The cast of the Digimon series Digimon Data Squad.

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Marcus Damon (Daimon Masaru)

Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi (JP), Michiru Yamazaki (JP, young), Quinton Flynn (EN), Debi Mae West (EN, young), Adrián Viador (Spain), Héctor Rocha (Latin America), Karina Altamirano (Latin America, child)

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"It's fighting time!"/"That's how a man lives!"

Marcus is a 14-year-old student who loves to fight and, in a way, considers himself to be an "ultimate fighter". He lives with his mother Sarah and younger sister Kristy. Marcus meets and fights Agumon in the first episode of the series. When the fight ends in a draw, Agumon agrees to become his partner. Soon afterward, he's recruited as a member of DATS. Marcus is one of the few shown to fight Digimon by himself, though he still counts on Agumon's help to fight the stronger opponents. Even though others can evoke their DNA charges by themselves, Marcus must connect a punch on an enemy to do so, subsequently using it to digivolve Agumon.

After the final battle he decides to stay in the digital world to help keep Digimon in-line.

10-Minute Retirement: After ShineGreymon Ruin Mode's rampage made Agumon turn back into a digiegg, he's forced to stay with his mom and sister after the others go fight against Belphemon but he later decides to go fight with them even without Agumon.
11th-Hour Superpower: His bond with Agumon helps him achieve his own Burst Mode which they use it to finish off Yggdrasil.
Achilles in His Tent: Against his will but because Agumon was a Digiegg, he couldn't join the others against Belphemon. Eventually, he went to the fight with him still as a Digiegg.
All-Loving Hero: Masaru picks up where his father Suguru left off as far as reaching out to Digimon and trying to create the world where Digimon and humans can live together.
And This Is for...:
- A dark version of this trope, when ShineGreymon Ruin Mode is pummeling MirageGaogamon, he says this about the Digimon that died because of Kurata and that Tohma will apologize to them with his life.
- A more heroic version happens later on the series, even though he doesn't say it himself, when he has Kurata at his mercy, his friends tell him to deal the killing blow for all Digimon that Kurata has killed. Masaru and ShineGreymon Burst Mode are happy to oblige.
Badass Family: He and his father, Suguru, both we're able to fight fairly against Mega level Digimon.
Badass Normal: He's strong and beat up several men at the beggining of the series. He even tied against Tohma, even though he's had far more formal training than Masaru.
Bash Brothers: In traditional Digimon fashion, he's this with Tohma but because he's the first human Digimon protagonist that's also capable of fighting against Digimons. He fits this with Agumon, as well
Battle Aura: His DigiSoul becomes a orange aura before he digivolves Agumon to Perfect level onwards, his rage at Tohma's betrayal turns it into a dark purple color however.
Beyond the Impossible: He breaks an unbreakable shield with his bare fist.
Bicep-Polishing Gesture: Done as early as episode 6.
Big Brother Instinct: In full display during the Biyomon arc. It's later revealed that his greatest fear is not being able to rescue his sister. He also develops this with Keenan, offering to let him live in his house.
Big Damn Heroes: He arrives just in time after all his friends have been defeated by Dukemon and digivolves Agumon to ShineGreymon to fight. Unfortunely, they also lose and have to be saved by Satsuma and Sleipmon.
Big Eater: Best exemplified in episode 22, where his rice bowl towers everyone else's and then he asks for additional rice several scenes later.
The Big Guy: His primary strategy is to get in close and punch the shit out of the enemy. In fact, doing so is the only way he can generate a DNA charge to digivolve Agumon.
Blood Knight: He refers to himself as the "number one street fighter" and thus never turns down a challenge from any human or Digimon and always enjoys a good fight.
BanchoLeomon: Want to try taking on these fists?
Masaru: (Knuckle Cracking with a Grin of Audacity) Interesting.
Book Dumb: Downplayed Trope Though he lacks Tohma's intelligence, Masaru is smarter than he may seem and has his own knowledge of street smarts.
Catchphrase:
- "It's fighting time!" in the dub.
- "That's how a man lives!" in the original.
Charles Atlas Superpower: The strength of Masaru's punches things scales with the drama of the series, often improbably so.
Cooldown Hug: He get's one from Chika after he orders ShineGreymon Ruin Mode to kill Tohma. While it did calm him down, it did nothing to stop ShineGreymon Ruin Mode's rampage.
Crossdressing Voices: Notably averts this, being the only Digimon lead protagonist to (in the Japanese versions) have never been voiced by a female voice actress outside of flashback.
Dead Sidekick: Agumon gets a Disney Death at some point. He gets better, despite Marcus being told he'd lose his memory.
Delinquents: A banchou in the original.
Determinator: Especially notable when he was the only one that didn't lose hope after Tohma explained the damage Belphemon would cause to both the Earth and the Digital World, and instead he said that they should just hurry up and beat him. This is what inspires the others in continuing the fight.
"Ever since the beginning, I knew there would be trouble. But what we have to do... hasn't changed a bit!"
Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: His trademark; nearly every time Agumon needs to digivolve will result in this. And a literal example, as he often literally punches them out. And in the final episode, he very literally does this when he manages to punch out Yggdrasil, the god of the Digital World, so hard, they exploded.
Four-Temperament Ensemble: The Choleric
Goggles Do Nothing: It is such a recognizable image in this franchise that it should be noted that he averts this.
The Hero
Hidden Depths: Best shown when he asked for Tohma to look after his mom and sister during the latter's birthday because he has a test to do. Tohma at first assumed that Masaru wanted Tohma to do the test for him but Masaru was quick to say that he'd never ask that.
Hot-Blooded: Extremely. If he didn't have his partner, he'd probably just keep punching his enemies until he got himself killed.
I Choose to Stay: After the final battle he decides to stay in the digital world to help keep Digimon in-line.
Idiot Hero: Okay, he's not an idiot per se, but he never thinks things through.
Image Song: Beater! and Yume No Kakera
I Should Have Been Better: After Chika tearfully asks him if Biyomon truly doesn't remember her anymore, Masaru feels this way. Saying his power wasn't useful at all to protect Chika and Biyomon's feelings and wishing to be stronger so no one else will have to suffer painful emotions. This feeling and willpower allows him to reach a new Digisoul and evolve GeoGreymon to RizeGreymon
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He can be quite the jerk at times, especially to Tohma, and isn't above arguing and even fighting with Agumon but he definitely has a good heart and is a loyal friend even to Tohma, who he had serious trouble working together with at first, and Ikuto, who has attacked him a lot of times.
The McCoy
Logical Weakness: Because he needs to hit an enemy to initiate his DNA charge, if the enemy is incorporeal, or fast / powerful enough to prevent him from making contact, then Agumon cannot digivolve. Although this was never a major impediment at any point.
Manly Tears: Anytime he cries, it's guaranteed to be this.
Agumon: Aniki, are you crying?
Masaru: No! You idiot! These are sweat drops from my heart!
Meaningful Name: Can be read as "daimondai", which sounds like "big problem".
Muscles Are Meaningless: Despite his Younger Than He Looks appearance and penchant for getting into physical fights he theoretically shouldn't be able to win and actually winning them, Marcus is shown to be rather skinny, and coupled with his height, can come off as positively lanky in the right/wrong clothes (like his school uniform, which looks too big for him). This is a trait he shares with his father. The Distant Finale that takes place five years later, however, does show him sporting a bit of muscle.
My God, What Have I Done?: His reaction to ShineGreymon Burst Mode's rampage followed by Agumon's Disney Death due to the fact it happened after his anger at Tohma forced the digievolution.
Primary-Color Champion: Marcus's civilian wear in earlier episodes consists of a red unbuttoned shirt over a white shirt, blue jeans and red sneakers. His version of the DATS uniform in a blue jacket over a red jumpsuit.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The red to Tohma's blue. Tohma is a brilliant tactician who's a trained fighter and keeps a calm head. Masaru charges in a hits things until they stop being a problem.
Rookie Red Ranger: While he is the Red Ranger equivalent for a Digimon Series, he is not the leader of DATS, nor is he the leader of his small group.
Strong Family Resemblance: Masaru only inherited his mother's auburn hair. He gained everything else from his father.
Talk to the Fist: Several occasions but the most impressive one was definitely when against Kurata.
This Is Unforgivable!: He says this a lot, especially to Kurata. But one example that stands out is the one says after Tohma's Face–Heel Turn.
Masaru: Unforgivable... Tohma... You are completely unforgivable!
True Companions: Agumon, later with Tohma, Yoshino, and Ikuto.
Unskilled, but Strong: Strong enough to punch out digimon many times his size, despite lacking the formal training that Tohma has.
Unstoppable Rage: After Tohma's betrayal, Masaru was left so furious that his rage was enough to digivolve ShineGreymon into it's Ruin Mode and he kept screaming for him to mercilessly attack MirageGaogamon and was actually aiming to kill him! It took Chika begging him to stop for him to snap out of it.
Walking Techbane: Marcus is very bad with computers and has done significant damage to DATS's operations whenever he's tried to use one. He once caused an electrical short that knocked out the Digital Dive for two weeks by typing too hard^note, and long before that he accidentally wiped part of their database by randomly banging at keys.
World's Strongest Man: No doubt about it, Masaru is probably THE strongest human shown in the series yet, he has used his DigiSoul to punch several Digimon and has even knocked them down!
Younger Than They Look: Sure, he looks more like his age in a school uniform... but out of it, it's hard to believe he's only 14.

Agumon

Voiced by: Taiki Matsuno (JP), Brian Beacock (EN), Rafael Calvo (Spain), Rolando De la Fuente (Latin America)

Agumon adores his partner Marcus, and considers himself to be "Marcus's employee". He even refers to Marcus as his Boss (though in the original Japanese he is referred to as aniki which is slang for bro... and what members of the Yakuza use to refer to their boss.) In the first episode, he is referred to by the code-name of Raptor-1 by DATS.

His digivolutions are as follows:

In-Training: Koromon, a round, pink mon, with long ears, red eyes, and sharp teeth. Blows bubbles.
Rookie: Agumon, his default form. Note that he is different from his Digimon Adventure counterpart due to a pair of red wristbands on his hands and is considerably large.
Champion: GeoGreymon. Essentially Agumon, but proper dinosaur size, lots of spikes, a carapace on its head, and a massive fire attack.
Ultimate: RizeGreymon. GeoGreymon, with added mecha-armor, red hair, wings, and a giant revolver arm.
Mega: ShineGreymon. A winged knight-like dragon-themed warrior.
- ShineGreymon Ruin Mode, a dark version of Burst Mode with black flames.
- Burst Mode: ShineGreymon Turns Red and gains wings, a sword, and a shield made of fire.

Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Arm bands
Arm Cannon: RizeGreymon. Powerful enough to defeat Ultimate/Perfect Digimon on its own, and even a Mega (though Saberleomon was weakened at that point).
The Berserker: ShineGreymon Ruin Mode is a raging beast that can do nothing but lash out at the object of its fury, causing immense collateral damage in the process.
BFG: The barrel of RizeGreymon's Arm Cannon is longer than his torso.
Big Eater: A common trait on this show but Agumon is the biggest eater of them all.
Bishōnen Line: ShineGreymon, though in an odd example of this trope, it's also by far his largest form. A better example would be Agumon's pseudo-Burst Mode during the final battle with Yggdrasil.
Breath Weapon: Agumon and GeoGreymon can both breathe fire in various patterns. Pepper Breath spits a single fireball, Spitfire Blast and Mega Flame are both continuous torrents of flame, and Mega Burst concentrates the fire into a yellow-orange laser.
Chest Blaster: One of RizeGreymon's weapons.
Converging-Stream Weapon: RizeGreymon's Rising Destroyer fires a set of small lasers from the emitters on his shoulder guards. These lasers curve inward and combine into a single massive beam that shoots toward his actual target.
Cool Sword: ShineGreymon's GeoGrey Sword is played up as a game-changer in his battle with Darkdramon, allowing Masaru and ShineGreymon to fight without risking collateral damage.
Cyborg: RizeGreymon has a giant revolver in place of his left arm, along with mechanical wings and a full chestplate, being a lot more mechanized than MetalGreymon originally was.
Dash Attack: ShineGreymon's Shining Blast has him envelop himself in a corona of energy before lunging at his target for a powerful tackle.
Deadly Upgrade: ShineGreymon Ruin Mode. He burns himself out at the end of his rampage, reverting back to a Digi-Egg - which for all purposes in Digimon media, counts as dying.
Death Glare: After becoming ShineGreymon Burst Mode and easily blocking Kurata's attack, he gives one to Kurata while performing an Unflinching Walk slowly towards him. His expression can only be described as "I'm going to kill you".
Double Weapon: The GeoGrey Sword is a double-bladed sword.
Expy: Of the original Agumon and its digivolution line.
Flaming Sword: ShineGreymon wields a sword made of fire in Burst Mode. Sometimes he turns his equally fiery shield into a second sword so he can dual-wield them.
Horn Attack: Horn Impulse, one of GeoGreymon's attacks.
Hot Wings: ShineGreymon's mechanical wings get replaced by wings made of fire in Burst Mode.
Incendiary Exponent: ShineGreymon Burst Mode. It is said that Shinegreymon unleashes the power of an entire star into the opponent.
Infant Sibling Jealousy: Played for Laughs. When Puwamon hatches in Episode 12, Agumon reacts with dismay at the fact that he's no longer the little baby of the Daimon family.
Informed Ability: The Geo Grey Sword is supposed to be a powerful weapon when ShineGreymon first whips it out to defeat Bio Darkdramon. After that, it's sole purpose is to be pulled out, prove completely useless against the Monster of the Week and then tossed aside so that ShineGreymon's Burst Mode can do the real fighting.
It Only Works Once: ShineGreymon's GeoGrey Sword. It was an effective weapon the first time he used it, when he needed a way to fight BioDarkdramon in a crowded city while avoiding collateral damage. All subsequent uses of the sword ended with it either shattering or getting knocked out of his hands.
Knightly Sword and Shield: While in Burst Mode, ShineGreymon utilizes the ability to wield a sword and a shield that are both made of fire.
Light 'em Up: ShineGreymon's Glorious Burst creates a bright ball of flame.
Only Sane Man: Not quite sane, being incredibly hot-blooded, but has moments in the dub where he tries to talk Marcus out of his Hot-Blooded antics, mainly because of the risk to him. He also tried to calm down Marcus during the physical examinations held in the beginning of episode 19.
Pistol-Whipping: Very rare, but RizeGreymon uses his arm cannon for whipping opponents into submission.
Playing with Fire: Agumon and GeoGreymon can both breathe fire, while ShineGreymon can create and throw massive fireballs for his Glorious Burst attack. Burst Mode takes this a step further by having ShineGreymon be Wreathed in Flames and giving him the ability to shape his fire into various weapons.
Power Gives You Wings: ShineGreymon already had wings, but going into Burst Mode turns them into wings of fire. Agumon's pseudo-Burst Mode in the final battle also has a Battle Aura with wings.
Raptor Attack
Revolvers Are Just Better: RizeGreymon's Trident Revolver is strong enough to end battles in one hit, as both Garudamon and Meteormon can attest to.
Technicolor Fire: ShineGreymon Ruin Mode emanates black fire, while his proper Burst Mode emanates crimson fire instead.
Theme Naming: RizeGreymon is followed by ShineGreymon.
The Power of the Sun: ShineGreymon gathers solar energy for its special attack, and its Burst Mode is full-on powered by the sun.
Too Dumb to Live: Even after being warned not to touch Puwamon's tail feathers, he does so, gets electrocuted twice and gets knocked out for his stupidity.
True Companions: With Masaru, of course.
Trademark Favorite Food: Fried eggs.

