost their confrontation forced to flee into the wasteland that was now his planet. He was subsequently captured by his own living computermdashtransformed into the Zonderian Pinchernonemdashand converted into the Zonderian Pizza the memory of his proud past sealed away. As Pizza he and Pinchernone would accompany the Zonderian quotterminalquot program Pasder to the quotBlue PlanetquotmdashEarthmdashwith the order to infect all of humanity with Zonder Metal. Even as a Zonderian however Pizza would have brief flashes of the time before he was mechanized. He became a great rival of the GGG Mobile Unit commander Guy Shishioh through his duels with Guy his old pride began to recover along with his a sense of his old purpose. In a burst of defiance he protected his rival from a direct attack from Pasder leaving him critically wounded. He would be saved by his Arma who had landed on Earth and had adopted the identity of Ikumi Kaidou. Kaidou performed Purification on Pizza and Pinchernone restoring to them their true forms and memories. Following his restoration Soldato J would dedicate himself to his original mission once again: to destroy the ZMaster. To this end he would reunite with his team in his JArk crashed within Mt. Aso in Kysh Japan and wait for the arrival of the 31 Machine Primevals. Upon the Primevals039 arrival on Earth he showed just how powerful the original Red Planet fleet could have been had it been properly organized. They began an independent mission to destroy the Primevalsmdashignoring the battles of the Gutsy Galaxy Guard going over their heads and even clashing with them headon. As J and GGG realized they had a common goal however they began to grudgingly help each other to defeat the 31 Primevals. During this time J would also confront and destroy the other surviving member of the Soldato Battalion: Soldato J 019 who had since pledged his loyalty to the ZMaster and had his JJewel replaced with a Zonder Crystal this story was told in the manga serial quotWings of Light and Darknessquot. In the final battle with the ZMaster J and Kaidou entered Heart Primeval and set quotTHE POWERquot in the JArk to overload creating a cascade reaction that would destroy the ZMaster from within also critically damaging King JDer in the process. Judging this to be a fair trade J and his team were fully willing to sacrifice themselves in order to end the Zonder threat once and for all. It was revealed that the JArk survived the final fight falling into a wormhole generated by quotTHE POWERquot and emerging at a point 90 million lightyears outside of the universe. There the JArk began its slow restoration process. From their unique perspective Tomoro 0117 determined that the universe was contracting in size tracking down the source of the contraction the JArk reappeared within Earth039s solar system in orbit of Jupiter where they found an exhausted Mamoru Amami and a mysterious device called the PasQ Machine. As Mamoru asked Kaidou to take this device to Earth Pia Decem of the 11 Planetary Masters of Sol attacked Kaidou returned to Earth with the Machine but J retreated to the TriStar System with Mamoru. SoldatoJ and his JArk covered Mamoru039s retreat to the GCrystal but were themselves captured by the other Masters of Sol and imprisoned on the repliEarth created by the PasQ Machine at the island of Mont Saint Michel. They would thereafter be freed by RenaisKerdif Shishioh and Mikoto Utsugi only to face Palus Abelmdashthe 11 Masters039 leader whose program was based on Abel herself. She would soon after reveal that she had captured Ikumi Kaidou and was using him as the living computer core of Pia Decem Pit unable to attack Pia Decem directly because of this King JDer was soon forced into a fight with a mindcontrolled Guy Shishioh. The resulting clash between JQuath and Goldion Hammer left both weapons destroyed. Palus Abel routed remote commands through Kaidou to shut down the JArk and Soldato J039s own JJewel Pia Decem and Pillnus captured him and Renais KerdifShishioh soon after though they would escape through sheer accidentmdashbringing Renais039 GStone into proximity with SoldatoJ039s JJewel restored them both activating their Hyper Modes. It is at this point that J039s helmet is partially broken allowing the only view of his eyes in the series. With the subsequently rectivated JArk they proceeded to confront Palus Abel aboard the Pia Decem Pit. Despite many fans using the translation quotSoldatquot the correct and official translation is Soldato. Soldato is an Italian wordlike Arma and Pizza and means quotSoldierquot. Soldat though does mean quotSoldierquot in several languages as well including Swedish Soldato J appears to be a homage to Cyborg 002 of Cyborg 009 who together share a similar design common number personality and fondness for flying. Sunrise and Toei Animation collaborated on a Cyborg 009 adaption in the late 1970039s the era of which GaoGaiGar attempts to thematically honor.