History Characters / DigimonTamers

* [[Characters/DigimonTamersAntagonists Antagonists]][[note]]The [=D-Reaper=], Its Agents, and [=ADR-01=], Gorillamon, [=IceDevimon=], The Devas, Mephistomon[[/note]]

* [[Characters/DigimonTamersAntagonistDigimon Antagonist Digimon]][[note]]Gorillamon, [=IceDevimon=], The Devas, Mephistomon[[/note]]
* [[Characters/DigimonTamersDReaper D-Reaper]][[note]]The [=D-Reaper=], Its Agents, and [=ADR-01=][[/note]]

* [[Characters/DigimonTamersSupportingCast Supporting Cast]][[note]]Calumon, Janyu "Tao" Wong, Goro "Shibumi" Mizuno, Rob "Dolphin" [=McCoy=], Alice [=McCoy=], Aishwarya "Curly" Rai, Daisy, Babel, Grani, Kai Urazoe, Omnimon[[/note]]
* [[Characters/DigimonTamersHypnos Hypnos]][[note]]Mitsuo Yamaki, Riley Ohtori & Tally Onodera, The Man in Black, Chief Cabinet Secretary[[/note]]

* [[Characters/DigimonTamersTheSovereign The Sovereign]][[note]]Zhuqiaomon, Azulongmon, Baihumon, Ebonwumon[[/note]]

* Characters/DigimonTamersTheSovereign[[note]]Zhuqiaomon, Azulongmon, Baihumon, Ebonwumon[[/note]]

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!!Tamers

[[folder:In General]]
* AscendedFanboy: They went from being fans of the Digimon franchise to being actual Tamers themselves.
* BirdsOfAFeather: All of the children are fans of the Digimon franchise.
* CharacterDevelopment:
** The difference in each character between their initial and final appearances is tremendous; it even gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Takato in episode 50.
** The lyrics of ''Primary Colors'', the final song heard in the original Japanese version, are basically about this.
* TheChick: Jeri, so nice and sweet, [[spoiler:until her career as a full blown Tamer is cut short]].
* ChromaticArrangement: Takato - Red. Henry - Green. Rika - Blue. Jeri is a Yellow fourth in this case.
* ColorCodedCharacters:
** Takato - Red / Gold
** Henry - Green
** Rika - Blue
** Jeri - Yellow
** Kazu - Orange
** Kenta - Rose
** Suzie - Pink
** Ryo - Dark Blue / Silver
** Ai and Mako - Purple
* {{Determinator}}s: Yamaki points this out on more than one occasion.
* EliteFour: Takato, Henry, Rika and [[spoiler: Ryo]] are the only four Tamers who can Biomerge with their Digimon to achieve Mega form and they are the ones who do the majority of fighting against [[EldritchAbomination the D-Reaper]].
* FighterMageThief: Takato is Fighter. Henry is Mage (if you swap magic for artillery). Rika is Thief.
* FireForgedFriends: The main trio--they don't start off as friends, and their different outlooks and temperaments cause conflicts at first, but by the end, [[TrueCompanions they're inseparable.]]
* FreudianTrio: Takato, Ego. Henry, Superego. Rika, Id.
* TheHero: Takato. At first he's a wimp but he grows into it. The last of the main trio to get a Digimon, and to get to the Champion level subverting ProtagonistPowerUpPrivileges at the beginning.
* IneffectualLoner: Rika. In some ways, she's a more traditional lone wolf battle-hardened character, which makes her Co-{{Lancer}} along with Henry.
* KnightKnaveAndSquire: Henry is roughly the Knight, Rika is Knave and Takato is Squire.
%%* Unsorted:
%%** Both of Takato's parents feature. Henry's family life is focused more on his father; Rika has a troubled relationship with her mother.
%%** Takato, Henry, and Rika's Digimon are Virus, Vaccine, and Data respectively.
* NumberTwo: Henry. Gets the technical stuff about Digimon, his assured and serious nature balances Takato's naïveté and playfulness.
* SupportPartyMember: Their role in battle is to empower the Digimon while they do the fighting, either with their own emotions and energy or with their cards.
* PhysicalGod: Biomerging with their Digimon achieves this next step in evolution, their FusionDance is enough to give even the Sovereign Digimon like Zhuqiaomon a very hard time, and fighting each other to a stalemate.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Kazu and Kenta. Rarely seen apart, get little development compared to the rest. Kazu's partner is a big robot, Kenta has a partner whose base form is his Mega form.
* TagalongKid: Shiuchon, Henry's little sister.
* ThreeAmigos: By the end of it. Takato is the main character of his trio, Henry is the same-gender friend, and Rika opposite gender friend.
* TheUnchosenOne: In stark contrast to the protagonists of previous seasons, the kids who got Digimon were not chosen by some higher power to save the world; they just happened to get them because they wanted it. (Ryo's an exception, but he's literally a CanonForeigner who originated from video games of ''Adventure'') Although they hasn't been made to feel obligated to save the world, they'll step up and fight when danger shows up anyway.
* TokenTrio: Takato's family is working-class, Henry's is middle-class, Rika's is upper-class.
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Everyone, either before or during the series.
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[[folder:Takato Matsuki (''Takato Matsuda'')]]
-->''"Aw, nuts!"''

[[quoteright:112:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Takato_7049.jpg]]

A complete Digimon fanboy, that reacts strongly to his emotions, who watches both the shows and plays the card game obsessively, to the point of creating his own fan-character Digimon partner. And then it comes to life...

->Voiced by: Creator/MakotoTsumura (JP), Creator/BrianBeacock (EN), Rosa Vivas (Spain), Erick Osorio (Latin America)
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* AccentUponTheWrongSyllable: Takato's name is pronounced "TA-ka-to", but in most dubs, it's pronounced "Ta-KA-to" most of the time.
* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: In episode 11, Takato gets a rather large ego about himself after beating [=IceDevimon=] in the previous episode and his pride only gets bigger when he beats Kazu in a Digimon card game. This causes him to get cocky and lose a card game to Kazu in a rematch as well as a fight against [[MonsterOfTheWeek Musyamon]].
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: In the original, Takato starts as a low-key [[FragileFlower delicate sort]], while in the dub he's an easygoing MellowFellow.
* AscendedFanboy: He plays the card games quite well and draws Digimon fanart. In fact, it is one such piece of fanart that provides Guilmon's blueprint.
* AudienceSurrogate: Takato's entire premise as a character is to be an AscendedFanboy exactly like the sort of kid that might be sitting in the audience.
* BettyAndVeronica: On accident. Because the writers kept giving him ShipTease with Rika, Takato became the Archie between her Veronica and Jeri's Betty.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's a sweetheart and even shy, compared with Taichi, Daisuke, Takuya, Taiki, [[OverlyLongGag Tagiru]], and certainly Masaru. But when he ''does'' get upset...'''WATCH OUT'''.
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Jeri--both are sweet kids with intense emotions buried deep down (intense anger for Takato and overwhelming despair for Jeri), who also seem to share a sort of psychic connection that lets them sense and hear each other from great distances. Both reacted badly to Leomon's death, which unleash their bottled up emotions, but by the end of the series, they let to gain better control of those emotions, be stronger for it, which help lead to the D-Reaper's defeat.
* ABoyAndHisX: A Local Schoolboy and his Loyal Kaijuu Hatchling.
* BusCrash: In the Digimon Tamers 2018 CD Drama, it's revealed that [[spoiler:Takato went on a journey for unspecified reasons only to suddenly fall off the grid with no explanation of what happened. [=HYPNOS=]' successor [=NYX=], summons a digital copy in order to find out what happened to him as well as combat the Malice Bot, but only end up with a copy that has memories up until 2003.]]
* CannotTalkToWomen: Downplayed. While he's certainly awkward around his crush Jeri for obvious reasons, he also struggles to deal with Rika either, especially when she's in a hostile mood.
* CharacterDevelopment: His development takes him from FragileFlower to a literal KnightInShiningArmor. Much pain and suffering is involved.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Spaniard dub only. In the first episodes, Takato's voice actress gave him a cockier and more energetic voice than she would use the rest of the series, making him sound like a BrattyHalfPint at times. It was after this phase that she adopted a more innocent, childish tone.
* ChickMagnet: Downplayed--Takato has mutual ShipTease with not only his main LoveInterest Jeri but Rika as well. Minami, a OneShotCharacter from "Adventurer's Battle", also develops a crush on him.
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: In contrast to [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Davis]], who was a HotBlooded BoisterousBruiser, Takato is a FragileFlower or MellowFellow (with some severe depressive tendencies to judge from the first Japanese ending) whose moments of anger are very rare but potentially terrifying when they occur.
* CreepyChild: He gets pretty disturbing when angry.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow: His eye color toes a line between brown and a light mahogany, but looks brown in most distance shots.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: He punched '''through''' [[spoiler:J-Reaper, as Gallantmon Crimson Mode.]]
* DidntThinkThisThrough: One of Takato's flaws is his RuleOfCool mentality when designing Guilmon and his evolutionary line, specifically Growlmon. Making Guilmon strong is one thing, but making him taller than Agumon makes it difficult for Guilmon to walk around without being noticed by humans. One of Growlmon's scrapped designs include him having various natural weapons attached to his body, which would make it impossible for Takato to ride on him. He still ends up being difficult to ride on. In the end, although Growlmon is about [=ExVeemon's=] size rather than Greymon's, designing Growlmon with such a large body that won't fit in any house makes it very difficult to hide him, despite Takato's being aware that his Digimon is supposed to be a secret. What's more, making his partner a Virus Digimon is probably one of the reasons why Guilmon is often feral and aggressive in the first place.
* DorkKnight: Takato becomes one to signify the transition into the final act of ''Tamers''.
* {{Expy}}: Zigzagged. Takato is definitely an IdiotHero in the goggle-boy mold carved by previous ''Digimon'' protagonists, but with a ''Tamers''-unique flare.
* GogglesDoSomethingUnusual: He wears goggles to protect his eyes when in digital fields.
* GoneHorriblyRight: In episode 34, when [[spoiler: Beelzemon kills Leomon, Takato is so outraged that he ''orders'' [=WarGrowlmon=] to digivolve and punish him. He does so, and the mere ''existence'' of the resulting Mega Digimon, Megidramon, nearly destroys the Digital World]].
* HellishPupils: His pupils dilate in such a manner when becomes enraged enough to make Guilmon digivolve into Megidramon. Fans have used this and Guilmon's inexplicable connection to the Digital Hazard to mean something...more.
* HeroesWantRedheads: Has a major crush on Jeri, and is occasionally {{Ship Tease}}d with Rika.
* HeroicBSOD: Occasionally.
* HeroicResolve: Manages to get [=WarGrowlmon=] back on his feet when fighting the pig deva with this.
%% Takato's "primal" attributes are not unique to him but go hand-in-hand with his relationship to Guilmon; they do not as such count as Takato's hidden depths.
* HiddenDepths: While in the original Japanese version indicates Takato is a FragileFlower, the first ending and certain image songs indicate he has depressive tendencies.
* HorsebackHeroism: [[spoiler:Gallantmon with Grani. Even Takato's Dad seems to think so.]]
* ImageSong: "Across the Tears".
* {{Irony}}: The before and after of how his parents treat him; even as far along as the first movie, his mother Mie was the confident one pushing Takato to grow up more, even arranging for his solo trip to see the family in Okinawa, while his father was the more hesitant one. Once Vikaralamon destroyed half the city and Takato introduced his family to Guilmon, Mie was terrified and distraught at the implications of Takato being involved with the Digimon, while his father responded so positively to Takato's treatment of the situation that he became Takato's main support.
* KnightInShiningArmor: As Gallantmon, is literally this to Jeri in the finale. [[spoiler:Becomes this to Rika too, during the fight with Locomon]].
* TheKidWithTheRemoteControl: His relationship with Guilmon is one of the best deconstructions of this trope. Its darker consequences are displayed in episode 34 [[spoiler:when Takato '''orders''' Guilmon to digivolve and eat Beelzemon. This action makes him realize that he had, and could at any time use his Guilmon as a puppet. Fortunately he isn't tempted by the power offered and makes the final decision of becoming Guilmon's partner.]]
* LastNameBasis: In the Japanese version, he always addresses Juri as "Katou-san," despite or maybe even because she is his main LoveInterest.
* LovableNerd: The kid's just so ''earnest'', it's hard for him to be anything but. It's really easy to see in his interactions with Rika, who can go ''Tsun-Tsun'' when she realized he's added too-girly emoticons to the e-mail he wrote in her stead, and ''dere-dere'' when she pretends to be more annoyed then she is at his failed attempt to keep her surprise birthday party a surprise.
* MagneticHero: Takato originally formed the center of the team, being the middle ground between [[SuicidalPacifism Jian]] and [[BloodKnight Ruki]], and the initial expedition team is the main trio plus three of Takato's friends and classmates. It was later downplayed with the introductions of Xiaochun, Ryo, Ai, and Mako as tamers, none of whom have any direct connections to him.
* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: Has a (mostly) platonic version of this with Rika.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When [[spoiler:Impmon murders Leomon]] he completely loses his shit and ORDERS [=WarGrowlmon=] to digivolve. [[GoneHorriblyRight He does]]. Takato regrets it instantly.
* NiceGuy: He is gentle, sensitive and true to his feelings, which makes him very emotive.
* OfficialCouple: In the Digimon Tamers 2018 CD Drama, [[spoiler:he and Jeri are engaged]].
* OutOfTheInferno: As Gallantmon (who made said inferno), combined with the slow walk.
* PsychicLink:
** Takato's personal connection to Guilmon becomes a major factor during the fights against Mihiramon and Vikaralamon, causing Takato to feel his partner's injuries and allowing him to empower Guilmon with his own strength when [[HeroicResolve sufficiently motivated]]. It's also very likely a factor leading to his UnstoppableRage [[spoiler: creating Megidramon]], as Growlmon was technically the first one to go berserk.
** By the end of the series he was able to hear Jeri's [[spoiler: desperate plea from inside the Mother Reaper]] despite being miles away.
* PuppyLove: The 10 year old character in ''Digimon'' anime that went further, to the point of confessing [[spoiler: to the disguised-as-Jeri D-Reaper Agent 01]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[DoubleSubversion Doubly Subverted]]. Yes, they are red. Takato starts as the most innocent kid in the trio [[BreakTheCutie but bad things happen to good people]].
* RevengeBeforeReason: After Beelzemon [[spoiler: kills Leomon]], Takato is so enraged and vengeant that he stops thinking clearly and ''orders'' Guilmon to digivolve in order to punish the villain. Guilmon's resulting form, Megidramon, is a hideous monstrosity that emits so much energy that the universe starts to implode. It's particularly notable that this happens, since prior to this, [[{{Foreshadowing}} Takato had expressed fears about Guilmon digivolving into an uncontrollable beast]], but clearly in this moment all such thoughts just went right out the window. To his credit, Takato ''very quickly'' realizes what a horrible mistake he made.
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: [[spoiler:Wanting to save Jeri, Gallantmon Crimson Mode singlehandedly challenges and defeats the D-Reaper's collection of its most powerful agents. Although his Mega Form is undone, Takato does manage to reach Jeri.]]
* RookieRedRanger: Takato is the last of the main tamers to get a partner, have it digivolve, or learn to fight effectively. He does try to make up for this by asking the others if he can learn from them, and starts to properly take the lead during the Deva arc, becoming the first to reach the have his partner reach the fifth stage and the sixth after that.
* ScreamingWarrior: During the fight with Vikaralamon, he gives [=WarGrowlmon=] a PowerUp with what basically amounts to primal scream therapy.
* ShipTease: With Jeri and sometimes Rika; he notably gets to play the knight in shining armor for each one in the series finale and the second movie, respectively.
* TheSlowWalk: Clearly channeling [[Anime/DragonBallZ Gohan]] in episode 36, but with a cape.
* SpiderSense: He notices [[spoiler:the J-Reaper's presence]] faster than ''Renamon''.
* StockShonenHero: A deconstruction out of all the HotBlooded goggle wearing Digimon protagonists. Being a lot more shy, reluctant, and modest than his predecessors AND successors.
* TenderTears: Early on in the series he cried often, because he had never even had a pet before, and he was extremely worried of losing the (literal!) dream come true that was Guilmon. [[spoiler: ''[[HarsherInHindsight Ouch.]]'' ]]
* ThisIsUnforgivable: When he says it, he really means it.
* TroubleFollowsYouHome: To his horror.
* UnstoppableRage: It manages to shadow Takeru's "kill all darkness" side of his personality. For example, in the CD Drama "Message in a Pocket", he states that he somehow (he doesn't specify) singlehandedly brought down a firewall designed to stop humans from entering the digital world, putting everyone in danger and worrying his parents [[spoiler: in order to reunite with Guilmon. That's right, he did this without a Digimon partner]]. Although he stops himself, just to be sure Hypnos cover it with enough concrete to render the place unrecognizable.
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[[folder:Henry Wong (''Li Jianliang/Jenrya'')]]
-->''"I always felt that I had to hold back, that fighting was wrong. But this is different, this is a battle that means something."''

[[quoteright:112:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/HenryWong_5588.jpg]]

Another Digimon fan who prefers the video games, and the more level-headed one of the trio.

->Voiced by: Creator/MayumiYamaguchi (JP), Creator/DaveWittenberg (EN), Gádor Martín (Spain), Rodolfo Cuevas (Latin America)
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* AllChinesePeopleKnowKungFu: Played with; it's Tai Chi instead (or Kenpo, in the Japanese version).
* AscendedFanboy: Like Takato, though he used to play the video games rather than the card games.
* AsianAndNerdy: [[LogicBomb Technically, everyone in the show is Asian]], but Henry deserves a special mention for being a smart half-Chinese kid proficient with computers and video games.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: This does save them quite a few times.
* BadassNormal: First Digimon anime human to take a Hangyomon barehanded and win. Points for doing it ''underwater''.
* BigBrotherInstinct: But it bites him ''hard'' with Shiuchon's untimely arrival in the digital world. It not only leaves him uncharacteristically stressed out and temperamental, but unable to provide much, ''much'' needed emotional support for Takato, Jeri, or even Shiuchon.
* ButNotTooForeign: Half-Chinese, as you may have guessed. In the English dub, most of the characters with name changes had shortened or altered Japanese names, but he and his sister get the obvious American names Henry and Suzie, respectively.
* ControlFreak: Probably his main flaw. {{Deconstructed}} when Shiuchon ends up in the Digital World.
* CoolBigBro: Not just to Shiuchon, but to Takato and his own partner Terriermon as well due to being much more emotionally mature.
* FaceYourFears: Once Shiuchon entered the Digital World, he became so hasty in trying to resolve all their problems and return home that he was the only human not terrified by Zhuqiaomon at first sight.
* {{Foil}}: To Rika. They are both the first two tamers that Takato meet with very opposing ideas on how to treat digimon.
* FreudianExcuse: Before the start of the series, he once badly wounded another boy and vowed never to use violence as a solution. It doesn't help that later he ended up getting Terriermon injured in the video game.
* GeniusBruiser: He is a very competent hacker as well as a martial artist.
* GuiltComplex: A lot. When someone gets hurt in a fight, he puts the blame on his own shoulders for not being "competent" enough.
* HeroicNeutral: He mostly wants to ignore conflict but comes around when it's obvious the danger can't be ignored.
* IKnowKarate: Early on he is shown practicing Tai Chi with his master, and since the Mega level is a merger, it also allows him to kick butt when he runs out of ammo with some very loud {{Kiai}}s.
* ImageSong: "Mirai".
* KnightTemplarBigBrother: Nearly flips when he finds Suzie in the Digital World.
* LastNameBasis: Sub-only; Takato and Rika call him "Lee/Li" for the first half of the show or so.
* MartialPacifist: He's a skilled martial artist, but hates fighting, only doing so as an absolute last resort.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone:
** His reaction to finding out the Terriermon in his video game, that he [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential forced to battle for his own amusement]], was in fact a living, sentient creature (very similar to Ken in 02). He swore afterward he would never make him fight again. Unfortunately, [[BloodKnight Terriermon ''likes'' fighting.]]
** His back-story has that when he first started learning martial arts he became something of a bully and threw his weight around a lot, until he hurt a kid quite badly. The realisation of the magnitude of what he did led him to become a MartialPacifist.
* NiceGuy: He often helps out Takato early on in adjusting his life as a tamer, is very polite and often rebuking Terriermon’s lack of manners.
* OnlyKnownByHisNickname: In the Japanese version, his name is shortened to just "Jian" from "Jianliang."
* ThePerfectionist: Wants everything to be perfect.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Henry's name in the Japanese version is a Chinese name; however, due to AlternateCharacterReading, it is pronounced "Jenrya", which uses a Katakana approximation of the pinyin, pronounceable for Japanese speakers, rather than the On-Yomi (=Japanese readings adapted very loosely from the Chinese readings from different dynasties; the On-Yomi for his name would be "Kenryo".) In official images his name is written as "Jianliang", using pinyin and how his name would have actually been pronounced using Mandarin Chinese.
* TeamDad: Being the mature, responsible one, he's this to the main group.
* TearfulSmile: At [[spoiler:Terriermon's departure]].
* ThisIsUnforgivable: Dub only; [[spoiler:Janyu trying to reassure Henry that everything may get better in time despite having effectively made it so that Henry and his friends are likely ''permanently'' separated from their partners is met with Henry silently shaking his head, with the implication that this is a refusal of forgiveness. In the Japanese version, it was quite the opposite--Janyu tells Henry that he has every right to hate him and never forgive him for it, while Henry's response was his way of refuting that]].
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: He often uses reason above everything else in contrast to Rika’s "fight first, talk later" tactic.
* WorstWhateverEver: Henry thinks himself a terrible tamer because of his guilt trips.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Has dark blue hair.
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[[folder:Rika Nonaka ''(Ruki Makino)'']]
-->''"Walk all over him, Renamon."''

[[quoteright:140:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Rika_Nonaka_1980.jpg]]

Nicknamed "The Digimon Queen," she's [[StopHavingFunGuys one of the best Digimon card game players around]], to the point where ''real'' Digimon seek her out as a partner! It takes her a while to break out of that mentality, especially since her Digimon partner shares it.

->Voiced by: Creator/FumikoOrikasa (JP), Creator/MelissaFahn (EN), Creator/BlancaRada (Spain), Angélica García (Latin America)
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* TenMinuteRetirement: In episode 10 she quits being a Tamer after the events from the episode leaves her traumatized. She gets over it by the end of episode 12.
* TheAce: As exactly as you'd expect from someone nicknamed "The Digimon Queen".
* ActionGirl: Unquestionably the best one of the anime franchise.
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: While still an introverted IceQueen, the American dub's take on Rika is much snarkier. This is naturally helped by the dub's WorldOfSnark.
* AloneInACrowd: Shown to be this early in the series before CharacterDevelopment kicks in. Emphasised by [[HeadphonesEqualIsolation her MP3/CD player]]
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: To the point where she has Renamon try to kill Guilmon just to get stronger.
* BadassAdorable: When she's not fighting (tactically, obviously), she IS a really cute girl.
* BadassBiker: In the Digimon Tamers 2018 CD Drama, it's revealed that [[spoiler:she grew up to become a freestyle motocross rider]].
* BadassLongcoat: According to Chiaki Konaka, an early inspiration for Rika was Trinity from ''Film/TheMatrix.'' So much so that being pastel yellow did not detract from the coolness.
* BadassNormal: She's just a little girl but a very tough one at that.
* BeautifulAllAlong: Come on, look at her at Episode 18. She looked amazing in that dress.
* BloodKnight: She starts out eager to challenge any Digimon that comes her way to prove herself.
* BodyHorror: During ''Runaway Digimon Express''. Ruki's in the middle of a hypnosis-induced rampage and trying to kill Takato, but Guilmon ignores them both to shoot fireballs at something nasty he smells elsewhere in the car. [[spoiler: When the smoke clears, we see this freakish ''bug-thing'' with dozens of spare legs and tentacles enshrouding her attached to her back, apparently controlling her through invasive physical contact]].
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: In ''Runaway Digimon Express'', Ruki is briefly subjected to MindControl by the BigBad. She spends the duration trying to murder Takato, first with a wrench and then [[MakesSenseInContext with laser beams]].
* BrokenBird: She has a rather cold and aloof personality and it is shown she has trouble getting along with her mother, but in the end she is a subversion since she still has a rather healthy family life and her issues with her mother are not truly that bad aside from a contrast in interests. [[LampshadeHanging She notices this herself when comparing her life]] [[StepfordSmiler to Juri's.]]
* ByronicHero: Pre-CharacterDevelopment, she's cold and ruthless.
* CharacterDevelopment: One visual indication of this is how the heart on her shirt goes from broken to complete.
* CoolBigSis: They're the same age, but Rika takes Jeri under her wing early on, teaching her to use her cards and holding her hand through the digital field.
* CoolShades: Wears them sometimes.
* CostumeEvolution: For half of the series, Ruki wears a t-shirt with a broken heart. Then, her mother gives a similar t-shirt, but with a ''whole'' heart.
* CryCute: The ending, as [[spoiler: she pleads to Renamon not to leave her side.]]
* DaddysGirl: The ''Runaway Digimon Express'' movie implies she had a close relationship with her father.
* DeadpanSnarker: Mainly in the English dub.
* DefrostingIceQueen: She's rude, cold, and distant to everyone at first, but eventually warms up to her teammates.
* DisappearedDad: According to his character notes, Chiaki Konaka didn't focus on this element of her back story because he didn't want to give the impression that not having her father around was responsible for Ruki's attitude, but he appreciated the way ''Runaway Digimon Express'' dug into her character and found the psychological approach true to the style of the series. It isn't difficult to imagine that Ruki being a little melancholic about her father and her previous attitude are still related, even if one is not necessarily the cause of the other.
* DontTellMama: Eventually, she gets to find out in the end of the series.
* DudeMagnet: A couple of young men Ruki passes by on the streets compliment her good looks, she has some ShipTease with Takato, and Ryo is strongly hinted to have a crush on her.
* {{Expy}}:
** As revealed in [[http://www.konaka.com/alice6/tamers/characters/ruki-e.html this]] interview, Konaka and Nakatsuru based her off Trinity from ''Film/TheMatrix''.
** As a redheaded ShortTank with emotional difficulties driven by MommyIssues (of the FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter variety), Rika is also a fairly overt duplicate of [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Sora]] (and of trope-codifying ShortTank [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} Misty]] by extension).
* FeminineMotherTomboyishDaughter: Ruki starts as a tough and harsh tomboy who rails against her supermodel fashionista mother's attempts to make her more feminine. After they make peace, Ruki loses the rebellious streak and starts wearing the full-hearted shirt to match her mother's. (As some ''Tamers'' storybook merch would have it, Ruki secretly likes dressing up but finds it embarassing).
* FieryRedhead: Downplayed. Rika is redheaded and merciless in battle, but is quite reserved and emotionally distant, especially pre-CharacterDevelopment.
* {{Foil}}: To Henry. They both clashed often because of their opposing ideology about Digimon, and are the first two tamers Takato meet at roughly around the same time.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Rika and Renamon allude to feeling a compassion for all life when they become Sakuyamon.
* GamerChick: Downplayed; she's the most skilled among the Tamers, when it comes to the Digimon card game. [[spoiler: Until Ryo shows up.]]
* GirlOfMyDreams: Takato first sees Rika in a dream, though that's as far as the trope goes; barring some ShipTease, they're never portrayed as anything other than friends.
* HeadphonesEqualIsolation: She wears headphones to cut herself off from the rest of the world.
* HiddenDepths: Who knew she had a stellar singing voice?
* ICanExplain:
** When her grandmother sees her with Renamon.
** Inverted during ''Runaway Digimon Express'', which opens on Ruki wringing answers out of Takato.
* ImageSong: "Moon Fighter" and "My Style".
* IneffectualLoner: Though this changes thanks to her Digimon partner and family.
* UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics: When Takato first goes to investigate Ruki, he uses a respectful "Makino Ruki-san", but after she invites him to her home (and perhaps following her grandmother's lead) he uses the less formal and cuter "Ruki-chan". After the end of his visit to her house, however, Ruki threatens to kick Takato's butt if he ever uses "-chan" for her again; her aversion to the cutesy honorific ironically pushes Takato into using the quite familiar "Ruki" afterwards.
* {{Jerkass}}: At first, she's aloof, merciless, and selfish. She does get better.
* JerkassHasAPoint: Is highly frustrated about Kazu and Kenta coming to the Digital World, and considering that they're the only ones without partner Digimon to defend themselves, she's right to be.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: After CharacterDevelopment, Rika is still abrasive and rude, but is also more selfless, thoughtful, and open.
* LettingHerHairDown: Ruki wears her hair down both times she wears the dress her mother wanted her to wear; she also loses her ponytail whenever she and Renamon both become Sakuyamon.
* LittleMissBadass: Especially her introduction in the first episode.
* LittleMissSnarker: Downplayed in the original Japanese; Ruki isn't completely averse to making the odd joke, though she puts so much deadpan into being a DeadpanSnarker that it can be hard to tell when she is joking--Takato originally thinks her suggestion that he's come to confess his love for her is an accusation. The English dub's Rika, however, with an AdaptationPersonalityChange as part of the WorldOfSnark, is quite sassy and much likelier to taunt people.
* LonelyRichKid: With shades of being a SpoiledBrat early on, thanks to her neglectful mother and overly tolerant grandmother. She's shown to go to a different, clearly more prestigious school from Takato and Henry, and doesn't have any friends besides Renamon.
* LonerTurnedFriend: At first an aloof person but became a member of the main gang.
* MindControlEyes: Her eyes go dull and emotionless in the sixth movie when under control.
* MommyIssues: She and her mom don't hate each other, but they do clash a lot due to having starkly different personalities.
* NotSoStoic: She can get worried or angry quite easily.
* {{Ojou}}: Inverted. Despite being the daughter of an upper class family, she's a tomboy with a punkish sense of fashion.
* OneOfTheBoys: In fact, she is much more willing to fight and upfront about things than any of the boys.
* PerpetualFrowner: She doesn't smile very often.
* PleaseDontLeaveMe: Shows great care for Renamon by episode six, and [[HeroicBSOD flips out]] in episode 15. [[spoiler: When Renamon is forced to leave her and return to the digital world at the end of the last episode, she cries openly, something almost never seen from her in the series.]]
* PurpleIsPowerful: Ruki's eyes are colored purple, and she has the reputation of being the "Digimon Queen" because she won the card game tournament.
* ShipTease: With Takato and Ryo.
** Ryo is her ImpliedLoveInterest and despite him annoying her constantly, she eventually warms up to him.
** On the other hand, she has a few significant moments with Takato, often showing her getting irritated or worried about him[[note]]Ruki repeatedly frets about Takato before and during the big fight with Beelzebumon, has her premiere {{Tsundere}} moment when she learns Takato sent a reassuring message to her family on her behalf, and provokes a TwiceShy moment between them when she notices him noticing her new shirt[[/note]]; there's also the fact that her relationship with Takato played a big part in the ''Runaway Digimon Express'' movie. [[spoiler: The 2018 Drama CD implies the adult Rika still has a soft spot for him when she sees a younger Takato and calls him cute]].
* ShortTank: Downplayed. Rika [[{{Expy}} takes Sora's spot]] as the leading tomboy (and another redhead to boot), but she wears a t-shirt and full jeans.
* SignificantWardrobeShift:
** For most of the series, Rika is seen wearing a broken hearted t-shirt, symbolizing her as a BrokenBird {{jerkass}} with issues regarding opening up. After [[CharacterDevelopment maturing]] significantly, she receives and wears a new shirt with a complete heart after reconciling with her mother (who has a PaletteSwap of the new shirt for herself to match). In a flashback to her life from before she met Renamon, Ruki is shown wearing a much darker skull-and-crossbones design.
** More subtly, Ruki also wears different coats with her shirts. She's introduced wearing a trenchcoat over the broken heart, briefly wears a light blue windbreaker after transitioning to the full heart, and wore a black leather jacket over the skull and crossbones.
** In ''Runaway Digimon Express'', Ruki's vision of her young childhood self shows the latter wearing [[UsedToBeASweetKid an innocent blouse and jumper]].
* SlipknotPonytail: Most notably whenever she becomes Sakuyamon.
* TheStoic: Ruki pretends to be aloof in order to keep others at a distance, but she's really a DefrostingIceQueen.
* {{Tomboy}}: Ruki is brash, rough, and enjoys fighting, with a notable lack of femininity compared to other female characters. In one episode, Ruki is depicted as a UnwillinglyGirlyTomboy, where she agrees to wear a girly dress for a photoshoot for her mother and later decides to run off when the camera flashes scare her. The series later establishes her as a TomboyWithAGirlyStreak; a picture book shows her being visibly upset at being seen in a dress but only because she is embarrassed and refuses to admit that she secretly likes to dress up.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She is the {{Tomboy}} to both Jeri's and her mother's Girly Girl. The show implies that the reason Ruki leans so hard into the Tomboy role is to reject her mother's attempts to make her more girly.
* TomboyishPonytail: Some describe it as a samurai cut.
* TookALevelInKindness: Ruki gradually becomes more open and nice to the other Tamers and Renamon.
* TooManyBelts: Wears a pair on her leg.
* {{Tsundere}}: Ruki is a type A and tends to act brash.
* UngratefulBastard: Before she [[TookALevelInKindness Takes A Level In Kindness]], she repeatedly refers to Renamon as just data mere episodes after Renamon saved her life. When Renamon saves her again from an [=IceDevimon=], all Rika has to say about it is "I hate Digimon. All of 'em." But considering the circumstances[[note]]a ten year old who has only just escaped from a kidnapping attempt where her captor forced her to confront the fact that she's been having her partner kill living creatures for her own gratification, which was exactly the same thing she had just called [=IceDevimon=] evil for doing[[/note]], her lashing out during the latter might have been understandable.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Early on, she saw Digimon as just data, including her own partner, and not as thinking, feeling beings. She grew out of it soon enough. Ironically, Renamon ''is'' of the data type.
%%* WhenSheSmiles: Whenever she actually smiles, it's cute to see. (Trope is not supposed to be about audience reactions)
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent We can see that her mom wanted a girly girl. In the original version, [[spoiler:we learn that her dad wanted a boy]]. Rika's mom eventually makes her peace with this.
%%* YouWouldntBelieveMeIfIToldYou: To her mom and grandmom. (Zero context)
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Jeri Kato ''(Juri Kato)'']]

