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Calumon (Culumon)
"Hello hello hello hello hellooo!!"
A goofy little critter who befriends Guilmon and turns out to be the most important Digimon of all. Him/her (opinions vary) getting captured/lost sets off the Digital World portion of the series.
Voiced by: Tomoko Kaneda (JP), Brianne Siddall (EN), Blanca Rada (Spain), Marisol Castro (Latin America)
- Ambiguous Gender Identity: Even though Digimon themselves aren't divided by genders, and Culumon's not even a Digimon to begin with. In the dub, he's referred to by he/him pronouns.
- Badass and Child Duo: Calumon isn't a literal child but he's sure child-like, and this is absolutely the vibe given off when he teams up with Beelzemon, to save Jeri from the D-Reaper.
- Bond Creatures: Calumon bonds closely with Jeri and decides to remain in the real world with her as an unofficial partner.
- Carbuncle Creature: Calumon is a small Cartoon Creature with a red gem embedded in its forehead. Design notes indicate that its name is a slightly mangled derivative of "carbuncle".
- Children Are Innocent: Subverted; though it's definitely true, it's implied he knows how to invoke this when he wants to cheer someone up.
- Determinator: While trapped inside the D-Reaper kernel with Jeri, he does everything he can to keep her from succumbing to her depression.
- Deus ex Machina: On more than a few occasions his ability to forcibly digivolve others is what saves the day. Takato starts invoking this after a while, looking to see if Culumon is around before attempting to evolve Guilmon.
- Digital Abomination: A friendly one. Calumon is not actually a Digimon. It's the Catalyst of Digivolution itself given life and a will of its own. Azulongmon gives Calumon his blessing to continue its independent life after releasing its power.
- Expressive Ears: They grow and shrink depending on his mood or if he needs them to glide.
- Facial Markings: The red triangle on his forehead is in fact the catalyst of Digivolution.
- The Heart: Calumon is definitely this to the Tamers cast—some good examples of this include him helping Rika when a rift forms between her and Renamon and him talking sense into Jeri when she starts contemplating suicide in the D-Reaper kernel.
- I'm Having Soul Pains: When WarGrowlmon Dark Digivolved to Megidramon.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Especially visible through his interactions with Jeri in the final stretch of the series.
- Keet: He's cute, excitable, and playful, constantly running around in search of something fun to do.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: He's a lot more perceptive than he lets on.
- Opposites Attract: His treatment of Rika counts, though she initially seems unsure how to react to someone so innocent and sweet. His bond with Impmon also counts.
- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Likely the cutest one in the franchise... before Cutemon.
- Sentient Phlebotinum: It is eventually revealed that he is the living embodiment of the Light of Digivolution, who was transformed into a digimon and given sentience by the DigiGnomes as a precaution against the D-Reaper.
- Spectacular Spinning: "Kurukuru" means "spinning."
- Talking Down the Suicidal: Does this for Jeri, when she finally breaks in the D-Reaper's clutches. His unconditional love and support is ultimately what saves her.
- Verbal Tic: "-culu"
- Verbal Tic Name:
Chiaki Konaka's notes suggest that Culumon, not being a real Digimon at first, gave itself its name and adopted a Verbal Tic from it. - You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Gives this speech to Jeri when she officially reaches the Despair Event Horizon.Calumon: (pulls Jeri's puppet out of her hand while she's making it bite her throat) NOOOO! Don't listen to that rag! Don't you know how lucky you are? Everybody loves to see you smiling, Jeri! Takato, Guilmon, and especially me!
Janyu "Tao" Wong (Li "Tao" Zhènyǔ)
Henry and Suzie's father, and one of the Monster Makers, a 1980s group of programmers who created the Digimon. Helps get together the rest of the creators to help the kids save the world.
Voiced by: Yoshiyuki Kaneko (JP), Jamieson Price (EN), Jorge Teixera (Spain, first apparitions), Francisco Andrés Valdivia (Spain, rest of the series), Luis Tenorio (Latin America)
- Adaptational Jerkass: A slight variant—in the Japanese version, Janyu's confession at the end that he's the reason the Digimon have to be separated from the kids is followed by him tearfully telling his son that he understands if he hates him for it and believes he doesn't deserve his forgiveness, which Henry silently refutes, making it very clear that he does forgive him. In the dub, it's changed so it sounds more like Janyu's desperately trying to rationalize his actions and offer a lukewarm comfort in the form of just saying "everything will get better someday", which makes Henry's response look more like a case of This Is Unforgivable!.
- A Friend in Need: Janyu once went to great lengths to help a friend that hit rock bottom, which his wife Mayumi relays to their son Henry to showcase how they can be similar.n
- Expy: Of Yasuo Iwakura, father of the eponymous protagonist in Serial Experiments Lain (which, incidentally, was also directed by Chiaki Konaka).
