Digimon Savers: Difference between revisions

It was dubbed in the US as ''Digimon: Data Squad'', breaking from the former practice of lumping everything together as ''Digimon: Digital Monsters''. After another [[Sequel Gap]], it was followed up with ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]''.

 

 

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* [[Actor Allusion]]: English dub; [[Quinton Flynn|Marcus]] does, in fact, assure Yoshi that he's [[Kingdom Hearts|"got it memorized."]]

** Fans of [[S-Cry-ed]] will notice that Masaru is basically Kazuma in a Digimon series, both because of his personality (and tendency to punch things larger than himself) and his [[Soichiro Hoshi|voice]]. And the all the punching. Did we mention that?

* [[Affably Evil]]: Kurata flips from being this to being [[Faux Affably Evil]] during the confrontation with Merukimon.

* [[All Your Base Are Belong to Us]]: DATS headquarters is blown up at the climax of episode 26, destroying all the equipment along with it and forcing the heroes to find an alternative means of getting to the Digital World.

* [[Alternative Foreign Theme Song]]: "When you have to face the fight..."

* [[Calling Your Attacks]]: It's a given in the show, but on the other hand there is Ivan in his weird quest for Yoshino's love, when he shows his evolution he does nothing but use weird names for his attacks.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: Yoshi's "This is the worst!", and Marcus has "It's fighting time!" in the dub only, and "That's how a man lives!" in the original.

* [[Censor Steam]]: Nanami, it was justified in covering her more than her coworkers because she's shorter.

* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]: Marcus. His fist can do seemingly anything.

* [[Civilian Power]]: Happens at the last episode.

* [[Colony Drop]]: Kurata, {{spoiler|in his death, detonating a bomb that sets the two worlds to crash into each other. Though this wasn't intentional, as he intended to destroy the Digital World.}}

* [[Colossus Climb]]: Marcus and Agumon attempt this against Yggdrasil, with the rest of the team as backup.

* [[Conspicuous CG]]: Rosemon and Ravemon's Burst Mode evolution sequences, unlike those for ShineGreymon and MirageGaogamon, aren't CG. They don't even ''try'' to remain consistent with the style they use, having completely different backgrounds with no text reading BURST MODE and being much shorter and less eventful. This is especially jarring since every other set of evolution sequences for the four main Digimon are consistent with each other, with all four sequences for evolving to Mega/Ultimate getting the same CG treatment.

* [[Cross Counter]]: Marcus and Agumon do this at the start of their fight in the first episode.

* [[Deconstruction]]: Remember how ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' ended where everyone in the human world received a Digimon partner? Ever thought how it would really be if everyone including those with dishonest intentions had a powerful creatures to help them commit crimes? Now what was the first half of ''Digimon Savers'' about?

** [[Reconstruction]]: That said, the series explores the relationship between humans and Digimon, and while there are people who will misuse and harm them, ultimately, they end up establishing that as long as there are those like Marcus and the others, Digimon and humans have great potential together.

* [[Designated Girl Fight]]: Averted: there is no showdown between the [[Evolutionary Levels|final form]] of Yoshino's partner, Rosemon, and Nanami's [[Mid-Season Upgrade|enhanced Digimon form]], BioLotusmon.

* [[Determinator]]: Marcus

** Possibly subverted {{spoiler|in the end. Even though Yggdrasil was apparently defeated, he appears to Marcus and Agumon at the end, telling them that he intends to go to sleep and watch over them as they try to make a world for both humans and Digimon. So, even after all that, they couldn't completely kill Yggdrasil.}}

** He practically makes a living out of doing this. Nearly every Digimon he successfully punches is nearly nine times his size and could obliterate a small army single-handedly. If ever someone deserved the title "[[Most Likely to Punch Out Cthulhu]]", its this guy.

* [[Dirty Coward]]: Kurata. His hatred of Digimon actually started out as simple fear. After SaberLeomon attacked the expedition (because of HIM) he decided that all Digimon were dangerous and needed to be eliminated. {{spoiler|1=''Really'' shows during his final fight with the heroes after ShineGreymon digivolves to Burst Mode and turns the tables on him. He goes from a [[Smug Snake]] to crying coward begging for his life.}}

* [[Disney Death]]: Subverted. {{spoiler|Originally, ''Savers'' looked to follow the convention set by ''[[Digimon Adventure|Adventure]]''/''[[Digimon Adventure 02|02]]'' & ''[[Digimon Frontier|Frontier]]'': Digimon don't really ''die''. They just revert back into eggs, from which they will hatch again and restart life anew, with no memory of anything that happened to them previously (except when they ''do'' remember); DATS "killed" Digimon in this way all through the first arc. But then Kurata develops a way to ''permanently'' kill Digimon, and embarks on a mission of genocide...Also had a [[Double Subversion]], when Agumon is killed. He does revert back into an egg, and Marcus is repeatedly warned that when he hatches, he won't remember anything about their life together; it really will be just like he died. However, this ends up being untrue, and Agumon and Marcus are happily reunited. Possibly foreshadowed by Piyomon earlier: apparently, exposure to humans and a Digisoul can break the rules.}}

* [[Distant Finale]]: less controversial than [[Digimon Adventure 02|another]] [[Distant Finale]] in the series.