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A sweet girl who Takato has a crush on. Has issues with her stepmother. Winds up on the end of [[BreakTheCutie a lot of bad luck]]. You can see where this is going.

->Voiced by: Creator/YokoAsada (JP), Creator/BridgetHoffman (EN, series), Creator/PhileceSampler (EN, movie) Gádor Martín (Spain), Mireya Mendoza (Latin America)
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* ArcWords: 'Destiny'. Jeri seems to have an obsession with the idea that the things that happen to her are 'destiny', at first feeling like she isn't special enough to become a tamer but then becoming ''elated'' when she becomes partnered with Leomon, seeing it as fate. This gets bolstered with Leomon's own declaration that 'everyone has their own destiny'. Unfortunately, this [[spoiler: heads down a tragic path when Leomon is suddenly killed, which, combined with the fact that Jeri lost her biological mother at a young age, leads Jeri to believe that she's destined to be alone. Eventually however, Jeri realizes that people make their own destinies and with the help of her friends, pulls herself out of her depression]].
* BirdsOfAFeather: With Takato. Both are sweet kids, with intense emotions buried deep down (intense anger for Takato and overwhelming despair for Jeri). They also seem to share a sort of psychic connection that lets them sense and hear each other from great distances. Both reacted badly to Leomon's death, which unleashed their bottled up emotions, but by the end of the series, they learn to gain better control of those emotions, which helps lead to the D-Reaper's defeat.
* BreakTheCutie: The second half of the show pretty much does everything in its power to make Jeri soul-crushingly ''miserable''.
* BrokenBird: Jeri hides behind an upbeat, cheerful, optimistic persona, but even before the events of the series she had serious issues relating to the death of her mother and how she treated her stepmother. The [[spoiler:death of Leomon]] merely shattered this facade and exposed her inner vulnerability, leaving her ripe for [[spoiler:her subsequent MindRape by the D-Reaper]]. After all this she is completely and utterly broken, [[spoiler:her despair fueling the D-Reaper's power and giving it the impression that all humans crave is obliteration]].
* TheChick: Of the tamers.
* ClosetGeek: In the beginning she acted like she thought digimon was just a silly ''boys'' thing. Later however, she's the most receptive to the idea that digimon are real and is extremely eager to meet Guilmon, and it's made blatantly clear that she's been secretly collecting digimon cards, [[BlatantLies immediately after denying that she did so]], no less.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Funny in action, tragic in retrospect. Jeri is a sweet but quirky girl who often talks through a hand puppet. It's eventually made clear she does so as a coping mechanism and that she longs for some escapism in her life.
* ConsultingMisterPuppet: She has a sock puppet she frequently talks to. It gets alarming once [[spoiler:Leomon]] dies, as the puppet is how she expresses some ''really'' negative thoughts towards herself, [[spoiler:and eventually goes as far as trying to strangle her(self).]] [[BlatantLies Kid's show!]]
* CrucifiedHeroShot: Suffers from this (by cables), twice in a row, because she is fighting the aforementioned mind rape. It's only once in the English dub, though.
%%* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* CutenessProximity: Upon meeting Guilmon, her instant reaction is to squeal "How cuuuuuuuute!" and {{Glomp}} him. She has a similar reaction to meeting Calumon.
* TheCutie: Just look at her!
* DeathSeeker: [[spoiler: The weight of her despair in realizing the D-Reaper has been using her to hurt her friends and endanger the entire world eventually hits the point that she not only thinks things would be better if she weren't around, but she ''attempts to strangle herself with her puppet''. Thankfully Calumon [[InterruptedSuicide intervenes and talks her out of it.]]]]
* DemonicDummy: Jeri's sock puppet is usually benign, and she uses it to entertain her little brother. However, [[spoiler:she also often uses it as a proxy for her to voice her insecurities, or whenever she has to point out something bad, and that is why the D-Reaper impersonates it during her MindRape, turning even one of the least threatening things into something terrifying.]]
* DespairEventHorizon: Jeri was already secretly dealing with issues, but [[spoiler: losing Leomon]] breaks her. She's practically catatonic in the aftermath, and begins to feel like not only is she destined to be alone, but that everyone would be better off if they weren't around her. It takes a ''lot'' to pull her out of the depths of her despair.
* {{Deuteragonist}}: If Takato, Rika, and Henry, along with their partners are to be taken together as a collective protagonist, Jeri, along with Impmon, are the deuteragonists, with Jeri being the child recieving the most character development and plot relevance next to the main three kids.
* DistressedDamsel: [[spoiler: Jeri gets captured by the D-Reaper and used to fuel its rampage around the world. At first Jeri is largely left unharmed in a bubble and completely indifferent to what's going on, still suffering from a HeroicBSOD from losing Leomon. When she snaps out of it and starts fighting back though, the D-Reaper actively starts restraining her. Much of the final third of the season is dedicated to saving her]].
* DontYouDarePityMe: On at least two occasions, Juri succumbs to a broken heart and snaps at people who approach and try to comfort her, demanding to be left alone.
* FiveStagesOfGrief: Experiences all of them.
* FourIsDeath: Although chronologically, she isn't the fourth Tamer in the series (that one is [[spoiler:''[[BewareTheNiceOnes Takato]]'']]) she is the first addition to the trio and the fourth Tamer that the audience sees getting a digivice.
* {{Foil}}: Her characterization and arc runs roughly parallel to Impmon's. Both of them are lonely individuals, but Jeri desperately seeks connection with others while Impmon desperately tries to pretend he doesn't need it. This gets exemplified in how Jeri crazily chased digimon around hoping to be their partner while Impmon rejected and ran away from his would-be-partners. Both of them go through a period where they believe it's better to be alone, with Impmon deciding to destroy everything around him, and Jeri deciding it would be better if she just disappeared. Jeri ends up sparing his life unexpectedly, while he fails to save hers when she's in danger. Impmon ends up learning how to find strength in his friends, while Jeri learns how to find strength in herself. They both also break the usual digimon human-partner conventions, with Jeri being the only human [[spoiler: to lose their digimon without revival during the series]] and Impmon being the only digimon [[spoiler: with ''two'' partners]].
* GenkiGirl: When she gets ''really'' excited about something. See her mad pursuit of Leomon in episode 21.
* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She's a very feminine girl for the most part, especially compared to Rika, and always wears dresses. But she thinks Guilmon (a dragon-like dinosaur nearly the size of an adult human) is ''adorable'' and she's secretly a big fan of the Digimon card game. Unlike most female human characters in the franchise whose partners are cute and/or feminine-looking Digimon, her partner is the very masculine Leomon.
* GoAndSinNoMore: [[spoiler: Despite the fact Beelzemon hurt her the most, Jeri begs Takato and the others to let Beelzemon live when it's obvious he's been defeated, declaring that she doesn't want to see anyone else be killed. Her mercy snaps Beelzemon out of his PowerHigh and sets him on the path to becoming TheAtoner]].
* HatesBeingAlone: She is never seen having fun by herself, and has a borderline-unhealthy need to be around other people.
* HeroicBSOD: Jeri gets pulled into this after [[spoiler: Leomon dies]] and remains that way until near the end of the series. She actually starts recovering from it when [[spoiler: Beelzemon]] comes to rescue her but she horrifically relapses hard when he makes the mistake of [[spoiler: ''using her fallen digimon's attack'']] when he tries to save her. Although ultimately, this event does end up snapping her out of it for good.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: Jeri really is a sweet kid, but when Takato tells her what a kind person she is, Jeri responds with the very negative statement that she isn't a nice person. This belief comes from the guilt she feels for the fact that even though she recognized that her step-mother genuinely was a good person and was trying to connect with her, Jeri still rejected her.
** Her self-loathing only increases when she fails to [[spoiler: accept Beelzemon's attempt to save her and he nearly dies in the process. Following that she despairs at the idea that her friends, family, and even the whole world might be suffering because the D-Reaper was using her]].
* HistoryRepeats: Tragically so. Jeri lost her biological mother at a young age, and when her father remarried she rejected her stepmother even though Jeri recognized her stepmother wasn't a bad person and was trying her best to be a good mom. Then [[spoiler:Jeri loses Leomon only a few weeks after becoming a Tamer, murdered by Beelzemon during his time being DrunkOnTheDarkSide. And while this means Jeri has legitimate reasons for not trusting Beelzemon, she ends up rejecting his attempt at rescuing her even though she did in fact recognize his good intentions]].
* IJustWantToBeSpecial: And she gets her wish! [[spoiler:[[BreakTheCutie For a little while, anyway]].]]
** [[spoiler: In a twisted way she becomes the ''most'' special child - the one the D-Reaper picks to be its host]].
* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:With her puppet, no less!]] WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids indeed.
* ImageSong: "Sayonara Dake ga Shitteta" ("Only Goodbye Knew") and "Itsuka no Iro" ("The Color of Someday")
%%* MagicSkirt
* ItsAllMyFault: When the D-Reaper starts to take over the world, Jeri blames herself because [[spoiler: it's been using her as a battery and information source to drive its actions. These feelings in her worsen when her friends, family, and other allies get hurt in the process of trying to rescue her]].
* MeaningfulName: She shares her name with a friend of [[Anime/SerialExperimentsLain Lain Iwakura]], who goes through just about the same level of mental trauma as this Juri. Both are characters created by Chiaki Konaka so this was very intentional.
* MindRape: After she's broken. Comparable to [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Asuka's]], except it lasts ''weeks''. [[spoiler:She recovers by the end, since others openly support her.]]
* MommyIssues: PlayedWith; Jeri misses her late biological mother, and Jeri feels very guilty over treating her stepmother badly because of it, when she knows her step-mother doesn't really deserve it.
* NiceGirl: very intentionally played with. Jeri fits the role to a T. She's sweet, inoffensive, and easy to get along with. She gets along with boys and girls alike and immediately accepts Guilmon the moment she sees him. Takato even declares what a nice girl she is. But Jeri believes that she's an awful person, due to the fact that she rejected her step-mother's attempts to connect to her.
* OfficialCouple: In the Digimon Tamers 2018 CD Drama, [[spoiler:she and Takato are engaged]].
* ParentalNeglect: An interesting case with her father, who is neglectful not out of malice but because he himself doesn't know how to handle the family problems. And he [[PapaWolf really, REALLY shows how much he loves Jeri by the end.]]
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Delivers a magnificent one of these to [[spoiler: the D-Reaper when Jeri is finally able to break out of her depressive state and properly direct her anger at the D-Reaper, as well as voice her belief in a better future]].
* ReflectionlessUselessEyes: She has these while she is behaving oddly. However, this "Jeri" is actually [[spoiler:a clone constructed from data]].
* SatelliteCharacter: Subverted. She is Takato's love interest, and it seems her interest in digimon was at least partially sparked by him. Unlike many other characters with her archetype however, she undergoes her own personal character development arc and, due to a number of admittedly unfortunate circumstances, actually ends up the character who the plot and her castmates end up revolving around in the final act of the season.
* ScrewDestiny: She eventually realizes that people make their own destinies, and proves it by [[spoiler:breaking out of the D-Reaper's Kernel herself]].
* {{Sexophone}}: Showed up when she was gushing over Leomon in the Japanese version. Results in him running away from her.
* StepfordSmiler: A heartbreaking example of what can happen to you if you repress your traumas for too long. First shown when she meets Leomon in episode 21, a mostly comedic episode where her despair for a bit of fantasy is subtly shown. Jeri was a cheerful, if a little bit odd girl who almost always seemed like she was smiling and having fun, and often worried about the troubles of others. The façade comes crashing down when [[spoiler: Leomon dies, causing her to spiral into a depression filled with negative thoughts about herself, which quickly become apparent are things she's always believed but never voiced]]. Rika even later muses and expresses regret about how due to Jeri's happy nature, she never realized or considered that Jeri might have her own inner-demons.
* StrongFamilyResemblance: In episode 24, a picture in Jeri's room reveals that she looks very similar to her deceased mother.
* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: GirlyGirl to Rika's {{Tomboy}}.
* TookALevelInBadass: Double Subverted. Good lord the girl ''tries so hard.'' She wants to toughen up to be worthy of Leomon and it slowly happens. Then it all goes to hell in a hand basket.[[spoiler: It FINALLY ends up working for her in the end when she stands up to the D-Reaper on her own ''without Leomon OR Takato there'' and choses to ScrewDestiny and make her own fate. Of course, she and Culumon still need to be rescued in the end... but so does everyone else]].
* TraumaCongaLine: Like you wouldn't ''believe''. It starts with Leomon's death and just keeps going downhill from there.
* UnwantedRescue: Played with. [[spoiler: Even though Jeri had every reason to despise and fear Beelzemon, she initially seemed willing to be rescued by him from the D-Reaper. But that instantly changes when he uses Leomon's "Fist of the Beast King" to break into her prison, serving as a reminder that he'd murdered Leomon and retraumatizing her in the process. She freezes up from a combination of terror and grief, and ultimately doesn't allow him to save her]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Jeri delivers this to Takato after Guilmon dark digivolves into Megidramon. Even though it was mostly out of revenge for her sake, Jeri is devestated to see what Takato's rage did to a sweet creature like Guilmon.
-->"Stop. Don't come near me. Guilmon was so sweet and cute, ''and look what you did to him''."
* YouCantFightFate: Believes this. [[spoiler:Which makes Leomon's last words (in the Japanese version) of "this was my destiny" [[NiceJobBreakingItHero VERY poorly-chosen]]]].
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kazu Shioda ''(Hirokazu Shioda)'']]

[[quoteright:71:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Kazu_9396.png]]

Takato's best friend and rival playing the Digimon card game. when he discovers Guilmon, he decides to try and help the other Tamers in their plight. Mostly used as comic relief.

->Voiced by: YukikoTamaki (JP), Brad [=MacDonald=] (EN), Creator/PepaAgudo (Spain), Manuel Campuzano (Latin America)
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* AccidentalKiss: In episode 26, Rika kicks Kazu to wake him, which results in him rolling over on top of Kenta and accidentally kissing him on the cheek. This was cut from the English dub.
* AscendedExtra: Was originally just one of Takato's friends, but winds up accompanying him to the Digital World and becoming a Tamer in the process.
* AscendedFanboy: For Digimon card games, and twice as much as everyone else.
* BigDamnHeroes: In the final battle.
* CharacterDevelopment: Kazu had all the makings of a StockShonenHero wannabe. As an avid digimon fan, he was jealous when he saw that Takato, Rika, and Henry had their own real digimon and he forced his way into the trip to the digital world to find his own digimon partner, which he eventually did. However, he gets a massive wake-up call to ''exactly'' how dangerous and emotionally taxing dealing with digimon can be when Beelzemon attacks the group. Kazu's desire to fight on the frontlines is practically snuffed out right then, and while he still makes an effort to be useful after, he becomes content with serving as more of a backup member.
* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: Enables him to save [[spoiler: [[TheHero Takato and Guilmon]]]] from Beelzemon.
* GeniusDitz: For about one episode. Figured out how the blue cards work.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Kenta, so much.
* NiceHat: He wears a visor.
* PluckyComicRelief: The gutso attitude is more of a show though.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Is almost always by Kenta's side.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kenta Kitagawa]]

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Friends with Kazu, he often serves as a straight man to his jokes. He also volunteers to help the other Tamers.

->Voiced by: ToukoAoyama (JP), Creator/SteveBlum (EN), Creator/CarolinaTak (Spain), Jorge Sánchez (Latin America)
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* AccidentalKiss: In episode 26, Rika kicks Kazu to wake him, which results in him rolling over on top of Kenta and accidentally kissing him on the cheek. This was cut from the English dub.
* AlliterativeName: '''K'''enta '''K'''itagawa,
* AscendedExtra: More so than Kazu as he originally wasn't even going to be a Tamer and was just going to be a background character.
* AscendedFanboy: Obsessed with Digimon card games.
* BigDamnHeroes: In the final battle.
* ButtMonkey: In the dub, Kenta is constantly getting made fun of, making an affronted "Hey!" almost his CatchPhrase.
* CharacterDevelopment: Much like Kazu, Kenta went to the digital world to find a partner digimon that he could have adventures with. Beelzemon nearly killing everyone destroys the rosy picture he'd had of those adventures. Kenta completely stops looking for a partner digimon after that, only becoming a Tamer because ''Marineangemon'' wanted to be Kenta's partner. Rather fittingly, Marineangemon is explicitly a support/healer digimon and not a fighter.
* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: Similar to the Kazu example, he saves [[spoiler: Takato from being {{Mind Rape}}d by the D-Reaper.]] Not to mention that he had to beat up [[OneManArmy singlehandedly]] several D-Reaper Agents just to perform said attack.
* {{Expy}}: Of Makoto, the supporting protagonist of ''Manga/CMonDigimon''
%%* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Kazu.
* {{Megane}}: Wears glasses and cute looking.
* SatelliteCharacter: Rarely does much of anything besides interacting with Kazu.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Hangs out with Kazu a lot.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ryo Akiyama]]

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A mysterious Digimon tamer and former champion of the card game, who has some sort of rivalry with Rika. To everyone outside of Japan who didn't read about the Japanese version, he seemed to come [[VideoGame/DigimonWonderSwanSeries out of]] [[NoExportForYou nowhere]].

->Voiced by: Creator/JunichiKanemaru (JP), Creator/SteveStaley (EN), Ana Plaza (Spain), Mauricio Valverde (Latin America)
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* TheAce: Ryo is lauded as the "Digimon King", the kid who beat Ruki a year ago.
* AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul: Downplayed; Ryo's flirting with Ruki is much more overt in the dub.
* AllThereInTheManual: ''Tamers'' makes no overt reference to the VideoGame/DigimonWonderSwanSeries, so if you want to know what it is and why it's relevant, you'd have to look it up yourself. In the series' heyday, access to this material was nearly impossible, so Chris [=McFeely=] of ''The Digimon Encyclopedia'' helped create a comic explaining Ryo's origins for Western fans. [[http://digipedia.db-destiny.net/ryo/ryostory.htm "Ryo's Story"]] appeared in ''Wickid'' (Creator/{{Fox Kids}}' UK magazine) issue #43, on September 28th, 2003... which North Americans didn't get.
* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: Mostly where Ruki is concerned; he and his digimon are introduced trouncing the megadramon that was on the brink of loading Kyuubimon, he's the guy who beat Ruki in the card game a year ago, he's perfectly polite and charming and the idol of local digimon while Ruki is busy being bitter and grumbling to herself.
* AmbiguousSituation: Is this Ryo an AlternateSelf of the protagonist of the ''VideoGame/DigimonWonderswanSeries'' or is he the same person? Seki Hiromi, the producer for ''Tamers'', [[WordOfStPaul has stated]] that ''Tamers''-Ryo ''is'' the Wonderswan series hero, but head writer Chiaki J. Konaka's notes strongly suggest that he is not.
* BigBrotherMentor: He gives a stock inspirational speech to the Hagurumon he rescues during his debut, who responds by fawning over him. He does it again with Xiao, giving her a card of her own to swipe.
* TheCameo: In the manhwa adaptation, he only appears briefly in the Digital World and then disappears from the story.
* CanonImmigrant: While the protagonist of the VideoGame/DigimonWonderswanSeries was TheCameo in ''Recap/DigimonAdventureMovieOurWarGame'' and became a GuestStar in ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'', ''Tamers'' has the first version of Ryo to be a regular cast member in his own right.
* CharacterShilling: A variety of characters--Hirokazau, Kenta, local digimon like Hagurumon--heap constant praise and recognition of Ryo's accomplishments on him.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Ryo inserts himself into Ruki's business a couple of times during the final act ostensibly to protect her, chasing her down into the pit with the D-Reaper and effectively cutting in line by insisting that he and Cyberdramon be the ones to go rescue Ruki and Kyuubimon when the Ark is departing after Terriermon and Jian come up with the idea.
* ContinuitySnarl: One results from Seki Hiromi's claim that the Ryo of ''Tamers'' is the same character as the Wonderswan Ryo. ''Tamers'' gives its version of Ryo a game-incompatible backstory that creates snarls like how Ryo has parents in the ''Tamers'' world when the Wonderswan Ryo and his family are originally from the world of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''.
* DemotedToExtra: The role played by him and Cyberdramon in the manhwa is reduced to TheCameo; he encounters the gang briefly in the digital world and does not return for the final act--rather than Sakuyamon SuperEmpowering Justimon, she does the same for Dukemon Crimson Mode instead.
* TheDrifter: By the time he's introduced, Ryo has been spending time wandering the digital world with Cyberdramon and looking for good fights.
* EnergyWeapon: He can project [[WhipItGood an energy whip]] from his Digivice to discipline Cyberdramon.
* FlatCharacter: Unlike Takato, Jianliang, Ruki, and Juri, Ryo has no character arc--he starts at IdealHero and stays there through the whole series. He does basically two things throughout the show--rescue people and annoy Ruki.
* FriendlessBackground: Downplayed. Ryo spent a year in the digital world with only the nearly-rabid Cyberdramon for consistent company, but he doesn't seem to be too worried about it. This makes him a subtle {{Foil}} to MagneticHero Takato--the group of Tamers that travel to the digital world are all Takato's friends.
* IdealHero: When Ryo is introduced, he's charming, composed, accompanied with a very powerful digimon, and unironically regrets that Ruki doesn't like him very much. His lack of flaws appears to annoy Rika even more.
* ImageSong: "Digital Surviver" (Yes, "survivor" is [[RougeAnglesOfSatin spelled incorrectly]].)
* InformedAbility: Multiple characters insist that Ryo is an excellent Tamer and a master of the card game; he certainly has very powerful cards, at least.
* JumpedAtTheCall: ''Message in a Packet'' reveals Ryo immediately accepted Cyberdramon's invitation to come to the digital world the night he beat Ruki at the tournament, without a thought for his family.
* MakeMyMonsterGrow: The "Goliath" card he possesses can turn Cyberdramon gigantic.
* MeaningfulName: His given name is written with a character meaning "Distant".
* MythologyGag: Ryo's suggestion in ''Message in a Packet'' that Cyberdramon's ArchNemesis is an EnemyWithin (even stronger than the [[PhysicalGod Harmonious Ones]], no less) is a very likely nod to the finale of ''Brave Tamer'' [[spoiler:where Monodramon finally beats Milleniumon by forcing him into a FusionDance]].
* RememberTheNewGuy: Despite the fact that Ryo had always been planned to be a character in the third series, he is only belatedly debuts during the digital world arc; multiple characters nonetheless immediately recognize him and Kazu and Kenta start talking him up like he's super hot stuff.
* SatelliteLoveInterest: Despite being TheAce and the longest-established tamer, most of Ryo's influence on the story is through his relationship with Rika and how she reacts to him.
* ShipTease: Some here and there with [[DefrostingIceQueen Rika]], mostly consisting of him [[BelligerentSexualTension aggravating her]], which is emphasized in the dub.
* SixthRanger: He's the tamer introduced in the show, he's the only one on par in terms of power and competency with the core Power Trio.
* SmoochOfVictory: In the dub, he flirts with Rika and attempts to invoke this trope.
-->'''Ryo:''' ''So what do I get for saving your life not once but ''twice''?''
-->'''Rika:''' ''How about twice the whuppin'?''
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Averted. His year in the digital world has apparently done nothing to harm his social skills.
* WalkingTheEarth: He's been traveling around the Digital World for a year with Cyberdramon, who was too feral to safely keep on Earth any longer.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Suzie Wong ''(Li Xiaochun/Li Shiuchon)'']]

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Henry's younger sister who winds up dragged into the digital world with the others. Lucky for them, as her power of cute helps convert one of the {{Big Bad}}s to their side.

