History Anime / DigimonAdventure02TheBeginning

* DarkerAndEdgier: the Digimon franchise has never been scared to show the darker side of things. E.g. Ken, T.K., Cody from 02, Jeri from Tamers, and many others have had the death as a part of 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.]]

* DissonantSerenity: On Lui's 12th birthday, with his discovery that [[spoiler:Ukkomon has been essentially puppetting 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]].

* MagicalEye: [[spoiler: Lui's eye covered by his hair and an eyepatch turn out to be a distintive green Digimon eye, transplanted by Ukkomon after Lui had attempted to smash his digivice in a fit of rage and the shattering glass from the screen damaged his.]]
* 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 father into acting like ideal and loving guardians. When Ukkomon vanishes his parents collapse into husks like marionettes with strings cut.]]

* TimeTravel: [[spoiler:Davis and Ken follow Lui back to the past, allowing them to witness Lui's childhood and the circumstances behind his first meeting with Ukkomon. Davis attempts to intervene the first time but is stopped by Ken, concerned about the possible consequences of changing history. Later in the movie the memory is revisited and Lui himself intervenes to plead with his mother that his child self loves her despite everything, leading her to soften up on him in the flashback. It isn't made clear if this actually changed Lui's past or was simply Ukkomon letting him enjoy a moment of catharsis his young self never got]].

* TheWorfEffect: Angewomon and Silphymon are both Ultimate level digimon 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 specifially to be defeated and have to revert back and only then DNA Digivolve with Aquilamon into Silphymon.

* TheWorfEffect: Angewomon and Silphymon are both Ultimate level digimon 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 specifially to be defeated and have to revert back and only then DNA Digivolve with Aquilamon into Silphymon; You'd think they could have instead animated her Armor Digivolving into Nefertimon, which *would* be canonically weaker than a regular Champion level and thus have the trouble shown onscreen.

* UnwantedAssistance : After the reveals that go down on his 12th birthday, Lui is disgusted and horrified by Ukkomon's continued obsession with making him happy regardless of the consequences, [[spoiler:including leaving Lui with a permanent reminder of the Digimon he hated so much in the form of transplanting one of his own eyes in his head]].

* SoapOperaDisease: Lui's father is comatose and hooked up to a life support system at their family home, and his mother is paranoid that Lui even being in the same room could lead to his death if it were tampered with in any way. Lui's father appears to undergo a miraculous recovery thanks to Lui's wish to Ukkomon [[spoiler:but his body is actually just being puppetted around to please Lui.]]

* DarkerAndEdgier: the Digimon franchise has never been scared to show the darker side of things. E.g. Ken, T.K., Cody from 02, Jeri from Tamers, and many others have had the death as a part of Character arc or backstory. [[spoiler: Lou, 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.]]

* StopHelpingMe: After the reveals that go down on his 12th birthday, Lui is disgusted and horrified by Ukkomon's continued obsession with making him happy regardless of the consequences, [[spoiler:including leaving Lui with a permanent reminder of the Digimon he hated so much in the form of transplanting one of his own eyes in his head.]]

* DissonantSerenity: On Lui's 12th birthday, with his discovery that [[spoiler:Ukkomon has been essentially puppetting his parent's corpses for years and created what Lui believes to be a species of slave monsters 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]].

* TimeTravel: [[spoiler:Davis and Ken follow Lui back to the past, allowing them to witness Lui's childhood and the circumstances behind his first meeting with Ukkomon]].

* DarkerAndEdgier: the Digimon franchise has never been scared to show the darker side of things. E.g. Ken, TK, Cody from 02, Jeri from Tamers, and many others have had the death as a part of Character arc or backstory. [[spoiler: Lou, 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.]]

* TheCameo:
** The foreign Chosen Children/[=DigiDestined=] who appeared in ''02'' make multiple cameos in ''The Beginning''. Their partners also appear as well.
** Taichi/Tai and Koushirou/Izzy make brief cameos on the TV.
** Armagemon/Armageddemon and Omegamon/Omnimon are shown as still-images on TV during the 2003 flashback, with multiple shots showing their fight as part of the news. Imperialdramon: Paladin Mode is nowhere to be seen.
** Wallace/Willis, Terriermon and Lopmon are shown briefly near the end of the movie. He still wears the same outfit he wore 10 years ago.

* AbuseDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:The movie avoids showing the brunt of it, but it becomes quite clear what's happening when the young Liu is shown shirtless, revealing bruises all over his body]].

