History Anime / DigimonAdventureTri

** Who the Mysterious Man and what his goals are. [[spoiler:While at first he seems to be a corrupted Gennai,[[note]][[RelatedInTheAdaptation Which the Dub goes for]][[/note]] the real Gennai is shown to be with the 02 Digidestined, and with his previously shown power to transform into Ken, even his main form could be a disguise. And while he presents himself as an emissary of Yggdrasil, TheStinger for ''Our Future'' has him claim Apocalymon's data that had been inside Meicoomon, declaring his intent to go after Diablomon and Demon next. Just who he really is and what he wants are all as [[JustForPun mysterious as he is]].]]

** TK's blog can be seen as an earlier phase of his career as a novelist.

** TK's decision of keeping the fact that [[spoiler:Patamon is infected]] from the team. If he had told Izzy about it sooner, Izzy might be able to figure out a solution to fix the problem. One could say that the Digimons themselves are partly at fault, too, as they leave the safety of Izzy's private system and out into the real world because they wanted to be with their partners, [[spoiler:eventually leading to all of them getting corrupted by the infection and had to be rebooted, losing their memories in the process.]]

** [[spoiler:Maki Himekawa, who is revealed to be one of the five original Digidestined along with Daigo and three others who had saved the Digital World from a great evil a long time ago, but it came with a great price: Maki has to let her Digimon partner be sacrificed so other Digimon partners could became the Harmonious Ones and sealed the Dark Masters away. She didn't even have a choice in the matter as her body was taken over by Homeostasis as Megadramon was being sacrificed. This ended up causing Maki much grief, not unlike how TK grieved for Patamon's supposed death. Worse, unlike Patamon, who could come back as a Digi-egg, Maki's partner is KilledOffForReal. From that point, Maki worked tirelessly to research ways to bring her partner back, and even Daigo's attempts to comfort her didn't help much. This allows the Mysterious Man to manipulate her into orchestrating the reboot of the Digital World as it's the only way to bring her partner back, risking numerous lives and threatening the safety of both worlds. What he ''didn't'' mention to her is that her Digimon would not have any memory of her left. [[SanitySlippage From the last we've seen of her, she did not take this well at all.]]]]

* RetGone: You remember everything that happened in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' and ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''? Halfway through this series, '''Everything that happened in the Digital World un-happens in an instant.'' Only the Digidestined themselves remember. [[spoiler:This is partially undone in ''Our Future'', as the memories of all the Digimon of the previous iteration of the Digital World are returned. It's not without some changes, however, as Digimon that died in the real world, such as Leomon and Wizardmon are BackFromTheDead somewhere.]]

* FourElementEnsemble: Referenced in the opening of ''Loss'' by Homeostasis, intertwining the set with Light and Darkness duality.
-->Light is born of darkness...
-->Darkness sails north to become water...
-->Light sails south to become fire...
-->Wind flows between light and darkness...
-->Light sinks into darkness and returns to earth.

* SequelNonEntity: An odd example. While we're ''shown'' the main characters from ''Digimon 02'' in this, they're reduced to brief cameos and [[spoiler:one of them was basically a RedHerring]]. Still, they do better than their family, who just vanish from existence (despite a minor plot point being that the ''02'' kids are missing, something you'd think would concern their loved ones).

** Special mentions to their treatment towards Meicoomon. They completely ignore that leaving Meicoomon alive will cause the world to burn and even go as far as turning against Homeostasis over it. Even when Meiko ''herself'' suggests that Meicoomon should probably be slain, they shoot her down anyways and insist to bring Meicoomon back happy and alive, despite Meiko is Meicoomon's partner so she deserves more respect than being blithely shot down, and they have no solution to the infection anyways, meaning that the world will burn over some teens who don't want to shoot down an apocalyptic abomination that's also a Digimon partner and said teens didn't care.

* SinisterSuffocation: In "Loss", the Mysterious Man aims to enrage Meicoomon by relentlessly stalking the heroes and trying to kill them with the aid of the Dark Masters. Though his attempts are thwarted thanks to the partner Digimon regaining the ability to evolve, he eventually manages to corner Meiko and suffocates her to near death. It's this particular action that ultimately causes Meicoomon to succumb to her hatred and transform into her SuperPoweredEvilSide.