->Voiced by: AiNagano (JP), Peggy O'Neal (EN), Creator/PepaAgudo (Spain), Flavia Termignoni (Latin America)
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: To Henry.
* BreakTheCutie: The day she winds up in the Digital World is the same day Beelzemon attacks the Tamers, giving her a front row seat to [[spoiler:Leomon's death, Takato's SanitySlippage, Megidramon, and Zhuqiaomon trying to incinerate them all.]] She at least recovers, and pretty quickly.
%%* ButNotTooForeign
* CheerfulChild: Pretty happy by default.
%%* CurtainsMatchTheWindow
* ElmuhFuddSyndwome: In the dub, she speaks like this, calling her brother "Henwy."
* GirlishPigtails: A girly kid with pigtails.
* SixthRanger: Over Henry's objections, she is this.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Like all the other members of her family, this is in full effect because of AlternateCharacterReading. The characters in her name are read using the onyomi reading ("Shiuchon") whereas if put into pinyin, it would be read as "Xiaochun" in Mandarin Chinese. The dubbers more or less gave up the internal debate about what it was and went with Suzie instead. Fandom sometimes adds to this by calling her 'Shuchun', because the Japanese [=VAs=] pronounce her name that way sometimes. The German dub goes with "shuichon" half the dub and when she joins the others she says she would rather be called "Suzie", while the Spaniard dub opted to pronounce her name more or less as "Sue Chong".
* TechnicalPacifist: After becoming a Tamer, she develops a bit of her brother's old attitude.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Is essentially this as a character-concept, though with unexpectedly happy results; in a DarkerAndEdgier series where [[DeconstructorFleet heaps of tropes are examined deeply]] and where the tone is comparable to that of a CosmicHorrorStory, she singlehandedly manages to survive the plot by being innocent, bubbly and sweet. She'd have fit perfectly in the previous series or the next one.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ai & Mako ''(Makoto)'']]

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The youngest humans partnered to a Digimon in any ''Digimon'' canon, these toddlers turn out to be the Tamers of Impmon, and are part of the reason behind his disdain for humans.

->Ai is voiced by: Creator/HaruhiTerada (JP), Creator/RebeccaForstadt (EN), Creator/CarolinaTak (Spain)
->Mako is voiced by: Miwa Matsumoto (JP), Creator/WendeeLee (EN), Creator/DianaTorres (Spain)
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* AgeAppropriateAngst: They react to Impmon leaving them by learning to share and being the best they can be, and they apologize profusely to him when he returns. Given that they were three or four when he left, this is probably all the angst they're capable of.
* BadassAndChildDuo: Both of them plus Impmon make it a trio. The two youngest children to ever be officially partnered with a digimon have a partner whose fully evolved form is ''classified as a Demon Lord''.
* BrattyHalfPint: Both of them, at first.
* CharacterDevelopment: A surprising amount given how little screen time they got.
%%* ChildrenAreInnocent
* EleventhHourRanger: They become Tamers in the final episode; sadly, they don't have a chance to do anything. (Unless it was them that healed Impmon of course, but then it happened off-screen.) This is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] due to their ages.
* FamilyThemeNaming: Ai means love, while Makoto means truth. This is a common Japanese sibling name combo.
* GirlishPigtails: Ai has her hair up in ponytails.
* HalfIdenticalTwins: It's ambiguous if they're twins, and Ai is taller than Mako, but they look very alike as siblings and they often repeat each other's sentences.
* HeelFaceTurn: Sometime between Impmon witnessing them tearing a teddy bear in half and his search to find them at their grandmother's house Ai and Makoto have learned to share, which they attribute to guilt following him abandoning them.
* ImaginaryFriend: The English and German dubs imply their parents think Impmon is/was this. Averted in Spain, where their parents never seem to discover Impmon's existence.
* ImprobableAge: Younger than any other Chosen or Tamer on record, bar none. Though they are admittedly bad at it at first and at least act their age.
* InconsistentDub: Their age in any given dub suffers from this. The English and Spanish dubs avoid this by just not stating it.
* ItMayHelpYouOnYourQuest: Mako's toy gun morphs into a sentry gun as [[spoiler:Beelzemon]] heads into battle.
* KidAppealCharacter: They're even younger then Suzie.
* LoveRedeems: Platonic love, as the case might be.
* MoralityPet: They're this for Impmon.
* NoodleIncident: Their grandma mentions something about Mako having once been glued to the floor, presumably by Ai.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: "Mako" (or "Mako-chan") is Impmon's term of endearment for Makoto, but in the english dub, everyone, whether they know Mako personally or not, calls him "Mako". Impmon even introduces him as "Mako" to Takato and the gang.
* ParentalAbandonment:
** In flashbacks, they live with their parents, who spoiled them rotten. The next we see them they're living with their grandmother, and no explanation is given for why.
** They are next seen with their grandmother because their families have evacuated due to the D-Reaper, though that still doesn't explain where they were during Impmon's visit.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Ai wears a pink dress and Mako has blue overalls.
* PowerOfFriendship: How they cause Impmon to digivolve.
* RedemptionPromotion: Impmon gets a lot stronger once he makes amends with Ai and Mako, and his actions inadvertently made them grow up enough to be the people they are today.
* SatelliteCharacter: They barely interact with any relevant character other than Impmon or each other.
* SiblingYinYang: Played far more realistically than most uses of this trope; they're different but not night and day different, and get along very well now.
* SpoiledBrat: Due to their parents showering them with toys that they don't know how to share. They get better, though.
* TagalongKid: Averted. Impmon makes them stay home where they're safe since they're even younger than the already young main characters, and they're smart enough to obey him.
* ThoseTwoGuys: Seen together a lot.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Their childish treatment of Impmon leads to him going his own way, becoming Beelzemon and killing Leomon, which leads to Jeri being used by the D-Reaper]].
* VagueAge: WordOfGod says they're younger than Suzie. Other than that, fandom can only guess. Different dubs have said different things about them. It's also up for debate if they're twins or if they're just close in age. In Japanese, Mako does call Ai 'big sister', but in Japan, a younger twin might still refer to their older twin in this way.
[[/folder]]

!!Partner Digimon

[[folder:Guilmon]]
-->''"Takatomon... I need a new box."''

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Quite literally a fan character drawn and named by Takato and brought to life. A red dinosaur-like Digimon who is bigger than a human, very powerful, very innocent, and completely lovable. Has a bit of trouble distinguishing between humans, animals, and Digimon.

** '''Fresh''': Jyarimon, only seen in the [=WonderSwan=] games.
** '''In-Training''': Gigimon, a small creature resembling a simplified version of Guilmon's head with legs.
** '''Rookie''': Guilmon, his primary form.
** '''Champion''': Growlmon ''(Growmon)'', similar to Guilmon but taller and with a mane of white hair.
** '''Ultimate''': [=WarGrowlmon=] ''([=MegaloGrowlmon=])'', a giant dinosaur with a robotic upper half, akin to Adventure's [=MetalGreymon=].
** '''Mega''': [[DraconicAbomination Megidramon]], this series' equivalent to [[Anime/DigimonAdventure SkullGreymon]], only much, [[WorldWreckingWave MUCH,]] [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Worse]].
** '''[[FusionDance Biomerge-Mega]]''': Gallantmon ''(Dukemon)'', an imposing white knight with a red cape. Achieved by [[FusionDance Bio-Merging]] with Takato.
*** '''Mode Change''': Gallantmon Crimson Mode, which is Gallantmon with red armor and several angelic wings instead of a cape.

->Voiced by: Creator/MasakoNozawa (JP), Creator/SteveBlum (EN), Creator/PepeCarabias (Spain), Mariana Gómez (Latin America, as Guilmon), Luis Tenorio (Latin America, as Growlmon, [=WarGrowlmon=] and [=MegiDramon=]), Manuel Campuzano and Mauricio Valverde (Latin America, as Gallantmon)
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* AllAnimalsAreDogs: He acts more like a puppy than a digital dinosaur.
* AmbiguousRobot: Gallantmon looks like a mecha, but he's only ever identified as a Holy Knight type Digimon.
* ArtInitiatesLife: Rather than being an existing Digimon who chose to join a human, Guilmon was created when Takato's Digivice scanned his hand-drawn fan art.
* AscendedFanon: In-universe, being thought up by Takato. This extends to his Growlmon and [=WarGrowlmon=] forms.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: His speech as Gallantmon in the original Japanese is made of this, akin to a samurai or a warrior serving a lord in general, befitting his design.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: When not fighting, he can be distracted by a lot of things.
* BadassAdorable: He's a child-sized cartoony therapod, but is the most powerful of the three main Digimon, with a kill record that includes six of the twelve Devas in his higher forms. (In contrast, ''none'' of his allies - or [[spoiler:Beelzemon]], during his Heel period - got to finish off more than one Deva.)
* BadassCape: Gallantmon has a flowing crimson cape, befitting his nature as a draconic knight. He also used it to put out a fire he walked out of.
* BalloonBelly: Whenever he eats too much his stomach bulges comedically.
* TheBerserker: True to his nature as a [[http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Guilmon Combat Species]], Guilmon is initially extremely aggressive and charges into battle focused solely on attacking. In his first few battles, his instinctive bloodlust rendered him blind to everything but the opponent until Takato snapped him out of it. This becomes more prominent as he Digivolves, with Takato explicitly worrying about how Guilmon seems to become uniquely feral the more powerful he gets. This hits its most extreme point when he dark digivolves to Megidramon, who essentially is an embodiment of uncontrollable rage. He gains control over it though with time, and completely sheds this tendency as Gallantmon.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: The most child-like of all the digimons but is a very ferocious fighter. Also, he ended up as the most powerful.
* BigEater: He's ''always'' hungry.
* BishonenLine: His forms get steadily more monstrous until Gallantmon, at which point he switches to a regal knight. Justified, since that form combines traits of Guilmon and Takato.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Growlmon, [=WarGrowlmon=], and Megidramon all have arm-blades that get larger with each Digivolution. Gallantmon has a ''JoustingLance'' below the shoulder.
* BloodKnight: While not quite to Renamon's initial extent, as a Virus-type Combat Species, Guilmon is usually eager for battle, and his reaction to enemy Digimon showing up is to snarl in anticipation of fighting them.
* BodyHorror: As Megidramon, it has [[TooManyMouths a second mouth]] that opens [[{{Squick}} its nasal cavity]].
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: When Guilmon gets on the motorcycle and begins to run over everything in his path. Was brought out of it by Leomon, who beaned him over the head with the flat of his sword.
* BreathWeapon: Most of his forms can spit a powerful blast of flames.
* CharacterDevelopment: Necessary because he was quite literally newborn at the start of the series. He never quite gets out of his child-like nature, but does gain a surprising degree of wisdom.
* ChestBlaster: [=WarGrowlmon=]'s Atomic Blaster is fired from his chest.
* ChestInsignia: The Digital Hazard Symbol, which signifies his potential to cause cataclysmic destruction.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: A nonhuman example, but still fits the trope since he's practically a newborn. All the other partner digimon spent their lives in the brutal Digital World where they fought and killed to survive before meeting their partners. Guilmon was exempt from this and met Takato as soon as he hatched, leaving him a complete innocent.
* ClippedWingAngel: Despite his immense power (to put this into perspective, officially he's one of four dragon-god Digimon, along with Azulongmon), Megidramon is rather easily brought down by [[spoiler:Beelzemon]], his rage-induced feral state rendering him not as effective a fighter as he could have been.
* ContrastingSequelProtagonist: Unlike other main digimon, Guilmon is ''literally'' a newborn digimon in the beginning of the series, and knows very little about himself or the world, contrast with Agumon and Veemon, the previous two main digimon who served as MrExposition at least at some point or another. Guilmon is also unusually large for a Rookie level digimon (2-3 times the size of most other rookies), which creates issues with hiding him that previous partnered digimon only had marginal trouble with.
* CoolHelmet: Gallantmon’s helmet has an adorable Guilmon figure on it.
* CoolSword: Gallantmon Crimson Mode's Blutgang looks like it's made of purple fire.
* CrossdressingVoices: In the Japanese version, per typical.
* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Guilmon may act immature, but all bets are off when in a fight, especially after evolutions.
* {{Cyborg}}: [=WarGrowlmon=] and Megidramon have armor made of Chrome Digizoid, the strongest metal in the Digital World.
* DarkerAndEdgier: He was designed by Takato to be this to Agumon.
* DarkIsEvil: Megidramon, though Guilmon was at one point able to channel his power to protect Takato, to no ill effect.
* DarkIsNotEvil: For one, Growlmon is addressed as being a "Demon Dragon" type. Also, Guilmon himself, along with his entire evolutionary line, is of the Virus attribute, which is generally associated with villains in the series (though an exception already existed previously with [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Wormmon]]). This has some significance considering Guilmon and his line feature the Digital Hazard Symbol, and his corrupted Mega form can cause a meltdown of reality for merely existing. This particular Guilmon is the kindest and most gentle member of his team.
* DeadlyUpgrade: Megidramon. Most villains would take an entire game/series/film to deploy their plan to destroy the world. Megidramon? It ''exists'', shines red, and the ''entire universe'' (both digital and real) starts being destroyed.
* DinosaursAreDragons: Unlike most cases of this trope, he resembles a mix between a dragon and a dinosaur.
* DraconicAbomination: Megidramon, his Mega form, is an EldritchAbomination that is very recognizably dragonlike and so powerful that he destabilizes the existence of the Digital World by simply existing.
* DragonKnight: Gallantmon's helmet has Guilmon's [[DinosaursAreDragons dragon-like]] head attached to his CoolHelmet.
* DragonsAreDemonic: Guilmon and most of his evolutions are Virus Type Digimon that resemble draconic therapod dinosaurs, and As Growlmon he is even categorized as a "Demon Dragon". Upon extreme anger of Takato over the death of Leomon at Belzemon's hands, he transforms his partner Guilmon into Megidramon. His powers are so acute and massive that he causes the Digital World to slowly crumble around him simply by existing. Fortunately, he's calmed down before he could destroy everything.
* DumbMuscle: Very childlike, but is the strongest of the main three Digimon. In his fight with Renamon, he was beating her despite Rika using a modify card.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Through the attributes assigned to Digimon, Guilmon is a Virus type.
* EleventhHourSuperpower: Gallantmon Crimson Mode, which gives him wings and further amplifies his power.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Guilmon resembles a medium-sized therapod dinosaur.
* EvilDetectingDog: He can sense hostile Digimon, and usually reacts by snarling.
* {{Expy}}: An InUniverse example. Takato was specifically thinking "Agumon, but better" when designing Guilmon, so his entire evolutionary line (minus Crimson Mode) has many parallels with Agumon's. Human child-sized dinosaur (Rookie), proper-sized Dinosaur (Champion), proper-sized dinosaur with weapons attached (Ultimate), humanoid warrior (Mega). He even has a dark evolution, though that was unintentional.
** According to WordOfGod, the Guilmon evolutionary line was also one of the Franchise/{{Godzilla}} [[NotZilla expies]].
** You could even say the line is a homage to the typical "dragon-and-knight" medieval imagery, since he evolves from the classic design of a terrifying dragon to a gallant (heh) KnightInShiningArmor, ready to save his lady love (Jeri) in the process.
* TheFaceless: Gallantmon's face is never seen aside from his yellow eyes that resemble his previous forms.
* FierySalamander: Like Agumon, he's a fire-breathing reptilian Digimon.
* {{Flight}}: [=WarGrowlmon=] and Gallantmon Crimson Mode can fly, and presumably Megidramon can as well.
* FriendlyFireproof: Gallantmon Crimson Mode's Quo Vadis attack is powerful enough to clear an entire city, ''without destroying the city''.
* GentleGiant: Except when berserk, Guilmon in all his forms is child-like.
* GoodWearsWhite: As Gallantmon he wears white and red armor.
* GoodWingsEvilWings: Megidramon has tattered orange bat wings, while Gallantmon Crimson Mode has feathery white angel ones.
* GooGooGodlike: He's literally a newborn at the start of the series and starts out with the behavioral mannerisms of a curious toddler, but he is also the most powerful of the three main Digimon.
* HardHead: When Guilmon was possessed by the motorcycle and Leomon has to knock him off with the blunt edge of his sword.
* HellishPupils: His pupils narrow into vertical slits whenever he goes feral during a fight or is anticipating battle.
* HelpImStuck: When Guilmon digivolves to Growlmon for the first time, he has extreme difficulty devolving back to Guilmon. Takato, completely unsure of what to do with him at first but desperate to get him away from prying eyes, attempts to force Growlmon back into the cage he's been hiding in as Guilmon, only for Growlmon to get stuck.
* HorsebackHeroism: Gallantmon with Grani.
* HulkSpeak: He started like this as a newborn, but soon became more articulate.
* JoustingLance: Gallantmon's Gram and Crimson Mode's Gungnir.
* {{Kiai}}: Most notably [=WarGrowlmon=], the majority of whose dialogue consists of growls.
* KnightInShiningArmor: Gallantmon is a lance-wielding knight.
%%* TheKirk
* LaserBlade: Gallantmon Crimson Mode's Gungnir.
* LawOfChromaticSuperiority: He's crimson in coloration and is physically the strongest of the main three Digimon.
* LightEmUp: As Gallantmon, and even more so as Crimson Mode.
* LightIsGood: Gallantmon is a Holy Paladin Digimon.
* LuckilyMyShieldWillProtectMe: The fact that it can fire energy beams certainly helps. FINAL... ELYSIAN!!!
* MadeOfIron: Guilmon's entire line is abnormally durable. As a Rookie he was able to NoSell Renamon's Diamond Storm, this attack defeated Champion level Digimon. Growlmon survived being mauled on by Mihiramon, half of Growlmon's face and arm were devoured as seen in the mental communication he and Takato were having. [=WarGrowlmon=] was able to NoSell [[spoiler:Beelzemon's Double Impact when he and Takato were rage induced from witnessing Leomon's death, Double Impact defeated Rapidmon in one shot. Gallantmon literally endured all of Zhuqiaomon's attacks without slowing down before their battle was stopped by Azulongmon.]]
* ManBitesMan: He's not afraid of using his fangs in combat, and as Megidramon he attempted to eat [[spoiler:Beelzemon]].
* ManChild: Justified, since he starts out the series as essentially a newborn in a grown body. Even after he gets some CharacterDevelopment, he retains a child-like mentality. This trope goes further with Growlmon who is much larger than Guilmon.
* MeaningfulName: The name of his wicked Mega form, Megidramon, is derived from ''Megiddo'', the hill on which the last battle of good and evil is prophesied to take place.
* NoRangeLikePointBlankRange: As [=WarGrowlmon=], he often uses Atomic Blaster this way.
* NoSell: Renamon's Diamond Storm, which is capable of shredding Champion-level Digimon, does nothing to him.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Either Guilmon becomes smarter as he Digivolves further, or he's not as simple-minded as he lets on.
* OlympusMons:
** Megidramon is a very dark take on this. He's named after the valley of Armageddon, destabilizes the Digital World just by existing, and is completely uncontrollable.
** Takato becomes one as Gallantmon and his Crimson Mode, these are however unambiguously heroic.
* OurAngelsAreDifferent: Gallantmon Crimson Mode has glowing angelic wings.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Growlmon and Megidramon are most obviously demonic, but Guilmon's whole evolution line are referred to as Demon Dragons.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Excepting Gallantmon and his mode change, the Guilmon line resembles a far more draconic take on the Agumon line. Even Gallantmon has dragon features on his armor. Megidramon is a far more monstrous dragon.
* OutsideContextProblem: Guilmon was born with the Digital Hazard sign on his chest, which signifies a digimon with the potential to cause mass destruction if corrupted. The symbol was not present on Takato's original drawing of him, but is present on all of his evolution stages. For most of the series this is completely irrelevant and never even commented upon... until [[spoiler: Guilmon dark digivolves to Megidramon and starts to cause a dimensional meltdown in the digital world simply for existing]]. Despite this there is ''zero'' elaboration or explanation for why the symbol manifested on Guilmon in the first place.
* ThePaladin: Gallantmon is basically a white knight digimon.
* PlayingWithFire: All of his forms, save Gallantmon, use fire-based attacks.
* PoorPredictableRock: The fact that he can't flex his claws out of the paper position gets exploited against him, in a brief game of rock, paper, scissors.
* PowerGivesYouWings: Crimson Mode has glowing angelic wings, not to mention that Takato owns a modify card that when used allows Guilmon to grow Angemon's energy wings.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Megidramon has red eyes, emphasizing his extremely dangerous nature.
* RedIsHeroic: He's the red digimon and his partner is TheHero.
* RefugeInAudacity: Takato eventually figures out that he can take him on the street by claiming that he's just some guy in ''really'' good cosplay. It stops working after the Deva show up, though.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Even Creator/SteveBlum admitted Guilmon was way too cute, and Jeri thinks he's cute as well. Not so much in looks, but his personality makes up for it.
* TheRival:
** To Renamon in the beginning (as Guilmon), unintentional since he was the first Digimon Renamon failed to take down.
** To Impmon as Guilmon, once he figures out the former had made a fool out of him. To [[spoiler:Beelzemon]], as Gallantmon.
* RuleOfCool: Guilmon and Growlmon's designs are based on Takato's idea of having a partner that is as strong and cool as possible. It's deconstructed, as Takato doesn't think about the drawbacks of his final designs. Both Guilmon and Growlmon are way too big for their own good (although, Growlmon appears to be [=ExVeemon's=] size rather than Greymon's), which makes hiding them difficult or impossible. Similarly, his choice of making Guilmon's evolution line Virus types, which plays a factor in Guilmon's occasional feral states and results in him becoming Megidramon when he's completely unrestrained.
* ShipTease: In the American dub, Terriermon teases him about possibly liking Renamon.
--> Terriermon: "Renamon and Guilmon, sittin' in a tree!"
* SimpleMindedWisdom: Guilmon eventually grows into this, unwittingly dispensing meaningful advice.
* SkilledButNaive: Guilmon was born with an instinctive grasp of combat and an abnormally powerful body for a fresh Rookie, but is still mentally a toddler with no grasp of the the physical or digital world. This caused no end of problems early on for his tamer.
%%* SkySurfing: While riding Grani.
* TheSlowWalk: As Gallantmon (with the background in flames).
* SnakePeople: Megidramon lacks legs, but has arms and wings with a serpentine lower body.
* SpikesOfVillainy: Megidramon has spiked pauldrons and arm-blades.
* SuperMode: Gallantmon Crimson Mode is by far the strongest Digimon on the Tamers' side. Possibly the strongest one human-Digimon combination in the entire franchise.
* SupernaturalGoldEyes: He has yellow irises, emphasizing his nature as a demonic dragon-type Digimon.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Megidramon, his EldritchAbomination Mega form. It’s powerful enough to erode reality just by existing, but as intelligent as a rabid dog.
* SuperSpit: Megidramon's acidic drool.
* SwordBeam: Royal Saber and Quo Vadis.
* TapOnTheHead: This is the only way that Leomon can free Guilmon from a demonic motorcycle. [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] due to the sheer toughness of his hide and Leomon intentionally holding back from a leathal strike.
* ThirdPersonPerson: Always refers to himself in the third person, one sign in Japanese speech showing immaturity. It carries throughout all his forms, but takes on a different form as Gallantmon, but only in Japanese, where his specific pronoun, ''kono Dukemon''[[note]]this Dukemon[[/note]] implies the humility of a servant, which fits with his above speech pattern.
* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Bread. Later on, Guilmon bread, which is baked in the shape of his head. The dub adds a love of peanut butter on top of that.
* TrashTalk: When in the heat of battle, he's not above mocking his opponents.
* TunnelKing: He's very adept at burrowing.
* UnskilledButStrong: Guilmon when he first comes to be. His first fight was against the battle-hardened Renamon, who had trounced other digimon, some even adult-level. Despite this, he managed to fight her to a standstill.
* UnstoppableRage: Leading into his evolution to Megidramon.
* VerbalTic:
** "-giru" in the Japanese version.
** The English version might be calling Takato "Takatomon", but once Takato tells him to stop, he does.
* VocalDissonance: In both Japanese and English, Guilmon keeps his childlike voice throughout his entire Digivolutionary line, even as he becomes a giant, ferocious monster and then an armored knight. The Japanese version in particular gives him the same voice actress and similar delivery to [[Franchise/DragonBall Son Goku]] at various stages in his life, with Dukemon (like Super Saiyan Goku) having the best approximation of a deep, commanding male voice Creator/MasakoNozawa can muster.
* WalkingWasteland: Megidramon's very existence destabilizes the Digital World.
* WaveMotionGun: Gallantmon's Final Elysian (Shield of the Just in English versions) fires a beam of energy from his shield.
* WingedHumanoid: Gallantmon Crimson Mode.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Terriermon]]
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-->''"Moumantai~"''

Henry's partner. A pretty mild mon, but initially has trouble controlling himself when he Digivolves. Resembles a plush toy with big, floppy, ears.

His digivolutions are as follows:
** '''Fresh''': Zerimon, only seen in the [=WonderSwan=] games.
** '''In-Training''': Gummymon, a green blob-like Digimon with a horn.
** '''Rookie''': Terriermon, his default form.
** '''Champion''': Gargomon ''(Galgomon)'', a bipedal terrier wearing jeans and has miniguns for hands
** '''Ultimate''': Rapidmon, a giant green flying robot with long ears.
** '''Mega''': [=MegaGargomon=] ''([=SaintGalgomon=])'', a HumongousMecha with a dog-like face. Achieved by [[FusionDance Bio-Merging]] with Henry.

