Characters / Digimon Adventure 02 New DigiDestined

For the Character Sheet index of Digimon Adventure 02 go here.

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In General

• The Bus Came Back: After being written off by Alphamon in tri., all of them are brought back for Last Evolution Kizuna.
• Changing of the Guard: The series makes a point to contrast the new digidestined in the field from the old who now mostly act as mentors, and highlights T.K. and Kari's maturation from Tagalong Kids on the original team to core members of the current group.
• The Chosen Many: As before, the starting three were given digivices to combat a new evil in the Digital World. "Drafted" is the actual word the dub uses.
• Chromatic Arrangement: The new members introduced, Davis, Yolei, and Cody are Blue, Red and Yellow respectively by the color of their Digivices and Digimon. Though Ken's digivice is black, Wormmon's various evolutions are green and typically have green auras in evolution animations.
• Color-Coded Characters
  • Davis - Blue
  • Yolei - Red
  • Cody - Yellow
  • T.K. - Green
  • Kari - Pink
  • Ken - Black
• Composite Character: The three children are mostly this, which is reflected in their Digi-eggs. Davis has traits of both Tai and Matt (Courage and Friendship), Yolei shows a mixture of Sora, Mimi, (Love and Sincerity) and a good bit of Izzy (she's a tech geek), and Cody is a mix of Izzy and Joe (Knowledge and Reliability).
• Demoted to Extra: In tri. And to an even bigger extent than the older kids in 02. To the point where they're hardly even mentioned. That being said, they show up in Last Evolution Kizuna as compensation for being out of action.
• Dub Personality Change: It could be said the entire main cast of Digimon Adventure 02 Took a Level in Jerkass in the dub for the sake of Rule of Funny, while in the Japanese version they are possibly the most close-knit group of friends in the entire franchise. Davis in particular is a lot more arrogant in the dub, while Daisuke is very humble, almost to a fault.
• Five-Man Band:
  • The team is headed up by the new kids Idiot Hero Davis, shy and sensible kid martial artist Cody, and outspoken computer geek Yolei, and the grown up Tag Along Kids from the previous generation T.K. (who Davis is jealous of) and Kari (who Davis has a crush on).
  • After the Digimon Kaiser arc, they recruit former Big Bad Ken as a Sixth Ranger and proper brooding Lancer to Davis' Hero, and he mostly gets over his hang ups with T.K. and Kari. The Team's new structure is fundamentally transformed into three Fusion Dance pairs: Davis and Ken, Yolei and Kari, and Cody and T.K..
• He Knows Too Much: Our Future reveals they found out about the reboot and got taken out by Alphamon before they could warn the others.
• Land, Sea, Sky - The 'transport' forms of the new trio. Davis' Raidramon for land, Yolei's Halsemon for Sky, and Cody's Submarimon for Sea.
• No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The opening of tri. shows all of the group sans T.K. and Kari beaten within an inch of their lives by Alphamon. Their partners are nowhere to be seen as they and their D3s fall to the ground, with their fate afterwards being unknown. Our Future later reveals Alphamon did it because they discovered Yggdrasil's plans.
• Recurring Element: Related to Composite Character above, each of the new Digidestined matches roughly the appearance and role of someone on the old team, essentially creating two matching teams of 6.◊ The new trio has complementary colors to their counterparts, while the kids with crests have similar colors.
  • Davis looks up to Tai and is the closest to a direct Suspiciously Similar Substitute as the new gogglehead. Blue complementary to Orange.
  • Yolei to Mimi who she looks up to as a mentor and big sister. Both seem sweet but are blunt about their feelings. Red complementary to Green.
  • Cody to Izzy being the youngest and smallest, yet the most practical and intelligent, often the voice of reason. Both find foils in their Digimon who are both more simpleminded and easy going. Yellow complementary to Purple.
  • T.K. as Matt's younger brother, and a blond haired Lancer to Davis at the beginning. Green Is Blue.
  • Kari to Sora based on their relationships with T.K./Matt, and their generally supportive role on the team. Pink is a light Red.
  • Comparing Ken to Joe is mostly a case of Pair the Spares but they both have straight blue hair, try to shoulder the responsibility for the team or their actions on their own out of a need to prove themselves, and both suffered from some degree of inferiority complex compared to their older siblings. They also have foils in their Digimon who are much more open-minded and sometimes critical of their partners. Black is a dark Gray.
• Saved by Canon: They seem to suffer from a Bus Crash during the events of Tri. But as they went so far as to make Call Forwards to justify the 02 epilogue, they're okay, just badly injured by Alphamon. And then they return later in Last Evolution Kizuna.
• Superior Successor:
  • In their own show this is more or less the case, although it's played with in later apperances once they are no longer the protagonists. Their D3s are superior to the original group's base Digivice's and they can do tricks the originals can't like Armor Digivolve, open gates to the Digital World, DNA Digivolve and they have the D Terminals for quick communication.
  • Where the 02 kids manage to excel was having stronger interpersonal bonds (at least in the Japanese language). While Adventure's Digidestined were certainly Fire-Forged Friends who did like each other, it's telling to note that after their adventure is over, they've all visibly split off into their own groups and generally don't hang as much as they did back in the Digital World. By contrast, the 02 kids might not be as powerful, and they initially do start off much shallower in many ways compared to their predecessors, but they've consistently done everything in their power to remain friends and continue to get together however and whenever they can, showing them to be much more close-knit.
• Three Plus Two: The trio that joined up at the same time Davis, Yolei, and Cody have more in common with each other (Land, Sea, Sky / Chromatic Arrangement / Composite Character above) than T.K. and Kari who have an affinity for each other being a Tagalong Kid duo on the original team.

