History Characters / DigimonTamers

* BigBrotherMentor: He gives a stock inspirational speech to the Hagurumon he rescues during his debut, who responds by fawning over him.

%%* FauxAffablyEvil: The main Parasimon.
%%* GiantEyeOfDoom

%%* MadeOfPlasticine

* 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 combat tentacles and then carves him to pieces and then even
* PaperTiger: They are Megas, but can be beaten by Champions. 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.

%%* TentacleRope

* ZergRush

* AudienceSurrogate: Was created with this in mind.

* BirdsOfAFeather: With Jeri, both 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 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.

* CannotTalkToWomen: [[DownplayedTrope Somewhat.]] While it’s obvious he CannotSpitItOut around Jeri, he also can’t seem to keep his cool around Rika ''as well'', despite them being JustFriends.
* CharacterDevelopment: Turning from a somewhat sweet kid, to a literal KnightInShiningArmor.

* ChickMagnet: Downplayed, but Takato has ShipTease with not only main LoveInterest Jeri, but also Rika[[note]]especially after Dukemon's premiere[[/note]] and Minami (from "Adventurer's Battle").
* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter: In contrast to [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Davis]], who was a HotBlooded JerkWithAHeartOfGold, Takato is an openly kind and gentle soul whose moments of anger are very rare but potentially terrifying when they occur.

* {{Expy}}: Confirmed by WordOfGod to have many elements borrowed of the other "goggle boys", with a more AudienceSurrogate-like personality.

* 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 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.

* RookieRedRanger: Last of the power trio 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.
* ScreamingWarrior: He usually uses his connection with [=WarGrowlmon=] to channel power into him with a little primal scream therapy.
* ShipTease: With Jeri and sometimes Rika.

%%* MilitaryMashupMachine

* NarratorAllAlong: In a rather interesting case in the English dub. It sounds like [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Davis]] was the narrator for the PreviouslyOn segments of ''Tamers''. But when the episode when Kai first appears, the character sounds exactly like Davis! However, the movie had Kai with a different voice actor.

%%* ShirtlessScene

* IdealHero: When Ryo is introduced, he's charming, composed, and 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.

* TheAce: The "Digimon King" of the cardgame, though considering his backstory he's more of a BrokenAce.

* AllThereInTheManual: His entire backstory, including why he was in the ''Tamers'' canon to begin with, was told through [[VideoGame/DigimonWonderSwanSeries a series of four Bandai WonderSwan games]]. For the sake of reference, a summary of said games can be found [[Recap/DigimonWonderSwanSeries here]]. [[NoExportForYou None of these games were released in the West]], meaning that's one ''long'' manual no-one got to read. Because of this, 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'' magazine (the UK Fox Kid's magazine) issue #43, on September 28th, 2003... which a lot of North Americans didn't get.
* AmbiguousSituation: Despite ostensibly being the star of the ''VideoGame/DigimonWonderswanSeries'', the writers went out of their way to give him a Tamers-only backstory, which creates a nasty ContinuitySnarl and opens the question of whether this Ryo is the same as the Wonderswan Ryo.

* CanonImmigrant: He first appeared in the Japan-only Wonder Swan Digimon games.
* ContinuitySnarl: Seki Hiromi, the producer for ''Tamers'', [[WordOfStPaul has stated]] that the Ryo Akiyama of ''Tamers'' is the same person as the star of the ''VideoGame/DigimonWonderSwanSeries''. Unfortunately, the Ryo of Tamers has an anime-unique backstory that makes no reference to the games and has inconsistencies such as the Tamers incarnation of Ryo's parents living in the Tamers world despite the Wonderswan Series indicating Ryo and his family lived in the ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' universe. "Message in a Packet" muddies the waters a little by alluding vaguely to Milleniumon and suggesting he may be within Cyberdramon himself, a MythologyGag to the ending of ''Brave Tamer''.
* DemotedToExtra: The role played by him and Cyberdramon in the manga is reduced to TheCameo; he's absent from the D-Reaper arc.
* TheDrifter: Both in this series and in his backstory.

* FriendlessBackground: Throughout his backstory. He is the Tamer that spends most of his time alone, not to mention that he never tries to stick with the group or make it stick together at all, in contrast to [[TheHero Takato.]]
* HonorBeforeReason: In series, and in his backstory. Chose to be Cyberdramon's partner, even if it meant going to the Digital World and being separated from his parents (since Cyberdramon would attack everyone close to him) [[spoiler:and he did not see them again for more than a ''year'']]. After the Tamers returned, he pushed Cyberdramon and himself day after day to fight [[spoiler: the D-Reaper's Agents]] to the point of exhaustion.

* ItSucksToBeTheChosenOne: He's not happy about being the chosen one.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: The CD Drama indicates that at the start of the series he didn't remember Digimon were real (i.e had forgotten his adventures in the games), but implies that he may have started to remember.

