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''Digimon Xros Wars'' (pronounced "Cross Wars") is the sixth anime series in the ''[[Digimon]]'' franchise, coming three years after the end of ''[[Digimon Savers]]''. In many respects, it seems to be throwing back to its predecessors - the animation is reminiscent of the ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' style, [[Chika Sakamoto]] returns to voice lead partner Shoutmon, a Greymon plays a significant role ''again'', and [[Memetic Outfit|the goggles]] are back - and yet in so many ways the series is significantly set apart from earlier ''Digimon'' iterations in concept.

''Xros Wars'' is the story of child prodigy and good Samaritan Taiki Kudo, who one day follows the dying voice of Shoutmon. His X Loader Digivice appears and, along with childhood friend Akari Hinomoto and "eternal rival" Zenjiro Tsurugi, they are sucked into the Digital World. The world-conquering Bagra Empire's army attacks the trio and the healed up Shoutmon joins in the fight. Together with his partners, the silent and loyal Ballistamon and the naive and star-dazzled Starmon and Pickmons, they defeat the army. However, the commander of the army MadLeomon absorbs the data of his subordinates and endangers Shoutmon and Ballistamon. When Taiki comes to the rescue him, Shoutmon and Ballistamon DigiXros together and put down MadLeomon, whose superior forces him and his remaining troops to retreat.

With the lone wolf Dorulumon and his young charge Cutemon later joining them, "Xros Heart" is set for victory. Also opposing them as they fight the Bagra Empire is team "Blue Flare," consisting of the calculating Kiriha Aonuma and his partners Greymon and MailBirdramon. Filling the motivationally ambiguous slot is team "Twilight," consisting of the mysterious Nene Amano and her allies Monitamon, Sparrowmon, and DarkKnightmon.

Xros Heart proved its worth and was successful in its quest, collecting all the Code Crowns and causing the Zones to reunite. However, Bagramon intervened and cast Taiki, Akari, Zenjiro and Shoutmon back to the real world, conquering the Digital World while they were gone and transforming it into a twisted empire of his designs. When Taiki and Shoutmon returned to the Digital World at the beginning of the second half of the series (''[[Digimon Xros Wars the Evil Death Generals And The Seven Kingdoms]]''), they found themselves tasked with taking on this rearranged digital empire and defeating the Seven Death Generals, its brutal governors. Kiriha and Nene allied with Taiki in his campaign, and their combined strength, tactical prowess and bonds of friendship proved to be more than a match for Bagramon's forces. Despite the show not being a success in its airing in Japan <ref> it had the lowest ratings of all the seasons</ref>, it had good [[Merchandise-Driven|toy sales]] so the series was green lighted for a third arc <ref> though many mistakenly believe it to be its own season and a sequel, according to [[Word of God|Toei and the staff involved]] it isn't</ref> which is called ''[[Digimon Xros Wars the Young Hunters Leaping Through Time]]''. Making this season the longest anime installment of the [[Digimon]] franchise.

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** "Ball and Chain KICK!"

* [[Trailers Always Spoil|Catalogs and Magazines Always Spoil]]: The merchandising for the show as well as the various Jump magazines and fliers showing future Digimon appearances and DigiXros combination. Additionally, the promotions for ''[[Digimon Xros Wars the Young Hunters Leaping Through Time]]'' made it abundantly clear that {{spoiler|Shoutmon wasn't permanently killed off in episode 53}}.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "I just can't turn my back on him/her!" (In Japanese, ''hottokenai!'') Initially the catch phrase of [[Chronic Hero Syndrome|Taiki]], it eventually becomes the collective catch phrase of [[Badass Army|Xros Heart]].

* [[Catchphrase Interruptus]]: Knightmon interrupts Shoutmon's "you want to know my name" routine in episode 10. (He gets the [[Catch Phrase]] out, but he doesn't get to say his name.)

* [[Channel Hop]]: From Fuji TV, longtime home of the ''Digimon'' franchise, to TV Asahi. Possibly justified because of [[Dragon Ball Kai|what was occupying the traditional timeslot.]]

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* [[Determinator]]: Sparrowmon in episode 17.

** All of Xros Heart in episode 29. {{spoiler|They've just been hit by Tactimon's ultimate attack, and are held to the ground by the continuous pressure the attack causes. Then they just force themselves up with pure willpower, each delivering their own part of a collective [[In the Name of the Moon]] speech before completely breaking through the attack.}}

* [[Dinosaurs Are Dragons]]: As is typical with this franchise, Greymon.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: MailBirdramon's DigiXros with Golemon replaces his tail with a [[Double Entendre|long, rock hard one with Golemon's head at the end of it.]]

