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3Base entry for the ''Digimon'' ([[PortmanteauSeriesNickname short for]] "Digital Monsters") SeriesFranchise, centered on {{bond creature|s}} {{Mons}} from {{cyberspace}}. Originally beginning as the ''Digimon'' VirtualPet, conceived as the SpearCounterpart of ''Toys/{{Tamagotchi}}'' in an effort to broaden the latter's appeal to boys, it has since spread across numerous {{alternate continuit|y}}ies in multiple media including anime, manga, video games, and trading card games. The franchise is created and maintained by Creator/{{Bandai}} (now Creator/BandaiNamcoHoldings) and [=WiZ=], while Creator/ToeiAnimation shares an interest in the brand and is responsible for its anime series, promotional materials, and game cutscenes.
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5The franchise cultivates a sort of {{multiverse}}; with a few exceptions (most famously the original ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 having two]] [[Anime/DigimonAdventureTri anime sequels]] and a [[Anime/DigimonAdventureLastEvolutionKizuna final movie]]) and barring the occasional IntercontinuityCrossover, each entry, even within the same media series, takes place in a different AlternateContinuity. Thus, although certain themes and elements such as the Digital World are franchise staples, the rules of the universe are subject to change depending on the work. The franchise itself is also subject to quite a large amount of WorldBuilding regarding the nature of Digimon and the Digital World, which may or may not be used in different ways. On a story level, the BondCreature premise leads to ThePowerOfFriendship being a common theme.
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7There are also contributions to the franchise outside Japan as well; in China, there are (much compressed) {{manhua}} adaptations of the first four anime, as well as the unique ''Manhua/DigimonDCyber'', and in America, Creator/DarkHorseComics has created an adaptation of the first few episodes of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''. South Korea has also contributed two [[MassivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame MMOs]], with the current one in service being ''VideoGame/DigimonMasters''.
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9Licensing-wise, the franchise has generally fallen under the umbrella of Creator/BandaiNamco, but the anime has been in sketchier territory; the rights originally belonged to Creator/SabanEntertainment before being shifted to Creator/{{Disney}} after its dissolution in 2003. Disney handled the franchise's dubbing for a period until Creator/SabanBrands reacquired the English rights to the franchise in 2012. The dub as a whole, however, was subject to KeepCirculatingTheTapes during periods of non-airing, as it never received a formal home video release until New Video Group's DVD releases in 2013. Official subtitles of [[BlindIdiotTranslation volatile quality]] are few and far between, with ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', and ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' being streamed by Creator/{{Netflix}}, Creator/{{Funimation}}, Creator/{{Hulu}}, and Website/{{Crunchyroll}} respectively.
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11As far as manga goes, only the Chinese manhua and ''Manga/DigimonDreamers'' have ever been officially translated to English. The video gaming side of the franchise faired far better though, but after 2008 and until 2014, they too began to fall under NoExportForYou; ''Digimon All-Star Rumble'' was an American-built game released to English-speaking territories in 2014, while ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'' was finally localized in 2016.
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13Although the franchise was initially conceived as and is most known for being a children's franchise, it has been going through an AudienceShift as of late; dwindling sales of franchise media among children in TheNewTens have caused Bandai Namco and Toei Animation to shift their focus towards adults. However, they seem to be reaching out for a younger audience once more as of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure2020'', at least in terms of anime.
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15Also, it's best not to call it a ripoff of ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}''. [[FandomEnragingMisconception You will regret it for the rest of your life]].[[note]]For the sake of clarification: the similarities between the two pretty much end at their status as {{kodomomuke}} {{mons}} franchises based on portable games which debuted at roughly the same time, 3 months to be exact; beyond that, [[{{Pun}} they are vastly different beasts]].[[/note]] Nor has it anything to do with the similar-sounding ''Anime/DiGiCharat''.
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17See each series page for series-specific tropes.
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19!!Anime
20* ''Digimon Adventure'' continuity[[index]]
21** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' (TV series, 1999-2000)[[/index]]
22*** ''[[Recap/DigimonAdventurePilot Digimon Adventure]]'' (PilotMovie; 1999)
23*** ''[[Recap/DigimonAdventureMovieOurWarGame Digimon Adventure: Our War Game!]]'' (movie, 2000)[[index]]
24** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' (TV series, 2000-2001)[[/index]]
25*** ''[[Recap/DigimonAdventure02M1TranscendentEvolutionTheGoldenDigimentals Digimon Adventure 02: Digimon Hurricane Touchdown!! / Supreme Evolution!! The Golden Digimentals]]'' (movie, 2000)[[index]]
26*** ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'' (US [[CompilationRerelease Compilation]] Dub of the three then-released ''Adventure'' continuity movies; 2000)[[/index]]
27*** ''[[Recap/DigimonAdventure02M2RevengeOfDiaboromon Digimon Adventure 02: Revenge of Diaboromon]]'' (movie, 2001)[[index]]
28** ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' (anime movie series, 2015-2018)
29** ''Anime/DigimonAdventureLastEvolutionKizuna'' (movie, 2020)
30** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02TheBeginning'' (movie, 2023)
31* ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' (TV series, 2001-2002)[[/index]]
32** ''[[Recap/DigimonTamersM1BattleOfAdventurers Digimon Tamers: Battle of Adventurers]]'' (movie, 2001)
33** ''[[Recap/DigimonTamersM2RunawayLocomon Digimon Tamers: Runaway Locomon]]'' (movie, 2002)[[index]]
34* ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' (TV series, 2002-2003)[[/index]]
35** ''[[Recap/DigimonFrontierMovieIslandOfLostDigimon Digimon Frontier: Island of Lost Digimon]]'' (movie, 2002)[[index]]
36* ''Anime/DigimonXEvolution'' (CGI movie, 2005)
37* ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' (aka ''Digimon Savers''; TV series, 2006-2007)[[/index]]
38** ''Digimon Savers: Ultimate Power! Activate Burst Mode!!'' (movie, 2006)[[index]]
39* ''Digimon Xros Wars'' continuity
40** ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' (aka ''Digimon Xros Wars''; TV series, 2010-2011)
41** ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'' (TV series, 2011-2012)[[note]]Legally, this is actually considered a part of ''Fusion'' rather than a sequel, meaning that it and the two parts before it comprise a trilogy of "seasons" in the same series, but it's given its own separate page here because its heavy thematic differences and one-year TimeSkip make it resemble a sequel to the prior two parts more than anything else.[[/note]]
42* ''Anime/DigimonUniverseAppMonsters'' (TV series, 2016-2017)
43* ''[[Anime/DigimonAdventure2020 Digimon Adventure:]]'' (ContinuityReboot of ''Digimon Adventure'', 2020-2021)
44* ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'' (TV series, 2021-2023)
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46!!Video Games
47* ''Digital Monster Ver. S: Digimon Tamers'' (Sega Saturn - 1998)
48* ''Digimon World'' series[[index]]
49** ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld'' ([=PlayStation=] - 1999)
50** ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld2'' ([=PlayStation=] - 2000)
51** ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld3'' (aka ''Digimon World 2003'' in Europe) ([=PlayStation=] - 2002)
52** ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld4'' ([=PS2=], [=GameCube=], and Xbox - 2005)
53** ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize'' (PSP - 2012) (Japan only) and its UpdatedRerelease ''Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode'' (3DS - 2013)
54** ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldNextOrder'' (PSV and [=PS4=] - 2016;2023 for Nintendo Switch as part of ''[[CompilationRerelease International Edition]]'')[[/index]]
55* ''VideoGame/DigimonWonderSwanSeries'' (page for the four games with synopsis) (Japan only)
56** ''VideoGame/DigimonAdventureAnodeCathodeTamer'' ([=WonderSwan=] - 1999)
57** ''VideoGame/DigimonAdventure02TagTamers'' ([=WonderSwan=] Color - 2000)
58** ''VideoGame/DigimonAdventure02D1Tamers'' ([=WonderSwan=] Color - 2000)
59** ''VideoGame/DigimonTamersBraveTamer'' ([=WonderSwan=] Color - 2001)
60* ''VideoGame/DigimonDigitalCardBattle'' ([=PlayStation=] - 2000)
61* ''VideoGame/DigimonBattleSpirit (1, 1.5, and 2)'' (GBA - 2001-2003)
62* ''VideoGame/DigimonRumbleArena'' ([=PlayStation=] - 2001)
63** ''Digimon Rumble Arena 2'' ([=PS2=], [=GameCube=], and Xbox - 2004)
64* ''Digimon Battle'' (PC - 2002; 2010-2013 for NA; Relaunched as ''Digimon RPG'' in 2022 for NA only)
65* ''Digimon Racing'' (GBA - 2004)
66* ''Digimon Story'' series[[index]]
67** ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldDS'' (DS - 2006)
68** ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldDawnDusk'' (DS - 2007)[[/index]]
69** ''Digimon Story Lost Evolution'' (DS - 2010) (Japan only)
70** ''Digimon Story Super Xros Wars Red/Blue'' (DS - 2011) (Japan only)[[index]]
71** ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'' (PSV/[=PS4=] - 2015; 2019 for Nintendo Switch as part of ''[[CompilationRerelease Complete Edition]]'')
72** ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuthHackersMemory'' (PSV/[=PS4=] - 2017; 2019 for Nintendo Switch as part of ''[[CompilationRerelease Complete Edition]]'')[[/index]]
73* ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldDataSquad'' ([=PS2=] - 2006)
74* ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldChampionship'' (DS - 2008)
75* ''VideoGame/DigimonMasters'' (PC - 2009; 2011 worldwide)
76* ''Digimon Heroes!'' (Android/[=iOS=] - 2012)
77* ''[[VideoGame/DigimonAdventurePSP Digimon Adventure]]'' (PSP - 2013) (Japan only)
78* ''Digimon All-Star Rumble'' ([=PS3=] and Xbox 360 - 2014) (North America and Europe only)
79* ''VideoGame/DigimonReArise'' (Android/[=iOS=] - 2018-2022)
80* ''Digimon Encounters'' (Android/[=iOS=] - 2018) (China only)
81* ''Digimon New Century'' (Android/[=iOS=] - 2021) (China only)
82* ''VideoGame/DigimonSurvive'' ([=PS4=], Switch, Xbox One, and PC - 2022)
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84!!Manga
85[[index]]
86* ''Manga/CMonDigimon'' (1997)
87* ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'' (1998-2003)
88* ''Manhua/DigimonDCyber'' (2005) (Chinese manhua)
89* ''Manga/DigimonNext'' (2006-2008)
90* ''Manga/DigimonXrosWars'' (2010-2012)
91* ''Digimon World Re:Digitize Encode'' (manga adaptation of ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize Decode'')
92* ''Digimon Dreamers'' (2021)
93* ''Digimon Liberator'' (Web manga, 2024)
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95!!Other Official Media
96[[index]]
97* ''Literature/DigimonAdventure'' (2001) -- A retelling of the first series which also expands some of the lore.
98* Multiple [[TabletopGame/{{Digimon}} trading card games]] released through the years.
99** ''TabletopGame/DigimonCardGame'' (2020)
100* Multiple [[Toys/{{Digimon}} virtual pet toys]], which also includes another line of v-pets based on the in-universe Digivices after [[Anime/DigimonAdventure the first anime]] was introduced.
101* ''Advertising/DigimonProject2021'', a series of short live-action videos promoting the ''Vital Bracelet Digital Monster'' toy.
102* ''Literature/DigimonSeekers'', a novel series made to promote the franchise's 25th anniversary, set to begin serialization on April 3, 2023 with weekly chapter releases.
103* ''Digimon Liberator'', a novel series set in the same universe as the manga version of ''Digimon Liberator'', but with a different cast and story. It is set to begin serialization alongside the manga release.
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106!!These series provides examples of:
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110* AdaptationalWimp: Unless you dig through the data books and various supplementary material, you never know that the Mega/Ultimate-Level Digimon are actually capable of ''multiversal'' feats without breaking a sweat. The most range we usually see onscreen encompasses two worlds, or two universes by that logic when the BigBad unleashes their plan. This also applies to the Digimon partners, who are so powerful lore-wise that this trope is why humans can even stand in close vicinity of combat without dying or how the Earth isn't destroyed from collateral shockwaves.
111* AdultsAreUseless: Leave the saving-two-worlds to the kids. For the most part, all their parents did was sit at home waiting for them to come back (when they even knew the kids were gone). Sometimes, [[ScreeningTheCall they even tried to stop the kids from doing their Chosen Child duties,]] leading to the kids' occasionally having to lie and go behind their backs. A few adults -- like Matt and T.K.'s dad, Sora's mom, etc. -- did help out but in minor ways in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''.
112** Mostly averted in ''Anime/DigimonTamers''. Not only did Yamaki and the Wild Bunch know more about Digimon than the Tamers did, but they were actively involved in the Tamers' challenges, from traveling to and from the Digital World to [[spoiler:leading the fight against the D-Reaper]]. In fact, [[spoiler:it was a modified version of Yamaki's Juggernaut program, installed in Terriermon, that ultimately defeated the D-Reaper.]]
113** Pretty much justified in ''Anime/DigimonFrontier''. The parents aren't useless, but rather, flat out never knew the kids are traveling in Digital World trying to save it, because the kids are only gone for 20 minutes in real world time[[note]]At the end of the series, when Trailmon returned them to the real world, they are returned to 20 minutes after they boarded the train to the Digital World[[/note]].
114** Also mostly averted in ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad''. Captain Sampson, while staying in the commanding officer position a lot, bails the heroes out ''three times''. That old man who gave Marcus his Digivice, helps out at times and gives him sage advice? That would be Commander Yushima, who [[spoiler:bails the heroes out twice, and gives assistance during some fights later on.]] Marcus's open-minded mother, Sarah, gives refuge to the heroes [[spoiler:after they become fugitives from the Confidentiality Ministry thanks to Kurata]]. Keenan's parents [[spoiler:help the heroes get to the Digital World to chase after Kurata]]. And, finally, there's Marcus's father Spencer, who is ''one of the most badass characters in the series'', only rivaled by ''his own son''. [[spoiler:And his partner [=BanchoLeomon=], whom allows Spencer to share his body.]] One of the ''leads'', Yoshi, is technically an adult at [[OlderThanTheyLook 18 years of age]].
115* AdvertisingByAssociation: The original virtual pets had text on the packaging saying they're from the makers of ''Tamagotchi''.
116* AlienInvasion: More ambitious villains have attempted an invasion of the Real World.
117* AllMythsAreTrue: The franchise's very big pool of monsters takes here and there, from the Classical Gods, to Judeo-Christian angelology, to the Four Great River Dragons, to even the AkashicRecords.
118* AllThereInTheManual: A significant portion of the mythology of the series must be pieced together from the anime, video games, manga, the [[https://digimon.net/reference/ Digimon Reference Book]] website, and actual manuals for V-pets (many of which were not released outside of Japan).
119* AlphabeticalThemeNaming: With the exception of Masaru/Marcus and Haru, all the main Chosen Children's names have begun with "ta" (た) or "da" (だ, derived from "ta"): '''Ta'''ichi, '''Da'''isuke, '''Ta'''kato, '''Ta'''kuya, '''Ta'''iki, and '''Ta'''giru. Masaru and Haru get included if you say all the names begin with a syllable ending in "a." Daisuke's dub name Davis doesn't fit the theme because it would be transliterated into katakana as '''''DE'''IBISU''. Of course, Davis also had to compete with T.K., or '''Ta'''keru.
120** Masaru is a twist on the theme, same as his series in general: the kanji for his name is the same as the 'dai' in 'Daisuke,' but it's pronounced differently depending on whether it stands by itself or is part of a compound word. Not to mention his surname is '''Da'''imon ('''Da'''mon, in the dub).
121* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: In the English version, an action-oriented rap song is used for the first three seasons, an epic chant for ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', a rock song for ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'', and an upbeat techno tune for ''Anime/DigimonFusion''.
122* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation: Individual members of any given species of Digimon may have upwards of three or four colors, by and large due to the principle of ColorCodedMultiplayer. There are, however, a number of Digimon with official re-colors that [[ColorCodedForYourConvenience suggest something of a moral alignment]] (hint: if it's a black version of a normally brightly-colored Digimon, it's probably viral). [[http://dma.wtw-x.net/ The Digimon Almanac]] keeps a good record of these.
123* AnimeThemeSong: Almost all of them were by Kouji Wada, while Ai Maeda was responsible for all the {{Ending Theme}}s from ''Adventure'' through ''Frontier''.
124* AnotherDimension: The franchise ''loves'' this trope. In addition to distinguishing between Earth and the Digital World, you've got the ''VideoGame/DigimonWonderswanSeries'' declaring that there are many different Digital Worlds (presumably each tied to the various Earths of the individual series), you've got ''Adventure 02'' talking about Dagomon and his Dark Ocean on the one hand and the world of dreams on the other, you've got the nebulously defined "Dark Area" referred to in the Card Games, you've got [[Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime DigiQuartz]], you've got Witchelny as the home of the various Digimon inspired by the ''Magical Witches'' v-pet, and you've got [[ContinuitySnarl all sorts of crossovers between them that will make your head hurt]] if you take anything besides a BroadStrokes approach.
125* ArcSymbol: Downplayed. Ever since Wada Kouji produced "Butter-fly", ''Digimon Adventure'''s original opening theme, the eponymous insect has cropped up here and there in reference to the song.
126** According to an interview, [=UlforceVeedramon's=] evolution sequence was meant to resemble a butterfly.
127** In Adventure 02, [[spoiler: Yukio Oikawa becomes a mass of butterflies upon his death]].
128* ArcWelding: ''02'' added so much new lore to the ''Adventure'' universe that the digital worlds of each series can seem incompatible at first blush. The ''Adventure'' novelization is filled with many a CallForward to bridge the gap.
129* ArtEvolution: When C-mon was released its aesthetic was not much different than Videogame/{{Pokemon}}'s but soon the "official" Bandai designs were shown to be much more along the lines of a GrossOutShow or [[NinetiesAntiHero 90s "attitude"]]. From there the whole thing has been sliding toward sleeker, shinier designs or {{generic cuteness}} though {{fanservice}} is also on the rise.
130* TheArtifact:
131** Level 5 being referred to as "Perfect" or "Ultimate" stopped making sense after the 6th level debuted in ''Adventure'' (where it was a case of BeyondTheImpossible). It makes even less sense in continuities that have a ''7th'' level.
132** Since the debut of the 6th level, there's been a strong attempt to ''avert'' this, by insisting that the level remains the end-cap of all standard Digimon evolutionary tiers, usually by introducing the next form as a SuperMode of the specific Digimon.
133** Around the franchise's [[MilestoneCelebration 20th anniversary]], there's been an [[WordOfGod admitted shift]] to [[RetCon make the "Digital" part in the title an artifact]]. In early canon, Digimon were artificial lifeforms created by humans and the Atanasoff–Berry computer--the first computer ever--who evolved into animals, machines, and mythological creatures by absorbing data they consume on computers. Starting with ''Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth'', the story has been altered so that Digimon are literally spiritual entities that have existed since the dawn of humanity, were summoned by shamans, clerics, and onmyoji, and the fact that computers facilitate their communication with humans is just a coincidence. This was done so that the creative team wouldn't be shackled to creating stories after the Information Age. This also means, for instance, that mythological and religious Digimon like Lucemon and Demon are no longer digital programs based on Judeo-Christian mythology, but the literal devils ''from'' Judeo-Christian mythology.
134* ArtifactOfHope: Digivices have different designs and features across the various iterations of the franchise, but their purpose usually remains the same; they use the bond between Digimon and their human companions to give the Digimon a massive power boost in the form of Digivolution (or in ''Frontier's'' case, becoming Digimon themselves) through a special bond built on comraderie and usually some type of positive quality the human has.
135* ArtisticLicenseBiology: {{Handwave}}d, anything impossible that a Digimon (or the Digital World) does is explained away by saying "they're just data".
136* AscendedExtra: Angewomon, especially after the AudienceShift. Interesting to note that while she (and her pre-evolution Gatomon) has always been rather popular Digimon, most promotional materials back in the day would feature Gatomon over her, if they showed her at all, mostly because she was always associated with ''[[Anime/DigimonAdventure Adventure]]'', where she was [[TheSixthRanger one of the main characters]]. After the shift, Angewomon became much more prominent, even gaining a new evolution (in the form of a FusionDance with [[EvilCounterpart LadyDevimon]]) in ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'' and is used as the host character in the MobilePhoneGame, ''Digimon Heroes''.
137* AscendedMeme: In ''Digimon Adventure'', there's an Angewomon and [=LadyDevimon=] who get into a famous DesignatedGirlFight that involves a lot of slapping. In years since, the two Digimon have been given special slapping attacks ''reserved for one another'', "Holy Slap" and "Binta".
138* AtrociousArthropods: Insectoid Digimon appear throughout the various anime series. A few of them have been partners to the heroes (Tentomon in ''Adventure'', Wormmon in ''Adventure 02'') but more often than not they appear as main villains or [[MonsterOfTheWeek monsters of the week]].
139** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': The first antagonistic Digimon the team encounters is a Kuwagamon, an Insectoid Digimon based on a saw stag beetle. Other examples include Scorpiomon, a servant of the Dark Master [=MetalSeadramon=] and Dokugumon, a spider Digimon who served [[ArcVillain Myotismon]].
140** ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'': Diaboromon is the main villain of the "Our War Game" portion of the movie. Sporting an insect-like appearance inspired by the [[https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/674cbfe71db2ba5ff17151e999f7e6ad865159b0/0_58_1728_1037/master/1728.jpg?width=1200&height=900&quality=85&auto=format&fit=crop&s=509993097ffad8152a66a6d74d14e665 Y2K Bug]], it is an evil virus Digimon who was wreaking havoc across the Internet.
141** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': Arukenimon is an evil Ultimate Digimon based on a spider. She and Mummymon serve [[ArcVillain Yukio Oikawa]], the second human villain seen in the series.
142** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': Dokugumon appears as an evil Digimon again, this time trying to eat Rika and Renamon. She is defeated when Renamon digivolves into Kyubimon for the first time.
143** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure2020'':
144*** "The King of Insects Clash": Taichi, Mimi, Koshiro and their Digimon are attacked by an Okuwamon and a swarm of Kuwagamon when they reach a canyon. While [=MetalGreymon=] and Togemon take care of the Kuwagamon, Kabuterimon digivolves into [=MegaKabuterimon=] for the first time and slays Okuwamon.
145*** "Garudamon of the Crimson Wings": A massive [=CannonBeemon=] commands a squadron of Waspmon to kidnap local Digimon to be used by the evil forces. It is defeated when Birdramon becomes Garudamon for the first time.
146*** "The Wolf Standing Atop The Desert": Garurumon becomes [=WereGarurumon=] for the first time when Matt, Sora, Joe and their partners have to face a Scorpiomon ruling over a desert they are trying to cross.
147** ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'': Arukenimon appears as a villain again. She is portrayed as a Digimon that likes to [[BrainFood devour the brains of very smart people to gain their intelligence]], and is one of the few antagonist Digimon that is genuinely depicted as evil and unsympathetic.
148* AudienceShift: Although ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' was the first significant work to be aimed at older audiences rather than just children, it was still intended to sell kids' toys and aired on children's network programming, and was thus created in the hopes of being a kids' show that teens and adults could get into. However, starting with ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize'', ''Digimon'' entries took a notable shift away from the children's block to aim at the adults who grew up with ''Digimon'' instead, with ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'' (a game that was the first in the franchise to receive a CERO rating of B, meaning children were shut out of the game entirely), ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'', ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldNextOrder'', and ''VideoGame/DigimonSurvive'' following suit. The staff for ''Cyber Sleuth'' indicated that this was because the franchise didn't sell with kids anymore. Since then, this has become a ZigZaggedTrope, as ''Digmon'' media after ''Anime/DigimonAdventureLastEvolutionKizuna''[[note]]Which some have interpreted as the franchise--or at least its anime adaptations--telling older fans to move on.[[/note]] seemingly shifted back into primarily trying to appeal to children, as shown with a newer card game getting released alongside [[Anime/DigimonAdventure2020 a reboot]] of ''Digimon Adventure'', only for the next series, ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'', to seemingly dive right back into an older audience target with a much DarkerAndEdgier setting and episodes compared to ''Adventure: (2020)''.
149* AwesomeButImpractical:
150** The whole Mega (Ultimate) level was this. In its debut in the Digimon pendulums, it required the Jogress of three separate Digimon, or a perfect care record in the case of some Vaccine attributes. Sometimes, the resulting Digimon may be weaker than the Digimon it used to be but specialize in something in exchange, such as when [=MetalGreymon=] Digivolves to [=WarGreymon=]. In the ''Adventure'' universe, Mega Digivolution was only possible through the intervention of the Digital Worlds' Digimon Sovereigns or the malign influence of something like the Dark Network. In ''V-Tamer'' they make the Digimon World more unstable and vulnerable to attack.
151** In-Universe, to a certain extent. Megas go through so much energy that they functionally shorten their lifespan.
152* {{Baku}}: Bakumon (Tapirmon in the dub) is an Animal Digimon with the appearance of a small tusked-warthog-esq creature with a cloud instead of backlegs. Lore states that it was generated from a medical computer for detecting brain waves, and it seems that it uses the data from humans in REM sleep as nourishment, later going on to feed on bad dreams and malignant viruses.
153* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Wishing for a Digimon is nice, until it gets loose in your school. On several occasions, characters try to force a Digivolution, and it [[GoneHorriblyRight goes horribly right.]]
154* BeyondTheImpossible: The Ultimate/Mega level was presented as this when it first debuted in ''Adventure'', as at the time Perfect/Ultimate was considered fully-evolved. Matt [[LampshadeHanging calls it "changing the rules in the middle of the game"]]
155* BigBad: Lord Demon for ''V-Tamer''. Apocalymon for ''Adventure'', ''02'' had [[HijackedByGanon Myotismon/Vamdemon return]] as the cause of everything that happened in ''02''. ''Frontier'' had Lucemon. ''Data Squad'' is an odd case -- while Kurata dies long before the final episode, his destructive actions are causing the entire endgame mess; Yggdrasil is only acting. ''Fusion'' has Bagramon. The ''Wonderswan'' series had Milleniumon.
156* BigGood: In ''Adventure'' and ''Tamers'' continuities, ENIAC as the first computer, though it only directly appears in the ''Wonderswan'' series. And there is even a Bigger Good with the Atanasoff-Berry Computer. In some other continuities, Yggdrasil theoretically is meant to be this... but usually isn't.
157* BishonenLine: Many prominent Digimon, both good and evil, are humanoid in their more powerful forms. Some go back and forth.
158* BittersweetEnding: Nearly every series ends with [[spoiler:the final BigBad defeated and peace restored, but the Digimon having to return to the Digital World and leave their beloved partners behind. ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' is the only one with a completely happy ending. How much hope there is they'll meet them again varies from series to series.]]
159* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: An upside-down pyramid building. The Digital World in general has no need to conform to the laws of physics or logic.
160* BizarreAlienReproduction: There's definitely ''some mechanism'' that allows Digimon to increase their population, since not all Digimon are [[BornAgainImmortality able to be ressurected]] [[KilledOffForReal due to file corruption, data destruction, damage to the DigiCore, simply being trapped in the Dark Area by Anubimon]] or [[SoulEating having their data eaten by one of the Demon Lords that live there]] and yet the Digital World will still occasionally experience an OverpopulationCrisis. [[TheUnreveal What or how it works has never been introduced in any continuity]] - though it has been confirmed in the ''Digimon Seekers'' novel continuity that whatever the process is [[CantHaveSexEver doesn't involve sex]] [[OneGenderRace or sexes]] and it's relatively slower than [[ExplosiveBreeder analog sexual reproduction]].
161* BlandNameProduct: In the ''Adventure'' series, Izzy's always tapping away at a ''Pine''Apple laptop. In ''02'', the Giga House has a Wac with a tomato on it.
162* BlindIdiotTranslation: And it's not always (probably not even usually) the translator's fault. The franchise takes names and words from all over the world, and then transliterates them into Japanese ''kana''. Localizers then have to interpret and unpack the original word the franchise used, which has resulted in a few bizarrely named Digimon. It can be especially tough if a Digimon's name is taken from one language and its {{Special Attack}}s use words from another.
163** For years the name "Sukamon" was used for what turned out to be "Scumon" (''i.e.'' scum-monster).
164** The official name of "Orgemon" appears to be derived from a bilingual ''portmanteau'' of the Japanese ''oo'' ("big") and ogre.
165** Probably among the most amusing is when the Digimon [=SlashAngemon=] was given the name ''Slush''Angemon for ''Anime/DigimonFusion''.
166** And then there's [=Yo!Yo!mon=], who had the unfortunate luck to be translated as ''[=Yoxtu!Yoxtu!mon=]''.
167* BodySnatcher: The Royal Knights in the Pendulum X. They infect the Digimon that can defeat them via their [[HeartDrive Master Tags]], allowing them to become more powerful by [[BodySurf possessing a succession of increasingly more powerful Digimon]].
168* BodySurf: How the Royal Knights increase their power.
169* BodyHorror: All over the place in the early days.
170** Many of the Cyborg Digimon--Andromon, [=MetalGreymon=], [=MetalTyrannomon=], ''etc.''--are a gruesome patchwork of damaged flesh and cybernetics.
171** Raremon, so far-gone that it's technically an ''Undead-type'', is a mountain of shambling, rotted flesh with exposed bones and cables.
172** Deltamon is a Composite Digimon made of three creatures that got fused during a data corruption event, leaving exposed bone in some places while fusing flesh and metal in others.
173** [=LadyDevimon=]'s kink gear features stitches and even a chain penetrating her flesh.
174* BornAgainImmortality: With the exception of ''Tamers'' and ''Fusion'', all Digimon have Type IV. When killed, they normally turn into digi-eggs and are reborn (though it varies as to if they remember their past life or not, even within the same season). Myotismon from ''Adventure'' had a different type in that his soul just kept coming back in a stronger body till it was destroyed. A plot point in ''Data Squad'' was that Kurata found a way to rob Digimon of this, making him able to kill them off for good. In ''Fusion'', they remain dead unless someone resurrects them or they can maintain a form of memory.
175* BreakingTheFourthWall: Sometimes, in the dub, the PreviouslyOn or ToBeContinued segments end with a character sharing his or her questions or concerns with the audience.
176--> '''Izzy''': Most curious. With all this excitement, you'd think we were back in the [=DigiWorld=]. \
177'''Kari''': There's something even ''more'' powerful out there, and the only way we can defeat it is with The Golden Radiance. I wonder what (Wizardmon) means. \
178'''Davis''': Woah! Tension, huh? But, what if nobody can beat the Devas? \
179'''Rika''': These guys have no idea what they've gotten themselves into, but [[FandomNod I bet]] ''[[FandomNod you]]'' [[FandomNod know]]!
180* BroughtDownToBadass: Several of the Perfect level, then the highest [[EvolutionaryLevels evolution level]], Digimon introduced in the obscure ''Digital Monster'' were retooled as Adults in subsequent materials. These include Ebidramon, Minotarumon and Mechanorimon. Of course, they're still plenty dangerous.
181* BroughtDownToNormal: Syakomon, like the examples above, also originated in Version S and got this treatment. Unfortunately, since he was small and cute, not unlike an aquatic Mamemon, he was reassigned to the [[EvolutionaryLevels Child level]].
182* ButNowIMustGo: The traditional (though not compulsory) ending to a Digimon story; how much drama it employs, how permanent the parting will be, and to what extent the parting is required depends on the work.
183** ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'': [[spoiler:The Digital World is saved and all the humans return home, but although Taichi's technically separated from Zeromaru, he'll always have him at his side as his V-Pet.]]
184** ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld'': [[spoiler:After all is said and done, Hiro decides he needs to return home, or else his mother will worry.]]
185** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': The TropeCodifier for the franchise, and the first to play it for drama. [[spoiler:The kids need to leave the Digital World lest they be trapped there indefinitely, meaning that they have to part with the friends they've made so deeply after a short time to say their goodbyes. Post-series supplemental material has them meet up a few times afterwards; eventually, ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' allows them to meet again. ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' and ''Anime/DigimonAdventureLastEvolutionKizuna'' force another separation, but 02's DistantFinale makes it a ForegoneConclusion that they'll eventually be allowed to stay together.]]
186** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': [[spoiler:The kids are informed without warning that their Digimon will have to leave the Real World to save them from degenerating, meaning that the Digimon are practically ripped away from the kids' at a moment's notice. What happens afterwards depends on which media you take as canon; the second movie has them reunite after around six months, whereas the drama CD establishes that the gate Takato found at the end was only a HopeSpot and that it'll be difficult for them to communicate or meet again.]]
187** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'': [[spoiler:The defeat of Lucemon causes the dimensional gate to close, meaning that the kids have to rush back before it closes. This is played for very little drama other than Bokomon tearfully wishing them farewell, since the kids don't have actual Digimon partners to separate from.]]
188** ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'': [[spoiler:The Digital Gate has to be closed for a while for safety reasons and the Digimon will be returning to the Digital World to help recovery efforts there. After a night in which everyone's allowed to give their farewells to their partners, Masaru finally decides to give a middle finger to series tradition and join Agumon in the Digital World, where they protect the peace together. Since the gate is under DATS's control, the closing has a decidedly less final tone than the others (especially since the theme of the series is the hope of creating a world where Digimon and humans can live together, making it feel like the ending was there for tradition more than anything else).]]
189** ''Manga/DigimonNext'': [[spoiler:The kids return to the human world, though like Taichi in ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'', Tsurugi still gets to fight with his reborn Agumon as his V-Pet.]]
190** ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' (anime): [[spoiler:After saving the day, the Digimon return to the Digital World, with Taiki waving them goodbye. No drama is pulled here.]]
191** ''Manga/DigimonXrosWars'' (manga): [[spoiler:As Shoutmon fears, the kids are forced to return home after saving the Digital World, although [=UlforceV-dramon=] tells Nene that the Digital World may need them again. Shoutmon tearfully begs Taiki to stay and go on more adventures with him, but concedes when Taiki promises to go on an adventure with him after he's fulfilled his own dream.]]
192** ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'': [[spoiler:As everyone's returned to their own worlds, Tagiru and Gumdramon are also forced to have a tearful goodbye...until somehow Gumdramon reappears to Tagiru again. AndTheAdventureContinues.]]
193** ''VideoGame/DigimonWorldReDigitize'': [[spoiler:With Vitium defeated, everyone is sent back by Mirei and separated from their partners, though they're taken aback by the suddenness.]] ''Decode'' adds a little extra: [[spoiler:Mirei reveals that she won't be going with them...because she no longer has a physical body.]]
194** ''VideoGame/DigimonStoryCyberSleuth'': [[spoiler:The Digimon will have to return to the Digital World while the humans return to the human world, and due to the Digital World being reformatted to the state it was eight years prior, the Digimon won't even remember their human partners. Agumon, Gabumon, and Nokia promise to meet again someday, somehow, and the kids return to a human world with a CosmicRetcon that makes it so that they're the only ones who remember the Digimon at all.]]
195** ''Anime/DigimonAdventureLastEvolutionKizuna'': [[spoiler:Due to being mature and having no more potential which was the fuel for the Digivice, the Digimon partners have to leave their human friends. Whether either side likes it or not. Not surprisingly, the humans don't take it well.]]
196* ByThePowerOfGreyskull: Digimon calling their attacks is often treated as a staple but some 'can' use their powers without doing so.
197* CallingYourAttacks: A series staple. ''Tamers'' features the humans doing this as well as the Digimon with the Card Slash feature. ''Data Squad'' actually had to have the BridgeBunnies call their partners' attacks, as they were [[TheVoiceless mute]]. In the Japanese version, it's [[AvertedTrope averted]] in all the movies except the ''Frontier'' one; no-one calls attacks at all in them. ''Fusion'' has the names of the called attacks shown in the bottom of the screen.
198* CanonImmigrant: Ryo Akiyama. He makes a few cameos in ''Our War Game'' and ''02'', and is a SixthRanger in ''Tamers'', but he originated as the star of a series of Platform/WonderSwan games.
199* CantCatchUp: OnceASeason, the cast is divided into tiers this way. In the original version of Adventure, Tentomon has the presence of mind to lampshade this immediately.
200* CaptainErsatz:
201** Nanimon is Oyajitchi from sister series ''Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}}'', with a new name and a pair of sunglasses to try to make him look cooler. The anime redesigned him to look a bit more like a wrestler, but the v-pet uses a barely altered sprite. Unlike many examples, Bandai outright admitted it was done as an in-joke.
202** Several for ''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' monsters:
203*** Raremon's original design in the v-pet was a tall shambling sludge pile with vertical eyelids, a very obvious copy of [[Film/GodzillaVsHedorah Hedorah]]. It was later redesigned into a much more original idea of a failed cyborg suffering BodyHorror.
204*** In the V-pet, Devidramon has a design almost identical to [[Film/GodzillaVsDestoroyah Destoroyah]], with the few missing details being a result of the tiny sprites used in the toy. He was redesigned to look more like Devimon with Greymon's head later.
205*** Deltamon was changed in the anime to look like more like three existing Digimon that had fused together, giving it heads on its arms and two tails. The original v-pet design simply had a three-headed dragon with no arms and only two legs. While the anime was more subtle about it, both of these designs are derived from Godzilla's archnemesis, King Ghidorah.
206* CentralTheme: The ''Digimon'' anime franchise as a whole: as you grow up, challenging times will [[HiddenDepths reveal your true character]] and who your [[TrueCompanions real friends are.]]
207* {{Cephalothorax}}: In the original ''Digital Monster'' v-pets, there was an entire sub-group of Ultimate Digimon that were distinguished by how tiny they were: Mamemon, [=MetalMamemon=], Giromon, Piccolomon, Nanomon (Datamon in the USA), and Tekkamon, all of whom are little balls with faces and limbs. Mamemon has since produced a few more UndergroundMonkey variants such as [=BigMamemon=] and [=PrinceMamemon=].
208* CharacterDevelopment: Par for the course with the protagonists.
209* CharacterFocus: The show may be titled "Digimon", but make no mistake, it's about the humans. Most allied Digimon only serve either to reflect their human partners or serve as {{Foil}}s. From ''Adventure'' to ''Fusion'', you could count the number of major Digimon with actual backstories on one hand[[note]][[Anime/DigimonAdventure Gatomon]], [[Anime/DigimonTamers Impmon]], [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad BanchoLeomon]], [[Anime/DigimonFusion Ballistamon, Cutemon and Dorulumon]][[/note]]. In fact, when allied Digimon do get characterization, it usually comes out of nowhere, like [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Veemon's crush on Gatomon]].
210* ChestBlaster: A common type of attack, special mention to [=MetalGreymon's=] missiles that fire from this pecs.
211* CombinedEnergyAttack
212** InNameOnly; Wargreymon's "Terra Force" and Black Wargreymon's "Terra Destroyer". WordOfGod is that these attacks actually do have the energy of an entire planet, but they obviously don't require draining energy from any external sources.
213** [=BlackWarGreymon=] was even able to spam his attack! There are draining moves in ''X-Evolution'' but they still don't drain much.
214* CompanyCrossReferences: This being a male counterpart to ''Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}}'', it was practically contractually obligated to make at least one ''Tamagotchi'' reference since its inception. Both franchises are from Bandai.
215** ''Tamagotchi'' character Oyajitchi serves as the inspiration for ''Digimon'' character Nanimon's appearance.
216** Wizardmon's staff and Belphemon's Sleep Mode clock are both modeled after Tamagotchi devices.
217* ConservationOfNinjutsu: [[PlayingWith/ConservationOfNinjutsu Played With]]; The anime (and movies) mostly averts, subverts and inverts the trope, especially when played for drama, while ''Fusion'' plays it straight.
218* ContinuityLockout: Every piece of Digimon media is canon in some way, resulting in ''Tamers'' referencing a Wonderswan game, several concepts that were formerly game-only or anime-only appearing in other media, and the ''Story'' and ''World'' games connecting with previous, family-friendly installments despite the audience shift towards adults. Getting the complete Digimon experience will require a ''lot'' of effort.
219* ContinuitySnarl: The ''VideoGame/DigimonWonderswanSeries'' is a notable offender, especially considering that both it and the anime make direct nods to each other that don't match up (''e.g.'' ''Our War Game'' has Ryo briefly appear in Turkey as TheCameo, but ''Tag Tamers'' indicates he was in Ken's house when he saw the Omnimon-Diaboromon fight).
220** Ryo as he appears in ''Digimon Tamers'' is officially the same person as Ryo as he appears in the Wonderswan series, but ''Tamers'' gives Ryo a completely new backstory that is incompatible with the Wonderswan Series.
221** ''D-1 Tamers'' had a young Wallace as a major character, but the original Wallace, who debuted in ''Digimon Hurricane Touchdown'', had never been to the digital world and didn't know there were other Digidestined.
222* CosmicHorrorStory: The [[NotHyperbole whole damned franchise constitutes one]]. Each anime and manga feature their own elements of the Genre.
223** ''Adventure'''s final boss Apocalymon is an incarnation of resentment and hatred and tries to annihilate both the Digital World and human world.
224** ''02'' has the Dark Ocean and the World of Dreams, both of which are {{Eldritch Location}}s.
225** ''Tamers'': The D-Reaper and all its agents form a terrifying EldritchAbomination that threaten both the Digital and Real Worlds.
226** ''Frontier'': The only season to feature an End Of The World scenario, in that Lucemon destroys the entire planet.
227** ''Data Squad'': An interdimensional collision is the impending threat, which [[ExpendableAlternateUniverse Yggdrasil considers hardly a loss]].
228** ''Next'': The Digital World's GodEmperor (Yggdrasil) dies, the entire universe gets destroyed and remade by [[DeusEstMachina NEO]].
229*** Couple all the above with the facts that (A) we have such Mons as [[WorldWreckingWave Megidramon]], [[MultiversalConqueror Millenniummon]], [[DoesNotCompute Chaosmon]], [[DimensionLord Dagomon]], and others lurking in the background, and (B), the SGDL are relegated to individual Big Bad status because they are in all likelihood far too powerful together to oppose, and we get a product that would make Lovecraft proud.
230* CosmicKeystone: The Human Worlds are this to the Digital Worlds.
231* CrisisCrossover:
232** ''Digimon Rumble Arena'' and ''Digimon Battle Spirit'' were this for ''Adventure'', ''Zero Two'', and ''Tamers'', and also a powerful case of LetsYouAndHimFight. ''Rumble Arena'' focused on the ''Adventure'' verse, culminating in a battle against ''Reapermon'', the latest BeyondTheImpossible evolution of Diablomon from the movies. ''Battle Spirit'' instead focused on the ''Tamers'' cast; its final boss was ''Milleniumon'', the BigBad from the ''VideoGame/DigimonWonderswanSeries'' (strangely, Ryo himself does not appear, raising some scary questions for people familiar with his backstory).
233** The finale of ''Young Hunters'' calls in the chosen children and tamers from every anime series up to that point.
234* CriticalFailure: [=WarGreymon=]'s Dramon Killers can cause this. They're especially effective against draconic Digimon. [=WarGreymon=] himself is a "dragon man" however, and is constantly at risk of serious, self inflicted injury as a result.
235* CurbStompBattle: Normally, the first appearance of the new BigBad or enemy of a higher level than the characters presently have is accompanied by one of these. Likewise, the first fight of most of the characters new digivolutions are this as well.
236* CuteMonsterGirl: Sometimes played straight, sometimes averted, with both "sexy" and "monstrous" female Digimon.
237* {{Cyberspace}}: The Digital World.
238* CypherLanguage: The franchise uses one called [[http://wikimon.net/DigiLetters DigiCode]] (lit. [=DigiLetters=]), which is not to be confused with the scanned code in ''[[Anime/DigimonFrontier Frontier]]'' that was renamed in the dub as "Fractal Code". The cypher has symbols that correspond to both types of Japanese kana and Roman letters, and you can find them on individual Digimon designs, Digimon merchandise, and within the anime as [[FreezeFrameBonus Freeze Frame Bonuses]].
239* DarkIsEvil: In general, "black" versions of pre-existing Digimon (e.g., [=BlackWarGreymon=]) are either berserk or outright evil Virus counterparts to the Vaccine-type original. Virus types in general are often dark in color and serve as villains. A few of them even have Dark, Black, or a variation of it in their names to drive it home.
240* DarkIsNotEvil: That said, the Virus type is not, itself, evil. Several of the hero monsters, including Guilmon and Wormmon, are Virus Digimon.
241* DarkerAndEdgier: ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'', and ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame''. ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' and ''Anime/DigimonAdventureLastEvolutionKizuna'' deserve special mention, as they feature the original cast of Adventure but much older (Attending high school in ''tri.'' and college in ''Last Evolution Kizuna''), and the works as a whole has a far more subdued and realistic tone than almost any other piece of Digimon media.
242** The franchise as a whole when compared to other Mons series such as Franchise/{{Pokemon}}. Of course, it can't even ''compare'' to ''Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei'', but that's a different matter altogether.
243* DeadlyUpgrade: Dark Evolution. It's rationalized as a perfectly legitimate potential evolution variation under natural circumstances, but in Digimon partnered to humans, it's an aberration caused by very negative emotions on the human's part.
244* DemonLordsAndArchdevils: There's a dedicated Demon Lord-type of Digimon, which is mostly comprised of the Seven Deadly Digimon, but which also includes [=BelialVamdemon=], Deathmon, Murmuxmon, and Bagramon.
245* DigitalAbomination:
246** Quite a few Digimon in general, especially those of Ultimate level and beyond fit this trope in regards to their appearances, power, and abilities. Even more so are ones like [[Anime/DigimonTamers Guilmon]] that possess the Digital Hazard symbol, which indicates that they have the potential to become powerful enough to threaten the existence of both the Digital World and the human world. It's no exaggeration either, as Guilmon's Mega-evolved form Megidramon was able to tear apart the very fabric of the Digital World by ''simply existing''.
247** The D-Reaper from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' was originally a data cleanup program made in TheEighties that targets and deletes programs that "evolved pass [their] parameters". After procuring stray Digimon-data and finding its way into the Digital World the Digimon inhabit, the D-Reaper develops the same AdaptiveAbility Digimon have and soon begins evolving into a monstrosity that threatens all worlds.
248* DimensionLord: Both good and evil examples.
249* DinosaursAreDragons: [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Agu]][[Anime/DigimonDataSquad mon]], [[Anime/DigimonTamers Guilmon]], and their evolutions tend to be fire-breathing or otherwise fire-wielding dinosaurs.
250* DiskOneFinalBoss: In nearly every season. A good rule of thumb is never assume the ''first'' BigBad is the final one.
251** Subverted in ''Fusion'', where Bagramon is still considered the final threat. [[spoiler: Bagramon is actually a rather impressive ''triple'' subversion. He remains the main villain until close to the end of the series, and as he's fighting the heroes he suddenly gets backstabbed by his brother-slash-Dragon [=DarkKnightmon=] who forces a Xros between the two. Next episode, Bagramon reveals he saw it coming a mile away and kills his brother in a BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind, taking back control and continuing on as the BigBad til the end.]]
