Digimon Mythology (Light and Darkness)

==Introduction==
::If you don't have enough time to read all of this blog and see all the scans, but still want to know about these powers go to "Conclusion/TL;DR/Q&A", it has all the info necessary to understand how the Darkside and Holy power works and some extra information about Black Holes, Dark Matter and more
After the ending of the Chronicle X storyline, progress of the mobile game "Digimon ReArise", the new "Pendulum Z" toyline and the release of Digimon Survive (Still scheduled to a 2020 release) I decided that I should start new blogs to update our reasoning for the Digimon profiles, so these new blogs will focus on doing calculations and explaining lore. The "Digimon Mythology" blogs will focus on explaining the lore of the franchise. This "Light and Darkness" blog will explain what these two concepts means for the franchise and how they should be indexed for our profiles.
This blog will use information from the animes, mangas, games, toylines, official websites, some interviews and of course, the official profiles for Digimon. Also, I'm going to write this blog with the "Anime Fantasy" setting, so this blog will have a lot of metaphysics that I'll be considering to be more important than the classic "LCD Toy Setting". This means that, in this blog I'll deal with Digimon as spiritual bodies, not man-made computer programs.
ANd of course, if I'm really talking about the Fantasy Setting, so of course I'll be using the novelization of "Digimon Adventure" made by the already mentioned Hiroyuki Kakudou, and also one of the screenwriters of the series, Hiro Masaki. Since I'll be using it a lot of times, you just need to know that the entire novel was translated by Onkei and is available in her website. I'll not be linking every quote that I made from this novel, so you can simply access the Master List and search for the information in the mentioned chapter.
So, let's start with the main text.
==The Beginning==
The importance of "Light" (光; Hikari) and "Darkness" (暗黒; Ankoku, or 闇; Yami) in Digimon is as old as the universe itself. But, before talking about these two concepts, we need to understand the type of cosmology that the Digimon Franchise uses. For the "Anime Fantasy" setting, this was revealed by Hiroyuki Kakudou (Director of Digimon Adventure, 02 and X-evolution. Worked in other Digimon products and the "creator" of the Fantasy setting) in his twitter, saying that the way that Digimon works with the "concept of soul" is similar to Neoplatonic emanationism.
One of the more direct approaches to explain how the universe was created is shown in "Digimon Adventure tri. - Chapter 1:Reunion". It said that in the beginning the universe was "Idea", the true figure of the world. There only a few things were known to exist, shapeless chaotic souls and Demiurge, the soulless creator. It's also implied that there was an entity that created the Demiurge, but Demiurge doesn't know its existence, in fact Demiurge doesn't know about the souls or even Idea. Believing to be all that existed, Demiurge created his own world that was a shadow of Idea. a shadow of the true world.
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In the following chapter, "Digimon Adventure tri. - Chapter 2: Determination", we have more information about the creation of the universe. There it's explained the existence of two types of beings, those who destroy and those who create. These entities are entire opposites in essence, but both of them need to coexist and they were also born from the same source. It's said that it'll come the time where everything will return to its origin. Later it's explained in "Digimon Adventure tri. - Chapter 6: Our Future" that the "one born of great darkness" would reduce everything to ashes, but in the end the "rich soil" would be resurrected.
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More information about these concepts was revealed before "Digimon Adventure tri." was created in the novelization of "Digimon Adventure" made by Hiroyuki Kakudou in order to explain more about its setting. The true nature of the "Wall of Fire", Apocalymon and the Digital World and how these concepts are related to each other was implied a lot of times through the novel. This starts, mostly, with Nanomon. This Digimon wants to bring chaos to the world, and so it wants to release "someone" from the other side of the "Wall of Fire". It's said that even if just one of them, the beings from the other side, appears in the Digital World, their presence alone world distort the world and could cause its destruction.
The "Wall of Fire" had existed since the universe was created, always blowing out an incessant stream of red-hot flames and corona. But for an instant, it changed into a black hole from where a voice that could be said to be all of the anger, hatred, and resentment that swirled throughout the entire universe were concentrated in the same place.
The voice affected the system of Nanomon's computer and appeared as a program with a "strange polyhedron-shape covered with metal chains shaped like a DNA helix spinning around". The program would capture both Nanomon and Etemon, creating a "jet black sphere", a black hole.
In the anime Nanomon explained that within the Dark Network had a source of Dark Power, everything that touched it would be absorbed by the darkness and erased. Nanomon used a special Plug Bomb to hack the Dark Network and use it to absorb Evil Power into a concentrated ball of darkness, a black hole. The Black Hole absorbed all of Etemon's army into the Dark Network, but Etemon was able to resist the absorption initially, but he was finally absorbed by the Black Hole due to Metal Greymon's Giga Destroyer. After being absorbed by the Black Hole, Etemon went to the "Dark World of Hell" (地獄の暗黒の世界), "Underworld", "World of Darkness" (暗黒の世界, Ankoku no Sekai) or simply "Darkness" (暗黒, Ankoku). In that place Etemon's body was destroyed and recreated in an endless cycle, Etemon only survived due to it using its own hatred, this allowed him to fuse with its Dark Network and become Metal Etemon, this allowed him to return to the Digital World.
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The nature of the "Wall of Fire" and the "other world" was further explained by Gennai. According to Gennai the "Wall of Fire" was hidden by the Four Holy Beasts deep within the Digital World, but due to the Dark Masters' intervention the earth and heavens had been absorbed into the Spiral Mountain and this revealed the hidden "Wall of Fire". It's explained that the "Wall of Fire" served to seal a hole that linked the Digital World to another world on the outside. Andromon explains that the "beasties" existed in that world, but Gennai explained that what "escaped" from the "Wall of Fire" wasn't one of them, but an Idea without a material body, an Idea that was considered "Evil" to the Digital World, and if the Digital World hadn't rejected that Idea, the world wouldn't even exist.
Later Koushiro would try to connect once again with the "network" of the Digital World, the same one that Etemon used as the "Dark Network". After doing that, he saw a "shadow of a mysterious polygon shape", the same one that appeared before. Koushiro asked if this was a virus, but Andromon said that this isn't a virus, or even data or program. It's the "digital form of an Idea". According to Andromon (Although the source of the explanation is from Gennai, since Andromon said that this was outside its field of expertise) when the Digital World was first created, two Ideas fought in order to decide the type of world that needed to be created. One of the ideas
won and the rules of the Digital World were established, while the other was sealed into the "Wall of Fire". The "program" on the Network probably is that Idea.
Later Gennai would explain that the true enemy is the source of all evil. The prophecy says that something appeared from the other side of the Wall of Fire, just by existing this being created distortion over space-time and nearly destroyed the entire world. Since the Digimon were unable to defeat this being alone, they called the "Chosen Children" with their Digimon Partner in order to seal the being once again. However, the prophecy also says that the "Large Darkness". Their true enemy was the darkness itself, of course the darkness should have some form of physical body, but its very existence was something fundamentally different than anything that they faced before. The darkness is named "Apocalymon", a mysterious entity that can't even be analyzed as a Digimon or not, an entity whose true identity is shrouded completely in darkness, darkness that turns everything in nothingness. The truth is that Apocalymon is in fact an "Evil Possibility" that was sealed away, a possibility whose existence created distortions giving power to the Evil Digimon throwing the world into chaos.
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The true nature behind Apocalymon was explored more in the novel, where the information about the "True Enemy" was recorded in the "Digimon Book of Revelations".
::It appears from beyond the wall of fire,
::bearing the name Apocalymon.
::The bringer of many calamities, the enemy of all evolution.
::— “Digimon Book of Revelations,” Chapter 23, Verse 8
In the novel Homeostasis itself reveals the true nature of Apocalymon. Apocalymon is just an Idea, the very essence of the idea to "not evolve" that rejects "Evolution". Apocalymon wishes to create a new world, a dead world that fully denies evolution, growth, movement— all sorts of transient processes in exchange for silence and stagnation.
And finally the narrator would explain even more about this. In the beginning when the Digital World was in chaos, the world chose the Idea of "Evolution", evolving itself into something more. And so the entity known as "Homeostasis" was created as a Security System in order to balance the Light and Darkness, two sides of the same coin. If the Dark Power increased, it would collapse the Balance of the Digital World.