Thomas H. Norstein (Tohma H. Norstein)

Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima (JP), Yuko Sato (JP, young), Crispin Freeman (EN), Mona Marshall (EN, young) Aitor González (Spain), Rolando De la Fuente (Latin America)

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Thomas is a 14-year-old boy genius who graduated from the Stockholm Royal University of Science at the age of 13. His abilities are considered élite, even within DATS. He bases his operations on data and theoretical principles, and as such his personality clashes with Marcus'. His mother is Japanese and his father is a prominent Austrian aristocrat named Franz Norstein. Franz and Thomas's mother met while she was an exchange student in Austria, and Thomas lived with his mother in Japan until she died. He was taken back to Austria. He also has a younger sister, Relena, who suffers from a strange disease. It is never shown who Relena's mother is, but she died of complications during childbirth. While Thomas does not particularly care for his cold father, he does love his sister very much and does whatever he can to protect her. Calm and shrewd, he is the exact opposite of Marcus and sees him as a rival. He has an elitist attitude but he gets emotional when thinking of his mother, who died years ago when he was young.

Attack Pattern Alpha: He has lots of them with Gaomon and his evolutions. The attack patterns even work for the newly-acquired MirageGaogamon Burst Mode, as demonstrated in episode 42.
Badass Bookworm: He's a genius, but he's also Marcus's equal in a fight. Well it's kind of the other way around, everyone at DATS were impressed that Marcus tied with him and said he's beaten Olympic level fighters before.
Big Brother Instinct: Towards his half-sister, Relena
Blue Means Smart One: He's a Teen Genius, who graduated from university at the age of 13, and functions as both The Lancer and The Smart Guy among the main characters. He also mostly wears blue, has a blue Digivice, and his Digimon partner is Gaomon, who is a blue bipedal dog.
But Not Too Foreign: Half-Austrian
Crazy-Prepared: In one of the early episodes, Masaru accidentally manages to wipe out a portion, if not all of DATS' database. Conveniently enough, Thomas just happens to have the entire database backed up on a flash-drive. He even says "I anticipated that something like this would happen, so I took a back-up".
Fake Defector: He only did so in order to remove the bomb that was placed on Relena's neck.
Foe Romance Subtext: With Nanami, and how.
Foreshadowing: His "crush" on Marcus's mother and sister hints at his issues with his own deceased mother and sickly little sister. Gaomon also mentions in the first quarter of the series that Thomas is a licensed doctor—in a later episode, Thomas reveals that he's been studying medicine at such an accelerated rate specifically to cure his sister's illness.
Heroic Bastard: His parents met when his mother was an exchange student studying in Austria. And judging by his grandmother's words, they had him by accident.
Image Song: "Cool Running"
Improbable Age: He's a 14 year old Teen Genius who's already graduated from college.
The Lancer: His debut episode had h is and Mas aru's personalities clashing a lot which resulted in them getting into a lot of arguments. They learn to respect each other as the series goes on but their arguments persist throught the entire series.
Missing Mom: His mother is dead, having been hit by a truck when he was younger.
Mysterious Middle Initial: We never do find out what the "H" stands for...
Naked on Arrival: In the Japanese version, he's first formally introduced in the shower. You're welcome, ladies.
Omniglot: Knows 170 languages from around the world, according to Gaomon.
Punch Catch: Had a few with Masaru.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The blue to Masaru' red. Tohma is a brilliant tactician who's a trained fighter and keeps a calm head. Masaru charges in a hits things until they stop being a problem.
Royal Bastard: He's implied to be the son of an Austrian aristocrat and a Japanese exchange student who never married.
Spell My Name With An S: His Japanese name. Is it "Touma", "Tohma", "Toma", or "Tooma"? The dub settled with "Thomas".
Teen Genius: As mentioned, he graduated from Stockholm Royal University of Science at the age of 13
Younger Than They Look: He's supposed to be 14 years old, but he looks at least 4 years older than his designated age.

Gaomon

Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (JP), Skip Stellrecht (EN), Eugenio Barona (Spain), Mario Hernández (Latin America)

"Sir, yes Sir!"

Incredibly loyal to Thomas, Gaomon is the strong and quiet type, though he talks more in later episodes. He tends to blush when complimented. He almost always addresses Thomas as "Sir". He tends to be sarcastic towards Agumon.

His digivolutions are as follows:

In-Training: Wanyamon, a fluffy, blue mon with a cat face and a W on his forehead.
Rookie: Gaomon, his default form. A bipedal blue dog with a headband and boxing gloves.
Champion: Gaogamon. Essentially Gaomon on four legs, with a scarf, and more wolf-like.
Ultimate: MachGaogamon. Gaogamon, with added mecha-armor, and wrestling gear.
Mega: MirageGaogamon. A knight-like wolf-themed warrior with a big red cape.
- Burst Mode: MirageGaogamon gains jet thrusters and a giant sickle / flail made of light.

Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Gaomon doesn't wear anything but a headband and boxing gloves.
Battle Butler: He is not only Toma's partner on the battlefield, he is also Toma's butler in his manor, often seen serving him tea. Hell, his Catchphrase is "Yes, Master". You'd be lying if you said that doesn't remind you of Sebastian's "Yes, My Lord".
Bishounen Line: He goes from an Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal, to a giant nonanthropomorphic dog, to a cyborg wolfman, to a humanoid knight in wolf-themed armor.
Blow You Away: Gaomon's Double Backhand and Gaogamon's Spiral Blow both produce tornadoes.
Boxing Battler: Gaomon's a humanoid dog with boxing gloves, so naturally many of his attacks involve punching foes.
Catchphrase: "Yes, Master." in Japan, "Sir, yes Sir!" in the English dub.
Chest Blaster: MirageGaogamon's Full Moon Blaster is a laser fired from an opening in his chest.
Combat Tentacles: Gaogamon can use his prehensile scarf to grab enemies and throw them around.
Cyborg: MachGaogamon has cybernetic arms, legs, and a jetpack built into his lower back.
Doppelgänger Attack: But they are only mirages, the often looks like a flash step but MirageGaogamon is not as fast as most of the other flash steppers on the show.
Expy: To Gabumon and its digivolution line. Like Gabumon, Gaomon goes from a bipedal creature to an enormous quadrupedal wolf (Garurumon and Gaogamon), then to a bipedal wolfman (WereGarurumon and MachGaogamon), and finally a cybernetic wolf (MetalGarurumon and MirageGaogamon).
Gratuitous English: His catchphrase in the original Japanese dub is an English "Yes, Master!".
Heroic Dog: The Gaomon line is actually based on the akita inu dog breed, with elements of wolves thrown in.
Lunacy: MirageGaogamon Burst Mode gains its power from the moon.
Megaton Punch: MachGaogamon's Winning Knuckle.
Mix-and-Match Weapon: MirageGaogamon Burst Mode wields a Hard Light staff that has a spiked flail on one end and a hook shaped like a crescent moon on the other.
Noble Wolf: Loyalty and politeness make him a gentlemanly wolf indeed.
Not So Above It All: While for the most part he's portrayed as stoic and serious, he's shown to have a casual side, such as playing hopscotch with Agumon.
Omniglot: Like Thomas, he apparently knows 170 different languages.
Pet the Dog: He blushes when commented on by Kristy and Relena.
Power Fist: MachGaogamon wears a pair of enormous cybernetic gauntlets, which he uses for his Winning Knuckle attack.
Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Burst Mode replaces MirageGaogamon's cape with a long mane of white hair.
Super-Scream: MachGaogamon's Howling Cannon is a sonic attack involving visible soundwaves fired from his open mouth, striking with great force.
Sword Beam: MirageGaogamon's Double Crescent Mirage projects arcs of cutting energy from his claws.
Wolverine Claws: MirageGaogamon wears gauntlets that have claw-like blades attached to them.

Yoshino "Yoshi" Fujieda

Voiced by: Yui Aragaki (JP), Colleen O'Shaughnessey (EN), Gema Carballedo (Spain), Mildred Barrera and Azucena Martínez (Latin America)

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"This is the worst!"

At eighteen years of age, she is the oldest member of the group, compared to Marcus Damon who is fourteen years old and Thomas H. Norstein who is roughly the same age. Yoshino is independent and sees herself as an older sister figure to her two teammates. Despite her mature demeanor, she hides a terrible burden from her childhood and because of it, she has difficulty believing in her ability to do anything. When she was younger, Yoshino dealt with a severe inferiority complex that stemmed from being unable to be as good as her sisters at anything (the most noteworthy incident was a piano recital). As a result, years later, she still is secretly worried about being useless to anyone. Lalamon had been aware of her suffering for some time and helped her to overcome it. The fact became apparent when she started to feel she was useless to Marcus and Thomas since her Digimon was easily beaten in every single battle they took part in, but she eventually gained her own confidence, which allowed Lalamon to warp digivolve to Lilamon.

Bare Midriffs Are Feminine: After she returns from the Digital World and has her memory erased, she wore second civilian outfit that shows off her navel contrast to main male characters. She still wore it for the remaining of the series before she became a real cop in the epilogue.
Catchphrase: "This is the worst!" is a recurring phrase Yoshino says.
Cool Big Sis: She thinks she's this, but Lalamon disagrees.
Curtains Match the Window: Her eyes are the same reddish-brown color as her hair.
Damsel in Distress: Despite having experience as a field operator, Yoshino is usually the one who gets trapped or falls first during missions, making her more of a Faux Action Girl. Examples include losing her debut fight, and being the only one who gets sick during the mission in the Digital World. By the second arc arrives, she Took a Level in Badass however.
Drives Like Crazy: Though in her defense, when she actually drives like crazy, the car was chased by attacking Digimon or government's officials.
Fair Cop: Becomes one in the epilogue.
Faux Action Girl: Compared to Marcus and Thomas, she is a significantly older field agent of D.A.T.S.: as such she is expected to be more experienced than these two (and that's certainly the way she is treated In-Universe). Yet she and Lalamon start out quite poorly and, like Izumi before her, they end up being defeated during their first fight. That without even mentioning that she is the only one of the team who gets sick during the Digital World-arc, making her an easy target and having to be rescued by Marcus and Thomas once again.
- However, as the show progresses, she becomes more of a deconstruction and then a subversion of this trope: in episode 17 it is revealed that her inferiority complex for the fact of being Overshadowed by Awesome is what is holding her back and, through Character Development, she later becomes just as capable as her male counterparts. After all, she is one of the first female leads (the only one other than Ruki up to that point) who could make her partner reach the final stage of Digivolution.
Fiery Redhead: Slowly turns into one during the course of the series. In Kudamon's words, she's becoming more and more like Marcus on each passing days.
Image Song: Interestingly averted for Yoshino, as she is the only main character who never received an image song. This might be due to contract issues with Yui Aragaki, or because she was busy filming Waruboro and Tokyo Serendipity at the time.
Incredibly Obvious Tail: She makes no effort to hide that she is following Marcus and Agumon at first.
Older Than They Look: Because she's shorter than Marcus and Thomas, one can be forgiven for assuming that she's on the same age as those two. She's actually four years older than them.
Overshadowed by Awesome: Compared to super-strong Marcus, Teen Genius Thomas, and Wild Child Keenan, Yoshi comes off as a rather ordinary person. Her realizing that there are some things that only she can do that the others cannot is pivotal to her Character Development and Sunflowmon's evolution to Lilamon.
The Smurfette Principle: Of the human half of the team.
Team Mom: In episode 43, where she tries to be one for the stranded baby Digimons in the Damon household.
Throw a Barrel at It: Does so in episode 32, where she attacks a Gizumon-XT that was peeking through the window by throwing a barrel at it.
Took A Levelin Badass: As the show progresses and she overcomes her insecurities, Yoshi becomes much more formidible.

Lalamon

Voiced by: Yukana (JP), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (EN), Marta Méndez (Spain), Diana Huicochea (Latin America)

Yoshi's partner who has been with her for years. Though kind-natured, she isn't above teasing her companion.

Her digivolutions are as follows:

In-Training: Budmon, a green mon with a leaf and three purple thorns.
Rookie: Lalamon, her default form.
Champion: Sunflowmon. Has a dragon-esque green body with leaf wings and a big sunflower for a head.
Ultimate: Lilamon. A pink and green pixie with flowers for her hands and feet.
Mega: Rosemon. A red-clad female warrior wielding a vine whip and rapier.
- Burst Mode: Rosemon turns white and gains a pink rosary of floating jewels.

