Line #120 Headscratchers/DigimonAdventure


1	{{Headscratchers}} for ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''.
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3	* After the Digidestined first met [=MetalSeadramon=] and were defeated by the revelation he to was Mega, they met Machinedramon and he was revealed to take out 8 champions like a birthday candle, so why did they waste their time having their Digimon digivolve to Ultimate instead of just Warp-digivolving Agumon and Gabumon?
4	** They were still new to fighting Megas at that point and didn't know how much they'd need to throw at them. Sure, they needed to go for broke against [=VenomMyotismon=] but he had always Curb Stomped them.
5	** Gabumon and Agumon were already in champion form at that time, meaning they had to de-digivolve before they could become their mega forms. They probably considered it faster and safer (considering the kids were in danger) to become ultimates instead.
6	*** The movie showed both that Champions can Warp-Digivolve, and Ultimates can Digivolve to Mega (and presumably, though not shown, Rookie to Ultimate).
7	*** Other Digimon works (which vary from games to mangas) show that Evolution is very relative, and even a Fresh, newly hatched Digimon can evolve straight into Mega if it have the power to pull it off, most common happening with Digimons that have been intentionally suppressing it's own power(like Lord [=HolyAngemon=] from V-Tamer, who was so incredibly powerful in his Mega form Seraphimon, he kept himself into Ultimate so his power wouldn't disturb other Digimon), and while it happened in a much latter season, Savers did feature Warp Evolution straight into Ultimate.
8	*** While they probably would have been able to Warp Evolve from Adult/Champion to Ultimate/Mega without devolving first if they'd tried, Taichi and Yamato might not have realized that as possible. This might be a bit of a weak reason but that's the only thing I can really think of to justify it.
9	* The shows mentioned five original Digidestined, but never brought them up again.
10	** That mention of the original Chosen was part of a legend Leomon told Taichi and co. to explain their presence in the Digital World. It's unclear whether or not they ever actually existed.
11	** As of tri, it looks like we've actually met the previous team. Well, two of them. Daigo and Maki were part of that team, and their Digimon would go on to become the Sovereigns.
12	* Just how did Ogremon get in that box in episode 11? The box was well sealed from the look of things, not to mention in the middle of the ocean with no land in sight.
13	** ScrewTheRulesIHavePlot?
14	*** [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace Ogremon can breathe underwater.]]
15	*** IIRC, he can't swim.
16	** The biggest question is, how did the box manage to drift there perfectly? Really, man...
17	* During the Dark Masters Arc, Joe proves just how CrazyPrepared he is by revealing that he brought toilet paper with him, and he ends up using it as a bandage. Pretty hardcore. But if he's so crazy prepared, why didn't he, oh I don't know, BRING A FIRST AID KIT WITH HIM? He says that, when packing stuff, "Toilet paper was the first thing I thought of", and sure it's pretty useful and good to have when you're in the middle of nowhere, but he's the son of a doctor and he knows first aid. Wouldn't a first aid kit be sort of necessary?
18	** In episode 7, Joe goes off to climb the mountain on his own, so that he can find out what's on the island without anyone else getting hurt. Sounds like a plan. Except that if you're going to climb any form of mountain, you have a group of ''at least 4 people''. I know he "didn't want anyone else hurt", but still, climbing up that mountain on his own, especially at night when it's easier for him to get lost of hurt himself, is practically suicide. And why did he tell Gomamon to go back? He didn't exactly like him at that point, but they'd already established that there were dangerous Digimon on that mountain. He could have gotten hurt not just from falling, but from being eaten by a big nasty beasty. What was he thinking?
19	*** He was thinking that his father had never given him a choice on how to live his life before, for years and years he had to do things because he was the oldest, or he had to be a doctor, or he had to do this. So when he got to the Digital World that's all he had to go on, that it was his responsibility to do everything because he was the oldest. It's why it took nearly 30 episodes for them to declare a leader in the group and Taichi was shocked he was Chosen. In Japan your 'Senpai' is an important figure in your life even beyond school. His big character development was at the end on the behest of his brother choosing "I want to become a doctor" not "Dad told me to become a doctor so that's what I have to do". In the end he and Sora stand on two polar opposites, as she never listened to her mother and he obeyed every word his father said. She had to learn to love and accept others love, and he had to learn to be more honest to his own feelings and to act upon them. The clearest indication is with his partner Gomamon, who seems like a snotty little punk until you realize "He never lies". If he hates an idea he tells you, if he likes an idea he tells you, but he never just quietly goes 'Yes Sir' and fumes. As for the Toilet Paper I have no idea.
20	*** It's still the idea that he's the oldest and he seems to have some experience of climbing (he says as he's about to start that he's good at it, and you generally don't know that you're good at mountain climbing unless you've done it before. Trust me, it's not the easiest statement to make, especially when you're 12). Responsibility or not, it's still an incredibly dangerous idea for him to have gone climbing all by himself in the middle of the night without telling anyone what you were planning. You can't just climb a mountain on a whim. What he could have done, which would have also shown leadership skills (remember at this point he felt he should have been the leader), was wait til morning when everyone was less stressed, then suggested that he, Gomamon, Tai and Agumon should climb the mountain. That way they have a safe number of people going, they have more protection from nasty Digimon, and the people who didn't want to go up could stay behind and do whatever. That's intelligent. Or, better yet, why didn't they ''use Birdramon to fly up to the top in the first place?!'' Joe and Gomamon spend all night climbing the mountain, only for Tai and Sora to just sweep in at the end. It nearly makes their trip meaningless
21	*** Not taking Gomamon makes some sense, as he's a seal. Climbing wouldn't exactly be his forte and might actually make the trek itself more dangerous for having to carry him at points. Taking just Tai and Agumon doesn't lessen the danger any either, but redirects it. Besides, they'd only been in the digital world for four days. Not being used to how this world works may have influenced a lot of his decisions. With the mountain climber tidbit, Joe, Tai, and Sora are also the only ones of the group who participates in a physical activity. Splitting up the group, especially sending two of your physical people away, is not generally a good idea when becoming some dinosaurs nom noms is a very real possibility.
22	*** Still doesn't explain why he didn't bring a damn first aid kit with him. And besides, taking Gomamon would have been perfectly reasonable...he can summon fish, you know! And besides, why DIDN'T they just fly up when they could have? They could have averted the whole thing if, whilst Tai and Matt were arguing, Sora just said "You know, we could just fly up...". They had, like, two flying Champion/Adult Level Digimon at that point, so it wasn't impossible for them to do. And no one has commented about the whole First Aid Kit thing.
23	*** As far as the First Aid Kit goes, it makes no sense that he wouldn't have one, being both CrazyPrepared and having some medical knowledge. Maybes he ''did'' bring a First Aid Kit. He used the toilet paper to bandage Ogremon because Ogremon is so big that normal-sized bandages would have been too short. And when Leomon was hit the injuries were too severe for basic first aid to be any use. Since he took a major hit in the middle of his back he could have internal hemorrhaging, organ damage, broken vertebrae, severe shock, and a First Aid Kit wouldn't be much help with any of that.