->Voiced by: Creator/AoiTada (JP), Creator/MonaMarshall (EN), Creator/CarolinaTak (Spain), Linda Herold (Latin America)
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: Like in [[Anime/DigimonTheMovie his previous appearance]], the dub changes him from a dog to a bunny, despite his name being ''Terrier''mon. However, his resemblance to both species is lampshaded by Impmon in the dub, who at least once calls him a 'dog-eared bunny'.
* ArmCannon: His evolutions have firearms attached to his arms.
* AxCrazy: He becomes this whenever he digivolves at first.
* BadassAdorable: Terriermon are designated as a "Combat Species": a class of Digimon noted for abnormally high natural aptitude for combat. This particular one demonstrates that power and ferocity in all his battles despite being easily able to pass as a plush toy.
* BadassBandolier: Gargomon dramatically whips one around his torso and snaps it in place as the end point of his evolution. Save for this, Gargomon would be completely [[WalkingShirtlessScene topless]].
* BigEater: To wit: "Buns and beans and sauerkraut / I'm gonna eat 'til I pass out!"
* TheBigGuy:
** Subverted and played straight; in terms of power, all three bio-merge Megas are roughly equal. In terms of size? The other two are literally as big as his head.
** Most ''definitely'' subverted when they're all in Rookie form. He's actually small enough to pretend to be a novelty animal backpack in the camping episode!
* BloodKnight: He loves a good fight, much to his [[MartialPacifist partner's]] annoyance.
* BlowYouAway: As a rookie he fights by creating tornados.
* BoisterousBruiser: He’s the rowdiest of the main digimon and the one who is most open to admitting that he enjoys battle for its own sake.
* BrutalHonesty: His first line towards Takato is pointing out how bad a Tamer he is for losing his Digimon.
* CanisMajor: [=MegaGargomon=], his most powerful form, has a dog-like appearance and is the size of a small skyscraper.
* CatchPhrase: [[GratuitousForeignLanguage "Moumantai!"]], which is Cantonese for "Don't worry!" or "No problem!", which he probably picked up off Henry's family since he's Half-Chinese. Terriermon tends to use it whenever something is even remotely tense even when everyone ''should'' be serious, which the others find somewhat annoying at times. But when someone else uses it: "[[HypocriticalHumor That's a really annoying thing to say!]]"
* CombatPragmatist: He tends to be the first to suggest these kind of tactics. His suggestion for dealing with [=IceDevimon=]? "A kick in the pants."
%%* CrossdressingVoices
* DeadpanSnarker: The snarkiest of the Tamers cast Digimon and probably the snarkiest partner Digimon in the entire franchise.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: He (and his evolutions) are of the ''Vaccine'' attribute.
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: He loves spinning. As Terriermon, he has a trademark SpinAttack while his later evolutions has GatlingGood.
* GatlingGood: Gargomon has two gatling guns instead of hands.
* GentleGiant: He becomes the tallest and largest of all the digimons in his final form.
* GrumpyBear: A lighter version, but he often shows signs of being one. He never hesitates to speak his mind whenever and wherever and to whoever he feels like – normally he doesn’t mean any harm, but just can't seem to stop himself from saying something out of place, be it a quip he thinks is amusing, or an unintentionally insulting observation. All very possibly the result of being a wild Digimon, fighting by the rules of survival of the fittest in the Digital World before meeting Henry.
* GunsAkimbo: His evolutions will have both of his arms attached with {{Arm Cannon}}s.
* TheGunslinger: The entire point of his evolutionary line.
* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Gargomon wears pants and a bandolier. That’s it.
* HappyDance: After Henry orders him not to absorb Gorillamon's data, he at least wants to do a happy dance.
* HeadPet: Tends to sit on Henry's head or shoulder. Since he's pretending to be a stuffed animal, this results into some rather amusing stares from people Henry walks past.
* HiddenInPlainSight: Terriermon simply has to stand perfectly still, making him look like a normal plushie doll.
* IAmNotWeasel: In the dub Rika often refers to him as a rabbit, but judging from his name and his later evolutions he's pretty clearly supposed to be a dog.
* {{Irony}}: Terriermon is the tiniest of the main rookie digimon, but becomes the biggest of the Digimon partners in their final stage.
* JiveTurkey: In the English dub, Terriermon frequently uses modern slang.
-->'''Lopmon:''' ''[[[PhysicalGod To Zhuqiaomon]]]'' My sovereign, your generosity and wisdom are without bounds! Thank you!
-->'''Terriermon:''' ''[Hops in]'' Thanks, Schuster! It's been real!
%%* KidAppealCharacter
* IKnowKungFu: [=MegaGargomon=] inherits Henry’s martial arts skills. Combined with his size and great strength, this lets him dominate most opponents who engage him in close combat.
* KillerRabbit: Was this trope named with him in mind, or something?
* LightEmUp: In addition to being a Vaccine-type Digimon, his most powerful attack as Rapidmon is his Tri Beam.
* LightningBruiser: Rapidmon is fast, tough, and powerful. Even as the hulking [=MegaGargomon=] he can pull off surprisingly fast and agile moves when necessary.
* LoopholeAbuse: In the dub, Henry tells Terriermon to ignore Impmon and not touch him. Impmon attacks, and Terriermon counters with his Terrier Tornado, canceling out Impmon's attack AND blowing him away. Terriermon points out to Henry that he didn't physically touch Impmon, just shot him with wind.
* MacrossMissileMassacre: [=MegaGargomon=] can fire massive barrages of missiles.
%%* TheMcCoy
* MixAndMatchCritter: He looks like a mashed-up dog and rabbit.
* MoreDakka: The entire point of his evolutionary line. From Champion onwards, his line adds more and more firearms to his body. Taken to ridiculous extremes with [=MegaGargomon=]'s seemingly endless array of hidden weapons.
* OddCouple: Terriermon is a snarky, impulsive BloodKnight while Henry is an overly cautious bookworm who would rather avoid fighting.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: He's the smallest of the main Digimon, but still able to fight Champion-level Digimon on fairly even ground. Funnily enough, this is subverted with his final form, who's a good ten times larger than all the other Mega-level partners.
* PowerIncontinence: When he first Digivolves, he can't stop himself from firing his hand-cannons.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: The cutest of the main three Digimon. Made unfortunate since this makes him irresistible to play with by Suichon.
* RunningGag: A strong tendency to run out of ammo, with various results.
* ShouldersOfDoom: As [=MegaGargomon=], he is equipped with two missile launchers in his shoulders.
* ShoutOut: [=MegaGargomon's=] overall design, with its myriad onboard ordinance and giant shoulder-launched missiles, is based on the OVA incarnation of ''Manga/GiantRobo''
* SuperSpeed: As Rapidmon, as his name implies, he can move very fast.
* UnorthodoxReload: Until Henry swipes the Recharge card, he's basically stuck when he runs out of ammo.
* VocalDissonance: In the Japanese and English versions, all of Terriermon's Digivolutions retain his cute voice.
* WalkingShirtlessScene: Invoked by Gargomon, who is wearing a pants, though technically he's not wearing anything at all as Terriermon.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Renamon]]
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-->''"As you wish, Rika."''

Rika's partner, a tall and powerful fox-like Digimon who joined up with her to become even more powerful. Originally ruthless and standoffish, she is one of the first partners who has to learn about [[ThePowerOfFriendship friendship]], even more than her human partner.

Her digivolutions are as follows:
** '''Fresh''': Relemon, only seen in the [=WonderSwan=] games.
** '''In-Training''': Pokomon ''(Viximon)'', a small ball-shaped fox.
** '''Rookie''': Renamon, her default form.
** '''Champion''': Kyuubimon, a mythical nine-tailed fox.
** '''Ultimate''': Taomon, a humanoid fox with Taoist garb.
** '''Mega''': Sakuyamon, a {{Miko}} Digimon with ceremonial armour in the shape of a fox. Achieved by [[FusionDance Bio-Merging]] with Rika.

->Voiced by: Creator/YukaImai (JP) Creator/MariDevon (EN), Ana Plaza (Spain), Adriana Rodríguez (Latin America)
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* ActionGirl: The most combat-trained digimon of the three.
* BadassAdorable: A cute fox who is tough.
* BadassBaritone: In the German dub, Taomon's voice is ''very'' deep. While, Renamon, Kyubimon and Taomon are voiced by a man, only Taomon's voice fits this trope.
* BadassPreacher: Invoked by her final two forms. Her ultimate level has an {{UsefulNotes/Onmyodo}} like appearance called '''Tao'''mon, while her final form is basically a golden armored {{Miko}}.
* BarrierWarrior: As Taomon and Sakuyamon. Her barriers as Taomon can withstand repeated attacks from the Sovereign and even fly, but doing so quickly saps her stamina. As Sakuyamon, her barriers are even stronger. They can easily shrug off geysers of the D-Reaper substance that would severely wound one of the Sovereign.
* BigNever: When Vajramon keeps trying to get her to join the Devas.
* BigSisterInstinct: Develops this type of relationship with Rika.
* BishonenLine: Her final two forms get steadily more human and regal.
* BlingOfWar: Sakuyamon has golden armor.
* CherryBlossoms: Her TransformationSequence to Sakuyamon shows several sakura petals being blown over by the wind while she's standing over a pond or lake.
* CombatStilettos: Sakuyamon has them.
* ContraltoOfDanger: She has a very low voice.
* CunningLikeAFox: Renamon is that most intelligent and experienced of the main partner digimon. She’s managed to enact complex and deceptive strategies without the input of anyone else in the group.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Not only she is strongly associated with the night, but Taomon is a Demon Man type.
* ElementalPowers: Throughout her evolutions, she manages to use all four classic elements.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: She is of the Data attribute.
* FacialMarkings: Sakuyamon has visible war paint on her cheeks.
* {{Foil}}: With Impmon. Neither of their Tamers treated them like living beings ([[CharacterDevelopment at first]]), both looked down on humans/human bonds while secretly wishing for one, and both believed absorbing their enemies was the only way to digivolve. The difference is, Rika realized she was wrong and set out to restore her relationship with Renamon; were it not for that, it wouldn't be a stretch to say she could have gone down the same path as Impmon.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: Rika and Renamon describe feeling a compassion for all life when they become Sakuyamon.
* GracefulLadiesLikePurple: Purple is her secondary ColorMotif after yellow.
* GratuitousForeignLanguage: Renamon is one of the few lead Digimon in the franchise as a whole to avert this with her attacks.
* IHaveTheHighGround: She has a penchant standing and/or leaping from tall objects whenever she can, which was very often early in the series.
* HeadTurningBeauty: Renamon occassionally gets this reaction from other characters. At one point Impmon hits on her, and Vajramon is amazed by Renamon's power and beauty enough for him to plead her to join the Devas. You know this means something when a ''Deva'', a servant of the Digimon gods, gets smitten with her.
* IcyBlueEyes: With ''black'' sclera, which practically give her a permanent, built-in DeathGlare and subvert BlackEyesOfCrazy along the way.
* {{Kitsune}}: She's styled after a kitsune.
* LadyOfWar: She's as poised as her human partner.
* {{Lunacy}}: The first time she digivolves into Kyuubimon is the night of a full moon. Her transformation sequences as Taomon and Sakuyamon also feature a full moon.
* MagicStaff: Sakuyamon fights with a golden shakujo staff.
* MamaBear: Towards the kids, particularly Rika.
* {{Miko}}: Sakuyamon. Her [[http://wikimon.net/images/a/a9/Bo-624.jpg alternate costume]], seen only in the Japanese card game, reflects this.
* MsFanservice: Renamon is indeed ''[[FoxyVixen foxy]]'', boasting shapely HartmanHips that are pretty difficult to ignore by viewers. Sakuyamon is [[UpToEleven much more so]].
** Some of the dialogue in the English dub doesn't help matters either, as early episodes have Renamon taunting her opponents in a way that almost sounds like [[TheTease she's flirting with them]].
** [[http://web.archive.org/web/20190303055142if_/https://img.fireden.net/v/image/1511/90/1511904305513.jpg Renamon's official figure from G.E.M.]] has an EasterEgg in the form of [[https://web.archive.org/web/20190403015621/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dp26XVOUwAAg5ig.jpg little]][[http://web.archive.org/web/20171123072339/http://78.media.tumblr.com/37889bddbf1f1b8b1a457afd2048c22b/tumblr_oi0ajdILuM1udqbdzo1_500.jpg breasts]] hidden under her ruff (which is [[http://web.archive.org/web/20190506054715/https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CxjiDOyUQAAgTQP.jpg removable]]). [[BarbieDollAnatomy They're featureless]].
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: She has absolute devotion to Rika and will follow her commands despite her personal feelings. In "Message in the Packet" Rika says that she wishes that the dynamic were more like [[BigBrotherMentor Big Sister Mentor]].
* MysticalWhiteHair: Sakuyamon's hair is of a silvery-white variant.
* OlderSidekick: After Rika [[DefrostingIceQueen melts out]] of her Ice Queen persona (pun intended), Renamon's relationship with her mostly follows a "big sister/little sister" dynamic, with Renamon as the big sister. Reinforced in the CD Drama ''Message In The Packet'', where Rika explicitly calls Renamon a big sister several times.
* OurDemonsAreDifferent: Taomon is an onmyōji kitsune.
* PsychicLink: She somehow has a "connection" with Impmon that functions as a minor version of this - mainly in that she often seems to know where to find him when he's causing trouble or when he's in danger. She also was the first one to realize that Beelzemon was the evolved form of Impmon.
** In Takato's dream sequence, Renamon somehow sensed a forming Guilmon watching her.
* PurpleProse: Sakuyamon's defense spells in the dub. And her entire dialogue in other dubs.
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: She's conspicuously absent from the Digimon Tamers 2018 CD Drama, and according to Terriermon she's been missing for some time.]]
* ReligiousBruiser: Taomon, what do you think ''Tao'' stands for? Also Sakuyamon, who is basically a {{Miko}}.
* RoofHopping: Her preferred method of transport in urban areas.
* ShesAManInJapan:
** In the German dub, Renamon, Kyubimon and Taomon are voiced by a man, Olaf Reichmann. Despite this, Renamon is still referred to as beautiful and feminine.
** Interestingly, she's actually explicitly portrayed as gender-ambiguous or androgynous in the Japanese version, using a (technically) gender-neutral pronoun and being confirmed by WordOfGod to have been written as androgynous. This gets referenced when Ruki's family initially assumes she's female. She tells them that all Digimon are technically genderless - this conversation is retained in the english dub.
* ShesGotLegs: Well, thighs at least. Thick ones.
* ShipTease: With Impmon -- somewhat in the original, but more heavily in the American dub. The American dub also adds a bit with Guilmon.
* SilkHidingSteel: One of the most mature tame Digimon in the series, fiercely loyal to her tamer and a major in graceful feminine badassery.
* SittingOnTheRoof: Frequently does this during her downtime.
* TheSpock: Renamon is the most rational Digimon of the team.
* StealthHiBye: She can easily appear or disappear as Rika needs her, despite being six feet tall and bright yellow.
* TheStoic: Not entirely, but definitely has a few traits and does give the impression.
* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: Despite her eventually learning the value of teamwork, there are several occasions where Renamon is shown to believe a fight is best left fought by only one individual. Renamon refused help from Guilmon and Terriermon when she fought Allomon. When Guilmon was fighting Devidramon, she informed Rika she wouldn't interfere. When Impmon chose to fight Indramon and rejected any notion of receiving help, Renamon respected his wish, to the point she only saved him when he was literally about to ''die''.
* UndyingLoyalty: Even after Rika [[TenMinuteRetirement quit being a tamer]] and proclaimed that she hated digimon, Renamon still kept watch over her and lept to her defense the moment Rika was in danger.
* VillainousCrush: Vajramon has one on her after battling her. She reacts as well as you'd expect.
* WalkOnWater: Her TransformationSequence to Sakuyamon shows her standing over a pond or lake.
* WeCanRuleTogether: Is offered to join the Devas. She naturally declines, but not before stringing them along to get as much information on their goals as possible.
* WorthyOpponent: Renamon had decimated all Digimon she encountered in the beginning, even some Adult-levels. However, she was unable to defeat Guilmon upon the first meeting, much to her confusion.
* YellowPurpleContrast: Renamon has yellow fur with purple gloves and purple marks. As Sakuyamon she wears yellow and purple armor.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Leomon]]
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-->''"Fighting isn't everything, you have your own destiny."''

Jeri's partner, who's exactly like [[Characters/DigimonAdventure his original series counterpart]].

His digivolutions are as follows:
** '''Rookie''': Elecmon, a long-eared, multi-tailed red mammal with electric powers. Only seen in the D-Power tie-in V-Pet.
** '''Champion''': Leomon, his default form.
** '''Ultimate''': [=GrapLeomon=], a cyborg Leomon with turbines in his limbs. Only seen in the D-Power tie-in V-Pet.
** '''Mega''': [=SaberLeomon=], a large quadrupedal lion with saber teeth. Only seen in the D-Power tie-in V-Pet.

->Voiced by: Creator/HiroakiHirata (JP), Creator/PaulStPeter (EN), Creator/EugenioBarona (Spain), Manuel Campuzano (Latin America)
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* AlwaysWithYou: [[spoiler:Even in death, he is still able to help Jeri find strength against the D-Reaper.]]
* BackupFromOtherworld: [[spoiler: Despite Beelzemon's best efforts, he can't break through the D-Reaper's final barrier until he draws on Leomon's data, using Fist of the Beast King to save Leomon's former Tamer.]]
* TheBigGuy: He even outclasses ''Renamon'' at one point.
* CoolSword: He wields a blade in battle.
* DeadSidekick: Close to the final arc of the series, [[spoiler:he is killed by Beelzemon]].
* DubInducedPlothole: The dub fumbles his [[spoiler:last words a bit - they were changed in his death scene and according flashbacks, but instances of Jeri quoting them herself later acted as though they weren't modified.]]
* TheFatalist: Deconstructed; [[spoiler:before his death, he says that he believes that everyone has a destiny. His dying words about this are meant to comfort Jeri, but due to past trauma, [[HeroicBSOD only succeed in breaking her more.]] However, it's eventually [[DeconReconSwitch reconstructed]] when Jeri realizes what he truly meant.]]
* FluffyTamer: Jeri's got this dynamic with him.
%%* GentleGiant
* HiddenDepths: Leomon has fought all his life. Against [[spoiler:Beelzemon]], he claims power isn't everything and takes a moment to nod at Jeri.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: The dynamic with Jeri.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: This essentially kickstarted the RunningGag of Leomon and his subspecies being killed off]]. This series as a whole was the first to harshly avert the normal Digimon usage of the DeathIsCheap trope. [[spoiler: Leomon's death is treated completely seriously, with the exploration of the consequences being a major plot driver thereafter, and is very permanent as a result.]]
* KingOfBeasts: Being based on a lion.
* TheLostLenore: To the entire main cast [[spoiler: after he is very suddenly killed off. His partner, Jeri, obviously is dealt with the brunt of the resulting grief, but the memory of Leomon lingers heavily for the rest of the series, including for his killer, Beelzemon who comes to deeply regret what happened]].
* MegaNeko: He's a big feline Digimon.
* MrExposition: During the Digital World arc, being the digimon next to Renamon most familiar with how to navigate the digital world.
* OlderSidekick: He's basically the closest thing to an adult chaperone the children have during the digital world arc.
* PantheraAwesome: He's a powerful, anthropomorphic lion.
* PapaWolf: "Do what you must, [[spoiler:Beelzemon]], but I will not let you harm these children!" [[spoiler:Being harmed himself, on the other hand...]]
%%* ProudWarriorRaceGuy
* SacrificialLion: The director's notes reveal he was chosen for this role because of season one Leomon's sacrifice. [[spoiler:His death is, unfortuantely, what really kickstarted the franchise-wide RunningGag of literal {{Sacrificial Lion}}s.]]
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Leomon is [[spoiler: only around for 13 episodes, but his death yeilds consequences that affect the remainder of the Tamers story]].
* SpiritAdvisor: [[spoiler:His spirit shows up in Jeri's digivice to cheer her up in the climax]].
* TheStoic: He's generally calm and composed, both in action and speech.
** NotSoStoic: He comes to agree with Rika's assessment of Kenta and Kazu being annoying idiots.
* WalkingSpoiler: His story is a relatively short part of the overall show but it's also the lynch pin for the events leading to the climax.
* WarriorTherapist: His fight with [[spoiler:Beelzemon]] and pleas for him to stop is this trope.
--> '''Leomon''': To have power is not to be strong.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: His reaction of Takato picking a fight with him at episode 21.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Guardromon]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Guardromon_6254.gif]]

Kazu's partner. A slightly small but sturdy mechanical Digimon who doesn't say much. He first appears as Andromon, but is reduced to his Champion level after a beating from an ultimate named Orichimon shortly before partnering up with Kazu and...stays that way for the rest of the show.

His digivolutions are as follows:
** '''In-Training''': Kapurimon ''(Caprimon)'', a fox-like blob with metal casing on his top half.
** '''Rookie''': Kokuwamon, a robotic childlike stag beetle. Only seen in the D-Power tie-in V-Pet.
** '''Champion''': Guardromon, his default form
** '''Ultimate''': Andromon, a tall android with bits of casing exposed.
** '''Mega''': [=HiAndromon=], a finished and upgraded Andromon. Only seen in the D-Power tie-in V-Pet.

->Voiced by: Creator/KiyoyukiYanada (JP), Creator/RichardCansino (EN), Creator/JoseMariaCarrero (Spain), Carlos Sosa (Latin America)
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* AdaptationalBadass: In the manga adaptation, he's the one to take down Orochimon, ''blasting himself through Orochi's head''.
* AscendedExtra: In previous incarnations, Andromon was just a supporting {{Mon}} and Guardromon were just robotic {{Mook}}s.
* DarkIsNotEvil: No, Andromon, the cyborg with mechanical parts resembling a skeleton and flesh parts resembling rotting flesh, and Guardromon, a Virus attribute Digimon, are not evil.
* HeroicWannabe: He desperately wants to protect the weak and fight injustice, but his clumsiness and scatterbrained nature usually end up ruining any attempts to live up to that image. He eventually does grow to fill a solid supporting role for the rest of the team.
* KnightInShiningArmor: He wants to be this, but tends to screw up more often than not.
* LiteralMinded: PlayedForLaughs. He lets Suzie run off to help Henry because Kazu told him to watch her, but didn't say anything about ''stopping'' her.
-->'''Guardromon''': But I did watch her. I watched her fly.
* OnlySaneMan: More reasonable than his partner. In the time Kenta, Kazu, [=MarineAngemon=] and he are together, he fits this role in their group dynamic.
%%* PluckyComicRelief
* PurpleProse: Does this aloud in some dubs.
%%* RobotBuddy
[[/folder]]

[[folder:[=MarineAngemon=]]]
''"Kahuna Waves, puu~"''

[[quoteright:326:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/MarineAngemon_8638.gif]]

Kenta's partner. A small pixie-like Digimon that swims in water and packs a big punch, although he prefers to deal with things without violence. Talks even less than Guardramon, only saying Puu.

His digivolutions are as follows:
** '''Rookie''': Penguinmon, a slap-happy blue penguin. Only seen in the D-Power tie-in V-Pet.
** '''Champion''': Dolphmon, a dolphin Digimon. Only seen in the D-Power tie-in V-Pet.
** '''Ultimate''': Whamon, a huge eyeless whale. Only seen in the D-Power tie-in V-Pet.
** '''Mega''': [=MarineAngemon=], his default form.

->Voiced by: Ai Iwamura (JP), Creator/WendeeLee (EN, series), Creator/MonaMarshall (EN, movie), Amalia Cantarero (Spain)
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* AccessoryWearingCartoonAnimal: He wears a Holy Ring.
* BadassAdorable: An cute little pink pixie who speaks in broken sentences...and pulls out BigDamnHeroes moments against an EldritchAbomination like they're going out of fashion.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: [=MarineAngemon=]'s Kahuna Wave summons tiny little bubbles, which are enough to send the D-Reaper's agents running, and can be used as transport and protection inside the D-Reaper's zone.
** [=MarineAngemon=] himself is this to Kenta, who's initially upset to learn his partner is something so small and cute despite all his friends having more imposing and powerful partners... ...until he learns that [=MarineAngemon=] is a ''Mega'' in his default form.
* InNameOnly: [[AllThereInTheManual Supporting material]] confirms the obvious: that he has absolutely nothing to do with the proper [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Angemon family]] aside from name.
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Kenta can understand him better than anyone else.
* LoveBubbles: Used for recovery and offense.
%%* LightIsGood
* TheMedic: Specializes in healing with his Kahuna Waves move, though it can also be used as a normal attack.
* NonIndicativeName: Despite the structure of his name, he's ''not'' [=MarineDevimon=]'s GoodCounterpart. [=MarineAngemon=]'s name refers to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_angel Sea Angels]], a species of deep sea sea slugs.
* PintsizedPowerhouse: A Mega with the size and appearance of an In-Training.
* ThePowerOfLove: His "attacks" are this in bubble form. [[HeartIsAnAwesomePower They're enough to repel]] [[EvilCannotComprehendGood the D-Reaper's strongest agents.]]
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Kenta was stunned that someone so small and cute was a Mega. Though he's certainly not the only Mega of such stature and design, most of them are quite huge and have complex designs by comparison.
* SpeechImpairedAnimal: He ''can'' talk, but his speech is usually limited to repeating words he hears and cooing noises.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Cyberdramon]]

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Ryo's nearly fully evolved partner who likewise [[AllThereInTheManual comes out of nowhere]]. He resembles one of the demon-type Digimon, but is apparently a cyborg.

His digivolutions are as follows:
** '''Fresh''': Ketomon, only seen in the [=WonderSwan=] games.
** '''In-Training''': Hopmon, a purple, scaly blob
** '''Rookie''': Monodramon, a small, fairly unthreatening dinosaur.
** '''Champion''': Strikedramon, a larger Monodramon with jeans and Cyberdramon's face plate. Only seen in the Wonder Swan games.
** '''Ultimate''': Cyberdramon, his default form.
** '''Mega''': Justimon, a ''Rider''-inspired (specifically, [[Series/KamenRiderV3 Riderman]]) Digimon. Achieved by [[FusionDance Bio-Merging]] with Ryo.

->Voiced by: Ikkei Seta (JP), Creator/LexLang (EN), Creator/JoseMariaCarrero (Spain)
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* AllThereInTheManual: As with Ryo.
%%* AxCrazy
%%* TheBerserker
* BishonenLine: His final form Justimon is very human looking.
* BloodKnight: He constantly seeks out opponents to fight. In the Real World, he and Ryo fought the D-Reaper to settle his blood lust while the Tamers were resting.
* CanonImmigrant: He is the ''forced'' Jogress between [[VideoGame/DigimonAdventureAnodeCathodeTamer Milleniumon]] and a separate Monodramon, which is why he can't stay in Monodramon form for long and why Cyberdramon is seeking a powerful "enemy" (Milleniumon, his Dark God Side).
* CatchPhrase: "Are you my enemy?"
* DemotedToExtra: Like Ryo, his role is significantly reduced in the manga adaptation, and he's absent during the D-Reaper arc.
* {{Expy}}: Of [[Franchise/KamenRider Kamen Riders]] in his Mega form.
%%* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He's a puppy on the inside.
* LightIsNotGood: He's of the light-aligned Vaccine attribute. You wouldn't know that listening to his BloodKnight tendencies.
* LivingEmotionalCrutch: He needs Ryo to keep him from going berserk.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: As Justimon, as part of the ''Franchise/KamenRider'' shoutout.
* SealedBadassInACan: If Ryo allowed Cyberdramon to digivolve to Mega, [=ZeedMillenniumon=] could not only tear the D-Reaper, the Sovereigns, and everyone else a new one, but banish them to an EldritchLocation beyond space and time... And let something infinitely worse than the D-Reaper loose on all universes.
* SealedEvilInACan: Cyberdramon's natural Mega-form, as a result of the Jogress, is [[MultiversalConqueror ZeedMillenniumon]]. Forget the [[TheFourGods Sovereigns]], the Deva and the [[EldritchAbomination D-Reaper]], this thing is infinitely more powerful than all of those.
* SealedGoodInACan: Downplayed; Monodramon, Cyberdramon's rookie form, is the other half of the jogress, and is generally a playful and inquisitive Digimon.
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[[folder:Lopmon]]

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Suzie's partner, and a counterpart to Terriermon (a [[DistaffCounterpart distaff one]] [[ShesAManInJapan in the dub]]). Originally known as Antylamon, the rabbit Deva, she is forced to regress to her Lopmon form when she becomes Suzie's partner.

Her evolutions are as follows:
** '''Fresh''': Conomon, only seen in supplementary materials.
** '''In-Training''': Kokomon ''(Chocmon)'', a chocolate-coloured blob with spikes protruding from her head.
** '''Rookie''': Lopmon, her default form after her HeelFaceTurn.
** '''Champion''': Turuiemon, a larger Lopmon in a gi wielding metal claws on her wrists. Only seen in the D-Power tie-in V-Pet.
** '''Ultimate''': Antylamon ''(Andiramon)'', a tall bipedal rabbit with enormous hands. One of the Deva.
** '''Mega''': Cherubimon, an angelic rabbit-like cherub. Only seen in the D-Power tie-in V-Pet.

->Voiced by: Aoi Tada (JP), Creator/MichelleRuff (EN, series), Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn (EN, movie), Creator/DianaTorres (Spain)
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* AnAxeToGrind: As Antylamon, she can turn her arms into a pair of axes.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: In the Japanese version, Lopmon speaks in an outdated dialect, and thus comes off as very formal. It also made Lopmon's gender impossible to guess, hence why Lopmon ended up female in the dub.
* BadassAdorable: The Level 3 Lopmon can make the jump straight to a Level 5 Andiramon.
* BadlyBatteredBabysitter: Antylamon when she first meets Suzie. Not only does she have to put up with her antics, but she also gets injured by Makuramon when he tries to kidnap Suzie. This sets the tone for later Antylamon interactions with Suzie, while Lopmon is more of a lovingly battered pet.
* CoolBigSis: In the English version, she acts as this to Suzie as Antylamon. As Lopmon, it ceases being Cool ''Big'' Sis.
* CrossdressingVoices: Japanese version only.
* CuteLittleFangs: As Lopmon.
* DefeatMeansFriendship: Joins the heroes' side after her original group got trashed.
* HeelFaceTurn: Was originally a Deva.
* LastOfHisKind: Lopmon is the only surviving Deva by series end.
* RedemptionEqualsLife: She is the only Deva to do a HeelFaceTurn, and becomes the only one to survive the events of the series.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Antylamon has a small purple one.
* ShesAManInJapan: A rare ambiguous case of this. Lopmon/Antylamon uses a gender-neutral dialect in Japanese and has a female voice actor, forcing the localization team to take a guess at what her gender was. Later on Xiaochun tries to encourage Lopmon to use the pronoun 'boku', which while very occasionally [[{{Bokukko}} is used by girls]], is more often used by boys, indicating Lopmon is most likely percieved as a boy in Japanese. However, further confusing things, [[WordOfGod Konaka]] refers to Lopmon as 'she/her' in his personal english translation of his notes on the show, although whether or not that's because he's respecting the way the english audience percieves Lopmon is unknown. It could be said that the fact Renamon explicitly states that in this season Digimon 'aren't divided by gender' works in their favor.
* TookALevelInBadass: As [[Anime/DigimonFrontier the next season]] and [[Anime/DigimonTheMovie Hurricane Landing]] show, Lopmon has an ''EPIC'' one available in the form of Cherubimon ([[OlympusMons one of the]] [[CelestialParagonsAndArchangels Celestial Digimon]]). In a more Tamers-relevant example, regaining the ability to Digivolve after Zhuqiaomon rescinded that power, when she became Suzie's partner, constitutes another such level.
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[[folder:Impmon]]

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Impmon is a trouble making Digimon who spends most of his time picking on humans. He harasses the Tamers and their Digimon because of his dislike towards humans, saying that no "self-respecting Digimon" would ever ally themselves to humans, but secretly envies their ability to digivolve. After a beating from a Deva in an attempt to prove himself, being humiliated and having his ego crushed, Impmon readily accepts a deal with Caturamon. Impmon would gain the ability to digivolve, but, in return, Impmon would have to kill the Tamers and their Digimon. As Beelzemon, he became obsessed with power and murdered Leomon before being stopped. Afterwards, he becomes TheAtoner and puts his efforts to making it up to the Tamers.

