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Episode 3
- Ruli is close to breaking completely down when her fingers disappear due to Dracumon's curse especially after hearing another victim crossing the Despair Event Horizon. Thankfully Hiro is able to notice her plight and helps her.
Episode 13
- As a result of Bokomon's Heroic Sacrifice to protect Gammamon, the poor baby-like Digimon ends up undergoing a Dark Evolution to the much more vicious GulusGammamon in a horrifying contrast to his formerly innocent personality. And the thing to stop him from killing the others? The shot of Hiro attempting to perform a Heroic Sacrifice mirrors Bokomon's actions, causing him to devolve back to Gammamon. When Gammamon wakes up, he's left sobbing in grief over Bokomon's death as Hiro and the others try to comfort him, as he soon cries himself to sleep in Hiro's arms after things have settled down. The young, usually happy-go-lucky Digimon breaking down into tears once the action has stopped is genuinely heartbreaking.
- The buildup to the evolution itself is quite heart-wrenching as well, as Gammamon sees Bokomon after the latter took a knife to the back to protect him. Gammamon's reaction seems to be one of innocent confusion at first as he sees Bokomon's eyes close and his body dissipates into data and sparkles... As he quickly realizes what happened to him as he reaches for the sparkles as they scatter away, all while quietly calling for the professor Digimon. The lack of music in the scene only further sells the tragedy of the scene.
- GulusGammamon's personality in comparison to Gammamon's deserves a special mention with how stark the contrast between the two is. Gone is the kind, lovable, and innocent Digimon, and in his place is a cold, violent, and sadistic Digimon who outright renounces his friendship with Hiro, and was willing to try to kill him and the others as well for trying to get in his way and to show that Hiro's pacifistic ways are wrong. The statement he says before preparing to attack them only cements the heartbreak of how cold he's become.GulusGammamon: Just because we know each other a little, doesn't mean we're friends.
- Bokomon's death is definitely this, one would assume he'd be a supporting mentor over the course of the series, not be killed off while protecting Gammamon. They don't cheapen his sacrifice by having him just simply reincarnate as a Digi Egg either, Jellymon confirms that they won't be the same person once they hatch again, meaning the Bokomon that the tamers got to know throughout these episodes is truly dead.
- The reasoning behind GulusGammamon evolution is also this. When you first see the resonance gauge of the Digivice slowly go up, one would think it would be like Gammamon's past evolutions, but this time influenced by its extreme sorrow, but no, just the complete opposite, the gauge drops into negative from just how disconnected Hiro and Gammamon feel about Bokomons death, Hiro knows about death, but for Gammamon, it's his first time witnessing something like this.
Episode 14
- The toll of Bokomon's death has clearly wrecked Gammamon's cheerfulness, even without grasping the former's death. His first impression of the beach is to simply say that it is the ocean with Flat Joy rather than being excited like before. While he thankfully recovers from it by the episode's end, the scene still offers a harsh contrast to his usual innocence.
- Despite everything that happened just beforehand, Gammamon is just too young to grasp the concept of death. His first thought when he tries manju for the first time is that he wants to share it with Bokomon, and nobody has any clue how to break it to him that it'll never happen because Bokomon won't remember his past life once he is reborn - Hiro reluctantly tells Gammamon that he is on a journey to placate him.
- Bakumon hasn't been faring much better since his teacher died. Hiro mentions that he moved into his dorm but is rarely actually there, going to the library during the day but disappearing to parts unknown at night.
- Koemon has been miserably lonely for the majority of the time he's been on Earth. He grew incredibly close to an elderly member of the Nagomi Resort staff known as Granny, who discovered him when he was on the brink of starvation and regularly played with him. One day while they were watching fireworks, Granny promised Koemon that they'd watch more again tomorrow - but then she disappeared. Nobody has done much with him since until the group discovers him, his antics scare the guests and the other workers don't do much more than acknowledge his presence as the titular Zashiki-warashi.
- The episode also gives conflicting evidence towards whether or not Granny is still alive - her ball is set up on a pedestal like a shrine and her coworkers describe her in passing as if she's deceased, and while she did leave a letter for Koemon explaining that unforeseen circumstances required her to visit her son and apologizing for not having enough time to properly say goodbye to him, it's likely been months since she left considering that it's the middle of winter and far from being the usual time of year for fireworks.
