History Headscratchers / Digimon

*** He's not exactly a MartyStu when he dies the first time he Digivolves to Angemon. Or how he doesn't kill Piedmon as MagnaAngemon, single-handed.

*** Layla is Arabic for 'night', which Lilith has a traditional connection to. It also resembles Leilah which means 'dark beauty' and can also fit Lilithmon. As for the original question...Digimon has these really odd inconsistencies a lot so there probably is no real explanation past maybe the dubbers not wanting children to look up who Lilith is. Although considering that Lucemon got through, it probably is just Digimon dubbing being Digimon dubbing.

** Also what does the Name Layla even mean? It sounds like a normal Name with "mon" behind it.

** Savers changes the rules a little bit. Here, Warp Digivolving is actually ''Perfect Evolution'', which automatically makes the given Digimon Perfect[=/=]Ultimate[=/=]''Level 5'', no matter what its previous level. In Savers, achieving ''Level 6'', regardless of the original level, is always called Ultimate Evolution; in the dub, they call it Double Warp Digivolution, for whatever reason. Possibly not to confuse people with using the same name for different {{Transformation Sequence}}s.

** Savers changes the rules a little bit. Here, Warp Digivolving is actually ''Perfect Evolution'', which automatically makes the given Digimon Perfect[=/=]Ultimate[=/=]''Level 5'', no matter what its previous level. In Savers, achieving ''Level 6'', regardless of the original level, is always called Ultimate Evolution; in the dub, they call it Double Warp Digivolution, for whatever reason. Possibly not to confuse people with using the same name for different {{TransformationSequence}}s.

** Savers changes the rules a little bit. Here, Warp Digivolving is actually ''Perfect Evolution'', which automatically makes the given Digimon Perfect[=/=]Ultimate[=/=]''Level 5'', no matter what its previous level. In Savers, achieving ''Level 6'', regardless of the original level, is always called Ultimate Evolution; in the dub, they call it Double Warp Digivolution, for whatever reason. Possibly not to confuse people with using the same name for different TransformationSequence[=s=].

** Savers changes the rules a little bit. Here, Warp Digivolving is actually ''Perfect Evolution'', which automatically makes the given Digimon Perfect[=/=]Ultimate[=/=]''Level 5'', no matter what its previous level. In Savers, achieving ''Level 6'', regardless of the original level, is always called Ultimate Evolution; in the dub, they call it Double Warp Digivolution, for whatever reason. Possibly not to confuse people with using the same name for different TransformationSequences.

** In rough order from my guesses? Warp digivolving seems to be reserved to Rookie to Mega from Adventure and Data Squad. I'd say basic de-digivolving would get Wargreymon to Greymon, like in the Digimon World DS games. Mega Digivolving I think is unique for Paildramon, since he's a DNA Digimon. Fusion digimon might not be able to digivolve at all when combined. The Mega Digivolve would bipass that rule.

* I've always been a little confused by Warp Digivolving. So this allows the Digimon to skip levels (or at least rapidly progress through a number of levels), but is it specifically always for Rookie to Mega? For example, could an In-Training Warp Digivolve to Ultimate? Or a Baby to Champion? And is it necessary? For example let's say in season one, Agumon wanted to Digivolve to Wargreymon but is already in his Ultimate form. Would he have to de-Digivolve first or could he just Digivolve straight from Metalgreymon. Speaking of which, let's say Metalgreymon did Digivolve to Wargreymon, would it be regular Digivolving, or Mega Digivolving like Paildramon to Imperialdramon? What sets Mega Digivolving apart from regular Digivolving?

** Could be argued that since Digimon are based on stuff floating around the internet they appear as humans, gods, animals etc because they have {{creative sterility}} always being fed the information and appearing based on what they find. This could explain why the Digimon heirarchy is based on angels and demons, Yggdrasil etc since instead of them simply being concepts or figures but without the significance humans place on them they emulate what is myth and legend in the real world. Digimon are certainly never shown to have any sense of religion and yet angel digimon are frequently leaders or rulers.

** It differs per setting. In adventure, the world seems to have a special connection to children and is connected to the real world through some sort of dream dimension, so its probable a lot of the digital world has been shaped by the thoughts of pre-pubescent children. Plus, the final arc of zero two implies that the digital world may have drawn from a specific computer game, which we see Oikawa playing. In tamers, that explanation is canon, with the digimon based on a franchise aimed at children. No clue where the porno-monsters are in Savers though.

** Digimon may be able to choose their appearance and prefer not to appear like that. Also, how WOULD they appear? More abstract Digimon are higher level. Further a Digimon's appearance is normally based on creatures/people/Gods etc, you wouldn't expect a Digimon to represent a concept or sex act. And finally Digimon have {{blue and orange morality}} possibly also making them disinterested in what humans find interesting.

* Digimon are, at least in some continuities formed from stray bits of human data that aggregates, or something along those lines. Point is, human data is at the core of their being, and the type of data almost certainly affects their nature. So, what is the Watsonian reason for there being so few [[TheInternetIsForPorn pornographically-derived]] digimon? The Doylist reason is bloody obvious (kid's show), but what's filtering that data out from digimon formation in-universe?

** Grey is a corruption of Great. Greatmon would sound silly, so Greymon.

** Following the digimon wiki, grey, beyond the color, means old or ancient.

** Early in DigimonAdventure, Patamon asks T.K. what a GuardianAngel is. Patamon takes a shine to the idea and decides he wants to be T.K.'s; given the nature of the Digital World and of [[BondCreatures Digimon]], it's not an extraordinary stretch.

** Grey is a corruption of Great. Greatmon would sound silly, so Greymon.

* The treatment of female leads in the later seasons. Kazemon and Sunflowmon both lose during their first fights, Zoe is the only one to lose her spirit for a large amount of time, Lalamon tended to be next to useless until she became Rosemon AKA Fanservicemon, Zoe gets only one major kill over the whole season, and both of them just seem to be there to have a cat fight with the other resident evil female lead of the season. What the hell Digimon, you guys went from Rika to this?

** Grey is a corruption of Great. Greatmon would sound silly, so Greymon.

** Following the digimon wiki, grey, beyond the color, means old or ancient.

* Why is Greymon called Greymon? He's not grey. He's orange.

* The Seven Great Demon Lords. Why only half of the group is named after their counterpart in the seven princes of hell?

* The Seven Great Demon Lords. Why only half of the group is named after their counterpart in the seven demon princes?

** Early in DigimonAdventure, Patamon asks T.K. what a GuardianAngel is. Patamon takes a shine to the idea and decides he wants to be T.K.'s; given the nature of the Digital World and of [[BondCreatures Digimon]], it's not an extraordinary stretch.

** Patamon's power is to become a massive MartyStu and solve the plot whenever necessary, hence Angemon (and his higher forms).

** Patamon isn't the only one who has that many [[http://wikimon.net/Pico_Devimon Pico Devimon]], [[http://wikimon.net/Mushmon Mushmon]], and [[http://wikimon.net/Plotmon Plotmon]] to name a 'few' of the 850+ Digimon!

** [[http://wikimon.net/Patamon Angemon is just one of 66 of Patamon's evolution paths.]] That and [[EvolutionaryLevels that is just how Digimon work.]]

* Patamon. Patamon just bugs me. Why does he digivolve to Angemon.