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Angst? What Angst?: Taiki and Zenjirou don't seem too upset about being stuck in an entirely different world away from everything they hold dear. Akari, on the other hand...
Alas, Poor Villain: Gotta feel bad for Lilithmon and Blastmon by the end.
They're sung by KOUJI WADA. Of course they're awesome.
Blazing Blue Flare is pretty damn cool as well.
Adding yet another evolution theme to the mix, we've got Evolution & DigiXros - ver. TAIKI, an insanely Hot-Blooded duet between Kouji Wada and Tanimoto Takayoshi. Toei really is spoiling us with all these epic insert-songs.
And to top it all off, we get We Are Xros Heart! - ver. X7. But honestly, what else would you expect from a new rendition of an already awesome song, sung by not just Kouji Wada and Takayoshi Tanimoto, but AYUMI MIYAZAKI as well?!
And the Fandom Rejoiced: Upon the release of the latest scans, many were in glee that there were going to be other humans...not to mention the seiyuu!
For fans of Toei's Tokusatsu series, Riku Sanjo of Kamen Rider Double is taking the story's helm. As the series is among the neatly written ones in the Kamen Rider franchise, it's enough to rejoice.
When Shoutmon and MetalGreymon learned to do proper, traditional evolution, heralding the triuphant return of the franchise's hallmark. And it was unbelieveably epic.
Power Levels. Complaints how the "high-tier" Digimon get defeated so easily popped up, despite the fact that it had never happened at all. Most prominent example is Neptunemon being easily killed, despite the fact that he was simply outwitted and was impaled on his own very powerful weapon anyway. Note that the older series pretty much do the same thing. With Arkadimon reappearing again, people have once again resorted to complaining about this.
Related to this is people complaining about "strong Digimon being fed to Shoutmon". Not only is that complaint negated by ignoring the existence of Power Levels, but also they are forgetting the one thing known in Combining Mecha anime - that is, the leader always gives the shots. DigiXros can be viewed as something like Digimon combining into a single entity, with Shoutmon being the head pilot.
DigiXrossing. People complained about it being toyetic... despite the fact that the whole series is a toy show. Note that this series is also attributed as Digimon meetsPower Rangers (due to the combining Digimon, a la MegaZord), even though it is more appropriate to Digimon Frontier, and that this is more of a homage to Super Robot than Super Sentai.
Recurring Digimon. People expected that the same Digimon must retain the same personality. So now people are complaining about Lucemon being a goody-two-shoes... despite the fact that the Digimon itself is an angel of goodness by default. Besides, there is more to Lucemon than what he appears to be...
Tactimon bears special mention in that he was the one leader of Lord Bagra's armies with no redeeming features about him. His honor code is based solely on his standards of perfection rather than true honor and decency. Not only is he responsible for rounding up several good Digimon into labor camps, including Cutemon's parents, but he was prepared to torture Mikey, a child, to death, as opposed to the quick, painless execution he could have ordered (not that that's any better; it just shows how sadistic Tactimon is) and later tries to kill him with a beam canon blast. As if that wasn't bad enough, he's a full follower of the We Have Reserves mantra and has no compunctions about sacrificing his own subordinates for the sake of maintaining his supposedly perfect battle record, a practice that disgusted Dorulumon enough to defect from his side. Towards the end, he uses the negative energy of many Digimon in order to turn their data into dark spirits that he absorbs into his sword in order to boost his own power and ends up taking the life of Grademon without an iota of remorse. Once he got out into the real world, he proceeded to lay waste to the entire area in hopes of getting his enemies killed and taking away what they value. Shortly afterwards, he attempts to murder Angie and Jeremy with his bare hands. When it comes time for him to do battle with his enemies, all Tactimon can truly feel is pure excitement over the thrill of combat and bloodshed.
Neo Myotismon, an Expy of the original Myotismon and the second of Lord Bagra's Dark Generals. The ruler of the Vampire Land, he was characterized by only one thing: an undying thirst for power. He possesses familiar spirits known as Evilvils that seek out the life energy of Digimon and give it to him. Not only does he fuse both his minions and his enemies into himself, but he absorbs a great number of innocent Lopmon living in his domain in order to gain immortality from their hidden power. During his battle with the Fusion Fighters, he attempts to absorb Christopher's partner, Metal Greymon, into himself as well, forcing Metal Greymon into an And I Must ScreamBody Horror.