- I Know Karate: He demonstrates how it's really done (not the showy stuff) on two police officers, by knocking them down in a few seconds!
For reference, the martial arts demonstrated is a variant of Tai Chi, which is rather popular in some areas of China. - My God, What Have I Done?: Has this reaction when he realizes his messing around with artificial life as a college kid might have just doomed humanity in general and his kids in particular.
- Has yet another moment of this during the finale, when they're about to execute the final stage of their plan to defeat the D-Reaper, because he knows the result will separate the children from their beloved digimon partners, and how much that will devestate them.
- Odd Friendship: With Yamaki.
- Poor Communication Kills: Janyu's propensity to hide information from his family comes back to bite him in the ass more than once.
- He never told them about his involvement in creating digimon in the first place, which to some degree might have saved Henry some grief when Terriermon first came into being.
- He blatantly lies to Henry at first when he analyzes the blue card, and Henry notices right away, causing Henry to naturally start feeling wary around his own father. Though thankfully Janyu mostly comes clean about what he discovered soon after.
- He also lies to the rest of his family about where Suzie is when Suzie is suddenly spirited away to the digital world, telling them at first that Suzie's in Hong Kong with her grandfather. Unsurprisingly, his wife calls him out on the bullshit, tearfully demanding to know why their children are disappearing.
- He withholds information from the children about what the final plan to defeat the D-Reaper will do to their digimon. While in the circumstances it was understandable since the D-Reaper literally was about to take over the world and any solution was better than no solution, the children were completely unprepared for their sudden forced separation from their partners.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Takes an antagonistic role to Yamaki at first when it's revealed what Hypnos is fighting. Naturally he's on the side of not wanting to wipe out artificial life and would rather study it and learn to interact with it.
Goro "Shibumi" Mizuno
A member of the Monster Makers, who continued to work on the project after the others left. After an accident, his spirit project itself into the Digital World, where he met Takato and Henry.
Voiced by: Taro Suwa (JP), Bob Glouberman (EN), Eugenio Barona (Spain), Ernesto Lezama (Latin America)
- Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's a dreamy Cloud Cuckoo Lander who randomly spouts Shakespeare quotes and philosophical thought experiments, but he's also a highly talented programmer and one of the main key members of the team who created digimon.
- Cloud Cuckoolander: Due to being in a coma.
- Ditzy Genius: He comes off as this during his first proper appearance due to being a "digital ghost" projected from his hospital bed into the digital world. However, he still shows shades of this after he's recovered.
- Manchild: Implied. Shibumi was the member of the Monster Makers who was most personally invested in the creation of digimon and continued to work on the project even after the funding had been cut. He's been existing in the digital world as an aparition while his body is in a coma, allowing him to become immersed in the world he helped create. When he gets the chance to scan a card through a digivice, he does it with all the same dramatic enthusiasm as the children, and becomes wide eyed and enthralled when Grani comes to life.
- Mr. Exposition: Due to his advanced knowledge of the digital world, having never stopped researching it after the Monster Makers lost their funding, by the time he finally makes an on-screen appearance he's responsible for an info-dump on how Tamers' Digital World works. He continues to fill this role after he wakes from his coma, though he begins to share it with the other Monster Makers.
Rob "Dolphin" McCoy
The creator who started the Digimon project, and the first person to create artificial life.
Voiced by: Masami Kikuchi (JP), Tom Fahn (EN)
- Adapted Out: He's absent in the Tokyopop manhua.
- All There in the Manual: In Digimon Tamers 1984, it's mentioned McCoy studied under John C. Lilly. Lilly was well known for his studies on Dolphins, thus resulting in Rob's nickname.
- Mr. Exposition: Serves as this to explain what was going on to the tamer's parents. Later plays this role again on an television news report.
Alice McCoy
A mysterious girl in black, who comes to give a gift to help our heroes, and may or may not be a ghost.
- Adapted Out: She and Dobermon are excised from the manga adaptation.
- Alice Allusion: To be expected in a Chiaki Konaka-directed series. Not only is her first name Alice, but she has a slight resemblance to the character of that name from Alice in Wonderland.
- Ambiguous Situation: Her role in the story is minimal, serving only as a messenger to bring Dobermon to the other children so they can gain a tool to give them a fighting chance. Her background is shrouded in mystery, with the only known factoid being that she's somehow related to Rob McCoy. He has a photo of her in his possession, and at one point sighs her name forlornly. No other elaboration is given.
- Cute Ghost Girl: It's implied that she might be a ghost. Might.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Clad all in black, and is partners with a Virus-attribute Digimon. Isn't evil in the slightest.