So, after reading all of this information I'll explain everything necessary. In the past the Digital World was a world known as the "Idea", the true figure of the world. There two sides were fighting, one is the side of "Light" and the other is the side of "Darkness". Due to this conflict the nature of the world was that of chaos, without any rules. In this chaotic state only shapeless souls existed. Later the "Soulless Creator" known as "Demiurge" would be created, this entity didn't know about the Idea or the Souls, and thought that its existence was everything, and so the "Demiurge" created a new world that was the shadow of the Idea.
Later the conflict would end, the very world decided to choose the concept of "Evolution", making the very Idea to evolve into something more, what is now known as the "Digital World". The other concept, "non-evolution" would be sealed into the other side of the "Wall of Fire" along with the "beasties", the other side would be the "other world" known as the World of Darkness, the Underworld, Hell or simply "The Darkness".
These two worlds would continue into conflict, one would be the side of creation while the other of destruction. In the end the side of destruction would destroy everything that existed, but later all of creation would be recreated. The two sides would be destroying and creating the universe in a cycle.
Now that the nature of "Light" and "Darkness" since the very beginning of the universe has been explained, I'll now explain the very meaning of the two terms.
==The Meaning of Light and Darkness==
In order to know more about the two concepts, I'll show information about them from nearly all the anime series, some mangas, games, etc. Let's start with "Digimon Adventure". In that series we have a place called "World of Darkness", also called "Dark Area" (闇エリア), ruled by the Dark Master known as Piemon, the one who controls darkness itself. As it's clear from the name, this is a place full of "Power of Darkness" and the one who experimented it was Yamato. After he saw how his brother, Takeru, has grown in the past months, Yamato came to the realization that since the beginning, he was the one who was being a problem to Takeru and the others, he was trying to protect Takeru because he couldn't think of Takeru growing up, and Yamato not longer needing to protect his little brother. After realizing all the bad things that he did, Yamato fell into depression and this was attracting a mysterious mist that enveloped Yamato's body. Due to his feelings, Yamato was literally drowning in Darkness. Gabumon helped Yamato to fight these feelings and the mist leaves Yamato's body. Gabumon shows the mist to Yamato, he thinks that this tried to enter Yamato's heart. Yamato, however, disagrees with that. He recognizes the pitch-black darkness as being the same pitch-black feelings that he had before. The mist simply pulled out a darkness that already existed within Yamato's heart due to his loneliness. Only now that he recognizes Gabumon's help he is sure that the loneliness will not affect him anymore, and so the Cave of Darkness disappears.
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EZdmp MXgAUY61o.png|The Leader of the Dark Area (闇エリア), Piemon, is also the leader of the Nightmare Soldiers Army!
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And then Sora is also covered by the darkness and falls in a cave. Yamato recognizes the cave as being the same cave as the one where he fell before. Yamato guides the others through the cave, saying that they can't be scary, otherwise this will give more power to the darkness. Sora was there due to the amount of pressure that she was putting on herself. All of her negative feelings were turning into negative energy and this was creating that cave, a reflection of Sora's heart. She was drowning on her own dark feelings, until Yamato and Joe helped her.
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The nature of those "caves" and that "World of Darkness" was explained more in the novel. There it's explained that although Piemon's "World of Darkness" its darkness weren't jet-black, but that of faded twilight. Also, the "Black Gas" is explained to control its victims with the "Power of Darkness", the Digimon affected by this would start to kill each other until only one survived, this one still affected by the darkness would end its own life.
The nature of this power was further explained with Yamato. After all the Digimon who died in the battles, Yamato's heart was full of hatred and he used this power to make Gabumon evolve into Metal Garurumon. Due to the evolution using the power of hatred, this made Metal Garurumon more aggressive due to Yamato's desire to kill Pinocchimon. This made Metal Garurumon stronger, powered by hatred, by darkness, and this made Metal Garurumon being able to defeat Pinocchimon easily, since both of them used the same source of power, the power of darkness. When this power is used, the being becomes stronger and with the wish to kill as being its own wish. All the other emotions were unnecessary for battle. But, the one who uses this power will lose something important. After using this power, Yamato was engulfed by the Black Mist dragged into the world of darkness.
Andromon explains that the Black gas may have the power to control those with darkness in the heart, this is what makes the Digimon affected by it to kill each other. Also, even if someone had a good control over its own emotions, the black gas may still be able to affect the being to be seduced by the darkness.
Back to Yamato himself the narrator defines their entire surroundings as jet-black darkness. They have been trapped in the darkness and their only protection was Yamato's Digivice. Gabumon felt that Yamato's heart was somewhere far away from there. Yamato thought that the darkness of his heart was what had drawn the black gas to them. Yamato thought that he would be able to control the power of his hatred, but although temptation is easy to give in to, yielding to evil deeds make a person lose their self-control or even, by letting their emotions get the better of them, make them do horrible things without thinking. Even if someone could control the temptation, that's the power of darkness, this would not be easy. Anyway, the power of darkness isn't like a virus in the air, but is something that exists within the hearts of every human. Yamato simply thought that he should use his hatred in a justificable way, but after using it for the first time, his hatred only brought more hatred, making Yamato to fall in despair.
Now, going to Digimon Frontier whe have this scene where Sephirothmon attacks Takuya and his friends in a "pitch black dark place". Sephirothmon says that place was like a "World of Darkness", and explains what that is. According to Sephirothmon Darkness is fear and loneliness, a force that controls everyone and exists within everyone's hearts. The darkness in the heart is like a black bottomless swamp. It's doubt, jealousy, betrayal. All of them were sinking in their own darkness.
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Cherubimon explained more about the Darkness while he was explaining about the "Spirit of Darkness". Koichi suffered an accident that nearly killed him, making his soul wander through what he thought to be an Afterlife. There Cherubimon saw him and gave the "Spirit of Darkness". Cherubimon did that because Koichi's wish was a dark wish. The "Spirit of Darkness" needs to choose its partner, Cherubimon tried to use other Digimon, but all of them had their data destroyed by the power of darkness. The reason for why the Spirit accepted Koichi as its user is due to the heart of darkness within Koichi. He had a deep hatred and envy towards Koji, Cherubimon felt that Koichi's heart was full darkness, hurt by sadness, loneliness and full of anger. His heart was darkness itself. Cherubimon says that Koichi should hate everything in the world, fill that hate with darkness, kill everyone and then eliminate all those who attempt to bring light to the world of darkness that they wanted to create. Koichi understands that he now doesn't have this hate anymore, and wants to protect Koji and his friends. The Spirits of Darkness change, still with the power of darkness, but now a "true power of darkness" that Koichi can use to defeat evil.
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In the end, all the elements of the Warrior Ten were used to purify the "corrupted, wicked souls dyed in evil that squirms and were born in darkness".
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Now, I'll go a little back in the past to use the original Digital Monster Toyline and the Digital Monster: Pendulum toyline (Also the Digital Monster Ver:S ~ Digimon Tamers) and some recent versions of their profiles. Even within the "LCD Toy Setting" the relation between Light and Darkness was already explored. Since Devimon (In the First V-Pet) it was already said that an "Angel" could be corrupted by evil and work for the devil. Later profiles such as Bakemon's would explain that some beings can be created from the "Darkness" and send others to the "Hell", this being was also related to a Black Hole. The attacks of the so-called "Dark Digimon" use "evil", "darkness", or more especially "Darkside Power". The Digimon can be corrupted by evil intent, or even created from evil hearts.
YgXUFFQ.png|A Fallen Angel Digimon whose body is clad in jet-black cloth. Originally, it was a shining angel Digimon, but it turned to evil (悪) and devoted itself to the devil (悪魔).
EY3x.png|A Fallen Angel Digimon of the Dark Side (ダークサイド), whose body is clad in jet-black cloth. Although it was originally an Angemon-species Digimon, by falling to the Dark Area (ダークエリア), which exists in a spatial distortion of the Digital World, it became a fallen angel.
vght78D.png|A Fallen Angel Digimon whose body is clad in jet-black cloth. Although it was originally a shining Angemon-species Digimon, by falling to the Dark Area, which exists in a spatial distortion of the Digital World, it became a fallen angel. As proof of that, the Mark of Evil (悪のマーク) surfaced dramatically on its chest.
