Digimon Savers: Difference between revisions

* [[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.

* [[Determinator]]: Marcus

** Possibly subverted {{spoiler|in the end. Even though Drasil 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 Drasil.}}

** 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.

** Kurata is hinted as having one himself, though it's much less sympathetic seeing as it stems from him being [[The Sociopath|a sociopath]]. In addition to his fear of Digimon, he deeply resented Marcus's father, who he was originally assistant to, and believed Suguru/Spencer humiliated and slighted him during their time in the Digital World.

* [[Freudian Trio]]/[[Power Trio]]: Marcus as [[The McCoy|Id]], Thomas as [[The Spock|Superego]], Yoshi as [[The Kirk|Ego]].

* [[Good Old Fisticuffs]]: Marcus. Yes, he fights super-powered monsters on a regular basis with his ''bare hands''.

* [[Government Agency of Fiction]]: DATS

* [[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.

* [[Limited Wardrobe]]: Averted with at least Marcus, who ends up sporting three totally different outfits in the series, each of which is adapted for his stock footage Digisoul sequences. Yoshi and Thomas get the same treatment as well (Thomas even gets an 4th alternate Digisoul in one episode). Ikuto, on the other hand, not so much.

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

* [[The Men in Black]]

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

* [[Memento MacGuffin]]

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

* [[Missing Mom]]: Thomas', revealed to have been hit by a truck when he was young.

* [[Mysterious Parent]]

* [[Names to Know In Anime]]: [[Masako Nozawa]], voice of Dukemon

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

* [[Oddly Named Sequel]]: The first English dub season to use this trope.

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

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

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

* [[The Cavalry]]: Keenan, Falcomon, and the Ninjamon appear to defend Eldradimon from the Gizumon in episode 30. The Royal Knights come to help the heroes in the final battle against Yggdrasil.

* [[The Other Darrin]]: One or two cases in the English dub of the video game "Digimon World Data Squad" due to being done before the TV series. (There's also a few other differences, such as the use of "Digisoul" like the Japanese version instead of "DNA".)

** [[The Hero]]/[[The Big Guy]]: Marcus

** [[The Lancer]]/[[The Smart Guy]]: Thomas

* [[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 Daimon 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.}}

* [[Villain With Good Publicity]]: When Kurata is appointed by the government to protect the city from the invading monsters.

* {{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.}}

* [[World Tree]]: Yggdrasil stays in one.