- Death by Cameo: Not her, but Dobermon, who was the winner of a contest whose prize was an appearance in the show. Naturally, his mandated nature making his appearance forced was resolved by having him be a Dead 'Mon Walking resolved to a Heroic Sacrifice to re-enable Biomerging for the heroes. As a result he became surprisingly popular due to the tragedy of his role.
- Elegant Gothic Lolita: The type of appearance she portrays.
- Fluffy Tamer: Her Digimon is a giant Doberman who stands at least five feet tall at the shoulder. They're still friends regardless.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Her partner, Dobermon, who was only in the real world to begin with to knowingly sacrifice his own life to give the heroes the ability to Biomerge again. Sadly, while he had already made peace with it, Alice very clearly was clinging to hope that he'd survive.
- I Did What I Had to Do: Dobermon's sacrifice invokes this.
- The Stoic: Until her Digimon dies.
Aishwarya "Curly" Rai
Indian professor and member of the Monster Makers, expert in Quantum Theory.
Voiced by Youko Matsuoka (JP), Dorothy Elias-Fahn (EN), Daniela Benítez (Latin America)
- Adapted Out: She and the other Monster Makers sans Janyu and Yamaki are omitted in the manga adaptation.
- All There in the Manual: The short story "Digimon Tamers 1984", explains what her role was in the Monster Makers.
- Chekhov's Skill: The short story mentions her talent was in quantum physics. It turns out, the D-Reaper "goo" is a quantum bubble. Guess who programs the Doodlebug vortex?
- Named After Somebody Famous: Named after famous Indian actress Aishwarya Rai.
Daisy
Monster Maker and robotics and software expert.
Voiced by Asako Dodo (JP), Wendee Lee (EN).
- Adapted Out: She and the other Monster Makers (sans Janyu and Yamaki) are absent in the manga adaptation.
- Freak Out: Thinking the Project has created monsterous beings, she begins to destroy the computers in a panic.
- Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Shibumi arrives during her freak out, and calms her down.
- Hero of Another Story: In Digimon Tamers 1984, she is the protagonist. In America, this story was never officially released.
- Nothing Is Scarier: While working alone one night at the lab, she hears something is outside the building, leaving claw marks in doors, but she never sees any danger.
- Shout-Out: In-universe, her nickname is a reference to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Babel
Theoretical Physicist and Monster Maker.
- Adapted Out: He and the Monster Makers sans Janyu and Yamaki are cut from the manga adaptation.
- Soul Brotha: His very look radiates this.
Grani
Grani, formerly known in a different form as "The Ark", is the name of an ark that was created by the reunited Monster Makers to bring the Tamers back from Digital World to the Real world. It is later upgraded to be used against the fight against the D-reaper.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Guilmon treated it like a friend before they even knew it was sentient. It returned the favor, big time.
- Big Damn Heroes: He has a rather impressive track record, but by far his most triumphant one is sacrificing himself to grant his power to Takato and Guilmon, unlocking Gallantmon Crimson Mode in the process.]]
- Gallantmon: Who... who are you?Grandi: Do you want to fly? I will give you my wings.
- Cool Horse: Described as a loyal steed to Gallantmon by Yamaki.
- Dying Moment of Awesome: Grani sacrifices himself, fusing with Gallantmon and giving him the power to become Gallantmon Crimson Mode.
- A Friend in Need: He goes out of his way to help the heroes several times.
- Fusion Dance: With Gallantmon, resulting in Gallantmon Crimson Mode. Unlike most instances of this however, it's explicitly a one way road for him. Due to his Undying Loyalty and the fact that he's dying anyway, he doesn't hesitate to follow through on it.
- Military Mashup Machine: Grani is an interdimensional spaceship that is turned into a fancy fighter jet.
- Odd Friendship: Grani and Guilmon.
- Sentient Vehicle: The monster makers were initially surprised that the Ark could make decisions for itself when it chose to stop and wait for Takato in the Digital World. It's later explained that it was created using the same program to make the Digimon.
- Undying Loyalty: Guilmon's kindness caused Grani to show extreme loyalty to the Tamers, to the point where as he lay dying from the D-reaper's attack he chose to sacrifice himself to give Gallantmon the power he needed to save Jeri.
Kai Urazoe
Kai is Takato's cousin from Okinawa. He discovers Guilmon is a Digimon, but keeps it a secret and befriends him.
- Adapted Out: Is omitted from the Tokyopop manhua adaptation.
- Meaningful Name: "Kai" is one reading of the kanji for the sea or ocean. His grandfather's name Wataru is derived from an outdated alternate reading for the same character. Both characters live in a temple on the shore in Okinawa.
- Narrator All Along: Maybe. Ostensibly Davis is the one narrating the ending segments of each episode in Tamers, but some interpret Kai having the same voice actor in the English dub to mean that the series is actually being narrated by Takato's cousin.