Davis Motomiya

Davis Motomiya (Daisuke Motomiya)

"We can't stop now, we'll never get a chance like this again!"

New DigiDestined of Courage and Friendship

Davis is the designated leader of the new Digidestined/Chosen Children; brash, cheerful, and energetic. He's also Tai's Suspiciously Similar Substitute, to the point of wearing the former's trademark goggles. Although he's very much an underdog at first, he's about the only cast member who doesn't have mild-to-serious psychological issues. This emotional stability ends up being his greatest asset. He has a hopeless crush on Kari, but gradually idolizes her less as time goes on.

In the conclusion of 02, he becomes a noodle cart owner.

Voiced by: Reiko Kiuchi (JP, Adventure 02), Fukujuro Katayama (JP, Last Evolution Kizuna and The Beginning), Brian Donovan (EN, Adventure 02 and The Beginning), Griffin Burns (EN, Last Evolution Kizuna), Marta Sáinz (Spain), Luis Daniel Ramírez (Latin America)

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• Adaptational Jerkass: Is a lot ruder in the English dub (at least early on in the show), with a habit of mispronouncing T.K.'s name. This mostly goes away in the latter half of the series, though.
• All Love Is Unrequited: Has a huge crush on Hikari, but she never responds. The show really stopped paying attention when the group got a Sixth Ranger, but it's acknowledged in the movies, the Natsu e no Tobira Drama CD, and even Last Evolution Kizuna's Drama CD (where he is a lot more mature about it).
• All-Loving Hero: Even more notable in that, as this DeviantArt points out, of all the animated goggle boys (up to Savers, at least), Daisuke is the only lead Tamer who managed to go a whole season without evolving his Digimon partner via dark emotions until Taiki, four seasons later. Interstingly though, he's the only one of the new kids of the group not to hesitate on destroying evil Digimon late in the season. He's not thrilled, but barely takes a second hestiation while Iori takes significant convincing and Miyako straight up cannot (Silphymon has to kill LadyDevimon against her wishes because she was about to attack her)
• Ambiguously Bi: He has a blatant, albeit one-sided, crush on Hikari and is shown to be very jealous of Takeru's close friendship with Hikari. Despite this, he has a LOT of Ho Yay moments with Ken Ichijouji (even when the latter was still the Digimon Emperor), even if a lot of them are thanks to the nature of Jogress Evolution, such as being able to hear Ken's heart. When Ken gets kidnapped, the two characters who show the most concern for his safety are Wormmon and Daisuke!
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Zigzagged with "Annoying Older Sibling". Jun and Daisuke both care about each other, but continually get on each other's nerves. This is partly because they're a lot alike.
• Badass Normal: He does toss away a Gokimon (that is, a giant man-sized cockroach) that attacks him.
• Big Brother Worship: Although they're not real brothers, Daisuke respects Taichi as his senior in the soccer club even before joining him in the fight to save the Digital World, and shares similarities with him. It's heavily implied he picked up his old goggles to emulate Taichi.
• Big Eater: Par for the leaders, although V-mon eats even more.
• Big "NEVER!": When he tackles Ken in the digital world.
• Butt-Monkey: Like Taichi, he has his dumb moments.
• Character Development: Downplayed. In the original Japanese, Daisuke was designed with the most "anime-like" personality according to director Hiroyuki Kakudou. However he does change in small ways, to contrast with Ken's famous redemption arc. The biggest example is early on in the series Daisuke desperately craves validation—either from Hikari, or Taichi, or Yamato, and easily deflates whenever one of them confronts him about something. Compare that to his stubborn refusal to give up on Ken, and being proven right.
  • "Storm of Friendship" fakes his development by giving him a huge struggle with friendship and sacrifice that simply didn't exist before that episode, and which, in fact, is in blatant opposition to Daisuke's "position on the matter" established during the confrontation with Deltamon.
  • In Natsu e no Tobira (The Door to Summer), Daisuke travels to New York while feeling sad about Hikari turning him down on a date, but gets involved with another girl named Natsu, which gets Chibimon very jealous. His relationship with Natsu ends in tragedy; it would be technically considered bittersweet, but the only "sweet" is that she isn't dead.
  • In Double Tamer, he suffers from the belief that his team completely disregards him as a person and friend, but largely sheds the angst after spending an adventure completely cut off from his team.
• Character Exaggeration: The American dub gets much more mileage out of Daisuke's Butt Monkey status and makes him more abrasive or uncaring in a few places, which glosses over some of his better points. After Ken falls into despair from losing Wormmon, Daisuke calls out to him as he leaves and tells him to go home. Davis, on the other hand, starts calling after Ken with the insistence that they immediately join forces, apparently completely oblivious to his emotional state.