Arm Cannon: Marvel Shot and Lila shower are organic versions
Bishōnen Line: She goes from a floating flower thing, to a lizard-like plant monster with a sunflower for a head, to a mostly humanoid Plant Person with Plant Hair, to a practically human woman dressed in rose-themed clothes.
Blade Below the Shoulder: Lilamon can make one.
Bullet Seed: Seed blast, although technically they are nuts.
Death of a Thousand Cuts: Forbidden Temptation's description in the Digimon dictionary would have you believe it is just a shower of rose petals but they just be very numerous and highly concentrated because it looks like a Kamehamehadoken and can beat back flames.
Expy:
- Sunflowmon resembles the Pokémon Sunflora, astonishingly enough, but what sells it is that her attack is Sunshine Beam. Which is pretty similar to Pokémon's Solarbeam.
- Her evolution line is a parallel to the Palmon line, with Palmon and Togemon switching places (chubby plant-flower-fairy instead of flower-chubby plant-fairy). Unsurprising as both reach the same Mega form.
- An additional shout-out occurs in the twenty-minute "movie" in which Lalamon shows that she knows kung-fu and proceeds to beat up mooks while doing Bruce Lee imitations and wielding nun-chucks made out of sausages.
- Burst mode has a shout out to Rose Gundam's "rose bits".
Eyeless Face: Rosemon's eyes are covered by her flower headgear.
Faux Action Girl: Subverted, she gets better as Yoshino does. Lampshaded in the "Tokuten Eizou" special (essentially a Clip Show with commentary from the main three Digimon), with both Agumon and Gaomon noting that Lalamon was basically useless before she became Lilamon.
Flight: She can fly in all of her forms.
Forced Sleep: Lalamon's Sing A Song puts her opponents to sleep.
Gratuitous French: Rosemon Burst Mode's attacks are in French in the Japanese version. For example, her main attack was "Aguichant Levres" (Seductive Lips), which was changed into "Kiss of Breath" in the English version.
Hand Blast: Lilamon's Marvel Shot and Lila Shower attacks. The former shoots energy balls from the palms of her flower hands, while the latter fires pink lasers from her petal fingertips.
Head Blast: Sunflowmon's Sunshine Beam is fired from her face.
Helicopter Blender: Lalamon's Lala Spiral is a melee attack where she spins the leaves on top of her head like a propeller.
Hu Mons: Rosemon is effectively a very tall woman dressed in a rose-themed superhero costume.
Improvised Weapon: In the movie, she beats the tar out of a bunch of Goblimon using a chain of sausages.
Kiss of Death: Burst Mode's "Kiss of Breath".
Lady of War: Rosemon only. She's usually pretty silly, otherwise.
Ms. Fanservice: As Rosemon, not only her transformation shows her naked, but also her attack Forbidden Temptation and her breasts have a tendency to "jump" when she fights.
The Paralyzer: Lilamon's Un Deux Pollen paralyzes any Digimon hit by it, with some exceptions.
Petal Power: Rosemon's Forbidden Temptation may look like a pink Kamehame Hadoken, but it's really countless rose petals launched in a concentrated barrage. Regardless, it's powerful enough to win a Beam-O-War with BioSupinomon's Blue Prominence.
Power of the Sun: Sunflowmon's Sunshine Beam is a laser of concentrated sunlight fired from her face.
Sizeshifter: Rosemon is normally about twice the height of an adult woman, but she grows into a giantess while in Burst Mode.
The Smurfette Principle: Of the Digimon half of the team.
Took a Level in Badass: Lalamon is shown to be rather ineffectual compared to Agumon and Gaomon in the early episodes, to the point that Sunflowmon couldn't even beat the Monster of the Week in her debut episode. Once she evolved into Lilamon for the first time, the show stopped treating her like a joke.
Vine Tentacles: Rosemon's signature Thorn Whip is an attack made with its thorn-covered vine whip.
Whip of Dominance: Rosemon uses a whip in combat, which complements the Dominatrix motif of her design.

Keenan Crier (Noguchi Ikuto)

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (JP), Brianne Siddall (EN), Pepa Agudo (Spain), Alma Juárez (Latin America)

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As opposed to the other members of DATS, Keenan did not live in the human world, nor did he originally have a particular liking for it. Though originally born on Earth to the DATS scientists Kevin and Michelle Crier (Kenji and Misuzu Noguchi), he was accidentally transported to the Digital World as an infant. In the Digital World, he was raised by a Frigimon, who acted as a mother figure to him. Falcomon was raised alongside him like a brother. Following her death, he was raised by Merukimon, who became a father figure to him. He believes in defending the peace of the Digital World, and also believed that humans were nothing but a threat to it. Despite his young age, Keenan has great fighting skill (many of his moves mirror the ninja-like aspects of Falcomon). He wields a boomerang, and wears a cape and a necklace adorned with feathers, and also has facepaint.

And This Is for...: After Merukimon is killed by Kurata, he says this in regards to him before making Falcomon warp digivolve to Crowmon and curbstomp the Gizumon XT who killed Merukimon.
Battle Boomerang: Has two, with the second being the first's replacement after it got smashed into data by Marcus.
Boomerang Bigot: How appropriate, though it does not last too long once he realizes what he is, it still lasts long enough to qualify for this trope.
Charles Atlas Superpower: Lets not forget that this is a ten year old kid who, in most episodes is pulling stunts of strength and agility that would turn an Olympic Athlete green with envy. The best representation of this is the episode where he finally meets his parents and he carries his own mother out of their possessed house, making multi-story jumps the entire time. Once again, to reiterate, this kid is TEN YEARS OLD!
Cute Bruiser: A little boy who is A LOT stronger than he looks.
Et Tu, Brute?: Not all Digimon were as loyal to him as he was to them.
Heel–Face Turn: A less extreme case compared to the others in Digimon franchise, since he never did any villainous acts beyond his fights against Marcus. His hatred towards humanity was what keeping him from fully turning in, until Merukimon conviced him otherwise in episode 25.
Hulk Speak: Strangely enough, even though Digimon usually speak normally, so being raised by them really shouldn't have affected his speech pattern. He gets better by the end of the show.
Last-Name Basis: In the localized version of Digimon World Data Squad and Digimon World Dawn/Dusk, where everyone calls him "Crier".
Let's You and Him Fight: Keenan vs. other humans, until...
Missing Mom: His foster mother was murdered by Akihiro Kurata.
Oblivious Adoption: He was raised by a Frigimon but never seemed to make the connection considering he's not himself a digimon.
Raised by Wolves: He was raised by digimon.
Ship Tease: With Kristy.
Sixth Ranger: He's the last member to join DATS and his partner is the only one who can achieve Burst Mode like the other three protagonists.
Would Hit a Girl: He almost succeeded on attacking a defenseless, bed-ridden Yoshi in episode 16. Thankfully, Marcus arrived just in time.

Falcomon

Voiced by: Chie Kujiro (JP), Steve Blum (EN), José María Carrero (Spain), Daniel Lacy (Latin America)

Keenan's partner who was raised alongside him by Frigimon. After Frigimon's death, he follows Keenan to serve Merukimon.

His digivolutions are as follows:

Rookie: Falcomon, his default form.
Champion: Peckmon, a yellow, ninja-gear clad ostrich.
Ultimate: Crowmon (Yatagaramon), a black and purple crow with golden armor and three legs.
Mega: Ravemon, a samurai with silver bird armor, one white wing, and one black wing.
- Burst Mode: Ravemon's arms and wings merge and turn glowy purple. His armor turns white.

Badass Adorable: Particularly in the Japanese version, where his voice is much cuter.
Bishōnen Line: He goes from being a cartoonish ninja bird, to an ostrich wearing ninja clothes, to a giant crow, to a Winged Humanoid samurai wearing raven-themed armor.
Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": Can't the designers tell an owl from a falcon? In his defense, Falcomon's original design◊ looked a lot more like a falcon than his current one.◊
Curb-Stomp Battle: Everytime Falcomon reaches a new evolutionary level, he will always curb-stomp his enemies.
- Peckmon overwhelmed GeoGreymon, Gaogamon, and Sunflowmon and managed to escape before they could fight back.
- Yatagaramon managed to destroy a Gizumon XT, which shrugged off attacks from the other three Perfects and Merukimon.
- Ravemon was able to deal a significant amount of damage to Belphemon Rage Mode to the point that the latter had to unchain himself to recover.
Flash Step: Falcon can move so fast that he appears to teleport.
Flechette Storm: Falcomon's Ninja Blade and Peckmon's Kunai Wing both involve throwing dozens of shuriken or kunai at the enemy en masse.
Giant Flyer: Crowmon is a three-legged raven the size of a large plane. Keenan looks positively tiny when riding on his back.
Hand Blast: Or near enough. Crowmon's Savage Emperor fires energy beams from his front pair of feet.
Heel–Face Turn: He turns in earlier than Keenan, due to his temporary allegiance with Marcus and Thomas to obtain the serum needed to cure Yoshi and Keenan from their disease.
Made of Iron: Crowmon resists the Gizumon attacks, perhaps explained by the Digimon dictionary which would have you believe its attacks work in a similar manner, which could explain its tolerance to them.
Ninja: His Rookie and Champion forms are themed after ninjas, wearing clothes that wouldn't look out of place in Naruto and using shuriken and kunai as weapons.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Ravemon is tied with Rosemon for being the smallest of the four Mega-level partner Digimon, but he is just as powerful as his peers if not stronger. He actually managed to wound Belphemon with his attacks, something MirageGaogamon and Rosemon could not do at first.
Right Hand of Doom: Inversion, Ravemon's small wing is the more dangerous one. The size is reversed this way on purpose to throw off anyone who he may have to fight.
Shock and Awe: Celestial Blade strikes Ravemon's target with a bolt of black lightning.
Sizeshifter: Burst Mode makes Ravemon grow several stories taller, putting him on par with ShineGreymon and MirageGaogamon in terms of stature.
Smoke Out: Falcomon's Firecracker Smokescreen, which has him throw down firecrackers to create a smokescreen.
Speed Blitz: Ravemon Burst Mode's Mourning Dance has him Flash Step around his opponent while striking them repeatedly with kicks and slashes.
Sword Plant: Ravemon's Celestial Blade involves him stabbing the ground with his sword to call down a lightning bolt.
Vertebrate with Extra Limbs: Crowmon, like his mythological inspiration, is a three-legged raven.
Winged Humanoid: Ravemon has a mismatched pair of wings. The black one grows from his right shoulder separately from his arm, while the silver wing grows out of his left arm as if the arm itself were the wing. In Burst Mode, both arms become wings.
The Worf Effect: Crowmon made his debut by defeating Gizumon-XT, a foe too powerful for the other protagonists' Ultimate level Digimon to overcome even when working together. The very next episode sees him get smacked around by the newly-introduced Bio-Hybrids to show how powerful they are in comparison.

Supporting Cast

Miki Kurosaki & Megumi Shirakawa

Miki voiced by: Ai Nagano (JP), Kate Higgins (EN), Rosa Vivas (Spain), Karina Altamirano (Latin America)
Megumi voiced by: Yukiko Hanioka (JP), Stephanie Sheh (EN), Carolina Tak (Spain), Karina Altamirano (Latin America)

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Miki (left) and Megumi (right)

The computer operators at DATS, who generally give data on the digimon the team is facing. After the final battle, they become police officers.

Bridge Bunnies: Their job in DATS is to man the computers and scan for Digimon signatures while the main characters go out and do the field work. They continue to fill this role even after DATS headquarters has been destroyed and the organization's members have been branded as fugitives, though they also get to join the main characters in battle at several points.
Calling Your Attacks: The girls have to call the attacks for their PawnChessmon, who are mute.
Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Amusingly subverted in their second wardrobe. Megumi wears mostly black even though her PawnChessmon is white, and the reverse applies to Miki as well. The two even can use each other's Digivices, which are colored in inverse of their respective surnames.
Expy: Of Reika and Megumi of Tamers, to the point of Reika and Miki sharing a voice actress (Ai Nagano) and the other two sharing a first name (Megumi).
Fanservice Pack: They ditch their normal uniforms for a pair of form-fitting catsuits halfway through the series.
Heterosexual Life-Partners: They spend most of their time together and have good camaraderie.
Let's Get Dangerous!: Whenever they get off the bridge.
Meaningful Name: Their names are Color-Coded for Your Convenience. The "kuro" in "Kurosaki" means "black," while the "shira" in "Shirakawa" means "white." Bet you can guess which PawnChessmon belongs to which bunny now!
Ms. Fanservice: They're the most voluptuous members of the female human cast, a fact that gets repeatedly emphasized in the second half of the show.

PawnChessmon Black & White

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Two PawnChessmons who serve as Miki and Megumi's partners. Like them, they also serve as the computer operators in DATS.

Their digivolutions are as follows:

Rookie: PawnChessmon, their default form.
Champion: KnightChessmon. Centaurian warriors wielding giant darts.
Ultimate (Black): RookChessmon. A giant, black, humanoid castle.
Ultimate (White): BishopChessmon. A white mechanical bishop.

Arm Cannon: RookChessmon has multi-barreled gun turrets in place of hands.
Barrier Warrior: The PawnChessmon can erect a forcefield to protect themselves and their allies.
Bishōnen Line: The supplementary materials reveal this to be true of RookChessmon's mega form Queenchessmon◊
Chess Motifs: As their names indicate, they are Digimon inspired by chess pieces.
Dark Is Not Evil: They're both Virus-type Digimon, and PawnChessmon (Black) has a dark color scheme in all its forms. Despite this, the two of them are firmly on the side of the heroes.
Let's Get Dangerous!: They spend most of their time manning consoles or otherwise carrying out mundane tasks at DATS headquarters for the first part of the series. Once Gotsumon launches an invasion of the human world, they get to show off their Champion forms and fighting chops.
Magic Staff: BishopChessmon carries a mace-like crozier which it can use to fire its Bishop Laser attack.
More Dakka: RookChessmon is positively bristling with gun turrets, which it puts to good use during the battle with Belphemon.
Our Centaurs Are Different: The KnightChessmon are robotic centaurs with wheeled hooves and a chest piece in the shape of a horse's head.
Shadowed Face, Glowing Eyes: Beneath each PawnChessmon's visor is a dark void with two solid yellow lights for eyes.
Support Party Member: During the Belphemon fight. Thomas even ordered them to "commit to background support".
The Voiceless: They never speak at any point in the show, and it's implied that they're mute. Amusingly, there's a scene in the final episode where the Bridge Bunnies decide they should all go sing karaoke...