252* DismantledMacguffin: The [[TransformationTrinket Digimentals]], which originated in ''02'', had to be reconstructed from fragments in both the Wonderswan series and the D-3 children's toy.
253* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Some Digimon with close associations may differentiate themselves as they progress from form to form.
254** The Terriermon and Lopmon families are practically identical up to their third stage, with their most obvious difference being a PaletteSwap between them, but from Adult-Champion stage on, Terriermon's line becomes more doglike and robotic, while Lopmon becomes more rabbit-like and mystic. To the day, the fandom will refer to Terriermon and Lopmon as dog-rabbits.
255** Dracomon is a 3rd level Digimon who has two distinct evolutionary lines; after evolving into one of two different versions of Coredramon, he will proceed to evolve to a form suited to either the sky or the land. These two vastly different evolutions are meant to undergo a FusionDance at the Ultimate-Mega level to create the Royal Knight Examon.
256** The franchise tried to ''invert'' this with [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Patamon and Tailmon]] by swapping out Tailmon's classic final form [[DragonsUpTheYinYang Holydramon]] for [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Ophanimon]], a DistaffCounterpart to Patamon's classic final form Seraphimon.
257* DivergingEvolutionaryPhases: While most Digimon have set evolutionary lines, there are times when a digimon will undergo alternate forms of digivolution when certain conditions are met.
258** "Dark Digivolution" happens when a Digimon is coerced into digivolving while under intense negative emotions (either their own or their human partner's), resulting in the digimon digivolving into a Virus-type variation of their usual digivolved form.
259*** In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', Greymon digivolves into [=SkullGreymon=] after Tai tries forcing Agumon into digivolving on command (first bby overfeeding him, then by deliberately putting him in danger). In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', the Digimon Emperor tries forcing Agumon (who's under the control of a Dark Ring) to digivolve, he becomes [=SkullGreymon=] again. He then later manages to force Agumon to digivolve into [=MetalGreymon's Virus Mode=] while under a perfected Dark Spiral.
260*** In ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', Takato is overcome with grief and rage after Beelzemon kills Leomon. Picking up on his tamer's negative energy, a feral Guilmon warp digivolves into Megidramon, a DraconicAbomination who's very existence destabilizes the Digital World.
261** "Armor Digivolution" is when a Digimon digivolves with the power of a Digi-Egg. This was considered a lost-form of digivolution that digimon would use before they eventually learned how to do it on their own. In ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', the Digimon Emperor's Dark Spires blocking the digimon's ability to digivolve, Veemon, Armadillomon, Hawkmon, Patamon and Gatomon gain the ability to armor-digivolve when their digidestined partners discover the digieggs.
262** DNA Digivolution is [[FusionDance when two or more different digimon digivolve together into a single, more powerful form]].
263* DragonsAreDemonic: Only some, but when they are, ''they are''.
264** Devidramon is a draconic version of Devimon and has the latter's tattered wings and CreepilyLongArms. They generally appear in the various anime as AlwaysChaoticEvil minions of stronger villains. No UnholyNuke powers despite the name.
265** There's an official Demon Dragon-type, which includes {{Orochi}}mon, all variations of Guilmon's typical adult stage Growmon, Vritramon, Eyesmon, and Nidhoggmon. There is also an ''Evil'' Dragon-type, which includes Devidramon; [=DarkLizamon=]; and Guilmon's potential Ultimate stage Megidramon, the world-rending TokenEvilTeammate of the Four Great Dragons.
266** Zigzagged with Guilmon itself, a draconic baby {{Kaiju}} marked with the Digital Hazard to warn of its apocalyptic potential. While Guilmon's typical evolutionary line is filled with increasingly fearsome dragons culminating in Megidramon, at the same time it has a heroic BishounenLine evolution Dukemon, which even has an angelic SuperMode. On top of that, Guilmon even has an EvilCounterpart evolutionary line demonstrating what could happen if it fell into evil.
267** Lucemon Satan Mode is a colossal dark dragon with multiple wings and the sigils of the SevenDeadlySins. It's actually just a mech-suit that's MadeOfEvil for Lucemon Larva, which pilots it from within the dark orb that it carries.
268* DragonsAreDivine: The ''Digimon'' franchise has many godly Dragon Digimon:
269** The Four Great Dragons are a group of Mega-level Dragon Digimon based on the Dragon Kings of Chinese mythology comparable to gods, and include Azulongmon (who is also a member of the [[FourGods Digimon Sovereigns]] and guardian of the eastern Digital World), the wicked Megidramon, as well as Goldramon and Magnadramon/Holydramon.
270** Huanglongmon, the leader of the Digimon Sovereigns tasked with defending the Digital World, is a giant golden dragon who normally resides in the Digiworld's center. Like his fellow Sovereigns, unlike the one Digicore held by most Digimon, they have about twelve.
271* DubNameChange:
272** Zigzagged. Most of the main cast of the various anime have their names changed for local audiences, though whether a name is changed and to what extent tends to vary with the individual. In Anime/DigimonAdventure, Taichi becomes Tai, Yamato becomes Matt, and Sora remains Sora.
273** Notably, the west revamped the ThemeNaming of the evolutionary stages; instead of naming the evolutionary stages after the life cycle, the names evoke competitive sports, instead. The two Baby stages became Fresh and In-Training respectively; Child became Rookie; Adult became Champion; Perfect is called Ultimate; ''Japan's'' Ultimate is called Mega; and Super Ultimate ([[RankInflation when it exists]]) is called Ultra.
274* DubText: The dub tends to change characters names and ages to make them easier for kids to remember and advance most of them into puberty in an attempt to make them less impressionable.
275** AdBreakDoubleTake
276** CasualDangerDialogue
277** HitFlash
278** FrothyMugsOfWater
279* DummiedOut: Some versions of the virtual pet have extra monsters available that are normally unobtainable but can be selected by using a trick involving undervolting the batteries.[[note]]This isn't really a good idea, because doing it can result in the device getting damaged.[[/note]]
280%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample * DyingAsYourself:
281* EarWings: Patamon, Terriermon, Lopmon, and Culumon.
282* EldritchAbomination: Some Digimon qualify as this, like Apocalymon, Millenniummon, and especially [[http://shiningevo.ultimatedigimon.com/encyclopedia/images/ultimate_chaosmon.jpg UltimateKhaosmon]].
283* EldritchLocation: The Dark Area, the Digital World's Hell. Various details of the background fluff have fleshed it out, and it's not a nice place. It's utterly hostile to any Digimon not meant to be there, and the locals are all evil Digimon, usually incredibly powerful and vicious ones at that.
284* ElementalPersonalities: The lead Digimon from each anime series represent the element of fire, typically by being partnered with a Digimon with fire-based powers and the quick tempers to go with it, with the exception of Guilmon and Gammamon in the the latter case.
285* EmotionEater: All of the Digimon outside of the video games feed on human emotion as the canon explanation to where a Digimon gets power from its human. This is inherent to all of the anime and most of the manga, but made most explicit in ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad''. In a bit of a subversion, the humans whose emotions are eaten typically aren't harmed by this process alone (though Digimon will often kidnap or exploit humans for their feelings) -- but Digimon can be poisoned if they get fed an emotion that doesn't agree with their nature (hence: Dark Evolution). In ''[[Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime Hunters]]'', the feeding isn't directly harmful to the humans but is sometimes a corrupting influence.
286* TheEnd: Keeping the pattern of title cards at the end of episodes, ''Fusion'' ended with a card that said "owari" (おわり).
287* EnemyScan: In the anime, there is usually a portion of time reserved for describing a newly-encountered Digimon.
288* EvolutionaryLevels: A big thing in the franchise, although with the six levels being treated as stages of growth it's probably closer to MetamorphosisMonster. Has some overlap with PowerLevels, though exceptions abound. The Story games, in a moment of mixed awesome and humor, once featured a Minomon (an In-Training Level Digimon) who had undergone so much TrainingFromHell that it equaled Impeprialdramon Paladin Mode. Notably, ''Fusion'' mostly abandoned the system.
289* ExpositoryThemeTune:
290** ''"Change into digital champions to save the Digital World..."''
291** Applies to the English dub of the first three seasons only -- and ''Tamers'' changed that line to "Change into digital champions to save '''and defend the''' world", because they didn't actually go to the Digital World until later in the season. ''Frontier'', ''Data Squad'' and ''Fusion'' have completely new theme tunes.
292* {{Expy}}: The franchise is so OnceASeason pattern-heavy that you can draw definite lines of continuity between character designs.
293** The frontmen of each team in the anime series are nearly all a bunch of HotBlooded brunets who wear goggles like Taichi Yagami with some zigzagged exceptions like Takato (who wears goggles but is either a FragileFlower or MellowFellow depending on the version) or Masaru (who is immensely HotBlooded but wears no goggles).
294** The Digimon of the frontmen also follow very specific trends, and almost all are PlayingWithFire OurDragonsAreDifferent after the style of Agumon and Greymon. (Flamedramon, Guilmon, Vritramon, ''etc.'').
295*** V-dramon, main Digimon of ''V-Tamer'', was an expy of Greymon's [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness early design]] (prior to the [[GrossOutShow veiny, muscular Bandai design]] [[ArtEvolution became standard]]. V-mon, the main Digimon of ''02'', is a child version of V-dramon and his next stage [=XV-mon=] is a copy of [=AeroV-dramon=].
296*** The Guilmon of ''Digimon Tamers'' is [[JustifiedTrope explicitly Takato's idea]] of "Agumon, [[RuleOfCool but cooler]]", InUniverse, and his evolutionary line includes a {{Cyborg}} fifth level and a BishounenLine sixth level.
297*** Shoutmon is almost precisely a sharper, more angular clone of V-mon with Guilmon's color scheme, and has a HotBlooded personality exactly like Masaru. His evolved version [=OmegaShoutmon=] closely resembles V-mon's SuperMode Magnamon.
298** [[Anime/DigimonTamers Yamaki, Riley, and Ms. Asaji]] are strikingly similar in appearance to an adult [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 T.K., Yolei, and Kari]] (a resemblance emphasized by the U.S. dub recycling Yolei's and Kari's voice actors), which produced a lot of fodder for [[EpilepticTrees fan theories]] in the ''Tamers'' hey-day.
299** Tobucatmon looks suspiciously like [[VideoGame/LunarTheSilverStar Nall]], and Bellestarmon resembles VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}.
300* FantasyPantheon: Given the FantasyKitchenSink, this crops up here and there. Mostly this trope gets play in the interactions between major groups of [[PhysicalGod nigh mythic]] Digimon.
301** CouncilOfAngels: Seraphimon, Cherubimon, and Ophanimon guard over God's Law, Wisdom, and Love, respectively, and each is said to manifest a trait of Lucemon; together they form the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Three Great Angels]]. All three also have [[FallenAngel fallen]] versions in the form of [=ShadowSeraphimon=], Cherubimon Vice, and Ophanimon Falldown Mode.
302** TheFourGods: The Four Holy Beasts, or [[Anime/DigimonTamers Digimon Sovereigns]], each of whom guards a quadrant of the Digital World. They consist of Qinglongmon/Azulongmon the Azure Dragon (East), Zhuqiaomon the Vermillion Phoenix (South), Xuanwumon/Ebonwumon the Black Turtle (North), and Baihumon the White Tiger (West). Azulongmon appears in ''Adventure 02'', while the others are only referred to as the ''Harmonious Ones''; all four star in ''Tamers''. According to the {{Metaplot}}, they serve a ''fifth'' Sovereign, [[http://wikimon.net/Fanglongmon Huanglongmon/Fanglongmon]] the Yellow Dragon (Center), who was sealed beneath the earth while warring with Lucemon.[[note]]Huanglongmon appears in ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', though he was ''severely'' demoted to being NumberTwo to TheDragon, existing just to get absorbed into another monster.[[/note]]
303** EasternZodiac: The Sovereigns are in turn served by a group of twelve Digimon called the Devas. When they first premiere in Tamers, they are driven partially to wreak vengeance on humans (fitting, since Yamaki has been going around and destroying them) and kidnap Calumon. The {{Metaplot}} again serves to give them a little more context by sub-dividing them into groups of three, one per each sovereign, and organized according to the elemental arrangement described on the actual trope page. Xuanwumon is served by Vikaralamon, Vajramon, and Kumbhiramon (Pig, Ox, and Rat); Baihumon is served by Caturamon, Sinduramon, and Makuramon (Dog, Rooster, and Monkey); Zhuqiaomon is served by Pajramon, Sandiramon, and Indaramon (Sheep, Snake, and Horse); and Quinglongmon is served by Andiramon/Antylamon, Mihiramon, and Majiramon (Rabbit, Tiger, and Dragon). Each Deva is said to exhibit a singular primary trait (which may or may not hint at the personality of their master).
304** SevenDeadlySins: The Seven Great Demon Lords, in possible answer to the [[CouncilOfAngels Three Great Angels]], all come with their own crest resembling their identifying sin and names likely taken from the ''Literature/ArsGoetia''; Lilithmon - Lust, Beelzebumon - Gluttony, Leviamon - Envy, Demon - Wrath, Barbamon - Avarice, Belphemon - Sloth, Lucemon - Pride (fittingly, he leads the group). Each member has appeared individually here and there throughout Digimon canon, though the {{Metaplot}} links them and tells of stronger Digimon that they're connected to. There exist at least two ''Super'' Demon Lords, the first being Lucemon Satan Mode and the second being ''Ogudomon'', whose appearance derives from the [[Literature/TheBible First Beast of Revelation]] and is named for the [[Myth/EgyptianMythology Ogdoad]], who may or may not be their leader as Huanglongmon was to the Sovereigns (i.e. Huanglongmon and Ogudomon are both summoned in the card game by fusing any two members of their "subordinate" groups).
305** WorldTree: The very host computer of the Digital World is called ''Yggdrasil''. A good rule of thumb is that if the Yggdrasil is present, it will be an antagonistic force, though whether ''malevolent'' or not is up for grabs. In a nod to Myth/NorseMythology, Yggdrasil in the Digimon Chronicle seeks to create three servers named for the Norns that tended its namesake.
306** [[Myth/ArthurianLegend Knights of the Round Table]]: The Royal Knights are a selection of thirteen Digimon that belong to an order founded by [[ThePaladin Imperialdramon Paladin Mode]]. While this order was founded for ostensibly benevolent reasons, it was quickly subordinated to Yggdrasil, who uses them for purposes of network security. Most of them have a bad case of MyMasterRightOrWrong, unfortunately, though at least two of them, [[TheHeart Dukemon]] and [[TheHero Alphamon]] are unambiguously heroic. Imperialdramon [=PM=] is not an actual member of the order; ostensibly they hold to his ideals.
307** [[DragonsUpTheYinYang Four Dragon Kings]]: The Four Great Dragons, based in the mythos of the dragon spirits of the four seas that surrounded China. This group consists of Quinglongmon (yes, doing double-duty and the most deified of the four) for the East Sea, Megidramon for the North Sea, Goddramon for the West Sea, and Holydramon for the South Sea. This group was one of the oldest and first to be codified in the {{Metaplot}}, but has gotten the absolute least mileage out of any of them.
308** The Dark Masters technically fit here but only ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' material. Four villainous Digimon (Apocalymon's "children") that were powerful enough to defeat and seal away the Sovereigns. As a quick trip to the [[Headscratchers/DigimonAdventure Headscratchers section]] for ''Adventure'' relates, given their basis in the Virus-type Megas from the virtual pets, some speculate that Pukumon should have been part of the group rather than [=MetalSeadramon=], though the latter was chosen as a superior alternative, since a Weapons Platform [[Myth/NauticalFolklore Sea Serpent]] is more visually impressive than a thuggish blowfish. (To do him credit, Pukumon got a part in one of the ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' CD Dramas).