- Walking Shirtless Scene: In the movie Kai's shirt is always unbuttoned, when he's wearing it.
Omnimon (Omegamon)
A powerful Digimon that patrols the net, he came across an Apocalymon attempting to destroy the real world and intervened. Unfortunately, before he could finish the job, Apocalymon reformatted into Mephistomon and escaped. He later transported Henry and Rika to Takato's location so all three Tamers could take down Mephistomon.
- Beam-O-War: His Supreme Cannon vs Mephistomon's breath attack. Omnimon's attack won, but Mephistomon escaped before he could finish him off.
- BFS: His Transcendent Sword.
- Deus ex Machina: Omegamon's only function after the prelude is to bring Ruki, Jian, and their digimon from different parts of Japan to help Takato kill Mephismon.
- Drama-Preserving Handicap: Nothing in the movie can pose a threat to Omnimon. The only reason he doesn't kill Mephistomon is because he can't leave the net, which is why he recruits the Tamers.
- Garnishing the Story: Omegamon dishes out a handful of One Hit Kills to some mooks while escorting Ruki and Jian to the Final Battle to give the audience something to look at while he provides Exposition to the tamers.
- The Juggernaut: A rare heroic portrayal, nothing thrown at him in the movie causes him any harm at all and barely slows him down
- Light Is Good: Is a Holy Knight type clad in white armor, and he fits the type perfectly, acting as a gallant hero
- Showy Invincible Hero: Omnimon is for all practical purposes of the movie, completely unbeatable, giving some impressive showings of his power when he is able to fight.
- Story-Breaker Power: It's made very clear that if he cornered Mephismon, or even Gulfmon, the fight would end very quickly. Unfortunately he cannot leave the net.
- Voice of the Legion: In both the Japanese and English versions, he's played by the same people who did his voice in the Adventure series.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: Once he's finished depositing Ruki, Jian, and their digimon into the field of battle, he vanishes from the movie, without even a send-off during the credits. He is likewise ignored in the greater series.
Hypnos
A covert agency that seeks to contain and deal with the Digimon problem, they collectively act as an unwitting Arc Villain for the first arc of the series before losing the role to the Devas. In General
- All There in the Manual: Konaka's website explains the back story of Hypnos, which began back in 2001 to counter/rival other surveillance programs.
- Benevolent Conspiracy: The agency was created to stop computer crime, and modified to protect the public from invading monsters.
- Black Helicopter: AH-64 Apache attack helicopters to be precise. Despite all that firepower, they're not that useful against the Devas.
- Closest Thing We Got: Originally existed to monitor electronic communications for half the planet. When Digimon begin to crossover, the agency got stuck with the job of containing them.
- Cool Shades: Seems to be part of the standard uniform for everyone - even Riley has a pair in one episode.
- Conspiracy Redemption: After Yamaki's Heel–Face Turn, the organization becomes devoted to helping the Tamers get home, and later battle the D-Reaper.
- Evil Tower of Ominousness: Whenever the scene goes to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, ominous music plays. At one point, Takato takes a look at the place and get's a bad a feeling about it. Which seems silly, considering that the structure is a well known landmark that he's seen all his life.
- Expy: Of The Men in Black that stalk Lain in Serial Experiments Lain.
- Government Agency of Fiction: In-universe, Hypnos is the Japanese government's Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) program and given its prevalence in Konaka's Word of God website may have been written as a reference to or as a fictional extention of the Real Life ECHELON program.
- Government Conspiracy: Two of them! First, Hypnos was heavily classified since their activities were of legal dubiousness. The second was to cover up that Digimon were real.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Early on, the agency fails in regards to dealing with Digimon. Then they activate the Juggernaut.
- The Masquerade: Attempts to hide the existance of Digimon from the public to prevent mass panic. They fail, partially because their Juggernaut program ends up tearing open a hole to the digital world big enough for the Devas to come through.
- The Men in Black: Hypnos' field agents, naturally.
- No Such Agency: Like the real life ECHELON, Hypnos' existence was denied by the government, though word did get around about it. The government had to officially recognize it once the D-Reaper appeared. In at least in the sequel movie, the agency operates openly.
- The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: The government officials Yamaki reports to. They only meet through teleconferencing, so we never get a good look at most of them. What we do see of them is rather humorous: One is eating lunch, and another is playing golf during said teleconference.
- Punch-Clock Villain: Hypnos isn't capturing and terminating on Digimon for laughs. The "wild ones" often cause trouble, so the government have legit reasons for their actions. The Bridge Bunnies just see it as a job. Even the government officials merely see the Digimon as weird inconveniences. Yamaki is the only one who really takes it personally.