* [[Double Knockout]]: Marcus and Agumon

* [[Establishing Character Moment]]: Marcus's first scene involves punching a Digimon in the face. This becomes something of a pattern.

* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: A [[Downplayed Trope]]: Merukimon and SaberLeomon don't see eye to eye over how to deal with the humans; they exchange threats, challenges and criticisms during the conversation.

* [[Gratuitous English]]: Gaomon's "Yes, Master!" Changed to "Sir, yes sir!" in Data Squad.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Keenan and Falcomon (of course), {{spoiler|Gotsumon via death induced amnesia, Merukimon, Nanami and Ivan, The Royal Knights and Yggdrasil.}}

* [[Hero with Bad Publicity]]: Marcus, Thomas, and Yoshi are accused of treason after the incident in the Infinite Ice Ridge. They and other DATS members later come under fire once public opinion about the danger posed by Digimon clashes with their opinion of the same. Marcus at one point has to point out to his mom that they are technically criminals.

* [[Homage]]/[[Internal Homage]]

** Agumon. Most blatantly. In addition, GeoGreymon, RizeGreymon, and ShineGreymon are all based off of the original Agumon's evolved forms, and have attacks that invoke similar themes.

** Possibly to ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'': {{spoiler|Koromon hatches...and immediately latches onto Marcus' face. Just like in the original [[Pilot Movie]].}}

** Definitely to the actual series of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', and as the most obvious one: {{spoiler|As the villain of the penultimate arc is finally defeated, the Digital World appears in the sky, leading to the appearance of the final antagonist and the final arc. Complete with a montage across the world of people looking at the Digital World, and with a scene of one of the main characters saving a falling plane. Pretty much the only differences are that this time, the Digital World is actually, physically there in the sky...and that it first appears in episode 38, not 39.}}

* [[Hot Mom]]

* [[Humans Are Special]]: Digimon who have actually partnered with humans are under this impression, as working together does allow them to get much stronger. Yggdrasil and his Royal Knights strongly disagree due to Kurata's actions, {{spoiler|that is at first. Yggdrasil is convinced of this after getting a hole blasted through him using said power and a lowly human literally punches his lights out.}}

* [[Idiot Hero]]: Marcus, sometimes to an infuriating degree.

* [[Improbable Age]]: Marcus becomes part of a "[[The Men in Black]]" organization at age ''fourteen''. Thomas, the same age, joined at some point earlier than that...''after'' graduating university ''and'' becoming a licensed doctor. Anybody who partners with a Digimon (that isn't evil, anyway) is forced to join DATS.

* [[Intelligence Equals Isolation]]: Thomas and Nanami, while not socially shunned, feel cut off from others by their own intellects, but as he becomes [[True Companions]] with Marcus and Yoshino, Thomas manages to overcome this, while Nanami seems to as well off-screen, as she's [[Heel Face Turn|on the good side]] in the [[Grand Finale]].

* [[It Only Works Once]]: GeoGrey Sword. Effective in its first appearance. Every use after that it is quickly broken.

* [[Jerkass]]: The Director of DATS, though he's [[Just Following Orders|Just Doing His Job]], tries to arrest Keenan and give him up to Gotsumon in order to protect the city from the Pteramon and Boarmon attack, and is openly cynical of Commander Sampson's team's competence. He also views the Digimon as too dangerous to reason with, and becomes an obstacle to the trio's attempts to reveal the misunderstanding. {{spoiler|He does a [[Heel Face Turn]] later when Kurata announces his plans for World Domination, and even sends in helicopters in order to take down Belphemon}}.

* [[Jumped At the Call]]: Marcus, once he realizes what he can do in DATS to further his fighting ambitions.

* [[Karma Houdini]]: Popstar Neon, who had been using a Keramon to hack the internet to make it seem like his song was hitting the charts when it wasn't, ends his episode with just a mindwipe with no legal rammifications, despite knowingly committing internet fraud on a global scale. Sure, he won't remember doing it, but that doesn't stop the fact his music career gets a huge jumpstart that he didn't deserve.

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: Digimon conventionally revert back to a Digi-egg upon being defeated or otherwise killed. They can then be reborn, and in rare cases retain memories from their past lives. However, the Gizumon species (and possibly Kurata's foot soldiers) are equipped with weapons that can permanently delete a Digimon's data, either by destroying them without a Digi-egg appearing or by causing their newly-formed Digi-egg to self-destruct.