309** The [[ElementalEmbodiment Ten]] [[MonsterProgenitor Warriors]] are a collection of Digimon who were able to defeat and seal Lucemon in the backstory to ''Anime/DigimonFrontier''. They ended up dividing their powers into "Human" and "Beast" spirits and scattered them throughout the world. Five of the Human Spirits were given their own lives by [[FallenAngel Cherubimon Vice]], while the others fell to human hosts. (The spirits with the humans seem to have their own "lives" as well, and it may be the case that the ones Cherubimon drew out were corrupted to his will).
310** [[Myth/GreekMythology Twelve Olympians]]: Another group, the "Olympus Twelve" group of Digimon consists of a selection of powerful Digimon based in, well, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin you probably already got it]]. These Digimon have yet to act as a centralized organization, though individuals may crop up [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad here]] and [[Anime/DigimonFusion there]].
311** {{God}}: A being whom the Angel Digimon serve, noted to be an immeasurably powerful being of ultimate goodness and infinite love. Apparently created the Digital World and its laws. There is also a number of FallenAngel Digimon having "rebelled" against God. May be a human, may be Homeostasis - the weird light that possessed Kari in ''Adventure'', and named in the ''Xros Wars'' manga.
312*** A note on Homeostasis: Homeostasis is actually [[spoiler:the replacement server for Yggdrasil, who went bad]].
313** In addition, there are also two other figures that have the title "God of the Digital World"; Huanglongmon and Yggdrasil. However, this refers to their roles as rulers, and not the same being that the Angel Digimon serve.
314** [[UsefulNotes/{{Buddhism}} Shakamon]] is an interesting case. Supposedly the "closest" to Yggdrasil, Shakamon (based on the Buddha) is responsible for the Eastern Digital World's protection... and its ordeals, both of which are because of its love for the Digimon. It is said to be meaningless to fight Shakamon, who will subvert and disperse any "evil" intent.
315* FillingTheSilence: The dub usually inserts new dialogue to make the show more understandable for kids or to insert an added joke.
316* FusionDance: The franchise demonstrates several methods for fusing mons together. Unlike most fictions which features this sorta thing, it is a recurring trend in the franchise that DNA and Biomerging are only possible routes to a form. Digimon being [[TheMultiverse]] what [[ContinuitySnarl it is]], this is not universally consistent.
317** [[DubNameChange DNA Digivolution / Jogress Evolution]], used in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02''. Typically is two Digimon of the same level. Per secondary materials for Adventure, the XW manga, and the Hyper Colosseum card game, it works by the second Digimon providing the first with power for a shared evolution.
318** Biomerging is introduced in Tamers. Happens between a human and a Digimon of any level below Mega, and produces a [[PhysicalGod Mega-level Digimon]].
319** Fusion / Gattai was introduced in ''Our War Game'' (a.k.a. the second portion of ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'') with [[ThePaladin Omegamon]]. Has since been changed to Jogress, or DNA Digivolution in some international regions.
320** [[Anime/DigimonFusion DigiXros]].
321* FusionDissonance: A lot of fusions in ''Digimon'' do not have MorphicResonance to their components, but ''Digimon Story: Super Xros Wars [[OneGameForThePriceOfTwo Blue and Red]]'' cranks this up. As there are too many to mention, let's just take a few:
322** Patamon is a guinea pig with bat wings that can combine with Kuramon (spiky [[{{Oculothorax}} ball with one eye]]) to form [=IceDevimon=] (a humanoid demon with long arms and tattered wings). Or, in the ''Blue'' version, with Otamamon (tadpole), Wormmon (caterpillar), and Piximon (a {{Cephalothorax}} [[OurFairiesAreDifferent fairy]]) to form Calumon (a CarbuncleCreature with EarWings). Calumon's components make more sense in the ''Red'' version because it replaces everyone except for Piximon with Lopmon, Lunamon, and Terriermon (all with bodies with stubby arms and legs and rounded cutesy heads similar to Calumon's).
323** Kuramon can also combine with Dracmon (looks like a kid vampire with eyes in its palms) and [=DemiDevimon=] (a Cephalothorax demon) into [[BedsheetGhost Bakemon]].
324** [[PlantPerson Togemon]] (a cactus with boxing gloves) can combine with [[DreadfulDragonfly Yanmamon]] and [[InsectoidAliens Kabuterimon]] (a heavily stylized rhinoceros beetle) to form Lillymon (a fairy with leaves for wings and [[PlantHair petals for hair]] and skirt). In the ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' continuity and some of the other games, Togemon can evolve to Lillymon without fusion.
325** [[KillerTeddyBear Monzaemon]] is combined from [[TalkingPoo Sukamon]], Numemon (a slug), and Apemon.
326** [[OurGoblinsAreDifferent Goblimon]] and Armadillomon fuse into [[OurMinotaursAreDifferent Minotarumon]], which is pretty faithful to ''Myth/ClassicalMythology'' except for its [[ArtificialLimbs mechanical left hand]].
327** Coelamon may only slightly resemble a coelacanth but it resembles its components (Crabmon and [[ClamTrap Syakomon]]) even less. Crabmon can evolve into Coelamon without fusion in other games.
328* GagDub: The dub tended to be silly at times, similar to how ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats'' was dubbed, though the dub generally avoided this during the serious moments.
329* GiantSpider: Dokugumon (with six legs and classified as an insect) and Arukenimon (semi humanoid).
330* GogglesDoNothing: Aside from [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad Marcus]] and [[Anime/DigimonGhostGame Hiro]], every team's leader wears a pair on their head. Only Takato makes frequent use of them. In ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', it is somehow seen as a symbol of the leader, as when Taiki is unable to lead, Zenjirou temporarily puts it on. Daisuke/Davis does at one point say "Maybe I should put on my goggles!" He doesn't.
331** Notably averted in ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'', where Koshiro/Izzy invents a pair that allows Taichi/Tai to [[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual visually perceive data flow]] in order to be forewarned about Digimon attacking the real world. May count as a MythologyGag given that Taichi was the originator of the above trope.
332* GoneHorriblyWrong: The X-Program. Yggdrasil cooked it up as a way of getting the Digital World's population under control, which it did... at first. Then Digimon started developing a resistance to it which came with the added bonus of unlocking their innermost potential. So, good becomes great and bad becomes ''worse''. Not exactly a problem when dealing with, say, a Tokomon or a Numemon, but a lot of Digimon who gained the X-Antibody tend to be incredibly dangerous sorts.
333* GratuitousEnglish: Almost all attacks are in English.
334** GratuitousGerman: ...or German.
335** GratuitousForeignLanguage ...or some other language; Zoe/Izumi/Kazemon/Fairymon's attacks are in Italian.
336* GrossoutShow: The virtual pet raising sims placed more emphasis on the gross nature of some Digimon, which was downplayed later.
337* HeartDrive: The Master Tag to the Royal Knights. You can acquire these in the Pendulum X V-Pets by defeating their corresponding Royal Knights. If you give it your Digimon Congratulations! [[NiceJobBreakingItHero You just gave Yggdrasil a more powerful Royal Knight]] [[PlayerPunch to hunt down illegal Digimon with]].
338* HeelFaceTurn: This is traditional for every season. The Heel Face Turner may also become Sixth Ranger if human. Usually involves MoreThanMindControl.
339** ''Adventure'': [[spoiler:Gatomon/Tailmon, Wizardmon/Wizarmon, Orgemon]]
340** ''Adventure 02'': [[spoiler:Ken]]
341** ''Tamers'': [[spoiler: Impmon]]
342** ''Frontier'': [[spoiler:Kouichi]]
343** ''Data Squad'': [[spoiler:Keenan, Craniummon]]
344** ''Fusion'': [[spoiler:Baalmon (revived as Beelzebumon), Grademon, Nene, Kiriha, Yuu]]
345* HotterAndSexier: Digimon cards released after ''Digimon Data Squad'' and ''Digimon Fusion'' have put the female Digimon in more of a [[{{Fanservice}} suggestive spotlight]] than before. And it's not just limited to Digimon who are purposely sexy, such as Ladydevimon, Lilithmon and Bastemon; one card features [[InnocentFanserviceGirl Angewomon]] in a "defeated" pose [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything with some of her "clothes" ripped and torn]].
346** Outside of the card game, the series became more obvious with its fanservice as the years went on, and to the point that during and after the AudienceShift, [[http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Sanzomon many]] [[http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Junomon new]] [[http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Ceresmon#Ceresmon_Medium female]] [[http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/BelleStarmon Digimon]] happen to have much larger busts than they used to. This also happens to the [[ShesAllGrownUp now-older]] Digi-Destined of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', where a promotion of the second part of the ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' included shots of the girls in detailed bikinis.
347* HumanFocusedAdaptation: Practically every work in the franchise puts more focus on the human characters, and sometimes even the human world, than the titular Digimon themselves, which is very jarring as this means the Digital World usually has its own society and culture treated like window dressing while the Digimon themselves are ''fully sapient beings''. Any story that actually develops Digimon as their own character is usually a DayInTheLimelight or a work that completely removes any human involvement like ''Digital Monster X-Evolution'' and ''Digimon World 4''. The result is that usually the Digimon partners are {{Satellite Character}}s ''at best'', CharacterFocus being mainly reserved for the human characters while the HumansAreSpecial trope get abused so much that it is often the reason why the human world is dragged into the Digital World's conflicts. [[SarcasmMode The human world being in danger is the only cause that we should mostly care about, it is not like the Digital World being in crisis usually causes this sort of scenario to happen in the first place]].
348* HumansAreSpecial: Somehow, maybe because their networks created or expedited the Digital World, humans have a huge influence over the Digimon from evolutions to raising eggs. It seems that [[MugglesDoItBetter Humans Do It Better]] then most Digimon can do it on their own. In the Digital World, it takes a Digimon an unfeasibly long time to evolve on their own. Hundreds of thousands to millions of years to achieve the Champion or Mega level. Whereas if they bond with a human partner they can evolve in a matter of days or weeks. Hence why some Digimon, wanting to become stronger, are ''so determined'' to either [[ThisIsMyHuman abduct a human]] or escape to the human world.
349* HuMons: Humanlike Digimon have existed from the beginning of the franchise with the likes of Angemon and Angewomon, [[WingedHumanoid winged humanoids]] with helmets. This is later used as a distinction in ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', where Spirits and the occasional regular {{Mon}} are divided into Human and Beast categories. The majority of such Digimon have a mask, cowl, or at least a visor so you never see their whole face, or at least their eyes.
350* HypnoticEyes: Gatomon's Cat's Eye Hypnotism move gives her these.
351* IconicItem:
352** Each season has their respective Digivices, differing from season to season. As the anime series went on, the capabilities of Digivices also expanded.
353** Goggles. They're so iconic, most people associate these with the show, and Website/TheOtherWiki mentions it in their "Goggles" article. In-universe, it is the mark of TheLeader among the various Digidestined/Tamers. Only [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad two]] [[Anime/DigimonGhostGame seasons]] broke with the tradition, but subsequent seasons brought the goggles back.
354* IdiotHero: Several, the goggleheads in particular.
355** Taiki and Taichi subvert it, being strategists. Although ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' Taichi had to [[CharacterDevelopment grow into it]]. Takato averts it, being a down-to-earth AudienceSurrogate.
356* ImageSong: And how.
357** ''Zero Two'': all the [=DigiDestined=] from both ''Adventure'' and ''Zero Two'' get an ImageSong, as do their Digimon partners. Additionally, each [=DigiDestined=]/Digimon pair also gets a song shared by both of them, bringing the total to 36 separate songs.
358* TheImp:
359** [=PicoDevimon=] in ''Adventure''.
360** Impmon, of course, in ''Tamers''.
361* InconsistentDub: As of ''Data Squad'' and ''Fusion'', the English dubs tend to flip-flop back and forth between using a Digimon's original Japanese name and a previously-established dub name. For instance, the ''Frontier'' dub had Crusadermon, while ''Data Squad'' had another of the same kind named [=LoadKnightmon=], who also has ''another'' inconsistency issue with its name. One episode of ''Fusion'' even used both names for some snow-monsters (Yukidarumon and Frigimon) in a single episode.
362* InconsistentSpelling: Not necessarily a spelling issue, but there are inconsistencies even on this very wiki over whether to use the English dub names or the original Japanese names, mainly because there is quite a lot of NostalgiaFilter over growing up with the dub despite (or because of) the occasional changes. The Japanese version has recently amassed a fanbase, and both are widely accepted in their own right. It is generally optimal for fandom members to familiarize themselves with both sets of terms for minimum confusion. It doesn't help that some of the English names are plagued by {{Engrish}}; for instance "[=LoadKnightmon=]" (seen in ''Data Squad''), whose correct name would be "[=LordKnightmon=]" or "[=RhodoKnightmon=]" (a pun on "rhodonite"). It ''also'' doesn't help that multiple names are used even in English, like when the dub of ''Frontier'' named this very same Digimon as "Crusadermon".
363** A lot of Digimon (and their attacks) suffer from being written in mostly katakana, which leaves interpretation up in the air. Most of the time, a simple solution can be found, but in some cases, a [[GratuitousForeignLanguage foreign attack name]] will slip under the radar due to being obscure[[note]]Fandubbers can be forgiven for calling [[Manga/DigimonVTamer01 UlforceVeedramon's]] attack the Tense Great Shield; how many of you know what ''tensegrity'' is in the first place?[[/note]] or due to the aforementioned NostalgiaFilter[[note]]More than a few were surprised when Sukamon's official English name came out as ''Scummon''.[[/note]].
364* InTheEndYouAreOnYourOwn: In ''Adventure'' and ''Frontier'', to the point where in ''Frontier'' there was pretty much no-one else left alive in the Digital World. Averted in ''02'', ''Tamers'', and ''Data Squad'' -- in those cases they had the extensive support of all the world's Chosen, Yamaki and the Wild Bunch, and the Royal Knights respectively. In ''Fusion'' the main kids never get help outside, but they do have armies of Digimon to use.
365* IntraFranchiseCrossover: In the last two episodes of the ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersWhoLeaptThroughTime'', the protagonists of the prior seasons of Digimon shows (Tai and Agumon from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', Davis and Veemon from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', Takato and Guilmon from ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', Takuya from ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', and Marcus and Agumon from ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad''/''Digimon Savers'') arrived to help the heroes against Quartzmon. In addition, Mimi, Palmon, Joe, Gomamon (all from ''Adventure''), and Rika and Renamon (''Tamers'') also appear in that set of episodes.
366* KatanasAreJustBetter: Tactimon's could supposedly cause much destruction, if he ever unsheathed it. In fact, even while sheathed it needs an additional seal on it. Next Zambamon practically calls the trope by name.
367* KibblesAndBits: [=WarGreymon=] and [=MetalGarurumon=] were the first Digimon to be modeled after their toys instead of vice versa. This lead to creative use of kibble, such as Agumon's head and claws becoming the Brave Shield and Dramon Killers or Gabumon's feet, horn and tail becoming his shoulder mounted missile launchers, tail and wings respectively. However, this caused them to fit in poorly with their other forms due to clashing themes.
368* KillerRabbit: Many Digimon are cute but deadly.
369* KingOfBeasts: Leomon. His signature move is actually called "Fist Of the Beast King"
370* TheLancer: There's one in every team, who generally doesn't get along with the leader and they normally have blond hair (the exceptions are [[Anime/DigimonTamers Rika]] and [[Anime/DigimonFrontier Koji]], who have red hair and black/blue hair respectively).
371* LateArrivalSpoiler: Look at ''any'' merchandising (besides the initial posters and DVD covers) for ''[[Anime/DigimonAdventure Adventure]]'', ''[[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Adventure 02]]'', ''[[Anime/DigimonFrontier Frontier]]'', or ''[[Anime/DigimonDataSquad Data Squad]]'', and you'll very prominently see [[spoiler:Hikari]], [[spoiler:Ken]], [[spoiler:Kouichi]], and [[spoiler:Ikuto]] happily smiling with everyone else on the covers.
