History Anime / DigimonAdventure02TheBeginning

* TheWorfEffect: Angewomon and Silphymon are both Ultimate level Digimon (Albeit Silphymon is a DNA Digivolution kind of Ultimate) and should be similar in terms of strength, yet Angewomon is featured in the same Digivolution sequence where everyone else is only going to the lower Champion level, and she is the only Digimon to have trouble fighting Ukkomon's tentacles. Gatomon appears to have Digivolved to Angewomon specifically to be defeated and have to revert back and only then DNA Digivolve with Aquilamon into Silphymon.

* CallBack: The dub has the password for entering the computer lab be [[Recap/DigimonAdventure02M2RevengeOfDiaboromon "Digi, Digi". "Mon, Mon"]]

* DissonantSerenity: On Lui's 12th birthday, with his discovery that [[spoiler:Ukkomon has been essentially puppeteering his parent's corpses for years, brainwashing random children to be his friends, and created what Lui believes to be a species of slave monsters that exist solely to obey child masters, he snaps and violently pins Ukkomon to the ground, seemingly on the verge of beating him. Ukkomon simply smiles back and says Lui can hurt him all he wants until he feels better, causing Lui to let him go as the abject hopelessness of the situation sinks in]].

* InnocentlyInsensitive: It's clear Ukkomon truly does want to make Lui happy. Unfortunately, [[spoiler:Ukko doesn't recognize what exactly is wrong with brainwashing and controlling Lui's parents or why Lui would react horribly to that truth, leading to the string of events that end with Lui smashing the Digivice.]]

* BeyondTheImpossible: [[spoiler:Ukkomon transplanting his eye into Lui. It's been explicitly stated that Digimon are not flesh and blood life forms, even in the real world, so this should have no chance of actually working.]]

* PeoplePuppets: [[spoiler:Lui's fears about the Partner Digimon being slaves don’t come from nowhere as it’s made quite clear that Ukkomon has been using his powers to force Lui's abusive mother and comatose father into acting like ideal and loving guardians. When Ukkomon vanishes his parents collapse into husks like marionettes with strings cut.]]

* PeoplePuppets: [[spoiler:Lui's fears about the Partner Digimon being slaves don’t come from nowhere as it’s made quite clear that Ukkomon has been using his powers to force Lui’s abusive mother and comatose father into acting like ideal and loving guardians. When Ukkomon vanishes his parents collapse into husks like marionettes with strings cut.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: The Digimon franchise has never been scared to show the darker side of things. E.g. Ken and Cody from 02, Jeri from Tamers, and many others have had the death of relatives as a part of their character arc or backstory. [[spoiler:Lui, by contrast, takes the darkness a step further. He lives in a run down building, with an abusive mother and bedridden father. His Digimon partner, while genuinely trying to help, does so by brainwashing those around him into being better people, and unlike other backstories in the past, blood is actually shown amongst the tragedies when the young Lui's eye is damaged while he's breaking his Digivice.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: The Digimon franchise has never been scared to show the darker side of things. E.g. Ken, T.K., and Cody from 02, Jeri from Tamers, and many others have had the death as a part of their character arc or backstory. [[spoiler:Lui, by contrast, takes the darkness a step further. He lives in a run down building, with an abusive mother and bedridden father. His Digimon partner, while genuinely trying to help, does so by brainwashing those around him into being better people, and unlike other backstories in the past, blood is actually shown amongst the tragedies when the young Lui's eye is damaged while he's breaking his Digivice.]]