• Characterization Marches On: Subverted. Daisuke's crush on Hikari falls by the wayside once Ken joins the group, which would suggest he's gotten over her, but he's back to being head over heels for her in CD Dramas set after the series, even his Last Evolution Kizuna self.
• Compressed Vice: And Conflict Ball to go along with it; in fact, Davis' gets two, both at the climax of the MetalGreymon arc.
  • After spending ten episodes laying the smackdown on the Emperor's slaves to free them from their Dark Rings, Davis suddenly hesitates when the target is MetalGreymon. With everyone deciding to attack their ally, Davis is understandably afraid of hurting a friend, but he knows that much weaker Champions have survived their near-daily rescue efforts and MetalGreymon is a tough-as-nails Ultimate; he gets so upset about it that he ends up fighting with T.K..
  • This episode also claims that Davis is unwilling to sacrifice himself for his partner, which is very strange in light of the fact that it comes after a run-in with the Kaiser where he demanded Take Me Instead in an attempt to save his friends from being eaten alive by a Deltamon.
• Continuity Cameo: Briefly interacts with Tai during the novelization of the first season, which also includes a snippet of his thoughts while among the captive children.
• Crossdressing Voices: In the Japanese, Chinese, Italian, and Spanish versions.
• Curtains Match the Window: Brown hair, brown eyes.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Subverted following the fall of the Kaiser. Ken maintains an aloof and reluctant position when it comes to working with the team for some time, even while Daisuke is actively campaigning to bring him on to his equally reluctant teammates.
• Determinator: Even though even he realizes how futile it is to fight BelialVamdemon, he and ExVeemon are determined to fight until the last anyway. Take note that while they were at it, the other Chosen Children were paralyzed by fear and caught in BelialVamdemon's Lotus-Eater Machine, which Daisuke resisted through sheer determination and desire to end BelialVamdemon.
• Deuteragonist: Daisuke serves as Wallace's second during the third part of Digimon: The Movie, pushing him to face his problems rather than running away.
• Did Not Get the Girl: The Natsu e no Tobira Drama CD examines his crush on Hikari more closely; while traveling to New York he tries getting over Hikari turning him down for a date and ends up getting involved with another girl Mimi dubs Nacchan. Unfortunately, Nacchan is actually a Tragic Monster, so he gets this twice.
• Dragon Rider: Lighdramon can't fly, but XV-mon, Paildramon, and Imperialdramon all can. Lighdramon makes up for it by being lightning quick.
• Face–Heel Turn: Parodied in one of the Drama CDs. Daisuke literally chants "POWER OF DARKNESS" multiple times before turing into a "Daisuke Kaiser" in one of the drama CD episodes. Ken himself snaps him out of it using Bucciemon's Heart Beam to bring him back to his senses.
• Foil: Daisuke's loudmouthed exuberant nature is meant to contrast with Ken's quiet shyness in the latter half of 02. This is more obvious in the subbed version. He's also a contrast to Takeru's experienced nature—sure, Takeru knows more about the Digital World than Daisuke, but he's also carrying a lot more baggage from his experience that Daisuke explicitly does not.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: To Ken.
• Goggles Do Nothing: Averted. Daisuke is the first Gogglehead to actually use his goggles for their intended purpose.
• Heroic BSoD: When he sees the list of his team's names among the tamers Parallelmon absorbed. Quickly turns into a Roaring Rampage of Revenge, though it doesn't work as well as he would have hoped without a plan.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: Bonds with Ken after he joins the team and the two of them quickly become friends.
• Hey, You!: In Japanese he refers to Takeru as "omae" (a rather rough and informal word for "you") due to jealousy of his relationship with Hikari; in the dub, this is rendered through Davis constantly messing up the initials of T.K.'s name.
• Hidden Depths: In the V-Tamer crossover, Daisuke isn't as motivated to go return to his own world because he thinks that nobody cares enough about him to miss him.
• Hopeless Suitor: One of Daisuke's most distinctive traits is his repeated failure to successfully pursue Hikari, which was almost always played for laughs except for the few occasions he needed something to mope about. The show gave this aspect of him much less attention after Ken joined, though derivative works indicate he's still got a thing for her. (e.g., Diablomon Strikes Back, Natsu e no Tobira and the Last Evolution Kizuna CD drama). As a matter of fact, this trope was once called The Daisuke.
• Hotblooded: Until Masaru came along, he was easily the most so of any Digimon protagonist.
• Hot Blooded Sideburns: He's got 'em.
• Hot Paint Job: His Digiworld jacket, pictured above. He and Fladramon match.
• Humble Goal: To run a noodle cart business, which still expands world wide!
