History Anime / DigimonXROSWars

* GiantEnemyCrab: Ebidramon, a giant lobster dragon thing. [[spoiler: And yes, Taiki [[strike:attacked its weak point]] [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill steamrolled it]] ForMassiveDamage. With a summoned [[OlympusMons LEVIAMON]].]]

* ArtEvolution: A lot of work has been put into the shading of the characters - far more than in previous series, making the characters look flat in comparison. In fact, though the characters have been drawn a lot like ''Adventure'' and ''Frontier'' characters, the animation style, coloring and shading looks more like ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' with bits of TengenToppaGurrenLagann thrown in - just look at the [[spoiler: Digivolution, Double Xros and Great Xros]] sequences. Heck, any of the digimon in the Generals' armies display this perfectly.

* TickleTorture: Poor Shoutmon...

* [[TrailersAlwaysSpoil Catalogs and Magazines Always Spoil]]: The merchandising for the show as well as the various Jump magazines and fliers showing future Digimon appearances and [=DigiXros=] combination. Additionally, the promotions for ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersLeapingThroughTime'' made it abundantly clear that [[spoiler:Shoutmon wasn't permanently killed off in episode 53]].

* ThreeAmigos
** ThreePlusTwo: Taiki, Akari, and Zenjiro make up the trio; while it initially seems that Kiriha and Nene will make up the two - [[HeelFaceTurn and they do]] - by the time Kiriha joins, Akari and Zenjiro have permanently returned to the real world, so they're not the three anymore.

** '''''DEATH THE CANNON SPIRAL!'''''

* MidSeasonUpgrade
** BlingBlingBang

* [[MrExposition Miss Exposition]]: Nene.

** TropesAreNotBad. It works really well in episode 25, as despite the hectic and intense battle, Blastmon's... er... mentality shines through.

* {{Orochi}}: ...mon, again.

* [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Our Zombies Are Raremon]]

* StrangeMindsThinkAlike: Flowerpowermon!
* [[StraightMan Straight Mon]]: You can see which Digimon aren't into hilariously embarrassing scenes in the Love Love Dance sequence - notably Revolmon, Beelzebumon and Dorulumon.

* VideogameSettings: All of the Zone motifs fit these molds, being that they are CyberSpace. For example:
** [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Green Zone]] is both the GreenHillZone and the FirstTown.
** PalmtreePanic: Island Zone, with a dash of UnderwaterRuins and DownTheDrain.
** LethalLavaLand: Magma Zone.
** MedievalEuropeanFantasy: Lake Zone. [=IceDevimon's=] presence converts half of the Zone to a SlippySlideyIceWorld.
** ShiftingSandLand: Sand Zone, which also counts as TempleOfDoom and MinecartMadness.
** FluffyCloudHeaven: Heaven Zone
** TheLostWoods: Forest Zone
** DownInTheDumps: Dust Zone
** Digital SpaceLevel: the "rift" between Zones where they fought Arkadimon.
** {{Wutai}}: Shinobi Zone
** FlyingSaucer: Disc Zone (note that the whole place are literal saucers/discs outcropped on mountains that are on top of a large, single disc, not the UFO-ish type)
** LevelAte: Sweets Zone.
** [[spoiler: DiscOneFinalDungeon: Sword Zone becomes this once all of the Code Crowns are collected]]
** The manga also features Snow Zone (SlippySlideyIceworld) and Sweet Zone (which later appears in the show).
** In the next arc upon Taiki's return to the Digital World, the Zones have united and have become lands.
*** GreenHillZone: Dragon Land
*** BigBoosHaunt: Vampire Land
*** TheLostWoods: Honey Land
*** {{Tomorrowland}}: Cyber Land
*** GangplankGalleon: Gold Land
*** BleakLevel: Canyon Land
*** ItsAllUpstairsFromHere: Bright Land
*** PlanetHeck: Hell's Field
*** MentalWorld: Prison Land
*** TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon: Demon's Nest
*** [[spoiler: FinalBossNewDimension: The Human World (Earth)]]

** WaveMotionTuningFork: Beelzebumon's Berenjena SDX.

** SimpleStaff: In the [[WordOfGod Digimon Dictionary]], it is stated that he performs [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C5%8Djutsu boujutsu]] with his retro microphone.

* IndyEscape: Episode 12.