** Cyber Launcher. It looks like MetalGreymon is firing something from his giant, metal... cannon-thing... on his groin!

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* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]: After [[Digimon Savers|Masaru]] declined them, Taiki resumes [[Memetic Outfit|their traditional use]].

* [[Grand Finale]]: Boy, is it ever.

* [[Gratuitous English]]: Most of the Digimon's attacks, as usual. Taiki often says, "Thank you," and Starmon calls all the guys "brother."

** [[Crowning Music of Awesome|GET BACK GOOD WORLD XROS HEART]]<ref>From "Evolution & DigiXros Ver.Taiki"; it's much more Engrishy than the standard ''Digimon'' lyric fare, which normally make sense. Doesn't make it any less awesome, though, and it's pretty hard to tell it's English without looking up the lyrics.</ref>

* [[Green Lantern Ring]]: The Xros Loaders can merge Digimon into any tool or weapon necessary - hammers, axes, swords, shields, slingshots, helicopters, etc.

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* [[Humiliation Conga]]: This happens to DeathMeramon in the Magma Zone arc; he goes from being a [[Badass]] that trounches Shoutmon X2, to being beaten by Shoutmon X3, Shoutmon X2 (who he'd defeated before), and is then finally taken out by ''Shoutmon alone'' after being wittled down by his previous defeats. Episode 10-11 are dedicated to this on IceDevimon.

* [["I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight]]: Taiki punches Kiriha to snap him out of DarkKnightmon's control.

** Shoutmon is great at these: He intentionally had himself crossed with NeoVamdemon to talk to the remnants of MetalGreymon, who he had absorbed. He does it again later with Ballistamon to snap him out of his short stint as [[Dark Volumon]].

* [[Idiosyncratic Episode Naming]]: Early titles contain a noun phrase, comma and a verb (phrase). "Shoutmon, Roar!"

* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: Shoutmon fights using a microphone as a bludgeon.

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** Taken to [[Serial Escalation|ridiculous levels]] is G<ref>reatest</ref>Cutemon in which he obliterates an entire legion of Gravimon's army.

* [[Kraken and Leviathan]]: Episode 4 has a more mundane example in the form of Octomon. {{spoiler|Then episode 5 has Taiki summon Leviamon, which is a more straight example of this trope.}}

* [[Killed Off for Real]]: {{spoiler|Deckerdramon and Beelzebumon (nope, he didn't just turn into something else the second time). However, the Code Crown revived them in the finale along with Shoutmon who got killed in the penultimate episode.}}

* [[Laser Sword]]: The Rare Star Sword, formed when it includes the red Pickmon.

* [[Leitmotif]]: DigiMelodies

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** {{spoiler|1=The Sparrowmon component of Shoutmon X5 is a shield... with GUNS!}}

* [[Master of Disguise]]: Nene has a number of digimon disguises in the early portions of the Death Generals arc.

* [[Meaningful Name]]: Zenjiro Tsurugi<ref>Blade/Sword</ref>; he happens to practice Kendo. And what's the biggest way he's helped Xros Heart so far? Attacking Digimon with swords.

* [[Mecha Expansion Pack]]: Some Digimon serve this purpose when DigiXrossed instead of an outright composite merger, such as [[Drop the Hammer|Golemon for MailBirdramon]], [[Super Not-Drowning Skills|ChibiKamemon for Shoutmon X2]], [[Cool Sword|Knightmon]] [[Caped Mecha|and the]] [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me|PawnChessmon for]] [[Knight in Shining Armor|Shoutmon X4]], and [[Sword Beam|Wisemon for both Mervamon and Knightmon]].

* [[Mega Neko]]: MadLeomon; a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|giant,]] ''[[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|undead]]'' [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|neko.]]

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* [[Power Trio]]: Taiki (ego), Akari (superego), Zenjiro (id). {{spoiler|Later Nene (ego), Taiki (superego), Kiriha (id).}}

* [[Police State]]: The Heaven Zone under SlashAngemon.

* [[Punctuated ~~for~~ Emphasis]]: [[Theme Music Power-Up|GET! BACK!]] '''[[Hot-Blooded|GOOD! WORLD!]]''' '''''[[Gratuitous English|XROS! HEART!]]'''''

* [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!]]: [[Theme Music Power-Up|GET! BACK!]] '''[[Hot-Blooded|GOOD! WORLD!]]''' '''''[[Gratuitous English|XROS! HEART!]]'''''

* [[Purely Aesthetic Gender]]: Averted once again since ''[[Digimon Tamers|Tamers]]''' famous proclamation about the relevance of gender. Gender-specific pronouns, Digimon couples, Digimon flirting with each other, and Digimon babies (not Baby-level Digimon) -- yes, gender exists this time.