EY3rO.png|A ghost Digimon completely covered by a cloth over its head. As it is a wicked being (悪な存在), born from darkness (やみ), it is said that computers possessed by Bakemon instantly have their systems destroyed. Everything within the cloth is wrapped in mystery, and it is rumored that a portion of the shadow of its true form has become a black hole (ブラックホール). It dislikes direct attacks because its fighting strength isn't great. Its Special Move "Hell's Hand" pulls the opponent to hell (地獄).
EY3rQ0mX0AIFhq1.png|An unidentified Digimon that suddenly appeared in the Digital World. It calls itself the "King of Digimon", and its fighting strength is beyond imagination. And, well, it's rumored that it also pulls the strings of the mysterious Digimon "Monzaemon". It is dressed in its reinforced Saru Suit which can endure every attack, and it bustles about the whole world for the sake of its unending battles. Its Special Move is making the opponent's fighting spirit vanish (Love Serenade), and a dark sphere (黒い球体) that erases (消) everything it touches (Dark Spirits).
EY3rpjsWoAEVg8h.png|A female Dark Digimon (暗黒デジモン) with a noble personality. Due due the incomparable purity of its Dark Side Power (ダークサイドパワー), it is said that the limits on its spread and growth on personal computers is "0". Its Special Move is "Darkness Wave", which releases countless creatures of darkness (暗黒) similar to bats which burn the opponent. Another special move "Poison" uses the power of the opponent as dark energy to kill the enemy from within. The more powerful the opponent is, the more powerful the technique is.
ZKlmX35.png|A fallen angel Digimon in the form of a female with noble presence. Because of its strength due to the incomparable purity of its Dark Side Power, it is said that the limits on its spread and growth on personal computers is "0". Its Special Move is "Darkness Wave", which releases countless creatures of darkness similar to bats which burn the opponent to cinders. Another Special Move, "Poison", uses Dark Energy to reverse the phase of the opponent's own powers, obliterating them from within. The more powerful the opponent is, the more complete the technique is.
YB6dRYA.png|A dark Digimon with great power of darkness. It doesn't move fast, but because its an evil being, it makes any attack seem powerful. His Special Move is "Darkside Quake", which cause an earthquake with the Demon Arm on his left arm. Its impossible to escape from this attack that reaches a high number of enemies, no matter how far they are.
0JaNuIj.png|An Evil Dragon Digimon (邪竜デジモン) that is known and feared as the "Many-eyed Demon". As a demon beast that was summoned from the Dark Area by the messenger of darkness, Devimon, there are no other Digimon as evil as it is. [..] Its personality is the epitome of wickedness, and it is unmoved by a spirit of compassion. [..] This Digimon was probably produced by the evil feelings (悪な感情) of Hackers who were abusing the Computer Network for their own selfish desires.
EY3sY.png|Its Special Moves are "Pretty Attack", which is emitted from its pretty body, and an evil sphere (悪な球体) unleashed by the Digimon hiding within it (Black Matter).
EY3s.png|A Digimon that was born from the fusion of a super-malignant (超悪質) computer virus and a computer hacker's evil heart (悪い心).
If the profiles about the Dark Digimon focused on demons, fallen angels or beings that were corrupted or even directly created from darkness, the Holy Digimon focus on Angel Digimon and Digimon that uses the "Holy Rings", a proof of their holy nature and a source for their powers. These Digimon are users of the "Light Energy" produced by their just and kind nature, in fact a lot of the Holy Digimon, especially the Angel Digimon, are said to be kind Digimon with the Angels being said to be "Beings of pure Virtue/Goodness". Their relation with the concept of "Good" is very clear across nearly every profile, with then being the ones that fight the "evil" Digimon, mostly referred as "Viruses" or simply Virus-type Digimon, who uses their "Evil/Dark Energy", in order to purifying then into goodness, or return then to the "Nothingness". In fact, the angel Digimon are said to work for the Awareness of "Light" in order to protect the "Order" of the Digital World from the Awareness of "Darkness", the "Light" is also referred as "God" or "Being of Goodness".
GAcmIeo.png|Its divine form, recognized by Digimon all over, is undeniably the embodiment of "Goodness"(善)
P5Cp7QJ.png|A Digimon dispatched by the Being of Goodness of the Digital World (デジタルワールドの善の存在), it carries out the complete extermination of evil. It is said to bring happiness, due to its 6 divine wings.
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fMsFoHn.png|An Angel Digimon with six shining wings, whose body is clad in cloth so pure white as to be divine. It is a being of perfected virtue/Goodness (完全なる善の存在), and although it is called a Digimon that brings happiness, when confronting evil it does not stop attacking, with extreme composure, until the opponent is completely annihilated. On the countless times when the Digital World is visited by a crisis, it is told that it descends to lead Digimon of the same genus, and Devimon, which was won over to the Dark Side, was originally of the same species.
J1FGbOm.png|Although its body is small, it is a precious Holy-species Digimon (神聖系のデジモン), and its appearance does not match the true strength it possesses. It wears a Holy Ring (ホーリーリング) on its tail, proof that it is a Holy-species, but if this Holy Ring is lost, its power is decreased and it can no longer exhibit its original power.
qfOdJD3.png| Although its personality is extremely gentle, it cannot forgive those who are crooked or evil (悪), and it won't stay its hand from attacking until the opponent converts. Because of its soul and power, it is said to be a being like a goddess of the Digital World (デジタルワールドの女神). The powerful lightning-strike of its Special Move "Holy Arrow" is also known as "Heaven's Punishment", and its deadly ray of light "Heaven's Charm", which is packed with beauty and affection (美しさと優しさ), demonstrates its strongest efficacy against the evil powers (悪しき力) of Digimon.
5mamKbC.png|However, it is said that it suddenly appeared out of nowhere once when a gigantic evil energy (悪のエネルギー) was born in the Digital World, and returned the evil to nothingness (無) with its vast power. Its Special Move is striking the opponent with the light energy (光エネルギー) of all justice (正義) (Holy Flame). Those who suffer this technique have their forms instantaneously vanish.
s1nUsOz.png|The ring on the neck is called the Holy Ring, and it is believed that it has something to do with the Holy Digimon because it's also used by Tailmon and Angewomon. [..] Its personality is warm and doesn't like fighting, its Special Move "Ocean Love" makes all of its opponents lose their fighting spirit, allowing it to attain victory as a result.
BKVg0JG.png|In recent studies, it has been proven that it has the power to purge particularly bad nightmares and malignant computer viruses. Also, since it has the ability to change the captured nightmares and viruses back to normal, it is considered a holy Digimon. There is surely some kind of connection between that sacred, unique ability, and the "Holy Ring" which it wears on its foreleg.
K4m6yKD.png|Furthermore, while it usually takes the form of a priest and acts as the spokesperson for the Awareness of "Light" (”光”の意識), which tries to preserve the Order of the Digital World (デジタルワールドの秩序), when the Digital World is shrouded by the Awareness of "Darkness" (”闇”の意識), it changes into its Battle Mode to fight off evil.
HE5ly6J.png|However, because it raged in fury or rebellion, against a being of goodness (善の存在) in the Digital World [...]
p2P9hxp.png|Although its true face and personality is hidden behind a mask and cannot be glimpsed, it is the being closest to the "Being of Good" (「善の存在」) called "God" (神).