His digivolutions are as follows:
** '''Fresh''': Keemon, only seen in supplementary materials.
** '''In-Training''': Yaamon, a mischievous-looking blob.
** '''Rookie''': Impmon, his default form.
** '''Champion''': Meramon, a humanoid Digimon whose body is fully made of flames. Only seen in the D-Power tie-in V-Pet.
** '''Ultimate''': [=SkullMeramon=], a metallic biker wreathed in blue flames. Only seen in the D-Power tie-in V-Pet.
** '''Mega''': Beelzemon, a menacing humanoid in leather with a long tail. One of the Seven Great Demon Lords, though none of the others have anything to do with ''Tamers''.
*** '''[[SuperMode Blast Mode]]''': Gains an ArmCannon and [[WingedHumanoid wings]], his eye color changes from red to green, and his overall color scheme becomes a few shades lighter.

->Voiced by: Creator/HirokiTakahashi (JP), Creator/DerekStephenPrince (EN), Creator/FranciscoAndresValdivia (Spain), Creator/JesusBarrero (Latin America)
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* AntiHero: He went through multiple trials before truly becoming the hero he was meant to be. His position in the story bounced around, from being a lonely anti-hero and wannabe rival, to a full-on villain, then back to anti-hero, and then finally becoming a heroic [[TheAtoner atoner]].
* ArcWords: In the dub, there's a subtle but noticable repeating of the word 'pathetic' with regards to Impmon. He loves to fling the word around at those he scorns, but being called or thought of as 'pathetic' is practically a BerserkButton for him. [[spoiler: In the end, after he goes on a PowerHigh induced [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide rampage]] and is left feeling guilt-ridden and empty, the only one he's calling pathetic is himself]].
* ArrogantKungFuGuy: Subverted. [[spoiler:Before he became Beelzemon]], a lot of his talk was just a front to cover up his insecurities. It's played straight [[spoiler:after he digivolves]] and PlayedForLaughs after his [[spoiler:HeelFaceTurn]].
* TheAtoner: [[spoiler:Post HeelFaceTurn, it becomes his entire motivation for the last part of the series and jump-started his CharacterDevelopment.]]
* AxCrazy: [[spoiler:As Beelzemon, he is obsessed with the power to the point of turning on his former friends for its sake. It's not until Juri, the one person with the most reason to want him dead, spares his life that he realizes he's gone down the wrong path.]]
* BadassBaritone: As Beelzemon. In both Japanese and English, Impmon's voice is high-pitched and bratty, while Beelzemon's is very deep and intimidating.
* BadassBiker: The first thing he did [[spoiler:as Beelzemon]] was take control of a motorcycle that had, until then, possessed anyone who tried to ride it. [[spoiler:Gallantmon vaporised it during their fight, but it showed up again in the second movie.]]
* BadassAndChildDuo: or rather, a trio with Impmon and the two toddlers Ai and Mako. Not so much when he's in his Impmon form, but it's quite a thing to know that the most important people to a virus-typed, monstrous-looking and heavily-armed punk biker like Beelzemon are the ''youngest children'' ever officially partnered with a digimon.
** Also could be how his eventual relationship with Calumon is percieved. Calumon is not a human child but he's small, cute, and childlike, and certainly quite a sight to see teaming up with the intimidating looking Beelzemon.
* BargainWithHeaven: Makes an arrangement with Zhuqiaomon that grants him the power he coveted. A darker example than most, [[DealWithTheDevil given what the price was.]]
* BeAllMySinsRemembered: After [[spoiler:killing Leomon, breaking Jeri's heart in the process. While the Tamers eventually forgive him and accept him back after his HeelFaceTurn, Impmon himself never quite manages to forgive himself.]]
-->"What I did... is beyond forgiveness. I don't need anyone to tell me that."
* {{Beelzebub}}: His Mega-form Beelzemon was deliberately based off of Beelzebub.
* BeingEvilSucks: [[spoiler:After his defeat in the Digital World, he falls into depression, having come to hate himself for hurting Jeri. Reuniting with his Tamers later gives him the resolve to make amends.]]
* BerserkButton:
** [[spoiler:As Beelzemon]], do NOT [[spoiler:refer to him as Impmon]]. [[spoiler:Post HeelFaceTurn]] he won't hurt anyone over it, but he'll lose his composure and start gesticulating and stamping in indignation.
** Also [[spoiler:post HeelFaceTurn]], he's very clearly angry after the D-Reaper [[spoiler:destroys his cannon, which was a gift from Mako]].
* TheBerserker: [[spoiler: A heroic example. Against the D-Reaper he wasted no effort trying to save Jeri until he was near-fatally struck down.]]
* BeyondRedemption: The Tamers, especially Takato and Guilmon, declare him to be this [[spoiler:once Beelzemon kills Leomon, all of them swearing that what he did was [[ThisIsUnforgivable unforgivable]] and Gallantmon only being stopped from killing him outright by Jeri. He comes to personally view his actions as unforgivable, even as the others eventually forgive him]].
* BigDamnHero: [[spoiler:Swooping in and saving the day when the D-Reaper is about to mop the floor with the other Digimon following his debut as Beelzemon Blast Mode]].
* BilingualBonus: [[AllThereInTheManual Although it's never mentioned in the series itself]], [[spoiler:Beelzemon's guns have a name]]: Berenjena. It means eggplant.[[note]]Whoever created Beelzemon's guns has a thing for non-threatening names it seems. Astamon's Tommy gun has the impressive moniker Oro Salmon, meaning 'gold salmon.'[[/note]]
* BishonenLine: [[spoiler: Beelzemon has a much more humanoid form than Impmon.]]
* BlatantLies: He tells Guilmon he "really hates" Takato's bread as he keeps shoving more into his mouth.
* BloodKnight: [[spoiler:Initially as Beelzemon, he sought out challenges to test his strength and load the data of digimon.]]
* BrooklynRage: In the English dub he has a noticeable Brooklyn accent and uses slang like "Toots" and "Bada Boom", the latter being an used as an attack name. It comes with the Creator/JoePesci impression his voice actor was going for.
* BulletTime: When he fires at the Chrysalimon. The bullets even stay perfectly [[CartridgesInFlight whole]].
* BullyingADragon: Impmon has a really bad habit of antagonizing people bigger and stronger than him. He frequently mocked the protagonist's Digimon, despite all of them being stronger than him even while in rookie form. When he learned that Henry forbade Terriermon from fighting, Impmon tried to take advantage of this by bullying Terriermon, only to be sent flying by a tornado attack. He also harassed Growlmon when the Champion Digimon told him he didn't want to talk to him. This tendency gets taken to its most extreme point when Impmon keeps trying to attack and antagonize the Ultimate level Indramon, despite the Deva being ''so'' out of Impmon's league that he can effortlessly kick Impmon around like a hackysack and nearly kills him.
* CharacterDevelopment: His desire for strength leads him into a [[spoiler:DealWithTheDevil in the Digital World. After killing Leomon he is guilt ridden for hurting Jeri and suffers a depression. Returning to the Real World, he reunites with his Tamers, rediscovers his inner goodness and achieves strength fighting to protect his friends. His arc is complete once Jeri forgives him.]]
* ChildrenRaiseYou: Impmon is an unusual spin on the typical human-monster partner dynamic, one where the monster has a mental age of a teenager or young adult, but his human partners are ''literally toddlers'', and part of his CharacterDevelopment arc involves him learning to be more patient with them. The result is he comes off more as a guardian figure to Ai and Mako, rather than a partner.
* ClothingAppendage: Played with. Generally speaking, if digimon have clothing or weapons, they're technically part of their body and will spontaneously appear/disappear upon evolution/devolution. Impmon's red bandanna, however, is sometimes treated as if it's completely separate from his body, and it's an accessory he has as both Impmon and Beelzemon. At one point, Beelzemon loses the bandanna. When he devolves back into Impmon, he is still missing the bandanna until it's returned to him.
* CrucifiedHeroShot: Oddly enough, [[spoiler:Beelzemon gets one. When he and Culumon enter the D-Reaper Kernel Sphere to save Jeri, the D-Reaper]] ensnares him in its cables and he ends up in crucified position. Symbolic? [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic It's doubtful]].
* CuteLittleFangs: Impmon.
* TheCynic: He's got a very negative view of the world, believing humans are selfish, that digimon only exist to fight and that power is the only value to existing. [[spoiler:Post HeelFaceTurn, this stops being the case, with him returning to his Tamers and leading the charge to save Jeri.]]
* DarkIsEvil: [[spoiler:Switches between this and DarkIsNotEvil before ultimately settling on the latter. Henry's sensei helps cement it.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: In order to digivolve, he agrees to kill the Tamers for the Devas.]]
* DeathByIrony:[[spoiler: Although Impmon himself survives, in the final battle, Beelzemon's form is destroyed by getting ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice by the D-Reaper while trying to save Jeri, the girl whose partner he killed [[KarmicDeath via the very same method]]. This is the last time we see Beelzemon in the show. It's also ironic that she was the one who saved his life which in turn led him on the path to redemption, but he is left unable to save ''her'']].
* DeathSeeker: Has shades of this [[spoiler:after his HeelFaceTurn]]. He may not actually actively ''seek'' death, but after [[spoiler: Jeri spares him]], he doesn't fight back when he gets attacked by a pack of much smaller digimon, and in fact starts screaming for them to take away his powers until he collapses in a devolved state. He also develops a reckless attitude in battle and [[spoiler: he encourages the Tamers to "forget about me and save Jeri", so he certainly doesn't seem to ''care'' if he dies]].
* DefeatEqualsFriendship: Or rather, [[spoiler:being beaten and then spared by the girl whose partner you murdered equals a HeelRealization, atonement, ''and then'' friendship.]]
* DemonLordsAndArchDevils: [[spoiler:Again, Beelzemon, who is named for Beelzebub, one of the Seven Devils.]]
* {{Determinator}}: Hell. Yes. Probably his most consistent defining trait - if he has a goal in mind, he will not give up even if it is truly futile.
** He repeatedly harasses the Tamers and their digimon while spouting his steadfast belief that humans suck and that digimon that are friends with them are no better than pets. This is despite the fact that every time he does he either ends up ignored or ends up getting his butt kicked.
** He refuses to stop trying to fight Indramon once he decides to do so, even though Indramon can kick Impmon around without batting an eye. Even Indramon himself admits such a trait is admirable, if foolish.
** [[spoiler: When he gets DrunkOnTheDarkSide and hunts down the Tamers, his sheer stubbornness and refusal to believe that he can lose causes the fight to escalate until he's fighting toe-to-toe with the best the Tamers can output and it's uncertain who will win until they finally overcome him]].
** [[spoiler: After he comes to his senses, he forces himself to warp digivolve into Beelzemon just from the desire to make amends and help his friends out of a jam]].
** [[spoiler: He soldiers on through [[HowMuchMoreCanHeTake everything the D-Reaper throws at him]] to save Jeri, even after she rejects him, even after he's beaten so badly that he reverts to Impmon, because all he cares about is getting her out of the situation [[ItsAllMyFault he feels was his fault to begin with]]]].
* {{Deuteragonist}}: If Takato, Rika, and Henry, along with their partners are to be taken together as a collective protagonist, Impmon, along with Jeri, are the deuteragonists, with Impmon having very significant character development and plot relevance over the course of the story.
* DontYouDarePityMe: Impmon has a chip on his shoulder, due to having a bad experience with humans in the past. He also wants very much to digivolve and become more powerful, but can't stand anyone feeling bad for him and his shortcomings. Following on from this, he refuses help from the Tamers when facing Indramon, even when he nearly dies in the process.
* DrunkOnTheDarkSide: [[spoiler:When he first becomes Beelzemon and is a bad guy, he gets a ''massive'' PowerHigh to the point his sanity starts degrading, and naturally his ham levels go up as well.]]
* DoubleTap: "How about a DOUBLE IMPACT!" [[spoiler:Beelzemon]]'s main attack, consisting of two rapid-fire blasts with his shotguns.
* EarlyBirdCameo: In the Japanese intro there's a very ominous shadow walking behind Impmon. [[spoiler:The shadow belongs to Beelzemon.]] However, the silhouette can be seen just a few seconds ahead if one pays close attention.
* EasilyForgiven: Zig-Zagged. When Renamon and Rika bring a weakened Impmon into the Ark with them, barely anyone puts up any objection despite the fact he'd come uncomfortably close to murdering them all. However, when Beelzemon meets the team again, they are initially cautious and suspicious of his intentions, until he helps them win a battle against the D-Reaper, only after which he earns their trust. He also goes through ''extreme'' lengths to rescue Jeri only to be rejected by her, but she ultimately forgives him anyway even though she is the person he hurt the most.
* EvilIsHammy: [[spoiler: As Beelzemon before his HeelFaceTurn]], he often would scream his sentences to get his point across.
* EvilOverlooker: He was shown in this fashion in the early promos for the show, except he was underneath the Tamers rather than above.
* ExpressiveEars: They droop slightly if he's sad and point almost straight up when he's surprised, for example.
* {{Expy}}: Impmon's design is very evocative of classic cartoon characters like those made by ''Disney'' or ''Warner Brothers''. He particularly resembles a demonic Mickey Mouse, what with the dark colored body, cream colored face, large distinctive ears (that often display a CheatedAngle), gloves on his hands, and red and yellow being his main accent colors. At first, this is entertainingly fitting given his initial role as a comedic ButtMonkey, and doubly so when it's revealed that he'd once stayed with some very young human children, but he quickly [[DeconstructedTrope becomes an example of what might happen]] if a character is [[FromNobodyToNightmare treated like a joke for too long]]...
* ExtraEyes: [[spoiler: He has three eyes as Beelzemon.]]
* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Every attempt he makes at [[spoiler: saving Jeri is ineffectual. Punching the sphere holding her doesn't work. Shooting it doesn't work. Even him using a new, powered up move does absolutely nothing to free Jeri from her prison. The ''only'' thing he does that brings him close to saving her is summoning Leomon's signature move, which only serves as a horrible reminder that he murdered Leomon, and ultimately is the nail in the coffin for her trusting him long enough to get her out. Impmon is out of commission for the rest of the battle, never succeeding at the thing he most desperately wanted to do]].
* {{Foil}}: His characterization and arc runs roughly parallel to Jeri's. Both of them are lonely individuals, but Jeri desperately seeks connection with others while Impmon desperately tries to pretend he doesn't need it. This gets exemplified in how Jeri crazily chased digimon around hoping to be their partner while Impmon rejected and ran away from his would-be-partners. Both of them go through a period where they believe it's better to be alone, with Impmon deciding to destroy everything around him, and Jeri deciding it would be better if she just disappeared. Jeri ends up sparing his life unexpectedly, while he fails to save hers when she's in danger. Impmon ends up learning how to find strength in his friends, while Jeri learns how to find strength in herself. They both also break the usual digimon human-partner conventions, with Jeri being the only human [[spoiler: to lose their digimon without revival during the series]] and Impmon being the only digimon [[spoiler: with ''two'' partners]].
* FreudianExcuse: He hates humans because his himan partners treated him like an object and abused him. They're only toddlers and and not ''intentionally'' malicious, but it left some clear emotional scars. His yearning for power is also a result of the Digital World being harsh towards weaker digimon who are loaded by the more powerful.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: [[spoiler:This guy started out as just an annoying prankster, but became powerful enough to ''kill one of the heroes'', nearly kill several more, and was able to fight on-par with the main characters against the D-Reaper.]]
* FurAndLoathing: [[spoiler: Beelzemon has a fur jacket ala [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Squall Leonhart]], and he has so much loathing until his HeelFaceTurn.]]
* GetItOverWith: When [[spoiler:defeated by Gallantmon, Beelzemon, after a brief minute of shock at being defeated, screams for him to just finish him off]].
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-->"Well, what are you waiting for? Go on. Do it. ''Do it!!''
* GoodFeelsGood: He rediscovers his inner goodness after reuniting with his Tamers and deciding to fight to protect his friends.
** In the American dub, he lampshades this [[spoiler:after his RedemptionPromotion]]
-->"Havin' someone to fight for feels pretty good; who knew?"
* GoodEyesEvilEyes: His mega form Beelzemon has [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] and his personality is completely AxCrazy. However, [[spoiler: after his HeelFaceTurn, he shortly gains the ability to enter Blast Mode, where his eyes change to green, the same shade as Impmon]].
* GoodWingsEvilWings: [[spoiler:he gains black angelic ones in Blast Mode.]]
* GoshDangitToHeck: Impmon's by far the most foul-mouthed character in the show, and the dub finds numerous, colorful ways to give him the most "family friendly" stand-ins for swearing, even going as far as to give him a G-rated F-bomb in one of his most desperate moments.
* GunsAkimbo: In his digivolved form he wields a [[ShotgunsAreJustBetter pair of mini shotguns]].
* HairTriggerTemper: He has a fiery temper and even sounds like Joe Pesci.
* HarmlessVillain: As Impmon. The worst he does is scare a few humans and throw a couple of insults here and there. As [[spoiler:Beelzemon]]? [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Not so much]]...
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor: He started out as an ineffectual antagonist who got a kick out of annoying and harrassing everyone, but his frequent presence resulted in him slowly being considered almost a friend. However, everything goes south after he suffers such a harsh HumiliationConga that he accepts a deal with Caturamon to be able to digivolve in exchange for killing the Tamers and their Digimon. [[spoiler: When the heroes are on the verge of taking him out in response to his ensuing killing spree, He is spared at the last moment by Jeri, her reasoning being that while she hated him for what he did, she didn't want to see anymore lives be lost. Shaken by this display of compassion and considerably weakened from battle, he wanders off, now guilt-ridden and ashamed of his horrific deeds. Eventually, he reunites with the human children he once had a home with and reconciles with them, and vows to make amends with the Tamers he'd wronged. He becomes a valuable ally in fighting against the D-Reaper alongside the heroes.]]
* HeelRealization: [[spoiler:Having been spared from death by Gallantmon because of Jeri's pleas for the fighting to stop, he realizes all his desires of power have lead to breaking Jeri's heart. He walks away full of guilt and resentment for the power he had obtained.]]
* HellBentForLeather: [[spoiler:Beelzemon]].
* HellishPupils: [[spoiler:As Beelzemon]]. It's more obvious when his pupils are contracted.
* HeroKiller: [[spoiler:He unexpectingly kills Leomon in what is possibly the franchise's biggest WhamEpisode.]]
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: After getting a massive dose of HumblePie from [[spoiler: having his life spared by the person he hurt the most]], Impmon does a HeelFaceTurn and comes to view himself as totally worthless.
* HumansAreBastards: He felt this way for a long time due to his Tamers treating him like a possession. [[spoiler:It isn't until Jeri convinces Gallantmon to spare him that he changes his belief.]]
* HumiliationConga: His entire "[[CurbStompBattle battle]]" with Indramon could be seen as this. It was also the catalyst for his own, minor DespairEventHorizon [[spoiler:and what led to his DealWithTheDevil]].
* IJustWantToBeBadass: Deconstructed. He tries to force himself to be this by taking on [[{{Kaiju}} Indramon]] alone. It...[[CurbStompBattle doesn't]] [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown work]], which makes him cross the DespairEventHorizon. [[spoiler:And ''that'' opens up the way for Catsuramon's manipulations, showing that [[DealWithTheDevil sometimes the lengths people take]] to invoke this aren't always a good thing.]]
* IJustWantToHaveFriends: In a very conflicted manner. He spends a ''lot'' of time telling other digimon how stupid they are for having partners, but he actively seeks them out, tries to coerce them to join in his 'fun' of terrorizing people in the city, and gets very dejected when they ignore him. On one occassion when they invite ''him'' to play, he scoffs at first, but then immediately jumps into their fun and games. It eventually becomes clear that a lot of his issues stem from him having a really bad experience living with two toddlers, and he's actually jealous of the good relationships he sees between digimon and their human partners.
* TheImp: He's not called Impmon for nothing, being a mischievous Virus-type Digimon.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: By the D-Reaper after being unable to rescue Jeri. He isn't killed, but is too wounded to participate in the final battle.]]
* IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: The fight with Beelzemon starts out like this, with the kids and their digimon spending a lot of time trying to reason with him, appealing to the memories they had of Impmon playing with them. [[spoiler: It fails spectacularly and the kids give up on him completely when he kills Leomon. In the end it's showing him mercy when they defeat him that stops him instead]].
* ImprobableAimingSkills: A whole herd of Chrysalimon are killed from just a few shots. Justified in that a Mega level Digimon wouldn't be using normal bullets.
* IneffectualLoner: Impmon tries ''so hard'' to be this. He's extremely disdainful of the idea of digivolving or fighting with assistance, human or otherwise, and loudly criticizes Human-Digimon partnerships. Despite his attitude, Impmon seems to hover around the tamers and their digimon and desires their acknowledgement a little ''too'' much. [[spoiler: After a period going DrunkOnTheDarkSide ends with him feeling worthless, guilt-ridden, and borderline suicidal]], he only finds peace once he reconciles with and fights alongside the other heroes.
* InferioritySuperiorityComplex: Impmon acts like he thinks he knows it all, and that he's the greatest thing to grace the earth. But as a Rookie level digimon who can't digivolve on his own, he's hardly more than a nuisance that everyone quickly learns to ignore, and Impmon does ''not'' take the realization of his reality very well. His desperation to become powerful eventually leads him to make a DealWithTheDevil, with horrific consequences that he later regrets.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: Whether it was because he [[DidntThinkThisThrough didn't think it through]], or just did it upon reflex as a last resort, Beelzemon very quickly realizes that using [[spoiler: Leomon's Fist Of the Beast King to save Jeri, when he was the one who ''killed Leomon'']], was probably the worst thing he could have done in that moment.
* {{Irony}}: Part of what makes Impmon turn on the heroes is a belief that everyone hates or ignores him because he's a weakling, but he doesn't realize that the kids spent ''days'' looking for him out of worry, after he got badly beaten by Indramon.
** Impmon was the most vocally against human-digimon partnerships for a large part of the story. He ends the series [[spoiler: with ''two'' human partners]].
** Impmon starts out the series intentionally harrassing humans for shits and giggles. After his FaceHeelTurn, he makes an effort to be civil and polite, yet humans on the street are nonetheless frightened by the sight of a strange furry purple imp like him and he seems very disgruntled by this.
* ItsAllMyFault: [[spoiler:Impmon was left deeply guilt-ridden for killing Leomon, and does everything in his power to save Jeri from the D-Reaper, recognizing that Jeri might never have been captured if his actions hadn't left her depressed and alone. The D-Reaper took advantage of his guilt and openly mocked Beelzemon, but this didn't stop him from trying to rescue Jeri since by this point he had accepted that what he did was unforgivable, and all he cared about anymore was keeping her from being harmed further.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Most obvious after [[spoiler:his HeelFaceTurn]], but it's still there even before [[spoiler:his FaceHeelTurn]].
* KickTheDog: Quite literally when he proceeds to [[spoiler:[[KickThemWhileTheyAreDown beat on an already-wounded Kyubimon]]]].
* KnightOfCerebus: [[spoiler:Even though the series wasn't exactly [[DarkerAndEdgier cheerful and light-hearted]] before, [[FromBadToWorse Beelzemon coming along]] is the rude awakening that ''Tamers'' does ''not'' play by the same rules as ''Digimon Adventure'']].
* LaughingMad: After defeating [[spoiler:Megidramon]], Kazu even comments he's a sore winner.
* LightningBruiser: [[spoiler:As Beelzemon and while riding his motorcycle]].
* LoveRedeems: In a sense. [[spoiler: Jeri showing him mercy even after he's ''killed her partner'' eventually puts him on the path to redemption, giving him the desire to do everything in his power to make up for what he did. It also drives him to reconcile with the two toddler children he stayed with in the past, and their love for him ends up giving him a NextTierPowerUp to help the other heroes]].
* MeaningfulName: Impmon is pretty much ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: a little imp. [[spoiler: Beelzemon is named after Beelzebub, aka the Lord of the Flies and another moniker for the Devil. Beelzemon’s actions in the digital world are among the most brutally horrific of any digimon villian. ‘Lord of the Flies’ is also an allegory for a person’s descent into savagery, which is ''exactly'' what happens to Impmon. He eventually subverts this though, with Beelzemon becoming TheAtoner]].
* MoreDakka: [[spoiler:Beelzemon Blast Mode]] upgrades from akimbo double-barrelled pistols to a huge ArmCannon (though he keeps his previous weapons as backups). Even moreso when said arm cannon started out as a harmless toy ray gun.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler: He snaps out of being DrunkOnTheDarkSide when Jeri shows him mercy despite him killing Leomon. He's left feeling disgusted with himself, wanting absolutely nothing to do with the power he's obtained, and viewing his actions as 'beyond forgiveness'.]]
* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: [[spoiler:Beelzemon]]. Not to mention the original Japanese name for his [[spoiler:Blast Mode arm cannon]]: ''"Death Slinger"''. In the American dub, [[{{Bowdlerise}} Bowdlerised]] into "Corona Blaster". Though, once one remembers that a Corona is the only part of the sun visible during a solar eclipse, the name becomes awesome again.
* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: Beelzebumon tends to sneak in new abilities as needed to get himself out of tight corners, like being able to stretch his arms to get hold of Makuramon and afterwards using techniques of digimon whose data he's loaded (which ostensibly any Digimon can do but only Beelzebumon actually does).
* NeverLearnedToRead: Apparently not, as he spends part of an episode trying to get someone to read a note for him.
* TheNicknamer: In the American dub, at least. He called Renamon "Foxy", "Fox Face", or "Toots", depending on his mood, used "Pineapple Head" for Guilmon, "Helicopter Head" for Terriermon, and "Cream Puff" for Calumon. These became almost like TermsOfEndangerment when he [[spoiler:first became Beelzemon]]; "Pineapple Head" doesn't sound nearly as silly and innocent when it's said with a gun in your face.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In the English dub, [[Creator/DerekStephenPrince his voice actor]] is clearly emulating Creator/JoePesci, with [[HairTriggerTemper everything]] [[BrooklynRage that implies]].
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: After his DespairEventHorizon and his [[spoiler:deal with Caturamon. After evolving into Beelzemon, he kills Leomon and actually defeats Megidramon.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: In the camping episode he shows up to taunt the Tamers and their Digimon. When they invite him to play with them in the river he, taken aback, refuses stating that he'd never lower himself to play with them nicely... then he gets splashed...
* OhCrap: For a moment he's clearly relieved and thrilled when [[spoiler: he busts through the D-Reaper's last line of defense and is in arm's reach of Jeri. Then he's confused and frustrated when she's just standing there like a statue instead of taking his aid. But when she whimpers that he's not Leomon, the look in his eye and tone of his voice is pure shock and horror, realizing that all he's done is traumatize her more.]]
* OddFriendship: he has a semi-antagonistic, semi-friendly 'connection' with Renamon throughout the series. He also picks on Calumon like a playground bully or an older sibling, which eventually turns into something much friendlier when they actively team up to [[spoiler: save Jeri from the D-Reaper]].
* PetTheDog: In the Digital World, he actually encounters Calumon before the Tamers do, but after considering him for a moment decides to just let him go. [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation Whether it was genuine kindness or just not thinking Calumon was worth killing is up for debate]].
* PlayingWithFire: As Impmon, he can summon and throw balls of flame.
* PowerCopying: Of the Digimon whose data he's loaded. He used [[spoiler:Makuramon's Primal Orb attack to steal Rapidmon and Taomon's data, and later the "Fist of the Beast King" in an attempt to rescue Jeri.]]
* PowerHigh: After [[spoiler:becoming Beelzemon, he is obsessed with loading data of other digimon in order to prove just how strong he is]].
* PsychicLink: Has an unusual "bond" with Renamon that acts as a minor version of this.
* ThePrankster: Impmon's favorite hobby is messing with humans and the digimon partnered with humans.
* PsychoForHire: [[spoiler:[[ManipulativeBastard Caturamon]]]] turns him into this.
* PsychoticSmirk: [[spoiler:As a villain, Beelzemon has two facial expressions--scowling and crazy grinning.]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Not quite for Impmon, but trying to redeem himself to Jeri before being struck down by the D-Reaper is the last time we ever see Beelzemon.]]
* RedemptionPromotion: After reconciling with Ai and Mako, he unlocks [[spoiler:Blast Mode]]. Particularly significant since at the time this occurs, they aren't even officially partnered with him yet; that's just how strongly they care about each other.
* RegretfulTraitor:[[spoiler: Despite a rocky start, Impmon had actually slowly begun to get along with the heroes. But after being the recieving end of a HumiliationConga, Impmon ends up making a DealWithTheDevil in exchange for power. He goes on a murderous rampage, only to be stopped when Jeri shows him mercy, even though he'd ''killed her partner''. He ends up deeply regretting everything he did to harm the children and their digimon, with Jeri's distraught, heartbroken face haunting him for the rest of the season]].
* RedEyesTakeWarning: [[spoiler:As Beelzemon. His eyes turn green when he's in Blast Mode, symbolizing his CharacterDevelopment and change of heart]].
* RoaringRampageOfRescue: [[spoiler: Guilt-ridden over killing Leomon, he becomes determined to save Jeri at any cost from the D-Reaper, using a combination of rage, desperation, and sheer force of will to break through enemy defenses and reach her. The actual result however ends up becoming a conflicted, but UnwantedRescue.]]
* SanitySlippage: [[spoiler: After becoming Beelzemon, his ability to be reasonable starts to [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity rapidly degrade as he revels in the power that has been given to him]]. It eventually goes to his head so badly that he starts to believe he can ''defeat the Sovereign Digimon'', even though the Sovereign are far and away among the most powerful digimon, and it was literally a Sovereign who bestowed him his power in the first place]].
* SatelliteCharacter: Subverted. Impmon is a rare example in a Mon series where he, the monster, is ''the'' primary character who a narrative revolves around, rather than the humans he's partnered with. Justified in that his humans are children no older than four.
* ScarfOfAsskicking: Averted. He has a red scarf but he is not a fighter. [[spoiler: When he finally evolves and TookALevelInBadass, it's tied around his arm.]]
* ShipTease: Mildly with Renamon, moreso in the dub but still present in the original. He pretty much starts hitting on her the moment he meets her.
-->'''Impmon:''' Aw, ain't that sweet? A Digi-babe pining in the moonlight.
* SocialDarwinist: Following the policy of the digital world that only the strongest can survive, and that power represents strength over weaker Digimon.
* TheStarscream: [[spoiler:At the height of his PowerHigh, he claimed he'd load the data of the Soverign, the very digimon that had given him his ability to digivolve. What's more, when Gallantmon destroyed Caturamon, the digimon he hand made his deal with, he gladly absorbed his data without hesitation]].
* TantrumThrowing: Impmon pretty easily breaks into petty tantrums when things aren't going his way. He also quickly resorts to producing and flinging his little Bada Boom fireballs at anyone in the vicinity.
* TakeMyHand: Fails this with Jeri after he uses [[spoiler:one of Leomon's attacks to break the D-Reaper's core]]. Seeing [[spoiler: Leomon's image replaced by the one of the person who killed him]] had to have been a huge shock for her. In the manga version of that scene, Jeri ''attempts'' to take his hand, but he is cut down before she can.
* TerrifyingRescuer: [[spoiler: His attempt to rescue Jeri fails in part due to the fact the last she saw him, he was literally trying to murder her and her friends. Even if he ''hadn't'' gone on a killing spree though, Beelzemon's demonic appearance means he's not exactly the sort of fellow you'd immediately trust to have good intentions]].
* ThatManIsDead: [[spoiler:Says this about Impmon after his FaceHeelTurn. In the original Japanese, he flat-out says "The owner of that name is dead!"]]
* TooManyBelts: [[spoiler:Beelzemon wears two on his waist]].
* TookALevelInBadass: When he [[spoiler:becomes Beelzemon]].
* TookALevelInKindness: [[spoiler: He becomes a ''lot'' nicer after his HeelFaceTurn, exemplified in the way he interacts with his Tamers and Calumon, and the way he helps the other kids and fights desperately to get Jeri to safety in the D-Reaper arc.]]
* TragicVillain: His desire to digivolve pushed him into becoming [[spoiler:Beelzemon and killing Leomon.]] He later becomes a [[spoiler:TragicHero when he is struck down by the D-Reaper after failing to save Jeri.]]
* TryingNotToCry: When his kids apologize for their previous mistreatment of him, he turns away and can't look them in the eye as tears begin to stream down his face.
* {{Tsundere}}: Has traces of this, especially before he's properly friends with the heroes. [[BlatantLies He didn't mean to tell Takato about Sandiramon, he was just making fun of him! And he definitely didn't want to go swimming with the other Digimon..]]. Even afterwards he has trouble accepting any sort of goodwill without making some kind of wisecrack.
* VerbalTic: In the dub, Impmon often ends his sentences with 'ba-boom' or 'bada-boom'. The latter is also his main attack name, but he uses the phrase outside of combat.
** As [[spoiler:Beelzemon]], he has a habit of repeating the last part of some of his sentences for emphasis.
-->''"No... to have power IS to be strong! I'll keep loading data until no one can stop me! No one! NO ONE!''
* VillainousBSOD: [[spoiler:After being spared by the Tamers, he wanders the Digital World in a daze, horrified and disgusted by everything he'd done, eventually letting a group of significantly weaker digimon pile on him and attack him until he's forced back into his Impmon form, after which he lies in a crumpled heap. He doesn't break out of it until he's brought back to the real world by Rika and Renamon and reunited with his own Tamers.]]
* VillainousGlutton: Initially [[spoiler:as Beelzemon]], he becomes obsessed with loading as much data as possible to become stronger. His associated [[SevenDeadlySins sin]] [[spoiler:as a Demon Lord is]], appropriately, gluttony.
** You could argue that [[spoiler: after his HeelFaceTurn back into heroism]], he becomes a ''glutton for punishment'', growing borderline suicidal in his self-loathing and desire to make amends.
* VillainousHarlequin: He's a laughable prankster character whose design is basically a devilish imp with ears that have been bent into the shape of a court jester hat. Subverted once he digivolves where he's no longer laughable so much as Actually Quite Terrifying, and his design is themed around being an edgy bike gangster.
* WalkingSpoiler: Just mentioning [[spoiler:his evolution into Beelzemon]] gives away a good chunk of his [[CharacterDevelopment character arc]].
* WhosLaughingNow: {{Deconstructed}}. [[spoiler:After becoming Beezlemon, this is essentially his driving force...and he becomes completely and utterly [[DrunkOnTheDarkSide drunk on it]] to the point of ultimately thinking he could kill a ''Sovereign''...and as a result loses all sense of morality and commits heinous atrocities that, once he has the power high beaten out of him and is only spared by one of his victims, he now has to live with the consequences of. Even when he becomes a hero, the actions he performed while on his power high continue to haunt him.]]
* WingPull: [[spoiler: Blast Mode]]. [[spoiler: Note the Ascended Demon imagery]].
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: [[spoiler:The instant evolution FromNobodyToNightmare leaves him with more power than he's ever had in his life, and more power than anyone ''else'' he knows has ever had in their lives. [[HeroKiller He]] [[CerebusSyndrome handles]] [[FaceHeelTurn this]] [[TheStarscream responsibly.]]]]
* WorldsStrongestMan: [[spoiler:Upon defeating Megidramon, he claimed he'd become the most powerful Digimon, even aiming to load the Sovereign.]]
[[/folder]]