* InternalHomage[=/=]MythologyGag: A kind of cross-series LaserGuidedKarma version. [[spoiler:Baalmon is an {{Expy}} of Beelzebumon, and Lilithmon kills him by stabbing him in the stomach with her claws. How did the [[Anime/DigimonTamers original Beelzebumon]] kill Leomon? By stabbing him in the stomach with his claws. It is undeniably intentional after Baalmon is reincarnated as Beelzebumon.]]

* HumblePie: Poor Kiriha.

* FiveBadBand
** BigBad: Bagramon
** EvilGenius: Tactimon
** DarkChick: Lilithmon
** TheBrute: Blastmon
** PsychoForHire: Baalmon

* [[EverythingsBetterWithPenguins Everything's Worse With Penguins]]: In the Lake Zone, Lillithmon unleashes [=DaiPenmon=], a giant, evil penguin wielding [[ImprobableWeaponUser enormous popsicles.]] [[OneWingedAngel Then he gets worse.]]
* [[EverythingsBetterWithSamurai Everything's Worse With Samurai]]: Tactimon: Highly strategic, dangerously lethal, and an adversary to the heroes. Also shown to be [[AuthorityEqualsAsskicking more than just competent in combat by himself]], if knocking around the heroes with a [[{{BFS}} giant katana]] without unsheathing it is any indication.

** A particularly fun one is Taiki's first battle upon returning to the Digital World in Dragon Land, quite possibly ''the'' best fight scene the franchise has ever seen. Seeing [=OmegaShoutmon=] [[FoeTossingCharge tear his way through hundreds of Digimon]] with nothing but his feet and a FlashStep, shrug off the concentrated fire blasts of most of said army at once, then burst through the ground, ''lift a fucking '''[[OlympusMons Huang]][[{{Kaiju}} long]][[TheFourGods mon]]''' into the air ''' and throw him at everyone else like he weighs absolutely nothing''''' is [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome just plain incredible]]. On the other hand, said curb-stomping comes to an end when Dorbickmon shows up, but still...

* {{Bowdlerize}}: In the ''Fusion'' dub, Lilithmon's cleavage has been covered up, and her and Baalmon's names have been changed to "Laylamon" and "Reapmon" respectively to avoid religious references (though the name "Beelzemon" gets to stay the same). Several shots of the Bagra Army grunts are also cut or altered; likely due to the fact they carry rifles - oddly, the opening of the premiere had the rifles ''glow''; the idea might have been to make them energy weapons but it also makes them ''much more visible''.

* ArtEvolution: A lot of work has been put into the shading of the characters - far more than in previous series, making the characters look flat in comparison. In fact, though the characters have been drawn a lot like ''Adventure'' and ''Frontier'' characters, the animation style, coloring and shading looks more like TheMelancholyOfHaruhiSuzumiya with bits of TengenToppaGurrenLagann thrown in - just look at the [[spoiler: Digivolution, Double Xros and Great Xros]] sequences. Heck, any of the digimon in the Generals' armies display this perfectly.

** [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] since the previous seasons worked this way as well. The Heroes are just able to temporarily allow their partners to access these future forms. For example, [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Tailmon/Gotomon's]] default form is Adult/Champion, as opposed to Child/Rookie due to her experiences.
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** Tyutyumon and Damemon bear particular resemblence to Chuumon and Sukamon. Except, you know, not nearly so [[TheDitz ditzy]].

** [[spoiler: Olegmon is defeated by Ballistamon's Ultimate Speaker, a sound-based weapon he installed in [=DarkVolumon=], to enhance the destructive power power of his voice.]]

* MoralityPet: Sparrowmon for Nene.

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* MarketBasedTitle: ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'' is called ''Digimon Fusion'' in the U.S. dub. The same series is known as ''Digimon Fusion '''Battles''''' in the DisneyXD Malaysia airing (which utilizes an alternate English dub, as shown in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeAx5K9UXVc this trailer]]). Coincidentally, "''Digimon Fusion Battles''" [[http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=85081532&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch used to be]] the WorkingTitle for the U.S. dub prior to the renaming of ''Digimon Fusion''.

* MerchandiseDriven: While every season of Digimon has had toys, Xros Wars is notably more toyetic than its predecessors. The main DigiXroses are more like CombiningMecha than DNA Digivolution from DigimonAdventure02, and the toys are much more accurate because of that. Additionally, [=DigiMemories=] and Code Crowns were fully integrated into the toy line, and a [=DigiMelody=] to use with the Xros Loader toy would play at the end of the first arc episodes. Ironically, due to poor ratings, the toys for the second arc and subsequently Young Hunters were cancelled.

Creator/SabanBrands has licensed the series under the name ''Digimon Fusion'', which airs on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}}, Creator/{{Nicktoons}}, and Creator/{{Vortexx}}.