** Special mentions to their treatment towards Meicoomon. They completely ignore that leaving Meicoomon alive will cause the world to burn and even go as far as turning against Homeostasis over it. Even when Meiko ''herself'' suggests that Meicoomon should probably be slain, they shoot her down anyways and insist to bring Meicoomon back happy and alive, despite Meiko is Meicoomon's partner so she deserves more respect than being blithely shot down, and they have no solution to the infection anyways, meaning that they would have the world burn for no valid reason.

** Special mentions to their treatment towards Meicoomon. They completely ignore that leaving Meicoomon alive will cause the world to burn and even go as far as turning against Homeostasis over it. Even when Meiko ''herself'' suggests that Meicoomon should probably be slain, they shoot her down anyways and insist to bring Meicoomon back happy and alive, despite having to solution to the infection she brings at hand.

* PlotHole: The main cast's lack of interest in the absent 02 kids and their Digimon. [[spoiler:The explanation that the 02 kids and the main cast had "drifted" doesn't account for why they go ignored when the Digimon return, the Digital world is revealed to be in crisis, or when hostile Digimon arrive in the real world, which are all big changes in the status quo that would be relevant to the whole team. The last one is especially bad, because it leaves Taichi, a known strategist, ignoring useful tactical assets.]]

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: A passive variant. Rather than doing bad and getting away with it, the Chosen passively learn of the objective horrors of what's going on--the digital world burning, unborn digimon being slaughtered, old friends going completely mad--and then blithely ignore them. The kids only confront a problem once it falls into their lap, and even then mostly to make themselves feel better--when Mimi confronts a rabid Ogremon, it's not to stop him from hurting anyone in his madness, but because it'll counter the depressing anti-digimon coverage in the news.

** [[LightNovel/DigimonAdventure The novelization]] of ''Adventure'' implied that the original Chosen Children briefly mentioned were partners to the Digimon who later became the Four Digimon Sovereigns, which part 4 seemingly confirms.

* OffModel: The final fight of ''Determination'' isn't animated too smoothly, making some of the participating characters look more unnatural than intended. For a quick example, the horns on Vikemon's helmet are ridiculously large in some shots.

** The dub of ''02'' said that the older kids, in their green school uniforms, were in high school instead of the Japanese version's middle school, due in part to differences between Japanese and American school grade systems and the dub adding an extra year to the TimeSkip between ''Adventure'' and ''02''. ''Tri'' shows the older kids ''actually'' in high school and wearing light blue uniforms that are very clearly not the same as the green ones while the younger kids in middle school are wearing the green ones.

** [[spoiler:The dub claims that the man who looks like Gennai's younger self is him, but ''Our Future'' reveals that the real Gennai has been in stasis in the same lab as the ''02'' children the entire time. Considering the mystery man is deliberately sowing confusion and chaos, its likely calling himself "Dark Gennai" is just another bit misinformation to addle the Digidestined more.]]

!!''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' provides examples of:

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[[folder: Tropes A - C]]

* AdaptationNameChange: "[=DigiDestined=]" was a term created by the English dub to describe the children chosen by the Digital World. Up until then, fans of the original version often referred to them by the literal translation of the original Japanese term, "Chosen Children." However, the official subtitles for ''tri.'', as well as a screenshot in the first movie, have adapted "[=DigiDestined=]" as an in-character term used outside of Japan. [[note]]The character song album for the humans uses "Erabareshi kodomatachi" ("Chosen Children") in romaji, and the Japanese characters still refer to each other in that manner.[[/note]]
* AdaptationalVillainy: More adaptational antagonism: Alphamon. In the base lore of Digimon, the Digital Pets and TCG, Alphamon and Omegamon (Omnimon for the dub-watchers) are brothers in arms ([[MeaningfulName Name theme included]]), with the latter even being former’s most trusted ally; Omegamon is even the keeper of Alphamon’s Data whenever he is not available, effectively making him second-in-command. Taichi and Yamato’s Omegamon, however, has no relation with this Alphamon, and they share no brotherhood whatsoever. In addition, most iterations of Alphamon have him as a stalwart opposer to Yggdrasil, usually being the OnlySaneMan amidst the Royal Knights when Yggdrasil goes too far. Here, Alphamon is one of Yggdrasil's agents, and assumedly supports its plans.