!!Supporting cast

[[folder:Calumon (''Culumon'')]]
[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Calumon_4649.gif]]

''"Hello hello hello hello hellooo!!"''

A goofy little critter who befriends Guilmon and turns out to be the most important Digimon of all. Him/her (opinions vary) getting captured/lost sets off the Digital World portion of the series.

->Voiced by: Creator/TomokoKaneda (JP), Creator/BrianneSiddall (EN), Creator/BlancaRada (Spain), Marisol Castro (Latin America)
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* AmbiguousGender: Even though Digimon themselves aren't divided by genders, [[spoiler:and Culumon's not even a Digimon to begin with]]. In the dub, he's referred to by he/him pronouns.
* BadassAndChildDuo: Calumon isn't a literal child but he's sure child-like, and this is absolutely the vibe given off when he teams up with [[spoiler: Beelzemon]], to [[spoiler: save Jeri from the D-Reaper]].
* CarbuncleCreature: Calumon is a small CartoonCreature with a red gem embedded in its forehead, and design notes indicate that its name is a slightly mangled derivative of "carbuncle".
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Subverted; though it's definitely true, it's implied he knows how to invoke this when he wants to cheer someone up.
* {{Determinator}}: [[spoiler:While trapped inside the D-Reaper kernel with her,]] he does everything he can so that Jeri won't succumb to her depression.
* DeusExMachina: On more than a few occasions his ability to forcibly digivolve others is what saves the day. [[spoiler:Takato starts invoking this after a while, looking to see if Culumon is around before attempting to evolve Guilmon.]]
* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: "Kurukuru" means "spinning."
* ExpressiveEars: They grow and shrink depending on his mood.
* FacialMarkings: The red triangle on his forehead is in fact [[spoiler:the catalyst of Digivolution]].
* TheHeart: Calumon is ''definitely'' this to the ''Tamers'' cast--some good examples of this include him helping Rika when a rift forms between her and Renamon and him talking sense into Jeri when she [[spoiler:starts contemplating suicide in the D-Reaper kernel]].
* ImHavingSoulPains: When [=WarGrowlmon=] Dark Digivolved to Megidramon.
* IncorruptiblePurePureness: Especially visible through his interactions with Jeri in the final stretch of the series.
* {{Keet}}: He's cute, excitable, and playful, constantly running around in search of something fun to do.
%%* NaiveNewcomer
* ObfuscatingStupidity: He's a lot more perceptive than he lets on.
* OppositesAttract: His treatment of Rika counts, though she initially seems unsure how to react to someone so innocent and sweet. His bond with Impmon also counts.
%%* PuppyDogEyes
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Likely the cutest one in the franchise... before [[Anime/DigimonFusion Cutemon]].
* SentientPhlebotinum: It is eventually revealed that he is [[spoiler:the living embodiment of the Light of Digivolution, who was transformed into a digimon and given sentience by the [=DigiGnomes=] as a precaution against the D-Reaper.]]
* TalkingDownTheSuicidal: [[spoiler:Does this for Jeri, when she finally breaks in the D-Reaper's clutches. His unconditional love and support is ultimately what saves her]].
%%* TaremeEyes
%%* ThirdPersonPerson
* VerbalTic: "-culu"
* VerbalTicName: [[WordOfGod Chiaki Konaka's notes]] suggest that Culumon, not being a real Digimon at first, gave itself its name and adopted a VerbalTic from it.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Gives this speech to Jeri when she officially reaches the DespairEventHorizon.
-->'''Calumon:''' (''pulls Jeri's puppet out of her hand while she's making it bite her throat'') NOOOO! Don't listen to that rag! Don't you know how lucky you are? Everybody loves to see you smiling, Jeri! Takato, Guilmon, and especially me!
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Janyu "Tao" Wong ''(Li "Tao" Zhènyǔ)'']]

[[quoteright:148:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/janyu_4562.jpg]]

Henry and Suzie's father, and one of the Monster Makers, a 1980s group of programmers who created the Digimon. Helps get together the rest of the creators to help the kids save the world.

->Voiced by: Yoshiyuki Kaneko (JP), Creator/JamiesonPrice (EN), Jorge Teixera (Spain, first apparitions), Creator/FranciscoAndresValdivia (Spain, rest of the series), Luis Tenorio (Latin America)
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* AdaptationalJerkass: A slight variant--in the Japanese version, [[spoiler:Janyu's confession at the end that he's the reason the Digimon have to be separated from the kids is followed by him tearfully telling his son that he understands if he hates him for it and believes he doesn't deserve his forgiveness, which Henry silently refutes, making it very clear that he ''does'' forgive him]]. In the dub, [[spoiler:it's changed so it sounds more like Janyu's desperately trying to rationalize his actions and offer a lukewarm comfort in the form of just saying "everything will get better someday", which makes Henry's response look more like a case of ThisIsUnforgivable]].
* AFriendInNeed: Janyu once went to great lengths to help a friend that hit rock bottom, which his wife Mayumi relays to their son Henry to showcase how they can be similar.n
* {{Expy}}: Bears a slight resemblance to Yasuo Iwakura, father of the eponymous protagonist in ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain'' (which, incidentally, was also directed by Creator/ChiakiKonaka).
%%* GoodParents
* IKnowKarate: He demonstrates how it's really done (not the showy stuff) on two police officers, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7Ve1lV1bk8&feature=player_detailpage#t=476s by knocking them down in a few seconds!]] For reference, the martial arts demonstrated is a variant of Tai Chi, which is rather popular in some areas of China.
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Has this reaction when he realizes his messing around with artificial life as a college kid might have just doomed humanity in general and his kids in particular.
** Has yet another moment of this during the finale, when they're about to execute the final stage of their plan to defeat the D-Reaper, because he knows [[spoiler: the result will separate the children from their beloved digimon partners, and how much that will devestate them]].
* OddFriendship: With Yamaki.
* PoorCommunicationKills: Janyu's propensity to hide information from his family comes back to bite him in the ass more than once.
** He never told them about his involvement in creating digimon in the first place, which to some degree might have saved Henry some grief when Terriermon first came into being.
** He blatantly lies to Henry at first when he analyzes the blue card, and Henry notices right away, causing Henry to naturally start feeling wary around his own father. Though thankfully Janyu mostly comes clean about what he discovered soon after.
** He also lies to the rest of his family about where Suzie is when Suzie is suddenly spirited away to the digital world, telling them at first that Suzie's in Hong Kong with her grandfather. Unsurprisingly, his wife calls him out on the bullshit, tearfully demanding to know why their children are disappearing.
** He withholds information from the children about [[spoiler: what the final plan to defeat the D-Reaper will do to their digimon]]. While in the circumstances it was understandable since the D-Reaper literally was about to take over the world and ''any'' solution was better than ''no'' solution, [[spoiler: the children were completely unprepared for their sudden forced separation from their partners]].
%%* PapaWolf
%%* TheProfessor
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Takes an antagonistic role to Yamaki at first when it's revealed what Hypnos is fighting. Naturally he's on the side of not wanting to wipe out artificial life and would rather study it and learn to interact with it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Goro "Shibumi" Mizuno]]

A member of the Monster Makers, who continued to work on the project after the others left. After an accident, his spirit project itself into the Digital World, where he met Takato and Henry.

->Voiced by: Taro Suwa (JP), Bob Glouberman (EN), Creator/EugenioBarona (Spain), Ernesto Lezama (Latin America)
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* BunnyEarsLawyer: He's a dreamy CloudCuckooLander who randomly spouts Shakespeare quotes and philosophical thought experiments, but he's also a highly talented programmer and one of the main key members of the team who created digimon.
%%* TheChessmaster
* CloudCuckoolander: Due to being in a coma.
* DitzyGenius: He comes off as this during his first proper appearance due to being a "digital ghost" projected from his hospital bed into the digital world. However, he still shows shades of this after he's recovered.
* DoesNotLikeShoes: For wearing a hospital pajama and such.
* {{Manchild}}: Implied. Shibumi was the member of the Monster Makers who was most personally invested in the creation of digimon and continued to work on the project even after the funding had been cut. He's been existing in the digital world as an aparition while his body is in a coma, allowing him to become immersed in the world he helped create. When he gets the chance to scan a card through a digivice, he does it with all the same dramatic enthusiasm as the children, and becomes wide eyed and enthralled when Grani comes to life.
* MrExposition: Due to his advanced knowledge of the digital world, having never stopped researching it after the Monster Makers lost their funding, by the time he finally makes an on-screen appearance he's responsible for an info-dump on how Tamers' Digital World works. He continues to fill this role after he wakes from his coma, though he begins to share it with the other Monster Makers.
%%* TheProfessor
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Rob "Dolphin" [=McCoy=]]]

[[quoteright:137:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dolphin_9372.jpg]]

The creator who started the Digimon project, and the first person to create artificial life.

->Voiced by: Creator/MasamiKikuchi (JP), Tom Fahn (EN)
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* AllThereInTheManual: In ''Digimon Tamers 1984'', it's mentioned [=McCoy=] studied under John C. Lilly. Lilly was well known for his studies on Dolphins, thus resulting in Rob's nickname.
%%* TheProfessor
* MrExposition: Serves as this to explain what was going on to the tamer's parents. Latter plays this role again on an television news report.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Alice [=McCoy=]]]

[[quoteright:102:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/digimonalice_4582.png]]

A mysterious girl in black, who comes to give a gift to help our heroes, and may or may not be a ghost.

->Voiced by: Creator/YukaImai (JP), Creator/PhileceSampler (EN), Creator/DianaTorres (Spain)
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* AdaptedOut: She and Dobermon are excised from the manga adaptation.
* AliceAllusion: To be expected in a Creator/ChiakiKonaka-directed series. Not only is her first name Alice, but she has a slight resemblance to the character of that name from ''Alice in Wonderland''.
%%* CreepyChild
* AmbiguousSituation: Her role in the story is minimal, serving only as a messenger to bring Dobermon to the other children so they can gain a tool to give them a fighting chance. Her background is shrouded in mystery, with the only known factoid being that she's somehow related to Rob [=McCoy=]. He has a photo of her in his possession, and at one point sighs her name forlornly. No other elaboration is given.
* CuteGhostGirl: It's implied that she might be a ghost. [[ShrugOfGod Might]].
* DarkIsNotEvil: Clad all in black, and is partners with a Virus-attribute Digimon. Isn't evil in the slightest.
* DeathByCameo: Not her, but Dobermon, who was the winner of a contest whose prize was an appearance in the show. Naturally, his mandated nature making his appearance forced was resolved by having him be a [[DeadManWalking Dead 'Mon Walking]] resolved to a HeroicSacrifice to re-enable Biomerging for the heroes. As a result he became surprisingly popular due to the tragedy of his role.
%%* DeadAllAlong
%%* DeadSidekick: Idem.
* ElegantGothicLolita: The type of appearance she portrays.
* FluffyTamer: Her Digimon is a giant Doberman who stands at least five feet tall at the shoulder. They're still friends regardless.
* HeroicSacrifice: Her partner, Dobermon, who was only in the real world to begin with to knowingly sacrifice his own life to give the heroes the ability to Biomerge again. Sadly, while he had already made peace with it, Alice very clearly was clinging to hope that he'd survive.
* IDidWhatIHadToDo: Dobermon's sacrifice invokes this.
* TheStoic: Until her Digimon dies.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Aishwarya "Curly" Rai]]
Indian professor and member of the Monster Makers, expert in Quantum Theory.

-> Voiced by Youko Matsuoka (JP), Creator/DorothyEliasFahn (EN), Daniela Benítez (Latin America)
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* AdaptedOut: She and the other Monster Makers sans Janyu and Yamaki are omitted in the manga adaptation.
* AllThereInTheManual: The short story "Digimon Tamers 1984", explains what her role was in the Monster Makers.
%%* BollywoodNerd
* ChekhovsSkill: The short story mentions her talent was in quantum physics. It turns out, the D-Reaper "goo" is a quantum bubble. Guess who programs the Doodlebug vortex?
%%* {{Meganekko}}
* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous: Named after famous Indian actress Creator/AishwaryaRai.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Daisy]]
Monster Maker and robotics and software expert.

-> Voiced by Creator/AsakoDodo (JP), Creator/WendeeLee (EN).
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* AdaptedOut: She and the other Monster Makers (sans Janyu and Yamaki) are absent in the manga adaptation.
* FreakOut: Thinking the Project has created monsterous beings, [[spoiler: she begins to destroy the computers in a panic.]]
* GetAHoldOfYourselfMan: [[spoiler: Shibumi arrives during her freak out, and calms her down.]]
* HeroOfAnotherStory: In ''Digimon Tamers 1984'', she is the protagonist. [[NoExportForYou In America, this story was never officially released.]]
* NothingIsScarier: While working alone one night at the lab, she hears ''something'' is outside the building, leaving claw marks in doors, but she never sees any danger.
%%* PowerHair: Her older self.
* ShoutOut: In-universe, her nickname is a reference to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey''.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Babel]]
Theoretical Physicist and Monster Maker.

-> Voiced by Creator/KenjiNomura (JP), Creator/NeilKaplan (EN), Creator/JaimeRoca (Spain)
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* AdaptedOut: He and the Monster Makers sans Janyu and Yamaki are cut from the manga adaptation.
* BaldOfAwesome: His older self is completely bald.
%%* BlackAndNerdy
%%* CoolShades
* SoulBrotha: His very look radiates this.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Grani]]

Grani, formerly known in a different form as "The Ark", is the name of an ark that was created by the reunited Monster Makers to bring the Tamers back from Digital World to the Real world. It is later upgraded to be used against the fight against the D-reaper.

->Voiced by: Creator/MasamiKikuchi (JP), Creator/DaveMallow (EN), Creator/JoseMariaCarrero (Spain)
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* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Guilmon treated it like a friend before they even knew it was sentient. It returned the favor, big time.
* BigDamnHeroes: He has a rather impressive track record, but by far his most triumphant one is sacrificing himself to grant his power to Takato and Guilmon, unlocking Gallantmon [[SuperMode Crimson Mode]] in the process.]]
--->'''Grani:''' [[SuddenlyVoiced Do you want to fly Gallantmon?]]
--->'''Gallantmon:''' Who... who are you?
--->'''Grandi:''' Do you want to fly? ''[[HeroicSacrifice I will give you my wings.]]''
* CoolHorse: Described as a loyal steed to Gallantmon by Yamaki.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Grani sacrifices himself, fusing with Gallantmon and giving him the power to become Gallantmon Crimson Mode.
* AFriendInNeed: He goes out of his way to help the heroes several times.
* FusionDance: With Gallantmon, resulting in Gallantmon Crimson Mode. Unlike most instances of this however, it's explicitly a one way road for him. Due to his UndyingLoyalty and the fact that he's dying anyway, he doesn't hesitate to follow through on it.
* MilitaryMashupMachine: Grani is an interdimensional spaceship that is turned into a fancy fighter jet.
* OddFriendship: Grani and Guilmon.
* SentientVehicle: The monster makers were initially surprised that the Ark could make decisions for itself when it chose to stop and wait for Takato in the Digital World. It's later explained that it was created using the same program to make the Digimon.
* UndyingLoyalty: Guilmon's kindness caused Grani to show extreme loyalty to the Tamers, to the point where as he lay dying from the D-reaper's attack he chose to sacrifice himself to give Gallantmon the power he needed to save Jeri.
%%* TheVoiceless
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Kai Urazoe]]

Kai is Takato's cousin from Okinawa. He discovers Guilmon is a Digimon, but keeps it a secret and befriends him.

->Voiced by: Creator/TomoSaeki (JP), Creator/YuriLowenthal (EN-Movie), Creator/BrianDonovan (EN-Tamers)

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* AdaptedOut: Is omitted from the Tokyopop manga adaptation.
* MeaningfulName: "Kai" is one reading of the ''kanji'' for the sea or ocean. His grandfather's name Wataru is derived from an outdated alternate reading for the same character. Both characters live in a temple on the shore in Okinawa.
* NarratorAllAlong: [[AmbiguousSituation Maybe]]. Ostensibly [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Davis]] is the one narrating the ending segments of each episode in ''Tamers'', but some interpret Kai having the same voice actor to mean that the series is actually being narrated by Takato's cousin.
%%* SecretKeeper
* WalkingShirtlessScene: In the movie Kai's shirt is always unbuttoned, when he's wearing it.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Omnimon (Omegamon)]]

A powerful Digimon that patrols the net, he came across an Apocalymon attempting to destroy the real world and intervened. Unfortunately, before he could finish the job, Apocalymon reformatted into Mephistomon and escaped. He later transported Henry and Rika to Takato's location so all three Tamers could take down Mephistomon.

->Voiced by: Creator/ChikaSakamoto & Creator/MayumiYamaguchi (JP), Creator/LexLang & Creator/KirkThornton (EN)
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* BeamOWar: His Supreme Cannon vs Mephistomon's breath attack. Omnimon's attack won, but Mephistomon escaped before he could finish him off.
* {{BFS}}: His Transcendent Sword.
* DeusExMachina: Omegamon's only function after the prelude is to bring Ruki, Jian, and their digimon from different parts of Japan to help Takato kill Mephismon.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: Nothing in the movie can pose a threat to Omnimon. The only reason he doesn't kill Mephistomon is because he can't leave the net, which is why he recruits the Tamers.
* GarnishingTheStory: Omegamon dishes out a handful of {{One Hit Kill}}s to some {{mook}}s while escorting Ruki and Jian to the FinalBattle to give the audience something to look at while he provides {{Exposition}} to the tamers.
* TheJuggernaut: A rare heroic portrayal, nothing thrown at him in the movie causes him any harm at all and barely slows him down
* LightIsGood: Is a Holy Knight type clad in white armor, and he fits the type perfectly, acting as a gallant hero
%%* LightningBruiser
%%* ThePaladin
* ShowyInvincibleHero: Omnimon is for all practical purposes of the movie, completely unbeatable, giving some impressive showings of his power when he is able to fight.
* StoryBreakerPower: Its made very clear that if he cornered Mephismon, or even Gulfmon, the fight would end very quickly. Unfortunately he cannot leave the net.
* VoiceOfTheLegion: In both the Japanese and English versions, he's played by the same people who did his voice in the ''Adventure'' series.
%%* WaveMotionGun: Supreme Cannon!
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Once he's finished depositing Ruki, Jian, and their digimon into the field of battle, he vanishes from the movie, without even a send-off during the credits. He is likewise ignored in the greater series.

[[/folder]]

!!Hypnos
A covert agency that seeks to contain and deal with the Digimon problem, they collectively act as an unwitting ArcVillain for the first arc of the series before losing the role to the Devas.
----
[[folder:In General]]
* AllThereInTheManual: Konaka's website explains the back story of Hypnos, which began back in 2001 to counter/rival other surveillance programs.
* BenevolentConspiracy: The agency was created to stop computer crime, and modified to protect the public from invading monsters.
* BlackHelicopter: AH-64 Apache attack helicopters to be precise. Despite all that firepower, they're not that useful against the Devas.
* ClosestThingWeGot: Originally existed to monitor electronic communications for half the planet. When Digimon begin to crossover, the agency got stuck with the job of containing them.
* CoolShades: Seems to be part of the standard uniform for everyone - even Riley has a pair in one episode.
* ConspiracyRedemption: After Yamaki's HeelFaceTurn, the organization becomes devoted to helping the Tamers get home, and latter battle the D-Reaper.
* EvilTowerOfOminousness: Whenever the scene goes to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, ominous music plays. At one point, Takato takes a look at the place and get's a bad a feeling about it. Which seems silly, considering that the structure is a well known landmark that he's seen all his life.
* {{Expy}}: Of the MenInBlack that stalk Lain in ''Anime/SerialExperimentsLain''.
* GovernmentAgencyOfFiction: In-universe, Hypnos is the Japanese government's Signals Intelligence ([=SIGINT=]) program and given its prevalence in Konaka's [[invoked]] WordOfGod [[AllIntheManual website]] may have been written as a reference to or as a fictional extention of the RealLife [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON ECHELON program.]]
* GovernmentConspiracy: Two of them! First, Hypnos was heavily classified since their activities were of legal dubiousness. The second was to cover up that Digimon were real.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Early on, the agency fails in regards to dealing with Digimon. [[NotSoHarmlessVillain Then they activate the Juggernaut]].
* TheMasquerade: Attempts to hide the existance of Digimon from the public to prevent mass panic. [[spoiler: They fail, partially because their Juggernaut program ends up tearing open a hole to the digital world big enough for the Devas to come through.]]
* TheMenInBlack: Hypnos' field agents, naturally.
* NoSuchAgency: Like the real life ECHELON, Hypnos' existence was denied by the government, though word did get around about it. [[spoiler: The government had to officially recognize it once the D-Reaper appeared. In at least in the sequel movie, the agency operates openly.]]
* TheOmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: The government officials Yamaki reports to. They only meet through teleconferencing, so we never get a good look at most of them. What we do see of them is rather humorous: One is eating lunch, and another is playing golf during said teleconference.
* PunchClockVillain: Hypnos [[ForTheEvulz isn't capturing and terminating on Digimon for laughs]]. The "wild ones" often cause trouble, so the government have legit reasons for their actions. The Bridge Bunnies just see it as a job. Even the government officials merely see the Digimon as weird inconveniences. Yamaki is the only one who really takes it personally.
* SinisterSpyAgency: Not outright evil, but Hypnos has done some unscrupulous acts against Digimon. They also serve as minor antagonists to the heroes, being an ominous threat and later complicating matter with the Devas. This aspect largely goes away as the agency begins helping the Tamers and acting against the D-Reaper.
* ThemeNaming: The agency likes to uses the Franchise/CthulhuMythos for its programs.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: Takato is rightfully worried about the authorities. [[spoiler:Yamaki orders a analyses of a captured Digimon, which painfully breaks them down. When a scientist asks what to do with one such digimon's data, Yamaki tells him to delete it.]]
* VanInBlack: And to round off the Hypnos' black ops motif, they've also got these too! Takato, funnily enough, sees these and thinks they may be part of a government conspiracy.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mitsuo Yamaki]]

[[quoteright:180:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Yamaki3_9737.jpg]]

A mysterious man in black who tends to stand around watching the kids and their Digimon, absently and creepily flicking his lighter. Is researching Digimon and capturing the weakened ones for reasons unknown...