- Sinister Spy Agency: Not outright evil, but Hypnos has done some unscrupulous acts against Digimon. They also serve as minor antagonists to the heroes, being an ominous threat and later complicating matter with the Devas. This aspect largely goes away as the agency begins helping the Tamers and acting against the D-Reaper.
- Theme Naming: The agency likes to uses the Cthulhu Mythos for its programs.
- They Would Cut You Up: Takato is rightfully worried about the authorities. Yamaki orders a analyses of a captured Digimon, which painfully breaks them down. When a scientist asks what to do with one such digimon's data, Yamaki tells him to delete it.
- Van in Black: And to round off the Hypnos' black ops motif, they've also got these too! Takato, funnily enough, sees these and thinks they may be part of a government conspiracy.
Mitsuo Yamaki
A mysterious man in black who tends to stand around watching the kids and their Digimon, absently and creepily flicking his lighter. Is researching Digimon and capturing the weakened ones for reasons unknown...
Voiced by: Susumu Chiba (JP), Steve Blum (EN), José María Carrero (Spain), Gustavo Rocha (Latin America)
- Arc Villain: The closest thing the show has to a central antagonist prior to the Deva arc.
- The Atoner: A stoic version post-Heel–Face Turn.
- Badass Bookworm: He's also a programmer.
- Big Bad Wannabe: For half the series, he was the closest thing to an antagonist.
- Character Tic: He incessantly flicks his zippo lighter open and closed. It's implied it might be stress related, as a moment is dedicated to him putting the lighter down when a project he's working on finally pans out.
- Cool Shades: He wears sunglasses for much of the early part of the series.
- The Cracker: He develops computer programs to wipe the Digimon out.
- Evil Is Hammy: Whenever he gets emotional during his "bad guy" phase.
- Fantastic Racism: Against Digimon at first. He eventually changes his views entirely.
- The Glasses Come Off: Very rarely. Used to very dramatic effect when he orders Juggernaut activated.
- Hacker Cave: The room where the Hypnos system is located. It's vast, filled to the brim with high tech equipment and wires.
- Heel–Face Turn: After the Juggernaut program backfires horrifically, he realizes he was wrong and sides with the main characters.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Prior to his Heel–Face Turn, his downfalls were mainly caused by his own projects. He learns from this eventually.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Post Character Development.
- Karma Houdini: Never gets any real comeuppance for any of his actions, including trying to strangle Henry simply because he couldn't accept his own failure.
- Kick the Dog: Had quite a few of these before his Heel–Face Turn. How he used the Juggernaut program was so horrifying, it led directly to a My God, What Have I Done?.
- Knight Templar: He believes that destroying all Digimon is necessary for the survival of humanity, even the Digimon that aren't evil.
- My God, What Have I Done?: When Juggernaut is activated the first time and the first Deva appears, triggering a Villainous Breakdown. It doesn't really sink in though for several more episodes as more Devas use the portal he opened to cross over.
- Neck Lift: He does this to Henry after he starts breaking down. Who is an elementary school kid, by the way.
- No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Averted. They had all of the above, but he ordered the usage of Juggernaut too early regardless.
- Not So Stoic: Was originally intended as The Stoic, but stress began to change this early on, making him also Not So Above It All.
- Obliviously Evil: Take into account What Measure Is a Non-Human? below and the fact that Digimon really are dangerous, and his behavior suddenly makes perfect sense.
- Older Sidekick: Once Yamaki makes peace with the fact it's better to work with the kids and their digimon rather than antagonize them, he becomes their greatest adult supporter and ally, even in a series full of supportive adults.
- Sunglasses at Night: Wears them all the time, even in dark rooms.
- Unfinished, Untested, Used Anyway: "But, sir, Juggernaut's not ready!" "SPARE ME YOUR THEORIES! DO IT!"
- Villainous Breakdown: When he realizes Juggernaut is allowing the most powerful Digimon yet an express ticket to the real world, he walks away from the scene ranting about "Digimon-loving freaks" and threatens Henry when they cross paths seconds after. He even throttles Henry!
- Villainous BSoD: His second major failure causes this and it leads to his Heel–Face Turn.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Genuinely believes that Digimon are dangerous, mindless monsters and that killing them when they manifest is the only right thing to do for humanity's sake.
- What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Believes Digimon are just data at first, dangerous programs that needed to be deleted.
- When She Smiles: He is in fact capable of smiling with sincerity.
Riley Ohtori & Tally Onodera (Reika Otori & Megumi Onodera)
Two young women who operate the Digimon detection thingy that, well, detects Digimon.
Reika is voiced by: Ai Nagano (JP), Tifanie Christun (EN, series), Philece Sampler (EN, movie), Gádor Martín (Spain), Belinda García (Latin America)
Megumi is voiced by: Fumiko Miyashita (JP), Peggy O'Neal (EN), Patricia Mainou (Latin America)
- Ascended Extra: Riley gets to do stuff outside of Hypnos once it's revealed that she's Yamaki's girlfriend. Tally, however, is still just "that blond that works at Hypnos".