372* LighterAndSofter: The character designs for the Digimon themselves have been cleaned up considerably in more recent incarnations. While earlier designs featured a lot of details such as chipped nails and teeth, scarred flesh, tarnished metal, bulging veins, tattered wings and general asymmetry, newer designs tend to eschew those details and place more emphasis on roundness and polished surfaces. There a notable difference between the original Agumon and his ''Data Squad'' incarnation or the original [=MetalGreymon=] and [=RizeGreymon=].
373* LivingDollCollector: Piedmon, at least in ''Adventure'', where he makes keychains ([[MythologyGag get it?]]) out of most of the Digi-Destined and their partners.
374* LoserArchetype: Numemon, in the greater Digimon canon, exist because some poor schlub of a Digimon botched his evolution. A Champion that's weaker than basically every kind of Rookie, they literally failed to become anything better. You can usually find them sliming around, serving some local virus-type, or throwing poop at the people they don't like. Sukamon and its variants are similar, except they're formed entirely from junk data.
375* LoyalPhlebotinum: Part of the reason human-partnered Digimon are so powerful, to the point that if Digimon are aware of this, and can travel to the human world, they'll actively seek out partners if they're cognizant enough to not be driven into a rampage.
376* MagikarpPower:
377** Numemon and his breathern have one, and ONLY one use: evolving into [[GameBreaker Monzaemon]] in the original virtual pets. That is to say, unless you find throwing poop useful...[[note]]In the original v-pet, its attack was the weakest of any Champion/Adult stage Digimon.[[/note]]
378** Version 2 of the v-pet had Vegimon, who was similarly weak to Numemon, but Digivolves into Vademon.
379** Version 3 did this with Scumon. His massive power jump came in the form of ''Etemon'', who was a real threat to the Digi Destined in the anime. And the 20th Anniversary version takes it further, where Etemon can further Digivolve into [=KingEtemon=].
380** V-pet Version 4 has Nanimon, who is not only a weakling but an in-joke - he's actually Oyajitchi from ''Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}}'' but with sunglasses, where he is also a MemeticLoser. But he can become Digitamamon, who looks like a joke character since he's an egg with feet but is the second strongest Ultimate. And then he can hatch into Titamon, a Mega level Digimon with high attack power.
381** The final original v-pet had Raremon, who is more or less a CaptainErsatz of [[Film/GodzillaVsHedorah Hedorah]] both in terms of being a living pile of sludge and a complete joke. He can then become Ex-Tyrannomon, an Expy of Monzaemon - a stuffed animal Digimon (which actually has another Digimon inside it) that gains a massive power boost on Digivolving. He can then become a real threat as Puppetmon, who was a tricky adversary on the show as well.
382** Also Patamon, who's a RidiculouslyCuteCritter even by Rookie level standards but evolves into Angemon, one of the strongest Champions.
383** Also inverted. The most famous example is [=MetalGreymon=], who has tremendous power for a Perfect level. Evolving to [=WarGreymon=] causes him to lose power rating and have a shorter lifespan compared to other Ultimate levels in the Digivice v-pets. Since similar Digimon, such as [=AeroVeedramon=] and Cyberdramon, also shared this pattern. Notably though, in many other media, their evolved form are indeed stronger than them. In particular, this doesn't apply to the 20th Annivery v-pet, where it instead gets significantly stronger and lives as long as other Ultimate level Digimon. [[spoiler:It can also Jogress with [=MetalGarurumon=] into Omnimon.]]
384* MakeAWish: Happens occasionally, and is explicitly a plot point in ''Adventure 02''.
385* MaleSunFemaleMoon: While Digimon technically don't have genders, the Olympos XII members Apollomon and Dianamon follow this trope; Apollomon is a male-looking warrior who wields ThePowerOfTheSun, while Dianamon has a feminine appearance with a [[{{Lunacy}} moon-based]] armor theme.
386* MeaningfulName:
387** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': Matt and TK from Adventures may have their Japanese Names based on Yamato-Takeru, a legendary prince who fought many battles in his fathers name. Matt fought mostly to protect TK. Also, Yamato-Takeru turned into a great white bird at his death. Angemon, anyone?
388** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': Screenwriter Creator/ChiakiKonaka inserted his signature character named Juri Kato, and proceeded to make her as mentally ill as [[Anime/SerialExperimentsLain the other Juri Kato's friend Lain Iwakura]].
389* MechanicalMonster: A good 185 or so of them comprise the Metal Empire "family". Specific Digimon species of this nature are usually classed as "Cyborg" or "Machine" type Digimon.
390* MerchandiseDriven: Digimon is first and formost a toy franchise, so much so that having good toy sales can save your season from being canned [[Anime/DigimonFusion even if it has low ratings]].
391* MetamorphosisMonster: How digivolution (and all its methods, such as Jogress/DNA Digivolution and Armor Evolutions) function, especially outside of the anime installments. In general (starting with the original V-pet game), every Digimon can digivolve into a variety of species that don't always follow a set theme, and, depending on the quality of its raising, a Digimon can go wildly off course with its expected evolution path. This is one of the many aspects of the series that sets it apart from other {{Mon}} series.
392** The anime installments downplay the randomness of this facet of things, by giving each individual partner having a single straight line through various forms (which tend to differ even for individuals of the same species; Tai & Marcus both had Agumon partners, distinguished by their evolines). Variant evolutions occasionally occur (through [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Dark Evolution]] and item-induced evolutions).
393* MindScrewdriver: Remember that mysterious being of light that possessed Kari in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' and was never brought up again? Well, the [[Manga/DigimonXrosWars Xros Wars manga]] finally gives us an explanation -- it was Homeostasis, a being whose job is to protect the Digital World. Replacing Yggdrasill after it went nuts, Homeostasis is much more calm and protective [[spoiler:until Tri reveals it's just as bad]].
394* MonsterCompendium: The Digimon 20th Anniversary Editon virtual pet includes a Digi Dex, where all Digimon that you've evolved can be seen. Selecting a Digimon from the list lets you see its name. There is also a "Stock" option, which shows Digimon you've received by copying, which can be used in Tag Battles. However, the ones in Stock don't count toward the main Digi Dex and are lost if used in Jogress Digivolution.
395* MorphicResonance: Zigzagged. Many Digimon are designed to be part of a specific line of EvolutionaryLevels (some even highlight this by using modified versions of the same name, ''e.g.'' Greymon and [=MetalGreymon=]), while others are standalone designs that lack resemblance to anything they can evolve from or evolve to. Digimon aren't required to observe the lines they were designed for and can diverge into different forms depending on how they're raised.
396* MotorMouth: What happens when you have thirty seconds to explain [[PreviouslyOn what happened in thirty minutes]], although this counts as DubText.
397* MultiversalConqueror: Several of the villians, who have set their sights on conquering both worlds.
398* MustMakeAmends:
399** Ken Ichijoji, in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', after discovering that the Digital world is not just an artificial construct in which he can play out his anger and issues concerning his brother's death. This method essentially turns him from the BigBad to TheWoobie.
400** In one of the Digimon movies, the little American boy had one of his Digimon go rogue; he had been chasing it all over the US in an attempt to fix it. Even after the other kids show up, he is initially insistent that because it is his Digimon, he needs to make it right, himself.
401* MythologyGag: Nanimon and Wizardmon family are stated as travelers from another dimension and not proper Digimon. Both are referencing other Bandai digital pets before ''Digimon'', with the former character being Oyajitchi from ''Franchise/{{Tamagotchi}}'' and the latter being a reference to the ''Magical Witches'' toys.
402* MyMasterRightOrWrong: Usually played straight, as with [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Gabumon]], [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Wormmon]], [[Anime/DigimonTamers Renamon]], [[Anime/DigimonFrontier Duskmon]], [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad Gaomon]], and [[Anime/DigimonFusion most of Kiriha's army]] (in fact, everyone but Dracomon, who just stays inside of Kiriha's Xros Loader and pleads for him to stop, and Deckerdramon, who actually turns on him and attempts to remind him of the 'strong love' he once felt). HeelFaceTurn may include a subversion of this. Once Gatomon realizes that her place is with Kari, all of her dialogue with Myotismon amounts to "screw you." Though she was also helped by Myotismon being a sadistic monster.
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405[[folder:Tropes N-Z]]
406* NinetiesAntiHero: Many Digimon sport this look. Huge muscles with visible veins, scars, stitches, tattoos, TooManyBelts, [[SpikesOfVillainy spikes]], [[HollywoodCyborg cybernetic body parts]] and [[{{BFG}} oversized]] [[{{BFS}} weapons]] are very common, especially amongst Digimon of early generations. They were created in TheNineties, after all.
407* NoBodyLeftBehind: Digimon normally disappear into data upon death, though depending on which canon is in question, they might also leave [[BornAgainImmortality a Digi-egg]] behind.
408* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Far too many times to list politely, [[http://digipedia.db-destiny.net/misc/trivia.htm#2 here's]] a list.
409* NominalVillain:
410** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': Earlier in the series, most of the [[MonsterOfTheWeek antagonist Digimon]] the heroes fought were only evil because of a [[MindControlDevice Black Gear]]. After [[ArcVillain Devimon]]'s defeat, the Digidestined began encountering one-shot Digimon antagonists who were evil of their own volition.
411** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'':
412*** The Digimon enslaved by the Digimon Emperor's Dark Rings have a similar deal with the ones corrupted by the Black Gears in the original show.
413*** Wormon isn't under mind control, but he still follows the Emperor out of loyalty. When the Emperor's actions go too far for him to ignore, Wormon turns on him and helps the Digidestined defeat his latest creation. This leads to Ken's HeelFaceTurn and eventually him joining the heroes after Wormon's return.
414** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'': [[TheDragon Duskmon]] is the Legendary Warrior of Darkness and serves the villain Cherubimon. However, Duskmon is actually Koji's brainwashed brother Koichi and isn't evil by choice. He is eventually freed from Cherubimon's control.
415** ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'': In his first appearance, Mummymon abducts and mummifies humans. However, he only does this because he doesn't understand how modern medicine works and after being informed of his error, he frees the humans he abducted and resolves to learn modern medicine.
416* NonStandardCharacterDesign: Human characters tend to be simplistic in design and shading while humanoid Digimon (especially the MsFanservice ones) are given more details and more realistic proportions.
417* NonindicativeName
418** Why are the ones that look like bees called Flymon?
419** Then there's [=DinoBeemon=], [=JewelBeemon=], [=HoneyBeemon=], [=FlyBeemon=], [=CannonBeemon=], and [=FanBeemon=], which are, in order, A bug/dragon mishmash, a humanoid insect knight, a bee-fairy, a humanoid dragonfly, a [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam Dendrobium Orchis]][[note]]Or for the uninformed, it's a giant honeycomb fortress sitting atop the back of a slightly not-as-giant robotic bee.[[/note]], and finally something something more or less resembling a bee.
420* NoobCave: File Island is generally treated as the weakest region of the Digital World in most continuities. Even the monsters that appear on File Island are considered weaker than members of the same species that appear elsewhere.
421* NoSell: Often happens when the heroes face an incredibly powerful enemy; Their attacks tend to have no effect, until one of them digivolves to the same level as the baddy.
422* NotQuiteDead: While used less often than reincarnation as the series went on, seeing one burst into data isn't always a sure sign that they are deleted, sometimes they reform back together. We're shown the point of view of someone in this state at least once.
423* {{Notzilla}}: The Tyrannomon line is supposed to be a parody/homage to Godzilla.
424* NuclearWeaponsTaboo:
425** Played straight or averted with [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill SkullGreymon's attack]], dependent on your region. In the English dub, the move is called Dark Shot. In the original version, it's called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_zero Ground Zero]]. [[OmnicidalManiac Which makes SkullGreymon a mindless, semi-invulnerable creature bent on mass destruction]] ''[[FromBadToWorse with a nuclear missile attached to its back]].''
426*** [=MetalGreymon's=] attacks are directly compared to individual nuclear warheads in Digimon canon. Basically, [=SkullGreymon=] can shoot one nuke total, [=MetalGreymon=] can shoot ''several''. Luckily for everyone in the battle zone, [=MetalGreymon=]'s missiles don't act like real nukes.
427** The movie ''Our'' (or ''Children's'') ''War Game'' averts it spectacularly, by featuring the main villain lauching an ICBM, carrying a '''''nuke''''' at the children, that are in Odaiba, ''Tokyo''. This was as shown in Japan, and came from an anime made for kids.[[labelnote:impact]]As a GeniusBonus, nukes are triggered mid air to maximise the destruction, and are specifically designed to ''not'' trigger due to impact - the missile in the movie is shown to not explode midair and hit the lake instead, a.ka. making an impact....and just fell into the water harmlessly.[[/labelnote]]. The beginning arc of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure2020'' reuses these plot points with the exception of the nuke going off high in the atmosphere and the resulting EMP being magically reversed within seconds.
428* NumberedSequel: With some modification: ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', and ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri''.
429* OhCrap:
430** Myotismon has this reaction when he sees Kari get her hands on her Digivice. The original version uses the "oh, no!" variant of this trope.
431** Takato and Henry have one when [[spoiler: they spot [[HeelFaceTurn a Deva]] hanging out with Henry's sister.]]
432** Priceless one when Kurata [[spoiler:sees a ''very'' ticked off [=ShineGreymon=] Burst Mode heading right for him. Most of his faces after Burst Mode is reached qualify as well.]]
433** Subverted by Gravimon upon seeing [[spoiler:[=Shoutmon X7=]]]. What does he do after seeing a huge, golden Digimon that so quite powerful that his army behind him got obliterated? He ''smiles evilly''.
434* OnceASeason:
435** Try to find one season without a main character who is either overprotective of their sibling or has some sort of complex. Try it. Alternatively, try find a season in which a main character doesn't have an [[HiddenDepths unexpected, traumatic past]]
436** [[spoiler:Leomon dies. Even in the seasons he's not explicitly in, a character who dies shares his name in some evolution. ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'' and ''Digimon Adventure:'' are probably the two only exceptions to date that features a Leomon that doesn't die.]]
437** The main character, at some point, will become so angry, but so angry that their Digimon partner will perform a corrupt digivolution.
438** At the end of each season, the kids and their Digimon partners will have to be separated. For how long? That will depend on how generous the writers are feeling.
439* OurAngelsAreDifferent: There are many Angel-type and even FallenAngel-type monsters, and even some "Angemon" species that aren't classed as angels; for more details see the character sheet.
440* OurCentaursAreDifferent: There are a lot of centaurine Digimon, of whom only Centarumon even remotely resembles the centaurs of myth. Most draw resemble other creatures entirely, only retaining the anthropomorphic upper half and quadrupedal lower half.
441* ThePaladin
442** The Royal Knights are ostensibly a collection of these, though most often come with a bad rash of MyMasterRightOrWrong.
443** Dukemon and Alphamon are straight examples, along with Imperialdramon Paladin Mode (who was not an actual member, but rather the founder of the order).
444* PaletteSwap: There have been many, ''many'' recolored Digimon over the years, ranging from official recolors like Psychemon or Omnimon Zwart to more obscure ones that appear in one toy or game and nowhere else. Examples of the later include ''VideoGame/DigimonWorld3'', which has [[UndergroundMonkey variants]] with different stats or elemental alignments and ''Digital Monster: D-Project'', which would use a usually-minor PaletteSwap to indicate that a Digimon had a different attribute than normal.
445* ParentsAsPeople: Lots of examples of parents making a decision with the best intentions, but being horribly, ''horribly'' wrong -- or even just reacting to something badly-yet-understandably-so.
446* PatternCodedEggs: Digi-Eggs are sometimes given a themed pattern based around the baby Digimon inside. Other times, however, the egg will either have no actual theme or just be a solid color with no pattern at all.
447* PersonalSpaceInvader: In the pilot film, the first Koromon that Kari and Tai meet wraps his ear... tentacle... things around their heads and kisses them repeatedly about twice each.