* [[Killer Robot]] / [[Mecha Mook]]: The Gizumon, Gizumon AT and Gizumon XT have no emotions and are programmed to do what they are told, i.e. to kill Digimon. They all carry a [[Death Ray]], a laser which obliterates the data of any Digimon unfortunate enough to get hit by it.

* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Yggdrasil is Spencer Damon...then it's revealed he's not - Bancholeomon is Spencer Damon, Yggdrasil is just using his body.}}

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Kurata, and to a lesser extent, Thomas and Nanami.

* [[Mechanical Monster]]: The Gizumon XT. Possibly also MirageGaogamon and ShineGreymon on the good side.

* [[Memento MacGuffin]]

* [[Million-to-One Chance]]: Yggdrasil says that the odds to [[Save Both Worlds]] is this. {{spoiler|He was wrong.}}

* [[Mind Rape]]: Happens to all three main characters simultaneously thanks to MetalPhantomon.

* [[Offscreen Moment of Awesome]]: The fight between Spencer Damon and BanchoLeomon. All we see is the two of them performing a [[Punch Parry]] with an ''erupting volcano behind them''...then it cuts to them both in the same position that Marcus and Agumon were in at the end of their fight in episode 1.

* [[Oh Crap]]: {{spoiler|1=Kurata, when ShineGreymon digivolves to Burst Mode. Kurata has an entire string of progressively larger [[Oh Crap|Oh Craps]] from that point on as things get worse and worse for him.}}

* [[Orcus on His Throne]]: Justified with Merukimon, who does this out of necessity. The drawback is that he has a lying messenger.

* [[Palette Swap]]: {{spoiler|Gotsumon digivolves to Meteormon, who is basically the same digimon with a white color scheme. He gets way more powerful though. Yoshino lampshades this in the dub.}}

* [[Parasol Parachute]]: Used by Nanami in episode 31.

* [[Shining Goodness]]: The Burst Mode.

* [[Shirtless Scene]]: Marcus and Thomas several times, usually in their...

* [[Shout-Out]]: The alarm clock in Belphemon Sleep Mode's hand looks just like a [[Tamagotchi]], Digimon's [[Distaff Counterpart]].

* [[Sleep Cute]]: {{spoiler|Lampshaded: Belphemon's Sleep Mode's face is stated to be quite cute, belying the power it hides. When he wakes up... not so cute}}

* [[Spell My Name with an "S"]]: Touma/Tohma/Tooma.

* [[Teen Genius]]: Thomas. He has a medical license, among other things.

* [[That's No Moon]]: Eldradimon the walking Digimon capital city.

* [[This Cannot Be!]]: Yggdrasil says this in response to {{spoiler|having a gigantic hole punched through him by Marcus and Agumon, defying his calculations.}}

* [[Five-Man Band|Three Man Band]]

* [[Untrusting Community]]: The citizens of Eldradimon's sacred city did not trust the heroes at first. This is a symptom of the Digimons' general distrust of humanity. Indeed, even the human community regards Digimon and pro-Digimon supporters as suspicious and potentially dangerous, which results in the heroes getting bad publicity (see above).

* [[Very Special Episode]]: A confectioner falls prey to a Gambling Addiction in episode 11. Subverted when the incident makes the heroes start realizing why digimon are appearing in the first place.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: {{spoiler|1=Kurata has a huge one during the [[Final Battle]] with him and Belphemon. First he starts raving in fury about how the Damon family keeps on standing in his way and belittling him. Then when things turn against him, he goes from a [[Smug Snake]] to begging for his life as he realizes he's no match at all for ShineGreymon Burst Mode and Marcus, who is [[Oh Crap|about to punch his face in.]] Afterwards, he completely snaps and pretty much seals his own fate.}}

* [[Villains Never Lie]]: Kurata manages to convince Thomas into believing that he will cure his sister if Thomas cooperates with him. {{spoiler|Subverted when Thomas reveals that he never believed Kurata in the first place, and was merely pretending to do so in order to undermine Kurata's plans to control Belphemon and turn his sister into another Bio-Hybrid.}}

* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]: A few on both sides, including SaberLeomon, the Director of DATS, and Gotsumon.

* {{spoiler|[[Why Am I Ticking?]]: This is why Thomas was a [[Fake Defector]] -- his sister had been rigged with a secret bomb, disguised as a collar, that Kurata could detonate if Thomas refused to comply. The [[Time Bomb]] had to be taken off during the surgery before Thomas could reveal his true motives. [[Irony|He even succeeds in implanting a small detonator]] in Kurata's remote, preventing him from controlling Belphemon from afar.}}

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