Episode 17
- The entire scene of the group minus Ruli slowly succumbing to Frozomon is rather somber, with everyone slowly collapsing to their possible deaths without any chance of respite. As Hiro watches and then follows his adopted little brother yield to the cold, and Angoramon can only hope that Ruli is safe in his last thoughts, TeslaJellymon is forced to abandon Kiyoshiro as her powers can only assist with her own condition. And Ruli, who for the entire second half of the episode is shown to be constantly praying for her friends' safety, undergoes a Heroic BSoD as she realizes there is a high likelihood of her friends being killed while she remains the sole survivor. Suffice it to say, the entire experience brings the poor girl to tears as she furiously brings down the perpetrator in short term.
Episode 20
- A mother and father helplessly witness their son, Tsuyoshi burning to death as he cries out for them. That man is dead and gone and is never coming back, since, of course, humans aren't reborn like Digimon. Even sadder is that DarkLizamon and Saberdramon's had the best intentions in mind, but were ultimately blamed even though they attempted to help him go through the fire. Had Tsuyoshi listened to DarkLizamon telling him not to move, he could have been saved but instead they were misblamed for the fire and the son's death. This then convinced them there is no place for them in the human world, which causes them to seek out the BlackTailmon to go back home.
Episode 21
- Poor Hiro and the others are left helpless and Forced to Watch as Archnemon prepares to devour an unconscious Gammamon's brain, as he's only able to scream and beg for Archnemon to leave his little brother alone, unable to do anything. It's practically a miracle for him that GulusGammamon emerged at the last second to take down Archnemon.
Episode 23
- Morphomon's situation can be heartwrenching to look at, being captured and experimented on by an amateur human scientist all while it is terrified, begging for her to stop while the human doesn't even listen.
Episode 24
- After being defeated and talked out of mutating Yuuto, Ajatarmon decides that she'd rather look like a human and begins mutilating herself, ripping off her body parts until she vaguely resembles her beloved Yuuto and left in tears over how she doesn't understand love. Everyone else watches in horror as Ajatarmon's arms fall off on their own, having mortally wounded herself in the process - but Yuuto rushes in to hug her...and she dies right before he can wrap his arms around her.
Episode 26
- Angoramon reunites with his best friend from the Digital World, Digitamamon, only to find out that during his stay in the Human World, he developed a Horror Hunger for humans and tries to eat his partner, Ruli, to satiate it. In the end SymbareAngoramon is forced to kill his Evil Former Friend and is so shocked at what happened that he doesn't even do his usual Hurricane of Aphorisms at the end of the episode.
Episode 32
- These are the most depressing and sad moments for Gammamon, being forgotten by his friends and partner. It was due to Betsumon stealing Gammamon's identity and making them believe he is real and Gammamon a fake. Gammamon almost develops an identity crisis until Meicoomon appears, a previous victim of the Betsumon who has been left all but broken from losing every relationship he ever had and eventually fades from existence right before his eyes. If it wasn't for Meicoomon before he disappeared, Gammamon would have shared the same fate as him.
- By the time he manages to break Betsumon's hold over Hiro, Gammamon's first reaction is to cling to his brother's head and just start bawling. The past few days have been nothing but torture for him; having his new friend Gotsumon repeatedly be a no-show during a playdate (and even worse, said Gotsumon was impersonated by another Betsumon), simply unable to comprehend why his friends no longer recognize him, and being forced to sleep outside in the rain and watch a fellow Digimon have a mental breakdown that leads to the realization that he and everyone in the dorm will die if he can't fix things ASAP.
Episode 33
- We have when Kiyoshiro is comatose in a hospital bed. Mummymon says he SHOULD BE awake... but it's like his soul has left him. He tells the heroes to say their goodbyes... Jellymon is the only one who refuses to do so, instead electrically shocking him over and over, but reality ensues, as it does nothing. Mummymon gently tells her to stop. What sells it is how freakin' low key it all is. No one shouts. No one screams in agony. Everyone just feels a little bit emptier.
