History Trivia / DigimonAdventure02

** On the other side of the Pacific, Jeff Nimoy stated that ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'' was supposed to just feature the first two movies, but higher ups demanded he add the third movie in, which he wanted to be shown as a TV special.
** In the series itself, Nimoy and his cowriter Bob Buchholz were instructed by Fox Kids to make the series "funnier" which annoyed a lot of fans, eventually Jeff and Bob left due to frustrations with Fox's demands. Fox Kids must have backed off afterward because the final 8 episodes of the season were noticeably less GagDub.

** In episode 43, Bridget Hoffman filled in for Tifanie Christun as Yolei. In the same episode, for one line only, Wendee Lee doubled a line for Sora, who is mainly voiced by Colleen O'Shaughnessey.

** At some point the digimon would've digivolved with both their main digimentals instead of just one. Hints of this can be seen in Sagitarrimon's design, which is clearly based on Flamedramon for the upper body and Raidramon for the lower body and head.

* TroubledProduction: A result of the ExecutiveMeddling, and CreativeDifferences.

** The original plan was for Daemon was to be a BigBad, but it never was able to happen.

** Really, there is a lot of WhatCouldHaveBeen this season. Bandai had created 8 armor evolutions (for each crest) for each partner Digimon. There was a Digimental of Kindness that Wormmon could use to become Bucchiemon, though that did eventually appear in the audio drama ''The Unknown Armor Evolutions''.
*** For that matter, Ken was supposed to use the Crest of Kindness to evolve Stingmon naturally before it got dropped in favor of Jogress evolution.
*** Also, at some point the digimon would've digivolved with both their main digimentals instead of just one. Hints of this can be seen in Sagitarrimon's design, which is clearly based on Flamedramon for the upper body and Raidramon for the lower body and head.
** Arukenimon was going to be Sasoribellamon, with a scorpion theme.
** Ken's name was originally going to be Ryo, but this was changed due to the Tag Tamers games' protagonist having the same name. He and his brother Osamu's names are respectively written as 賢 and 治, in a nod to then-current Creator/FujiTV producer Kenji Shimizu (賢治).
** Taichi and the rest of the original members were originally planned to be the main cast. Also, the producers had discussed the idea of Yamato breaking from the group completely and [[FaceHeelTurn joining the enemy side]].

** It's unknown who did the voice for Ken's older brother in the English dub, but in the original, both are voiced by Creator/RomiPark, who spends the entirety of episode 23 doing this (as the episode focuses on Ken and his past with his brother). IMDB states that the trope also carries over to the dub, according to some digital investigations

** Not the only example of a Chosen Child and their sibling(s): having the same seiyū: Miyako/Yolei and her sisters (Momoe and Chizuru) are all voiced by Creator/RioNatsuki.

** The inclusion of Davis into the story.
** The decision to not make him develop as a character.

* The episode "His Master's Voice" is loosely based off of "Literature/TheShadowOverInnsmouth" by Lovecraft. In one scene where Kari walks pass a sign, it spells Insumausu (Innsmouth) in Digicode. The "Scubamon" in the episode are based off the Deep Ones featured in the tale.

** Meanwhile, the head writer for Adventure, Satoru Nishizono, left the Digimon project because he didn't want for a sequel to his series to be made.

** Due to Jeff Nimoy leaving the show due to ExecutiveMeddling, R. Martin Klein took over as Tentomon for the last few episodes. This also resulted in Creator/SteveBlum replacing the former's role as Gennai in the final episode.

** Anna Garduno, the voice of Palmon, was replaced towards the end of the series since Anna was commuting from New York by that time. Philece Sampler, the voice of Palmon's partner Mimi, voiced the former in episode 47 while Dorothy Elias-Fahn, who voiced Palmon's ultimate form Lillymon, took over for episode 50; the finale of the series.
** Creator/JasonSpisak replaced Joshua Seth as Tai Kamiya and Bridget Hoffman replaced Laura Summers as Patamon in ''Revenge of Diaboromon''. These were the only major instances of the trope despite ''Adventure 02'' having finished airing four years before '''and''' Saban Entertainment no longer being involved in the dubbing. It's an ActorAllusion in Hoffman's case because she voiced Patamon in ''Anime/DigimonFrontier''.

* ContestWinnerStoryPitch: [[spoiler: Oikawa's eleventh-hour partner Digimon, Datirimon,]] was named in a fan contest.

** Much of the main staff including Creator/ChiakiKonaka couldn't stand the executive meddling anymore, and so were ready to break their contracts and leave the project, but Bandai, unwilling to let them do this, gave them [[Anime/DigimonTamers their own series]], to mess around with instead.

** In the series itself, Nimoy and his cowriter Bob Buchholz were instructed by Fox Kids to make the series "funnier" which annoyed a lot of fans, eventually Jeff and Bob left due to frustrations with Fox's demands. Fox Kids must have backed off afterwards because the final 8 episodes of the season were noticeably less GagDub.