Richard Sampson (Satsuma Rentarou)

Voiced by: Taiten Kusunoki (JP), Jamieson Price (EN), Ángel Amorós (Spain), Alan René Bressant (Latin America)

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The Commander of DATS Japan, giving the three main members their orders. He also worked with Yushima as a private investigator, which led to them joining the expedition to the digital world and meeting Spencer Damon.

The Captain: The leader of DATS.
Contrasting Replacement Character: In the broader franchise, he could be seen as one to Yamaki. Both are the heads of secret government agencies that police Digimon and are fairly intimidating individuals. However, Yamaki starts out as an antagonistic figure who hates Digimon before doing a Heel–Face Turn, while Satsuma, while stern in his own right, does his job as much for the Digimon's safety as humanity's.
Cool Shades: Never once takes them off. Ever. Not even in the dark. The few times his eyes can actually be seen can be counted on one hand, and restricted to either flashbacks, or when the injured Kudamon wanted to fight Gallantmon and he was understandably concerned. Lampshaded further when you view his model from the Digimon Masters Online MMORPG: If you look behind his shades, his eyes are closed!
Da Chief: The team (and us viewers) found out the hard way how loud he is when you screw up royally. Used for comedic effect in Episode 20.
Heroic Sacrifice: At least in intent, though it didn't result in his death. He was out of the way for quite a while, though.
Jerkass Has a Point: While his attempts to make Kristy, Marcus' little sister, into a Tamer are through very cruel and scary means, it was either that or having to send Biyomon back to the digital world. His point is valid as Digimon have to go back, and only with a Tamer can they stay.
Let's Get Dangerous!: He follows the Bio Hybrids into the Digital Gate and has Kudamon jump straight to the Ultimate Level so as to buy the others time to get away, with them able to keep the Hybrids in a stalemate despite being outnumbered.
The Stoic: Even when issuing orders, very little emotion besides authority drips out.

Kudamon

Voiced by: Nanaho Katsuragi (JP), Sam Riegel (EN), Pepe Carabias (Spain), Daniel Lacy (Latin America)

Sampson's partner who is often seen hanging around his neck. Despite his small stature, he is stronger than he might seem.

His digivolutions are as follows:

Rookie: Kudamon, his default form.
Champion: Reppamon, a large white fox with a sickle for a tail.
Ultimate: Chirinmon (Qilinmon), a green Chinese unicorn with big white wings.
Mega: Kentaurosmon (Sleipmon), a giant eight-legged Equitar with red armor and a big crossbow. One of the Royal Knights.

Absurdly Sharp Blade: Chirinmon's horn is sharp enough to cut the flesh of the Bio-Hybrids, who were themselves completely impervious to anything the main characters' Ultimate level Digimon could throw at them.
All There in the Manual: Kudamon's Champion form goes unnamed in the show. You'd have to look it up online to learn that it's called Reppamon.
Becoming the Mask: He was a member of the Royal Knights and was sent by King Drasil to spy on humans, but became fond of them and changed sides, in particular bonding with and becoming the partner of Commander Sampson.
Head Pet: Well, Neck Pet. He enjoys hanging from Sampson's neck.
Heroic Sacrifice: As Kentaurosmon, he had fully intended on freezing himself and Gallantmon to death if it meant protecting the rest of DATS, their frozen "tomb" sinking to the bottom of the harbor they were fighting at. The ice only melts after Gallantmon decides to join the other Royal Knights in their Heel–Face Turn, Kentaurosmon no longer needing to keep them frozen anymore, using the last of his energy to not only melt the ice, but revitalize Gallantmon so he can quickly go help the others.
An Ice Person: Kentaurosmon's Icy Breath^noteOdin's Breath summons a blizzard to freeze his enemies solid.
Kirin: At the ultimate level he becomes Qilinmon, a Digimon which, as its name implies, is derived from a qilin. It looks like a cross between a dragon and a horse all decked out in armor, and is also classified a Holy Beast Digimon.
Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Kentaurosmon has a massive shield shaped like a horse's head on his right arm. He uses it to defend Marcus from Gallantmon's attacks and later to block Gallantmon's spear while he freezes the Royal Knight and himself solid.
Speed Blitz: Chirinmon's Knowledge Of Swift involves him Flash Stepping around his enemies to confuse them before slashing them all with his razor-sharp horn.
Taking You with Me: He uses his "Odin's Breath" attack as Kentaurosmon to freeze both himself and Gallantmon, intending on having them both be frozen to death.
Took a Level in Badass: His Mega form is a freaking Royal Knight!

Homer Yushima (Yushima Hiroshi)

Voiced by: Cho (JP), Kirk Thornton (EN), Rafael Calvo (Spain), Mario Hernández (Latin America)

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A mysterious old man who gave Marcus his Digivice and some advice several times throughout the series. Eventually revealed to be the chief officer of DATS and the partner of Kamemon, as well as a member of the first expedition to the Digital World. He is, to date, the oldest human in a Digimon series to own a Digivice of some kind and have a Digimon partner.

Cool Old Guy: While he is the Chief Officer, he's perfectly fine with just chilling and fishing, while also handing out Digivices to those like Marcus that catch his eye.
Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow: He's balding in the present, but had a full head of hair in flashbacks to ten years prior.
Intergenerational Friendship: With the rest of the cast, though he develops one with Relena later on.
Stealth Mentor: To Marcus during the first arc of the series.

Kamemon

Voiced by: Naozumi Takahashi (JP), Jeff Nimoy (EN), Daniel Lacy (Latin America)

A turtle Digimon often seen serving drinks for the operators in DATS. It was later revealed that he is Yushima's partner.

His digivolutions are as follows:

Rookie: Kamemon, his default form.
Champion: Gawappamon, a green plush kappa that fires CDs from it's head.
Ultimate: Shawjamon, a white clad amphibious Digimon wielding a mystical staff.
Mega: JumboGamemon, only appears in Digimon World Data Squad.

Beware the Silly Ones: Gawappamon is a living plush kappa with stretchy arms and the ability to shoot CDs out of his head. He's as silly as that description makes him sound, but he's also a Champion level Digimon strong enough to take down Ultimates like Gizumon-XT and Knightmon with minimal effort.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Eye-Obscuring Hat: Kamemon's eyes are hidden beneath the brim of his helmet, while Shawjamon's are hidden beneath his Naruto headband.
Improbable Weapon User: Gawappamon attacks by launching CDs from its head like projectiles. Meanwhile, Shawjamon wields a metal staff that has a crescent-shaped blade at one end, and an oversized revolver cylinder at the other.
Kappa: Gawappamon is based on the kappa, but instead of carrying water in the depression on its head, it carries a seemingly inexhaustible supply of CDs.
Making a Splash: Shawjamon's Hydra Descent makes geysers of water erupt from the ground.
The Quiet One: While he can talk, most the time he's too shy to do so, as he doesn't like the attention.
Shout-Out: His Champion form is a techno variation on the traditional Japanese Kappa water sprites. His Ultimate form is a shout out to Sha Wujing from Journey to the West. And finally, supplemental materials reveal that his Mega form is a shout out to Gamera.
Spin to Deflect Stuff: Shawjamon can deflect the Knightmons' Sword Beams by twirling his staff at high speed.
The Voiceless: Most of the time.
Yoshi: ...I forgot he could talk.

Spencer Damon (Daimon Suguru)

Voiced by: Hozumi Gouda (JP), Jeff Nimoy (EN), José María Carrero (Spain), Héctor Rocha (Latin America)

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The legacy of Dr. Spencer Damon is felt throughout the series, even though he does not appear in it personally at first. He is Marcus's father, and a member of the expedition to the Digital World. When the group was forced to escape back to the human world, he stayed behind to make sure they could escape, and for a while, it was unknown what happened to him. That is, until the answers were revealed by the Digimon called Mercurimon. Spencer had remained back in the Digital World in order to seek out the "god" of the Digital World named King Drasil. Before that, however, he created the Digivice, and sent the data for it to the human world along with Kudamon and Kamemon. After making a deal with Mercurimon to preserve the peace of both worlds, he departed.

Over time, he was joined in his search by BanchoLeomon until they found King Drasil, but things went wrong and by the time Marcus and gang confronted King Drasil, it used Spencer's soulless body as its own. The soul of Spencer himself was taken in by BanchouLeomon at the last second when the Royal Knights advanced on them. However, thanks to his friend's sacrifice, Spencer was restored and King Drasil was purged from his body. Spencer returns to his family at the end of the last episode.

Badass Normal: He was recruited into the original Digital World exploration team due to his scientific knowledge, and he was the original designer of the Digivice. He survived in the Digital World with his bare hands and the power of Digisoul/DNA charge.
Badass Bookworm: For reasons stated above. He also contended with badass Banchou Leomon, arguably one of the MOST Badass Digimon, EVER.
Demonic Possession: His body was taken by Yggdrasil/King Drasil sometime before his reunion with his son.
Disappeared Dad: He's this to Masaru.
Famed In-Story: In the Digital world, Spenser Damon is nothing short of legendary; the mere mention of his name is enough to curry favor from the residents of the sacred city, as Marcus and the others found out.
Genius Bruiser: He's as intelligent as he is strong. And he is VERY strong.
Hot-Blooded: It runs in the family, though Suguru isn't above resolving things peacefully before the punching starts. To get the whole point across, he beat SaberLeomon with his bare hands when the teams Digimon couldn't even scratch him.
Meaningful Name: 大門 (Dai Mon means "Great Gate" in Japanese, and he was a member of the first Digital World expedition.)
Mysterious Parent: TO Masaru.
Science Hero: While his incredible strength served him well during his exploits in the Digital World, it's ultimately his scientific inventions that end up aiding the heroes the most during their journey.

BanchoLeomon

Voiced by: Eiji Takemoto (JP), Wally Wingert (EN), Alan René Bressant (Latin America)

A wandering Digimon who saved Marcus' group when they were chased off by herds of Gizumon XT. He seems to be knowledgeable about the nature of Digisoul and the Digivices.

Badass Longcoat: Fanon would have you believe that's he's stolen Jotaro's.
Blood Less Carnage: When BanchoLeomon "executed" Masaru's father (he didn't really kill him, he "only" wounded him mortally with an energy attack from his fist and then used Suguru's digivice to transfer his sould into his body so that Yggdrasil would be fooled into thinking that Suguru is dead while he could watch and support Masaru from the shadows, but the deception didn't work and Yggdrasil took Suguru's body hostage and used it as an avatar), there was no blood even though he was shot through and the wound rather big.
Foreshadowing: An early clue that he's sharing a body with Suguru, or at least has a close bond with him, is that his Digisoul is the exact same color as Masaru and Suguru's.
Heroic Sacrifice: He grabs hold of the possessed Spencer and doesn't let go, allowing ShineGreymon to obliterate them both with a Glorious Burst. While Spencer later gets revived, BanchoLeomon stays dead.
Load-Bearing Hero: When the human and Digital Worlds are in danger of colliding, he goes to the spot where the Digital World's tallest mountain is going to touch the Earth and uses all his life force to become a pillar which holds the two worlds apart. Craniamon eventually frees him of this burden and takes his place.
Luke, I Am Your Father: Shares a body with Marcus' Disappeared Dad.
Mega Neko: He's a giant anthropomorphic lion.
Out-Gambitted: He comes up with a clever plan to save Spencer's life by "executing" him and then taking his spirit inside of himself so that Spencer can go and help his son. Unfortunately, King Drasil saw through the plan almost immediately and took Spencer's vacant body as a hostage, threatening to destroy it if BanchoLeomon told anyone what was going on.
Power Dyes Your Hair: Burst Mode turns his hair golden and makes it stand up like a Super Saiyan.
Running Gag: He's an evolution of Leomon. You know how this goes.
Sharing a Body: He took Spencer Damon’s spirit inside of himself so the latter could escape his execution.
Shout-Out: Wears the same uniform-with-chain as fellow delinquent and badass Jotaro Kujo.
Sink or Swim Mentor: He teaches the heroes to control their D.N.A. by locking them in a dojo and refusing to let them out until they can destroy a set of regenerating training dummies, even when the dojo is getting demolished around them by the attacking Bio-Hybrids and their Digimon partners are getting trounced by the same.
Wham Line: At the end of episode 45: Your father, Spencer Damon...is in fact me!

Sarah Damon (Daimon Sayuri)

Voiced by: Mariko Kouda (JP), Mary Elizabeth McGlynn (EN), Pepa Agudo (Spain), Alma Juárez (Latin America)

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Sarah is Marcus and Kristy's mother, as well as Spencer Damon's wife. While she first appeared, she reacted somewhat casually to Agumon's presence, it was eventually revealed that she had been knowledgeable of the existence of Digimon for some time. Though kind and supportive of her son, she is somewhat fearful when he voiced that he had to go to the Digital World and stop the machinations of Kurata. Her memories of the family's time with Agumon were temporarily erased, but that seems to have been reversed. She later appears to give the former DATS team dinner, and is very dumbfounded when meeting BanchoLeomon for the first time.

Fantastically Indifferent: She reacts to Marcus bringing a talking, fire-breathing dinosaur home the same way a normal mother would react to their child bringing a new friend over, much to Marcus's confusion. Her indifference is later explained with the revelation that she already knew about the existence of Digimon.
Motherly Side Plait: One of the few survivors of this trope.
Open-Minded Parent: Doesn't react particularly badly to the revelation of her son bringing home an extradimensional reptile. Of course, there's a reason for that...
Stacy's Mom: So much that Thomas gets a crush on her. Marcus wasn't impressed.
Supreme Chef: Everyone often gushes at how delicious her cookings are.
Team Mom: Very friendly to the entire DATS team, and even hosts a dinner for them!