* [[Put on a Bus]]: Except for Shoutmon, Dorulumon, Ballistamon, and the Starmons, all the Digimon including the Bagra Generals have taken bus shifts -- despite logic or dialogue that would make you think they'd be around more often. (For example, didn't Beelzebumon tell Taiki he'd always be somewhere nearby?)

** He shows up again in #26, so he's still shifting in whenever the plot calls for x4B or x5B. Nene and Sparrowmon are pretty much commuting to work at this point, though they show up in episodes 27 and 28 as well as important to the episode's plot.

** As of episode 30, this was Akari and Zenjiro's fate until the end.

** Everyone except Taiki, Yuu, Damemon, Shoutmon, and the core members of Xros Heart were put on one for ''Young Hunters''. [[The Bus Came Back]] briefly for Akari, Zenjiro and Nene early on, but it's not permanent.

* [[Reincarnation]]: This is what happened to {{spoiler|Baalmon so he could become Beelzebumon.}}

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** Any Digimon related to Lions die... as per usual. [[Mad Leomon]] is killed off in Ep 3 [Later revived as a Normal Leomon, who actually does not die, as he can be seen for a moment in the final episode]. Apollomon, another anthropomorphic lion, dies TWICE, both times viva Heroic Sacrifice, in true Leomon fashion.

* [[Scaled Up]]: MadLeomon tried this by merging with Orochimon in episode 2.

* [[Screaming Warrior]]: Shoutmon does this, though it's justified because his name is ''Shout''mon.

* [[Sea Monster]]: As you might expect, the Island Zone arc is filled with these, both evil and benign.

* [[Sealed Good in a Can]]: Turns out that the Digimemories are actually a group of heroic Digimon who tried and failed to stop the Digital World from breaking up and were sealed in them as a result. Omegamon explains this from within his own Digimemory.

* [[Serial Escalation]]: How much [[Hot-Blooded|fiery passion]] can [[The Hero|Shoutmon]] summon? What [[Batman Gambit|cunning scheme]] will [[The Strategist|Taiki]] employ? How many [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to previous ''Digimon'' series, [[Super Robot Genre]] shows, and other works will be made? How many Digimon can be combined into one [[Combining Mecha|DigiXros]]?

* [[Shinigami]]: What the other generals call Baalmon.

* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Digimon Xros Wars/Shout Out|Just check it out!]]

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* [[Who's on First?]]: Toei played with English pun on Yuu's name in episode 49. In the flashback to when he met Damemon, Damemon asks for his name using the word "you": ''YOU no namae wa?'' So when Yuu answers, it takes a moment for Damemon to get it. ''Eh, YOU no namae wa Yuu? OH AMAZING!'' The funny thing is the dubbers will have to figure a way around this anyway.

* [[Wild Card]]: Kiriha looks to be in this position.

* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Taiki, Kiriha, Nene, and Yuu are more mature than most adults.

* [[Wolverine Publicity]]: Beelzebumon was hyped to space and back -- a card set named for him ("Beelzebumon Advent Compilation"), an action figure of him, a prominent place on the official poster, two episodes with his name in the titles, and numerous magazine appearances. Yet, he was a minor character. After his "advent" episode, he was in a few episodes in a row then started [[Commuting on a Bus]], showing up randomly (sometimes as a [[Deus Ex Machina]]) before {{spoiler|getting killed off in episode 48}}.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: Shoutmon X4 gets beaten up a lot. In the last chunk of the first saga, this always meant it was time for [[X 4 B]] or X5 to shine. In the Death Generals saga, this meant OmegaShoutmon or his crossed forms had to take over.

* [[Xanatos Gambit]]: {{spoiler|Wether the Death Generals won or lost didn't matter to Bargamon, he'd still harvest all the negative energy he needed, either from them succeeding or them dying.}}

* [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: "Cross" gets spelled with an X in the title and in most uses throughout the series; eg DigiXros, Xros Loader. Some translations and fansubs simply call internal instances, for example, "Digi X" and "X Loader".

* [[You Are Not Alone]]: Provided by {{spoiler|Zenjiro and Akari}} when {{spoiler|Taiki}} is {{spoiler|1=lost and distraught over Shoutmon's demise at the hands of DarknessBagramon.}}

* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]]: In spite of the hero's efforts, {{spoiler|Bagramon goes ahead and initiates D5 anyway.}}

* [[Victor Gains Loser's Powers]]: Most of the Bagra commanders are able to do this.

* [[Year Inside, Hour Outside]]: Time flows faster in the digital world than it does in the human word, though not quite at the same ratio as in [[Digimon Adventure]].

* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]:

** Sorry Dorulumon, but Cutemon's parents are in another Zone! {{spoiler|It gets resolved in episode 28}}.

** {{spoiler|1=NeoVamdemon attempts to pull the same trick Vamdemon pulled in ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]].'' Beelzebumon had other ideas.}}