So, let's find the most clear definition of "Light" in Digimon. For that, let's analyze some information from "Digimon Adventure". When the Chosen Children were reduced to data in the World of Data, they lost the hope of fighting, their courage. Their Digimon try to help, talking about all the times that they were in a bad situation, but were able to fight and grow. The help of the Digimon helps them to regain their hope, the wish to not let the "light within their hearts" die. This triggers the Hikari's Crest of Light, Takeru's Crest of Hope and then the crests of everyone else. The Digimon says that the symbol of their crests are in fact, the symbols of their hearts. Koushiro concludes that this means that the power was always within then, like his Knowledge, and they didn't need the physical crests. Yamato adds that it wasn't just the Friendship within him that was awakened, but that in fact the friendship in everyone's hearts started to grow and this triggered his Crest of Friendship. The power of the crests wasn't exclusive to each one of them, the light within Hikari was also within everyone else, just like Takeru's Hope and so on. Their powers affected each other, creating a cycle reaction that led to the evolution of all of their Digimon. Later in 02, Ken talks about the idea of destroying all of darkness, but Takeru says that this is impossible, darkness can't be destroyed as long as light still exists. All that they can do is never give up and not lose the sight of the light inside your hearts, no matter how dark it is. Qinglongmon explains that this is the true meaning of hope. The Crests of "Light" and "Hope" are different from the others. "Courage", "Love" and "Knowledge" are powers that exist within everyone's hearts, but "Light" itself is what gives "Life" to the world and "Hope" means to never lose the light even in the middle of darkness. The power within our hearts combines and affects the light, making it shine even more and this is "Evolution". According to "Digimon Adventure tri. Chapter 4 "Loss"" all the things are created from a "true trait" that is shared, other traits influence each other allowing a change in form. This is referring to the "Evolution", since the conclusion of that scene was referring to the "Trait" not influencing someone, a reference to Himekawa's Digimon not evolving alongside the other Digimon.
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In the last section I mentioned that in the beginning the world needed to decide between two Ideas, that of Evolution or that of non-Evolution. The novel would relate that with the spiritual traits of the Chosen Children. The novel makes reference to the events of the movie "Digimon Adventure", talking about how a Digitama appeared in the Human World and quickly evolved into Koromon, Agumon and then Greymon at a rate impossible for the Digital World. Homeostasis scanned the data of Hikari, Taichi and the other children in that place and discovered some things. Each child had a unique spiritual trait such as courage, friendship, love, knowledge, purity, sincerity, or kindness. The traits are something that they had within then, as a hidden potential. However, Hikari's trait was different from then. For Digimon, her trait was like that of "life" itself, that has the same meaning as "Evolution" for the Digital World, or even "Truth" and "Beauty". Light is an umbrella term for that trait that is in fact, the very source of life.
So, we know a few things about "Light" in Digimon. It's the source of power of Holy Digimon and has the same meaning for the Digital World as "Evolution", the concept that everything in that world is based on, it's the one true trait from where everything was created. In general, it has the same meaning as "Life", "Truth" and "Beauty". But, above all else it's related to the idea of "Good", "Virtue", "Happiness", "Kindness", etc. The entity recognized as "God" for the Angel Digimon, entities that embody the notion of Virtue, is also called to be the Awareness of "Light" or even "The Being of Good". So, we know in Digimon that Light = Evolution = Life = Truth = Beauty = Good, and all the things are derived from this concept. Well, Digimon is said to be based on neo-platonism, so let's see if this fits with Plato's notion of the universe.
According to the multiple Philosophy archives for Plato, among the most important abstract objects were the forms of Goodness and Beauty. For true philosophers it's important to understand which things are good and why they are good, and so they need to investigate the Form of Good. So, Plato believed in a hierarchy even among the forms and abstract concepts, with some of them being more primordial and necessary before we are able to understand the others. And among all the forms, the "Form of the Good" is the highest of them, it's the Form that gives meaning and importance to all the others, without the "Form of the Good" no other Form could exist, it's the most central element of the entire cosmology, the highest point.
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So, we have Digimon as being based on Plato. Digimon has a central element known as "Light" that is the true "trait" that created all the other "traits", a concept for the Digital World that is equal to that of "Truth", "Beauty", "Life" and "Evolution". It's known as the "Light" as an umbrella for all of that, and the "God" and highest being of the Digital World is also known as "The Being of Good". It's clearly a mirror to the "Form of Good" and highest element of Platonic Cosmology. It makes absolute sense to think of "Light" in Digimon being in fact a holy power that is the source of all existence with all the individual elements and traits being just different fragments created by the complete "Light". And in fact, if all the references do Plato and the very meaning of "Light" having the same function of the "Form of Good", the director of Digimon Adventure and the main creator of this whole cosmology said directly that this is really the case, and that "Light" is meant to be a Platonic essence."
::The essence (本質) of Evolution (進化) is Light (光), it's Platonistic (プラトニズム的) such as Light = Truth (真実) = Love (愛) and so on
::::~Hiroyuki Kakudou
Now that we know the basis for what "Light" is in Digimon, the next step is to define the basis of "Darkness". And for that, I'll start from the place that I ended my discussion with "Light". It's certain that the cosmology of Digimon is based on Platonism, and so I'll start to see the definition from Platonism and Neoplatonism and then show the direct relations between it and the concept of "Darkness".
Looking for Platonic, Neo-platonic, similar schools of thought or religions, I found an answer that is very common for what the "Form of Evil/Darkness" really is. It's said that for neoplatonists "evil" is regarded as a non-entity, something that does not really exist and is seen as the privation of what really exists. Seeing the "Good" as the foundation of everything that exists, the "Evil" represents the lack of Goodness, the lack of Being, simply nonexistence. Just like Death is the privation of Life, Sin is the privation of Virtue or Darkness is privation of Light. All of these concepts and duality are represented in Digimon. So, Let's see if Digimon ever related "Evil", "Darkness", "Sin" or "Death" to the notion of "Non-existence", "Nothingness" or "Non-Entity".
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ZUegL51.png|Chapter 11.—What is Called Evil in the Universe is But the Absence of Good.
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Looking back to previous scans and statements from anime and novel, you can already see the connections there. But I want to show more context, such as with "Apocalymon". In the anime, Apocalymon is said to be created from the dark hearts of the Digimon that were removed from the Digital World due to falling in the "Evolutionary Process", they were unable to adapt to the environment. Due to that, they died, were "denied to/with no right to live" with a meaningless existence that has no reason to exist in the light of life, friendship, justice and love, and so they were sent to the oblivion of darkness, where they were denied to exist. A major point of Apocalymon is the desire to destroy the "Digital World" and its light, creating a dead world that denies evolution. And so Apocalymon is recognized as an "Existence of Evil" to the very existence of the Digital World, if the world hadn't sealed its darkness with the Wall of Fire, the world itself would never have existed. The Digimon that were used to create the body used by the "Idea that denies Evolution" were the ones that died to not being able to follow the "Evolution", they were directly said to be "denied to exist" and their hatred wanted to make everyone to have the same destiny. To do that, Apocalymon has the Special Move known as "Darkness Zone" (The name of the Move is simply "Darkness" (暗黒; Ankoku) but the furigana above it is "ダークネスゾーン" that means "Darkness Zone"). As the name implies, Apocalymon uses Darkness, also said to be the "Void", as Apocalymon spreads this darkness it also erases everything that it touches, all existence returns to "Nothingness" (無), it has their existence extinguished as they are absorbed into the "Infinite expanse of the World of Darkness". And of course, Apocalymon is said to be a being of "Chaos" (混沌)/Darkness (暗黒) that exists in the abyss of Darkness (闇の淵) resulted from the gathering of "Dark Power" (闇パワー/闇のパワー)/"Negative Emotions" (マイナスの感情)/"Negative Thoughts" (負の想念), a "Dark Core" (闇の核) created from "Erased during Evolution" (進化途中に消) and is the "Ultimate Form of the Void/Nothingness/Nihility/Negation/Non-Being/Nullity/Nonexistence/Oblivion"(虚無の究極形). Going by all types of medias, looking to the concept behind the character (It's the "Evil" and "Enemy of all Evolution") it's impossible to deny that very concept of Darkness as referred by Apocalymon, the Digimon that makes up its body and so on refers to a single idea of "Nothingness". Darkness is a "Non-Entity" just like "Evil" is in Neoplatonism. "Darkness", "Evil", "Oblivion", "Death", "Non-Evolution" and similar terms represents the absence of "Existence" (Light, Good, Life, Evolution). And now that the main character that uses this has been proven to really represent what it should represent, I'll show examples from other characters that use the same power and concept from different media and show that it's consistent within the Digimon Franchise.
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Hi5EZiT.png|A Digimon of darkness (暗黒のデジモン) born out of the negative emotions (マイナスの感情) of humans, and has even been recorded in ancient prophecies. It aims to pull the Digital World into the infinite expanse of the world of darkness (無限に広がる暗黒の世界).
