History Characters / DigimonTamers

* TooManyMouths: Paratice Head, which has a head consisting entirely of mouths, plus some on the body and palms.

* WalkingWasteland: Once it reveals itself to Takato, it displays the ability to make trees disintegrate just by walking past them.

* ButNotTooForeign: Half-Chinese, as you may have guessed. In the English dub, most of the characters had pseudo-Japanese sounding names but he and his sister get the obvious American names Henry and Suzie, respectively.

* BadassBaritone: As Beelzemon. In both English and Japanese, Impmon's voice is high-pitched and bratty, while Beelzemon's is very deep and intimidating.

* CharacterTic: Flicking his zippo open and closed.

%%* PowerTrio: The main Tamers -- Takato, Henry, and Rika, on many levels.

* 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 PowerTrio 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.

* FamousLastWords: "Ha! You missed!"

* HeroicSelfDeprecation: After getting the massive dose of HumblePie that [[spoiler: causes his HeelFaceTurn]], Impmon comes to view himself as totally worthless.

* AscendedFanboy: They went from being fans of the Digimon franchise to being actual Digidestined themselves.

* SatelliteCharacter: Subverted. She is Takato's love interest, and it seems her interest in digimon was at least partially sparked by him, but unlike many other characters with her archetype, she undergoes her own personal character development arc and, due to a number of admittedly unfortunate circumstances, actually ends up the character who her cast mates and the plot end up revolving around in the final third of the season.

* 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 that quickly become apparent are things she's always believed but never voiced]]. Rika even later muses about how due to Jeri's happy nature, she never realized or considered that Jeri might have her own inner-demons.

* RevengeBeforeReason: After Beelzemon [[spoiler: kills Leomon]], Takato is so consumed by rage and desire for revenge that he stops thinking clearly and ''orders'' Guilmon to digivolve so he can punish Beelzemon for what he did. Guilmon's resulting form, Megidramon, is a hideous monstrosity that contains 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.

** On the other hand, she has a few significant moments with Takato, often showing her getting irritated or worried about him. [[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]].

* TenMinuteRetirement: In episode 10 she quits being a Tamer after the events from the episode leaves her traumatized. She gets over it over the course of the next episode.

* AFriendInNeed: His wife once told Henry that Janyu went to great lengths to help a friend that hit rock bottom.

* PoorCommunicationKills: Janyu's propensity to hide information from his children 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.

* ShesAManInJapan: Not exactly to the dubber's faults though, since Lopmon/Antylamon uses a gender-neutral dialect in Japanese and has a female voice actor, forcing the localization team to take a guess. 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. It could be said that the fact Renamon explicitly states that in this season Digimon 'aren't divided by gender' works in their favor.

** He refuses to stop trying to fight a Deva even though said Deva can kick Impmon around without batting an eye, and even while doing it admits such a trait is admirable, if foolish.

** [[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]].

* 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 forced his way into the trip to the digital world to find his own digimon partner, which he 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 is practically snuffed out right then, and while he still makes an effort to be useful, he becomes content with serving as more of a support or backup member.

* 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, and 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.

* 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 forced his way into the trip to the digital world to find his own digimon partner, which he 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 is practically snuffed out right then, and he becomes content with taking a step back to serve as more of a support or backup member.

* 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, and 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.

* 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 forced his way into the trip to the digital world to find his own digimon partner, which he did. However, he gets a massive wake-up call to how dangerous dealing with digimon Can be when Beelzemon attacks the group. Kazu's desire to fight is practically snuffed out right then, and he becomes content with serving as a supportive member or backup fighter.

* CharacterDevelopment: Kazu had all the makings of a StockShounenHero wannabe: brash and adventure-hungry, along with a desire to be the best. An avid digimon fan, he was jealous when he saw that Takato, Rika, and Henry had their own real digimon and forced his way into the trip to the digital world to find his own digimon partner, which he did. However, he gets a massive wake-up call when Beelzemon attacks the group. Kazu's desire to fight is practically snuffed out right then, and he becomes content with serving as a supportive member or backup fighter.

* 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 the exception, but he's not even original to this season.) Although they hasn't been made to feel obligated to save the world, they'll step up and fight when danger shows up anyway.

* ThisIsSomethingHesGotToDoHimself: Seems to hold this belief. 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, Renamon only saved him when it was absolutely necessary. [[InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn Finally, in a desperate moment, Renamon wouldn't even consider helping Gallantmon against]] [[spoiler:Beelzemon]]; Guardromon does anyway.

* RevengeBeforeReason: After Beelzemon [[spoiler: kills Leomon]], Takato is so consumed by rage and desire for revenge that he stops thinking clearly and ''orders'' Guilmon to digivolve so he can punish Beelzemon for what he did. Guilmon's resulting form, Megidramon, is a hideous monstrosity that contains 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.

* RevengeBeforeReason: After Beelzemon [[spoiler: kills Leomon]], Takato is so consumed by rage and desire for revenge that he stops thinking clearly and ''orders'' Guilmon to digivolve so he can punish Beelzemon for what he did. Guilmon's resulting form, Megidramon, is a hideous monstrosity that contains 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.

* RevengeBeforeReason: After Beelzemon [[spoiler: kills Leomon]], Takato is so consumed by rage and desire for revenge that he stops thinking clearly and ''orders'' Guilmon to digivolve so he can punish Beelzemon for what he did. Guilmon's resulting form, Megidramon, is a hideous monstrosity that contains 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.

* RevengeBeforeReason: After Beelzemon [[spoiler: kills Leomon]], Takato is so consumed by rage and desire for revenge that he stops thinking clearly and ''orders'' Guilmon to digivolve so he can punish Beelzemon for what he did. Guilmon's resulting form, Megidramon, is a hideous monstrosity that contains so much energy that the universe starts to implode. It's particularly notable that this happens, since prior to this, Takato explicitly had been worried about Guilmon digivolving into an uncontrollable beast, but clearly in this moment all such thoughts just went right out the window.