Digimon Adventure 02: Difference between revisions

 

 

 

 

The original Digidestined have moved on and grown up after saving the Digital World, and T.K. Takaishi (Takeru), the former [[Tagalong Kid|cute helpless kid]] of the group turned confident [[The Lancer|Lancer]], has [[New Transfer Student|transferred]] to a new school which fellow former Chosen Kari Kamiya (Hikari Yagami) attends. They meet brash goggle boy [[The Determinator|Davis Motomiya]] (Daisuke), girly tech geek [[Genius Ditz|Yolei Inoue]] (Miyako), and stoic [[Kid Samurai|Cody Hida]] (Iori). A distress call from Agumon draws Tai, T.K. and Kari back into the Digital World, taking Davis with them; there, they find that the Digital World is under siege from the Digimon Emperor (Digimon Kaiser), a human child who controls Digimon, blocks evolution, and aspires to conquer the Digital World. With new, stronger [[Mons]], a few new tweaks to the evolution system, and an enemy their own age from their own world, these five have to work on their own few experiences with Digimon and work through having been sheltered at that time as children.

Its [[Distant Finale]] epilogue is infamous as the subject of much fandom ire, partially for much of what became of the Chosen not particularly fitting their in-series characterization, and partly because {{spoiler|Sora married Matt and not Tai}}. Even so, it was still fairly popular, continuing the phenomenon set by ''[[Digimon Adventure]]''. It was succeeded by ''[[Digimon Tamers]]''.

 

 

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* [[Aborted Arc]]: Dagomon and the Dark Ocean.

* [[Adult Fear]]: Ken leaving his home and his parents in episode 9, especially [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|the note about "leaving the world" he leaves behind on his computer for his parents to see.]]

* [[Amplifier Artifact]]: Azulongmon's DigiCores

* [[Anti-Hero]] / [[Anti-Villain]]: Ken and {{spoiler|Oikawa.}}

* [[The Atoner]]: Ken

** Again, {{spoiler|1=BlackWarGreymon}} fits this trope as well.

* [[Bigger Bad]]: Milleniumon, Daemon

* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: In episode 13, the sign on the dark beach says "Innsmouth" in Digicode - the whole episode being a shoutout to the Cthulhu mythos.

* [[Biological Mashup]]: Kimeramon, [[Classical Mythology|much as its name suggests]].

** [[Hybrid Monster]]: Kimeramon is a mix of a variety of fantastic creatures... including [[Digimon Adventure|Devimon]], whose influence over Kimeramon quickly messes up [[Evil Is Not a Toy|the Kaiser's plans]].

* [[Break the Haughty]]

* [[Brick Joke]]: The last leg of the Digimon Emperor arc has the Chosen pretend to go on a camping trip (with Matt's father as chaperone) in order to stay in the Digital World for as long as necessary to defeat Ken. Jun, learning that Matt will also be on the trip, tries to invite herself along, and they ditch her the first chance they get. The end of the arc has her catching up to the group; cue a collective [[Oh Crap]] on Matt, Tai, and Izzy's part.

* [[Broad Strokes]]: Certain elements of previous episodes were brushed over for various reasons. (EX. Dagomon from episode 13.)

* [[But Not Too Foreign]]: Matt and T.K. are revealed to be one-fourth French, when T.K. and Tai meet their grandfather in France.

** Think of it as visual [[Translation Convention]]. Blonde and blue eyes is a [[Phenotype Stereotype]], so in a Japanese work it makes sense, and lord knows writers have been willing to handwave genetics for [[Rule of Cool]] before. [[MST3K Mantra]], people.

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]

* [[Call Back]]: {{spoiler|Remember the episode where the Digidestined had to pursue Myotismon [[Digimon Adventure|three years ago]]?. Well, you remember the nine cards that have to be put to open the way between the Digital World and the Real World, right? Yukio Oikawa plans to do the same thing. If you remember the first one, between the two Vaccine-Type Rookie-Level cards (Agumon and Gomamon), Tai chose the latter. In this season, Oikawa chose the former. And if you remember Gennai's words back at the first season, one is right and the other is wrong. That's why he ended up opening the way between the Real World and the ''strange world where ideas can become reality''.}}

* [[Cat Fight]]: Angewomon vs. LadyDevimon. Again.

