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Following ''Frontier'', the anime experienced a [[Sequel Gap]] of three years, but the franchise's merchandise kept up alone with several waves of virtual pets (and, oddly enough, an entirely new English card game<ref>this is odd because card game aside, the franchise pretty much ceased to exist in the west in this time period</ref>) released during this time, introducing plenty of new Digimon. There was also a CGI [[Made for TV Movie]], ''[[Digimon X Evolution (Anime)|Digimon X Evolution]]'', in 2005, which remains the only major ''Digimon'' production to feature no human characters whatsoever and to focus exclusively on the Digimon.

''[[Digimon Xros Wars (Anime)|Digimon Xros Wars]]'' ([http://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/digimon/ pronounced ''Cross Wars'']) premiered July 2010 on TV Asahi. It harkens back to the the animation style of ''Adventure'' and generally contains quite a few throwbacks to it, though its basic set-up is significantly different. A trio of humans lead their Digimon armies in a great war against [[The Empire]] with the intention of reunifying the shattered Digital World. Running alongside it was a manga adaptation, also named ''[[Digimon Xros Wars (Manga)|Digimon Xros Wars]]'', which experiences several unique changes and deviations from the plot of the anime. It is the longest of all seasons with three arcs noted by their different subtitles ''[[Digimon Xros Wars the Evil Death Generals And The Seven Kingdoms]]'' and finally ''[[Digimon Xros Wars the Young Hunters Leaping Through Time (Anime)|Digimon Xros Wars the Young Hunters Leaping Through Time]]'' which many fans mistakenly believe to be its own season.

* [[Merchandise-Driven]]: Digimon is first and formost a toy franchise, so much so that having good toy sales can save your season from being canned [[Digimon Xros Wars (Anime)|even if it has low ratings]].

* [[Mechanical Monster]]: 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.

* [[Multiversal Conqueror]]: Several of the villians, who have set their sights on conquering both worlds.

* [[Must Make Amends]]

** 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.

** '''Beelzemon''', good ''Lord'', [[The Atoner|Beel]][[It's All My Fault|ze]][[Redemption Equals Death|mon]]. See the trope page for details.

* [[No Body Left Behind]]: Digimon normally disappear into data upon death, though depending on which canon is in question, they might also leave [[Born-Again Immortality|a Digi-egg]] behind.

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Far too many times to list politely, [http://digipedia.db-destiny.net/misc/trivia.htm#2 here]'s a list.

* [[Not Quite Dead]]: 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.

* [[Nuclear Weapons Taboo]]

** The movie ''Our'' (or ''[[Spell My Name With an "S"|Children's]]'') ''Wargame'' 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.<ref> Nukes are triggered mid air to maximise the destruction, and are specifically designed to ''not'' trigger due to impact.</ref> Luckily for them, Greymon's missiles don't act like real nukes.

* [[Oh Crap]]

** 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.

** Takato and Henry have one when {{spoiler|they spot [[Heel Face Turn|a Deva]] hanging out with Henry's sister.}}

** Priceless one when Kurata {{spoiler|1=sees a ''very'' ticked off ShineGreymon Burst Mode heading right for him. Most of his faces after Burst Mode is reached qualify as well.}}

** Subverted by Gravimon upon seeing {{spoiler|1=Shoutmon X7}}. What does he do after seeing a huge, golden Digimon that is quite powerful that his army behind him got obliterated? He ''smiles evilly''.

** Bagramon, a Demon Lord Digimon that was once an angel digimon that rebelled against god for his injustice, and cast out as a result of his failed rebellion. Can Become DarknessBagramon with eight massive black wings. A demonic inversion of [[Archangel Gabriel]].

* [[The Paladin]]

** Dukemon and Alphamon are straight examples, along with Imperialdramon Paladin Mode (who was not an actual member, but rather the founder of the order).

* [[Parents As People]]: 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.

** Happens again when a line of V-pets came out with Super Ultimate/Level Seven. Thankfully it was mostly ignored by the rest of the franchise that time.

** 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.

* [[Power Glows]]: Isn't it pretty?

* [[Purely Aesthetic Gender]]: Despite the fact that Digimon may look male (such as [[Monster Clown|Piedmon]]) or female (such as Ladydevimon), because they are all made of data, they simply appear as they do. No Digimon actually has a "true" gender, though this is a general rule that is kept in the card games and various video games. The animated series apply it more as Digimon lack true sexual division, but may identify as a gender. ''Frontier'' seems to avert the trope entirely and ''Xros Wars'' averts it unmistakably.

* [[Random Power Ranking]]: 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.<br />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. [[Continuity Snarl|Curiously, Adventure Whamon(File Island) was drawn larger than V-Tamer Whamon(Folder).]]

* [[Satellite Character]]: 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'' arguably fell into it the most. Best averted in ''Xros Wars'', where Digimon are most often treated as independent characters within each army. The few that remain are [[Exaggerated Trope|exaggerations.]]

* [[Seven Deadly Sins]]: The Seven Great Demon Lords, each representing a specific sin.

** Digimon has lots of [[Paradise Lost]] 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.

* [[Shown Their Work]]: Moved [[Digimon (Franchise)/Trivia|here.]]

* [[War Elephants]]: Mammothmon are usually used in this fashion.

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?]]: A prevalent theme, especially when there are human villains involved

* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Several members of the main cast(s) seem remarkably mature or intelligent for their ages.

** Kari especially, to the point that some accusations of [[Mary Sue|Sue-hood]] have been thrown at her over the years.

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