- Bridge Bunnies: Yamaki's running the ship, but Riley and Tally are in charge actually executing most of his programs.
- Cuteness Proximity: Tally, for Calumon.
- Hackette: Especially during the D-Reaper arc where they help the Monster Makers with Mission Control. They're the ones helping with communications and upgrading Grani.
- Heel Realization: Tally gets hit with one hard when Juggernaut is fired as she and Riley are treated to the wonderful sounds of thousands of terrified Digimon being dragged in and annihilated, tearing off her visor and begging for someone to make the sound stop.
- Heterosexual Life-Partners: Beyond working together, they appear to be good friends.
- Ms. Fanservice: Riley gets a scene where she's swimming in a pool.
- Subordinate Excuse: Riley is both Yamaki's girlfriend and subordinate, though they know how to keep their relationship separate from their job and they act very professionally and no-nonsense in front of each other. That said, Riley's one of the few who's willing and able to call Yamaki out and knock some sense into him when his emotions become unstable.
The Man In Black
Hypnos field operative, having a few minor but important repeat appearances. He has a black hat that he wears.
Voiced by R. Martin Klein (EN).
- Stealth Hi/Bye: Pulls off a rather impressive one to Janyu: Suddenly appearing in the middle of a hallway, then disappears fast enough that when he looks back and replies, the Man is gone and Henry is standing where he was.
- Mook Lieutenant: The closest thing in Hypnos to one, briefing Yamaki about Shibumi.
- No Name Given: The operative is never given a name or title in the series. The fans simply refer to him as "the Man In Black".
- Vagueness Is Coming: His conversation to Janyu Wong.
Chief Cabinet Secretary
Government official that works most directly with Hypnos. Wears a brown suit, and like most mysterious government types, sunglasses.
Voiced by Dave Mallow (EN).
- Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": Everyone calls him the Chief.
- Jurisdiction Friction: After Vikaralamon ruins Shinjuku, the Chief clashes with the Head of National Security over the use of Juggernaut. The Secretary argues it's dangerous to use without Yamaki. The other official declares it a "National Security" issue, and uses the program anyways.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He fires Yamaki for failing to deal with the Digimon. But when the Juggernaut is about be brought back on, and knowing knowing that trouble is coming, the Chief gets Yamaki back.
- The Unmasqued World: Once the D-Reaper appears and accusations that they're responsible, Hypnos reveals itself to the world. The Chief clarifies that the agency wasn't at fault at a press conference, while dodging questions about it's SIGINT program.
- The Watson: Serves as this, allowing Yamaki to explain Hypnos and other important concepts.
The Digimon Sovereign / Four Holy Beasts
The four supreme Digimon in this version of the Digital world. Alluded to (or shown in Azulongmon's case) in Digimon Adventure 02, in this version of the story, they are the supreme Digimon of the digital world, and live in the highest plane. Ironically, they are the closest physically to the human world this way, though in Zhuquiaomon's case, not emotionally.
The powers of the sovereign include overseeing the Light of Digivolution (Calumon's power), and it is this capacity that starts the plot of the season.
In General
- Authority Equals Asskicking: They're all ludicrously powerful Digimon who rule the Digital World. Even after the D-Reaper lays waste to nearly all the Digital World, they're still fighting, even managing to drag it back into their world.
- Big Damn Heroes: In the final battle, when the Tamers are exhausted and about the be killed by the Reaper, the Sovereign arrive and drag it back to the Digital World, giving the Tamers the opportunity to use Juggernaut to end the D-Reaper's threat for good.
- Color-Coded Characters: Each Sovereign glows a signature color: Azulongmon has blue, Zhuqiaomon has red, Baihumon has white, and Ebonwumon has green.
- Extra Eyes: All of the Sovereign have four eyes. Ebonwumon is a bit less obvious than the others, but has two heads with a single pair of eyes each.
- The Four Gods: They are based on the Four Holy Beasts of East Asian cosmology.
- Hold the Line: They spend the latter part of the series as the last line of defense of the Digital World, just barely slowing the D-Reaper down long enough to allow the Tamers and their allies in the human world to come up with a solution.
- Large and in Charge: They're by far the largest Digimon in the series.
- Physical God: The Sovereigns are Digimon who digivolved to such an advanced level that even multiple Mega level Digimon have a hard time beating them. Nothing short of the Tamer's Mega forms can hope to so much as hold their own against a Sovereign one-on-one. They act as protector Gods to the Digital World.