Kristy Damon (Daimon Chika)

Voiced by: Kokoro Kikuchi (JP), Melissa Fahn (EN), Marta Méndez (Spain), Karina Altamirano (Latin America)

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Kristy is Marcus's sister. She was immediately taken with and friendly towards Marcus's rival and friend Thomas, and it was her wish that he escort her and her mother on her birthday. Later, Kristy befriended a newly hatched Digimon who eventually became Biyomon, but this relationship ended when Biyomon was struck down, and later driven to madness after being revived. When her friend was finally defeated, Kristy was happy to know her friend no longer had to suffer. He comes later back as her partner.

Badass Adorable: She's got enough upper body strength to toss both Keenan and Falcomon in the bathtub.
Gamer Chick: Surprisingly skilled too, if Thomas' seventeen losses are any indication.
Girlish Pigtails: That she kept all the way to her middle school years as shown in the Time Skip.
"I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight: Fails one of these with Aquilamon & Garudamon.
Little Miss Badass: Par for the course with preteen Tamers. In episode 44, she turns Super Saiyan, which is kind of a first for this franchise, though.
Nightmare Fetishist: A mild case; during a trip to an amusement park, she was outright overjoyed at a sight that had Sarah unnerved and Thomas outright horrified. What sight? The face was never shown but it appeared to be a fairly standard Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl.
Ship Tease: With Keenan
Strong Family Resemblance: A mini version of her mother.

Biyomon (Piyomon)

Voiced by: Haruhi Terada (JP), Terrence Stone (EN), Alma Juárez (Latin America)

A newborn Digimon whose Digi-egg fell out of the sky and landed in the Damon family's backyard. He forms a deep bond with Kristy, leading him to digivolve to the Rookie level within a day of hatching.

His digivolutions are as follows:

In-Training:^note Puwamon. Can only be described as a little puffball of feathers with HUGE eyes. Hates having it's tail feather touched.
Rookie: Biyomon, his default form. Not to be confused with Sora's Biyomon from Digimon Adventure.
Champion: Aquilamon. An enormous red eagle with two black horns.
Ultimate: Garudamon. A towering bird-man with tremendous power.

Badass Adorable: Subverted; despite his wanting to protect Kristy, Marcus utterly thrashes him in their fight, with the only hit that he lands being one that Marcus deliberately takes to demonstrate how weak and unable to fulfill his promise Biyomon actually is.
Berserk Button: Puwamon hates having its tail feather touched, as Agumon found out.
Brainwashed and Crazy: Though, his non-brainwashed state isn't exactly clever either.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Puwamon easily KOs Agumon, a digimon three times the size of him, with two electrical shocks from his tail feathers, which the latter touched carelessly.
Declaration of Protection: When he first Digivolves into his Rookie form, he declares he'll protect Kristy from anything. Unfortunately, he's unable to do so.
Honor Before Reason: A big part of his character and the cause of his initial death.
Giant Flyer: Digivolves into Aquilamon, and then further into Garudamon.
Playing with Fire: As Garudamon.
The Promise: Promises to protect Kristy no matter what. The entire reason he fights Marcus is to attempt to fulfill this promise as well. The Japanese title for his episode is even "I Will Protect Chika! Piyomon's Resolve!"
Ridiculously Cute Critter: As Puwamon, his baby form, which can best be described as a little ball of feathers with big Puppy-Dog Eyes.
Too Dumb to Live: Deconstructed; he fights Merukimon and gets himself killed, though he's also not thinking straight at the time due to going berserk.

Relena Norstein

Voiced by: Oma Ichimura (JP), Kari Wahlgren (EN)

Thomas' sickly half-sister who is brought to Japan to undergo an emergency medication.

Cuteness Proximity: How she reacts on Gaomon during their first meeting.
Delicate and Sickly: She has a undefined illness and she mostly moves with a wheelchair.
Fusion Dance: Kurata offered to cure her by infusing her with a Digimon, which would essentially turn her into another Bio-Hybrid. Luckily, Thomas managed to stop it for ever happening.
I Have Your Daughter: Is a victim of this during the late stretch of Kurata arc, because her father made a Deal with the Devil with the mad scientist.
Intergenerational Friendship: Later on, she develops one with Yushima.
Missing Mom: Who was later revealed to suffer Death by Childbirth.
Strapped to a Bomb: The choker that she's wearing when she was first introduced is revealed to be a bomb made by Kurata. However, Touma was able to remove and destroy it before her surgery started.

Merukimon (Mercurymon)

Voiced by: Kosei Hirota (JP), Richard Epcar (EN), Héctor Rocha (Latin America)

One of the Olympus XII and ruler of the Infinite Ice Ridge. He has acted as a father figure for Keenan.

Anti-Villain: Type III. Near the end of his arc, he tends towards Type IV and arguably Anti-Hero status.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: He's an outright giant.
Badass Boast: Claims to be the fastest Digimon ever.
Dark Is Not Evil: He is a Virus type Digimon and an antagonist when first introduced. He later does a Heel–Face Turn, but even then he was a Well-Intentioned Extremist to begin with whose top concern was protecting fellow Digimon from Kurata's genocidal campaign.
Killed Off for Real: He is the first victim on screen to be taken down by one of Kurata's Gizumon XT.
Knight of Cerebus: Non villainous example, his arrival marked the end of the filler episodes and introduced story arcs. But then again, when he first appears to the DATS, he delivers a Curb-Stomp Battle to them before Biyomon's Heroic Sacrifice against him. That was something.
Lightning Bruiser: Despite his giant size, he is capable of moving at incredible speeds, particularly his fists.
Olympus Mons: He is named for the Roman god Mercury (though is not too much like him otherwise) and also incorporates some elements of Aztec Mythology.
Orcus on His Throne: Not by choice but out of necessity.
Parental Substitute: He served as Keenan's Father following the death of Frigimon who in turn served as the boy's mother for his biological parents.
Pragmatic Adaptation: There is already a Mercurymon in Digimon Frontier (Mercuremon in the Japanese version), so Merukimon it was.
Red Herring: Is initially set up as the Big Bad. As the show goes on it turns out he had nothing to do the early threats facing the human world and his subordinates and allies prove the real danger for his arc.

Gotsumon

Voiced by: Ken Maeda (JP), Michael Lindsay (EN), Carolina Tak (Spain), Daniel Lacy (Latin America)

A messenger of Merukimon who harbors a deep hatred towards Keenan.

His digivolutions are as follows:

Rookie: Gotsumon, his default form.
Ultimate: Meteormon (Insekimon), Gotsumon turns white and gains an enormous boost of power and speed.

Amnesiac Villain Joins the Heroes: He was a major antagonist during the Merukimon arc, but he comes back to life with total amnesia after getting destroyed by RizeGreymon. When the heroes bump into him again during the final arc, he doesn't remember them at all, and he guilelessly helps his former enemies in their quest to Save Both Worlds.
Co-Dragons: With Keenan and Falcomon until their eventual defection.
Consummate Liar: He managed to lie to Keenan about how the whole Digital World reject him, and to Merukimon about how Keenan decides to turn against him.
Death of Personality: After RizeGreymon reduces him to a Digi-egg, Gotsumon comes back without any memories of his previous life. This results in him having a different personality: while still a bit of a jerk and somewhat cowardly, he's a far cry from the manipulative and hateful person he used to be.
Dishing Out Dirt : His Rock Fist attack shoots boulders out of his head.
Enigmatic Minion: Though loyal to Merukimon, he is willing to disobey him to carry out his vendetta against Humans.
Heel–Face Turn: After being reborn.
Horse of a Different Color: He often rides around on the back of a Yanmamon, a dragonfly-like Digimon.
Humans Are the Real Monsters: Of the Digimon antagonists in Savers, Gotsumon holds the most contempt for Humans.
Let's Get Dangerous!: Appears pretty harmless on his for most of his appearances, then he reveals he digivolve into his Ultimate form at will.
Lightning Bruiser: As Meteormon, he's fast enough to Flash Step around the protagonists' Ultimate level Digimon and strong enough to stagger those same Digimon with every punch despite being a fraction of their size.
Meteor-Summoning Attack: Meteormon's Cosmo Flash attack opens a portal which spits flaming space rocks at his enemies.
Pint-Sized Powerhouse: His Meteormon form is just as diminutive as his normal form, but vastly more powerful. He's barely a fraction of the size of the heroes' Ultimate-level Digimon but is physically just as strong as they are, and his punches stagger them all.
Redemption Demotion: Upon his reappearance, he goes from being an effective antagonist to becoming The Load for the heroes. Justified by the fact that upon rebirth he lost both his ability to evolve and his status as Merukimon's messenger, and with the latter access to digimon troops who would listen to his orders.
Smug Super: As Meteormon. Whenever he isn't attacking, he's boasting about his powers while floating in midair with folded arms and a smug grin.

Hashima

Voiced by: Satoshi Tsuruoka (JP), Doug Stone (EN), Luis Vicente Ivars (Spain)

A rather incompetent representative of the Confidentiality Ministry who oversees DATS.

Arrested for Heroism: Tries and fails to arrest Sampson for treason after the heroes return from the Digital World.
Everyone Has Standards: Once Kurata makes him ultimate goals clear, Hashima orders the military to try to stop him by taking out Belphemon, to no avail.
Head-in-the-Sand Management: He gives Kurata everything he asks for. To elaborate, Hashiba gives Kurata his support despite working with Satsuma and Yushima, who can both confirm that the man has open issues with authority, questionable mental stability and was responsible for compromising the original rescue mission in the Digital World. This was how the rest of the plot came about in the first place. The whole Japanese Government takes this beyond reason by handing control of the entire military to Kurata, even after he had committed an open act of terrorism by personally bombing DATS headquarters. Granted, the bombing could have been covered up by Kurata but the other points still stand.
The Masquerade: He's supposed to make sure that DATS maintains it and threatens to disband them after Merukimon shows up.
The Napoleon: He is rather short and generally abrasive.
The Needs of the Many: He's willing to accept Gotsumon's demands and hand Keenan over to the Digimon Army because in his view, giving up one child to save the whole world is perfectly justified.
Oh, Crap!: When Kurata inevitably betrays him.

ElDradimon (ElDoradimon)

A colossal Mega level Digimon who carries the Sacred City upon his back. The protagonists try to defend him and the inhabitants of his city from Kurata's forces, to no avail.

Giant Equals Invincible: Implied. The Gizumon are never shown directly attacking ElDradimon with their lasers, the implication being that his massive size means the normally lethal blasts would not affect him. A giant lance covered in hundreds of Gizumon does the trick, however.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He is killed when Kurata drops the Gizumon Javelin on him, impaling him from above.
Living Structure Monster: He's as much a living building as he is a colossal turtle. His shell is made of enormous bricks, and his tail looks like the crenellation of a castle wall.
Mobile City: He is the Sacred City, and it goes wherever he goes. Thousands of Digimon call the fortified castle on his back their home.
Turtle Island: A terrestrial example. He's a gigantic tortoise who carries an entire city on his shell, complete with a forest and a moat.
The Unintelligible: He doesn't speak and communicates only through roars.

Baronmon

The mayor of the Sacred City. Baronmon is profoundly leery of humans and is hostile to the DATS agents at first, though he changes his tune upon learning that Marcus is the son of Spencer Damon.

Fed to the Beast: He had the DATS agents strung up and was going to execute them by feeding them to Cerberusmon.
Hero-Worshipper: He practically worships the ground that Spencer Damon walked on due to Spencer ending a drought that threatened the Sacred City's survival. He transfers this reverence to Marcus, reverently calling him "the Legend's son" and going along with anything he says.
In the Back: He gets shot in the back by a seemingly destroyed Gizumon-XT and dies a few moments later.
Magic Dance: Meteor Dance, as the name implies, has him do a funky little dance to conjure up some meteors.
Meteor-Summoning Attack: His Meteor Dance conjures fiery meteors which he can then launch at his opponents.
Never My Fault: Played for Laughs. He ordered the DATS agents put to death, but once he realized who Marcus was, he immediately shifted the blame onto one of his Pumpkinmon subordinates.

Yuma Kagura

A character exclusive to the PS2 game Digimon World: Data Squad (Digimon Savers: Another Mission). She's Tsukasa's younger sister. She doesn't have any friends because she's friends with Digimon and they call her "monster girl". Yuma was one of the children kidnapped to power up the Demon Lords. Later on, she joins the team with her partner Renamon.

Renamon

He's Yuma's partner in Another Mission.

Big Brother Instinct: After Tsukasa turns evil, he tries his best as his replacement for Yuma.

Tsukasa Kagura

A character exclusive to the PS2 game. He's a researcher working for DATS and the best specialist in the Dark Area. Tsukasa is Yuma's older brother. He also graduated at the same university as Tohma.

Big Bad: In the game.
Bridge Bunnies: Male example.
Evil Laugh: He breaks into one when assuming being the Big Bad.
Expy: His appearance, his fascination of a specific subject of Digimon, his Evil Plan involving Demon Lords, his overall motivation being It's All About Me, and him being envious of a fellow scientist, all point at him being the game's version of Kurata.
Foreshadowing: The best specialist regarding the Dark Area.

Rhythm

A character featured in Ultimate Power! Burst Mode Activate who is a Digimon in a Human form.

Expy: Of Calumon in that she acts as a catalyst in helping Shinegreymon achieve Burst Mode in a matter relatively similiar to that of Calumon's role in Tamers.
Mercury's Wings: She has butterfly like wings hidden under her beret.
Punny Name: Her name, along with Argomon's, is a pun on the word "algorithm".

Antagonists

Kurata's Group

Akihiro Kurata

Voiced by: Masami Kikuchi (JP), Brian Palermo (EN), Eugenio Barona (Spain), Daniel Lacy (Latin America)

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"It's SHOWTIME!"

A sadistic yet cowardly scientist who used to work with Satsuma, Yushima, Suguru, and Ikuto's parents, and accompanied them on the first expedition into the Digital World. His experiences and activities there were less than positive. Several years later, he's somehow curried the favour of the politicians in charge of DATS and uses this influence to first accompany the team into the Digital World; then, when that doesn't go quite as planned, to convince the government that both Digimon and DATS are a threat and to have them wiped out and arrested respectively. Things continue to go pear-shaped from there. As the series goes on, he's shown to have no regard for human life either, and in fact his real plan with the data he took from the Digital World was to revive a powerful digimon called Belphemon and use him to Take Over the World.