• Idiot Hero: Perhaps one of the biggest ones in the franchise sans Tagiru. Unlike Taichi, he doesn't really grow out of this, but admittedly it pays off in the end.
• Image Song: "Goggle Boy".
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is reckless and brash, but nonetheless caring. He's willing to pull a Heroic Sacrifice in front of Deltamon, and is the most vocal in getting Ken to join the team and realise he has been forgiven.
• Keet: Highly excitable and impulsive.
• Kneel Before Zod: On the receiving end during the Kaiser's Sadistic Choice with Deltamon.
• The Leader: Ostensibly, being the gogglehead. Mostly Headstrong type with enough force of personality to qualify for Charismatic, Daisuke unfortunately is unable to overcome being the Butt-Monkey and his enforced Idiot Hero status, and remains something akin to The Face of the group. While they mostly act as a team of equals, the others do tend to defer to Daisuke and trust his leadership during the most dire situations they find themselves in.
• Like Brother and Sister: His relationship with Miyako. They are both boisterous and fight a lot but they are very close. The Ship Tease between them is Played for Laughs.
• Lovable Jock: He's into soccer, and a likable boy. It's easy to miss due to the dub's Butt-Monkey jokes but the rest of his team adores him, and the feeling's mutual.
• Love Triangle: Davis likes Kari who may or may not like T.K. who may or may not like Kari back.
• Malicious Misnaming: In the dub, Davis had a habit of calling T.K. everything but T.K., from T.V., T.I., etc. The dialogue editors for the dub were bold enough to use the whole alphabet in doing this.
• Meaningful Name: His name in the Arabic dub is "Selim", meaning "The Sound at Heart" or, more poetically, "He Who is Free of Disease/Darkness".
• My Friends... and Zoidberg: Downplayed; during the first arc, the Five-Man Band broke down into a handful of pairs — T.K. and Kari, Yolei and Cody — and Davis. Subtly lampshaded during The Samurai of Sincerity when the group is hanging out at Digitamamon's diner. Takeru and Hikari are in a booth with their Digimon, Yolei and Cody are in a booth with their Digimon, and Davis and his excessive quantities of food are in a booth with Veemon.
• Naïve Newcomer: He knew nothing about Digimon beforehand and had to be coached by Taichi, which led to a new Digivolution technique.
• Personality Powers: Fire and lightning, and he's a hotblooded outgoing boy.
• The Power of Friendship: How he gains his new Digimon, his friends, and how he hopes to take down the Emperor.
• Primary-Color Champion: When he enters the Digital World, Davis gains a dark blue bomber jacket with a red and yellow flame pattern at the bottom and yellow gloves. In the human world, he frequently wears blue clothing and his soccer uniform is red. And of course he has reddish hair.
• Rebel Leader: They're fighting an empire, after all.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Daisuke's impulsive and rash judgment contrasts with Takeru's calmer disposition in the early episodes, and his Hot-Blooded traits contrasted with Ken's much more solemn demeanor.
• Rookie Red Ranger: After Daisuke's solid first episode, obtaining V-mon, the Digimental of Courage, and rescuing Hikari, Taichi is impressed enough to appoint Daisuke leader and hand over his goggles.
• Screw Learning, I Have Phlebotinum!: The Crest of Kindness and subsequently the Digimental of Miracles that allowed Davis to "see Ken's true heart", well before the other children learn to trust Ken.
• Shirtless Scene: During the brief beach scene in Hurricane Touchdown.
• Smart Ball: Catches it smack in the face by coming up with a plan to take down Parallelmon. The plan itself involves baiting the monster into trying to absorb Fladramon and having V-mon revert so Parallelmon absorbs the armor instead, which sets it up to have its head cut off by an incoming Zeromaru. Parallelmon is lucky enough to survive just for Magnamon to annihilate it utterly. V-mon lampshades this during the group's goodbyes by saying Daisuke coming up with the plan was the true Miracle, which earns him a bump on the head for good measure.
• Special Guest: Is a featured character during one of V-Tamer's specials: Double Tamer.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Of Taichi.
• Take Me Instead: One episode centers entirely around the Emperor subjecting Davis to a mind-game that posed the question which other member of his team would Davis save from death? This is Davis' answer.
• Walking Techbane: In the Drama CD, Miche e no Armor Shinka, Daisuke tries to get Koushirou to teach him about computers so that he can impress girls with his skills in time for Valentine's Day. Koushirou allows him into his room and starts going into detail about a program he's building. With the press of one (1) button, Daisuke triggers a Fatal Error.
  Koushirou's Computer: Caution! Warning! Overload!
• Worthy Opponent: He's the only Chosen Child whom Vamdemon has ever bothered to address with full name, as well admitting that the boy's tenacity is the only one amongst the children that has ever impressed him.
• You Are Not Alone: During the final confrontation with Daemon, he gives Ken the final nudge to help him open up a portal to the Dark Ocean.