448* PlotArmor: With a few exceptions, the humans practically never have to worry about being in danger during fights. They can even act as ''head or shoulder pets'' and never worry about being a liability to their partners by acting as a glaring weak spot. This is especially jarring in the original ''Adventure'' continuity where the Digimon partner will ''die'' if their human partners [[CantLiveWithoutYou bite the dust]]. Granted, this fact was revealed later on in the ''Digimon'' franchise's life, but still.
449* PostCyberpunk: Digimon is an extreme example. Everyone, including the Hacker are good guys, they're trying to save society, and are trying to improve themselves.
450* PowerCreepPowerSeep:
451** Happenes to some of the Digimon designed for the the earlier video game adaptations when the Ultimate(Mega) level was introduced with the Pendulum style v-pets. Notable examples of Power Creep include [=SaberLeomon=], Mugendramon (Machinedramon), and [=MetalEtemon=] who were all designed to be Perfects. On the seep side of things we have Ebidramon, Mechanorimon and Syakomon, former perfects who were bumped down to adult and child respectively. The Pendulum series did this a lot, with four of the five having examples of this. Happened again V-pets came out with Super Ultimate/Level Seven. Thankfully it was mostly ignored by the rest of the franchise that time.
452** Prevalent in the card games. Numerical values creeped higher and higher with every new expansion in the Hyper Colosseum game. By it's last expansion, Adult-level Digimon had surpassed the Ultimate levels in the first few sets.
453** Some non-standard PowerLevels themselves are prone to this, namely [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Armors]] and [[Anime/DigimonFrontier Hybrids]]. (Anime/DigimonFusion looks at your PowerLevels and [[SuperRobot laughs]]). To take the armor example, a generally good rule of thumb is that the vast majority of armors have a mean power range between Champion and Ultimate, whereas the Golden Digi-Eggs (Miracles and [[NonSerialMovie Destiny]]) range from Ultimate to Mega. In the card game, however, Magnamon is treated roughly equivalent to a Champion due to the nature of the game mechanics (a specific type of evolution getting you a Mega-equivalent from a Rookie would certainly skew the game); in the games, he can generally be counted on to rumble with other Ultimates; and in his [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad Royal Knights]] incarnation, he's on par with Mega.
454* PowerGlows: Most attacks involve some part of the Digimon in question glowing before the attack is fired. Most digivolutions also start with the Digimon and sometimes the digivice or the human partner glowing.
455* ProtagonistPowerUpPrivileges: Almost every season the Hero and the Lancer will be the only ones to unlock the ability to digivolve to Mega, or achieve the first evolutions.
456** Averted in ''Tamers'' where all three main heroes and Ryo can Bio-Merge to Mega, and where the first Super Mode goes to Beelzemon.
457** Averted in ''Data Squad'' where all four heroes achieve [[StoryBreakerPower Burst Mode, which is implied to be that setting's equivalent]] of [[BeyondTheImpossible Super Ultimate]].
458** Averted in ''Ghost Game'', as all three members acquire Mega forms with no extra Super Modes or fusions to tip the balance. (While Proximamon did exist in the TCG and in the Vital Bracelet v-pet as a fusion of Siriusmon and Arcturusmon, [=GulusGammamon=]'s Mega level, the fusion didn't make an appearance, as well as Arcturusmon.)
459* PunchPunchPunchUhOh: [[RebusBubble PowerLevels + Constant battling = Troperiffic]]
460* PureIsNotGood: Some Digimon (usually babies) are described as so pure that they even lack morality. Like [[http://wikimon.net/Puttimon Puttimon]], for example.
461* PurelyAestheticGender: Zigzagged depending on the continuity. Some Digimon are clearly {{Distaff Counterpart}}s to masculine Digimon (''e.g.'' Angewomon and [=LadyDevimon=]), but some continuities specify that the Digimon in that universe have NoBiologicalSex (''e.g.'' ''Tamers''). There's even a male Lilithmon floating around the franchise somewhere. ''Frontier'' seems to avert the trope and ''Fusion'' averts it unmistakably.
462* RandomPowerRanking: There's no real consistency between the various Digimon properties when it comes to how strong any particular Digimon species is. One day they may be considered the strongest Digimon in existence, the next they may be used as cannon fodder for the new designs. Evolution levels also suffer from this. Several Digimon may exist as two or more different levels simultaneously. For example, Whamon is an Adult on File Island, but a Perfect on Folder due to their increased strength and larger size. In theory this means any given Digimon species may exist on all evolution levels simultaneously just by increasing or decreasing it's power or size. [[ContinuitySnarl Curiously, Adventure Whamon(File Island) was drawn larger than V-Tamer Whamon(Folder).]]
463* RankInflation:
464** The earliest ''Digital Monster'' v-pets featured Digimon that progressed through five stages of evolution, from Baby I to Baby II to Child to Adult to Perfect. In the late nineties, the ''Digimon Pendulum'' v-pet series introduced a sixth stage, Ultimate. Since then, various installments of the franchise have tried to cheat the levelling system with either an official or ''de facto'' seventh stage--a FusionDance of two ultimates here, a ultimate's SuperMode there--but the franchise at large has stuck to six stages.
465** The above tends to be inverted quite often in the video games. It's pretty common for Super Ultimates to be merged with Ultimates for the sake of better gameplay, and earlier games like the first ''Digimon World'' combined Ultimates with Perfect since it was still made with 5 levels in mind.
466* RealPlaceBackground: A tradition for the franchise, and a defining aesthetic look. No matter how different the Digital World may be, the "Real World" will be extremely faithful to the actual place bar some artistic liberties. Notable examples range from Fuji TV's building in ''Digimon Adventure'', the '''country of Japan''' in ''Digimon Tamers'', the Shibuya district in ''Digimon Frontier'', and the Odaiba Bay in both ''Digimon Data Squad'' and ''Digimon Fusion''.
467* RecruitTeenagersWithAttitude: Pre-teenagers with attitude, to be specific. Nearly all the humans who get directly involved with Digimon in the anime are children, which is not unusual as you would think, considering that Digimon's dub was produced by Saban--notable for the Power Rangers--and that both Digimon and the original Super Sentai are Toei properties.
468* RedIsHeroic: Just about every lead in each anime installment starting with [[Anime/DigimonTamers Takato]] is associated with red, either in their clothing or their Digimon partner, if not both at once. Tai and Davis were aversions as both focused on OrangeBlueContrast instead, though Davis may have been an attempt to start the trend by having red and orange flame decals on his blue jacket, and his partner Veemon's early iconic evolution, Flamedramon, having a red fire-based armor instead of orange like most of the "Courage" themed evolutions Tai had.
469* RedLiveLobster:
470** Ebidramon is a Champion/Ultimate (Adult/Perfect) level Digimon which resembles a cross between a giant mechanical red lobster and a dragon. It makes appearances in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', ''Anime/DigimonFusion'', ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' and ''Anime/DigimonAdventure2020''.
471** Regalecusmon is a {{downplayed}} example, as it is a humanoid Digimon with lobster-like armor that is colored in different shades of red.
472* ReducedToDust: Any time a Digimon is destroyed, it usually either spontaneously bursts or slowly disintegrates, in this case, the "dust" actually being computer data.
473* {{Reincarnation}}:
474** All seasons except for ''Tamers'' have a village where previously killed Digimon are reborn. What would happen to a human who dies in the Digital World isn't certain.
475** And then they manage to turn it around and take it into terrifying territory at least once: [[spoiler: We dunno what would happen if a human would die in the digital world, but we sure as hell know what happens to a Digimon who dies in the ''real'' one -- they remain a half-conscious, mostly-spectral wraith for the rest of time with no hope of rebirth. Poor, poor Wizardmon...]][[spoiler: On the other hand, none of the Digimon killed in the real world, except Wizardmon and Myotismon return as ghosts. Fridge logic would suggest if the digital world is made from deleted data that their data would eventually make their way back there.]]
476** Tamers' third act was more or less instigated by its aversion of this trope.
477** One of the things that makes Kurata in the fifth season so despicable is the use of weapons that make this impossible, effectively making any victim of his Gizmon KilledOffForReal.
478** ''[[Anime/DigimonFusion Fusion]]'' plays this trope straight with [[spoiler:Baalmon, who is reincarnated as Beelzebumon, as well as some others]], but otherwise Digimon stay dead[[spoiler:without the code crown.]]
479* {{Retcon}}: Overlapping with AllThereInTheManual: the CD dramas included little things like Mimi being present for 9/11, his brother Shuu being the person Jou was on the phone with in the PilotMovie, and Miyako's "YamatoNadeshiko Panic!" song, but it also completely threw out the second ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' movie, by [[spoiler:not having the Tamers reunite with their partners. Or did they? Later, perhaps? We don't know.]]) According to the drama CD, it seems they don't, or at least, not through the method hinted at by the end of the actual show.
480* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Most Digimon in the early stages, though there are a few exceptions with later forms being adorable.
481** Kenta's little pink partner is [=MarineAngemon=], a ''Mega'' level (and fits right into the kid's pocket)! And now ''Fusion'' has a Digimon actually named Cutemon.
482* RidiculouslySmallWings: Petitmon, Babydmon, and Dracomon have small wings for their bodies, but can fly nonetheless, with it being {{Handwaved}} as Petitmon and Babydmon being light enough and Dracomon only being capable of flight (and even then only for short times) under the influence of the X-Antibody.
483* RingsOfActivation:
484** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': Gatomon and Patamon's Armor Digivolution sequences both feature them briefly becoming an upward-travelling beam of glowing rings as they fuse with their respective armor eggs.
485** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': The [[FusionDance Biomerge Digivolution]] sequence involves rings of light manifesting around the tamers as they merge with their Digimon. These rings are still present when the perspective switches to the kids within the Digimon.
486** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'': Fractal Code is the data that Digimon's bodies are comprised of and typically appears as a glowing ring of light when manifested. The Digidestined's tranformation sequence has a ring of fractal code manifest around their hands as they scan it with their [[TransformationTrinket D-Tector]].
487** ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'': The evolution sequences have been updated to involve rings manifesting around the Digimon's bodies. A large single ring passes upwards of them in champion evolution, multiple, smaller rings manifest across their form in super evolution and four glowing rings are featured in ultimate evolution.
488** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure2020'': Agumon and Gabumon's evolution sequences feature rings of light.
489*** During their champion evolutions, Agumon and Gabumon are hit with a beam of data surrounded by rings. The beam then transforms into a sphere around them, with the sphere itself surrounded by rings matching Agumon and Gabumon's respective signature colors.
490*** The sphere surrounded by rings appears at the end of their super evolution sequences, exploding to reveal their ultimate forms.
491*** In their ultimate evolutions, the rings surrounding the sphere interlock and explode as they take their mega forms.
492** ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'': Any time a Digimon inflicts some supernatural effect on people, rings of various colors appear around the victims as the Digimon briefly converts them to data.
493* RockMonster: Various Digimon, like Gotsumon and Golemon.
494* RousseauWasRight: Played straight in ''02'' (with [[VideogameCrueltyPotential Ken]] and [[MindControl Oikawa]]), ''Tamers'' ([[WellIntentionedExtremist Yamaki]]), and ''Fusion'' ([[CreepyChild Yuu]]); averted in ''Adventure'' and ''Frontier'' (no human villains), and averted in ''Data Squad'' ('''DAMN YOU''', AKIHIRO KURATA!!!).
495* SacrificialLion: In an unusually literal sense; it's a notorious franchise tradition that Leomon, a Leomon variant, or a Leomon {{expy}} must die OnceASeason (a Leomon died in ''Adventure'', which was given an {{homage}} in ''Tamers''... which accidentally spawned the tradition). [[spoiler:With notable exceptions in ''V-Tamer'' and ''Anime/DigimonAdventure2020'', which break that tradition.]]
496* SadlyMythtaken: Many Digimon, especially OlympusMons, draw from RealLife mythology and fable, but often get the details wrong. Sometimes this is an obvious riff, and sometimes this is because a Digimon is named for the mythological character without being otherwise informed by them.
497* SapientCetaceans: Dolphmon possesses advanced intelligence, but its form of thought is too complex for a normal person to understand.
498* SatanicArchetype:
499** Regarding the broader franchise:
500*** There are multiple Digimon, like Devimon, Demon, and Lucemon, who model different facets of TheDevil. Other digimon take inspiration from apocalyptic monsters or Goetic demons as well. The Seven Great Demon Lords -- also known as the Seven Deadly Digimon -- are a collection of these.
501*** Inverted with Beelzebumon, who is in many appearances a NobleDemon or even an AntiHero.
502** It is a very popular archetype in anime:
503*** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' has Devimon, an EvilGenius who preys on innocent Digimon and drives them mad, and Myotismon, whose evolved form is based on the BeastOfTheApocalypse.
504*** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' has Daemon, the wicked leader of other devilish Digimon, and [=MaloMyotismon=], whose Japanese name is taken after the Goetic demon Belial.
505*** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' has Beelzemon (Beelzebub) but he's not evil, though the D-Reaper possesses many Satanic qualities (lies and manipulates, wants to end the world).
506*** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' has Lucemon, who is Lucifer, Chaos Mode (who is Lucifer in the process of falling) and Shadowlord Mode ([[BeastOfTheApocalypse the dragon]]).
507*** ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'' has Belphemon, named after Belphegor.
508*** ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' has Lucemon and Beelzemon again, as well as Lilithmon, another demon lord.
509* SatelliteCharacter: Partner Digimon tend to fall into this depending on the canon in question or how many other human characters there are around at the time; the partners in ''Adventure'' fell into it the most. Best averted in ''Tamers'', ''Fusion'', and ''Ghost Game'', where Digimon are more often treated as independent characters. The few that remain are [[ExaggeratedTrope exaggerations]].
510* SeaMonster: A common antagonistic force, corrupted or not. For starters, Seadramon and Shellmon in ''Adventure''. Doesn't help that sea monsters are the minority in the franchise, you will be hard-pressed finding one of the protagonists even using one.
511* SeaSerpents: The Seadramon family is a line of aquatic [[OurDragonsAreDifferent -dramon]] Digimon depicted as serpentine, legless and exclusively marine. Seadramon is a fairly typical sea serpent, [=MegaSeadramon=] is largely a bigger take on this with a sword-like horn, and [=MetalSeadramon=] and [=GigaSeadramon=] are {{cyb|erneticMythicalBeast}}org versions of this trope, with [=GigaSeadramon=] in particular being modified to serve as a living troop carrier.
512* SeriesMascot: Fox Kids used closeups of principle characters to advertise their shows, so they chose Tai, Davis, and Takato to represent the franchise. In more expansive terms, the Agumon line tends to act as the closest equivalent to [[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pikachu]] for the ''Digimon'' franchise, with it's evolution Greymon filling a similar role to Charizard. The leads of each anime series usually have partners with at least one form inspired by the line.
513* ShoutOut:
514** Yes, Gennai does sound like [[Franchise/StarWars Jedi]]. Yes, he does look like Obi-Wan. Yes, he looks like Ewan [=MacGregor=] in season 2.
515** Digimon has lots of ''Literature/ParadiseLost'' shout outs. Deathmon is named after the demon Death, Lucemon and Barbamon has, respectively, an attack named Paradise Lost and Purgatory Lost. Beyond it, both Barbamon and Belial Vamdemon reference the city of Pandemonium in their attacks.
516** Decoding the [=DigiCode=] that appears on Oryxmon and Seraphimon will reveal direct quotes from ''Anime/TheCastleOfCagliostro'' and ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', respectively.
517* ShownTheirWork: Moved [[Trivia/{{Digimon}} here.]]
518* ShortTank: A common character archetype in the anime, no doubt thanks to [[TropeCodifier pioneering work]] by its contemporary ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries''.