* DeconReconSwitch: [[spoiler: Of the relationship between Digimon and their partners, as established in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''. Liu realistically acts with horror at the notion that his wish led to the creation of an entire race of sentient beings born into what he describes as "slavery", which is similar to a common criticism aimed to the {{Mons}} genre. It takes a talk with Davis to make him understand that it was ''his'' relationship with Ukkomon [[AllTakeAndNoGive alone that could be described in this way]], with the rest of the Digidestined treating their partners as beings worth of respect and love, and not extensions of themselves]].
* LiteralGenie: [[spoiler:Ukkomon is one, making any wish of Lui come true. However, he does so without regard to the free will of others, which eventually led to a breakdown on Lui's part when he believes that his wish for friends led to the creation of an entire race of subservient, freedomless sentient beings]].
* 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 father into acting like ideal and loving guardians. When Ukkomon vanishes his parents collapse into husks like marionettes with strings cut.]]
* SignificantBirthDate: Lui's birthday is on February 29, which technically means he only celebrates his birthday every 4 years. [[spoiler: He originally got his Digivice on February 29 1996, the birthday of a four-year-old Lui. Ukkomon makes a point of giving him a birthday gift on each date, the latest of which is on 2012]].

* CoverVersion: Three songs were covered for the movie; "Target", "Brave Heart" and "Beat Hit", used respectively on the opening segment, the Digivolution sequences and the DNA Digivoluyion sequences.

In February 29 2012, a gigantic Digi-Egg appears on the sky, sending a message to the world; "May everyone in the world have friends. May they each have a Digimon". As the world watches, a young man named Ohwada Lui appears before Davis and his friends. Strangely enough, this man then claims to be the world's first Digidestined, and the egg to be his partner, Ukkomon! What follows is the revelation of the sad, but tender truth behind the birth of the Digidestined; a reveal that will put to test the relationship between them and their Digimon.

* AbuseDiscretionShot: [[spoiler:The movie avoids showing the brunt of it, but it becomes quite clear what's happening when the young Liu is shown shirtless, revealing bruises all over his body.]]

* CoverVersion: Three songs were covered for the movie; "Target", "Brave Heart" and "Beat Hit", used respectively on the opening segment, the Digivolution sequences and the Jogress sequences.
* DeconReconSwitch: [[spoiler: Of the relationship between Digimon and their partners, as established in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''. Liu realistically acts with horror at the notion that his wish led to the creation of an entire race of sentient beings born into what he describes as "slavery", which is similar to a common criticism aimed to the {{Mons}} genre. It takes a talk with Daisuke to make him understand that it was ''his'' relationship with Ukkomon [[AllTakeAndNoGive alone that could be described in this way]], with the rest of the Digidestined treating their partners as beings worth of respect and love, and not extensions of themselves.]]
* LiteralGenie: [[spoiler:Ukkomon is one, making any wish of Lui come true. However, he does so without regard to the free will of others, which eventually led to a breakdown on Lui's part when he believes that his wish for friends led to the creation of an entire race of subservient, freedomless sentient beings.]]
* SignificantBirthDate: Lui's birthday is on February 29, which technically means he only celebrates his birthday every 4 years. [[spoiler: He originally got his Digivice on February 29 1996, the birthday of a four-year-old Lui. Ukkomon makes a point of giving him a birthday gift on each date, the latest of which is on 2012.]]
* TimeTravel: [[spoiler:Davis and Ken follow Lui back to the past, allowing them to witness Lui's childhood and the circumstances behind his first meeting with Ukkomon.]]

* ActorAllusion: Wormmon is voiced in the English dub by Christopher Swindle, who voiced [[Anime/DigimonAdventure2020 another Digidestined's insect Digimon partner.]]

* AbuseDiscretionShot: [[spoiler: The movie avoids showing the brunt of it, but it becomes quite clear what's happening when the young Liu is shown shirtless, revealing bruises all over his body.]]

* CoverVersion: Three songs were covered for the movie; "Target", "Brave Heart" and "Beat Hit", used respectively on the opening segment, the digivolution sequences and the jogress sequences.

* LiteralGenie: [[spoiler: Ukkomon is one, making any wish of Lui come true. However, he does so without regard to the free will of others, which eventually led to a breakdown on Lui's part when he believes that his wish for friends led to the creation of an entire race of subservient, freedomless sentient beings.]]
* SignificantBirthDate: Lui's birthday is on February 29, which technically means he only celebrates his birthday every 4 years. [[spoiler: He originally got his digivice on February 29 1996, the birthday of a four-year-old Lui. Ukkomon makes a point of giving him a birthday gift on each date, the latest of which is on 2012.]]
* TimeTravel: [[spoiler: Davis and Ken follow Lui back to the past, allowing them to witness Lui's childhood and the circumstances behind his first meeting with Ukkomon.]]

* LiteralGeniue: [[spoiler: Ukkomon is one, making any wish of Lui come true. However, he does so without regard to the free will of others, which eventually led to a breakdown on Lui's part when he believes that his wish for friends led to the creation of an entire race of subservient, freedomless sentient beings.]]

* ActorAllusion: Wormon is voiced in the English dub by Christopher Swindle, who voiced [[Anime/DigimonAdventure2020 another Digidestined's insect Digimon partner.]]

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