Yolei Inoue

Yolei Inoue (Miyako Inoue)

"Bingo!"

New DigiDestined of Love and Sincerity

Yolei is an enthusiastic girl with a knack for being technologically savvy and a big heart. Has two big sisters and a big brother that she feels hog the spotlight. Notably, she is the only known Chosen Child in this series to have a Digimon of the opposite gender.

In the conclusion of 02, she marries Ken and they have three children. External sources imply she is on maternity leave, but what she does for a living is unclear.

Voiced in Japanese by: Rio Natsuki (Adventure 02), Ayaka Asai (Last Evolution Kizuna and The Beginning)

Voiced in English by: Tifanie Christun (EN, Adventure 02, regular voice), Bridget Hoffman (EN, one episode), Jeannie Tirado (EN, Last Evolution Kizuna and The Beginning), Jessica Peterson (uncut movie dubs)

Voiced in Spanish by: Carolina Tak (Spain), Mónica Manjarrez (Latin America)

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• Action Girl: Even though, just like the rest of the cast during this season, Yolei chooses not to kill off any of her enemies, she and Hawkmon have what is probably the most impressive number of on-screen victories for a female lead in the anime. She never backs down from any fight and, even when things get particularly dangerous for a human (like when LadyDevimon took a young man hostage), she is not afraid to get her own hands dirty and risk her own life to save the day. And her strength is not only limited to brute-force either: when she is not busy being a Cloudcuckoolander she can be a brilliant strategist and her tech-savviness can come in handy more often than not. Some examples include neutralizing Arukenimon's flute music waves that manipulated insect-like Digimon, saving Ken, Iori and Daisuke in the process. Or when she guided three Russian Digidestined, overcoming an obvious Language Barrier, to take care of several wild Digimon and take them back to the Digital World.
• Adventurer Outfit: Airmen type, only while in the Digital World.
• Ambiguously Bi: She is shown to like boys, most notably Ken (whom she ends up marrying in the future) and Michael. Then there is the infamous "Mimi fantasy" where it appears that she has a crush on Mimi Tachikawa.
• Big Eater: She likes her food. One episode has her and Daisuke getting into a childish fight over dumplings, when he takes several that she wanted, never mind that there's a whole pile of ones still unclaimed. When stuck in a Lotus-Eater Machine, her illusion is having a whole spread of food to herself.
• Big "SHUT UP!": In episode 14, Digitamamon spends the entire episode acting like a jerk. She lets him have it with a "The Reason You Suck" Speech, earning her second digiegg in the process.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: In Spring 2003, Miyako boasts that she's developed an E-cup bust. And then she admits to lying.
• Character Catchphrase:
  • "Bingo!" in Japanese, "Perfecto!" in the dub.
  • She also has "Chosen Children, let's roll!" in the original Japanese version for whenever they're about to enter the Digital World. Notably, when in one episode Miyako is too depressed to go into the Digital World to fight, Hikari has to supply the phrase. Takeru has even requested of her to open the Digital Gate with her phrase to diffuse an argument.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Really tends to go all out, to her ever-suffering partner Hawkmon's chagrin. Hikari tells her she's "a handful" at one point, though she admits she envies her for it.
• Distaff Counterpart:
  • Despite not inheriting his Crest as a Digimental, takes on Jou's role as the oldest member, though ironically the youngest in their own families, and the one most likely to panic. Of course, she tends to forget altogether that she's older than the others...
  • She's also one to Izzy, serving as the brains of her group
• Ditzy Genius: Rather absent-minded and hyper, but still very smart.
• Don't Say Such Stupid Things!: She's the one who gives these speeches to Ken and Hikari.
• Dub Name Change: Her name was "Miyako" in the original version, but in the dub, her name was changed to "Yolei." Terri Lei O'Malley said that they were going to keep her name as "Kyo" (an alternate way of reading the kanji for "Miyako"), but it was difficult for the voice team to pronounce, so they took the "Yo" out of her name and combined it with the "Lei" from O'Malley's name to form "Yolei." However, her name was also translated as "Keely" on some of Bandai's products.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Makes a brief appearance in Our War Game, signifying that it was the event that sparked her involvement in the Digital World.
• Family Theme Naming: Her siblings' names - Mantarou, Momoe and Chizuru - all use a numerical kanji (ten thousand, hundred and thousand, respectively). Her own name counts, as it can mean ten quadrillion.
• Foil: Her outgoing personality is meant to contrast with Hikari's reserved personality and help the latter's Character Development in finally getting out of Damsel in Distress role.
• Genki Girl: It does not take much to work her up.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: To both Hikari and Ken on separate occasions.
• Hackette: Of the 02 kids, she's the one with the strongest knowledge of working with computers and other technology. In the Kizuna movie she hacks into the computers of both presumed Big Bad's.
• Jumped at the Call: She's pretty enthusiastic about going to the Digital World. However, witnessing the Emperor's brutality comes as a severe shock to her, and she goes into a bit of a Heroic BSoD.
• Meaningful Name: One of her first lines when introducing herself is that the kanji in her name is also the "Kyo" in "Kyoto." Foreshadowing for the field trip she takes during the BlackWarGreymon arc?
• Official Couple: With Ken in the 02 epilogue.
• The Power of Love: Subverted, she holds the Digimental of Love in addition to that of Sincerity but she acts more like a fusion of Mimi and Izzy rather than one of Mimi and Sora.
• Pseudo-Romantic Friendship: She and Hikari have two or three whiffs of the trope, specially in the episode that had them and Ken in the Sea of Darkness. (Between this and her attitude with Mimi, she's very easy fodder for Les Yay.)
• Punny Name: Related to the above: the Japanese name for the episode in which Miyako visits Kyoto is Kyō no Miyako wa Kyō no Miyako, translated on That Other Wiki as "Today Miyako is in Kyoto."
• Reluctant Warrior: Her refusal to kill LadyDevimon in "Dark Sun, Dark Spore". However, she puts that aside to save a hostage.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: She and Hawkmon have this dynamic.
• Secretly Selfish: The dark half of her illusion in the finale's Lotus-Eater Machine; she gets a massive table of food to herself because her siblings don't exist. However, she admits that much as she does sometimes wish she had space from her siblings, she still loves them all the same and won't give them up for anything.
• Smarter Than You Look: For a Ditzy Genius, she is The Smart Guy of the group and figured out how the Dark Towers worked before anyone else.
• The Smart Girl: Despite her clumsy appearance, she's very intelligent and tech savvy.
• Smitten Teenage Girl: She has a massive crush on Ken, though that's before she finds out he's the Digimon Emperor, and she later sports one on Michael. Technically speaking, the "teenage" part only applies in the dub version, where she's a year older than she was in the original Japanese version.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill: Yolei is the most against violence of the group; in particular being against ending the lives of Digimon. She flips out when she thinks Ken and Stingmon are killing Digimon, only calming down when she learns the nature of the Dark-Spire transformed Digimon. Her reluctance to kill almost ends in disaster against LadyDevimon, to the point Silphymon has to ignore Yolei's wishes to save her. And Yolei is clearly very shaken when Silphymon has to resort to killing, even against such a clearly wicked enemy.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: Tomboy to Hikari's Girly Girl (even though she isn't particularly tomboyish herself).
• Too Dumb to Live: While the 02 cast in general are reluctant to kill Digimon Yolei verges very close to this against LadyDevimon, who is clearly unrepentantly evil. LadyDevimon goes so far as to threaten children and take hostages, yet her refusal to kill LadyDevimon almost gets not only herself but others killed too. Silphymon has to disregard Yolei's stance to save Yolei's life and kill LadyDevimon. Yolei does seem to learn from this however, showing no such qualms against MaloMyotismon later.