* [[Changing of the Guard]]: The two youngest heroes team up with a new group, while the main characters from the first series serve as support on the sidelines.

* [[The Chosen Many]]: ''Adventure 02'' reveals that the twelve Japanese Chosen are not the only ones, and there are groups of them operating all around the world.

* [[Circle of Friendship]]: The finale

** T.K. has two colours. His Crest of Hope is yellow, but his new Digivice is green. The full list:

Ken - Digivice - black; Crest of Kindness - violet }}

* [[Cool Boat]]: Because none of V-mon's armor forms can fly or swim, during the assault on the Kaiser's base, Daisuke thinks to try and make a raft out of a nearby palmtree to follow the others, as it's the only thing around to work with. [[Shaggy Search Technique|Resting his hand against it]], he accidentally throws the lever and he and V-mon are suddenly riding a small island.

* [[Conspicuous CG]]: ExVeemon and Stingmon's DNA Digi-volving sequence, as well as their evolution sequence to Imperialdramon. Just like with [[Digimon Adventure|MetalGreymon and WereGarurumon]], no-one else got CG evolution sequences.

* [[Convection, Schmonvection]]: [[Averted]]; {{spoiler|Kimeramon's ''Heat Viper'' attack is actually very hard to dodge ''because'' it generates massive heat.}} Now, granted, you could still say the heat level was ''unrealistic'', but it's a start.

'''Ken:''' "''But! you didn't let me finish!''" }}

** [[Popular Saying, But...]]

* [[Cyberspace]]

* [[Don't Ask]]: The Digidestined, when they are found in a pile on the computer room floor, after returning from the Digital World.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Listen to any discussion of [[Fusion Dance|DNA evolution]] and [[Schmuck Bait|try not to think about sex]]. It gets worse when you take into consideration how the Chosen act and react to get it to work for the first time.

* [[Empathic Weapon]]

* [[The End of the World as We Know It]]

* [[Evil Is Not a Toy]]: And failure to realize that [[Berserk Button|will really piss off]] T.K.

* [[Evil Laugh]]: Parodied by the Digimon Emperor in the dub:

* [[Evil Overlord]]

* [[Evolutionary Levels]]

* [[Excited Episode Title]]

* [[Executive Meddling]]: Jeff Nimoy stated that ''Digimon: The Movie'' was supposed to just feature the first two movies, but higher ups demanded he add the third movie in, which he wanted to be shown as a TV special.

* [[Expository Hairstyle Change]]: Ken, sort of - his Digimon Emperor hair goes away with his [[Villainous Breakdown]] and reverts to his normal hair.

** Davis -- [[Digimon Adventure|Tai]]'s successor. Pretty much in-universe, since he basically worships Tai and really wants to be as good as him, as established in the first episode.

** Veemon -- [[Digimon V-Tamer 01|Veedramon]], [[No Export for You|they were popular in Japan at the time.]]

* [[Family-Unfriendly Death]]: {{spoiler|1=MaloMyotismon's brutal murder of Arukenimon and Mummymon. It's so horrible that even the heroes can't bear to watch and cover their eyes.}}

* [[Final Exam Finale]]

* [[Fan Girl]]: Jun, to Matt.

* [[Five-Man Band]]: There are two [[The Lancer|Lancers]] <ref>T.K. in the first half and Ken in the second half.</ref> and two [[The Smart Guy|Smart Guys]] <ref>Cody and Yolei</ref> on the team.

** [[The Hero]]: Davis

* [[Fusion Dance]]: The point of DNA Digi-volving.

* [[Gag Dub]]: Much more so than ''Adventure'', but similar to it, it was perfectly capable of being serious when necessary, as in the last 8 episodes.

** And if you see the movies as hour-long episodes rather than as regular films taking place in the same universe, count in Diaboromon and the virus-infected Kokomon.

* [[Gambit Roulette]]: All of 02's villains' actions prove to be part of the [[Man Behind the Man|mon behind the mon's]] greater scheme - even the ones that would have made his greater scheme impossible.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: In the dub, Davis is ''one syllable'' away from suggesting they play strip poker. And yes, you actually hear him say "strip."

** Also in the dub, Tai distracts a teacher in the second episode by asking for girl advice. Later he's shown walking away, talking about "the Birds and the Bees."