Episode 35
- Ruli learning the true origin of the werewolf legend. The werewolf was a protector and supported by the people, but then fell in love with the Moon Princess. The people rejected such a union, and soldiers tried to reclaim her, accidentally shooting her. The rain is the werewolf's spirit in grieving. She says out loud that it was just a story...but there's the fact she envisions the moon princess' death before being told the legends hints this legend isn't purely a fairy tale. And she hears the mysterious howl one last time before she leaves.
Episode 37
- The group comes to realize that RareRaremon is too far gone, at this point being a living corpse with no mind or reason remaining, and have no choice but to kill him to give him a chance to be reborn and end his suffering. Hiro in particular is clearly torn up, as this is the first time he's actually been forced to help kill someone.
Episode 38
- Gammamon is left crying and unable to even fight back when Hiro, possessed by Lord Hojo, doesn't even recognize him. This feels familiar, doesn't it?
Episode 40
- After Gammamon broke Hiro's tablet, Hiro was displeased and tells him to say sorry, but he denies it (despite it being obvious he did break the tablet) and falls into a tantrum distancing himself from Hiro. For most of the episode, he remains like this, and it's Tear Jerker combined with Heartwarming when he actually does apologize and fight against Calamaramon.
Episode 42
- When Ruli and Hiro along with all the other of the Oboromon's victims are turned into a scarf for the victor. SymbareAngoramon holds it together to rescue Gammamon. Gammamon however does not, even after having been skewered by one of the Oboromon. He demands over and over that Red restore Hiro, only to be crushed with that same scarf in the response each time. This keeps up until finally, Gammamon transforms into GulusGammamon in sheer rage. Before when he Dark Evolved, Gammamon snapped, and that was it. This time he's pushed and pushed and PUSHED until the poor Digimon outright erupts in pure outrage.
Episode 45
- After Mika was targeted by Publimon, Ruli and Aoi just stare at her shocked as she lies on the floor unconscious, and the truck that was supposed to hit Mika went slightly off the rails. A while later we see Mika is pretty much alive and well, but Aoi is sobbing uncontrollably next to her lap.
- Despite Publimon's psychotic tendencies, Hiro did try to save him, only for him to drop into the floor anyways. He almost looks and sounds forlorn after the Digimon's death, with no music in the background.
Episode 47
- Dear sweet Heaven, Shadramon! He is mortally wounded in a meaningless fight, is desperate to go on living, is turned into a science experiment, experiences body horror, and just when it seems he's gotten his second lease on life...he dies anyway!
Episode 48
- Seriously, just the thought of Ruli and Hiro (which mind you, bested big shots like Piemon, Vamdemon, Gigasmon, and Manticoremon before) being reduced into hapless victims who can only scream in incredible agony as the quartet of psychotic Chamblemon use them as mushroom farms and mercilessly grab every mushroom growing on their body, being too weak to, even so, fight back. What makes this especially awful is how unlike most instances in Digimon anime where an entity tortures a main character, this episode doesn't even bother trying to hide what happened to Ruli and Hiro or leave it offscreen.
Episode 50
- It seems like the writers had something against Meicoomon's evolution line after they promised to quit with the Leomon gags, because this Meicrackmon Vicious Mode only fared marginally better than the Meicoomon in Episode 32. After being defeated by Hiro and being told not to force people to imitate Digimon behavior as gratitude, she goes right in front of Fukatsu, but he's now afraid of her Yandere tendencies and power. She realizes this, telling the boy that she hates him because they're incompatible together, but she sounds absolutely broken, with tears coming out from her eyes when she makes the declaration. Fukatsu sounds sullen after her fallout and at the end nobody is happy.
Episode 61
- Toru's fiancee, Manami was explicitly killed off in a lab accident days prior to their wedding, only for the corpse to be seemingly resurrected. It's heartbreaking because even when Manami's body is acting erratically and everyone can see something is horribly wrong, he's too delusional and grief-ridden to see the truth.
- At the middle of the fight against ZeedMillenniumon, Manami tells the group to hit her because she's the weak point. Toru can only yell pained cries telling them to stop because he still believes his fiancee was alive, even if all evidence points to her being reanimated by some insane apocalyptic abomination. Worse is the Morton's Fork he's been put at; he either loses his fiancee for real or lets the world-wrecking monstrosity run all over the world. And it takes some time for him to choose the former.