24	*** As for the flying thing, back then the general rule was that the Digimon couldn't evolve until one of the kids were in danger; Biyomon could only evolve into Birdramon at that point because Sora and Tai were aware that Joe might be in danger and need their help. Besides, it was Joe's DayInTheLimelight, they needed ''some'' excuse to have him climb the mountain himself.
25	*** Toilet paper is pretty absorbent, so while a little liquid is okay, loads of blood would saturate it in the blink of an eye. Add this to the fact that it's very, VERY easy to tear, and you'd realize that they make quite poor bandages. They're good for when you're practicing how to tie bandages, but other than that... And on the whole "climbing the mountain by yourself with no supplies, at night and with no one knowing where you are"...did anyone see the film Film/OneHundredAndTwentySevenHours? That's a perfect example of what happens when you're careless with hiking. While actually doing the hike, how many thin ledges did he walk over? How many crevices did he climb round? Climbing in an environment like that is hard enough, never mind doing it in the dark when you can't see your obstacles very well. And yeah, being a seal makes him slightly useless, but Gomamon could at least help him navigate around without dying - their remark about what a good team they made was more important than it sounds, since they were genuinely looking out for each other. Even if your companion is a seal who's going to be slower than you, it's still better than nothing, and it at least makes you a little safer.
26	*** Joe has to the courageous leader and look out for the others. He made an example out of himself by doing the selfless act of scouting ahead. Sure, that thought was a little dim (as the island is infested with threats which Gomamon wouldn't have been sufficient for tackling head-on) but, ultimately? He's thirteen years old and thrust into the role of ensuring the survival of six other individuals. Where hasty decisions are concerned I think we can afford to cut him some slack.
27	* The Dark Masters were around in the digital world for quite a while before the children even got there. So...Why didn't they just take over the digital world right away? 4 mega levels should have been able to utterly trounce any opposition that might have been put up by Devimon, Etemon, and Myotismon, and the children wouldn't have stood a chance against them either with the power levels they started out at. So why sit around and wait to make their move until after Myotismon and the children left during the 8th child arc?
28	** Bored? Taking over other areas? Being held back by the Digital Sovereign? Ryo being a thorn in their side.
29	** They probably didn't want to pick a fight with the destined heroes, maybe worrying about accidentally forcing the kids' power levels up out of desperation, so they waited for a bit and let them go off to stop Myotismon before doing their thing. They probably didn't expect the kids to trounce Myotismon as fast as they did, and thanks to the time discrepancy between the worlds that would have given them even more time than they already had to prepare. By the time the kids return the Dark Masters have been ruling the roost for a while now, and they've gotten arrogant enough that the prior restraint that kept them in the shadows is replaced with sheer confidence. At least, that's my opinion.
30	** There's apparently a set of Japan-only novel adaptations of Adventure that explain the Dark Masters were indeed fighting the Sovereigns. Around the time of Myotismon, they finally came out victorious, sealed the Sovereigns away, and went along with their plan.
31	** The same novel also gives Myotismon's excuse: he was more concerned with invading the Real World to take out the eighth child who was [[SelfFulfillingProphecy prophesied to defeat him]] instead of everyone else. Taking out the other seven would have been a bonus, but not something to go out of your way for. Etemon probably just didn't want to bother crossing the ocean to fight them without his Dark Network.
32	* What's with Tai's idiocy in the [=SkullGreymon=] episode? Tai's not the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he's neither cruel nor stupid enough to pull what he does there.
33	** He wanted Agumon to evolve to Ultimate/Perfect Level so bad he lost sight of everything else.
34	** To elaborate, they had just recently met Etemon, who had soundly beaten Greymon and Garurumon and who was now tracking them down with his Dark Network. Tai was desperate for Agumon to become stronger so they could be prepared when Etemon caught up to them again, and that combined with his ego boost of being the only kid at the time with his crest, and with it the heavy responsibility of being the only one strong enough to protect the group, resulted in his pretty justified but not well thought-out attempt to try and rush Agumon's evolution. On a related note, the episode actually showed off that Tai was pretty smart, since he knew the only way for Agumon to evolve was to either give him lots of energy or if Tai himself got into trouble.
35	* Just a small one, in the pilot episode, blizzard, aurora, giant wall of water aside, when the digivices were floating up, whilst most of the Digidestined grabbed theirs around chest height, Joe caught his just above his head. Does that mean if they didn't take them, the digivices would've kept ascending into the sky?
36	** It could have been their first [[SecretTestOfCharacter test of character]]. If the kid isn't brave enough to touch a floating Toys/{{Tamagotchi}}, what chance do they have in the Digital World?
37	* If Wizardmon is the only Digimon confirmed to be KilledOffForReal and ''02'' is the sequel, why didn't Leomon, Piximon, Pumpkinmon, and Gotsumon return when pretty much everyone else came back? I know Pumpkinmon and Gotsumon were killed in the real world like Wizardmon, but that doesn't excuse why Leomon and Piximon never returned.
38	** Just because we don't see them doesn't mean they haven't returned.
39	** Actually, that's a really good point. Wasn't Leomon capable of becoming a mega without the need for any of the crests? Shouldn't finding him have been the highest priority once the emperor had taken over?
40	** They would have been reborn as baby Digimon. How would you be able to tell if they'd been reborn or not? It had only been two years since Primary Village had been restored, even if they'd been reborn at that point they wouldn't have had time to digivolve to a recognizable form. Only the digidestined partners can digivolve at the drop of a hat because they borrow power from the children, everyone else has to do it the slow way. And there's no proof they'd remember their old lives even when they were reborn. Sure, Patamon did but he was a partner Digimon so the digivice may have saved some of his information when he reformed.
41	* When they first met Machinedramon, all the Digimon digivolved to Ultimate and charged. Why did they do that? They were already trounced by [=MetalSeadramon=], surely by now they were already knew to have Agumon and Gabumon warp-digivolve. Not to mention Izzy already confirmed Machinedramon was Mega.
42	** Theirs and the lives of the Digidestined were on the line. With that in mind it's unlikely that any of the Digimon had the selfish notion of allowing [=WarGreymon=] and [=MetalGarurumon=] to shoulder all of the responsibility. Or worse, to lie down like dogs and perish because they the capability to adequately harm any of the Mega-level Digimon. For a better example: A prize-fighter is being hostile and disrespectful to you and is seeking to take out some level of aggression on your face. There is no positive out-come and the situation is going to be resolved in violence--you know this. Do you put up an effort to defend yourself or do you face violence sans retaliation because you lack the experience, footwork and cardio to match your adversary?
43	** They were still new to fighting megas and Digimon can vary greatly power-wise even if at a higher level. The kids have smacked around Champions with their Rookies, Andromon was fighting Machinedramon as an Ultimate and putting up a decent fight so there's no way for them to know that seven Ultimates couldn't have handled one Mega.
44	*** Even though ''exactly that'' had happened to them less than a day ago against [=VenomMyotismon=]?
45	*** They knew Myotismon when he had been an ultimate, and even then he had been incredibly strong for his level, probably rivaling some of the weaker Mega levels. If anything, throughout the series they have seen that even within the same level of evolution, power can be highly variable. They had no idea how powerful the Dark Masters were, and a [=MegaSeadramon=] had been defeated by Zudomon himself in a single blow. [=MetalSeadramon=] was "just" a level higher, but disproportionally stronger.