The other particularly heinous Dark General is Gravimon, ruler of the Canyon Land. He uses his own core as a way to take Christopher hostage, and then reveals himself as a sadist who uses his cables to torture Christopher and probe his mind. He revels in the following Mind Rape, mercilessly playing off of Christopher's psyche until Christopher becomes broken enough to join him and obey his wishes. This set in motion the events that resulted in, among other things, the tragic death of Deckerdramon, which he ensured by dropping a large gravity attack on top of him. When fighting against the Fusion Fighters, Gravimon tries to physically crush both the kids and their Digimon in his grasp before trying to manipulate Christopher again with a Sadistic Choice - he'd inserted his core into Mikey's body, causing Mikey to endure agonizing pain in the process, and tells Christopher that the only way to destroy both the core and him is to kill Mikey. When Christopher refuses and surrenders instead, Gravimon deems him weak.
As well as Blastmon. BURARARARARARA-BLASTMON IS HERE!
Lunamon, to the extent that Shippinghim/her and Shoutmon is already rather common.
Bastemon! MEOW!
Epileptic Trees: Taichi appearing in the X Arena game as a boss, who DigiXrosses WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon into Omegamon. This never had any impact on the series, but it's very easy to see why the trees kicked in. Given that he's going to show up in Young Hunters for at least one episode, though, it wasn't completely unfounded either!
Evil Is Sexy: Lilithmon, obviously. She's the Demon Lord of lust, for chrissakes. Mermaimon and LadyDevimon as well.
Fridge Brilliance: At first it seems like the animators have forgotten about Dorulumon in episode 15, but then you realize that to avoid causing damage on the statues due to his size, he's most likely kept in Taiki's Xros Loader.
Taiki's second outfit has a jagged white line separating the red and blue portions of his shirt. In circuit design, zig-zags symbolize a component called a resistor - a fitting symbol for the man leading the resistance.
Similarly, an Omega appears on Taiki's Xros Loader when evolving Shoutmon, and a Z appears on Kiriha's Xros Loader when evolving MetalGreymon. Omega was possibly chosen as a nod to Omegamon, and Kiriha's Z is possibly a parallel to Taiki's omega. Alternatively, though, Omega is the symbol for an ohm, the physical unit of electrical resistance. Z is the variable most commonly used to represent impedence, which is the effective resistance of a given circuit component.
Fridge Logic: When it's believed that Olegmon's hypnotic waves are less effective on machine-type Digimon like Ballistamon, Kiriha suggests that they attack with Cyberdramon in the lead, as his body is more like a machine than the others... this is coming from the General with MailBirdramon, a pure Machine-type Digimon, on his team.
Funny Aneurysm Moment: Episode 30, where the kids have returned to Tokyo. Tactimon rampages the whole place, obliterating buildings and even destroying a bridge. The Tohoku earthquake struck just three days later. That's got to be some kind of record.
Chika Sakamoto is voicing Shoutmon... who also voiced Kappei in Super Robot Wars games. And Shoutmon is essentially the "lead pilot" of the various Shoutmon X DigiXrosses.
One of Shoutmon X5's attack is Meteor Impact. He is only able to do it with Sparrowmon, a bird-themed Digimon. Said punch has only been used twice, both on very powerful Digimon (one was absorbing data of the Zone and the other was able to live in Digital Space). Said attack is referred to as Sparrow Punch.
What keeps happening to IceDevimon becomes even funnier when you look back at what IceDevimon'sprevious appearances have been like.
NeoVamdemon kidnaps a bunch of Lopmons to forcefully DigiXros them to him to grant him immortality. The episode that reveals this aired in Easter Sunday. Lopmons are essentially chocolate bunnies; note that they evolve from a Digimon literally named "Chocomon".
Holy Shit Quotient: The Xros Wars Manga Adaptation started just like the anime, then it quickly went its own way with the plot and has not looked back since then, steadily rising the quotient with its own departures from the anime plot. It then literally rocketed from chapter 16 onwards, starting with the battle against Lilithmon's army, to an even larger scale battle involving Machinedramons (the original version) and Kimeramons, to Tactimon unsheathing his BFS and beating up Shoutmon X7, to an even larger scale battle involving everyone's super evolutions, the Royal Knights, several Milleniumons and then ... Dark Knightmon snaps, leading to the appearance of Zeed Milleniummon. Had it been animated, the quotient would definitely be 1.