Cody Hida

Cody Hida (Iori Hida)

New DigiDestined of Knowledge and Reliability

Iori is the youngest and most reserved of the new team, rather quiet and rigid compared to the others. He was raised in a rather traditional home, and his father and grandfather were both police officers, so he is very polite and possesses a strong sense of justice. He practices kendo under his quirky, yet wise, grandfather.

In the conclusion of 02, he becomes a defense attorney.

Voiced in Japanese by: Megumi Urawa (Adventure 02), Yoshitaka Yamaya (Last Evolution Kizuna and The Beginning)

Voiced in English by: Philece Sampler (Adventure 02), Bryce Papenbrook (Last Evolution Kizuna and The Beginning), Madeline Dorroh (Hurricane Touchdown, uncut)

Voiced in Spanish by: Belén Rodríguez (Spain), Claudia Motta (Latin America)

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• The Baby of the Bunch: He's the youngest of the group and often has his advice dismissed because of his age, even though he's arguably more mature than most of his comrades.
• Big "SHUT UP!": Once, when the older kids ignore him and assume that their plans are better.
  WILL YOU ALL STOP TALKING?
• Black-and-White Morality: Iori's rigid adherence to his beliefs also proves to be a problem in this regard, as he has difficulty accepting the idea that people can not only change after committing great evil, but that people can't be easily boxed into a rigid "good" and "bad" category. This results in him being the last person to finally accept that Ken has changed, and he ends up having immense difficulty in figuring out Takeru's abrupt mood swings between his kind and friendly nature, and his utterly vicious anger towards darkness as a result of his past traumas.. Iori also suffers a crisis when he finds out that his father was once friends with the Big Bad Yukio Oikawa.
• Crossdressing Voices: His voice actor is a woman in most dubs.
• Disappeared Dad: His father was a police officer who was killed on duty.
• Foil: Iori is the youngest in his group, like Takeru and Hikari before him. However, Iori is far more serious, and is inclined toward skepticism.
• He Is All Grown Up: The epilogue shows that while Iori's short now, he is due in for a major growth spurt eventually.
• Honour Before Reason: Iori stubbornly refuses to leave everyone else behind while they are an oil rig, until everyone else gets fed up with his attitude and make him leave. After that, when he has to lie to get Jou's help during a life and death situation, he is so certain he committed a horrible sin that he starts crying about it.
• Japanese Politeness: He speaks very politely to his elders. He rarely drops the politeness, but in the few times he does, you know he's been pushed too far.
• Just a Kid: Subverted, for the most part. The older kids treat him with a lot of respect and think of him as an equal teammate. When Daisuke calls him a brat early in the series, all it takes is for Iori to calmly request that he doesn't call him that for Daisuke to apologize and never do it again.
• Kid Samurai: Takes kendo lessons with his grandfather.
• Not So Above It All: Often calm and reserved, but at the end of the BlackWarGreymon arc he gleefully gorges himself on dumplings along with the others.
• Only Sane Man: Often comes off as this due to the other two children being an Idiot Hero and a Cloudcuckoolander.
• Reluctant Warrior: The most extreme case on the roster. Of course, his father was shot in the line of duty, so he has a reason for his aversion to lethal violence.
• The Resenter: He takes much more time forgiving Ken for his deeds as the Digimon Kaiser.
• She's a Man in Japan: In one of the oddest examples of the trope, Cody is treated as a girl by the dubs of Portugal and Spain, and only in the last episodes he gets male treatment, which leads to not little confusion given his ambiguous look. Such an oddity has never been officially explained, and it's considered to be some kind of error.
• Shirtless Scene: In 02: The Beginning he gets a gratuitous shot of this in a locker room, during the montage of the Digidestined reading the Digi-egg's message.
• Shorter Means Smarter: He's the smallest of the team but the smartest in a lot of ways.
• The Smart Guy: Inheritor of the Digimental of Knowledge, he is smart for his age and very observant. And while he lacks Izzy's technical or scientific skill, he is very curious about the human condition and learning about people.
• Spear Counterpart: To Sora. He's the most sensitive and empathic of his group.
• Talking the Monster to Death: Fails this with BlackWarGreymon and regrets it at once.
• Tell Me About My Father: One of the driving factors of the final plot arc.
• To Be Lawful or Good: Much of his character development revolves around him adhering to a rather strict code of honor and learning that there are times when it is for the best to be flexible. Exemplified in the oil rig episode when he refuses to leave everyone behind even though they are at risk, and then beating himself up for having to tell a lie even though there was no other way to save everyone. Him taking the longest to forgive Ken and accept him as a teammate is another example.
• Will Not Tell a Lie: Which causes him quite the trouble in an episode.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Most of the time, you wouldn't even think he's really still in elementary school. This is reflected in the Digimentals he gets: Knowledge (which belonged to Koushirou) and Reliability/Honesty (which was the crest Jou had).

Ken Ichijouji

Ken Ichijouji (post-Digimon Emperor/Kaiser)

"I know I can never be forgiven for what I've done... I'll atone for my own sins."

DigiDestined of Kindness

Ken after realizing the Digital World isn't a video game, and having to face up to all the evil stuff he's done (and with the Dark Spore suppressed). Ridden with guilt and sorrow, he works hard to try and clean up his act, but perhaps will never completely get over it. Thankfully, Daisuke and Wormmon seem pretty determined to help him reform.