46	** Also remember how evolution had been handled in the past. When they first evolved to adult (champion) they were not able to evolve at will. Later after their first evolutions to perfect (ultimate) they would regress to baby (in training) level and it would take them a while to build up strength to evolve again. The fact that Agumon and Gabumon were even able to evolve to ultimate (mega) again the very same day should be more surprising than expected.
47	* In the Digimon Pendulum V-Pets, the Virus-attribute Mega-level Digimon were Piedmon, Puppetmon, Machinedramon, [=MetalEtemon=], and...Pukumon. [=MetalSeadramon=] was and is a Data-attribute. Now, the show had a different role for [=MetalEtemon=], but why was [=MetalSeadramon=] made a Dark Master rather than Pukumon?
48	** Which one actually looks as if he could be a threat.
49	** For those who don't know who Pukumon is...[[http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Pukumon here you go]]. And compare that to [[http://digimon.wikia.com/wiki/MetalSeadramon MetalSeadramon]]. Who looks more powerful and intimidating?
50	** [=MetalSeadramon=] resembles Machinedramon, being a mechanical dragon, and Pukumon not, and they probably intended other obvious pair(Piedmon and Puppetmon have some really obvious similarities- both are "Circus-themed" Digimon and their name starts with "p", "pi" in the original Japanese)
51	** Also, in the type rock-paper-scissors Vaccine beats Virus which puts Puppetmon, Piedmon and Machinedramon at a disadvantage against a lot of Digimon whose good natures and often innate desire for justice would make them resist against the Dark Masters rule... but you know which attribute is strong against Vaccine? Data. That probably explains why [=MetalSeadramon=] was the type to just directly attack rather than playing with his prey like Machinedramon or Puppetmon - he had to be to keep his allies alive. [=WarGreymon=] is also a Vaccine and had enormous trouble against the sea-based Dark Master at first and possibly only won because he has the Dramon Destroyers.
52	* This was probably an AssPull because [=WarGreymon=] and [=MetalGarurumon=] couldn't fight [=MetalEtemon=],but if Zudomon's Hammer was Chrome Digizoid, why didn't he chuck it at [=MetalSeadramon's=] head right as [=WarGreymon=] was taken in? Whamon wouldn't have had to die, and [=MetalSeadramon's=] Chrome Digizoid Skull might've cracked as well.
53	** Maybe Zudomon hadn't become strong enough at that point? The Digimon got stronger as they fought more and more battles. Zudomon was still pretty new at this point but had had much more experience when they ran into [=MetalEtemon=].
54	** Zudomon's strength has nothing to do with what his hammer is made out of. For that matter [=MetalEtemon's=] demise never made much sense either. We know that 8 Ultimate level Digimon could do nothing to a Mega level Digimon as seen in the kids scrimmage with Machinedramon. It makes no sense how 2 Ultimate level Digimon could destroy someone like Etemon.
55	*** [=MetalEtemon=] is probably a weak Mega just barely stronger than an average Ultimate. The Dark Masters are incredibly strong Megas
56	*** Zudomon's strength won't change what his hammer is made out of but it will affect what he can destroy with it. The harder he hits the more damage he does and if both objects are equal from materials then all that matters is the force behind the blow. And in the fight against Metal Seadramon Zudomon was fighting off the Divermon so he was busy and probably not string enough to hurt a Dark Master yet.
57	** It should be noted Zudomon didn't kill [=MetalEtemon=], [=SaberLeomon=] (despite being fatally injured at the time), a Mega level, did, all Zudomon did was break (or at least weaken) [=MetalEtemon's=] Chrome Digizoid armor, leaving him open to take a full power hit from [=SaberLeomon=].
58	* Just what were those black misty things that plagued Matt and Sora? They only do that when they get negative thoughts, but what exactly are they?
59	** They're just one of the many weird incomprehensible forces that float around the digital world because they feel like it. It's also quite possible that they're of a similar origin to Ken's Dark Seed in 02 (after all, in the blink-and-you-miss-it Flashback, Milleniumon explodes into a bunch of Dark Seeds and a little cloud in addition to the regular data, if you squint and watch it sideways), or a little cloud that floated away from the Dark Ocean, also from 02. There are thousands of possible explanations, depending on exactly how the digital world works and a few other factors, but those are my two favorites.
60	** My personal head canon is that the barrier between that particular area of the digital world and the Dark Ocean is very thin allowing the ocean to seep through into the Digiworld proper. It acts to better connect the world with Adventure 02.
61	* Alright, Piedmon turns their two Megas into keychains, fine...then Andromon, an ''Ultimate'' starts fighting him and puts up a decent fight. And the other Digidestined run away. Now, Piedmon isn't weaker here, [[VillainForgotToLevelGrind he just didn't level grind]] and clearly Andromon was defeated offscreen relatively quickly. Why didn't the Digidestined just Digivolve to Ultimate and beat the tar out of him? We see when Angewomon and Garudamon fight him that they've gotten strong enough to put up a decent fight on their own and he had to physically restrain them to turn them into keychains, if all five of the other Digidestined Digimon that could go to Ultimate had done so plus Angemon, who as a Champion still put up a fight against Piedmon and actually hurt him, teamed up on him all at once, having gotten stronger throughout the arc, they could've beat him, so why not? Were they too scared to fight or just didn't think about it at the time? (please note, this isn't a really "serious" gripe, just something that came to mind. I didn't mind it too much and loved the episode, just something that bugged me).
62	** If ''all eight'' of them team up, they can probably "beat" Piedmon that way, but ''only'' '''four''' Ultimates cannot. Remember: [=WarGreymon=] and [=MetalGarurumon=] just went down, Mimi/Palmon was not there, and Patamon only ever join the fight unless absolutely necessary (pacifist personalities aside, T.K. had also been traumatized by Angemon's death).
63	** It's because of the fact that if they all ganged up on him at once it would make it easier for Piedmon just to chuck his magic sheet over all of them at the same time, changing them all to keychains and leaving the Digidestined completely helpless. Besides, last time they tried to all gang up on the BigBad in the highest form they could at the time, it worked for all of five seconds before Devimon just knocked them all away.
64	** It was established that machine Digimon were significantly stronger, or at least much tougher to hurt, than other kinds of Digimon. Andromon was able to put up so much of a fight because he engaged Piedmon in hand-to-hand which gave him a slight advantage. However, he manages to cause no real damage and was defeated as soon as Piedmon got a bit of space.
65	*** Not established. Etemon, a puppet ultimate, easily defeated Datamon, a machine ultimate. [=MetalGreymon=] was less effective than [=WereGarurumon=] against Myotismon despite being a cyborg. [=MetalEtemon=], who went from puppet ultimate to metal mega, was only equal to Puppetmon, a puppet mega.
66	** Piedmon beats the stuffing out of [=WarGreymon=] and [=MetalGarurumon=] in his first appearance, so the Digidestined's Ultimate level Digimon wouldn't accomplish anything.
67	*** In their first fight they were fresh megas, the fight against Piedmon only being their second appearance so they weren't at their best then. The Ultimates were far more experienced and they had two holy type Digimon so they might have made a difference if they'd been used. The kids were busy panicking though.