Ho Yay: As traditional it's already starting to hint at The Hero/The Lancer (but as usual, it's probably not serious).
...Or not. The character map at the beginning of episode 7 shows Kiriha staring at a drawing of Taiki with the caption "My Taiki", making this an Ascended Meme. In the same image, there's also a music note floating over his head.
Blastmon and Tactimon enjoy some nice bromance... or so Blastmon thinks. He also enjoys being loved by male Digimon like Scorpiomon, Cyberdramon and even Bagramon!
In one later episode, he hits on Beelzebumon, calling him "sexy." In the middle of battle.
Dorulumon shares a...rather obvious blush for Cutemon's begging face in episode 27
I Knew It!: It is this for Genre SavvyDigimon fans when it is revealed in episode 30 that Shoutmon could evolve into OmegaShoutmon.
Karma Houdini: Kiriha for ordering his digimon to kill and inflicting mortal wounds on Deckerdramon. Sure, he felt bad afterwards and made it his quest to bring Deckerdramon back, but still, he didn't get so much as one What the Hell, Hero?.
Considering that this had come right on the heels of Gravimon playing off years of psychological and emotional damage, not to mention Deckerdramon outright forgave Kiriha and helped him get his head back on straight right before dying, one would feel that calling him out would be... rather cruel.
Les Yay: With Nene and Akari in Chapter 6 of the manga.
They also had some moments in episode 23, what with Akari becoming good friends with Nene and actually being the one to defrost her.
One could make a case of Nene and Mervamon as well.
Like You Would Really Do It: Yeah, like you would actually kill Shoutmon with that sting, Flymon! He did, and Shoutmon felt excruciating pain and almost died, had Whamon not give his ambergris.
Love to Hate: Both Tactimon and DarkKnightmon are notable examples.
The anime version has AxeKnightmon, whose magnificence is aided by being as Badass as his name would suggest. He spends years manipulating a meek Child Prodigy into thinking that the Digital World is a game where no one can die so that he'll willingly work for him and grant him access to DigiXros, then blackmails his sister into helping him too by using him as a hostage, neither aware of the other's true situation. While he is a servant (and younger brother) of the Big Bad, Bagramon, he poses as the leader of a rival faction for much of the series, and even spies on and sabotages the plans of the Quirky Miniboss Squad (partly to keep up the charade, partly to make himself look better, but mostly because it's hilarious). And in the end it turns out he really wasworking against Bagramon - he encouraged the protagonists to get stronger so that they would be around to attack Bagramon while he was focusing most of his power into his doomsday technique, allowing AxeKnightmon to stab him in the back while he's distracted and absorb him. Holding himself with an air of gentlemanly confidence even as he schemes, AxeKnightmon cemented himself as one of the most memorable strategists in the war.
Bagramon, better known as Lord Bagra, is The Emperor of the Bagra Empire and general of the selfsame army who desires to erase the imperfections of the worlds. Commanding the Seven Death Generals and their minions, he placed everyone in such a position where, in victory or defeat, he would acquire the negative energy necessary to start D5 in hopes of remaking both the Human and Digital World In Their Own Image. As the older brother of AxeKnightmon, he suspected his sibling's treachery since the very beginning but played along even after being backstabbed. Congratulating and critiquing AxeKnightmon in the same sentence, Lord Bagra reclaims his title as the ultimate enemy by turning the absorption around from the inside out and remanifesting as DarknessBagramon. Giving the Fusion Fighters one of the hardest-earned victories in the franchise, Lord Bagra proved his dreaded strength.
A citizen of the Heaven Zone, Lucemon campaigns to be elected the Zone's next leader who, if elected, would embrace love and mercy as a policy as contrast to GuardiAngemon's extreme justice. When the Fusion Fighters are wrongfully accused of a crime and threatened with execution, Lucemon pleads for clemency to both them and the real culprit, Cupimon, and voices the importance of allowing citizens to speak for themselves, getting him popular support among those in the Heaven Zone. But once he's won and is to be crowned, he returns to his true self - an ally to the Bagra Empire and fellow Demon Lord Laylamon - and rips the zone in two, revealing the temple that holds the Code Crown and trapping it in a giant sphere of darkness. Even when it looks like Lucemon has been beaten, he survives the attack and returns to kidnap Nene just as she's transmitting the dark sphere's power to AxeKnightmon, making him an unexpected thorn in AxeKnightmon's side.