519** Sora Takenouchi of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'', with her red hair, yellow tank top, and blue jeans, is blatantly an expy of fellow Mons-genre leading lady Misty, though more conservatively dressed and mostly a Tomboy [[TomboyAndGirlyGirl only next to Mimi]]. She underwent a GirlinessUpgrade in ''02'' after resolving her MommyIssues.
520** Kari Kamiya's ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' self is an inversion; while she wears the shorts and tank top, her hot pink color scheme and gentle personality clearly cast her as the GirlyGirl of the group, whose real {{Tomboy}} is Yolei.
521** Rika Nonaka of ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' is an {{Expy}} of Sora, another redheaded Tomboy in jeans with a wealthy background and MommyIssues. While she's a ponytailed {{Tsundere}} like the TropeCodifier, her personality goes to an IceQueen extreme. Further, Ruki has no overt cuteness or sex appeal to speak of, which is unusual for the trope.
522** Angie Hinomoto of ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' is yet another redheaded leading lady in denim, though she was a noticeably modernized example of the trope, being a GenkiGirl GamerChick in short-legged overalls.
523* SIPrefixName: Subverted by Gigadramon and Megadramon, whose power levels are...exactly the same.
524* SixthRanger: Like HeelFaceTurn, a tradition.
525** ''Adventure'': [[spoiler:Kari/Hikari]]
526** ''Adventure 02'': [[spoiler:Ken]]
527** ''Tamers'': Anyone who's not Takato, Rika, or Henry; [[spoiler: Ryo is the straightest example]]
528** ''Frontier'': [[spoiler:Kouichi]]
529** ''Data Squad'': [[spoiler:Keenan]]
530** ''Fusion'': [[spoiler:Kiriha and Nene]]
531** ''Digimon Universe: App Monsters'': [[spoiler:Yujin. But in this case, he's a SixthRangerTraitor.]]
532* SleepModeSize: Partner Digimon usually spend their off hours in Rookie level form. Demon Lord [[AxCrazy Belphemon]]'s main form [[http://dma.wtw-x.net/DMA/DigimonStands/Toei/Belphemon.jpg Rage Mode]] only shows up once every thousand years. For the rest of that time, he looks [[http://dma.wtw-x.net/DMA/DigimonStands/Toei/BelphemonSleepMode.jpg utterly adorable]]. Though Belphemon actually subverts it by still being pretty huge in this form.
533* SmashCut: A common way to transition to digivolution in the heat of battle.
534* SolomonDivorce: ''Digimon Adventure'', ''Zero Two'', and ''Frontier'' all involve a divorce that split the kids. It would be a spoiler for us to talk about Frontier, though.
535* SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Gennai: "[villain name here] was not the true enemy!"
536** Invoked in the ''Digimon Adventure'' novelizations, where it turns out the villains are all actually part of ''the same organization''.
537* SpecialGuest: Terry Bradshaw used to host a Digimon marathon on Creator/FoxKids. Not only that, it was a ''Super Bowl'' themed marathon, in which Bradshaw would provide commentary in-between episodes.
538* SpeciesTitle: A VirtualPet device franchise about raising the titular Digital Monsters and having them battle their fellow kind. In terms of anime, the common premise is Digital Monsters from {{cyberspace}} allying with kids to fight evil Digimon.
539* SpoilerTitle: A lot of Japanese episode titles will give away new evolution premieres, spoiling major plot developments.
540* StarfishAliens:
541** The Digimon themselves. Sure, they tend to have mostly human behaviors, but they're pretty unusual: They're data-based (as opposed to matter), each subspecies have radically different and varying forms, and even each individual has different forms through their life! They also change said forms instantly, changing in shape and size in seconds (and without regard to biology). Even stranger is that Digimon seem to lack individual names. In fact, most Digimon of the same subspecies are almost indistinguishable from each other. The Digignomes and the D-Reaper also count.
542** Inverted, in that from the point of view of the Digimon, humans are StarfishAliens. When Sora explains that on Earth there are hundred of kids, Biyomon visualizes hundreds and hundred of Soras. Later, Patamon states how weird humans are to Digimon.
543* StationaryWings: A good amount of winged Digimon aren't shown flapping their wings, especially in the various anime.
544* StockFootage: In addition to each partner Digimon's individual TransformationSequence, virtually every major Digimon's attacks rely on stock footage.
545* StrongAsTheyNeedToBe: How much damage a Digimon can withstand from higher level opponents varies wildly throughout the franchise; in some instances, a Digimon can take multiple hits from an enemy several levels higher and survive, but in others, all it takes is ''one'' hit from an opponent even a single level higher for them to revert back to their base level (or even [[OneHitKill die]]).
546* SuperpoweredEvilSide: When a Digimon is forced to evolve under the influence of intense negative emotions or dark powers it will cause a Dark Digivolution, which creates a violent monster whose only instinct is to destroy everything around it.
547* {{Synchronization}}: Most apparent in ''Tamers'', where the damage that Digimon take will occasionally visibly affect and push around the Digimon's partner.
548* SynchronousEpisodes: Many, for multiple series:
549** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'': Multiple sets:
550*** Episodes 9-11;
551*** episodes 21, 22, and 23;
552*** episodes 24 and 25;
553*** episodes 35 and 36;
554*** episodes 46-49.
555** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'': The Digimon World Tour.
556** ''Anime/DigimonTamers'': Episodes 26-28.
557** ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'':
558*** Episodes 7 and 8;
559*** Episodes 25 and 26.
560* TacticalRockPaperScissors: Concerning the Digimon attributes: Vaccine beats Virus, Virus beats Data and Data beats Vaccine.
561** There are also three "alternate" attributes: Free, Variable, and Unknown. Free and Variable exist independently of the original three-point system (read: they tie with everything). The Variable attribute is connected directly to [[Anime/DigimonFrontier Hybrid Digimon]], while the Free Attribute [[http://wikimon.net/Category:Free_Attribute appears to be]] connected to [[Anime/DigimonAdventure02 Armor Digimon]]. The Unknown/Unidentified Attribute (which dominates everything) has been connected to [[Anime/DigimonAdventure Apocalymon, The Diablomon line]], [[Anime/DigimonDataSquad Gizmon: XT, and Yggdrasil 7D6]]. There are a few ''heroic'' Unknown Attribute Digimon, too, however: Calumon and Shoutmon, for example.
562** There are also Digital Monsters who ''lack'' attributes. Mostly, they're Baby Digimon, but this also applies to [[Anime/DigimonTamers the D-Reaper and its Agents]], [[Manga/DigimonNext NEO]], [=UltimateChaosmon=] and Gravimon.
563* TalkingAnimal: Unlike Franchise/{{Pokemon}}, Digimon can speak the human language. That said, various anime series sometimes either leave the more bestial/monstrous-looking ones not voiced or give them PokemonSpeak.
564* TheyKilledKennyAgain: With multiple people:
565** Leomon always dies, preferably by HeroicSacrifice, and it's always played for tragedy. ''Digimon Frontier'' has the heroes kill a Panjyamon/[=IceLeomon=], and ''Digimon Data Squad'' lulls the viewer into a false sense of security by killing a [=SaberLeomon=] about a quarter of the way in, [[spoiler:only to throw [[SinkOrSwimMentor BanchouLeomon]] onto the viewer later]]. ''The very first scene'' of ''X-Evolution'' is of Leomon dying. He did not die in ''02'', but ''tri'' has that Leomon [[spoiler:ravaged by Meicoomon's berserk form]].
566** ''Frontier'' has [[spoiler:Kouichi]], whose Digimon forms were lion-themed, and [[DubNameChange in Japan]] his Beast form's name was [=KaiserLeomon=]. Then again, [[spoiler:he didn't quite die, either, although it seemed that way.]] ''Fusion''' very first enemy of any significance is [=MadLeomon=], and he gets killed off in episode 3. [[spoiler:Subverted later on that he gets revived as Leomon; although he's also mentioned to be Green Zone's guardian and is later unseen amoung the other captured Green Zone inhabitants; indicateing he *probobly* died... again.]]. [=MachLeomon=] from the ''Xros Wars'' manga similarly dies in chapter 2, [[spoiler:except he never gets revived]]. ''Appli Monsters'' feature the Leomon-like Oujamon, but [[spoiler:slightly subverted in that he died as Dokamon, and revived later]].
567** Oh look, we have another humanoid lion in ''Fusion'' named Apollomon! He has the noblest of intentions! [[spoiler:His JekyllAndHyde sickness pretty much confirms him being killed]].
568** [[Manga/DigimonVTamer01 Leo didn't die]], but ''V Tamer 01'' was never released internationally and predates the running gag anyway.
569* ThisIsADrill: Digmon, Drimogemon, [=LoaderLiomon=], Breakdramon, and Dorulumon all exhibit this trope.
570* TieredByName: Higher-level Digimon often have the names of their prior level with a prefix attacked, such as Greymon to [=MetalGreymon=], or Garurumon to [=WereGarurumon=]. However, there is no universal rule, as there are Digimon who change their names entirely when gaining levels, such as Togemon - Lillymon - Rosemon. There are also a handful of prefixes given to lower-leveled Digimon indicating that they're a lesser version, like [=DemiDevimon=] or [=ChibiTortomon=]. And some prefixes are just used with different, equally ranked versions; such as Agumon and [=ToyAgumon=], Greymon and [=GeoGreymon=], [=MetalGreymon=] and [=RizeGreymon=], and [=WarGreymon=] and [=ShineGreymon=].
571** There's also the unique case of Terriermon line, which features Gargomon entirely changing name to Rapidmon when evolving, but becomes [=MegaGargomon=] when evolving again.
572** ''Anime/DigimonFusion'' uses a different name system for its main Digimon, Shoutmon. Shoutmon can [[FusionDance combine]] with his friends, and the result is called Shoutmon X[number] - As in, a four-mon combination is Shoutmon X4. By the end of the series, he goes up to Shoutmon X7.
573* TitleThemeTune: Used in the English version for the first three seasons. Though presumably due to legal wrangling, it hasn't been used since ''Tamers''.
574* ToBeContinued: Let's just go ahead and say that the dub abused this trope. ''Xros Wars'', the Japanese version, abused it, too.
575* TookALevelInBadass: With the exception of natural carriers, the X-Antibody greatly increases or draws out the full potential of a Digimon’s natural abilities, essentially turning them into heightened versions of themselves. And keep in mind, this isn't even its main function. [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity However]], [[FromBadToWorse this isn’t always a good thing]].
576* TransformationSequence: And how.
577** PainfulTransformation: At certain levels in both ''Tamers'' and ''Frontier''.
578** TransformationNameAnnouncement: In general, "[X] evolve into/digivolve to... [X]!". Other forms of transformation (such as armor digivolving) have different call outs.
579** StockFootage: Which can get especially bad in certain episodes where entire teams power-up at once.
580** TransformationIsAFreeAction: Normally, but Infermon averts it to great effect in the first movie. This is actually quite interesting because we get to see what a Digimon looks like while it's transforming, "outside" of the sequence. We get an even better view in the ''Data Squad'' movie -- When Agumon digivolves to [=ShineGreymon=], it looks like a series of progressively bigger digieggs which eventually hatch to him.
581* TruthInTelevision: There is no such thing as joint parental custody in Japan. This adds subtext to the lives of several characters:
582** Takeru and Yamato probably spent more time apart than foreign audiences might think, which helps to explain Yamato's angst.
583** [[spoiler:If Mr. Minamoto never had custody of Koichi, it was that much easier to pretend that his ex-wife was dead.]]
584* UniqueProtagonistAsset:
585** TheLeader and either TheLancer, TheRival, or the NumberTwo of any given series will usually have the Digimon with the highest PowerLevels. Tai and Matt from ''Adventure'' were the only two to have their partners achieve Mega level and then their partners underwent a FusionDance in the movie.
586** Exaggerated in ''Frontier'', where Takuya and Kouji achieve not one but two forms beyond everyone else, the second at the expense of everyone else's power.
587** DoubleSubverted in ''Data Squad'', where the whole team achieves Mega ''and'' Burst Mode. Then Marcus and Agumon get another boost on top of that...though their appearance in ''Fusion'' suggests it isn't any better than burst mode...triple subversion?
588* UniverseCompendium: The [[https://digimon.net/reference/ Digimon Reference Book]], that is, if you can read Japanese.
589* UniverseConcordance: [[http://digipedia.db-destiny.net/ The Digimon Encyclopedia]] by Chris [=McFeely=], which covered all of ''Adventures'' to ''Tamers'' and part of ''Frontier''. It was the main source of Digimon info for fans before the advent of Wikia (nowadays going by Fandom) and the creation of more Digimon fan sites.
590* VoiceOfTheLegion: Jogress and Biomerge typically use this, Digixross usually doesn't but ''can''.
591* WarElephants: Mammothmon are usually used in this fashion.
592* WeirdnessCensor: The adults, besides a few of the Chosen Children's parents, seem to realize there are strange events going on during the Myotismon arch of ''Adventure'' but ignore them until [[spoiler:they are rounded up and kidnapped.]] This is averted in ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'' and is regularly brought up by bystanders [[{{Deconstruction}} how terrifying the Digimon are, even the heroes' partners]].
593* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: A prevalent theme, especially when there are human villains involved.
594* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Despite the majority preteen cast of the many anime series, most of them are at least as mature as teenagers, and several are practically adults.
595** Kari starts as an eight-year-old MysticalWaif in ''Adventure'' and is one of the most reserved and put-together members of the team in ''02''.
596** Cody of ''02'' is an astonishingly dutiful and responsible eight-year-old.
597** Zigzagged with Willis of ''Digimon Hurricane Touchdown'', who is both perfectly capable of wandering the American countryside with only a never-evolved Terriermon at his side and being a riotous flirt with any pretty girls in the vicinity, but who is also such a MommasBoy that he routinely calls home to let his mother know he's "safe". In the English dub of ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'', he's also a peer of Izzy's in sheer tech-savvy so he can help with the CanonWelding between his own movie and the otherwise unrelated ''Our War Game''.
598** Both Rika and Henry of ''Tamers'' appear to be much better established and confident as Tamers than Takato, though Ruki's LittleMissBadass act turns out to be a coping mechanism and Henry has ControlFreak tendencies that get the better of him. Takato's crush Jeri also displays some knowledge and behaviors that repeatedly hint at some dishearteningly adult situations for a ten-year-old to experience, which comes to a head during the final act. The English dub downplayed this trope by officially updating the kids' ages from the original ten to a full thirteen.
599** Mikey of ''Fusion'', too, who is an uncommonly tactically-minded and strategic Goggle Boy. Jeremy is apparently a skilled mechanic as well.
600* WorldGoneMad: The Digital World varies from series to series, but all agree that it is bizarre even under the most peaceful circumstances.
601* WorldOfBadass: The Digital World, in almost every incarnation, is home to some of the most powerful beings in the universe. Fitting, considering how many of the stronger ones tend to be digital [[{{Expy}} expies]] of well-known legendary and mythical beings.
602* XMakesAnythingCool: Digimon enhanced by the X-Antibody are given an "X" after their names in localizations; Agumon X, Garurumon X, Magnamon X, etc. This does not apply to natural carriers like [=DORUmon=] or Ryudamon, for obvious reasons.
603* XtremeKoolLetterz: The sixth season is called ''Xros Wars'' in Japan. Justified, in that this is taken from "Xaos", the greek spelling of Chaos. The "X" is pronounced like a "K" or "C" though pronouncing the western character "X" as "cross" seems to be becoming a bit of a trend in Japanese media. It's actually quite a surprise they didn't refer to "Double Xros" as "WX"[[note]]Japan often use "W" (double U) as "daburu" (double) due to the similar sound[[/note]], using "DX" instead.
604* YourSizeMayVary: Any given species of Digimon may appear at multiple sizes between franchise installments, or even between different parts of the same series. One of the more obvious examples is Biyomon; the Biyomon of ''Digimon Adventure'' was about as tall as a preteen's knees, while the Biyomon who appeared in ''Digimon Data Squad'' was nearly as tall as an adult.
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