Jqxpkhg.png|Ankoku (Darkness): It's a mysterious technique that makes infinite darkness spread out in all directions and eliminate everything. Any Digimon caught in it will have their existence extinguished!
7sTNNSm.png|A chaotic invader (混沌の侵略者) that lurks in the depths of darkness (闇の淵)! It possesses all offensive abilities!
RS0pop8.png|A mysterious Digimon that appeared when negative thoughts (負の想念) gathered through dark power (闇のパワー).
Hexeryk.png|The ultimate gathering of the dark power (闇パワー) of the Apocalypse!!
fORGq1b.png|Created from the resentment of those that were erased midway through evolution, a dark core (闇の核) that brings ruin!
vLYgMM9.png|The ultimate form of nihility (虚無の究極形), it brings forth the terror of the Apocalypse!
About the "Dar Power" (Also known as "DarkSide Power") is the energy used by Dark Digimon, according to some descriptions, the Dark Digimon are in fact made by this power of energy and their attacks are a product of this energy. According to Lady Devimon profiles, the "dark bats" spreads their Dark Power and is capable of incinerating body and soul, and these bats are in fact made of something called "Dark Matter" (暗黒物質). Looking for more information about it, Ex-Tyranomon was said to use a "evil sphere" in a attack named "Black Matter", it was later said that in fact it uses "Evil Dark Matter" (邪悪の暗黒物質, with "ダークマター" as the furigana above 暗黒物質) that overflows from its inside, where a "Dark Heart/Evil Spirit" (邪心) exists. "Dark Matter" is also mentioned in Imperialdramon's profile, referring to the darkness that exists within it, a very powerful darkness along with its own light that can make Imperialdramon Dragon Mode to turn into either a savior or destroyer. The "Dark Matter" is used by Dragon Mode, swallowing everything that it touches into the "Dark Space", erasing everything. This Dark Matter can affect its heart, turning it into a "Heart of Darkness", now a Virus Type Digimon that only seeks to destroy everything. Darkdramon also works as a example of a Digimon that uses the "Dark Matter" and is also said that due to the effect of the "Dark Matter" it has become berserk.
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k5brpRu.png|It incinerates body and soul with the Dark Side Power spread by its bats!
0ek5CBZ.png|Releases dark matter (暗黒物質) at the opponent in the form of bats that incinerate everything they touch.
9TPOYiR.png|Evil (邪悪) dark matter (暗黒物質) overflows from within its pink, flirtatious exterior!
TSUCFxA.png|An evil heart stuffed into a pretty cartoon character costume, the Nightmare Pink Dragon!
ZuJogq7.png|Controlling it is next to impossible, and depending on how it is raised, it may become a savior or a destroyer. Its Special Move is firing super-massive dark matter, swallowing everything in a dark space (暗黒空間) (Mega Death). This technique completely annihilates (消滅) everything within a radius of a few hundred meters around the impact-point of the dark matter.
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ZPRvlOF.png|It is loaded with dark matter! It has surpassed both good and evil, an uncontrollable transcendental dragon!
BAi715S.png|It is the supreme emperor of the dark space (暗黒空間) that engulfs all creation (万物)!
R58M3cM.png|It fires darkness (暗黒) that erases everything! A dragon who hides power rivaling even that of gods!
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6PVYcXi.png|This emperor of the dragons couldn't control his immense power and turned into a god of destruction!
miJ2aqR.png|Imperialdramon was incapable of controlling its excessive power and was turned into a Virus, resulting in this form. It apparently turns into Fighter Mode once it is able to control that power with a heart of darkness (闇の心).
qXnEEMU.png| It seems that on the verge of its evolution, a large quantity of "Dark Matter" was applied, and after its evolution it ran wild and broke out, so currently even the D-Brigade cannot secure Darkdramon's whereabouts. It is said that even now it is hunting "Codename: BAN-TYO"... Its Special Move "Dark Roar" is a bold move in which it fires Dark Matter as energy shots, and it is said that there is nothing in this world that can suffer that attack and survive.
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Another interesting concept is "Black Hole". As you may remember from the first scans, a black hole was defined by Nanomon as a "concentrated ball of evil power" connected with Apocalymon and was the reason for why Etemon was sent to the "Hell" with his Special Moves creating Black Holes. Etemon "Dark Spirits" is said to use a "Ball of darkness" that erases everything. Black Holes are also mentioned in Bakemon's profile, it's said that something hides within its cloth, the true form of the Virus Program that is Bakemon, is said to have a shadow that is a black hole. The other Digimon that uses a black hole is Gerbemon, it's said that everything that enters the black hole is sent across infinity to another dimension, disappearing from the Digital World without a trace. But the most interesting case is Dark SuperStarmon. Said to have been created by observational data of a black hole, it's a Digimon dyed in darkness (闇), without any dreams and wishes, shutting out all light and uses darkness that covers and swallows everything. This Digimon is also said to exist within a Black Hole in the void of space, unaffected by time or matter in the between of "Light" and "Darkness".
rzJTJLT.png|This supreme ruler's ball of darkness (闇の球体) is an ultimate ball that erases (消) everything!
tNq0p0l.png|A ghost Digimon completely covered by a cloth over its head. As it is a wicked being born from darkness, it is said that computers possessed by Bakemon instantly have their systems destroyed. Everything within the cloth is wrapped in mystery, and it is rumored that a portion of the shadow of its true form has become a black hole.
w1BTZR6.png|A secret hidden in the shadow ? There's a theory that the shadow under its body is a black hole.
hmWmd9o.png|A ghost Digimon born out of the Dark Area. Being made out of a virus program, it destroys computers one by one by possessing them. It is said that beneath its cloth lies a black hole.
Y9ch5dN.png| Also, the trash can can act like a black hole, so that anything that is sucked into the trash can disappears from the Digital World without a trace.
tIgPSpA.png|This reeking gunner lures enemies into its trash can that leads out to infinity!
LftrpGL.png|Trash Can: If you are sucked into this, you'll be sent to another dimension!
lHGNqUU.png|Produced from the observational data of a black hole, it is a Digimon dyed in darkness. It has left behind its dreams and its wishes, and it appears to be so heavily burdened by its past that it uses its sunglasses to shut out all light. Its Special Moves are attacking with the exploded fragments of a supernova (Dark Explosion), using a black fog that covers everything in darkness (Schwarz Nebel), and creating a hole that swallows the surrounding bodies (Dark Hole).
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Now, more in the "Darkness means nothing" I have some scans from the obscure wonderswan game "Digital Monster D-Project". The story is about the mysterious Swan World that was warped into a "World of Darkness". The game tells the story of "The One Who Enters the Digicode" a human that uses the power of the "DigiCode" and represents Creation in the Digital World. The opposite side is the "Forbidden Digicode" that represents "Destruction" in the Digital World. This "Forbidden Digicore" was used in a Digitama that released a "Dark Light" that was the thing that warped the Swan World in Darkness and converted Digimon into Dark Digimon due to the "Dark Power". Xuanwumon explains the source of this "Dar Power", the "Forbidden DigiCode", and says that it's the DigiCode "000 000". Yes, it's made of only 0s. According to Xuanwumon, this is the idea of "Erasing Everything". The "Digimon of the Forbidden DigiCode" ends up being Cherubimon, a Digimon that wants to erase all kinds of data of the world, making everything lose its meaning.
zfUsGZ6.png|The Digimon have disappeared from the Swan World, and the Swan World has been warped in a "World of Darkness" (暗黒の世界).
HVuPYZS.png|The peaceful ‘Swan World’ is suddenly overcome with a dark shadow…! In order to return the Digimon who’ve disappeared, your very own adventure begins! Entering in data, raising digimon, and battling them!
Ecq9ka.png|There was the "Forbidden Digicode"『きんだんのデジコード』
auNX0AE.png|Then, when "Something" (あるもの) appeared from the "Digitama" there was a Light of Darkness (あんこくのひかり)
MDuXgA.png|Warping all the Swan World
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1AE3OQ7.png|I was finally saved from the "Power of Darkness" (やみのちから) that I fell into.
EcvjBuTXgAAU5jX.png|We, the Four Holy Beasts, came to seal seal the "Something" that was originally born from the "Forbidden DigiCode".