The manga's version of Bagramon also qualifies. Rebelling against Homeostasis because of her plan to have Digimon branded as heroic or villainous, in a system that would result in his brother's death, Bagramon is defeated and exiled. Finding the remains of the digital deity Ygdrassil, Bagramon uses them to empower himself and begin his conquest, creating the Xros Loader and the powerful artificial Digimon Tactimon. He then rebels again with the loyalty of dark Digimons, defeating the Royal Knights and breaking the digital world. Manipulating his brother using two minions and some humans, Bagramon intends to judge humans and Digimons based on who wins between them. When his brother "wins" while losing his sanity, Bagramon cries for him before using him to recreate Zeed Milleniunmon, intending to use it to euthanize both the digital and human worlds and save them from decay. When he is proven wrong by the heroes, Bagramon cheers for them and dies saving his brother, encouraging him to be better.
Tactimon in the manga is also far more honorable and intelligent than his anime counterpart. Leading his armies in the fractured Digital World, Bagramon is the digimon that broke it during his fight against the powerful Royal Knight Omegamon. A ruthless yet effective general willing to fire against his own soldiers in harsh fights, Bagramon also prefers to not waste their lives in pointless battles. Manipulating Mach Leomon to his death to test the power of his rivals, Tactimon follows the heroes to test their power as well. During the final battle of the Bagra Army, Tactimon asks permission to use his full power and challenge the heroes in a harsh fight, showing his impressive unmatched skill and only being defeated by their determination and teamwork. Lethally wounded, congratulates them, happy at having find worthy opponents.
Moral Dissonance: Taiki simply adding Bastemon, who loved him, into the parts pile for G-Cutemon, who wasn't even really a desperate measure. To a lesser extent, one can count poor Knightmon in there as well.
Moral Event Horizon: Despite not doing much, many people were calling for ChuuChuumon's head when he just sat there, bored, watching Damemon slowly die from his wounds. Thus, ChuuChuumon's eventual death was very satisfying.
Just about everything done by the characters listed in Complete Monster above can be said to belong to this trope.
Nightmare Fuel: After having absorbed the Gehenna Sphere, Lucemon.
Paranoia Fuel: According to their Digimon profile, for every single Monitamon able to be seen in plain sight, there are 30 more hidden.
Ruined FOREVER: There were calls of this after the first few images revealed the series was returning to its traditional roots, the Digimon would combine into some mecha-like form, and Taiki was the only human (this last one ended up being debunked.)
Squick: Mugendramon's... face, after a part of its helmet plating has been removed. Now just imagine those supposed robot characters being cyborgs. On the other hand, that specific example is exclusive to Xros Wars, since the original Mugendramon was specifically a combination of machine parts.
Troper Critical Mass: It may not have been anywhere near as big a mass as other, more popular works would normally get, but note that all the Xros Wars pages are significantly longer and more trope-heavy than their equivalents for any other Digimon work on this wiki... Young Hunters was heading the same way, butthen...
Tough Act to Follow: Contrary to popular belief amongst its fans, Xros Wars is this to the Digimon franchise in general as it had the worst ratings of any Digimon season. For scope of how bad it is Digimon Savers's highest ratings were twice that of Xros Wars's. Also contrary to popular belief it wasn't title and time slot change that started it, as even before then this series's ratings was still the lowest of the franchise.
Ugly Cute: The Gaossmon in the Blue Flare army. They're basically walking mouths with dinosaur legs and tails, but somehow, they manage to be somewhat endearing.
Viewer Gender Confusion: Cutemon, Sparrowmon and Lunamon all look girly and have an effeminate tone in their voice and use boku. However, Cutemon has been confirmed to be a male. Lunamon and Sparrowmon are yet to be confirmed, but because they both use "boku", they are considered male.
Lunamon has a thing for Shoutmon. So going by the pattern of this series, Lunamon might be a boy. However, Lunamon are traditionally female, so this Lunamon is either a Bokukko with a Precocious Crush or a young male digimon with a case of hero worship (or this is an example of Ho Yay).
Don't let the fashionable hot pink collar confuse you, Lilithmon calls Mugendramon a "good boy".
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Nene Amano ended up shoved to the side and forced into a fanservice role with her role in the Yuu plot stolen by Taiki, and Bastemon was being built up as a good love interest for Taiki (first human-Digimon romance?) before being shoved away into the backup slots.
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