* [[The Unseen]]: Dragomon. He only seen in shadows and mist near the end of episode 13, and is only referenced to afterwords, rather then shown.

* [[A God Am I]]: Ken, when he's the Digimon Emperor.

* [[Heel Realization]]: Ken

* [[Heroes Unlimited]]

* [[Hijacked by Ganon]]: Guess who's responsible for all the crap that goes on in the series? {{spoiler|Myotismon--that's right, the guy who died in the last series by taking it to the crotch}}.

* [[Hollywood Atlas]]: the World Tour Arc.

* [[Hopeless Suitor]]: Davis was the former [[Trope Namer]].

* [[Hope Spot]]: Wormmon gets one in episode 21.

'''Digimon Emperor''': AND THAT'S KIMERAMON! }}

* [[Hot Dad]]/[[Hot Mom]]: All the kids are shown to have grown up well in the epilogue.

* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: The Dark Spore children.

* [[I Should Write a Book About This]]: T.K. writes a book about their adventures in the [[Distant Finale]], and it's suggested that the narrator (him) was just reading said book out loud.

* [[Ineffectual Loner]]: Ken

* [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Dragons|Instant Awesome Just Add Imperialdramon]]

* [[Kryptonite Is Everywhere]]: The dark Towers are this to the Digigods and to the Digital world.

* [[Lampshade Hanging]]: In the dub, Digmon indirectly pokes fun at the translators' incorrectly making his title "Drill of Power".

* [[Last-Minute Hookup]]: {{spoiler|Sora and Matt get together}} in episode 38, but other than this, they fit the trope - especially considering that no hint whatsoever was given of a previous romantic relationship between them. This applies to {{spoiler|Ken and Yolei}}, as well.

* [[Light Is Good]]

* [[Living with the Villain]]: Subverted. Davis and Ken do cross paths in the real world as enemies, but because they live in separate school districts and play on rival soccer teams, this only happens once.

* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]

* [[Love Bubbles]]: Davis -> Kari

* [[Mage in Manhattan]]

* [[More Than Mind Control]]: Ken

* [[The Movie]]: Two [[Short Anime Movie|both short]], [[Non-Serial Movie|non-canon]] affairs. The first is basically a showcase for a few of the digimentals; even going so far as to [[The Worf Effect|worf]] ''Seraphimon and Holydramon'' to make room for Magnamon and Rapidmon. The second is a sequel to [[Digimon Adventure|Our War Game]] which features Imperialdramon Paladin Mode.

** [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]]: ''Michi e no Armor Shinka'' established that the children could, in fact, swap Digimentals; each of the main six digimon has an armor form for each of the digimentals, including the TCG-only digimental of kindness, and the [[Golden Super Mode|digimental of Miracles]]. V-mon specifically can also use the digimental of Fate, which has only one other user in [[Non-Serial Movie|Terriermon]]. In the actual series, the Chosen only ever use their specific -mentals, highly likely for cost reasons.

* [[Mysterious Waif]]: Kari, again.

* [[Non-Serial Movie]]: Both movies were for some time out of continuity with the series, with the main characters' Digimon only able to Armor Digi-volve and Ken not being a member of the team, not to mention Seraphimon and Magnadramon. Subsequent drama CDs shoehorned ''Hurricane Touchdown'' into continuity, which resulted in massive inconsistencies: Gatomon is able to become Angewomon when she shouldn't at this point, Seraphimon and Magnadramon are accessible forms for Patamon and Gatomon, and the children are visiting New York right in the middle of the Digimon Emperor arc. ''Diablomon Strikes Back'' remains non-serial with no attempts to incorporate it, but interestingly its incorporation ''wouldn't'' have caused any continuity problems.

* [[Not Even Human|Not Even a Digimon]]: The Digidestined were reluctant to kill the new threat until they learn this.

* [[Older and Wiser]]: Although the age gap between Yolei and Mimi or Izzy is only one year.

* [[Ondo]]: Agumon's [[Image Song]]

* [[The Power of Friendship]]: Like their matching Crests, Davis's [[Upgrade Artifact|Digi-Egg of Friendship]]...

* [[The Power of Love]]: ...and Yolei's Digi-Egg of Love...