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EcvwDfJX0AIBanx.png|However, before we knew it, we had become Dark Digimon
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EcwD.png|One day, someone put the "Forbidden Digicode" into a Digitama and then an amazing Digimon appeared from there and started to warp the Swan World.
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EcwEct.png|The Digimon started to release Dark Power that turned other Digimon into Dark Digimon.
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AIdeHNN.png|What the "Forbidden DigiCode" is...
mvV8jrU.png|It's "000 000"!
DiFXwH5.png|That's... Everything is "0"...
zEBtUiR.png|It's the idea of Erasing Everything...
kIjWzXH.png|But, due to a mistake, this DigiCode created the Ultimate Digimon...
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KGI7RX0.png|I'm the Digimon that was born to destroy everything, so I'll erase everything. I'll erase everything, all and every type of data of this game, all the data of the Swan World!
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WzS1n3p.png|I'll go! You, human!
wCiWVD3.png|You "The One Who Enters the DigiCode"!
VPpzNF4.png|I'm going to erase you completely!
iKddKos.png|I'll erase everything!
S0ysKbV.png|Ofanimon: Erasing and destroying everything... "The One Who Enters the DigiCode" was better than the Digimon "The One Who Erases Everything".
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Now looking for another concept, I'll talk about "Miasma" (瘴気). According to Tactimon's profile, the Jatetsufūjin-maru is capable of summoning one hundred dead warriors. According to Tactimon, this is data from Vanquished Digimon that are awakened as Evil Spirits, the same type of evil spirits that any Digimon would become if they are in some form of Hell. According to Tactimon, the sword was made gathering the data of regretful, residual souls of Warrior Digimon (Already mentioned in Mummymon's profile as data of Digimon that were deleted before they accomplished their goal in life). This sword was created by Bagramon, who has the power to freely manipulate souls. According to Ulforce V-Dramon and Cutemon, this "evil power" was known as "Miasma" and was able to seal the holy power, such as the holy Ulforce of Cutemon's healing power. "Miasma" was also mentioned in Ordinemon's profile and is said to be in fact "negative emotions" that ends all life and reduces the "World" back to "Nothingness". More on "Miasma" is revealed in "Digimon Adventure:" when the Chosen Children finds a swamp full of Miasma, it's the same dark mist emitted by the Dark Digimon and it's felt by the children as a "eerie, evil dark mist" that erodes everything it touches, but Dark Digimon are capable of not being affected there.
OEMns6D.png| If it stabs the ground once it generates an earthquake, if twice it awakens one hundred dead warriors, and if thrice it collapses the surrounding land with a shock wave.
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MOWpmqB.png|An Undead Digimon whose whole body is wrapped in bandages in the manner of an Egyptian mummy. It is also known as the "Necromancer" due to its summoning and manipulation of the reluctant souls (residual data) of annihilated Digimon.
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Returning to Xros Wars, a big point in the entire anime is the gathering of "Negative Energy". This started when Dark Knightmon wanted pure evil Dark power in order to create the "Darkness Loader". He searched for a source of pure dark energy that ended up becoming the Gehenna that absorbed Nene, that was increasing the Dark Power due to her negative feelings, the darkness within her heart. This would later return as Bagramon recreates the Digital World as a "living hell" in order to gather even more "Negative Energy". In order to do that, all the Digimon in the DW were tortured. All of their pain, suffering, anger, hatred, vexation and even death itself turns into "Negative Energy", the "Dark Power" that Bagramon wanted to use in order to convert the Code Crown into the "Dark Stone". The evil power of the stone would encompass all of space-time destroying everything in the "D5". Bagramon naturally has "Dark Power" and after fusing with Dark Knightmon and the Dark Stone turning into DarknessBagramon this "Dark Power" is called "Imperium Vicious". This is "Evil Power" is the same as the negative emotions from humans and Digimon, Bagramon wants to fill the whole world into "Evil" removing all of the "Good". Two of its attacks use this power, one of them "Eternal Darkmare" is used by flapping its Dark Wings, all the data is destroyed. The other, "Balefire-Eyes", uses the "Darkness" from the heart at its maximum, to produce a living fire that destroys all data transforming everything into Nothingness.
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PeAqjaY.png|The digixrosed form of Dark Knightmon and Bagramon. By uniting the dark knight and the fiendish demon lord it became the greatest emperor of evil. Its "Imperium Vicious", the evil power spilling out of its body, symbolizes that strength, and if a weak evil is bathed in it then it immediately becomes a grovelling subordinate. Even if you try to resist, it is considered difficult to maintain your sense of self if you are glared at by Dark Knightmon, who exists within its chest. According to one theory, it appears to be planning on destroying all good, in order to fill the world with evil and obtain a world that it can manipulate at will. [...] For an opponent whose existence has no worth, it instantly destroys all of their data with its "Eternal Darkmare", in which it flaps its jet-black wings. The darkness held within the hearts of humans and Digimon is intensified and fused with Darkness Bagramon's own fathomless power. If that power is released from the red eyes in its chest with its "Balefire-Eyes", then all of its surroundings will be transformed into nothingness.
NAKOWba.png|The DigiXrosed form of Dark Knightmon and Bagramon. Any presence of evil bathed in the Imperium Vicious that flows from its body turns into its subordinate. It aims to completely destroy the presence of good in order to fill the world with evil intent.
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Still in Xros Wars, when the Xros Heart went to the Human World in the manga, Digimon noticed that in the human world, humans didn't have the wish to fight for a future, for their dreams. Human civilization was now in a stable position and so, the wish for dreams was something rare. However, this wish to fight for a better future is the "Light of Evolution", what makes the Digimon to evolve. The Digital World is another universe where the hearts of humans are expressed as electronic data, and the expression of the hopes for a better future was the trigger for the Digimon Evolution, they were able to change their very shape simply by wishing for that. But, as the dreams of mankind started to disappear, the Truth in the Digital World changed and the notion of "Evolution" disappeared. Digimon are normally created reflecting the hearts of mankind, some of them are created with the feelings of courage and friendship, becoming even Holy Digimon of Justice, Good Digimon like Gods. However, there are Digimon created from anger and hatred, Evil Being like Demons. The "Despair" represents the feelings of "Nothingness" for the future that brings fear, corruption and vileness. In order to test if the Human Heart still had the potential to believe in dreams, Bagramon used a larva. By feeding it in the dark feelings of nothingness and the sins of humans, the larva had a "Dark Evolution" and turned into Shademon. However, if the larva feeds in the Hope of a bright future, it will evolve into Luminamon, using the same light born from the same dreams as any Digimon evolution.
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The notion of "Dark Evolution" (暗黒進化/ダーク進化) is very curious. As explained before, it's something that occurs in "opposite" to the feelings of Hope of the normal evolution. The "Power of Darkness" is in fact the opposition to Evolution and can be used to seal normal evolution. According to the previous information, and also a lot of profiles, the Dark Evolution occurs due to negative feelings and actions such as anger and hatred. In a "Dark Evolution", the Digimon is tainted by evil and seeks to destroy everything using these evil feelings with a nihilistic point of view. In fact, this is the "Dark Side" of the light, and is really the same power used by Apocalymon that negates the existence of evolution. For that reason, "Dark Evolution" isn't really an evolution but only something that "wishes" for the progress of Nothingness. In fact, the same is valid for any of the "Dark Digimon". Even with them saying to have a Soul (Such as Black WarGreymon), it's in fact a black, evil Soul, that uses negative feelings and the power of darkness. It's the same power as before, even the Angels recognizes the Awareness of "Darkness" within the Dark Souls and recognizes as something that should not exists in the Digital World and should return to the darkness, since their presence in the DW is something that seals harmony and causes distortions, due to the "Power of Darkness". These "Dark Digimon" have "Evil Souls" and "Evil Vessels", at least for the Fallen Angels their DigiCore were corrupted by the Darkness converting their pure DigiCore into a DarkCore (ダークコア) with concentrated evil power, turing the Demon Digimon into being with an evil presence and control over darkness.
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ZWy6Y04.png|A substance of the Digital World, the power that prevents evolution, was injected into Vamdemon. It's the same material as the Dark Tower, Evil Ring and Black Gear.