* TheOnlyOne: A key part of his backstory. There was a certain extraordinarily powerful, extraordinarily evil Digimon that only he could defeat [[spoiler: because said Digimon was his partner]]. He had to learn the ''[[TraumaCongaLine very, very]]'' hard way to stand on his own as a tamer, and it shows in his attitude towards the others. He doesn't mind hanging out with them, but he'll leave to do his own thing at the drop of a hat.
* RememberTheNewGuy: When we first meet him, Kazu and Kenta start talking him up like he's super hot stuff... and was supposedly always there. Unfortunately, this was the first introduction to the character.
* ShipTease: Some here and there with [[DefrostingIceQueen Rika]], mostly consisting of him [[BelligerentSexualTension aggravating her]] and emphasized in the dub. This didn't take off so well in the west, where nobody knew Ryo.
* SixthRanger: Although the last Tamer introduced, he's the only one on par in terms of power and competency with the core Power Trio.
* SmoochOfVictory: Part of the tease was him trying to invoke this trope. ''So what do I get for saving your life not once but '''twice'''?''
* StepfordSmiler: Not once in the series does he lose his cool, but [[AllThereInTheManual his backstory]] indicates it's nothing more than a cover-up of deeper issues.
* WalkingTheEarth: He's been traveling around the Digital World for months with Cyberdramon, who was too feral to safely keep on Earth any longer.

* 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. Rika, however, following her AdaptationPersonalityChange and being in the English dub's WorldOfSnark, is quite sassy and much likelier to taunt people.

* 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 is he ever uses "-chan" for her again; her aversion to the cutesy honorific ironically pushes Takato into using the quite familiar "Ruki" afterwards.

* 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 is he ever uses "-chan" for her again; her aversion to the cutesy honorific ironically pushes Takato into using the quite familiar "Ruki" afterwards.

%%* LittleMissSnarker: From time to time, especially in the dub.
* LonelyRichKid: With shades of being a SpoiledBrat early on. She's shown to go to a different, clearly more prestigous school from Takato and Henry, and doesn't have any friends besides Renamon.

* ContinuitySnarl: Seki Hiromi, who was the producer for ''Tamers'', [[WordOfStPaul has stated]] that the original Ryo Akiyama of the ''VideoGame/DigimonWonderSwanSeries'' is, in fact, the same person as the Ryo Akiyama that appears in ''Tamers''. Unfortunately, the Ryo who appears in Tamers has an anime-unique backstory that makes no reference to the games and has inconsistencies such as the Tamers incarnation of Ryo's parents living in the Tamers world despite the Wonderswan Series indicating Ryo and his family lived in the ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' universe.
* DemotedToExtra: The role played by him and Cyberdramon is significantly reduced in the manga, and he's absent for the D-Reaper arc.

* ContinuitySnarl: We could make a drinking game out of all the problems you'd have to wrap your head around trying to mesh the events of the ''VideoGame/DigimonWonderSwanSeries'' with ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' and ''Tamers''. Take his family, for instance, and ask yourself what on earth is it doing in the ''Tamers'' universe.

* 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 [[NotSoDifferent exactly the same thing she had just called [=IceDevimon=] evil for doing]][[/note]], her lashing out during the latter might have been understandable.

* NotSoDifferent: From 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.
** Inverted with Guilmon and Terriermon, whose partners treated them better.

* NotSoDifferent: 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.

* BadassAdorable: [[Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike Look at the rabbit. Now look at her Tamer. Now look back at the rabbit. Now back at the Tamer. The rabbit is now a divine being. She's on an angel.]]

* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Briefly controlled during the [[CanonDiscontinuity second movie]]. DamselInDistress? Ha. Rika goes bananas.

* DeusExMachina: Omegamon's only function after the prelude is to bring Ruki, Jian, and their digimon to help Takato kill Mephismon.

* 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's never seen or mentioned after this movie again, so its unknown where he went afterwards, although presumably he helped in the fight against the D-Reaper

* {{BFS}}: His Transcendent Sword

* TheJuggernaut: A rare heroic portrayal, nothing thats thrown at him in the movie causes him any harm at all and barely slows him down

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: He's never seen or mentioned after this movie again, so its unknown where he went afterwards, although presumably he helped in the fight against the D-Reaper

* 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 ofh er depression]].

* 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: And 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]].

* 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 empty, guilt-ridden, and borderline suicidal]], he only finds peace once he reconciles with and fights alongside the other heroes.

* BrokenRecord: The first Paratice Head incessantly spouts off what the D-Reaper has gleaned from Jeri's thoughts, which in turn acts as an accidental BreakingSpeech towards her father.

%%* ConfusionFu: Paratice Head.

* EldritchAbomination: All of them, in particular the Paratice Head, Optimizer, Shinigami Reaper, and Mother D-Reaper taking the lead.

* ReportingNames: The various names given to the Agents.

* SinisterSurveillance: Searchers, little bird-things whose job is to gather intelligence. They're always in large flocks, and have eye-symbols on their wings.

* SpellMyNameWithAS: 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).