->Voiced by: Creator/SusumuChiba (JP), Creator/SteveBlum (EN), Creator/JoseMariaCarrero (Spain), Gustavo Rocha (Latin America)
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* ArcVillain: The closest thing the show has to a central antagonist prior to the Deva arc.
* TheAtoner: A stoic version post-HeelFaceTurn.
* BadassBookworm: He's also a programmer.
* BigBadWannabe: For half the series, he was the closest thing to an antagonist.
* CharacterTic: He incessantly flicks his zippo lighter open and closed. It's implied it might be stress related, as a moment is dedicated to him putting the lighter down when a project he's working on finally pans out.
* CoolShades: He wears sunglasses for much of the early part of the series.
* TheCracker: He develops computer programs to wipe the Digimon out.
* EvilIsHammy: Whenever he gets emotional during his "bad guy" phase.
* FantasticRacism: Against Digimon at first. He eventually changes his views entirely.
* TheGlassesComeOff: Very rarely. Used to [[OhCrap very]] [[ThisIsGonnaSuck dramatic]] effect when he orders Juggernaut activated.
* HackerCave: The room where the Hypnos system is located. It's vast, filled to the brim with high tech equipment and wires.
* HeelFaceTurn: After the Juggernaut program backfires horrifically, he realizes he was wrong and sides with the main characters.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Prior to his HeelFaceTurn, his downfalls were mainly caused by his own projects. He learns from this eventually.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Post {{Character Development}}.
* KickTheDog: Had quite a few of these before his HeelFaceTurn. How he used the Juggernaut program was so horrifying, it led directly to a MyGodWhatHaveIDone.
* KnightTemplar: He believes that destroying all Digimon is necessary for the survival of humanity, even the Digimon that aren't evil.
%%* TheMenInBlack
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: When Juggernaut is activated the first time and the first Deva appears, triggering a Villainous Breakdown. It doesn't really sink in though for several more episodes as more Devas use the portal he opened to cross over.
* NeckLift: He does this to Henry after he starts breaking down. [[WouldHurtAChild Who is an elementary school kid, by the way.]]
* NoPlansNoPrototypeNoBackup: Averted. They had all of the above, but he ordered the usage of Juggernaut too early regardless.
* NotSoStoic: Was originally intended as TheStoic, but stress began to change this early on, making him also NotSoAboveItAll.
* ObliviouslyEvil: Take into account WhatMeasureIsANonHuman below and the fact that Digimon really ''are'' dangerous, and his behavior suddenly makes perfect sense.
* OlderSidekick: Once Yamaki makes peace with the fact it's better to work with the kids and their digimon rather than antagonize them, he becomes their greatest adult supporter and ally, even in a series full of supportive adults.
%%* PerpetualFrowner
%%* SmugSmiler
* SunglassesAtNight: Wears them all the time, even in dark rooms.
* UnfinishedUntestedUsedAnyway: "But, sir, Juggernaut's not ready!" "SPARE ME YOUR THEORIES! DO IT!"
* VillainousBreakdown: When he realizes Juggernaut is allowing the most powerful Digimon yet an express ticket to the real world, he walks away from the scene ranting about "Digimon-loving freaks" and threatens Henry when they cross paths seconds after. He even [[WouldHurtAChild throttles Henry!]]
* VillainousBSOD: His ''second'' major failure causes this and it leads to his HeelFaceTurn.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Genuinely believes that Digimon are dangerous, mindless monsters and that killing them when they manifest is the only right thing to do for humanity's sake.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Believes Digimon are just data at first, dangerous programs that needed to be deleted.
* WhenSheSmiles: He ''is'' in fact capable of smiling with sincerity.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Riley Ohtori & Tally Onodera ''(Reika Otori & Megumi Onodera)'']]

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Two young women who operate the Digimon detection thingy that, well, detects Digimon.

->Reika is voiced by: Ai Nagano (JP), Tifanie Christun (EN, series), Creator/PhileceSampler (EN, movie), Gádor Martín (Spain), Belinda García (Latin America)
->Megumi is voiced by: Fumiko Miyashita (JP), Peggy O'Neal (EN), Patricia Mainou (Latin America)
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* AscendedExtra: Riley gets to do stuff outside of Hypnos once it's revealed that she's Yamaki's girlfriend. Tally, however, is still just "that blond that works at Hypnos".
* HeelRealization: Tally gets hit with one ''hard'' when Juggernaut is fired as she and Riley are treated to the wonderful sounds of thousands of terrified Digimon being dragged in and annihilated, tearing off her visor and begging for someone to make the sound stop.
* BridgeBunnies: Yamaki's running the ship, but Riley and Tally are in charge actually executing most of his programs.
* CutenessProximity: Tally, for Calumon.
* {{Hackette}}: Especially during the D-Reaper arc where they help the Monster Makers with Mission Control. They're the ones helping with communications and upgrading Grani.
%%* HeterosexualLifePartners
* SubordinateExcuse: Riley is both Yamaki's girlfriend and subordinate, though they know how to keep their relationship separate from their job and they act very professionally and no-nonsense in front of each other. That said, Riley's one of the few who's willing and able to call Yamaki out and knock some sense into him when his emotions become unstable.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Man In Black]]
Hypnos field operative, having a few minor but important repeat appearances. He has a black hat that he wears.

-> Voiced by R. Martin Klein (EN).
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* StealthHiBye: Pulls off a rather impressive one to Janyu: Suddenly appearing in the middle of a hallway, then disappears fast enough that when he looks back and replies, the Man is gone and Henry is standing where he was.
* MookLieutenant: The closest thing in Hypnos to one, briefing Yamaki about Shibumi.
* NiceHat: Which allows him to stand out from the rest of the [=MiB=].
* NoNameGiven: The operative is never given a name or title in the series. The fans simply refer to him as "[[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep the Man In Black]]".
* VaguenessIsComing: His conversation to Janyu Wong.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Chief Cabinet Secretary]]
Government official that works most directly with Hypnos. Wears a brown suit, and like most mysterious government types, sunglasses.

-> Voiced by Dave Mallow (EN).
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* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: Everyone calls him the Chief.
* JurisdictionFriction: After Vikaralamon ruins Shinjuku, the Chief clashes with the Head of National Security over the use of Juggernaut. The Secretary argues it's dangerous to use without Yamaki. The other official declares it a "National Security" issue, and uses the program anyways.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He fires Yamaki for failing to deal with the Digimon. But when the Juggernaut is about be brought back on, and knowing knowing that trouble is coming, the Chief gets Yamaki back.
* TheUnmasquedWorld: Once the D-Reaper appears and accusations that they're responsible, Hypnos reveals itself to the world. The Chief clarifies that the agency wasn't at fault at a press conference, while dodging questions about it's [=SIGINT=] program.
* TheWatson: Serves as this, allowing Yamaki to explain Hypnos and other important concepts.
[[/folder]]

!!Antagonist Digimon

[[folder:Gorillamon]]
A Digimon that Henry encountered in a videogame prior to realize that Digimon were actual beings. After Terriermon became his partner, Gorillamon would find its way to the human world for revenge.
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* KillerGorilla: A digital gorilla with an ArmCannon... and a grudge.
* {{Revenge}}: His entire motivation was to take revenge on Henry and Terriermon for defeating him.
* StarterVillain: As previous Digimon who appeared in the human world were more like wild animals, Gorillamon was the first character to arrive from the Digital World with more antagonistic motivations.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:[=IceDevimon=]]]
[[quoteright:170:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/IceDevimon_9079.gif]]

--> ''"The way you treat people, how you think. You're cold as ice, you have no time for warm weak relationships. You always expect perfection from yourself and others. You demand it. I am the only one who understands you, Rika. That is why we're destined to become partners."''

A [[OneSceneWonder memorable]] MonsterOfTheWeek, [=IceDevimon=] appeared in the episode "The Icemon Cometh". Taking his [[DeadGuyOnDisplay trophy collection]] with him to the real world, he created an icy lair at the top of a skyscraper, and began stalking Rika, believing she was as power hungry and bloodthirsty as he was. Eventually abducting her and taking her to his hideout, [=IceDevimon=] tried to convince Rika that she should be his tamer, claiming they belonged together, as both were ruthless and wanted to be the best. When Renamon arrived and Digivolved to Kyubimon to try and save Rika, [=IceDevimon=] thrashed her, but before he could destroy her and continue trying to recruit Rika, he was obliterated by Guilmon.

--> Voiced by: Juurouta Kosugi (JP), Michael Reisz (EN), Guillermo Rojas (Latin America)
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* AxCrazy: He freezes Digimon solid for entertainment.
%%* BigNo
* BloodKnight: He wants to take Renamon's place as Rika's partner so that he can become more powerful.
%%* BrawlerLock: With Guilmon.
* CardCarryingVillain: "Better a powerful monster, than a weak nobody."
* ChestInsignia: Like Devimon, he bears the Mark of Evil on his chest.
%%* CreepilyLongArms
%%* CreepyLongFingers
* CreepySouvenir: Blocks of ice containing dead and terrified Digimon.
--> "I want to show you something. To prove I'm worthy to be your partner, I've set up a little show and tell. So you can see my power for yourself. For years, I have hunted hundreds of Digimon and absorbed their data. They were friends to some, maybe even partners. But as you once said, they are merely stepping stones."
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: It may not be obvious to viewers who aren't familiar with data attributes, but this is played perfectly straight. Kyuubimon, who didn't even scratch him, has the Data attribute, giving her a clear disadvantage. Guilmon, on the other hand, has a Virus attribute, the same as [=IceDevimon=]'s. This put them on even footing, but Guilmon's Pyro Sphere [[KillItWithFire gave him an edge]].
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: He is an icy version of Devimon.
%%* EvilLaugh
* EvilPlan: He wants to recruit Rika as his tamer, by force if necessary.
%%* EyeBeams: Tundra Freeze.
%%* FallenAngel
%%* FangsAreEvil
%%* FemmeFatalons: Frozen Claw.
%%* {{Flight}}
* GoodWingsEvilWings: He has a pair of batlike wings.
* HarmlessFreezing: His ice attacks. Played somewhat straight. In the original Japanese, it's made clear that being frozen for a long time is an excruciating death. If a Digimon is unfrozen quickly however, they'll be hunky-dory as usual.
%%* HellbentForLeather
%%* HornedHumanoid
* AnIcePerson: The thing that sets him apart from the digimon he's a PaletteSwap of is he has ice powers.
* InLoveWithYourCarnage: He singles out Rika for her ruthless approach to battle and absorbing opponents.
%%* IntangibleMan
* KillItWithFire: Was blown apart by Guilmon's Pyro Sphere.
* KnightOfCerebus: Hypnos had yet to really do anything and earlier wild Digimon merely came off as rampaging beasts, so a digimon ''SerialKiller'' serves to start tilting the story towards darker plotlines.
%%* LeanAndMean
%%* LightIsNotGood
%%* MonsterOfTheWeek
* NotSoDifferentRemark: He claims that Rika's dedication to becoming stronger, even at the expense of the lives of others, makes her a perfect match for him as a tamer. Rika, seeing some truth in his words, is so unnerved that she briefly quits being a Tamer entirely after her encounter with him.
* NoOntologicalInertia: When he was destroyed, his frozen lair and the Digimon bodies within disappeared.
%%* NoSenseOfPersonalSpace
%%* OurDemonsAreDifferent
%%* PaletteSwap
%%* PowerEchoes
%%* RedEyesTakeWarning
* SerialKiller: He shows off a lair filled with the frozen remains of his victims. This in turn serves to highlight his bloodlust as it either means he killed them and didn't load them, something the Devas make clear is a ''grave insult'', or he ''did'' and is keeping their bodies frozen to keep them from dissapating just as trophies to all the murders he's committed.
%%* SinisterSilhouettes
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Despite appearing in only one episode, [=IceDevimon=] played a big role in the development of Rika and Renamon's relationship and marked change in Rika's attitude towards Digimon as a whole.
%%* TheSociopath
%%* StormOfBlades: Avalanche Claw.
%%* TattooedCrook
%%* TooManyBelts
%%* WingedHumanoid
* YoureCuteWhenYoureAngry: Played to ''creepy'' effect to make him even more unsettling.
--->'''[=IceDevimon=]:''' Ah, you have no idea how exquisite you are when you're angry.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:The Devas]]
!!!'''Mihiramon voiced by''': Masahiko Tanaka (JP), Creator/BobPapenbrook (EN)\\
'''Sandiramon voiced by''': Ikkei Seta (JP), Creator/LexLang (EN)\\
'''Sinduramon voiced by''': Issei Futamata (JP), Creator/RichardEpcar (EN)\\
'''Pajiramon voiced by''': Creator/MasakoKatsuki (JP), Creator/MaryElizabethMcGlynn (EN)\\
'''Vajramon voiced by''': Creator/UnshoIshizuka (JP), Creator/MichaelMcConnohie (EN)\\
'''Indramon voiced by''': Creator/KenyuHoriuchi (JP), Creator/NeilKaplan (EN)\\
'''Kumbhiramon voiced by''': Creator/KoukiMiyata (JP), Joshua Seth (EN)\\
'''Vikaralamon voiced by''': Masafumi Kimura (JP), Michael Sorich (EN)\\
'''Makuramon voiced by''': Creator/RyoHorikawa (JP), Joe Ochman (EN)\\
'''Majiramon voiced by''': Masahiko Tanaka (JP), Creator/BobPapenbrook (EN)\\
'''Caturamon voiced by''': Creator/KoujiIshii (JP), Tom Wyner (EN)

Twelve Ultimate-level Digimon based on the twelve heavenly generals of Eastern mythology, and on [[EasternZodiac the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac]]. They serve the Sovereign Zhuquiaomon and try to invade the real world. Later the surviving Deva focus on capturing Culumon and manipulating Impmon instead.

The Twelve Devas are, in order of appearance:
-->Mihiramon (tiger), Sandiramon (snake), Sinduramon (rooster), Pajiramon (sheep), Vajramon (ox), Indramon (horse), Kumbhiramon (rat), Vikaralamon (pig), Makuramon (monkey), Majiramon (dragon), Caturamon (dog) and Antylamon (rabbit).
----
* AdaptationalVillainy: In terms of the franchise's lore, only ''some'' of the Devas are jerks (namely those under Zhuqiaomon); the majority are neutral at worst and chivalrous at best. In ''Tamers'', all of the Devas are antagonistic, and all of them are working for Zhuqiaomon. The only one who isn't an antagonist is Antylamon, who pulls a HeelFaceTurn at the first opportunity. This is discussed InUniverse by Henry's sensei; the Devas in Hinduism are holy beings that fight the power-seeking Asuras, but those that followed the Asuras saw the Devas as the evil ones instead. This is the case here; while the Devas [[WellIntentionedExtremist believe they're doing good by following their god and fighting for the Digital World's survival]], they're going about it entirely the wrong way, putting them at odds with the protagonists.
* AnimalJingoism:
** Of a sort - the Devas hate Tamer Digimon.
** Makuramon and Caturamon are a little antagonistic with each other, competing over who gets to capture Calumon. They are the Monkey and Dog Devas; in Asian culture, monkeys and dogs famously hate each other.
** There's also Khumbiramon, a rat, being defeated by Leomon, which is a large cat.
* AnimalMotifs: The twelve heavenly generals are lined up with the twelve signs of the Chinese Zodiac.
* BerserkButton: Indramon flips out when Impmon insults his boss and begins pummelling him mercilessly.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: The dub makes repeated jokes about Vikaralamon being a 'big pig', but it's pretty obvious that the 'big pig' is a serious threat.
* BloodKnight: Vajramon seems to enjoy fighting Renamon.
* BullyingADragon: Makuramon, an Ultimate, taunts Beelzemon, a Mega, in the middle of a battle that could destroy the Digital World. Unfortunately for Makuramon, Beelzemon ''does'' [[DoNotTauntCthulhu retaliate]].
* CanisMajor: Caturamon is the Dog Deva, and fairly large.
* CluckingFunny: Sinduramon looks like a "right big chicken", and is assumed harmless as a result. Most of the humor surrounding him comes from his possessed owl sidekick, who is is a LargeHam and speaks with a Southern accent in the dub.
* TheCorrupter: Caturamon to Impmon.
* DirtyCoward: Makuramon flees when things turn dicey.
* DiscOneFinalBoss: Vikalaramon is the final adversary in the first major Tamers arc and requires the combined efforts of all 3 Ultimate Digimon to take down. He might be more a climax boss as there still four devas left after his defeat.
* EverythingsBetterWithMonkeys: Makuramon is the Monkey Deva, and like Caturamon is more cunning than the average Deva.
* EvilIsHammy: Sinduramon's dub voice certainly counts, what with it sounding like a BadassPreacher going on about "the great and mighty chicken of vengeance that shall rule ALL of us!"
* ExorcistHead: Makuramon can do this in his human disguise, terrifying both Jeri and Calumon when they see it.
* FullBoarAction: Vikaralamon is a {{kaiju}}-sized boar.
* GiantFlyer: Sinduramon, once he powers up.
* InterspeciesRomance: Because of all the flirting that goes on during the battle, Vajramon appears to be enamoured by Renamon during their first encounter. He later singles her out to persuade her to join him. Renamon, however, is only pretending to be interested so that she can extract information about him.
* KillerRabbit: Kumbhiramon looks pathetic, but he can give Leomon a hard time (at least at first).
* LightIsNotGood: A fourth of them (Kumbhiramon, Vajramon and Vikaralamon) are Vaccine types, a type usually associated with heroes. They're still the bad guys. The only one who turns to the side of the protagonists is the Data Antylamon, Data usually being associated with neutrality.
* ALoadOfBull: Vajramon is the Ox Deva.
* ManiacMonkeys: Makuramon does some weird things even before his reveal.
* ManipulativeBastard: Both Catsuramon and Makuramon.
* MessyPig: Vikaralamon is the Pig Deva, and easily the most destructive of the nine Devas who bio-emerge, causing massive amounts of damage during his rampage.
* MixAndMatchCritters: Kumbhiramon is the Rat Deva, but as Jeri notes he's got legs like a spider's rather than a rat.
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Even though almost all the Devas held a disgust for humans, over the course of series Henry has a few conversations with his sensei concerning if the Devas are evil or not. His sensei mentions from legends that they only serve their God and fight for what they believe is right. In the end, they conclude that this was right and the Devas only fought to protect the Digital World. Within the Digital world they were unheard of by the inhabitants and the heroes were often surprised they didn't hold some kind of jurisdiction.
* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Pajiramon, Vajramon and Majiramon have two arms and four legs each.
** Inverted with Indramon. Despite centaurs being half-human half-horse, he is simply a humanoid horse, with two legs instead of four.
* PantheraAwesome: Mihiramon is the Tiger Deva.
* PaperThinDisguise: Makuramon disguises himself as a human for a while, but his disguise is really bad. Even without his bizarre antics (creepy staring, creepy laughter, running away while laughing creepily), it doesn't look remotely convincing, with no nose, tiny dots for eyes and undeveloped ears.
* PintSizedPowerhouse: Fittingly, Khumbiramon, the rat deva, is the smallest of the bunch, but still quite powerful.
* PhysicalGod: The resemblence between the Digimon deva, the animals of the Zodiac, and the conflicting interpretations of deva and asura in Hinduism and Zoroastrianism are brought up by Henry and his father.
* RenegadeSplinterFaction: The Tamers reasoned that if the Devas were serving one Digimon Sovereign, then all four of them may be hostile. However, [[spoiler:Zhuqiaomon is acting on his own, and deploying the Devas without the consent of the other Sovereigns.]]
* RedEyesTakeWarning: Eleven of them have deep red eyes, Makuramon being the exception.
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Kumbhiramon is the Rat Deva (though still quite small).
* SadlyMythtaken: There is, in fact, a tradition associating the Twelve Heavenly Generals of Buddhism with the animals of the Chinese Zodiac. These Digimon, however, have mismatched the names and animals. Vajra, for example, in mythology is associated with the ''dog''.
* SlidingScaleOfAnthropomorphism: They range from souped-up animals (Mihiramon, Majiramon) to strongly humanoid beasts (Vajramon, Indramon).
* SlidingScaleOfVillainThreat: They zigzag up and down in. Mihiramon, the first to show up, curb-stomps three Champion level Digimon and nearly outright kills Growlmon. Sandiramon, Sinduramon and Kumbahiramon meanwhile are weak enough to be done in by Champion level Digimon, but Vajramon, Pajiramon, Indramon and Vikaralamon all take Ultimate level 'mons to be defeated.
* SmugSnake: Two of them. Sandiramon (a literal snake) tries to break the Tamers' confidence with his last words, and Indramon repeatedly taunts and laughs at Impmon and the Tamers.
** Though he completely gets the best of the heroes in his formal introduction, Makuramon [[VillainDecay quickly barrels]] into this after losing Culumon, leaving the fighting to Majiramon, [[DirtyCoward trying to go after a little girl]], and meeting his end [[TooDumbToLive after taunting Beelzemon]].
* TooDumbToLive: Makuramon thought it would be a good idea to taunt Beelzemon while he's struggling against Megidramon, despite knowing they're a level apart. He continues this even after getting his head grabbed by the Demon Lord. The result is one dead monkey and more data for Beelzemon.
* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Caturamon. Though he's not the cause of the doom, he did make things MUCH worse than they could have been. [[spoiler:If he hadn't corrupted Impmon, Leomon wouldn't have died. If Leomon hadn't died, Jeri wouldn't have been traumatized and then [[MindRape captured by the D-Reaper]], which would have given the Monster Makers more time to come up with a solution that didn't require the Digimon to return to the Digital World.]]
* TheUnfought: Makuramon is the only deva who is not fought directly by the Tamers.
* VertebrateWithExtraLimbs: Pajiramon, Vajramon and Majiramon have six limbs each.
* WakeUpCallBoss: The Devas are the first Digimon to show that things are getting serious, forcing the Tamers to up their game if they want to have any hope of taking on the challenges ahead.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: They're just doing what they think they need to do in order to survive.
* YourSizeMayVary: Vikaralmon alternates between being twenty feet tell and sixty feet tall in the same episode.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Mephistomon (''Mephismon'')]]

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--> ''"Right now, Digimon and V-Pets are causing chaos all over the world. Soon they'll destroy the entire planet, and there's not a thing you can do to stop them!"''

An evil Digimon that looks like a demonic humanoid goat, Mephistomon was spawned from remnants of an Apocalymon that had planned on destroying the Earth, and appeared in the film ''Digimon Tamers: Battle of Adventurers''. While being hunted down by an Omnimon, he escaped to the real world, assumed the guise Ryuuji Tamashiro of Okinawan VP Laboratories, and began marketing the V-Pet, which was implanted with a virus that could bring down all electronics, and make it easier for Digimon to reach Earth. He was destroyed (despite managing to Digivolve to Gulfmon) by [=WarGrowlmon=], Rapidmon and Taomon's Trinity Force, and his virus was eliminated by a vaccine hidden in the original V-Pet (which became a Seasermon[=/=]Labramon) by its creator.

His Digivolutions are as follows:
* '''Mega:''' Gulfmon, a gigantic, mindlessly destructive centaur-like creature with a beam-firing mouth between its legs.
** Apocalymon, the evil Digimon whose remains he was formed from, its origin and motive for destroying the world are presumably the same as the one from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''.

--> Voiced By: Juurouta Kosugi (JP), Creator/RichardEpcar (EN)
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* BeamOWar: Against Omnimon's Supreme Cannon.
* BodyHorror: Going from Tamashiro back to Mephistomon.
* BreathWeapon: Gulfmon's Black Requiem.
%%* CallingYourAttacks: Averted.
%%* TheCameo: Apocalymon.
* ClippedWingAngel: Gulfmon, who is defeated by three Ultimates.
%%* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Tamashiro.
%%* DarkIsEvil
* DeathFromAbove: He was crushed under a floating ship by Growlmon. Too bad that just made him Digivolve into Gulfmon.
* EldritchLocation: His personally created dimension.
%%* EnemyToAllLivingThings
%%* EvilGenius
%%* EvilGloating: He enjoys doing this.
%%* EvilLaugh
%%* EvilOverlooker
%%* EvilRedhead
* EverythingIsOnline: His virus is quite adaptable.
* {{Expy}}: A combination of Myotismon (same English voice actor, similar personality and Mega) and Diaboromon (fought an Omnimon, battled in a realm outside the Digital World and Earth, tried to bring about the end of the world electronically).
%%* FangsAreEvil
%%* FaunsAndSatyrs
* FinalBossNewDimension: "It's a Digital World I've created, to destroy you!"
%%* {{Flight}}
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Why does he want to destroy the Earth? Presumably [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds the same reason as Apocalymon]] from ''Digimon Adventure'', but that's not even alluded to here.
%%* GoodWingsEvilWings
%%* HandBlast
%%* HornedHumanoid
* IHaveYourWife: Through his minions, he tries to get information on the vaccine out of the V-Pet creator by threatening his daughter.
%%* {{Kaiju}}: Gulfmon.
* NoOntologicalInertia: Even lampshaded ("Something's not right here. If Mephistomon's gone, why hasn't this world he's created disappeared?")
%%* ObviouslyEvil
%%* OffscreenVillainDarkMatter
%%* OneWingedAngel: Gulfmon.
%%* OurCentaursAreDifferent: Gulfmon.
%%* OurDemonsAreDifferent
%%* PowerEchoes
%%* SinisterShades: Tamashiro.
%%* SupernaturalGoldEyes
%%* UnderwaterBase
* VaginaDentata: Gulfmon has a horrible crotch monster. Cue flashbacks to [=VenomMyotismon=].
%%* VoluntaryShapeshifting
%%* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Gulfmon.
* YouFool: "Fool! You can never defeat me with a pathetic attack like that!"
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Parasimon]]

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--> ''"Sing all you want, baby! My works almost done! Locomon will run forever! Now, let's get down and have some fun! Come on down!"''

Big, creepy purple arachnids with a single bloodshot eye, Parasimon are incredibly weak Megas that can possess other creatures, and unlock their maximum potential. In the film ''Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon'', one hijacks a Locomon and appears on Earth, intent on using the brainwashed train to rip open a portal that would allow its innumerable brethren to invade. Despite interference from Hypnos and the tamers, the plan succeeded, and the Parasimon invaded, overwhelming the city and tamers. In the end, it took a desperate Gallantmon becoming Gallantmon Crimson Mode to defeat them, wiping them all out in a single attack, freeing Locomon and closing the portal.

