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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
At this time there is no official word on whether a dubbed version is forthcoming, but [[Toei Animation]] has filed a trademark for "''Digimon Fusion Battles''" with the US Patent and Trademark Office, and there are reports that demographic tests of the show have been conducted, so it's possible. Crunchy Roll however has started hosting this series, starting with five episodes with three episodes added each week. You can watch them [http://www.crunchyroll.com/digimon-xros-wars-the-young-hunters-who-leapt-through-time here].
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=== ''[[Digimon Xros Wars (Anime)|Digimon Xros Wars]]'' contains examples of: ===
* [[
* [[A Death in The Limelight]]: {{spoiler|Baalmon/Beelzebumon (twice) and Deckerdramon.}}
** {{spoiler|Apollomon and Olegmon in episode 51 as well.}}
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* [[Anyone Can Die]]: The Death Generals arc is made of this. If you are a Digimon and not one of the central partner Digimon, your chances of living through the whole show are rather slim.
* [[Audible Gleam]]: Makes use of this especially when Shoutmon X7 appears.
* [[Autobots Rock Out]]: {{spoiler|the [[Theme Music Power
* [[Back From the Dead]]: {{spoiler|1=MadLeomon who returned as a regular Leomon, Neptunemon, and AncientVolcanomon came back from the dead when the last Code Crown was found in episode 29.}}
** The {{spoiler|Death Generals}} seem to get this in episode 50, [[Empty Shell|but]]...
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** [[Joke Character]] Bastemon does one offscreen to ChuuChuumon in episode 53.
{{quote| '''Bastemon''': When I see that Digimon, I somehow feel... very cruel!}}
** A particularly fun one is Taiki's first battle upon returning to the Digital World in Dragon Land, quite possibly ''the'' best fight scene the franchise has ever seen. Seeing OmegaShoutmon [[Foe
* [[Dancing Theme]]: The second opening has Cutemon and Dondokomon dancing through the whole thing.
* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Baalmon. My god. {{spoiler|Yeah, having to kill all your brainwashed allies and your mentor Angemon in cold blood will definitely haunt you for life.}}
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** 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!
** [http://i.imgur.com/d9X26.jpg Shoutmon rape!]
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* [[The Empire]]: The Bagra Empire, of course.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: {{spoiler|1=Lilithmon is prepared to cut off Akari's hand to get the Code Crown in episode 11. IceDevimon shudders at that idea.}}
* [[
* [[
* [[
** Averted earlier in the series with '''Bear'''mon.
** Then played straight again with the Bagra Army's employment of Grizzmon, the evolved form of Bearmon, as soldiers.
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** Yuu is a young prodigy with death issues who was granted a black digivice by an evil digimon, who allowed him access to the digital world and manipulated him under the premise that the entire world is a game. He became excessively cruel because he thought that the digimon weren't real, and only realized the truth after physically tussling with the heroes and seeing his [[Morality Pet]] die. [[Digimon Adventure 02|Ken Ichijouji]] would like to have a word with him.
* [[Exty Years From Now]]: The series (or at least the manga) takes place in the year 20XX.
* [[Five
** [[Big Bad]]: Bagramon
** [[Evil Genius]]: Tactimon
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** [[The Brute]]: Blastmon
** [[Psycho for Hire]]: Baalmon
* [[Five
** [[The Hero]]: Shoutmon
** [[The Big Guy]]: Ballistamon
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** Kiriha actually has the fairly sizable infantry of the Blue Flare Army stored in his X-Loader, but he seems to rely almost exclusively on Mailbirdramon and Greymon's crossed form, with the occasional sighting of Deckerdramon and Cyberdramon when MetalGreymon isn't available.
* [[Floating Continent]]: All zones were once part of a whole Digiworld, but now exist as islands floating in a digital plane.