Absent-Minded Professor: A bit of one when first introduced, particularly when he's around digimon, since he has "allergies" towards them. Of course, this demeanor is a ruse.
Adaptational Wimp: His dub version is slightly more cowardly than his original version. When Masaru appears to deliver the final blow, he begs for Masaru to take pity on him and reacts in fear. The sub version gives him more of a Defiant to the End response were he curses Masaru for thwarting his plans.
An Offer You Can't Refuse: With Thomas, once his father decides to start working with him.
Arch-Enemy: As he takes up his role as the Big Bad, he ends up becoming a personal enemy to a good chunk of DATS.
- To Marcus, being the son of the man Kurata once worked with and hated. He despises the idea of peace between humans and Digimon, something Marcus and his father both side with and take issue with Kurata for his crimes.
- For for using his sister as leverage to make him obey him, Thomas grew to hate Kurata on a personal level as much as Marcus.
- To Keenan, being the one responsible for Fridgimon's death. Keenan realizes he shouldn't hate all humans, just evil ones like Kurata.
Ax-Crazy: He relishes in violence and torture, be they Digimon or humans, and is not above murder or betrayal to further his goals.
Big Bad: No, he's not the final opponent... but pretty much everything that goes wrong in the series is his fault, so...
Brains Evil, Brawn Good: Pretty much summarizes his conflict with Digimon. A rare case among Digimon villains, which usually comes down to Brawn vs. Brawn.
Catchphrase: "It's SHOWTIME!"
Despotism Justifies the Means: His ultimate plan.
Dirty Coward: He's a genocidal monster, but when the tables turn on him, he reacts with complete fear. In the end he responds by begging ShineGreymon Burst Mode to stay back and begs for his life and then asking for someone to save him before he gets vaporized.
Disk-One Final Boss: After he's dealt with, the heroes then have to deal with the justifiably infuriated digital God his actions convinced to Kill All Humans.
Disney Villain Death: After opening the rift between the human world and digital world, he disappears in a flash of light.
Drunk on the Dark Side: Once he merges himself with Belphemon, he quickly starts to revel in his newfound godlike power.
Evil Counterpart: To Spencer Damon. Both are humans that use science as their greatest assets, but whereas Spencer uses his genius to benefit Digimon and mankind alike, Kurata uses his genius to destroy and conquer them. In addition, Spencer will gladly face adversity and when push comes to shove, will even give himself up to let his friends and comrades escape. By contrast, Kurata flees at the slightest sign of danger and always puts himself above any others.
Expy: Kurata may have one or two roots in the original Big Bad of Digimon World, Analogman.
Fantastic Racism: Against Digimon.
Faux Affably Evil: His humorous quirks only emphasize how he is easily the most monstrous villain of any Digimon canon.
Final Solution: Towards Digimon, which single-handedly makes this one of the darkest Digimon series to date.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: He wears glasses and is completely unfeeling to anyone around him.
Freudian Excuse: Subverted in his backstory. Though admittedly Digimon did attack him first, it quickly becomes apparent that he is slaughtering them out of a petty grudge instead of anything else.
Hate Sink: A sociopath and coward with an irrational hatred of an entire species and insufferably smug demeanor? Yeah, it's pretty easy to hate this guy's guts.
The Heavy: He has a hand in almost everything that happens in the series. The Digimon who appeared in a Monster of the Week fashion appeared because his various experiments weakened the barrier between worlds, which also allowed Ikuto to be trapped in the Digital World. Even after his death, his actions still set the final arc in motion.
Hijacking Cthulhu: He converts himself into data and uploads himself into Belphemon to take control of the demon lord after his more mundane means of controlling it were destroyed. This seems to backfire when Belphemon's dormant consciousness rises to the fore, but eventually he regains control of the fusion and remains in the driver's seat until Belphemon is destroyed.
Humans Are Bastards: Well, he most certainly is, and because of it, the Digimon believe this about ALL humans.
- In fact, out of all the anime and manga of Digimon, he is by far the only genuinely evil human antagonist - Oikawa and Ken were controlled/influenced by Myotismon, respectively; Koichi the same, only by Cherubimon; Yamaki was a Well-Intentioned Extremist who later pulled off a Heel–Face Turn; Neo Saiba and Ewan/Yuu Amano were manipulated by Daemon and DarkKnightmon, respectively; and Maki Himekawa and Menoa Bellucci were both victims of Sanity Slippage, though the latter realized the error of her ways.
Humans Are Warriors: An evil example. Despite being in a universe filled with warrior monsters, he managers to cause enormous death and destruction through his scientific exploits alone.
Humiliation Conga: After ShineGreymon evolves to Burst Mode, the fight becomes this for him. First, ShineGreymon preceeds to literally tear his One-Winged Angel form apart around him and shrugs off his counterattack like it was nothing. His dialog after that consists almost entirely of begging for his life as he's soundly defeated in one punch. To add insult to injury, his attempt to destroy the Digital World with his dying breath backfires and results in his death as he's screaming for someone to save him. Sure, that did set up the next arc, but he didn't know that, his last memories are being vaporised by his own revenge plot while dying as he lived as a scared, pathetic man. Due to him being the most evil Digimon human villain ever, his downfall is extremely satisfying.
Hypocrite: Okay Kurata, you hate Digimon. So how come so many of your plans and experiments rely on Digimon, your three lackeys can transform into Digimon, and you even merge with a Digimon! Shouldn't you not be able to stand it? Thomas even calls him on this! Further, he believes Digimon are dangerous beasts because a Lynxmon had previously attacked him, except that the audience can see that the Digimon had only attacked him after he had shot at it. Additionally, Kurata reveals that he had invaded and committed genocide on the Digital World which meant a LOT of permanent deaths, among them Keenan's adoptive mother, while accusing the Digimon of eventually attacking the Real World due to their vicious nature! He never cared about the damage done by Digimon, he always had plans to use Belphemon to rule the human world, who coincidentally does more damage in his rampage than all the earlier Digimon COMBINED. Really, his attitude can be summed up as It's All About Me.
It's All About Me: Literally his MO. His real plan is to conquer both worlds for himself.
It's Personal: "So, the Data Squad is caught up in a battle. Pity. I'll have to end it." Cue his transportation of all invading Digimon back to the Digital World.
Kurata: YOU CAN'T WIN! I'M THE BEST!
Jerkass Has a Point: Yes, his actions are nothing short of vile, by all standards. Given that there are countless Digimon out to cause death and destruction, as most other seasons prove by having Digimon-villains, chief amongst whom, the Demon Lords, he makes a rather good case that humanity ought to be able to defend itself. The point is ultimately defied when he tries to use the body of one of those powerful evil Digimon to take over the world.
Karmic Death: And how! Although unfortunately, his action that accidentally caused his own death also had some terrible unforeseen consequences as well. Still doesn't change the fact he got exactly what he deserved though.
Knight of Cerebus: Despite his comical traits, the entire series gets much darker once he appears thanks to his mass slaughter of Digimon.
Mad Scientist: One who is more coherent than most, but still, a man who is plotting genocide and world conquest cannot be considered sane.
Non-Action Big Bad: Kurata is a scrawny scientist with no combat training, so he never confronts the protagonists directly, always relying on his minions to do the fighting on his behalf. The few times that he is directly threatened by something with no minions to hide behind, he runs for his life. This goes out the window when he merges himself with Belphemon, however.
Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: His supposed reasoning of Digimon being threats are nothing more than being motivated by irrational fear. Whatever point he had are nullified by using Belphemon's body to try and take over the human world.
Oh, Crap!: His reaction to ShineGreymon Burst Mode. His Oh Craps get progressively larger as ShineGreymon shrugs off his counterattack like it was nothing, shoots him an absolutely hate-filled Death Glare while performing an Unflinching Walk straight towards him, and finally when Marcus prepares to punch his face in. His biggest one, however, comes when his final plan fails to destroy the Digital World as he'd wanted and he's killed in the resulting reaction.
Omnicidal Maniac: He initially wishes to kill all Digimon, but he eventually changes his mind when he realizes Digimon can be controlled. He still keeps up the act however as part of his bid to get the government on his side, who end up funding his Take Over the World scheme.
One-Winged Angel: Merges with Belphemon to become Belphemon Rage Mode, his face appearing in its chest.
Person of Mass Destruction: After merging with Belphemon.
Sadist: Kurata never even tries to hide how much he enjoys inflicting pain on his enemies.
Self-Disposing Villain: In the end.
Smug Snake: Most notably shown when he mocks Suguru even when the man stayed behind to allow the rest of the team to escape.
Take Over the World: Eventually revealed to be his secondary goal (his primary goal still being the genocide of Digimon)
The Sociopath: Any and all life around him, human or Digimon, are just stepping stones to him.
This Cannot Be!: His reaction to the DATS not only having regained their memories of their Digimon partners, but actually managing to damage a Gizumon he deployed after them.
- He reacts like this again when Ravemon successfully damages Belphemon.
Undignified Death: Right before he's presumably vaporized by an explosion he caused in a failed attempt to destroy the Digital World, he's begging for the people he tried to kill to save him.
Ungrateful Bastard: Towards Spencer Damon.
Villainous Breakdown: As the deciding battle starts turning against him, Kurata's last vestiges of rationality desert him. Before Marcus and ShineGreymon finally end him, he's reduced to shrieking Daimon's name in rage and panic.
Villainous Legacy: Even after Kurata is defeated, his genocide of Digimon makes King Drasil believe all humans are evil, and thus he attempts to destroy the human world to protect the digimon world.
Villains Want Mercy: Once ShineGreymon Burst Mode has backed him into a corner, Kurata pathetically begs Marcus to take pity on him. Marcus does not oblige him.
Villain with Good Publicity: Kurata manages to convince the Japanese government that he's their only hope of dealing with the Digimon "menace", and he is quickly hailed as a national hero while the agents of DATS are instead branded as fugitives. It's only when he shows his true colours by unveiling Belphemon and declaring his intent to Take Over the World that the government realizes just how badly they misjudged him.
Walking Spoiler: Considering the fact he's the Greater-Scope Villain that sets the events of the series into place as well as an Arc Villain, it's hard not to talk about him without discussing any of this despite his intro where he seems to be an ally to the heroes.
Xanatos Speed Chess: Very good at this. He frequently sees his plans not as he had intended, but it doesn't phase him. Unless his own life is in danger.

Gizumon

An artificial Digimon mass-produced by Kurata. Made from the discarded data of his victims, these soulless robots have no will of their own. They have integrated laser weapons which can permanently kill other Digimon.

Their digivolutions are as follows:

Rookie: Gizumon, the default form.
Champion: Gizumon-AT, a modified version of Gizumon which replaces the insectoid legs with a pair of telescoping multipurpose wings.
Ultimate: Gizumon-XT, a vaguely humanoid robot with arms, legs, and a head which houses a powerful beam cannon.

Action Bomb: A few of the Gizumon-XT are shown blowing themselves up to kill their opponents in one episode.
Bishounen Line: Its Rookie and Champion forms are Starfish Robots with a Cephalothorax body structure, while its Ultimate form has a more humanoid (but still utterly inhuman) structure.
Cephalothorax: Gizumon and Gizumon-AT have a spherical main body with no head, and its "face" in both forms is a black square on the front of the sphere with two cameras for eyes.
Combat Tentacles: Its Rookie and Champion forms have a nest of underslung cables with which it can ensnare and electrocute enemies.
Cranial Processing Unit: Subverted with Gizumon-XT. While it gains a distinct head in this form, the head is just the housing unit of a Wave-Motion Gun. Destroying Gizumon-XT’s head will deprive it of its most powerful weapon, but won't defeat it.
Death Ray: Any Digimon hit by a Gizumon's laser is dead meat, regardless of how strong it is. The only difference level seems to make is how long the wound takes to kill you; weaker Digimon die instantly, while Mega-levels like Merukimon can cling to life for several minutes before they succumb.
Diminishing Villain Threat: The first Gizumon the protagonists fought was a massive threat. Even at its Champion level, it could tank attacks from their Ultimate level Digimon and toss those same Ultimates around like ragdolls, and it only got stronger and tougher when it digivolved into Gizumon-XT. It took Merukimon punching it in the face to weaken it enough for Crowmon to finish it off. Subsequent Gizumon got easier to deal with as the series went on.
Empty Shell: They have no will of their own and exist solely to carry out Kurata's orders.
Extendable Arms: Gizumon-AT can extend its segmented arms to many times their normal length, letting it lash out at enemies from a distance. Gizumon-XT can do the same with its wings.
Eye Beams: Their primary attack is an unnamed laser fired from its smaller red eye.
Immortal Breaker: Their lasers inflict deadly wounds which prevent a Digimon from reconstituting into a Digi-egg when it dies, ensuring a permanent death.
Mecha-Mooks: The Gizumon go from unstoppable death machines to robotic cannon fodder once the protagonists unlock their Digimon's Mega forms, though they can still pose a threat in groups.
No Saving Throw: What makes Gizumon so dangerous is the fact that no Digimon can hope to survive their laser blasts. Once a Digimon gets hits by that, it's all over. Merukimon, a particularly powerful Mega-level Digimon, was killed by a blast from a Champion-level Gizumon-AT.
Spin Attack: Gizumon-AT can spin so rapidly that its arm-wings become like blender blades.
Wave-Motion Gun: Gizumon-XT can fire a powerful laser many times thicker than its own body.

Belphemon

Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto (real self) Masami Kikuchi (Kurata) (JP), Kyle Hebert (EN), ??? (Spain)

Belphemon Rage Mode

Originally one of a group of seven powerful Digimon that once terrorized the Digital World, Belphemon was a rather cute-looking Digimon (at least initially) which was weaponized by Kurata, who eventually merged with him after his other means of controlling Belphemon were sabotaged. Belphemon briefly regains control of his body during Kurata's climactic fight with the Data Squad before Kurata took control back.