* [[Phantom Zone]]: Ruled by Dragomon, a giant Lovecraftian Digimon that wants to marry and mate with Kari. [[Sarcasm Mode|Surprisingly enough]], [[Chiaki Konaka]] was responsible for that episode.

* [["Previously On..."]]: In the dub, the children take turns narrating it, but WarGreymon did it at least once.

* [[Save Both Worlds]]

* [[Schmuck Banquet]]: Despite it being an obvious trap ([[Lampshade Hanging|with them commenting on it]]), they ate anyway.

* [[Shadow Archetype]]

* [[He's a Friend|She's A Friend]]: Mimi randomly shows up at the start of episode six, and the new kids ''freak'' when they see her. Then...

'''TK''': Everyone, this is Mimi. She's a member of the DigiDestined who moved to America. }}

* [[Ship Tease]]: The dub teases TK and Kari in episode 13.

** Also, Veemon is shown to have a crush on Gatomon in a couple of episodes (in the dub, anyway; it was a one-episode thing in the original).

** TK and Kari hit it earlier on, each only receiving one usable Digimental; Angemon and Angewomon were grouped in the "combat" group with Flamedramon, Shurimon, and Digmon; though they were unable to be used for the duration.

* [[Sorry I Left the BGM On]]: Audio drama: a Digimon Analyzer screen is read off, as always, prompting Yamato's dad's coworker to ask if Yamato's dad said something. Naturally, he answers, "Idiot, that's the narration, isn't it?" Of course, both Yamato's dad and the narrator are voiced by [[Hiroaki Hirata]].

* [[Stock Footage]]: The evolution sequences, as usual. Also, there was a set of stock footage for the partner Digimon using their attacks, but it wasn't used as much as in ''Adventure''. A bit of it also shows up during battles; notably in repeat Bakemon fights within the Kaiser's base.

* [[Storming the Castle]]: The chosen board the Kaiser's floating fortress out of necessity in order to bring a faster halt to Kimeramon's country-ravaging destruction. While eventually successful, it remains poignantly [[Bittersweet Ending|bittersweet]].

* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Lampshaded at one point in the English dub.

* [[This Is a Drill|This is Digmon's Drill]]

* [[Tokyo Is the Center of the Universe]]: Zigzagged; this is the only ''Digimon'' series where things happen in other parts of the world, but the bulk of it does happen to Tokyo.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Episode 16, trapped inside an offshore Oil platform, [[Almost Out of Oxygen|running out of Oxygen]]. So what do the kid do? They start digging up the floor. Both using up precious oxygen and risking creating a leak.

** Episode 28 has the children entering Arukenimon's trap without thinking of telling anyone.

** {{spoiler|1=Chasing after Oikawa through the gate in episode 48 even after seeing him fatally wound BlackWarGreymon.}}

** Takeru definitely took one between ''Adventure'' and ''02'', best evidenced when he {{spoiler|stops the Digimon Emperor's whip attack WITH HIS BARE HAND and then proceeds to beat him senseless}}. And that's ''after'' {{spoiler|he took a whip strike to the cheek without flinching or changing expression}}.

* [[Trap Is the Only Option]]: In an aptly named episode "The Insect Master's Trap", the chosen children enter into Arukenimon's trap to find out what she is up to.

* [[Trapped in Another World]]: The Dark Ocean.

* [[Webcomic Time]]: Often weeks of time pass in show between episodes.This is to keep the show in sync with real time... [[Time Skip|four years into the future]].

* [[Wendigo]]: Yes, there's a Digimon based on this; though [[All There in the Manual|he's not named onscreen]], Kokomon spends most of ''Hurricane Touchdown'' in his corrupt Champion form, Wendigomon.

* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: The Dark Ocean, and Dragomon and Daemon therein; the mysterious flashbacks of how Ken got infected with the Dark Spore.

** In the original version, Gennai's newly youthful form is never really explained. In the dub, this is handwaved by a throwaway line about him taking some "Digi-Vitamins."

* [[You Can't Fight Fate]]

* [[You Fight Like a Cow]]: Some of Paildramon's lines are written this way in the dub; it lightens the mood a little bit.

* [[Your Mind Makes It Real]]: Constantly reappearing trope.

 

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