J8pdGqP.png|Lopmon underwent a "Dark Evolution" due to anger and hatred, becoming a brutal Beast Man Digimon. It is not completely "evil", and deep within its heart it possesses the gentle side it had while it was Lopmon. However, its "warmth" can be broken by the power of its anger, so that it runs the whole gamut of destruction.
PNy821M.png|Lopmon, whose heart was snatched away by anger and hatred, underwent dark evolution into this form. Although it possesses a MjiWpfM.png|kind heart in actuality, it is masked by its destructive impulses that cause it to bring about destruction by controlling time and space. Lopmon underwent a "Dark Evolution" due to anger and hatred, becoming a brutal Beast Man Digimon.
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0fgL1Pb.png| However, because it was shunned for its role as an observer, it began to be filled with nihilistic thoughts until its sole line of thought was to reject everything. At that stage, it no longer discerns between friend and foe, turning into a fearsome Digimon that carries out destruction indiscriminately.
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Connected with the "Dark Evolution", I can give another example of the connection of this "Evolution" with the concept of "Darkness" and "Non-Being". In the game "Digimon ReArise" a new species of Digital Being is revealed, the "Spirals". They have a body similar to that of Digimon, but are something else. The Spirals are able to interact with the nature and evolution of Digimon and affect their pattern making the Digimon to go berserk and Dark-Evolve. Not only that, a Digimon's ill intent seems to make them more compatible with the Spirals. Not only that, but Holy Digimon are capable of nullifying the corruption of the Spirals due to that being "Evil Power"/"Power of Darkness" connected with feelings like anger and hatred. And this is really interesting when we related this with the origin of the Spirals. According to the "Spiral Hive Mind" they were first created as fragmented microscopic entities in both the Real and Digital World. however they were never part of any of these two worlds. Even so, they thought to be entities with a purpose, but in reality they were "Empty", they were never able to interact with the world without any awareness from outside of their hivemind. Different from Humans and Digimon that were recognized by the worlds as "True beings", the Spirals grew in envy wanting a world that would recognize them as "beings", a world of their own where they would belong. They evolved and were able to mimic the shape of Digimon, but this wasn't enough for the world to recognize them, they still were "meaningless existences". They tried to do something different and after hundreds of experiments a Digitama was created and from it Pusurimon was born. However, this new entity wasn't something that existed alongside the Spirals, Pusurimon was an ordinary Digimon recognized by the worlds as a "Being", it was born from the Spirals, but Pusurimon wasn't one of them. They tried to destroy Pusurimon, but it was sent to the worlds and grew evolving into Herissmon, this new Digimon was a "True Being" unbound by the same limitation as the Spirals. And so, they tried to use Herrismon as a vessel so they could "force their way into existence" and finally be recognized as a "Being". By letting Herissmon be consumed by negative feelings, this weakened its body and allowed the Spirals to fuse with it and Dark Evolve into Rasenmon: Fury Mode. However, this wasn't enough for the Spirals. The merge with Herissmon changed the Spirals introducing emotion and individuality to the so far "empty" beings. This was a irregularity for the world that didn't accepted the "Spirals" as existing being, and so to fix this, they should remove the irregularity and now doesn't accept the world, they will use their "Power of Darkness" and destroy the world, turning everything into something that the Spirals recognizes as "Existing".
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xhj3USt.png|A ruthless, nine-tailed Ultimate Digimon that became unable to control its power of darkness due to the large volume of negative emotion data that flowed in from others while it was evolving from a Perfect Digimon. It is a destroyer who gave in to its rampaging power of darkness the moment its evolution was complete, bringing devastation to its surroundings solely on impulse. It suffers from inner conflict stemming from its fear of and attempts to reject the swirling negative emotions inside of itself, which gave rise to its destructive impulses and subsequently its vicious personality.
And as a final example, the D-Reaper. Originally an emotionless program with a simple objective, taint the world into Darkness. That is, erase the world and its contents back to zero, to its original state of "Nothingness". The D-Reaper developed a big connection with Juri Kato, and the reason was the depression that Juri went into after Leomon's death. Believing that her existence was meaningless, this "destruction thought pattern" was detected by the D-Reaper as Sorrow and was the same thing that the D-Reaper wants, it's the same love and desire for nothingness, to erase everything that is and returning to the original state of nothingness as if the world never existed.
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RbaXEXE.png|"D-Reaper Threat: D-Reaper was originally a primitive program created in a time period previous to when the Digimon were created. Its function was as simple, when the number of activities in a certain "World" exceeds the capacity limit, it will erase the "World" and return that "World" to "Nothingness"."
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As you can see, I used scans from nearly every media of the franchise during nearly every age and it's clear that Light refers to "Existence" and "Darkness" to "Non-Existence". It's not only used a lot of times in the animes, mangas, games and even profiles, but it's also a main part of this franchise's inspiration, backstory and shown to be valid even when it's not talking about Digimon, but other species like the Spirals or the D-Reaper. Now that this has been shown, I'll explain the consequences of the "World of Darkness" being the Nothingness, the "World of Light" being "Existence" as well as how the "Powers of Light and Darkness" works and how they interact with each other.
==Worlds and Powers of Light and Darkness==
The terms "World of Light" and "World of Darkness" are in some way the least common form to refer to the worlds, although "World of Darkness" still is used more commonly. Normally the "World of Darkness" is what the Digimon refer to as the "Dark Area", a world of eternal jet-black darkness that is the hell for the Digimon, it's the graveyard where all the deleted data is sent to. The Digimon who died due to mistakes of tamers, lifespan or killed in battle (And so, removed from the path of evolution) are sent to the Dark Area. But of course, "World of Darkness" isn't a term used only to refer to the Dark Area. For example, the already mentioned "World of Darkness" ruled by Piemon was said to not be a "jet-black" one, but one of faded twilight, although jet-black darkness existed within that world in the form of the black mist.
Devimon profile.png|Living in the World of Darkness, he is the devil who had been pulling the strings on File Island! It is said that in his past he had originally been an angel just like Angemon, however his heart was stained by the darkness while living in the World of Darkness
UBPXDTN.jpg|Residing within a deep darkness, he’s the root cause of all the disasters! In order to keep on existing, the Digimon within the darkness began to hate the Digimon that lived in the World of Light!!
HE5ly6J.png|However, because it raged in fury or rebellion, against a being of goodness in the Digital World (perhaps the very human that created the Digital World), it was deleted to the Dark Area (the graveyard of deleted data).
zGrENp3.png|This demon lord of the World of Darkness/Dark Area (闇界/ダークエリア) raised the banner of revolution against virtuous beings!
eux88KG.png|It constantly surveys the Dark Area, to which Digimon that were deleted when their life span finished, or when they were defeated in battle, are ultimately transmitted (and are transmitted there despite Fallen Angel Digimon and their like inhabiting it). As for the Digimon transferred to the Dark Area, if their data is evil, it imprisons them within eternal darkness, but if their data is good, it has the ability to reset them back to a Digitama.
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4XQis4G.png|A Demon Beast Digimon called the "Watchdog of Hell" [...] Its Signature Move, "Inferno Gate", is opening a "Hell Gate" engraved in the earth, then casting the opponent through it to the jet-black Dark Area.
In Digimon Adventure 02 during an explanation about the "distortions", it was said that a distortion is where two or more worlds start to fuse together due to loss of balance. And going by this, the "World of Darkness" can be seen as a result of the collapse of all realities, when everything is destroyed due to lack of balance. In fact when Belial Vamdemon appeared in the Digital World and used its "Dark Power", its objective was to fuse the Digital and Real worlds into a World of Darkness. For this, Vamdemon used the negative emotion of children infected with the Seed of Darkness in order to spread the darkness that would consume the worlds. Later, Gennai explains the existence of worlds that express people's emotion, like the "Unknown Space" or the "Digital World" itself. Ken then explains that worlds like the "Dark Ocean" (Also referred as a "World of Darkness") are in fact the manifestation of the Dark Hearts. Going by all of this explanation so far, then this makes sense. Going back to the very beginning of creation, the "World" needs to choose between two concepts, "Exists" or "Not Exists". By making this choice and allowing the world to exist, then a "World of Light" is created following the concept of "Evolution", the past "Void" is then the so-called "World of Darkness". So; World of Light is any world that "Exists" and follows the concept of "Evolution/Light/Life/Positive Emotions" while a "World of Darkness" is any world that "Doesn't Exists" and follows the concept of "Non-Evolution/Darkness/Death/Negative Emotions". Now that this is defined, let's talk a bit about the "Non-Existing" nature of these worlds.
