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Set in a world where the barrier between the Digital World and Human World is starting to fall apart, the ''Digital Accident Tactics Squad'', or ''D.A.T.S.'', protects Tokyo from emergent Digimon while using Digimon partners themselves. During the escape of a lone Agumon, 14-year-old street fighter [[Idiot Hero|Marcus Daimon]] gets involved with the organization. He is partnered with fellow agents [[The Chick|Yoshi Fujieda]] and [[The Lancer|Thomas H. Norstein]], and they are tasked with subduing Digimon emerged into the real world and preventing the havoc they would cause. Soon, however, things gradually begin to become far more complicated than any of them expected, as the Digital World shows signs of fighting back against mankind.

** Heck, it is this to pretty much every other series save arguably ''Tamers''.

* [[Deadly Upgrade]]: ShineGreymon Ruin Mode

* [[Death Glare]]: {{spoiler|1=ShineGreymon burst one gives one to Kurata after taking control of the battle with an epic [[Unflinching Walk]] for added intimidation. Emphasis on ''death'', as his expression is practically screaming "I'm going to kill you".}}

* [[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?

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: Merukimon musters up his [[Heroic Second Wind]] in order to severely damage and weaken the Gizumon XT prototype with one punch, despite being mortally wounded and bound to die in the process.

* [[Heroic Resolve]]: The DNA Charge translates this into Digimon strength, so when Marcus, Thomas, Yoshi and Keenan master it, it enables Agumon, Gaomon, Lalamon and Falcomon to digivolve to the Mega level. An even more powerful and controlled version manifests as the Burst Mode, which is harder to achieve ([[Deadly Upgrade|as Marcus found out to his horror]]) but results in Digimon far more powerful than even the Mega level.

* [[Hoist By His Own Pertard]]: Remember those devices that allowed Kurata to handily jump between the worlds? Yeah apparently abusing them causes damage to their locations,so he sucks a few up while merged with Belphemon and continues to destroy the space continuity,and then when he's defeated,he blows up the last thing stopping the Digital World from colliding into Earth,but dies with it.

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

** To ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'': Marcus hides Agumon in a box, much like Takato did with Guilmon. Made [[Woolseyism|even funnier in the dub]], as Agumon and Takato are both voiced by [[Brian Beacock]].

*** Also to ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', in the Japanese original, the voice actor of Dukemon is the exact same to the one from ''Tamers''.

** 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 true villain 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.}}

* [[Not-So-Harmless Villain]]: Gotsumon, arguably but he did have a good showing in Frontier too. Vilemon definitely, they were never even close to effective before.

* [[Oblivious Adoption]]: Keenan. Somehow he didn't notice he lacked the superpowers his adoptive parents and everyone else around him had.

* [[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.}}

* [[Open-Minded Parent]]: Sayuri. She doesn't even mind aiding and abetting the Data Squad when they are classed as criminals by the public.

* [[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.

* [[Parental Abandonment]]

* [[The Power of Friendship]]: An integral part of the [[Empathic Weapon]] nature of Digimon is that they fight at their strongest when the bonds between Digimon and human partners are strongest. It is also the inspiration for fighting the biggest battles, when the team must make a collaborative effort.

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: The Royal Knights operate according to a strict honour code.

* [[Puppy Love]]: Keenan and Kristy

* [[The Quiet One]]: Kamemon and both the PawnChessmon.

* [[Reasonable Authority Figure]]: Kurata pretends to be this during his first appearances, 'saving' the trio from SaberLeomon, opening the digital gates during the Digimon invasion, and persuading the director of DATS to begin negotiations with the Digimon leader Merukimon. But even here there are warning signs, as Commander Sampson and Kudamon point out later in the episodes 23 and 26.

* [[Recap Episode]]: Two, each right as one [[Story Arc]] ends and another begins.

* [[Robotic Reveal]]: {{spoiler|King Drasil's final form is a computer program that handles human-to-Digimon interactions. It then concludes that they cannot coexist and tries to start all over again, yelling [[Does Not Compute]] as it does so.}}

* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: This time, it's {{spoiler|1=SaberLeomon AND BanchoLeomon.}} Yes, you're reading it right, they did it {{spoiler|twice.}} Merukimon, Baronmon, Eldradimon and even ShineGreymon also become victims of this trope, the first three to the data-deleting Gizumon species, and the last one to the corrupted Burst Mode.

* [[Sequel Gap]]: The series followed the 3 year gap caused by the poor performance of Digimon Frontier. It's own poor performance resulted in another 3 year gap for the franchise.

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

* [[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}}

** For the English dub, several Digimon names were improperly translated, like LoadKnightmon, BioSupinomon, BioRotosmon, and ElDradimon. Jeff Nimoy stated that Toei themselves asked for these names to be used, even if the Digimon already had dub names.

* [[Squee]]: The [[Bridge Bunnies]] for Thomas, including in the episode title where he's introduced.

* [[Stock Footage]]: The digivolutions and digivice charge, as well as several flashbacks used as filler.

* [[Straw Vulcan]]: Thomas is [[The Strategist]], Marcus is the [[Leeroy Jenkins]]. 'Raw power' versus 'strategies' is explicitly stated by Marcus to be the dichotomy they represent. Marcus keeps winning, often by what looked like a plan but which almost always relied on luck (hence [[Idiot Hero]]). This is one of the reasons Thomas does not take to Marcus at first, and it is still visibly affecting him thirty episodes later.

** {{spoiler|Yggdrasil has one after the Royal Knights turn on him, pretty much going insane and deciding to let both worlds be destroyed and start over. Agumon blasting a hole through his [[One-Winged Angel]] form and Marcus punching his lights out convinced him he was wrong and snapped him out of it.}}

* [[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.}}