* [[Full
* [[Funny Background Event]]: Since DigiMelody segments, there have been various background events that can be missed if you don't notice it fast enough. For instance, episode 25 features an oni Zenjirou (as it was aired during a celebration in Japan).
* [[Fusion Dance]]: Similar to ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'', this series's Children or generals have the ability to "DigiXros" Digimon (merge them) using the new Digivice, the Xros Loader. Digimon from the Bagra Army do the same, except that the fusion is forced and the non-main components are destroyed and absorbed.
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** {{spoiler|Apollomon also does this to send Taiki and gang and Olegmon out of Prison Land.}}
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Baalmon, Nene and Kiriha.}}
* [[Highly
* [[Hoist By His Own Petard]]:
** {{spoiler|Neptunemon is done in by his own spear.}}
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* [[Humble Pie]]: Poor Kiriha.
* [[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!"
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* [[Ineffectual Loner]]: For the first time in the entire ''Digimon'' run... averted. Yep, what fans usually nickname the "lone wolf" is absent this time (Zenjiro doesn't even come ''close'' this series). Kiriha would be closest, but he's a villain, and nobody would call him a ''loner'' per se. Dorulumon may have been similar to this at the beginning, but even then he was a [[Papa Wolf]] to Cutemon, and has since become used to working with the rest of Xros Heart.
** It's played a little straighter in the Death General Arc with Kiriha, who is definitely no longer a villain.
* [[Internal Homage]]/[[Mythology Gag]]: A kind of cross-series [[Laser
** Pinocchimon gave Taiki the MetalGarurumon DigiMemory after being taught trust and friendship. In ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', MetalGarurumon killed Pinocchimon, who in his last words still couldn't comprehend the idea of trust and friendship.
** In the very first episode, some of the Digimon in Taiki's dream sequence are [[Digimon Adventure|Agumon]], [[Digimon Adventure 02|V-mon]], [[Digimon Tamers|Guilmon]], and [[Digimon Frontier|Agnimon]].
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* [[Light Is Not Good]]: The Heaven Zone, despite the angelic trappings, is run by a police force that's not afraid to execute people in front of large crowds. Justified that {{spoiler|they need to be extremely artistic and good to keep the Dark Temple locked, and it is explained that the Zone became tyrannical due to the influence of the small amount of darkness that seeped out.}}
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: One of the largest casts of any ''Digimon'' iteration, if heavily prone to [[Out of Focus]].
* [[Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me]]: Shoutmon X4K
** {{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
* [[Mega Neko]]: MadLeomon; a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|giant,]] ''[[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|undead]]'' [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|neko.]]
* [[Men Don't Cry]]: Cutemon insists that he won't cry in episode 28, because boys don't do that.
* [[Mid
** [[Bling Bling Bang]]
* [[Mind Control Eyes]]:
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** Possibly used when Shoutmon X4 fights [[Gran Locomon]]: He can suddenly fly, -backwards-, as fast as a speeding train.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Cutemon's father's top hat.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|Yeah, let's get the guy who's literally named after the Judeo-Christian Satan elected as president of a key area! What could possibly go wrong? Did we mention he was the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Digimon Frontier]]''? After they elect him leader, Lucemon immediately reveals his true, evil form and starts doing destructive, evil things that take two more episodes to sort out.}}
* [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot]]: the LadyDevimons in Vampire Land are partly undead, who are apparently vampires too, and demons!
* [[No Conservation of Mass]]: [[Averted Trope|Averted]] in the [[Final Battle]]. {{spoiler|1=After the appearance of Shoutmon X7 Superior Mode, DarknessBagramon rips the surrounding material apart and consumes it to grow to a similar size.}} Doesn't help him, but points for the thought.
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* [[Ojou]]: Nene certainly acts like one.
* [[Omake]]: A Monitamon tells us about one of the series' Digimon at the end of each episode (later replaced by a Digimelody following the info of each mon).
* [[One
* [[On the Next Episode of Catchphrase]]: "You can't turn your back on the next episode either!"