- Power Glows: Each Sovereign glows their own color has 12 glowing Digi-Core orbs encircling their bodies.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: They rule the Digital World, and all play an active role in combating the D-Reaper.
Zhuqiaomon
A giant Red Phoenix. He sent the Devas into the real world in order to fight the humans. He also sent them to capture Calumon and bring him back to the Digital World so that he could help in the fight against the True Enemy. Zhuqiaomon believes that Digimon must digivolve even further if they ever hope to defeat the True Enemy.
Voiced by: Shuuichirou Moriyama (JP), Tony Pope (EN), Eugenio Barona (Spain)
- An Arm and a Leg: He loses half of one of his wings to the D-Reaper when it starts emerging.
- Badass Boast: The guy is full of these.Azulongmon: (To the Tamers) It's time for you to leave. This is not your battle. We will stay to defend our world.Zhuqiaomon: And we will fight to the bitter end!
- There is also his introduction.
Zhuqiaomon: Trespassers, you have disturbed the lair of Zhuqiaomon, Sovereign of the Digital World and protector of its inhabitants. Look upon my countenance and tremble with fear, for within my eyes, you see your own undoing! - Big Bad: He is the The Man Behind the Man of the Deva arc, though his existence isn't revealed until Sandiramon, Pajiramon and Vajramon speak of him. He later reluctantly does a Heel–Face Turn when it is clear that destroying the humans will not help defeat the true Big Bad of the series.
- Climax Boss: He's the Tamer's final opponent before fighting the D-Reaper.
- Determinator: He fights MegaGargomon, Azulongmon, and Gallantmon, each in the same day. After the Tamers return to the real world, they take a look into the Digital World, and Zhuquiaomon is the only Digimon seen fighting the D-Reaper.
- Defeat Means Respect: For as much as he hates humanity and digimon working with humans, even he has to admit that the Tamers' Biomerged Megas are worthy of some respect after two of them match prove strong enough to match him in battle.
- Easily Forgiven: Despite all of the awful and horrific things he has done by proxy (the worst being granting Impmon the power to evolve into Beelzemon so he kills Leomon), the party bears no particular ill will against him and lets him go after Azulongmon and Shibumi files him in.
- Enemy Mine: He never stops hating humans, but he at least agrees to cease hostilities against them so they could focus their attention to facing the existential threat of the D-Reaper.
- Fantastic Racism: He hates humans, especially Tamers, digimon with Tamers, and especially Tamers merged with their digimon. Even when he joins the good guys later, he admits to still feeling disgust for the Tamers. He does come to tolerate them and even view them as useful allies in the end, though.
- Feathered Fiend: Downplayed. He's certainly a demonic-looking bird, he orders his subordinates to wreck the human world and he's not the most pleasant Digimon the Tamers run into, but he's actually a Well-Intentioned Extremist with a bad case of Fantastic Racism.
- Giant Flyer: He dwarfs MegaGargomon, who's the size of a small skyscraper, but Azulongmon dwarfs even him.
- Good Is Not Nice: Yeah, he's a Virus-type Digimon alright, but you sure as heck would not expect a Digimon referred to as a "Holy Bird Digimon" to be evil — not that he or his peers think he is. He has no qualms ordering a mass razing on the human world and doesn't object to giving Beelzemon power in place of him dealing with the Tamers.
- Jerkass Gods: He has no qualms sending all of his Deva subordinates to go on a rampage in the human world just to bring Calumon to him. He also does not object when his subordinate Caturamon manipulates Impmon to strike a deal with him, and he did give Impmon the ability to evolve into Beelzemon after all (meaning that he indirectly killed Jeri's Leomon and flat-out didn't care).
- Karma Houdini: Easily Forgiven and never having to face any consequences for any of his misdeeds.
- Lack of Empathy: He gleefully gives Impmon the ability to evolve into Beelzemon and doesn't seem to care when he killed Leomon and traumatized Jeri. To him they're likely just collateral damage to the Digital World's "kill or be killed" rule rather than something traumatizing. He also doesn't seem to mind when the Psycho for Hire he deployed loaded two of his subordinates and directly killed one of them.
- Large and in Charge: Much, much bigger than any of his Devas. This giant size seems standard for Digimon Sovereigns.
- The Phoenix: Based on the mythological Vermilion Bird of the South.
- Playing with Fire: Two of his attacks are fire-based: Blazing Helix and Phoenix Fire.
- Poor Communication Kills: Had he swallowed his pride and explained the danger of the D-Reaper instead of having his servants attack the human world, he could have gotten the Tamers' help, had the Catalyst to be ready to fight the D-Reaper in a fraction of the time without getting all but one of his Deva servants killed, and the D-Reaper wouldn't have a mentally unstable Jeri to Mind Rape and use to make itself harder to kill.