68	** A group of kids see two of their strongest allies get turned into keychains? Yeah, if I was their age, and someone else was willing to fight and told me to run, I would take that opportunity.
69	* Why is Angewomon a level above Angemon? Damn sexist angels.
70	** No, the sexist thing is that Angemon is stronger than Angewomon despite her being a level higher.
71	*** Since when is Angemon stronger? [=MagnaAngemon=], sure, but she seems above Angemon.
72	** I think the problem is rather Tailmon/Gatomon being Champion level. It's most likely because of her position in the beginning, but it's still a bit frustrating, because She looks exactly like all the other Rookie mons, not to mention that she doesn't really seem all that stronger than them. Yeah, I know that [[KillerRabbit size doesn't always correlate with power]], but still.
73	*** Size doesn't equate with power level. Piximon is tiny despite being an ultimate level.
74	*** Bear in mind, though, that one moment that sticks out is when the seven Chosen first encountered Tailmon, who promptly knocked Greymon, Kabuterimon and Ikkakumon flying. As a villain, she beat three equal-level Digimon on her own. Odd, isn't it, that after she joins, the only way she can do anything useful is if she super-evolves to Angewomon
75	*** In Gatomon's case, her utility seems to decrease because what they're up against spikes in power. Once she's on the heroes side, they're consistently facing off against Ultimate-Levels. So while she's still just about as strong as she was, the enemies have grown just as much.
76	*** Angewomon was first intended as an Angemon evolution, like Lady Devimon with Devimon; she then became associated with the Plotmon/Salamon line. As for Tailmon/Gatomon not being that useful in a fight, think Were Garurumon: Good, but not that great due to the lack of range.
77	** I think it's probably also because she evolved to the Champion level naturally through consistent training, whereas the others only do it through the Digivice. If you think about it, she's BoringButPractical - doesn't have a fancy attack but is very fast, durable and able to maintain the Champion evolution permanently. The fact that her default form is Champion while the others can't go higher than Rookie outside a desperation attack is a testament to her strength. She's also mismatched in size against most of her opponents when she joins the heroes, so evolving into Angewomon is more practical. She's also able to evolve to Ultimate more consistently than the others when they first start doing it (of course that's probably a case of there being more battles where Ultimates were needed in story but still...)
78	* Upon the revelation that all the Digidestined witnessed the Digimon fight at Highton View Terrace and that the 8th child must've seen it to, how did they not deduce immediately that Kari was it. Tai came back before and Kari already knew of Koromon, and Tai even mentioned how they were together to witness Greymon fight with a loving image of Kari in a bunny suit in a flashback. Why do they never even consider that?
79	** Probably because they were expecting the 8th child to already have a digivice or even a Digimon, something which Kari definitely had not. Also, Kari was very obviously never called to the digital world. Tai probably considered her first, but dismissed it because of those reasons.
80	** As I recall, they did consider Kari at first but rule it out quickly as she had no Digimon or digivice.
81	** They DID consider Kari as a possibility (at least Tai did as he was the only one that knew that she was there) he dismissed it when she said she never had or seen a digivice.
82	*** In addition, given how overprotective Tai is of Kari, he may have not wanted to give more thought to the idea afterwards since he wouldn't want Kari in harm's way.
83	** Perhaps they also assumed that the eighth child was someone they wouldn't know. Maybe they thought if it was Kari, Gennai would have just said it was her. And they don't know if it's a boy or a girl either. For all they know, there could have been another child at Highton View Terrace that they didn't know about (would you know everyone living in your building when you were six?)
84	* Why didn't the radar on the digivices pick up Sora when she was stalking the rest of the group? And for that matter, why did the radar suddenly pop up when Tai returned from the real world, and not any of the other times the group was split, like when file island fell apart, or when Sora was kidnapped?
85	** It did actually. When Tai is running to T.K, his digivice is reacting to something (and he has T.K's digivice on his person at the time) and we later found out Sora was in the area. So yeah the radar picked up on Sora but he was too preoccupied and ignore it. Also you may have noticed the radar feature was added AFTER the Digimon reached their Ultimate form which is why we don't see Tai use it until after Agumon can reach [=MetalGreymon=]. When Sora helps out Joe and Matt in "[=WereGarurumon's=] diner" neither one of the boys has an Ultimate-level Digimon yet. By the time Tai gets in the area and Gabumon reaches Ultimate.
86	* Why did they change the level names from Baby, Baby II, Child and Adult to In-Training, Fresh, Rookie, and Champion? It sort of subdues the fact that Digimon grow by being raised and nurtured by pure, innocent children, and that their growth is simply akin to growing up and maturing, rather than becoming bigger, badder fighting machines.
87	** The violence was rarely and barely toned down. It wasn't like Anime/DragonBallZ or anything. And Bandai USA chooses the evolutionary names the English dub just has to roll with it.
88	** I guess that was sort of the point. The new names imply the Digimon are training and have always been training. Aka, born to battle. In the old version, they were just people, but were still forced to fight all the time.
89	** RuleOfCool. It sounds cooler to say Digivolve into Champion instead of Digivolve into ADULT! Though it's weird why they would use to the term Ultimate for the Perfect level when the Japanese version had an Ultimate stage (Mega in the dub) which just made things confusing.
90	*** Since the show dub aired concurrently with the original, the writers may have been unaware of the sixth level when they named the fifth.
91	** It just makes more sense to see the levels as mere power measurements, at the end of the day. Temporarily changing into an adult, then reverting back to a child is... quite weird.
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93	* None of their crests make sense and should be named other things. Shouldn't Matt's crest be called the crest of Loyalty rather then Friendship? He has major problems trusting people and being a true friend, yet he is astoundingly loyal. That seems to be his trademark trait more so then Friendship. As he grows threw out the series he becomes an extremely loyal steadfast friend to those he cares about. Friendship doesn't quite fit him though. Kari's crest of Light also has never made sense. It should be called the crest of Righteousness since that's when it glows when she is self-righteous. Mimi's crest should be called Empathy or Compassion -- not Sincerity, her crest doesn't glow when she is necessarily sincere. She is sincere all the time there would be no growth required to activate it since she is always honest and says what's on her mind. Even when she is being a shallow, obnoxious brat she is being sincere. The only time that her crest glows is when she recognizes other peoples feelings, emotions and pain. Izzy's crest for the record shouldn't be Knowledge it should be Curiosity or Wonder.
94	** A few of these make a bit more sense in the original. Matt was always making decisions that helped the other children, but weren't really all that good for the group (in a contrast to Tai). Mimi's crest was originally called purity, which pretty much equated to loyalty to your true self. Kari's crest is a bit of a pun, since she was originally called Hikari, which means light (which makes her name [[Manga/DeathNote Light Yagami]]). Plus, she seems to act as the force of that light entity, so it makes a degree of sense. Izzy's crest of knowledge makes sense in both versions. Activating the crest requires you to lose the trait and regain it, and in the episode where it first activated, Izzy also lost his knowledge.