* [[Only Barely Renewed]]: Apparently Xros Wars during its initial airing ''[[Digimon Xros Wars (Anime)|Digimon Xros Wars]]'' started off with good ratings, but as the season tapered on its ratings began to fall, giving this season some of the lowest ratings in the history of this franchise, however it had [[Merchandise
* [[Original Flavor]]: The art style is at least more faithful to ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'' and ''[[Digimon Adventure 02]]'' than ''[[Digimon Tamers]]'', ''[[Digimon Frontier]]'', and certainly ''[[Digimon Savers]]''. Additionally, despite its significantly different premise, it was intended to be generally evocative of ''Adventure'' in numerous aspects, most notably Agumon's seiyu [[Chika Sakamoto]] returning to voice Shoutmon, the new lead Digimon. And that's to say nothing about how similar Taichi and Taiki are.
* [[Orochi]]: ...mon, again.
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* [[Our Zombies Are Different|Our Zombies Are Raremon]]
* [[Out of Focus]]: Aside X7's component digimon, members of X Heart and Blue Flare rarely get any spotlight episodes after their introductory arcs. The less combat-capable members, such as Jijimon and Chibikamemon, barely appear at all.
* [[Paper
* [[Pinocchio Nose]]: Pinocchimon, [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|obviously]].
* [[Plot Coupon]]: The pieces of the Code Crown.
* [[Poor
* [[The Power of Love]]: Deckerdramon joins Kiriha's team because he has the strongest love out of all the kids there.
* [[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
* [[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?)
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* [[Shout Out]]: [[Digimon Xros Wars (Anime)/Shout Out|Just check it out!]]
* [[Shoo Out the Clowns]]: {{spoiler|Only Taiki and Shoutmon are able to go back to the Digital World.}}
* [[Shut UP, Hannibal]]: In episode 47, SkullKnightmon taunts Nene about how much she helped him and how she fell completely for his plans, stating that not even learning how to DigiXros Shoutmon X5 would be enough to stop him. How does she respond? {{spoiler|1=By stating that it's ''not'' X5 he just defeated, but X4, leading to Sparrowmon swooping down, cold-clocking SkullKnightmon, and then reforming X5 to hand SkullKnightmon some [[Megaton Punch|well deserved payback.]]}}
* [[Silly Love Songs]]: The music in the ''LOVE-LOVE DANCE'', much to the embarrassment of Beelzebumon, Dorulumon, Cutemon, Revolmon, and a lone PawnChessmon.
{{quote| '''Dorulumon''': How mortifying!}}
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** {{spoiler|Bagramon - even in his final form - against Shoutmon X7 Superior Mode.}}
* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: Zenjiro acts like this to Taiki in the first episode.
* [[Somebody
** Though this is an aversion; Taiki will help someone when they need it, but only if it's something they can't do alone. He didn't want to help Shoutmon because he didn't want to endanger his other two friends, and thought Shoutmon was simply being selfish at first.
* [[Something Else Also Rises]]: When Pinocchimon's [[Pinocchio Nose]] starts growing, Akari initially thinks it's because he likes her...
* [[Spell My Name With an "S"]]: Dorurumon or Dorulumon? Considering that his name hails from ''doriru'' and ''garuru''<ref>former is the Japanese for drill while the latter is the Japanese onomatopoeia for the sound of howling</ref>, it's just like [[Kamen Rider Kiva|Garuru/Garulu]] again!
** For the record, the Monitamon uses "Dorulumon"...
** Initially, there was confusion as to whether the antagonist army was named "Bagura", "Bagra", "Vagra", or even "Bugra". "Bagra" won out in the end.
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* [[Strange Minds Think Alike]]: Flowerpowermon!
* [[Straight Man|Straight Mon]]: You can see which Digimon aren't into hilariously embarrassing scenes in the Love Love Dance sequence - notably Revolmon, Beelzebumon and Dorulumon.