In the conclusion of 02, he marries Miyako and becomes a police detective.

See here for tropes relating to him before his Heel–Face Turn.

Voiced By: Romi Park (JP, Adventure 02), Arthur Lounsbery (JP, Last Evolution Kizuna and The Beginning), Derek Stephen Prince (EN), Pilar Domínguez (Spain), Benjamín Rivera (Latin America), Rebeca Gómez (Latin America, as a child)

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• Academic Athlete: A function of the Dark Seed. He's both a Teen Genius and a sports prodigy. While his abilities diminish somewhat once the Dark Seed's influence is broken, he is still a good student and soccer player, but in a more normal capacity.
• Animal Motifs: Insects. His Digimon is an insectoid, and his Kaiser outfit is inspired by a bug with the glasses looking an insect's eyes, and the cape resembling folded insect wings. Under the Dark Seed's influence, he also calls people "insects".
• The Atoner: He's got a latent death wish and keeps feeling guilty even after sealing Daemon in the Dark Ocean.
• Bare-Fisted Monk: He's a Judo champion, as mentioned early on.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: As a child Ken, jealous of his older brother and angry that he always got special attention because he was a Child Prodigy, wished for Osamu to disappear. He got a hit by a car shortly afterward. This set the stage for all of the events to follow.
• Break the Haughty: That's what causes his Heel–Face Turn, actually.
• Broken Ace: A Teen Genius that turned evil thanks to his brother being killed in a car accident and Ken believing that he had wished it to happen.
• Chick Magnet:
  • Female Muggles are all over him. So is Miyako.
  • Hilariously lampshaded in the Michi e no Armour Shinka drama, where Ken is signing autographs and Wormmon is telling his fans to stand file in a single line. Yes, the whole thing is crack.
  • Even funnier is when Daisuke tries to imitate his Emperor persona in order to get more fans, but they all boo at him, saying Ken is cooler. And then after the kids solve a conflict, the girls there thank him... only to go back to fangirling Ken right after.
• Child Prodigy: Both he and his brother were this, but the latter was more intelligent and the focus their parents put on him made the neglected Ken jealous.
• Dark Is Not Evil: After Ken does his Heel–Face Turn, his D-3 remains black, with dark gray lining as opposed to the others' white lining. Also, his partner is of the Virus attribute.
• Dead Sidekick: Wormmon via Disney Death. Although he gets better shortly.
• Death Seeker:
  • His dream in the Lotus-Eater Machine? Watching himself get beaten to death, as the Kaiser, by the Digimon he's hurt. The poor kid's only eleven.
  • It comes out as early as episode 26, in which Ken is completely ready to blow up the Kaiser's base and himself along with it. (Stingmon shares the self-sacrificial sentiment in the episode, blaming himself for being unable to stop Ken as the Kaiser.) Daisuke snaps him out of it for the time being, but given what he sees in the Lotus-Eater Machine, it doesn't go completely away even up until then.
• Dreaming of Times Gone By: Ken dreams about when he got the Dark Spore. He's forgotten the surrounding events, so he has to ask Wormmon about them.
• Earn Your Happy Ending: And how. On his way to atonement, Ken goes through self-induced coma, suicidal ideation, PTSD, kidnapping, and immense amounts of guilt. As per the epilogue, he ends up quite alright, despite everything.
• Easy Amnesia: Dubs-only; right after his self-induced coma, he has trouble recognizing who his parents (and the picture of his deceased brother) are, and has some trouble remembering about the Digital World and Wormmon until he gets some mental prompting. It only lasts one episode. (The original just had him rather emotionally detached from his memories, but clearly there.)
• Easily Forgiven: Played straight with Daisuke, but subverted with anyone else. At the end of episode 23, Ken returns with Stingmon and saves Iori from Thunderballmon, killing the latter in the process. Daisuke is the only one willing to accept that Ken changed for the better and invite him to their team, whereas the others are sceptic^note Takeru also noticed the change, but he initially refuses the idea to invite Ken, and Iori in particular still can't forgive Ken for what he did to the Digimon during his time as the Digimon Kaiser. Miyako, Takeru and Hikari eventually accept him after they learn that Thunderballmon and the other hostile Digimon they're fighting are Dark Towers in form of Digimon. And despite Ken joining the '02 Chosen Children, it isn't until episode 38 that Iori finally accepts to become his friend.
• Education Mama: His parents unwittingly acted this way both towards his brother and then towards him. Once they realized the strain they were putting on Ken (and his older brother) they let up on the pressure and just want him to be a normal kid.
• Ex-Big Bad: As the Digimon Emperor, Ken is the main villain of the series from episodes 01-20. He suffers a Villainous Breakdown after Wormon's Heroic Sacrifice and eventually starts working to undo the damage he causes to the Digital World following Wormon's return. It takes a while for the team to accept his change but he is eventually welcomed as a friend and teammate.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: As the Digimon Kaiser, his hair is two-toned and spiked, nearly identical to his dead, genius brother's. His hair in the Real World is more bluish, chin-length, and straight. Following his Heel–Face Turn, we never see him with the Kaiser's hairstyle again, as he allows himself to step out of his brother's shadow.
• Expy: His entire arc from being an Unwitting Pawn to the real Big Bad as the Digimon Emperor to a hero who atones from his past sins makes him one to Takeshi Todo.
• Face–Heel Turn: In the second part of tri, he appears as the Digimon Emperor once again, trying to kidnap Meicoomon and commanding a dark Imperialdramon. Subverted in the third part, where it turns out "Ken" was actually an evil Gennai in disguise.
• Freak Out: As a product of his Break the Haughty.
• Future Badass: In the Distant Finale he's become a Badass Longcoat detective, fighting crime with Wormmon.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: On the receiving edge of two, courtesy of Miyako and Daisuke.