95	** Actually the reason why Izzy's crest glowed was because he lost and then regained his curiosity and thirst for information. At least according to the dub. [=DemiDevimon=]/Myotismon wanted Izzy to stop asking questions and stop being curious so his crest would never glow, Izzy was still smart so Knowledge is not what activates his crest. That being said I wouldn't say Knowledge itself is wrong per say for his crest/virtue. But I think it's additive on a caveat, Izzy's crest is the search or pursuit of knowledge or information. His virtue isn't simply being "smart". I think all the crests were supposed to be a journey for all of the characters in terms of finding things within themselves that they didn't know were originally there. For instance Tai thought being courageous was simply going in recklessly and boorishly and not thinking of the consequences, when that's not what it is at all. True Bravery comes from doing things even though you are scared to act. Same for Mimi in her compassion/empathy for others, Joe's journey of taking responsibility for others, and so on and so forth. Which is why I think most of them worked. I personally never understood how Sora's crest wasn't able to glow. She loved everyone and committed loving acts all during the Myotismon arc. It would have made more sense for her crest to be something like Understanding or Awareness rather then Love not being able to be activated.
96	*** Sora's crest won't glow initially because she allowed herself to believe Demi-Devimon's lies. Let's be honest, she was being a little selfish. She helped her friends but wouldn't let them see her. She avoided them, believing she was worthless. She was focusing on herself and her own problems. Only when she realized the situation was she able to properly love again. All the things she did to help her friends had a selfish motivation behind them since she helped them but didn't see them or let them know she was alright. The memory of her mother is a clue - she only thinks of herself first and how her mother was stopping her from doing something she wanted. Then she realizes that her mother was acting out of love. That turned the memory from one of hate (her mother stopping her from playing soccer) into one of love (her mother being concerned for her safety). When she stopped thinking of herself (worrying that her crest wouldn't glow) and thought of the others, she was able to love properly.
97	* Why does Gatomon need to use the Crest of Light AND the Digivice to reach Ultimate if she's naturally at the Champion level?
98	** Same reason the other children need both. The digivice is what's responsible for the evolution. The crest is required as a source of energy. The energy necessary to go from champion to ultimate is apparently much bigger than from rookie to champion
99	*** There should be more energy for Gatomon to use, as Kari's Digivice isn't using energy to get Gatomon to Champion like all the others are.
100	*** True, but that doesn't mean its enough energy to go to ultimate. There's a reason ultimate-level Digimon are so rare in the digital world and champion-level Digimon are fairly common. Achieving ultimate is a massive feat.
101	*** Evolution up to Adult is natural, evolution into Perfect requires quite extensive additional efforts, evolution into Ultimate requires exceptional circumstances.
102	*** It's never stated outright but it seems that before a Digimon partner can go to Ultimate it first needs to be able to maintain Champion indefinitely. It doesn't need to be their default form but they need to be able to go to Champion and stay there. Think about the order they go to Ultimate, the more often they digivolved the sooner they got to get to Ultimate. Angemon didn't start making regular appearances until they were fighting the Dark Masters so he was the last to appear, where as Gatomon, who was already a permanent Champion, digivolved the moment her partner got her hands on her digivice and crest. They didn't have to work for it at all.
103	** What? All the kids Digimon need a digivice and crest to Digivolve to Ultimate. Just because Gatomon is able to maintain the Champion level as a default doesn't make her more special in regards to not needing a digivice.
104	*** All the other Digimon are already using some energy from the Digivice just to get to Adult, while Tailmon isn't. There's more energy available for her to use from just the Digivice. Plus, it harkens back to the tie-in V-Pets, where Tailmon can go to Holydramon, while all the others can only reach Perfect.
105	*** Whenever she has to go back down to Salamon, she still needs the Digivice to become Gatomon again. Although she was strong enough to evolve naturally, she still needs a digivice to continue to do so.
106	** I always saw the crest not as a source of energy, but instead a thing that focused the energy of the Digivice into a more potent form (that for whatever reason made it take a shape like the crest it'd been focused through) that unlocked the 'Perfect/Ultimate' data that was inside a Digimon. You can blame the animation of the process for that. This also depends on my theory that every Digimon has their potential forms encoded inside and the Digivice is just able to make a temporary access port to those forms. It also makes me wonder if the children were able to access the powers of another's crests (kind of like the 02 Chosen swapping their Digieggs around) would the new focus activate a different Perfect/Ultimate form?
107	* Why was Angemon so rarely used? The first time Patamon digivolves to Champion level, he destroys Devimon and sacrifices himself in the process. the next time we see Angemon is near the end of the Myotismon arc. Surely, there were opportunities in between where Angemon would have been useful to have around. Angemon shouldn't have been used to curb stomp every hostile Digimon with his holy power, but he should have had more screen time. Also, his Perfect Level is reached near the season finale, the biggest gap of time between finding the crest and using it to digivolve.
108	** Evolution in Adventure is much harder than it is in any of the other seasons (except maybe the first two arcs of Xros wars). Evolving at will, even if it's only to rookie, requires some degree of practice. Because Patamon sacrificed himself at the end of the devimon arc, he had to recover for a long time, while the other Digimon were out fighting. By the time Patamon had actually evolved to rookie again, each of the other Digimon had each already evolved half a dozen times on-screen (and who knows how many times off-screen during the time skip), meaning they could all evolve easily, but patamon still required T.K. to be in a lot more danger than the others (which the other kids generally try to keep him out of, meaning even less opportunities). Long story short: Angemon was used so little because Patamon couldn't evolve to champion at will for most of the season.
109	** Not to mention, it wouldn't necessarily be able to curb stomp everything; holy power is the weakness of demon, ghost or undead Digimon, but throw that to the physically-based Etemon, and he'd just shrug it off like the attacks of other Adults.
110	*** The hand-wave that Angemon was only strong against evil Digimon (which Etemon still is anyways so...) didn't come until Zero Two.
111	*** No, it was in Adventure too, and it's always been Nightmare Soldiers, not evil Digimon. If it was evil Digimon, he'd have damaged Machinedramon in Episode 49, which he didn't.
112	*** By that logic, he should have been able to damage [=LadyDevimon=] and [=MarineDevimon=] but failed there too. No, in Zero Two it specifically stated he was strongest against "evil Digimon". Not Nightmare soldiers or any other arbitrary category not even mentioned in Adventure. The fact is, sloppy writing put them in a corner, so they had to start waving their hands when Zero Two rolled around.
113	*** Angemon did hurt [=LadyDevimon=], pay attention to the fight and you'll see he's the first one she reacts to with anything other than mocking laughter. Nightmare soldiers were mentioned repeatedly in Adventure, usually during the analyser moments. [=MarineDevimon=] was affected, but, as with [=LadyDevimon=], he was strong enough that it didn't matter that much. Really, the fanbase has greatly exaggerated Angemon's power, yes he's strong enough to cause pain to higher level dark Digimon but they've been fairly consistent showing him not actually causing damage to the stronger ones.
114	*** Did Angemon damage [=MarineDevimon=]? Here's what happened: Angemon fires a Hand of Fate at [=MarineDevimon=] (usual stock animation), Submarimon steers towards him underwater, then it cuts to [=MarineDevimon=] holding up his hands while a shockwave is shown, then it goes away, then he lowers his arms and then swats them both away. I took that as him blocking the attack (even though the shockwave doesn't look anything like a Hand of Fate). He certainly didn't seem to be damaged by it. Now Ikkakumon/Zudomon, who showed up seconds later, seemed to do more damage, as [=MarineDevimon=] grunted and was knocked backward, then fled underwater. If I'm not mistaken that's the only time you see Angemon attack [=MarineDevimon=].