- Powers Do the Fighting: When the Tamers confront him in his palace, he views them as so far beneath him that he doesn't bother moving an inch in their battle. Instead, he just burns all of their Digimon with his weakest fire attacks and still very nearly kills them. It's not until MegaGargomon proves strong enough to destroy the palace and send him falling down once that he takes them seriously and starts moving.
- Talking the Monster to Death: Ultimately, it's Shibumi, with a bit of help from Azulongmon, who manages to stop Zhuqiaomon by logically pointing out that his attacks on humanity were wasting precious time and resources needed to confront the imminent rise of the D-Reaper. His deep knowledge of the D-Reaper's nature and insistence that it is a threat to both the Digital and physical worlds convinces the godly bird to at least tolerate the Tamers as allies long enough to stand against their mutual foe.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: He agrees to work with the Tamers against the D-Reaper after their battles, but makes no secret that he's still disgusted by humans and their Digimon partners.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He ends up setting the stage for the final arc when he gives Impmon the ability to digivolve into Beelzemon: This results in Leomon’s death and Jeri’s subsequent depression and ultimately being used to power the D-Reaper, resulting in it nearly destroying both the human world and the Digital World…The latter of which was what Zhuqiamon was trying to prevent in the first place.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Zhuqiaomon wants to protect the Digital World, but is misguided into thinking that the best way to do so is to destroy the humans, especially the Tamers.
- When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Zhuqiaomon believes firmly in the Digital World's "survival of the fittest" mentality so his main solution to all problems are to face them with sheer force. He balks at Azulongmon's suggestion that excessive digivolution is what caused the D-Reaper's rise as it contrasts with his belief that they could overcome it with more force by claiming the Catalyst to evolve further.
Azulongmon (Qinglongmon)
A giant Blue Eastern Dragon. He believes that the Digivolution of Digimon to advanced forms is what brought about the True Enemy. In contrast to Zhuqiaomon's plan for fighting the True Enemy, Azulongmon sought a means of appeasing the True Enemy by hiding the source of Digivolution in the form of a Digimon(Calumon), in the hopes that by stopping any further digivolution, the True Enemy would not see a need to attack. He saved the tamers from Zhuqiaomon's attack and convinced him to trust the humans. He is also the only of the Sovereign to have appeared in another season, Digimon Adventure 02.
Voiced by: Juurouta Kosugi (JP), Michael McConnohie (EN), Juan Carlos Lozano (Spain)
- Giant Flyer: He dwarfs the building sized Zhuqiaomon. Understandable, since Zhuqiaomon is based on a sparrow while Azulongmon is a dragon.
- Our Dragons Are Different: He is a gigantic Asian dragon with angelic wings.
- It's All My Fault: Believes that digivolution is responsible for the reawakening of the True Enemy.
- Mr. Exposition: He provides some of the initial expository info about the D-Reaper in front of Zhuqiaomon and several other Tamers.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: He saves the Tamers from Zhuqiaomon. Instead of sharing his fellow Sovereign's Fantastic Racism, he admonishes Zhuqiaomon for his needlessly destructive actions and tries to convince him to accept the Tamers as potentially powerful allies against their common foe.
- Shock and Awe: His attacks are all electricity-based.
Baihumon
A giant White Tiger. He was the last to be seen, as he was the first Sovereign to confront the True Enemy directly.
Voiced by: Shinichi Kotani (JP), Steve Kramer (EN), José María Carrero (Spain)
- Panthera Awesome: He's a giant tiger.
- Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He waged a one-mon war against the D-Reaper for some time during the series. We have no idea what happened, but it was apparently quite fierce as he was badly injured and exhausted when he emerged from the pit containing the D-Reaper's substance.
- The Worf Effect: He is stated to be the strongest of the four sovereigns, but is quickly defeated by the D-Reaper. Quickly being a relative term... Against the D-Reaper, by himself, he held the line pretty damn well. He also survived, which is more than a good 60 percent of the Digital World can say.
- You Shall Not Pass!: He spent some time fighting the D-Reaper singlehandedly to prevent it from escaping. He lost and was forced to retreat, of course, but just being able to live through such an attempt without permanent injury is a testament to his strength.
Ebonwumon (Xuanwumon)
A giant Green two-headed Turtle. In the Darker and Edgier latter part of the series, he brings a little bit of comic relief. At least, one head does.
- Mr. Exposition: He explains the basics of the D-Reaper to Ryo.
- Multiple Head Case: He has two heads, which speak in different accents and converse with each other.
- The Nicknamer: As early as Ebonwumon's second line, he's giving out nicknames.
- Scotireland: In the dub, Ebonwumon's main head speaks with a Scottish accent, and the quieter one with an Irish accent.
- Turtle Island: He's so big that Ryo and Cyberdramon mistake the forest on his back for a real one.