''Digimon Xros Wars'' (pronounced "Cross Wars") is the sixth anime series in the ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'' franchise, coming three years after the end of ''Anime/DigimonSavers''. In many respects, it seems to be a throwback to its predecessors - the animation is reminiscent of the ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' style, ChikaSakamoto returns to voice lead partner Shoutmon, a Greymon plays a significant role '''again''', and [[IconicOutfit the goggles]] are back - and yet in so many ways the series is significantly set apart from earlier ''Digimon'' iterations in concept.

* OriginalFlavor: The art style is at least more faithful to ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' and ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' than ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', and certainly ''Anime/DigimonSavers''. Additionally, despite its significantly different premise, it was intended to be generally evocative of ''Adventure'' in numerous aspects, most notably Agumon's seiyu ChikaSakamoto returning to voice Shoutmon, the new lead Digimon. And that's to say nothing about how similar Taichi and Taiki are.

** Kiriha's early characterization and character design have led to many claiming he's this to [[Manga/{{DigimonV-Tamer01}} Neo Saiba]].

* WholePlotReference: Episode 5 isn't the first time [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Digimon characters have gone looking for a Plot Coupon inside the belly of a Whamon.]] Not to mention having many similarities to an arc in ''Manga/{{Digimon V-Tamer 01}}'' as well.

* {{Expy}}: Dorulumon gives the impression that he's Digimon's version of [[Anime/MonsterRancher Tiger]]. They look similar and have almost similar attitudes. [[spoiler:And it seems like he shares the same fate of Tiger of the Wind and Gray Wolf from the anime. Dorulumon was once a general of Tactimon much like Gray Wolf is one of the servants of Moo, and that Dorulumon serves as a temporary guardian to Cutemon until he finds its parents is similar to how Tiger treats Greywolf when they were young. Oh and the fact that one episode is labeled "Dorulumon, Run Like the Wind".]]
** Sparrowmon is shaped vaguely like a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Latios]] ([[ViewerGenderConfusion coloured like a shiny Latias]]) whose attack set seems to include [[Anime/YuGiOh5Ds Stardust Mirage]]...
** As far as previous series are concerned, Baalmon may count as a [[CompositeCharacter Composite]] {{Expy}}, sharing traits with [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Wizardmon]] [[spoiler:including his TakingTheBullet moment]], as well as with [[Anime/DigimonTamers Beelzebumon]] [[spoiler:to the point that his reincarnation turns him into an updated version of him]].

** "Ball and Chain KICK!"

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Deckerdramon and Beelzebumon (nope, he didn't just turn into something else the second time). However, the Code Crown revived them in the finale along with Shoutmon who got killed in the penultimate episode.]]

Xros Heart proved its worth and was successful in its quest, collecting all the Code Crowns and causing the Zones to reunite. However, Bagramon intervened and cast Taiki, Akari, Zenjiro and Shoutmon back to the real world, conquering the Digital World while they were gone and transforming it into a twisted empire of his designs. When Taiki and Shoutmon returned to the Digital World at the beginning of the second half of the series (''[[Anime/DigimonXrosWars Digimon Xros Wars The Evil Death Generals And The Seven Kingdoms]]''), they found themselves tasked with taking on this rearranged digital empire and defeating the Seven Death Generals, its brutal governors. Kiriha and Nene allied with Taiki in his campaign, and their combined strength, tactical prowess and bonds of friendship proved to be more than a match for Bagramon's forces. Despite the show not being a success in its airing in Japan[[labelnote:*]]It had the lowest ratings of all the seasons[[/labelnote]], it had good [[MerchandiseDriven toy sales]] so the series got the green light for a third arc[[labelnote:*]]Although many mistakenly believe it to be its own season and a sequel, according to [[WordOfGod Toei]] and the staff involved, it isn't[[/labelnote]] which is called ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersLeapingThroughTime''. This makes this season the longest anime installment of the Franchise/{{Digimon}} franchise.

Creator/SabanBrands has licensed the series up to episode 30 under the name ''Digimon Fusion'', which airs on {{Nickelodeon}}, {{Nicktoons}}, and {{Vortexx}}.

** Sparrowmon is shaped vaguely like a [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Latios]] ([[ViewerGenderConfusion coloured like a shiny Latias]]) whose attack set seems to include [[{{Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds}} Stardust Mirage]]...

** Sparrowmon. Sometimes he's only big enough to carry Nene. Other times, ''all of Xros Heart'' can ride him.