Digimon as a whole was pretty dark, with moments of violence, torture, death and...well, needless to say, for a "kid's show," it sure got edgy at times.
Specific works:
- Digimon Adventure
- Digimon Adventure 02
- Digimon: The Movie
- Digimon Tamers
- Digimon Frontier
- Digimon X-Evolution
- Digimon Data Squad
- Digimon Fusion
- Digimon Adventure tri.
- Digimon Universe: App Monsters
- Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
- Digimon Adventure: (2020)
- Digimon Ghost Game
- Digimon Digital Card Battle
- Digimon World -next 0rder-
- Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth
- Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth - Hacker's Memory
- Digimon Survive
- Digimon World
- Digimon World 2
- Digimon World 3
Individual Digimon
- The Seven Great Demon Lords in general. A group of uber-power demons who do whatever they like with near impunity, with control over every Digimon in the Nightmare Soldier family, which acts as their army. And if a Digimon is killed by one of them, rather than being reborn as a Digiegg somewhere, they become a part of said Demon Lord.
- The profiles on the early (pre-2002) cyborg Digimon, which imply someone or something was using them as guinea pigs to create Mugendramon and Chimeramon, and given what those two Jogress into... yeah.
- Speaking of what they Jogress into, Millenniummon is pretty damned creepy. A near-unstoppable monster that's every bit as insane and evil as they are, capable of forcing its enemies into another dimension when it fights them. And it gets worse. Kill a Millenniummon? Its spirit will be reborn as MoonMillenniummon, which doesn't have a body and can't be killed, while its body just gets right back up again, even more powerful than before and capable of travelling through time. And just for added fun, ZeedMillenniummon is an Omnicidal Maniac.
- To make it worse, the first time it ever appeared in canon, it developed a disturbing relationship with Ryo Akiyama.
- Boltboutamon is another very disturbing Digimon in a similar vein to Millenniumon, being the Jogress of a Dark Master and a major Digimon Adventure villain, but instead of Chimeramon and Machinedramon, we have Piedmon and Myotismon. Appearance-wise, it's not that disturbing, resembling a vampire aristocrat with a classy Venetian flair. What's actually disturbing is what it actually does. It compels Piedmon to forcefully absorb Myotismon (and sometimes the other way around) and has the will of neither, being an independent entity who seeks to eradicate light and cover the world in darkness. The thought of it mind controlling Piedmon, already a dangerous and unpredictable Digimon, into absorbing another just-as-dangerous Digimon is unsettling. Then there's how this thing is an Omnicidal Maniac like Millenniumon. And to make things worse, in Digimon World -next 0rder-, we find out just like GranDracumon, this thing is actually even stronger than the Seven Great Demon Lords.
- Megidramon manages to get even more terrifying than Tamers already made it. Its body is made of Chrome Digizoid, meaning it's near-completely indestructible. Near-indestructible, insanely violent and capable of breaking reality just by existing.
- And apparently Megidramon is capable of Voluntary Shapeshifting to ChaosDukemon. The one good thing about Megidramon was that it was apparently just a mindless beast. Now imagine something born ferociously violent, indestructible, capable of breaking reality by existing, and it's intelligent.
- Chaosmon are really disturbing, even by the standards the Digital World has. They're not supposed to exist, which shows by the very edges of their bodies glitching. Even worse, the Digimon that wind up creating a Chaosmonnote are still alive and conscious in its shoulders, with their severed heads turned into weapons, in a dark twist on Omegamon's design.
- You want even more Nightmare Fuel? Try UltimateChaosmon, a deformed Eldritch Abomination created from the strain of four powerful Digimon fusing at oncenote . It's so unwieldly powerful that Digimon at the Rookie level and below can't even approach this thing, and it has two of its Digicores just sitting there as UltimateChaosmon's eyes.
- Remember SkullGreymon? And remember that bone club Ogremon carries around? That's a SkullGreymon's femur. How the heck did an Ogremon get its hands on a SkullGreymon's femur?
- And if Ogremon wasn't scary enough, there's his evolution: Titamon. A creature born from the hatred of all Digimon defeated by the Olympos XII. His sword, the Zanjintou, is made with SkullGreymon's head, and it's able to torment anyone pierced by it with hallucinations. The worst part? The skulls in his arms are from every single opponent he has defeated, and he's able to use them to summon an undead legion on his command. There's a reason why this beast is called an One-Man Army
- Diablomon (Or Diaboromon, if you prefer your dub names) is already creepy, but the purpose of every Diablomon ever? Hack into human military banks, and destroy humanity with nukes.
- According to Archnemon's (Arukenimon) profile, her "Predation Spider" technique consists of her releasing countless carnivorous Dokugumon from her abdomen. For reference, Dokugumon are Walking Wasteland Big Creepy-Crawlies that are about the size of a car. And they also have a mass-spawning attack that releases hordes of KoDokugumon. In other words, Archnemon has an attack that summons spiders, which can summon even more spiders. Talk about an arachnophobe's worst nightmare. In Digimon Ghost Game and Digimon Survive, Archnemon is portrayed exactly this way and it isn't a pretty sight.
- Ogudomon X is a horrifying Digimon and that doesn't even begin to describe it. Its mere existence can cause the entire Digital World to fall apart and in Digimon Chronicle X, it's revealed that it has the same structure as God Himself. Imagine what would happen if this thing succeeded in destroying the entire Digital World had Jesmon GX not interfered.