Adorable Abomination: Belphemon Sleep Mode may be a cute Chibi critter with a perpetual cat smile, but he's still a demonic Mega level Digimon powerful enough to flatten a city block just by yawning.
Ancient Evil: He and the other Demon Lords terrorized the Digital World in ancient times.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: His Rage Mode even makes DATS Digimon's Mega forms look tiny.
The Berserker: When not under Kurata's control.
Blow You Away: He can shoot tornadoes from his hands in Rage Mode.
Breath Weapon: He can spit yellow fireballs and purple beams from his mouth. The latter borders on being a Wave-Motion Gun.
Chained by Fashion: He is wrapped in glowing chains in both Modes.
Chain Pain: In both forms, his Lampranthus attack involves lashing the enemy with his glowing chains.
Combat Tentacles: Belphemon's chains serve this purpose.
Energy Absorption: Once Kurata regains control of Belphemon, he uses his chains to tap into the city's power grid and soak up all the electricity to empower himself even further.
Evil Sounds Deep: Again, when not under Kurata's control.
Generic Doomsday Villain: He's only briefly acting when not controlled by Kurata, and during that time he simply appears to motivated by causing destruction.
Growing Muscles Sequence: Belphemon Rage Mode is already pretty muscular, but when his actual consciousness rises to the forefront, his muscles swell up so much that the chains wrapped around his limbs start to break.
Laser Blade: In Rage Mode, his claws are made of glowing green Hard Light.
Nigh-Invulnerable: His Rage Mode at full strength is impervious anything short of something at least of the level of DATS digimon in Burst Mode.
Our Dragons Are Different: Rage Mode looks like a demonic dragon.
Person of Mass Destruction: Even his Sleep Mode is huge jump in power above anything seen before him, flattening a big chunk of the city.
Power-Up Food: He eats a bunch of Kurata's space oscillation devices, giving his attacks the power to punch holes in the barrier between the human and Digital Worlds.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: This immensely powerful and destructive demon lord has pupiless blood red eyes in his Rage Mode.
Sealed Evil in a Can: His Digi-egg was locked away in a Paper Talisman-sealed chest within a remote jungle temple when Kurata found him.
Sleep-Mode Size: Sleep Mode, which is still quite dangerous, and unlike most examples, is actually enormous, it's only small compared to his Rage Mode.
Super-Scream: His Sleep Mode's Eternal Nightmare attack is a yawn that produces winds powerful enough to flatten a city block.
Wind from Beneath My Wings: In Rage Mode, a single flap of his wings can kick up a gale-force wind.

The Bio-Hybrids

In General

Humans who's DNA was fused with Digimon data by as a result of Kurata's experiments, giving them the ability to transform into Digimon. Serving as the "good" doctor's enforcers, they swiftly become personal rivals to Marcus and his team.

Ambiguous Situation: They're capable of superhuman feats even in their human forms but it's unclear how much of that is the result of their augmentations and how much is their own natural ability, given that they happen to hail from the same season as resident Badass Normal Marcus Damon.
Almighty Janitor: Their intial Digimon forms are based off of Armor-Level Digimon, which are typically considered roughly equivalent to Champion-Level. Despite this, they're able to effortlessly defeat DATS' Ultimate-Level Digimon.
Brought Down to Normal: Their Digital DNA is purged from their bodies following their final defeats, leaving them as normal humans.
Co-Dragons: They all serve Kurata and don't appear to have any real hierarchy beyond that.
Corrupted Character Copy: To the Legendary Warriors. Like the heroes of the previous series, they're humans who can transform into Digimon. However unlike the Warriors, who were granted their powers by the Big Good to save the Digital World, the Bio-Hybrids were given their powers by the Big Bad to wreak havoc.
Cyborg: Their Armor level forms have obvious mechanical parts, most notably a large fluid-filled tube sticking out of the back of the head and segmented metal pipes which stick out of random body parts.
Mid-Season Upgrade: They are given the ability to turn into Mega-Level Digimon after their initial defeat.
No-Sell: Their Armor-level forms can shrug off anything that DATS's Ultimate-level Digimon can throw at them.
Quirky Mini Boss Squad: They are a relatively colorful cast of evil minions who act of Kurata's behalf.
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: They are a Terrible Trio consisting of a homicidal delinquent, a Gothic Lolita girl genius, and a Russian mercenary, not exactly the most cohesive bunch.
Scaled Up: Each of them can turn into at least one reptilian Digimon. Nanami can turn into the snakelike BioQuetzalmon, Ivan can turn into the dinosaur-based BioStegomon and BioSpinomon, and Kouki can become BioDarkdramon, a cybernetic dragon.
Voluntary Shapeshifter: They all have the ability to transform into Digimon at will.

Nanami

Voiced by: Ryōko Ono (JP), Philece Sampler (EN), Rosa Vivas (Spain), Karina Altamirano (Latin America)

A fashionable young woman with a genius intellect. She acts as the strategist of the Bio-Hybrids and develops a fixation with Thomas.

Her Digimon forms are as follows:

Armor: BioQuetzalmon (BioCoatlmon), a Feathered Serpent with debilitating Eye Beams.
Mega: BioRotosmon (BioLotusmon), a regal fairy with two magical staves and the power to create illusions.

Always Someone Better: As far strategies go, she's definitely this to Thomas. He can only beat her by overpowering her.
Bishōnen Line: Her first Digimon form is a non-anthropomorphic feathered serpent, while her second, stronger form is practically human.
Casting a Shadow: Serpent Ruin is a bolt of darkness cast from one of the serpents that make up BioRotosmon's caduceus.
Dual Wielding: As BioRotosmon she wields a caduceus in her left hand, and a rainbow gem tipped staff in her right hand.
Elegant Gothic Lolita: She commonly appears wearing a black colored version and carrying around a parasoul.
Evil Genius: When she was younger, she ostracized for her intellect, and chose to work with Kurata thinking she could be with others just as smart as her.
Fragile Speedster: As BioRotosmon, she's fast enough to out-Flash Step the incredibly fast MirageGaogamon, but she folds from a single shot of his Full Moon Blaster.
Foe Romance Subtext: If you've seen the scene, it's pretty self-explanatory. She flat out has a crush on him.
Heel–Face Turn: In the last episode, she raises her hand and lends her DNA to heroes to aid in the defeat of Yggdrasil
Japanese Ranguage: Rotus should be Lotus but this and other "translations" were left on the insistence of TOEI Animation employees themselves.
Intelligence Equals Isolation: She claims that her great intelligence makes it impossible for her to relate to her intellectual inferiors. Part of the reason why she's drawn to Thomas is because he might be as smart as her, and she tries to bring him around to this point of view.
Light 'em Up: BioRotosmon's Seventh Fantasia blasts her foe with a rainbow-colored beam of light.
Snakes Are Sexy: She takes the form of a seductive snake woman while trying to tempt Thomas into joining her side.
Snakes Are Sinister: Her initial Digimon form is a Feathered Serpent, while BioRotosmon can bring the snakes on her caduceus to life. In any form, she's a willing participant in Kurata's Digimon genocide.
Teen Genius: Revealed to be one in the episode where she fights Thomas...who oddly enough is also a Teen Genius.
The Paralyzer: As BioQuetzalmon by squeezing the opponent (she is a snake in that form)
Victorious Loser: Thomas wins the fight, but she definitely gets the last laugh, since she was a step ahead of him the entire fight. He only managed to win by abandoning strategy for a plan he had no idea would work or not, an idea he picked up from Marcus. As she herself points out, she lost to Marcus' strength, not Thomas'.
Villainous Crush: She has one on Thomas, which motivates her to give him a We Can Rule Together speech. She's visibly shocked and hurt when he shuts her down.

Ivan

Voiced by: Takanori Hoshino (JP), Christopher Darga (EN), Rafael Calvo (Spain), Alan René Bressant (Latin America)

A beefy Russian mercenary with a tendency to think out loud without realizing it. He develops a crush on Yoshino and becomes her rival of sorts.

His Digimon forms are as follows:

Armor: BioStegomon, a quadrupedal dinosaur with a shell covered in bladelike dorsal plates.
Mega: BioSupinomon (BioSpinomon), a fire-breathing therapod with multiple rows of swords jutting from his back.

Breath Weapon: BioSupinomon's Blue Prominence has him breathe torrents of blue fire like a dragon.
Calling Your Attacks: He has a lot of stupid attack names he tries to impress Yoshi with.
The Brute: If only for his size.
Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: A Running Gag is that he often says something embarrassing or detrimental and ends his thought with "But of course I'd never say that out loud."
Dinosaurs Are Dragons: Like most Digimon based on therapods and similar dinosaurs, BioSupinomon can breathe fire.
Dumb Muscle: Ivan is the largest and most muscular of the three Bio-Hybrids, and he boasts that Kurata has given him the ultimate body. He's also the least intelligent of the trio. He doesn't realize that he's blurting out private thoughts for all to hear, and he doesn't grasp that it's morally wrong to kill Digimon.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: For a given value of evil. He cannot seem to understand why there's anything wrong with killing Digimon, or why revealing that he's helping Kurata just to get paid would only infuriate Yoshi instead of making her sympathetic to him.
Foe Romance Subtext: Has a super crush on Yoshino.
Gratuitous English: Calls Yoshino "honey"
Heel–Face Turn: In the last episode.
Laughably Evil: Ivan is the least villainous of the Bio-Hybrids and his odd quirks are frequently Played for Laughs, bringing some much-needed levity to an otherwise bleak story arc.
Obliviously Evil: Ivan seems fundamentally incapable of realizing that killing Digimon is morally wrong, or that he's helping a profoundly evil man to commit genocide. When Yoshi gets indignant at him for murdering a defenseless Digimon in cold blood, he reacts with genuine confusion, not understanding why something like that would make her angry. So far as he's concerned, killing Digimon is just a job like any other, and he himself is a good man working hard to put food on the table for his many siblings.
Only in It for the Money: He works for Kurata because the good doctor pays extremely well, and Ivan has many mouths to feed.
Punch-Clock Villain: He's not really evil. He even seems to consider Kurata as monstrous as we do.
"I have to hand it to Kurata, that guy really knows his monsters. I guess it takes one to know one."
Rolling Attack: BioStegomon
Russian Guy Suffers Most: Ivan serves Kurata because he has a ton of adorable siblings to support.
Spike Shooter: Shell Needle Rain and Sonic Slash Rain
Technicolor Fire: BioSupinomon's Blue Prominence is, as the name implies, a blast of blue flame.

Kouki

Voiced by: KENN (JP), Dave Wittenberg (EN), Pepe Carabias (Spain)

An arrogant and short-tempered thug. He quickly develops a rivalry with Marcus.

His Digimon forms are as follows:

Armor: BioThunderbirdmon, a giant blue bird of prey with power over wind and lightning.
Mega: BioDarkdramon, a cybernetic dragon with a massive lance mounted on his right arm.

Ax-Crazy: He's willing to murder an untold number of civilians just to get his revenge on Marcus.
Blade Below the Shoulder: BioDarkdramon has a lance attached to his right arm.
Blood Knight: He makes Marcus look like a pacifist in comparison. He loves fighting and violence.
Casting a Shadow: BioDarkdramon's Dark Roar spits a crackling sphere of darkness at his target.
Evil Counterpart: He's essentially Marcus purged of all of his positive traits, leaving only a bloodthirsty delinquent who doesn't care who he has to hurt to accomplish his goals.
Feathered Fiend: Like Nanami his form is based on an aversion to the trope.
Foe Romance Subtext: Kouki's a bit too obsessed with beating Masaru...
For the Evulz: Seems to be the only reason he works for Kurata. He's the only one of his trio who does not undergo a Heel–Face Turn in the end, and is still misbehaving 5 years into the future.
Generic Doomsday Villain: While Ivan and Nanami have their motives, he's only motivated by wanting to cause destruction and fighting.
Human Shield: He takes advantage of the fact that ShineGreymon's Glorious Burst has a huge area-of-effect by positioning himself in front of an office building full of gawking civilians, ensuring that ShineGreymon can't attack him without endangering innocent lives. Unfortunately for Kouki, the GeoGrey Sword nips that problem in the bud.
Jerkass: Rivals Kurata in this. In his final fight with Marcus in Shine Greymon, he's doesn't pull any punches despite fighting in the middle of a city and tries to kill Shine Greymon by bringing a building down on him.
Jousting Lance: Gigantic Lance
Laser-Guided Karma: He was the only unrepentantly bad member of his team, five years later his actions have caused him to be nothing more than a common criminal.
Morphic Resonance: He wears a blue sweater with yellow accents in his human form. Both of his Digimon forms follow this color scheme.
Shock and Awe: BioThunderbirdmon's Thunderstorm attack is an electrified blast of wind.
Sore Loser: He goes completely ballistic after his first defeat from DATS' Mega form Digimon and demands that Kurata give him more power so he can get his revenge.
Thunderbird: His first form is BioThunderbirdmon, a giant bird with electrical powers.
Token Evil Teammate: While all of the Bio-Hybrids are varying levels of evil, Kouki was always the most violent and unhinged of the three and is ultimately the only one who never undergoes a Heel–Face Turn.

King Drasil's Forces

King Drasil (Yggdrasil)

Voiced by: Rika Fukami (JP), Jonathan David Cook, Mona Marshall, and Mari Devon (EN), Julia Martínez (Spain), Alma Juárez (Latin America)

"Before the two worlds slash into each other, we must totally eliminate the Human World, first."

—King Drasil, through Spencer Daimon

The god of the Digital World. He's not impressed with how humans have been wrecking his world lately.