** Kouji Wada's last new recording was for the new version of "Butter-fly", which not only was his first major recording, but the first opening theme for the ''Digimon'' anime as a whole. [[note]]The new version of "Seven" recycles the lead vocal track from a previous version, likely because Wada was too sick to record again.[[/note]]

** Mimi sings ''I wish'' to distract some hot springs visitors. It's also the song she chose to wake [=TonosamaGekomon/ShogunGekomon=] in ''Digimon Adventure''. [[note]]This was an in-joke, as Creator/AiMaeda, who played Mimi in the first two seasons, also sang "I Wish."[[/note]]

[[folder: Tropes D - N]]

*** Taichi's crest is courage, which is what defines Taichi as a leader and is thoroughly deconstructed throughout the series after his impulsive actions in the first film. [[spoiler: In ''Our Future'', Taichi has to accept that in order to be an effective leader, he must also be willing to make decisions that he'll be hated for and have the courage to go through with mercy killing Meicoomon when it becomes apparent that they can not save her.]]

** [[spoiler:The dub claims that the man who looks like Gennai's younger self is him, but ''Our Future'' reveals that the real Gennai has been in stasis in the same lab as the ''02'' children the entire time. Considering the mystery man is deliberately sowing confusion and chaos, its likely calling himself “Dark Gennai” is just another bit misinformation to addle the Digidestined more.]]

* HopeSpot: When all of the Digimon [[spoiler:get infected]] with 10 minutes until reboot, Koshiro sets up a backup port that allows him to collect the data of all of their Digimon so that [[spoiler:their memories won't get erased when the reboot happens]]. However, even though [=HerculesKabuterimon=] is able to hold the Digimon enough to push them back into the distortion, [[spoiler:none of them got to the backup port in time]]. [[spoiler: Subverted, when it's revealed in ''Our Future'' that during the confrontation Meicoomon's data was mixed in and as a result she got all of the digimons' memories from before the reboot]].

--->'''Gabumon''': I've waited in this world forever just so I could meet you, and only you!

--->'''Yamato''': I came to this world to see you, no one but you!

[[folder: Tropes O - Z]]

** Taichi has an English Textbook titled One Vision, the [[Anime/DigimonTamers Tamers's]] Biomerge/Matrix Digivolution theme.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailers and covers don't really try to hold back. Imperialdramon was displayed prominently on the cover for ''Determination'' while [[spoiler:its Fighter Mode]] was shown in the trailer. ''Confession'' had its cover prominently display [[spoiler: Meicrackmon before it was even named]] while for ''Loss'' [[spoiler:not only are Hououmon, Mugendramon and Bakumon featured on the cover but the trailer reveals both the return of [=MetalSeadramon=] and Seraphimon]]. They make up for this in the show by keeping any revealed information about the plot to a minimum.

** At the end of the second movie, when everyone is shocked due to [[spoiler: Leomon's death and Meicoomon's sudden FaceHeelTurn, blink and you miss it, there is a shot where Maki Himekawa smirks.]]

* LeftHanging[=/=]SequelHook: Depending on the next Digimon project, the following are plot threads unanswered in ''tri.'' are either the former or the latter.

* TheNarrator: After a 14-year absence, Creator/HiroakiHirata returns to bring more exposition.

* ExtraStrengthMasquerade: Somehow, despite the Digidestined saving the world three times now in full view of the world, and a worldwide Digimon invasion happened, people still seem surprised by Digimon. It is deconstructed because, as a realistic result of this trope, the muggles are not cheering for the Digimon who have already saved their world several times. Instead, they don't know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy. This is mocked ''heavily'' in TheAbridgedSeries. The last fifth of ''Confession'' (or the start of episode 13 on Crunchyroll) implies that, once all the damage done from the various Digimon battles are repaired or replaced, no one will talk about the Digital World any more. It should be pointed out that the closure of the Digital World about a year before ''Reunion'' separated the good Digimon from their partners, therefore preventing the muggles from learning more about the behavior of Digimon and the Digital World as a whole.

* ItIsPronouncedTropay: The dub team picked up one of the Japanese production team's mannerisms; Gennai's name is pronounced with a hard G sound this time. For ''Reunion'', at any rate. Come ''Loss'', and they're pronouncing it "Jen-ai" again.

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: From the very start, it's not the moral solution to the crises the kids are facing but how the kids ''feel'' about those crises that drives their actions, which would be a clear case of ItsAllAboutMe if the films weren't implicitly taking their side. Even objective horrors--the digital world burning, unborn digimon being slaughtered, old friends going completely mad--fail to horrify the Chosen, who know these things are going down but are busy with things like going to hot springs and hanging out at the mall.

* DenserAndWackier: ''tri.'' represents a tonal shift in the ''Digimon Adventure'' continuity that has less to do with the kind of serious content that a kid can't sit through and more of the kind of adult humor that no one wants children to repeat.

