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Alternate Character Interpretation: Due to the characterization not being explicit (in order to give a more realistic feel), there are wild differences between interpretation among the fans. For example, in the ending scene Jenrya (Henry) nods to his dad to tell him that he forgave him for having the Digimon partners forcibly separated from the Tamers, while many fans thought he had done exactly the opposite.
This is largely due to the dub, which set up the scene so that Henry's dad was saying that things would get better eventually, and Henry shaking his head at the notion (as if his dad was wrong). By contrast, in the Japanese version, Jenrya's (Henry's) dad is silent and looking down in shame, and then Jenrya shakes his head (as if in forgiveness).
Arc Fatigue: The whole "Jeri is kidnapped and used as a Barrier Maiden by the D-Reaper and everyone fails to save her... again... and again..." plot takes so long to be resolved, some fans got pretty bored of it.
Broken Base: Fans of Adventure were not too pleased about Tamers (or the Digimon anime franchise as a whole) taking place in a different universe, with the events of Digimon Adventure being rendered as an in-universe television show in the dub of Digimon Tamers.
While a minor example compared to others, IceDevimon from episode 10 certainly counts. Not content to merely load their data, he keeps the frozen remains of the Digimon he killed as a kind of trophy gallery. Notably, Rika, who to this point had been rather ruthless regarding Digimon, is horrified. The pedophilic rapist undertones he has towards Rika don't help either.
The D-Reaper from the Digital World was really just performing its' functionbut in a destructive way. The split D-Reaper that emerges in the real world, however, including J-Reaper and all the agents that follow it, is cold, calculating and intelligent, using Jeri's feelings to come to the conclusion that all humanity is worthless and must be purged. And it attempts to do so in insane and sadistic ways like Mind Rape and Body Horror. It cares nothing for all life, not even it's own artificial existence, making it truly heartless.
Beelzemon when he killed Leomon, with it being literally the second time in the anime franchise that Leomon died.
Fan Dumb: Due to their complexity, Takato, Ruki/Rika, Jenrya/Henry,Juri/Jeri, and Canon ImmigrantRyo are perhaps the most misunderstood and misinterpreted characters in the franchise. Ryo especially, since he has a ton of baggage from his video game series that Western fans just do not have any access to.
Fanon: Ai and Makoto are not twins (Ai is clearly older than Makoto), but good luck finding a different reference to them.
Fanon Discontinuity: As mentioned elsewhere, the CD drama which retconned the second movie. The fans, however, gleefully ignore it.
Growing the Beard: If the first episode didn't at least show some impressive stubble for a Digimon anime, then the appearance of the Devas should have been when the full beard grew out...and then Beelzemon's appearance should have been when the beard hit the floor.
Harsher in Hindsight: In-universe example. Takato used to cry a lot in the first episodes because he was really afraid of losing Guilmon. Cue the last episode.
On Konaka's blog, Konaka discusses the development behind Leomon: "In the first season of Digimon, Leomon lost his life in order to save the Digi-Destined. Even though the situation was completely different, was it a good idea to let Leomon face death once more in the third season?" And thus, the Running Gag of killing a Leomon Once a Season started...
He Really Can Act - Steve Blum, who is Yamaki, Guilmon, and Kenta here. At the time it was widely believed that the Yamaki voice - his standard, also heard in The Big O as Roger Smith - was all he could do. Add a little growl, you get his Wolverine. Add a little more growl, you get BlackWarGreymon. But then he does Standard Blum Guy (Yamaki), the dorky Kenta, and the very unique childlike-but-low-pitched voice of Guilmon and makes none of them sound anything alike, to the point that admit it - you had no idea he did all three before you read it.
Everything that happened to Jeri after Leomon died is pretty creepy.
So much so that Jeri in general might just become Nightmare Fuel for people upon re-watching the series now that they know everything about her. Also her creepy handpuppet might have already been this.
Like You Would Really Do It: The first episode ends with the "cliffhanger" on if the main character will be annihilated by his own partner. It's not that kind of show. ...yet.
Mis Blamed: It is not uncommon to hear Adventure fans blame the change in universe and the darker tone contributed to the decline of Digimon in the west. However there its not that simple.