** Due to Jeff Nimoy leaving the show due to ExecutiveMeddling, R. Martin Klein took over as Tentomon for the last few episodes.
** Creator/JasonSpisak replaced Joshua Seth as Tai Kamiya and Bridget Hoffman replaced Laura Summers as Patamon in ''Revenge of Diaboromon''. These were the only major instances of the trope despite ''Adventure 02'' having finished airing four years before '''and''' Saban Entertainment no longer being involved in the dubbing. It's an ActorAllusion in Hoffman's case, because she voiced Patamon in ''Anime/DigimonFrontier''.

* FakeBrit: While not actually British, being a Digimon and all, Hawkmon has a British accent in the English dub, while his voice actor, Neil Kaplan, is American.

** It's unknown who did the voice for Ken's older brother in the English dub, but in the original, both are voiced by Creator/RomiPark, who spends the entirety of episode 23 doing this (as the episode focuses on Ken and his past with his brother).
* IMDB states that the trope also carries over to the dub, according to some digital investigations

** In the series itself, he and his cowriter Bob Buchholz were instructed by Fox Kids to make the series "funnier" which annoyed a lot of fans, eventually Jeff and Bob left due to frustrations with Fox's demands, Fox Kids must have backed off because the final 8 episodes of the season were noticably less GagDub.

** In the series itself, he and his cowriter Bob Buchholz were instructed by Fox Kids to make the series "funnier" which annoyed a lot of fans, eventually Jeff and Bob left due to frustrations with Fox's demands, Fox Kids must of backed off because the final 8 episodes of the season were noticably less GagDub.

** Taichi and the rest of the original members were originally planned to be the main cast. Also, the producers had discussed the idea of Yamato breaking from the group completely and [[HeelFaceTurn joining the enemy side]].

* MarthDebutedInSmashBros: In North America, ''Film/DigimonTheMovie'' was released before Raidramon's debut episode aired on Fox Kids.

** Not to mention Daemon. The original plan was for him to be a BigBad, but it never was able to happen.
** Co-Head Writer of season 2 Jeff Nimoy did not want to combine all 3 movies and just wanted to combine the first two into a feature length film and release the third movie straight to video or as a tv special (with the older kids being kidnapped subplot and all the other major edits intact) but higher ups at Fox forced them to combine all 3 movies, resulting in a confusing mess and the third movie being hacked to bits.
** Early character design sketches in ''02'' showed a lot more alternate outfits Mimi would have. Thankfully, some of them didn't make it into the final draft, and the most unfortunate we got was the one with the FunnyAfro.

** Really there is a lot of WhatCouldHaveBeen this season, Bandai had created 8 armor evolutions (for each crest) for each partner Digimon, there was a digimental of kindness that Wormmon could use to become Bucchiemon.
*** For that matter, Ken was supposed to use the crest of Kindness to evolve Stingmon naturally before it got dropped in favor of Jogress evolution.

** Taichi and the rest of the original members were originally planned to be the main cast. Also, the producers had discussed the idea of Yamato breaking from the group completely and [[HeelFaceTurn joining the enemy side]].

** In the English dub, Sora and Matt's sudden dating. The dub clearly favored Tai/Sora with constant teasing (including giving Tai an unrequited crush on Sora) while Matt/Sora got the short end of the stick with Matt acting like a jerkass. Comments from the original writer of Digimon Adventure indicate his general distaste for the pairing of male and female leads and he'd originally meant for Yamato and Sora to have a much stronger bond and foreshadowing of their eventual marriage. [[note]]That said, there was still enough wiggle room for legitimate dissent of opinion. The Japanese seiyuu for Sora and Gabumon (!) indicated in personal comments their surprise when it turned out Sora and Yamato would become a new couple, with [[WordOfStPaul Sora's actress indicating she figured Sora could be more open and straightforward around Taichi]].[[/note]]

** On the first version of Fox Kids' movie website, Willis' name was left as "Wallace." Updated versions replaced his name with "Willis", seemingly indicating that the movie was initially going to keep his original name.

** In both the original Japanese and the Latin American dub, Mummymon, Belial Vamdemon and Yukio Oikawa are all voiced by Toshiyuki Morikawa. You need to listen very carefully to hear any resemblance between the three characters' voices.

** Creator/DougErholtz replaced Creator/WendeeLee as T.K. in the dub, but this is justified due to T.K. now being 4 years older. In the Japanese version, Taisuke Yamamoto replaced Creator/HirokoKonishi after the latter retired from voice acting and subsequently became TheUnperson to the series.

** Creator/RomiPark (JP) and Creator/DerekStephenPrince (EN) do voices for both Ken and his brother, resulting in them spending the entirety of episode 23 doing this (as the episode focuses on Ken and his past with his brother).

** The loss of the Dark Ocean arc, and Dagomon as an antagonist.