** Dorulumon especially. In episode 23 he is the only one who didn't participate in telling jokes, pretty much going "[[Screw This, I'm Outta Here|screw this, I'm not telling a joke!]]" and drilling the ground to hide. Note that smiling and laughing isn't above him, he just doesn't want to participate in rather embarrassing situations.
* [[Summon Magic]]: The DigiMemories are basically this. The evolution level of the Digimon seems to reflect the strength of the summon.
* [[Take Over the World]]: Played with in that this is the goal of the ''protagonists'' in addition to that of the Bagra Empire.
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** {{spoiler|Neptunemon attempts this as well, by trying to drown Taiki, Zenjiro, and Shoutmon X4.}}
* [[A Taste of Power]]: The Leviamon DigiMemory.
* [[Theme Music Power
* [[This Is a Drill]]: Dorulumon, of course, and Shoutmon X4, who attacks with the drill he gets from Dorulumon. Strangely enough, Dorulu Cannon doesn't have drill attacks.
* [[Three Amigos]]
** [[Three Plus Two]]: Taiki, Akari, and Zenjiro make up the trio; while it initially seems that Kiriha and Nene will make up the two - [[Heel Face Turn|and they do]] - by the time Kiriha joins, Akari and Zenjiro have permanently returned to the real world, so they're not the three anymore.
* [[Throwing Your Sword Always Works]]: Zenjiro kills a buried Drimogemon [[One
* [[Tickle Torture]]: Poor Shoutmon...
* [[Time Skip]]: Since time flows faster in the Digital World this happens to all the characters left behind there during Taiki's return to the real world.
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** In the next arc upon Taiki's return to the Digital World, the Zones have united and have become lands.
*** [[Green Hill Zone]]: Dragon Land
*** [[Big
*** [[The Lost Woods]]: Honey Land
*** [[Tomorrowland]]: Cyber Land
*** [[Gang Plank Galleon]]: Gold Land
*** [[Bleak Level]]: Canyon Land
*** [[
*** [[Planet Heck]]: Hell's Field
*** [[Mental World]]: Prison Land
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* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Early in the series, Kiriha wanted Taiki to join as his subordinate and made this proposal fairly frequently. Nene later proposed this to Kiriha and forced him into it. When all three were finally working as a team, quite a few of the Death Generals made this offer.
* [[We Have Reserves]]: The Bagra Empire is willing to sacrifice its less powerful soldiers in order to power up the commanders. Or just destroy them to make a battle end faster.
* [[Well
* [[Wham Episode]]: Episode 13. {{spoiler|Baalmon used to be a holy warrior who was forced to murder his brainwashed comrades by Lilithmon. And then she critically wounds him after he finds out it was her}}. Wham indeed.
** Episode 29. {{spoiler|1=Some events were spoiled, like the trio and Shoutmon being thrust into the Real World, but what caught many people off guard was DarkKnightmon called Bagramon BROTHER!}}
** Episode 43. {{spoiler|Kiriha's past is revealed, at first focusing on how strict his father was...until we see Kiriha over his father's deathbed. The Wham truly begins when Kiriha says "Mother is already in Heaven", moments before his father passes as well. It's heavily implied that Kiriha was subsequently orphaned and left homeless. Then we cut to the present and, well...Poor Deckerdramon...}}
* [[Whole
** The Vampire Land arc is a reference to the Vamdemon arc in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', complete with an [[Expy]] of the man himself, NeoVamdemon.
* [[
* [[Wild Card]]: Kiriha looks to be in this position.
* [[Wise Beyond Their Years]]: Taiki, Kiriha, Nene, and Yuu are more mature than most adults.
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* [[You Can't Thwart Stage One]]: In spite of the hero's efforts, {{spoiler|Bagramon goes ahead and initiates D5 anyway.}}
* [[Victor Gains Losers 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}}.
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