For instance it just had unfortunate timing - 2001 was pretty much the peak of the Pokémon phenomenon.
Then there was the fact that before the time that Tamers had come out it was decided that it would be the last series dubbed by Saban before who then gave the rights to Disney.
Fox Kids, the program block that Digimon appeared on, was also being cancelled at the same time, leaving Digimon to appear on a different channel, at inconvenient times, which was also something that was already in motion before the Digimon Tamers dub even premiered.
Similarly, people blame Tamers for the reason why other Digimon series take place in alternate universes (becasue they did it first); however, that is actually Digimon Adventure 02 fault.
When Digimon Tamers was in its early planning, it was going to be a sequel to the Digimon Adventure universe, but because of a lot ofproblems with the Adventure universe, both on the production side and with the story itself, they couldn't go forward with that idea.
Moral Event Horizon: Greatly subjective in Beelzemon's case, and the show tried to have him come back from this. However, attempting to kill children, including Suzie (barely older than his own partner) after selling his soul for power instead of listening to the people offering friendship, when friendship is proven to give power: low. Very low.
Beelzemon's actions are indeed treated as a Moral Event Horizon crossing in the show, to the point where Beelzemon himself acknowledges that what he did was "beyond forgiveness."
Also, Yamaki. Creating what's basically a Digimon black hole - the data gained by experimenting on a relatively harmless Monster of the Week Digimon until she died in agony - that results in many Digimon being dragged screaming to their deaths in one of the series many Nightmare Fuel and Tear Jerker moments as even one of the Bridge Bunnies is covering her ears to block out the screaming... it's hard to like Yamaki after that, but like Beelzemon, he manages to pull himself back even after doing something horrible.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Zhuqiaomon is directly responsible for all damages caused in the real world,and indirectly caused Leomon's death which caused the D-Reaper's rise,all on a misguided thought that destroying humans would save the Digital World.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks: With the continuity reboot, some fans of the original Adventure series stopped watching the show because of how different the setting was.
Which of course led to many of them complaining about things that either was only there during the first couple of episodes or weren't there at all.
Some would subvert it because this is the season with Renamon.
Unfortunate Implications: Lots of people accuse the series of chickifying Rika and "making her subservient to Ryou", especially at the time she gave him a food part of her power to Ryou so he could use it as a last shot against the -Reaper. It's not exactly the case, as she's never subservient to him in the series; she just opens up to others without fully losing her strong will or confidence (keep in mind that her earlier confidence was entirely unjustified, since she hadn't actually felt in mortal peril as she did in episode 3). Besides, all of the kids had been fighting for a while and were completely exhausted (Jenrya/Henry had even run out of ammunition), so giving up her power was really a last resort/desperation attack meant to give as much damage as possible without allowing the Cable Reaper to regenerate. Finally, note that said action, the one that was supposed to prove that woman should let a man handle things was utterly ineffective so it just served to prove that she had gained the ability to trust others.
To add on to that its more of a case of Real Women Never Wear Dresses considering that during the D-Reaper fight Rika actually has the best kill record of D-Reaper agents of any of the Tamers, and she was also the one who was prone to pulling off Big Damn Heroes, as opposed to Ryo whose record isn't even close to hers( the Tamer with the closest record to hers is Henry), and he even had to be saved by an 8 year old no less. Even during the last battle, she was more useful than him, and even when she left the attack up to Ryo it didn't even leave a scratch, so if there was an implication it would be more on Ryo's uselessness during the D-Reaper arc than anything else.
Values Dissonance: The scene in episode 49 when Renamon explains that Digimon have No Biological Sex to Rika, her mother Rumiko and grandmother Seiko. In both the Japanese original and the English dub, Rumiko insists Renamon is a girl. In the dub, she even jokes that "only a woman could wear fur that well". This was played as a joke in the early 2000s but could seem enbyphobic today. Not to mention Renamon's dialogue conflates sex and gender.
The Woobie: Jeri/Juri...goodness. Even some members of Jeri's Hatedom (Due to her high-pitched voice, Dub and Sub) wanted to hug her after all the stuff she endures.
Impmon has a couple Woobieish moments, too, though mainly he's a jerkass one.
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