--> Voiced by: Kaneta Kimotsuki (JP), Creator/{{David Lodge|Actor}} (EN)
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* AlienBlood: It has brownish-yellow blood.
* AlienInvasion: The ultimate goal of Parasimon was to bring all his friends in and take over.
* AllWebbedUp: They can shoot webbing.
%%* AssimilationPlot
* BigCreepyCrawlies: Parasimon are giant, vaguely arachnoid creatures the size of a car.
* BigDumbBody: Locomon's main purpose is to go around in circles and generate a portal for other Parasimon to emerge through.
* BizarreAlienBiology: Certainly one of the creepier Digimon, with only one eye and a huge, [[FangsAreEvil fang-filled mouth]] located at its rear.
* BloodierAndGorier: The Parasimon of the second movie are given some of the most brutal and violent deaths of any foe digimon in the whole franchise--certainly nothing before them was reduced to a paste of AlienBlood like they were.
* CallingYourAttacks: A notable [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] for the franchise. Parasimon do not announce any of their attacks.
* CombatTentacles: They emerge from below the eye.
* ConservationOfNinjutsu: The first Parasimon is smart enough to stay invisible until exposed, acts through DemonicPossession, takes a hostage to use as a HumanShield, briefly throws down with Dukemon before being stabbed to death, and even then stays alive long enough to carry out his plan. The remaining Parasimon are slaughtered ''en masse'', even by the Champion-level Guardromon, and only gain a brief advantage when their ZergRush outpaces the biomerged Megas. Then Gallantmon Crimson Mode flattens them all in one fell swoop.
%%* DarkIsEvil
* DelayedReaction: One gets hit by [=MarineAngemon's=] Kahuna Waves, and merely laughs. It then explodes.
* EyeScream: When you're an {{Oculothorax}} like Parasimon, any major hit to your body is basically this, but special note goes to Gallantmon stabbing the leader directly in the eye with a [[ShockAndAwe Royal Saber]], something edited out of the English dub. Any of the more obvious eye screams against the invading army were left in, because that was basically the whole final battle.
* FauxAffablyEvil: The main Parasimon, who is certainly polite enough despite driving Ruki BrainwashedAndCrazy and subjecting Locomon to PossessionBurnout as part of his plan to conquer the real world.
* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Parasimon wants to conquer the real world. That's exactly as far as his characterization goes.
* GiantEyeOfDoom: Parasimon have only one single, bulging eyeball.
* GiantSpider: Parasimon is a giant spider with a single bulging eye and a disturbingly human mouth.
* GigglingVillain: Parasimon are constantly cackling; it appears to be a species trait.
* {{Invisibility}}: The first Parasimon remains hidden until he's exposed by Guilmon.
%%* LargeAndInCharge: The main Parasimon.
* LotusEaterMachine: While Rika is possessed, she's trapped in a fantasy world with her father.
* MadeOfPlasticine: When the first wave of the invading Parasimon lands, Dukemon and Sakuyamon meet them on the ground and quickly start reducing them to goo.
* MadnessMantra: The characters under the original Parasimon's control are terse and usually only say one or two things related to their desire. Locomon is still capable of CallingYourAttacks and announcing his evolution.
--> '''Rika:''' I want to sing!
--> '''Locomon:''' I gotta run, I gotta keep on running!
* TheManBehindTheMan: The one controlling Locomon.
* MindControlEyes: Rika's become dull when under Parasimon's control. Locomon has glowing RedEyesTakeWarning.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The swarm was presumably created when the Sovereigns had Culumon use Shining Digivolution to turn all Digimon into Megas.
* OneHitPointWonder: Every Parasimon summoned from the vortex dies from the first serious hit to their main body. Averted with the first; Dukemon has to hack his way through his enemy's CombatTentacles, carve him to pieces, ''stab him in the eye'', and even then his foe lasts long enough to do what he needs to.
* PaperTiger: Thanks to the ConservationOfNinjutsu, these Mega-level digimon are quickly dispatched even by the Champion-level Guardromon's missiles. Maybe the result of them relying too much on their ability to possess stronger Digimon?
* PossessionBurnout: The first Parasimon boasts when he dies that Locomon will run forever, which certainly ''implies'' that Parasimon can induce some kind of permanent damage through longterm possession, but nothing of Locomon's original personality is known, so neither are the possession's full effects.
* PostFinalBoss: Appears in the second movie, which takes place six months after the series.
%%* PsychoElectro: Electric Bind.
* PuppeteerParasite: Parasimon are a species of these, each the approximate size and weight of a truck.
%%* PurpleIsTheNewBlack
* SuperSpit: Their webbing is shot from the mouth.
* SurpriseCreepy:
** The second movie is mostly a light-hearted romp about the tamers all tripping over each other on their way to send Locomon back home until--''surprise''--the BigBad turns out to be a huge {{Gonk}} {{Oculothorax}} from a species of BigCreepyCrawlies that repeatedly imperils Ruki [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything with its tentacles]].
%%* StatusBuff: Digicabolic Steroid.
* TentacleRope: The first Parasimon ensnares Ruki in its tendrils and holds her hostage.
* VocalDissonance: The leader sounds like [[CorruptHick a hick]].
* ZergRush: The Parasimon offensive from the digital zone consists of waves and waves of them descending into the real world.
[[/folder]]

!!The Sovereign / Holy Beasts

The four supreme Digimon in this version of the Digital world. Alluded to (or shown in Azulongmon's case) in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', in this version of the story, they are the supreme Digimon of the digital world, and live in the highest plane. Ironically, they are the closest physically to the human world this way, though in Zhuquiaomon's case, not emotionally.

The powers of the sovereign include overseeing the Light of Evolution (Culumon's power), and it is this capacity that starts the plot of the season.
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[[folder:In General]]
* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: They're all ludicrously powerful Digimon who rule the Digital World. [[spoiler:Even after the D-Reaper lays waste to nearly all the Digital World, they're still fighting, even managing to drag it back into their world.]]
* ExtraEyes: All of the sovereign have four eyes. Ebonwumon is the only one to have two eyes on each of the two heads.
* TheFourGods: They are based on the Four Holy Beasts of East Asian cosmology.
* LargeAndInCharge: They're by far the largest Digimon in the series.
* PhysicalGod: The Sovereigns are Digimon who digivolved to such an advanced level that even multiple Mega level Digimon have a hard time beating them. They act as protector Gods to the Digital World.
* PowerGlows: Each Sovereign glows their own color, and has 12 orbs of their glowing color encircling their bodies.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething: They rule the Digital World, and all play an active role in combating the D-Reaper.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Zhuqiaomon]]

A giant phoenix and one of the four Holy Beasts. He sent the Devas into the real world in order to fight the humans, and then later has Culumon imprisoned in the belief that Culumon will help the Digimon evolve fast enough to face the "True Enemy".

-> Voiced by: Shuuichirou Moriyama (JP), Tony Pope (EN), Creator/EugenioBarona (Spain)
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* BadassBoast: The guy is full of these.
--> '''Azulongmon:''' (To the Tamers) It's time for you to leave. This is not your battle. We will stay to defend our world.
--> '''Zhuqiaomon:''' [[BattleCry And we will fight to the bitter end!]]
** There is also his introduction.
-->'''Zhuqiaomon:''' Trespassers, you have disturbed the lair of Zhuqiaomon, Sovereign of the Digital World and protector of its inhabitants. [[LargeAndInCharge Look upon my countenance]] and tremble with fear, for within my eyes, you see your own undoing!
* BigBad: He is the TheManBehindTheMan of the Deva arc, though his existence isn't revealed until Sandiramon, Pajiramon and Vajramon speak of him. He later reluctantly does a HeelFaceTurn when it is clear that destroying the humans will not help defeat the true BigBad of the series.
* {{Determinator}}: He fights [=MegaGargomon=], Azulongmon, and Gallantmon, each in the same day. After the Tamers return to the real world, they take a look into the Digital World, and Zhuquiaomon is the only Digimon seen fighting the D-Reaper.
* FantasticRacism: Hates humans, especially Tamers and their Digimon. Even when he joins the good guys later, he still feels disgust for the Tamers. He starts tolerating them in the end, though.
* FeatheredFiend: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] He's certainly a demonic-looking bird, but he's actually a WellIntentionedExtremist with a bad case of FantasticRacism.
* GiantFlyer: He dwarfs [=MegaGargomon=], who's the size of a small skyscraper!
* GoodIsNotNice: Yeah, he's a Virus-type Digimon alright, but you sure as heck would not expect a Digimon [[AllThereInTheManual referred to as a]] "'''Holy''' Bird Digimon" to be evil -- not that he or his peers think he is. He's going his own route to stop the True Enemy.
* LargeAndInCharge: Much, much bigger than any of his Devas. This giant size seems standard for Digimon Sovereigns
* ThePhoenix: Based on the mythological Vermilion Bird of the South.
* PlayingWithFire: Two of his attacks are fire-based: Blazing Helix and Phoenix Fire.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Zhuquiaomon wants to protect the Digital World, but is misguided into thinking that the best way to do so is to destroy the humans, especially the Tamers.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Azulongmon]]

A giant dragon and one of the four Holy Beasts. He believes that it is digivolution that brought about the True Enemy. He saved the tamers from Zhuqiaomon's attack. Also, the only of the Sovereign to have appeared in another series, Anime/DigimonAdventure02.

-> Voiced by: Juurouta Kosugi (JP), Creator/MichaelMcConnohie (EN), Creator/JuanCarlosLozano (Spain)
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* GiantFlyer: He dwarves the building sized Zhuqiaomon. Understandable, since Zhuqiaomon is based on a sparrow, and Azulongmon is a ''dragon''.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: He is a gigantic Asian dragon with angelic wings.
* ItsAllMyFault: Believes that digivolution is responsible for the reawakening of the True Enemy.
%%* MrExposition: Carrying over from Adventure.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: He saves the Tamers from Zhuqiaomon, who suffers from FantasticRacism, and acknowledges that the Devas were the ones who struck first.
* ShockAndAwe: His attacks are all electrical based.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Baihumon]]

A giant tiger and one of the four Holy Beasts. He was the last to be seen, as he was the first known to be confronting the True Enemy directly.

-> Voiced by: Shinichi Kotani (JP), Creator/SteveKramer (EN), Creator/JoseMariaCarrero (Spain)
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* PantheraAwesome: He's a ''giant tiger''.
* TheWorfEffect: He is stated to be the strongest of the four sovereigns, but is quickly defeated by the D-Reaper. ''Quickly'' being a relative term... Against the ''D-Reaper, just by himself'', he held the line pretty damn well. He also ''survived'', which is more than about 60 percent of the Digital World can say.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Ebonwumon]]

A giant two-headed turtle and one of the four Holy Beasts. For all the DarkerAndEdgier of the series, he brings a little bit of comic relief. At least, one head does.

-> Voiced by: Creator/JojiYanami (JP), Creator/DaveWittenberg (EN), Creator/FranciscoAndresValdivia (Spain)
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* MultipleHeadCase: He has two heads, which speak in different accents and converse with each other.
* TheNicknamer: As early as Ebonwumon's second line, he's giving out nicknames.
* {{Scotireland}}: In the dub, Ebonwumon's main head speaks with a Scottish accent, and the quieter one with an Irish accent.
* TurtleIsland: He's so big that Ryo and Cyberdramon mistake the forest on his back for a real one.
* TurtlePower: He's essentially a giant two-headed turtle.
[[/folder]]

!! D-Reaper

[[folder: The D-Reaper / The True Enemy]]
[[quoteright:206:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/D-Reaper_t_8928.jpg]]

-->''"[[StrawNihilist There is no importance to your lives, no useful purpose.]] Because of your inherent defects, the D-Reaper has determined that all humans and Digimon are to be deleted immediately."''

Once a simple data cleanup program, its purpose is to delete other programs before they get too big. Like other digital beings, it has evolved into a more advanced and powerful state, but its parameters on what constitutes "too advanced" haven't changed, transforming it into an OmnicidalManiac which attempts to delete everything. After hitching a ride to the human world and assimilating Jeri, it goes FromBadToWorse.

-> Voiced by: Creator/YokoAsada (JP), Creator/BridgetHoffman (EN), Gádor Martín (Spain), Mireya Mendoza (Latin America)

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* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: The D-Reaper is a three dimensional mass in a two dimensional world. Deliberately invoked for a similar reason to the Mugann of ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'': it shows just how alien, how much of an EldritchAbomination, and how plain ''wrong'' this thing is.
* AdaptiveAbility: What makes the D-Reaper so dangerous is that it is constantly advancing and adapting. It only becomes more deadly as it grows to understand its opponents. Its adaptation means that no single tactic, no matter how debilitating to it, will work on it for long and that its strikes only become increasingly deadly as it learns what weaknesses it can exploit.
* AIIsACrapshoot: The only artificial intelligence to remain a villain the whole series. Unlike all the others, it's doing exactly what it was created to do, just on a larger scale than its creators intended. [[spoiler: However, once it starts analyzing Jeri's emotions as she's at an incredibly unstable period of her life due to Leomon's death, it adopts a StrawNihilist mentality and in its [[BlueAndOrangeMorality alien simplicity]] uses that mental state to justify ''erasing everything.'']]
* AllYourPowersCombined: The Reaper and Mother D-Reaper forms are basically the unified form of all their Agents.
* AmbiguousSituation: How Juri fell into the D-Reaper's clutches is very vague. While in the midst of her depression Juri starts ConsultingMisterPuppet about fate, but after Culumon's Shining Evolution triggers, Juri's dog puppet starts talking ''on its own'' about the uselessness of sadness and that useless things should be destroyed like the ADR-01 would later do. The puppet growls at something offscreen and leads Juri away behind some rocks. The tamers belatedly notice Juri is missing and find her clone, the ADR-01. Seriously, [[PlotHole what was up with that puppet]]?
* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: Its assessment of humanity's crimes is that we are "disorderly, illogical, and without respect for boundaries". Unlike most examples of this trope, it's the third point that is emphasized most, which highlights the D-Reaper's BlueAndOrangeMorality.
* TheAssimilator: It absorbs things into its mass. The main area is comprised of buildings that've been drawn into the goo, but it also manages to absorb a video camera, which the Paratice Head then grows. Dolphin speculates that it had managed to absorb the ability to digivolve after going through so many Digimon.
* BigBad: Of the final arc, and of the entire series due to being at the heart of the conflict between the Digital and human worlds.
* BlobMonster: The quantum bubble its AI core lives in looks like one from the outside. It also ''acts'' like one, being able to dissolve things it touches or pull them inside the EldritchLocation it contains.
* BlueAndOrangeMorality: While it's initially the case that the D-Reaper is solely motivated by its programming to find anything that exceeds its original parameters and erase it, as time goes on it develops a StrawNihilist mentality to justify such action on top of its programming. Apparently, HumanityIsInfectious: the StrawNihilist part probably comes from D-Reaper analyzing Jeri's darkest emotions.
* BreakThemByTalking: Aside from the D-Reapers inherent physically destructive nature, once it learns to communicate through reproducing Jeri's voice, this becomes a favored tactic. The D-Reaper uses cold, methodical rationality to explain why humanity deserves to be wiped out, and often manages to pinpoint emotional weaknesses to mess with the heroes psychologically. One of the most stark instances is when it identifies and repeatedly recounts the fact that Beelzemon destroyed Jeri's partner Leomon, with the usage of Jeri's voice further intensifying Beelzemon's feelings of guilt.
* TheCameo: Makes up most of the Chaos Wasteland stage in ''Digimon Rumble Arena 2''.
* CoolMask: The Mother D-Reaper wears a weird mask said to resemble that of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'''s Lilith.
* DiabolusExNihilo: The D-Reaper is never even hinted at until Azulongmon explains what's going on. This only enhances [[OutsideContextProblem how alien it is]]. The story provides a background afterwards.
* TheDogWasTheMastermind: Juri is lead into the D-Reaper's clutches when her puppet comes to life and leads her away from the group.
* EldritchLocation: Grows big enough to the point where it develops ''its own environment'', which warps the laws of physics.
* ElementalRockPaperScissors: Naturally, this program breaks the rules by having an unknown type that has advantage over all others. [[spoiler:This advantage is lost when the Tamers use the especially designed red card (converting them to the same type) which gives them a fighting chance against the agents as well as nullifying the negative effects inside the D-Reaper's quantum bubble]].
* EvilCounterpart: It is essentially this to the Digimon. It seeks to absorb them and kill them, evolving and becoming much stronger and intelligent as a result, much like Digimon load their prey in order to evolve. Its link with Jeri is something of a corrupted version of Matrix Evolution.
* EvilIsBurningHot: It gives off tremendous amounts of heat as it expands.
* FinalBossNewDimension: The final battle with the Mother D-Reaper takes place within the D-Reaper's zone.
* FromNobodyToNightmare: As programs go. Its original self was no more complicated than a ''calculator''.
* GeniusLoci: Everything consumed by the Chaos becomes part of the D-Reaper's zone of influence and is subject to its warping of physics.
* GoneHorriblyRight: D-Reaper only does ''exactly'' what it's programmed to do: delete anything that exceeds its designated parameters. Unfortunately, the programmers forgot to account for the fact that TechnologyMarchesOn. So, while everything else about it has evolved, its parameters haven't changed from when they were set in the 80's, when RAM was barely a fraction as strong as present day. [[spoiler: Additionaly, in raw data terms the real world is ''infinitely'' more complex, so once it escapes to the real world it sees an ''entire world'' that exceeds its parameters by orders of magnitude.]]
* GreaterScopeVillain: It originally served this role since no one in the human world even knew of its existence or that it's the cause of all the conflict with the Devas and why Calumon is in the human world before the final arc.
* GrewBeyondTheirProgramming: Zigzagged. As it turns out, the D-Reaper is still carrying out its original function from decades ago (ironically, to delete things that GrewBeyondTheirProgramming), but thanks to the same evolutionary phenomenon that brought forth the Digimon, its capacity to carry out that function has made exponential leaps and bounds and turned it into an EldritchAbomination and potential ApocalypseHow of multiversal scope. The situation is later implied to develop into a straighter example, [[spoiler:as using a human being as its power source and interacting with biological data appears to have accidentally initiated a paradigm shift in the D-Reaper and given it a will of its own]].
* TheHeartless: It feeds off the memories and misery of its human host, Jeri in a corrupted version of a Biomerge. This lets it create its legions of nightmarish agents rather than merely passively absorb the environment into its substance.
* HomeFieldAdvantage: The Tamers and their partners couldn't enter the D-Reaper, as it would destroy them.
* HopeCrusher: It draws its power from Jeri's despair and suffering, and goes out of its way to push these feelings to the hilt by {{Mind Rape}}ing her over and over again. It extends this attitude to others, too: it delivers a blistering BreakingSpeech to Beelzemon reminding him of his crimes in an attempt to break his spirit. To Beelzemon's credit, it just pisses him off.
* HopelessWar: It engages both the Digital and physical worlds in one of these. The inhabitants of both worlds know that fighting conventionally only delays its inevitable victory, but have no choice but to continue and hope that they can buy enough time for a miracle.
* TheJuggernaut: Even after seven series, it is still likely the most powerful being ever to appear in the anime. [[spoiler: Shaggai (Juggernaut in English) reverted the D-Reaper to its original incarnation. In other words, the D-Reaper is ''still'' '''alive''' after the final battle. Though whether or not it could return to its previous state is unclear]].
* KnightOfCerebus: Even more than Beelzemon. When it shows up, the series becomes a war story.
* MachineMonotone: It speaks in Jeri's voice, but in a cold, emotionless monotone.
* MechanicalAbomination: It is a computer program that turned into a virtual EldritchAbomination, especially once it crosses over into the human world. Meeting us puny humans makes it ''worse'' or at least a good deal crazier.
* MightyGlacier: The D-Reaper's red goo. It slowly covers the whole landscape, but it can't be destroyed or pushed back by force.
* MindRape: What the thing does to Jeri to get more power in a corrupted version of a Biomerge.
* MotherOfAThousandYoung: It spawns hundreds of Agents from itself. The Mother form may be a ShoutOut to the trope namer, Shub-Niggurath.
* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Invoked by Chiaki J. Konaka, the head writer for a show. He had Kenji Watanabe (the originator of ''Digimon''), Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru (the human character designer), and Shinji Aramaki (the CGI designer) have a competition with each other while designing this thing for the express purpose of getting this. And it worked; there's certainly never been anything like this in the Digimon franchise before or after it.
* OmnicidalManiac: Digimon, humans, doesn't matter. Whatever has "evolved pass its parameters" is a target, and given it was designed on a computer in the 1980s that means ''just about everything''.
* PoweredByAForsakenChild: ''Literally'', as Jeri serves as its unwilling battery.
* SealedEvilInACan: While the original Japanese version implies it was killed in the Tamers' last assault, the American dub changes it so that the D-Reaper is merely sealed in another dimension, in its earliest, primitive form as the Monster Makers couldn't figure out how to destroy it.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: The American dub changes it so that the D-Reaper is merely sealed in another dimension in its earliest, primitive form.
* TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt: Was well on the way to both deleting the Digital World, and had a slow but unstoppable invasion of Earth.
* ThirdPersonPerson. D-Reaper refers to itself as this.
* WeaksauceWeakness: At first, it's unable to assimilate biological structures like plants and trees, because it hasn't figured them out yet. Then it figures them out.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:Agents of the D-Reaper]]
Individual elements of the D-Reaper, created for a specific purpose. None of them have an identity or consciousness, as all of them are extensions of the singular will of the program.
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* AchillesPowerCord: To defeat the Agents, one needs to cut the cord that connects them to the D-Reaper.
%%* AntiAir: Pendulum Feet.
* BedsheetGhost: The Pendulum Feet resemble this.
* BrokenRecord: The first Palates Head incessantly spouts off quasi-gibberish that the D-Reaper has harvested from Jeri's thoughts and memories, which becomes an accidental BreakingSpeech towards her father.
%%* TheBrute: Horn Striker.
* CloseRangeCombatant: Creep Hands, who have large, stretchable arms. They have no ranged attacks, and are built for grappling.
* ConfusionFu: The Palates Head's card game descriptions indicate that its attacks are unpredictable. In the anime, it has dozens of prehensile cables both hidden and exposed that can be used as a particularly chaotic mass of CombatTentacles.
* DavidVersusGoliath: The ADR-07, Palates Head, weighing in at a solid sixty feet at least, positively ''towers'' over the matrix megas Dukemon, Sakuyamon, and Justimon. Its huge size is plenty threatening on its own, but it still doesn't come to close to [=SaintGalgomon=]; luckily for the ADR-07, [[WorfHadTheFlu Jian and Terriermon were stuck]] helping the Wild Bunch at the time.
* EldritchAbomination: All of them, in particular the Palates Head, Optimizer, Shinigami Reaper, and Mother D-Reaper taking the lead.
* EvilIsBigger: Nearly every new species of Agent is larger than the previous, culminating in the enormous Reaper and Mother D-Reaper forms.
* GuardianEntity: ADR-09, or Gatekeeper, was created merely to protect the D-Reaper's core.
* HiveMind: They sort-of kind-of work like this. Those cables connect them to the rest of the D-Reaper, as they're simple extentions of the greater Hive Mind's will.
* ImMelting: Upon defeat, they dissolve into goo, which quickly evaporates.
* TheMothership: Optimizers; they're large, fly, can fire energy blasts, and carry a lot of Bubbles.
* MouthOfSauron: Later versions of the Paratice Head move beyond repeating Jeri's thoughts, and into spouting off the D-Reaper's insane thoughts.
* ReportingNames: The various aliases given to the Agents. Officially they're all ADR-01, ADR-02, ADR-03, ''etc.''
* SinisterScythe: The Pendulum Feet are armed with one. Shinigami Reaper also numerous giant ones on cables.
* SinisterSurveillance:
** Searchers, little bird-things whose job is to gather intelligence. They're always in large flocks, and have eye-symbols on their wings.
** The Palates Head is an described [[AllThereInTheManual in supplementary materials]] as "armed reconnaissance"; in the anime, it produces a working video camera and shoves it in the face of Juri's father to analyze him.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: For years, the alias of ADR-07 was considered to be "Paratice Head", which doesn't mean anything in particular and was transliterated from ''paratisu heddo''. Recently it's been learned that its name is "Palates Head", in which "[[MeaningfulName palate]]" is the roof bone of the mouth (of which the Palates Head has ''many''). (This misconception appears to arise from the creators not realizing the e in "palate" was silent).
* StoneWall: Gatekeeper, which seems to exist solely to protect the D-Reaper's core.
* TooManyMouths: Palates Head, which has a head consisting entirely of mouths, plus some on the body and palms.
* WhoNeedsTheirWholeBody: The Horn Striker.
* ZergRush: Bubbles; rather weak and easily beatable, they always attack in large groups.
[[/folder]]

[[folder:ADR-01]]

The first encountered Agent, created to spy on humanity. Latter used to wage psychological warfare on Takato.
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* BreakThemByTalking: It almost does this to Takato once it reveals itself to him.
* TheCameo: Appears in the background of the Chaos Wasteland stage in ''Digimon Rumble Arena 2''.
* CreepyChild: When it [[spoiler:impersonates Jeri]].
* CreepyMonotone: With the voice of a 10-year-old girl.
* DeepCoverAgent: [[spoiler:It]] manages to get into the real world and gather enough psychological intel [[spoiler:by disguising itself as Jeri. It manages to slip under the Tamers' radar only because the real Jeri was having a breakdown. Any abnormal behavior the Agent displays could just be chalked up to Jeri's trauma influencing it]].
* DoesNotLikeShoes: While [[spoiler:posing as Jeri]]. Complete with FeetFirstIntroduction.
* TheDragon: Serves as the last line of defense for the D-Reaper's Kernel Sphere, able to take on Gallantmon Crimson Mode in single combat. It's ambiguous however if it's truly an individual being serving the D-Reaper, having evolved from one of its agents, or if it's an extension of the evolving D-Reaper itself.
%%* EvilRedhead
* GoodHurtsEvil: It gets chased off by [[spoiler:[=MarineAngemon=]]], as his attacks are capable of repelling it.
* GrowingWings: The first sign that it isn't [[spoiler: Jeri, it's just impersonating her.]]
* HellishPupils: In its true form it has vertical slits for pupils. It eventually trades this for an EyelessFace.
* HumanoidAbomination: It looks just like a human girl, but is actually part of the D-Reaper.
%%* ManipulativeBastard
* MouthOfSauron: The mouthpiece of the D-Reaper.
* OneWingedAngel:
** After revealing to [[spoiler:Takato that she's not the real Jeri]], ADR-01 changes into a much more monstrous form.
** [[spoiler:Then it does another transformation when it is empowered by the Mother D-Reaper giving it Mega equivalent power, including a breath weapon, to fight against Gallantmon]].
* PatrickStewartSpeech: It ''just won't shut up'' about how useless and destructive humans and their emotions supposedly are, so it eventually gets an earful from Gallantmon.
* PsychoticSmirk: While giving Takato a BreakingSpeech disguised as [[spoiler:Jeri]], it increasingly alternates between a [[ThousandYardStare blank, dead-eyed stare]] and a blank, dead-eyed smile. Then it loses the disguise and keeps on grinning.
* StrawNihilist: Emphasized in the dub in which ADR-01 is portrayed with a more mean spirited personality. It's implied this mindset came from the D-Reaper assimilating [[spoiler: Jeri's negative thoughts and traumas.]]
* UncannyValley: Invoked when it reveals what it really is, but from the minute it first appears there's clearly something ''massively off'' with [[spoiler:Jeri]]. Then, as it continues messing with Takato, [[spoiler:it takes on an adult version of her appearance, apparently for no other reason to screw with him.]]
* TheUnSmile: [[spoiler:While disguised as Jeri, her initial expression is something that could be mistaken for a smile, but isn't. ''It really isn't.'']]
* VoiceOfTheLegion: It gets more and more noticeable until the ADR-01 loses its disguise.
* WalkingSpoiler: Knowing too much about this agent will possibly ruin the dramatic reveal for first time viewers about [[spoiler:Jeri being the D-Reaper's power source]].
* WalkingWasteland: Once it reveals itself to Takato, the surrounding trees and fallen leaves begin to wither and die rapidly. It's ambiguous whether this effect is caused by the ADR-01 or the D-Reaper finally discovering how to analyze organic matter (something the ADR-01 said it was struggling with when she appeared).
[[/folder]]

* BadassBandolier: Gargomon dramatically whips one around his torso and snaps it into place with his right arm as the end point of his evolution. Save for this, Gargomon would be completely [[topless WalkingShirtlessScene]].

* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Gargomon wears pants.

->Reika is voiced by: Ai Nagano (JP), Tifanie Christun (EN, series), Philece Sampler (EN, movie), Gádor Martín (Spain), Belinda García (Latin America)

* AmbiguousGender: Even though Digimon themselves aren't divided by genders, [[spoiler:and Culumon's not even a Digimon to begin with]].

%%* IncorruptiblePurePureness