115	*** Yes, "Nightmare Soldiers" is mentioned in the show, as the name of the group of followers of Piedmon (specifically [=LadyDevimon=]). There's not a lot of context there to indicate that's what Angemon's most effective against.
116	---->'''Kari:''' She looks like a witch.\
117	'''Andromon:''' She's worse. She's one of Piedmon's Nightmare Soldiers.
118	*** Unless there's more lines I've forgotten (I think it's mentioned at least one more time in the Piedmon episodes) there's no indication who is and isn't a "Nightmare Soldier" (in the show). As for Machinedramon, no one in that episode did any damage to him until [=WarGreymon=] showed up (and was powered up by the light Kari gave off - I assume that meant he was more powerful than usual - Digimon's a show where a lot of stuff isn't explained at length)
119	** Plus behind the scenes, it was probably to keep kids watching. In season one T.K was really just the tag along kid who didn't have much to do and Patamon was just meant to be cute and marketable. By withholding Patamon's next form, kids were already curious to see him. Once he showed up and turned out to be the biggest badass of them all, limiting his appearances meant kids would tune in as often as possible in the hopes that ''this'' would be the episode where Angemon showed up again. And once Angemon ''did'' start showing up more often, they just did the same thing with his next level.
120	** The simplest answer is they made Angemon too powerful to appear regularly. He appears to stop Devimon who at that point is either the equivalent of a really powerful Ultimate, or a weak Mega. Having him spend the Etemon episodes as Tokomon (because he's still recovering his strength from having him died) prevents him from just blasting through Etemon in the first episode Etemon appears and solving the kids problems. He doesn't start appearing regularly until all the other kids have reached Ultimate and the Digimon are regularly fighting Ultimate level henchman Digimon. Season 2 fixes the problem by saying he's only powerful against evil Digimon, or rather real evil Digimon.
121	*** If Devimon was as strong as a Ultimate or Mega, he'd have digivolved to that level. So he was still only a Champion level in power, and Angemon had to use the power of all seven digivices to take him out. That hardly makes him too powerful to appear regularly.
122	*** Devimon took out 7 Champions with zero effort. Something we wouldn't see again for quite some time. The Black Gears made him a lot more powerful powerful enough that Angemon a Digimon who effortlessly killed a Phantomon (a Digimon who is above Angemon and Devimon's level) had to use the power of all seven digivices to stop him. Devimon may have still be a Champion Level Digimon but its clear that the black gears made him on par with an Ultimate Digimon. And Angemon WAS too powerful to appear regularly. He was the only one until Angewomon who could harm Myotismon, even though the other Ultimate level Digimon couldn't touch him. As stated before he killed Phantomon with zero effort even though Phantomon stood well against some of the other Digimon. They limited Angemon's appearance for a reason.
123	*** Whoopdedoo. He can't kill the Children and their Child level Digimon in a single blow, whereas actual Perfect level Digimon would. Ikkakumon and Birdramon can hurt him with surprise attacks, whereas Etemon just ignored any and all Adult level attacks sent at him, [=PicoDevimon=] left Piyomon more injured in a single attack than Devimon leaves Patamon in several, the Adult levels recover faster from his hurling them into each other than they do from Etemon doing the same thing and the Adult level Digimon can still maintain their forms. And if he was on par with Perfect level Digimon, he'd have evolved to that level. That's what Digimon do. He didn't, so he isn't. And Phantomon was weak. He made Greymon retreat. That's his ONLY feat. Angemon taking him out with zero effort means nothing, especially when you consider Phantomon's 02 appearance, where Holsmon stuns him. Not to mention that Angemon vs Phantomon is in the second half of the series, where they had to buff Angemon heavily in order to make up for his lack of screen time. If he was as strong as he was in the second half of the series in his first appearance, he wouldn't have had to sacrifice himself.
124	*** [=HolyAngemon=] who was newly evolved was able to best Piemon who was a level higher and exceptionally powerful for his own level. He was also able to fight [=BlackWarGreymon=] to a standstill and only lost because his power source was cut off. Digimon can be stronger than another Digimon who's above their level so I have no clue why you don't think that. Do you seriously think Devimon absorbed all of those black gears for his own amusement? No they made him far more powerful than your average level Adult/Champion Digimon. Perhaps Phantomon was a bad example but Angemon was also able to damage Vamdemon (who had his powers amplified by the fog) when 6 other Perfect level Digimon couldn't touch him. So yes obviously Devimon had become powerful enough that in normal circumstances Angemon would have one shot killed him if he hadn't absorbed the black gears to become more powerful.
125	** On the topic of Phantomon, what actually happened is he had two other Digimon with him (Snimon and Tuskmon) who did quite a bit of the fighting for him. If I recall he didn't actually get hit by anything until Angemon showed up, meaning that he could have been hurt if they had a chance to hit him (indeed, him getting stunned by Holsemon in 02 is a good point - I forgot about that). So while it may be true that Angemon's power was misread by the fans (in a certain context - type advantages were not something they talked about often in Digimon. Not like in Pokemon), Phantomon is indeed not actually the best example of power.
126	** I always just thought it was because of T.K.'s Crest. That way, Patamon could only Digivolve when he was their last hope.
127	** The gap between the first two Digivolutions is understandable. Angemon ''died'' the first time he appeared. It took him so many episodes just to become Patamon again. It's a combination of T.K. and Patamon being worried that another evolution will kill him again, and also Patamon likely not being strong enough to achieve it. T.K. is often the one kept out of danger. Patamon only Digivolved the second time when no other Digidestined (besides Matt) were around to protect T.K. Angemon appears much more regularly after that encounter.
128	*** In the dub, the last thing Angemon tells T.K. is "I'll come back again, if you want me to." It's basically Angemon saying that T.K. has to really want Angemon for Patamon to evolve again, and that requires T.K. to have the time to process losing his Partner Digimon. As we know from Adventure 02, T.K. never fully recovers from this first appearance of Angemon, gaining a hatred of all things dark. Angemon's massive gap of appearances is the Digimon treating the young T.K. gently to let him learn how to live with loss, albeit a temporary one.
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130	* The Crests are incredibly inconsistent with characterization. Joe had already matured a lot before returning to his world, yet the Crest only activates when Joe is drowning. The same happens with T.K. who is always trying to be optimistic and [=MagnaAngemon=] doesn't appear until he is about to die.
131	** The crests work a bit weirdly. First, they have to be activated, which is done by losing a trait only by later regaining it. If the Digimon is at champion at that point, it will evolve then, and can evolve under normal evolution circumstances from that point onwards. However, if the Digimon isn't at champion at the moment the crest first activates, it won't be able to evolve under normal circumstances yet. Instead, it requires an exceptional show of the crest-specific trait while the Digimon is at champion level. While their regular amounts of responsibility and optimism is enough for repeated evolutions, the first time is a lot harder. Joe wasn't just drowning, he was putting the needs of T.K. first even when he himself was unable to swim.