* ElephantInTheLivingRoom: The fate of the ''02'' kids. After the opening with them being curbstomped by Alphamon, they're hardly ever mentioned. This includes when things like Ken [[spoiler:showing up as the Digimon Emperor again]] and his Digivice suddenly being in Maki's possession, which are barely addressed or discussed by the Digidestined. [[spoiler:''Our Future'' reveals they were taken out on Yggdrasil's orders and the government covered up their disappearances on Himekawa's.]]

* ProtagonistCenteredMorality: ''tri.'' is bound and determined to be as much of a sequel to the original ''Adventure'' as possible, and it does this by only sparingly acknowledging ''02'' happened. As the series progresses, it becomes more and more apparent that it treats the original cast as the only ones who matter -- and not only regarding the matter of their missing teammates, [[spoiler:but also the global set of Chosen whose partners have all lost their memories as a result of the Digital World reset]].

* ForgottenFallenFriend: The ''02'' cast is briefly shown receiving a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown at the start of the first movie, which becomes an ElephantInTheLivingRoom when the cast fail to mention them once the Digimon arrive. This silence dominates the series, with the cast ignoring the issue unless explicitly confronted with it, like the arrival of the Kaiser and Imperialdramon in the second movie or Taichi accidentally finding the kids near the finale. The cast only investigates the issue for a few perfunctory minutes at the start of the third movie, which ends following [[BlatantLies an obvious snow-job]] by Maki.

* ForgottenFallenFriend:
** The ''02'' kids were shown to have been on the receiving end of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown and gone missing in ''Reunion'', which isn't mentioned at all until near the end of the final movie.
** In ''Determination'' [[spoiler:Vikemon and Rosemon kill a corrupted Imperialdramon, and he barely gets one line of dialog devoted to him after. The other Digimon ''cheer'' his destruction.]]
** In ''Confession'', [[spoiler:TK and Kari visit Ken's place to see what has happened, but nobody is home]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Going DarkerAndEdgier means that some things that were taken for granted earlier in the ''Adventure'' are deconstructed in some form in ''tri'':
** In most other ''Digimon'' seasons, a fight between two giant monsters would result in some property damage but hardly anyone noticing. Not here. After the fight with Kuwagamon, the terminal and runway at Haneda airport, along with Palette Town and the Kaiheinkoen of Odaiba, are completely leveled, and one side character remarks they know someone who was hospitalized in the attacks. The news treats the Chosen Children's partners like ''they're'' the bad guys, and Yamato nearly attacks two boys who say they just want all the Digimon to die. Then Taichi starts to worry that he might wind up ''killing someone.''
** In a way, both Mimi and Joe end up inadvertently evoking their Crest traits up to detrimental point in ''Determination'', though thankfully they manage to break out of this by the end of the arc.[[note]]In particular, Jou's trait (Reliability) translates to being very responsible, but now he's at the age where trying to be a responsible adult (studying and achieving high marks in school so that he may work to become a doctor) clashes with his desire to be a reliable ally and helping his friends in a new crisis at the cost of studying. This ends up bringing him intense inner turmoil over what he feels he should be doing for himself and causes some friction between him and his friends. Meanwhile, Mimi's time in America led her to becoming an even more outspoken person compared to those around her when she returned to Japan. Her trait of Sincerity/Purity is shown off when she states that she prefers BrutalHonesty and saying what you want to say over keeping your feelings hidden for the sake of others (believing that doing otherwise is selfish). However, this attitude ended up making Mimi herself come off as more self-centered than she intended, causing her to question her own behavior since she always believed she has everyone's best interests in mind whenever she takes initiative like she has been.[[/note]]
** CharacterDevelopment aside, the Chosen Children are no longer the same people they were years ago. For starters, Taichi no longer has the same HotBlooded, adventure-loving attitude he had in the first series.
** While most of the Digidestined were able to easily bond with their digimon partners again, Sora [[spoiler:and Maki]] have trouble reconnecting with someone who doesn't remember them at all.
*** The latter's case particularly: If you're just minding your own business when a clearly unhinged person you don't recognise appears and acts like you're lifelong friends, before picking you up and saying stuff like "we'll never be apart again"... most people are going to be creeped out.

* RealityEnsues: Going DarkerAndEdgier means that some things that were taken for granted earlier in the ''Adventure'' are deconstructed in some form in ''tri'':