- The aftermath is really no better. Despite ZeedMillenniumon is reverted to a dormant Moon=Millenniumon, Manami's consciousness is dispelled alongside the monstrosity and Toru is degenerated into a crying wreck who had to accept the truth that his fiancee is long gone from this world.
- When the protagonists are spectating the Igashira siblings mourning Manami from a distance, Gammamon innocently asks Hiro that "has she gone on a journey" as if he took Hiro's attempt to protect him from knowing the truth about Bokomon's death too literally that he starts using it as an euphemism for people dying. It's easy to forget that the protagonist's Digimon haven't saw the dead body of an actual human yet, and all they know is when a Digimon dies it gets shattered into pieces. Gammamon is simply too innocent to understand that people don't disintegrate when they die and unlike Bokomon (or any Digimon for that regard) who only respawn without their memories, once a human dies they're Killed Off for Real.
- This is pretty much a Downer Ending for the Igashira siblings, especially for the big brother. His fiancee was killed out of nowhere days before his wedding and seemingly came back to life only for that to be a literal world-wiping monstrosity who killed her and used her body to trick him and slowly kill him off, and his young sister became so disturbed by his Sanity Slippage and the hauntings seemingly caused by the corpse he brought back home that she had to call the protagonists. Even after the incident is solved, the poor sod still has to face the reality that his beloved is a goner. We better hope the little sister isn't traumatized...
Episode 62
- Trying to save Siriusmon, Espimon throws a barrage of his attacks at ClavisAngemon which the archangel Digimon doesn't even notice. He shouts at Hiro that if he's the real Hiro, to make him evolve already. The voice actor really sells it. Espimon shouts like he's commanding, but you can tell he's practically begging for the power to save his friend.
Episode 63
- Ruli on the verge of a breakdown after the Quartzmon clone leaves her heavily malnourished body. There's no screaming, she's too weak to scream, and all she could do is to sob as her body slowly breaks down. Unlike the previous times she's fell victim, she's truly on the verge of dying here and would be if the rest of the protagonists fail to resolve Quartzmon's case in time.
Episode 64
- You know when shit is about hit the fan when Jellymon starts crying Broken Tears, Clockmon and Angoramon becomes consumed by immense despair and Mummymon believes that the Digital World has been destroyed. It's truly an O.O.C. Is Serious Business moment that hammers to how any Digimon or human can now die or vanish in any time or day.
Episode 65
- Raflesiamon's death, crying that all she wanted was to live longer instead of wilting immediately, particularly when you consider that like the Dagomon before she was just corrupted by whatever is going on in the digital world. And she isn't even killed by the heroes, they just free the ones she was sapping life force from, their death is entirely natural due to her species' biology. Her entire species in-general is a Woobie Species, but this one is as tragic as it's completely wrong.
Episode 66
- This is one of the most depressing and sad moments for the protagonists, but especially Hiro. And no, it's not the sort where he shrugs out of the incident as if it's nothing. Hiro outright breaks character and gets thrown straight 50 yards over the Despair Event Horizon because the fear of losing his stepbrother Gammamon is very real.
- When Regulusmon tells him that Gammamon is now dead, he shows up with an expression that indicates nothing but despair. And when Regulusmon does inflict an explicitly fatal injury on Siriusmon, he looks absolutely dead on the inside
, even more so than anyone else spectating. There's no tears, no shouting, nothing. All we see is a boy who looks like as if he lost his life force entirely and became a soulless husk. It's a face that would make even Juri look less off the rails in comparison. - Siriusmon's apparent death. There's no holding back on what Regulusmon did to him; unlike Diablomon or Eosmon cutting off Omegamon's arms (that at most renders him unable to fight and had to devolve), Siriusmon gets hit with a massive Torso with a View, a type of injury that would assuredly kill most Digimon, or even living beings in general. Siriusmon's equally dead eyes and Hiro's despairing face makes no ambiguity on what's happening. Setting off Hiro aside, all of the spectators and combatants are equally shocked when it happens. Gammamon, as we know him, is potentially Killed Off for Real.