132	*** They don't have to lose that trait. Joe didn't stop being reliable before he activated his crest. Mimi wasn't being insincere (or impure if we go by the Japanese meaning) when she activated her crest to induce evolution. Kari wasn't being evil before Gatomon evolved (assuming light means goodness or righteousness). The only characters who "lost their traits" before activating their crest were Tai, Matt, and Izzy. Mimi lost her trait of Sincerity/Purity in Princess Karaoke but getting it back didn't activate Togemon's digivolution.
133	*** I've been thinking about the crests and I think I finally have a solid answer. In order for the crests to affect digivolution the child must be in an extreme situation and channeling their given trait, BUT this only works if the trait is untainted. While the crests were made to reflect the strongest attribute of each child some of those traits have been tainted since they were originally matched. For example Izzy always has a thirst for knowledge but due to his identity issues he was using the pursuit of knowledge to block out the rest of the world and hide, so his trait was corrupted. Sora always had the ability to love but it was tainted by her anger at her mother due to misunderstanding their relationship. Joe was always reliable/honest but at first it was mostly out of obligation he felt due to being the oldest, not because it was what he really wanted. Mimi became insincere/impure because she didn't like the circumstances she found herself in and so was avoiding them and making excuses. Matt's friendship was tainted by his need to push people away or pretend they didn't matter to him. Tai's courage was drowned out by arrogance and desperation at first due to the need to digivolve farther to fight off Etemon and being the only one with a crest, Tai also shows what happens if their specific trait is corrupted too far. T.K. and Kari were the only two who didn't have this problem so their digivolutions were simply a matter of having all the right items and getting enough experience.
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135	* Why was Virus Type portrayed as always evil, while Vaccine type was portrayed as always good? Data types can be good or evil, as seen with Metalseadramon and Gotsumon. However, there are Virus type Digimon who are good (for example, the Guilmon evolution line in Tamers with the exception of Megidramon) or Ogremon after he became a harmless villain. But I don't remember an evil Vaccine type in the seasons up to and including Savers.
136	** Mammothmon and Snimon, some of Myotismon's servants, are Vaccine-type.
137	** By their very nature as Virus and Vaccine it's easy to see why each would naturally be drawn to being evil or good. After all, why should a virus be good? Why should a vaccine be evil? But then you toss in free will and you start getting exceptions.
138	** Because a virus can sometimes be used for good - in an illness the virus is used to create a vaccine - but vaccines can't be used for evil (except to the crazies who believe they cause autism but that's another topic). Vaccine Digimon seem to be the ones predisposed to getting a human partner and battling evil. Gatomon for example was a Vaccine who was able to be corrupted to evil, but it took years of abuse and torture from Myotismon, and even she was able to make a HeelFaceTurn quite easily.
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140	* Apocalymon is said to be composed of the data of deceased Digimon, but Digimon that are killed are supposed to be reborn in the Primary Village. So how is it possible for Apocalymon to come into existence if deceased Digimon's data goes to the Primary Village?
141	** If I understood correctly, not all data makes it back to primary village. Some of it is tossed out altogether in a sort of evolutionary selective process. Apocalymon is made from the data that was topped away.
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143	* When did Kari's digivice actually appear?
144	** Presumably at the same time as the other Digivices, given that it's there in episode 21.
145	** Yes at the same time probably. She didn't see it because she was probably bed-ridden with her cold.
146	** I thought it appeared after Tai and Koromon returned to the Digital World.
147	** I have to think it appeared when the rift opened and took Agumon and Taichi back, during the initial event that summoned the others to the Digital World those digital balls of light carrying the digivices hit the ground QUITE hard. I can imagine she'd have noticed if a colorful light ball smashed into her home around the same time.
148	** Maybe she just happened to be asleep at that point.
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150	* All the gateway cards are color coded and symbol coded according to the Digimon type they are. Before they figure out the placement, everybody is making guesses to how the cards relate to each other. Yamato saying something like the cards in relation to strength. And somebody mentions "Good, Evil, Ugly"..hehe, but shouldn't they have realized the cards with matching colors were related in some way? Hell on the top of each card is the symbol for representation, Vaccine being an injection needle (for medicine). Of coarse I realize that they still needed to figure out the relation of the lion, Sagittarius, and monkey being related to the types, but once that happens apparently Koushiro is able to immediately tell the card groups by the symbols in spite of the color coding.
151	** Though maybe this is an error induced by the writers not giving full detail to the animators, or possibly a means to let the viewers possibly figure it out before the cast. In any case it just had me confused for a bit.
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153	* In the battle against Apocalymon, all the kids are riding/hanging onto their Digimon. At one point, we see Garudamon use her Wing Flame attack, which is basically her being set on fire...while Sora was on top of her. How did she not burn to death or anything?
154	** Watch carefully. Garudamon had [=MegaKabuterimon=] take care of Sora before using Shadow Wing.
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156	* Where the hell was the JSDF during Vamdemon's reign in Tokyo? That's a hostile takeover of a capital city by a terrorist, that's at least a national threat.
157	** Vamdemon takes over Odaiba on August 3rd, two days after appearing in the real world and only after shrouding it in fog that blocks it from the rest of the world. There were three Digimon attacks witnessed on August 1st, and none of them were in Odaiba, and two witnessed on August 2nd, only one of which was in Odiaba. If they did react in that short time frame, they wouldn't be focused on Odaiba, and wouldn't suspect anything about the fog, seeing as it's just fog, albeit really thick fog.
158	** Nobody outside of the fog knew what was happening. All they knew was there was a thick fog making travel impossible. No reason to suspect an evil vampire from another dimension is creating it.
159	* What exactly was the deal with that bright light that Kari began glowing with in the second Machinedramon episode? What is it? Where does it come from? Why is it never mentioned before or after that point?
160	** It's just her crest power, Kari is apparently exceptionally in tune with Light which allows her to grant power to the other Digimon but also makes her more vulnerable to dark energies as we see in the next series, and likely explains why she was sick so much since her partner was in the hands of a dark Digimon like Myotismon.
161	* What's with the inconstancies with going back to the in-training forms? Agumon goes back to Koromon after the [=SkullGreymon=] incident and the first three times after going to [=MetalGreymon=]. However, Gabumon, Palmon and Gomamon only go back to in-training the first two times they go ultimate, while Biyomon and Tentomon go back to in-training the first five times they go ultimate. Meanwhile, Patamon doesn't go back to in-training after going to ultimate at all, and in fact goes back after going champion one time, and Gatomon only goes back to champion the first time she becomes Angewomon, but then goes back to rookie the second time, and never again after that. The Mega forms are even more inconsistent. Agumon and Gabumon go back to in-training after the first time, but don't the second time. Then Agumon goes back to Koromon after beating [=MetalSeadramon=] and both after they have their fight. Then Agumon doesn't go back after the Puppetmon fight but he does after beating Machinedramon and then never again? What's the reason for these inconstancies?
162	** Remember, there was a time skip where Tai and Agumon missed months in the digital world. So during those months five of the other six partner digimon racked up more digivolving experience and thus digivolving further would be a less of a strain and they'd adapt faster. There's also the strain of the fight to factor in, and how frequently they'd been digivolving (Gatomon digivolved to Ultimate and went all out twice in the same day so of course the second time was a bigger strain). [=MetalSeadramon=] is a Data type Digimon instead of a Virus type like the rest of the Dark Masters so [=WarGreymon=] was actually at a type disadvantage as well as facing a powerful mega, makes sense he'd burn out more energy.
