Shin Kudo
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Shin Kudo (工藤 シン Kudō Shin?) is a fictional character in the Macross universe. He appears in the prequel Macross Zero.
In the Japanese-language website for Macross Zero, his name is romanized as Shin Kudou.
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As a child in 1999, he witnessed the fall of the Macross and the war that followed. During these so called U.N. Wars his family was killed in front of his eyes, a memory that would haunt him for the rest of his life (it is not revealed which side actually killed his family). Later he would join the U.N. as a skilled fighter pilot flying the F-14. During a mission he is shotdown by the transformable SV-51 and lands in Mayan Island. There he discovers the real reason for all the fighting. He would later fly the new VF-0 variable fighter under the tutelage of Roy Focker.
Shin did not care for 'sides' as he saw them, he simply wished for an 'unwavering ground' as before the U.N. Wars when he was a young child. In other words he could just as easily fight for the Anti Unification Forces as he does for the U.N Forces, the lines are blurred to him.
Due to his horrifying experiences as a young child, Shin grew up to be a quiet and untrusting person. Aside from his rear-seat radar intercept officer, Edgar La Salle, he has very few friends, and is slow to trust. His interactions with the infectiously cheerful Mao Nome and her more reserved sister Sara helps him open up, especially his growing attraction to the somber and mysterious Sara.
During the final episode, the extraterrestrial object known as 'The Birdman' by the Mayan people awakens, assimilating Sara into it. He manages to break through the Birdman's attacks and makes Sara realise that it is Shin instead of an evil spirit (called a Kadun by the Mayans). The UN-Forces, however, see the Birdman as an uncontrollable liablility and launch several Nuclear Missiles at the birdman, Sara sacrifices herself to save Shin and the rest of the Mayan island which would have been destroyed by the nuclear fallout. The Birdman is critically damaged from the blasts, and shoots off into space incredibly fast.
Shin's VF-0 suffers engine damage from the blast and plunges towards the ocean. He is seemingly saved from certain death by what appeared to be Sara's spirit, allowing the Valkyrie fighter to fly, with blue particles trailing the wings and tail section of the plane. Shin, along with his fighter then appear to ascend into space in the same way that The Birdman did, supposedly to be meet Sara.