• Heel–Face Turn: Ken was the first major enemy in the series; after suffering a Villainous Breakdown following Wormmon's death, he slowly recovers from the hold the Dark Seed had over him.
• Heel Realization: Which prompted a Heel–Face Turn.
• Heroic BSoD: He gets these semi-frequently.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Davis, after joining the team.
• Hidden Depths: According to the episode in which he visits Mexico to gather the lost Digimon, he can speak and understand a decent amount of Spanish. One wonders if he really doesn't have some traces of genius after all.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: After going through wanting to be special before. He became content with who he was, and tried to encourage other kids that were being enticed by Dark Seeds to be the same way.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Ken started out as a regular boy in the shadow of his prodigy brother. After getting infected with a Dark Seed, he finally started to show enhanced intelligence and athleticism at the cost of his own humanity.
• Ineffectual Loner: Downplayed in that he is successful in knocking down Dark Towers on his own with Stingmon after being reformed, but is far more effective once he becomes part of the True Companions.
• I Wished You Were Dead: His brother, Osamu. It would not have been out of place in an especially bad Feud Episode, if it wasn’t for the fact that Ken’s wish tragically came true.
• The Lancer: Replaces Takeru once he joins the team. After he paired up with Davis as DNA partners the series have never looked back. Just look at most pictures of the team or of the Lancers of the Digimon franchise, official or otherwise.
• Laser-Guided Amnesia: Strongly implied to be the case with his memories of the Tag Tamer games. When the memories begin to surface as dreams, SkullSatamon remarks that he's "starting to remember".
• Last-Name Basis: Even after being accepted onto the team, the rest of the team still call him by his last name (not so in the dub) with the exception of Daisuke and Miyako.
• Meaningful Name: The kanji used for Ken's name means "intelligence" or "genius", reflecting both his brief stint as a genius under the Kaiser/Emperor persona and the resulting expectations that were placed on him.
• More than Mind Control: Possibly. It's not entirely clear how much of his thought process as the Kaiser is Ken and how much is the Dark Spore that was implanted in him.
• Must Make Amends: Everything he does is to make amends for what he did as the Digimon Emperor.
• My God, What Have I Done?: When Ken is told by the other children that the Digital World is not a game and all the Digimon he has hurt and killed were real living beings, he has a Heel Realization and breaks down completely. This is not helped by the fact that his actions have directly caused his partner, Wormmon, to sacrifice himself in order to bring the old Ken back.
• Nice Guy: Ken post Heel–Face Turn and as The Atoner. Fitting, considering he's the Chosen of the Crest of Kindness.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Shove your friend out of the way of an incoming spore launched from a dying enemy leading to being slowly turned evil and insane by it.
• Official Couple: With Miyako/Yolei in the 02 epilogue.
• Old Shame: invoked He dislikes his actions as the Digimon Kaiser.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Daisuke's red, replacing Takeru once he joins the team.
• Redemption Promotion: As the Digimon Emperor, Ken was a Smug Snake who frequently underestimated the Digidestined despite their numerous victories against him. After his Heel–Face Turn he is able to Digivolve Wormmon into Stingmon and becomes DNA Digivolution partners with Davis, and the two become the only 02 kids who can reach Mega level.
• Reformed, but Rejected: Even after Ken lost his Digimon and went into an emotional breakdown after he realized what he had done as the Digimon Kaiser, most of the kids were still very wary of his intentions. This was especially true when he used Wormmon to kill a rampaging Thunderballmon, rather than calming or trapping it. Then they learn in the next episode that the rogue Thunderballmon was actually created from a Dark Tower and they start trusting him more (though Iori/Cody still struggles to accept him until the final arc).
• The Resenter: Growing up, he held some resentment towards his older brother for attracting everyone else's attention with his achievements.
• School Uniforms are the New Black: He wears his gray Tamachi school uniform in both worlds. This is the outfit he defaults to after he destroys and rejects his Digimon Kaiser outfit, he which may or may not reflect his priorities and the expectations placed upon him.
• Sixth Ranger: He joins the team some time after they're already established. Ken also has quite a few things in common with one of the Trope Namers. Like Tommy, Ken is a martial artist and is Brainwashed and Crazy before joining the team. Ken is also associated with the color green; his Digimon is green and in his soccer match with Davis, Ken is wearing a green uniform while Davis is wearing red.
• Start of Darkness: When he read Oikawa's email.
• The Unfavorite: As a child, the butt of this trope before his brother's death.
• Unreliable Narrator: His memories seem to point to Sam being a Big Brother Bully to him, to the point where he styled his appearance as the Digimon Emperor after him. However, he's also shown to have been legitimately devastated by Sam's death and feels extreme guilt over wishing he'd "disappear", which in turn implies that the brothers genuinely cared for each other. The Dark Spore he'd been infected with at that point may have twisted or even fabricated his perception of the event.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: As a child, he was very gentle and kind, which both his brother and Wormmon praised as his best traits. Once he makes his Heel–Face Turn, he begins to reclaim his old personality traits and returns to being the kindhearted boy he once was.
• Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Is really evil as the Digimon Kaiser but still Ken.

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