163	*** Still all of the original seven digimon except for Agumon would have racked up more digivolving, so it doesn't explain why Gabumon, Palmon, and Gomamon were able to adapt to the point that they don't burn up so much energy faster than Biyomon and Tentomon did, since at one point Tentomon dedigivoves to Motimon just after having ''briefly'' been [=MegaKabuterimon=] and all he did was help Garudamon save the plane and didn't even fight.
164	*** Digivolution is powered by the children so if they don't provide enough energy to compensate for the amount burned then they go down a stage for a while.
165	* When Togemon digivolves to Lillymon, Lillymon emerges from the flower on Togemon's head. What happens to Togemon's body, since the Digimon's spirit is now in Lillymon and Togemon is a lifeless husk?
166	** Probably turns into those data light particle things that the flower absorbs to form Lillymon's body
167	* What exactly is keeping, or, well, ''kept'' Apocalymon from just... living in the Digital World? Like, okay, sure, wall of fire, he's made of deleted data, whatever, that sure as hell didn't keep him from entering the two whole times he arrived in both backstory and the series proper. I can only assume there has to be ''something'' that's keeping Apocalymon from just living there asides from that one thing that he can easily pierce. If it was a thing where whatever law that rules the digital world would kick him out automatically, then there's be no reason to have the Digidestined ''forcibly'' escort him out if it's something the world itself can handle. Is there any established, canon reason Apocalymon can't live in the digital world, because at the moment the only thing I can come up with is 'Apocalymon's physical body can't leave that weird darkness expanse that may or may not be Apocalymon's true form the Digidestined fell into, so him trying to enter overwrites the Digital World even if he really wants to enter without killing everything', and even that kind of contradicts things, because a lot of the overall lore and motives say he wants to mess up the digital world so it's as messed up as he is, so...?
168	** Well here's a theory based off computer-stuff and the evolution of technology. And you're right about it being kind of an 'easy' answer, so I apologise. But consider this. Ever tried to get a game from the mid-90s to run on a modern-day computer? Since Apocalymon is made of 'deceased Digimon' that weren't able to continue evolving with the rest of the Digital World, he is literally made up of old, obsolete data. Apocalymon is simply 'formatted' in such a way that his very being is incompatible now with the Digital World.
169	** It's likely a mix of the Digital World's natural defenses and the Digi Gods keeping him out. That's likely why he had to send in the Dark Masters to imprison the Gods and corrupt the Digital Wold to the point where it was barely holding together, let alone fight him off anymore.
170	* Digimon escape into the real world and generally ruin everyone's day. But then next season, no one seems any the wiser to their existence. In a subversion, Gennai explains that he and his clones have altered/deleted the saved data in the networks/computers to hide the facts.
171	** Still didn't change the fact that hundreds, if not THOUSANDS of people saw the battle with Apocalymon that was projected onto the sky!
172	*** Between the time difference and the shortness of the final battle the sky being weird didn't really last that long. Also keep in mind that only a few of the kids parents, not even all of them, had any idea of what was going on. As far as the population is concerned weird things happened and then they stopped and that's as far as they can put it together.
173	** Izzy's parents ''do'' know about Digimon, however. Yet in 02, the Digimon pretend to be stuffed animals in his house to not freak out his parents. Matt's dad still remembered, at least.
174	*** Just because they pretended doesn't mean Izzy's parents were actually fooled. Izzy's parents took a 'the kids know better than we do, let's follow their lead' approach last time, no reason they wouldn't do the same again.
175	** Didn't the city get wrecked in the fight? Not sure how they covered up ''that''..
176	* In the episode when Izzy is trapped in Vademon's PocketDimension, we see Izzy form some letters of the alphabet with his body "to help cleanse his thoughts". Thing is, even though we don't see him do it, it's implied that he did this with ALL the letters in the alphabet. Which begs the question: how the HELL can anyone make a W shape with their bodies? Or a B, or an M...hell, how did he make most of the letters?!
177	** For a W, your arms are one half of the W, your legs are the other, it's a bit lopsided but it works, a B has your arms and head as the "Top" loop and your legs (one bent, the other straight) as the other loop. For an M, just reverse the W.
178	*** [[http://rad--panda.tumblr.com/post/9065882247/loving-carrots-the-whole-alphabet-by-izzy-izumi He did it like this.]]
179	** In the same episode, Vademon takes Izzy's curiosity and tries to sell it. There are several other curiosities nearby. That would make Vademon the owner of a literal Curiosity Shop.
180	* Wizardmon's act is actually a strange example of the TakingTheBullet trope. Most instances of TakingTheBullet involve leaping in front of the character, making it a Diving Save minus pushing another out of the line of fire. There's a bit of FridgeLogic here when you think that there's no possible way Wizardmon could have gotten there fast enough to be ''standing'' square in front of them, as he was blasted several meters away, severely beaten and exhausted, moments ago. FridgeBrilliance if you think this is simply the result of another strange power he has. (Super speed or teleportation; the sheer number of powers he has compared to other Digimon could stretch the imagination to imply he had either.)
181	** Either that or AWizardDidIt.
182	** For that matter, how did Wizardmon even take the bullet to begin with? It's not like the attack was a bunch of dive-bombing bats that stop or explode on impact. It's a cluster of bats that attack by flocking to a designated target and presumably biting it, and the bats are either controlled by Myotismon or at least smart enough to recognize and aim for their target. If Wizardmon just jumped in their way, they should have just ignored him and swarmed Kari like Myotismon intended.
183	*** Grisly wing has been shown to work a few different ways, both as just summoning and controlling a swarm of bats, and as being a powerful blast attack.
184	* Devimon was just a champion. A high-level champion but a champion nonetheless. Why did Andromon never challenge him? I don´t think Devimon would be able to kill Andromon?
185	* How can Chaos Etemon be defeated by a single attack from Metal Greymon? Metal Greymon surely is stronger than regular Etemon but Chaos Etemon was a reality warper and thus should be more powerful than a lot of perfect level digimon.
186	** Chaos Etemon's power was by its very nature unstable, and Metal Greymon's missiles further disrupted his ability to control it.
187	* Joe jumped onto Unimon's back and tried to pull out the Black Gear that was controlling him. We learn later that the digivices can destroy the Black Gears just by being near them, so why didn't that work?
188	** Perhaps it's like the tracking feature and only activated after the first time the pair managed to digivolve to Champion level. Or perhaps the children and their digimon weren't sufficiently in sync yet for the digivice to channel the energy like that?
189	* Was Taichi's line "I want some of Sora's love, too!" a mistranslation or have completely different implications in Japanese or something? Allegedly, director Hiroyuki Kakudou ''never'' intended for there to be anything romantic between them. I can buy a writer insisting the whole pyramid rescue plot was not meant to be romantic, despite how easy it is to see it as such, but that line after her crest glows... how is that open to interpretation?
190	* How did [=DemiDevimon=] know about Sora's issues with her family and that she believed that she "grew up not knowing what love is"? It's not like he can read minds or overheard her talking about it. Is there any other indication any of the villains know about the kids' lives before they arrived? Was he just making a lucky guess like a stage psychic?

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