Adaptational Heroism: He's still a villain, but this version of him is generally an example of God Is Good and had no real issue with humanity initially, as opposed to se of his other, more malevolent incarnations who hate them out of Fantastic Racism. Rather this one wants to destroy humanity because Kurata attempted a completely unprovoked genocide on his subjects and killed a very sizable number of them for good. Even then, it takes Kurata sending the Digital and Human Worlds on a crash course with each other, putting things, in Drasil's mind, in an 'us or them' situation for him to actually act on this. This makes him probably the most sympathetic version of the character.
Anti-Villain: The guy is only trying to protect the Digimon and Kurata tried to commit genocide against them. It's only natural he'd come to think Humans Are the Real Monsters. That and the two worlds are about to collide and from his perspective due to Kurata's actions, destroying the human world is the best option.
Arc Villain: Of the final arc. However, Kurata is still directly responsible for this and the overall Big Bad of the series, so King Drasil is actually just the Final Boss.
Authority Sounds Deep: The English dub gives King Drasil an incredibly deep voice befitting the god-king of the Digital World, at least when he isn't possessing Spencer Damon.
Broken Record: He starts blurting out "Cannot compute!" every other line once he enters his Villainous Breakdown.
Disproportionate Retribution: That final arc only begins because Yggdrasil/King Drasil is convinced that humankind pose a disruption to the order of the Digital World and danger to all Digimon, but when talking to Craniamon about it, he only cites events that were almost entirely the fault of Kurata, a single human.
Final Boss: The last major enemy the heroes have to deal with in the series.
Gemstone Assault: Once he abandons Spencer Damon's body, he attacks primarily by creating enormous crystals from thin air and launching them as projectiles.
God Is Evil: Double Subverted. He's normally a pretty good guy, it's just a human tried to destroy his subjects, convincing him that Humans Are the Real Monsters. Unfortunately, this makes him think genocide is an acceptable response.
The Gods Must Be Lazy: Didn't lift a finger to stop either of Kurata's genocidal rampages. It's only when Kurata destroys the barrier between the Human and Digital Worlds and sends them on a collision course that it intervenes to commit genocide against humanity... despite Kurata's defeat being the result of humans and digimon working together.
Humans Are the Real Monsters: Thanks to Kurata's completely unprovoked attempted genocide of the Digimon, he's come to believe this. Marcus manages to convince him otherwise in the end.
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The red lasers from his crystals did not hit their target once. At least the rest of his attacks were more effective.
Master Computer: Is revealed to be the computer that oversees the Digital World. His realizing the limitations this comes with is a major plot point.
One-Winged Angel: After being defeated in Spencer Damon's body, he transforms into a massive machine form.
Orcus on His Throne: Didn't lift a finger when Kurata attacked and yet he has the gall to blame only him while not even acknowledging his own inaction.
Physical God: Is the god of the Digital World and pretty much has the power to back that up.
Robo Speak: Once the Royal Knights turn against him, King Drasil drops his prior speech pattern and starts talking like a text-to-speech program narrating a crash log.
Story-Breaker Power: Yggdrasil/King Drasil and the Royal Knights are immensely powerful super-beings whose combat abilities rival those of Burst Mode Digimon, and in some cases even surpass them entirely. So they had to be practically non-existent for the first 40 episodes or the plot would've been pretty much nipped in bud.
This Cannot Be!: "Cannot compute! Cannot compute! The probability of you defeating me was 0%! Fatal error!"
Villain Has a Point:
- Say what you want, but human history has rarely been idyllic.
- While wiping out all humanity is harsh, Kurata attempted unprovoked attempted genocide and permanently killed huge numbers of Digimon. While applying this anger to all humanity is wrong, Drasil isn't wrong to be furious.
Vine Tentacles: His battle form can extrude spiky vines with which to lash and ensnare his foes.

The Royal Knights

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Omegamon/Omnimon voiced by: Hiroki Takahashi (JP), Lex Lang (EN), Miguel Ángel Pérez (Spain), Víctor Ruiz (Latin America)
Magnamon voiced by: Tatsuhisa Suzuki (JP), Brian Fairlee (EN), Miguel Ángel Pérez (Spain), Alan René Bressant (Latin America)
Dukemon/Gallantmon voiced by: Masako Nozawa (JP), Brad Sherwood (EN), Francisco Andrés Valdivia (Spain), Alan René Bressant (Latin America)
Dynasmon voiced by: Kazunari Kojima (JP), Chris Edgerly (EN), José María Carrero (Spain), Mario Hernández (Latin America)
LordKnightmon/LoadKnightmon^note voiced by: Susumu Chiba (JP), Dave Bushnell (EN), Luis Vicente Ivars (Spain), Salvador Reyes (Latin America)
Craniummon/Craniamon voiced by: Hiroshi Kamiya (JP), Henry Dittman (EN), Luis Vicente Ivars (Spain), Salvador Reyes (Latin America)
Duftmon/Leopardmon voiced by: Takehiro Murozono (JP), Beau Billingslea (EN), Eugenio Barona (Spain), Mario Hernández (Latin America)
UlforceV-Dramon/UlforceVeedramon voiced by: Satoshi Tsuruoka (JP), Joe Ochman (EN), José María Carrero (Spain)

A group of Digimon, founded by Imperialdramon Paladin Mode, who serve King Drasil in protecting and maintaining order in the Digital world. Its fellowship includes Omnimon, Magnamon, Gallantmon, Dynasmon, LoadKnightmon, UlforceVeedramon, Craniamon, and Leopardmon.

Adaptation Personality Change: Traditionally, Dynasmon takes Undying Loyalty extremely seriously, never questioning their masters and serving them faithfully regardless of moral character. The Dynasmon here however joins the other still living Royal Knights in questioning King Drasil's actions, and joins them in their Heel–Face Turn at the end.
Adaptational Villainy: Downplayed for Omnimon, Magnamon, Gallantmon and UlforceVeedramon. Traditionally in the series these are all considered unambiguously heroic Digimon, but in here while they aren't necessarily evil, they are still antagonists who follow King Drasil's orders to exteriminate humanity.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Previous seasons had known Digimon be at least one or two heads taller than a normal human adult, but here they are simply gigantic, as big as the protagonist Digimon in their Mega forms.
The Cameo: In the series' second opening; "Hirari", Alphamon's silhouette, can be seen standing alongside the other Royal Knights (on the far left behind Omnimon), but for some reason he doesn't appear in the series at all.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Gallantmon hands out two of these to DATS, even against ShineGreymon Burst Mode.
Deadpan Snarker: Craniamon shows shades in his fight from Marcus and ShineGreymon, responding to his determinator spiel with a weary quip.
Double Weapon: Craniamon's Duo Solar Spear, as its name implies, has a blade at each end of the shaft.
Heel–Face Turn: Kudamon/Kentaurosmon is the first to defect, Craniamon is the second, and later all surviving members defect from King Drasil in the last episode.
Knight Templar: Leopardmon qualifies for his philosophy of "Power Equals Justice".
Load-Bearing Hero: Craniamon, after he stands in for BanchoLeomon in keeping the worlds from colliding. In the final episodes, the remaining Royal Knights help him.
Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Craniamon brings out his trusty Omni Shield for his second battle with Marcus. He boasts that the shield is indestructible, and its durability nearly backs up his talk; it takes the combined efforts of four Mega level Digimon in Burst Mode (plus Marcus) to shatter it.
Mooks: The Royal Knights are served by an army of Ultimate level Knightmon. While powerful, they're no threat to the protagonists' Mega level Digimon, who mow them down in droves.
My Master, Right or Wrong: Rather than argue that there were many good humans who worked with Digimon to counter Kurata's actions, Craniamon concedes that Drasil is right about humanity and that they all must be destroyed due to the actions of one. Craniamon had a golden opportunity to present a logical argument for why his master's desire to wage war against the human world was unfounded so all the violence could be avoided, yet he lets himself be swayed by the irrational argument of his master instead.
Named Weapons: In the original Japanese, Craniamon's spear is named the Claiomh Solais and his shield is called Avalon. The English dub renames them the Duo Solar Spear and the Omni Shield, respectively.
Noble Demon: Craniamon. He tried to persuade Drasil to forgo his plan to destroy the Human world at first. Though he would agree to Drasil's plan, he maintains an open mind and is able to gracefully accept defeat when his opponent has proven their strength.
Person of Mass Destruction: The Royal Knights each wield immense destructive power. Dynasmon is shown obliterating most of New York City with a single attack.
Punch-Clock Villain: Gallantmon. He acknowledges Humans Are Flawed, with not all of them being evil, but sees that the destruction of the human world is the only way for the Digital World to survive.
Super-Speed: Several of the Royal Knights are fast enough to Flash Step, but Craniamon is on another level. He can move so quickly that an outside observer can't even tell he’s moving at all, making it look like his opponents are being smacked away by some invisible force while he just stands there, apparently motionless.
Sword Beam: Most of Leopardmon's attacks are shockwaves and energy blasts fired from his sword.
Tornado Move: Craniamon's Shock Ringer has him twirl his spear overhead to create a tornado.
The Unfought: Dynasmon, Magnamon, UlforceVeedramon, and Omnimon were never directly fought by DATS.

Others

SaberLeomon

A contemporary of Merukimon, SaberLeomon has a deep hatred for humans. He advocates total war with the human world and has an army of thousands of Armor-level Digimon at his beck and call.

Absurdly Sharp Claws: His claws can slice through manmade structures and vehicles like a knife through butter.
Adaptational Villainy: In Digimon Adventure, SaberLeomon was a heroic Digimon, the Mega form of Leomon, who was a staunch ally of the Digidestined children in their fight against evil Digimon. This SaberLeomon, by contrast, is a warmongering, human-hating bigot.
Big Bad Wannabe: SaberLeomon is introduced in a way that makes it seem like he could be a major antagonist, only to be killed off a few episodes later by minions of Kurata, the real Big Bad of the series.
Deader than Dead: He is shot by a Gizumon-AT. Because of this, his Digi-egg disintegrates into nothingness after RizeGreymon defeats him.
Dispense with the Pleasantries: He has no patience for Gotsumon's kowtowing when they first meet and growls at him to get to the point.
Flechette Storm: His Infinity Arrow attack sprays needle-like hairs at his target.
No-Sell: He shrugs off everything the protagonists' Ultimate-level Digimon throw at him at first. The only reason they manage to defeat him is because a Gizumon-AT shot him, weakening him enough that their attacks could affect him.
Panthera Awesome: He's a Mega-level Digimon who resembles a gigantic Smilodon.
Small Role, Big Impact: SaberLeomon is only alive and active in the present day for three episodes before being killed off, but his attacks on the original human expedition to the Digital World had a lasting impact on events, indirectly leading to the creation of the Digital Gate in the Infinite Ice Ridge and solidifying Kurata's hatred of Digimon.
The Tooth Hurts: Marcus shattered one of his tusks with a punch.
We Used to Be Friends: He and Merukimon once called each other friends, but that friendship has soured because they don’t see eye-to-eye on how to deal with the human issue. SaberLeomon wants total war with humanity, while Merukimon wants to target only those humans which have directly wronged Digimon to prevent reprisals.

Argomon

Voiced by: Hanawa (JP)

Animal Motifs: Peacocks, to suit his namesake.
Big Bad: of Ultimate Power! Burst Mode Activate
Dumb Muscle: As Argomon Mega, his vocalizations consists of loud screaming and yelling as he wails on ShineGreymon with an unchanging expression, a far cry from his intelligent Ultimate self, but in trade, he is immensely powerful.
Eyes Do Not Belong There: Argomon has multiple eyes all over its body which are all open except for those on his head. They become open when at Mega level (which is also named Argomon)
Eye Take: Argomon Mega does this frequently, to unnerving effect.
Filler Villain: As the movie he stars in is non-canon, he serves as one.
Foreshadowing: See Punny Name.
Green Aesop: His motivation, which humans are to blame for.
Green Thumb: As a plant based Digimon, this is to be expected.
Humanoid Abomination: Argomon Mega is among the odder looking Megas. Most of it is a massive, black humanoid with an almost action-figure look and with vines and eye markings in some areas.. up until you get to it's chest, which is a gaping cavity of a "second mouth", opening almost like the collar of a jacket that leads to a void of nothing except for numerous, massive eyes. Atop it's long, vine-covered neck is an almost reptilian head with a permanently slackjawed, toothless mouth and unblinking, bulging yellow eyes. It's also extraordinarily powerful to match.
Humans Are the Real Monsters: Has this opinion, but it is downplayed in comparison to Merukimon and Drasil.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: ShineGreymon executes him this way.
Kill It with Fire: He fights it off, though. Not until he's impaled by a flaming sword, anyways.
One-Winged Angel: Argomon Mega, though that seems to compromise all of his intelligible thought.
Punny Name: He is named after Argus Panoptes.
- Additionally, what do Argomon (or rather, Algomon in the original version) and Rhythm make? Algorithm!
Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Visually, Argomon Mega can be summed up as a bulky, botanical version of Diaboromon. Justified, as Argomon Ultimate and Infermon can both Digivolve from Chrysalimon. Also, much like Diaboromon, He's impaled by a Digivolution of Agumon.
Thousand-Yard Stare: Argomon Mega's only expression.
Wrecked Weapon: To show off just how powerful Argomon Mega is, it manages to shatter ShineGreymon's GeoGrey Sword.

Characters / Digimon Data Squad

Main Characters

Voiced by: Soichiro Hoshi (JP), Michiru Yamazaki (JP, young), Quinton Flynn (EN), Debi Mae West (EN, young), Adrián Viador (Spain), Héctor Rocha (Latin America), Karina Altamirano (Latin America, child)

Voiced by: Taiki Matsuno (JP), Brian Beacock (EN), Rafael Calvo (Spain), Rolando De la Fuente (Latin America)

Voiced by: Hirofumi Nojima (JP), Yuko Sato (JP, young), Crispin Freeman (EN), Mona Marshall (EN, young) Aitor González (Spain), Rolando De la Fuente (Latin America)

Voiced by: Kazuya Nakai (JP), Skip Stellrecht (EN), Eugenio Barona (Spain), Mario Hernández (Latin America)

Voiced by: Yui Aragaki (JP), Colleen O'Shaughnessey (EN), Gema Carballedo (Spain), Mildred Barrera and Azucena Martínez (Latin America)

Voiced by: Yukana (JP), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (EN), Marta Méndez (Spain), Diana Huicochea (Latin America)

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya (JP), Brianne Siddall (EN), Pepa Agudo (Spain), Alma Juárez (Latin America)

Voiced by: Chie Kujiro (JP), Steve Blum (EN), José María Carrero (Spain), Daniel Lacy (Latin America)

Supporting Cast