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And about the nature of these worlds in relation to the normal "Existing" worlds, Dark World like the "Dark Area" are directly said to be a "World of Nothingness" (無の世界, Mu no sekai) such as in "Digimon Frontier" or in "Digimon Crusader" when Jupitermon sends Plutomon back to its world of origin, and calls Jupitermon call its domain (Said to be the "Realm of the Dead" in Plutomon's profile) as "Nothingness", Plutomon answers saying that it's the "hell". When Darkness Bagramon use its jet-black darkness to erase Taiki and the others, the already mentioned "Eternal Darkmare", Bagramon says that they are going to be sent to the "eternal realm between time and space, in neither the Digital nor Human world", this ends up being a realm of darkness. In "Digital Monster D-Project" the "World of Darkness" that was erasing the world was also called "Demon Space" (まくうかん) where everything warps in darkness, it's the world that exists "Between Digital and Digital". In “Digimon World Next Order” we are introduced to another Digital World and its “Beyond”. It’s a vast infinite world of nothingness where the Digital World deleted data, like those from dead Digimon, are sent to, it’s called the “Singular Zone” and “Infinite Cauldron” and is full of dark energy. Finally in “Digimon ReArise” it’s said that the “Underworld” is an infinite world that exists in a crack in space and time. So, as you can see, not only the “Dark Area”, but also the other “Worlds of Darkness” from the franchise are constantly said to be worlds of nothingness, that exists outside of time and space, between data, where things that are erased are sent to. In fact, in Digimon Heroes it’s said that when someone enters the Dark Area, is as if time has stopped and in Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode it’s shown that in fact, from the perspective of the Digital World, time isn’t a thing inside the Dark Area.
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vbuCHC9.png|Jupitermon: This is your divine punishment!
97SxH5q.png|Jupitermon: Return to the Digital World Iliad!
Wmukv2d.png|Jupitermon: No...
f8cVjhM.png|Jupitermon: No...you shall return to 'nothingness'...
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Eh7O3Y5.png|Plutomon: I'll show you the darkness that lies deeper than the abyss...the depths of hell!!
bYXbjR0.png|It is said that Plutomon wanders the world in search of criminals and evildoers worthy of falling into the underworld (冥界).
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wnq0O4I.png|At last, it's come to this point, where everything is wrapped in darkness "Demon Space".
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And now that the “nature of nothingness” has been clarified (At least I hope that it has been), I’ll start to talk about the nature of “Dark Energy”. Just like the Digital World is affected by human’s emotions positively, so is with the negative emotions. Negative emotions like “anger, “hatred”, “sadness”, “loneliness”, “jeausly” are the source of the so-called “Power of Darkness”, that is manifested in the Digital World in many ways, such as the “Dark Digisoul” or the “Digisoul of Hatred”. All of this “negative energy” gathers in the hell of the Digital World, this is the “Dark Area”, a world filled with the “Power of Darkness”.
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This power can affect and “Corrupt” Digimon, for example, they can transform a Holy Angel Digimon into a Fallen Angel turning its anger and despair into Power of Darkness, and so this power is used by other Digimon in a way to corrupt them into “Viruses”. This is the power used by Digimon like Hagurumon, its “Darkness Gear” contains a virus that controls other beings. Examples of other Digimon that were turned into Virus Digimon due to this type of corruption includes Dark Tyranomon, Bakumon and Guardromon. By turning into Virus Digimon, they act in the name of another Virus, a Hacker or simply by the instinct of a Virus Digimon, that of destruction and hatred. And now as “Dark Digimon”, they turn their own Virus Instinct into their attacks, releasing attacks full of dark energy that are the embodiment of their own Negative Feelings.
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Q7lQ5Si.png|Hagurumon possesses the special ability to send a computer virus to its opponents in order to manipulate them at will, and that ability is exploited by fiendish Digimon. [...]. Its Special Move is burying a black gear with a built-in computer virus within the body of the opponent, driving them mad (Darkness Gear).
H6FqVs8.png|The gears it shoots out from its body send a virus into the opponent!
NTh6jWd.png|It buries enemies in black gears embedded with viruses that can control the opponent!
pVaV440.png|Its Special Move allows it to manipulate other Digimon to do evil deeds.
PAQBd26.png|A Dinosaur Digimon whose body was corroded by a vicious computer virus. Although it was originally a Tyranomon-species Digimon, it was infected by a vicious computer virus, causing a bug in its flesh's configuration data and transforming it into a frenzied Digimon. Its body turned black, its arms grew sturdier than Tyranomon's, and its offensive power grew.
ioNuRxs.png|Infected by a virus, a Tyranomon which gained even more ferocity!
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EkMu3pi.png|A Machine Digimon that protects the Computer Network's defensive wall. Originally, it was a Digimon that repelled those who would illegally enter the defensive wall, together with the "Net Keeper" Giromon. However, a malicious hacker noticed its ironclad defensive ability and infected Guardromon with a computer virus, using it to protect themself from the Vaccine-attribute justice brigade, "Virus Busters".
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AF6fmNe.png|This demon of the sea is filled with hatred!
qPYSQmV.png|Dying the deep sea black with its hatred, this dirty fighter fights using foul play!
XSTxdq0.png|Its blackened breath dyes the sea the color of darkness, creating an ocean of terror!
ctI01pN.png|Its hatred goes deeper than the ocean, turning into evil ink of sin that comes gushing out!!
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However, you need to remember what “Darkness” really is in Digimon. Turning a Digimon into a “Dark Digimon” and the effect of darkness, it’s in fact converting a “Being” into “Non-Being”. When Yatagaramon summoned “Haguro”, one of the blocks of the Dark Area, it was shown how the “Darkness” affects the normal world and its beings. In reality, the Power of Darkness, that of a person’s heart, tries to cover everything that it touches, converting it into Darkness. That “Dark Power” affects both body and soul, killing the entity and sending it to the Dark Area. This affects everything, even the whole world can be covered by this darkness and become a part of the Dark Area. And of course, this was already shown previously when I explained how some Digimon uses their darkness to erase other Digimon, and the ruler of “Darkness” (A being born from Darkness itself) Ancient Sphinxmon is one of the greater examples of this, it’s said that its ruling (Darkness) is over the destruction and annihilation all that exists and lives, darkness is death.
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yHqLelH.png|Possessing the attribute of "Darkness, it is one of the legendary Ten Warriors Digimon that saved the ancient Digital World. An Ultimate who existed only in the distant past, it is set at the opposite extreme to Ancient Garurumon as a being born from darkness. It rules over the destruction and annihilation of all existing or living things, and is feared as the "Deadly Dark Beast". Ancient Sphinxmon's abilities were later passed on to the "Mythical Beast" and "Demon Beast Digimon". Its Special Moves are a laser beam fired with a roar (Dark Blast), and the ultimate annihilation technique which completely envelops the opponent in the darkness of death (Necro Eclipse).
But, if the Darkness naturally erases everything and sends everything to the Dark Area, how can Digimon survive a battle against a “Dark Digimon” ? The explanation is that in fact, everything in the world contains both the Power of Darkness and the Power of Light. In reality, all the world and its beings are coins, one side is that of Light and the other is that of Darkness. While it’s true that Darkness tries to grow, turning everything into nothingness, it’s also possible for someone to keep the light inside of itself, making its own “Being” evolve into something stronger that the “Darkness” isn’t capable of erasing (As said before in Qinglongmon’s explanation of what “Hope” is). Light and Darkness are always fighting and every single thing in the whole world contains both of them. If someone tries to use darkness (In reality, every single attack in the world should have darkness in it) or even send someone to the Dark Area, all that the other needs to do is have a Light stronger than the Darkness of the other. This allows a constant fight between those who use Light and those who use Darkness. If someone has a stronger light, the other needs to expand its own Darkness or be in a world of darkness (Like the Dark Area) to gain advantage against Light, in the same way someone who is capable of producing an even stronger light will be able to resist and defeat the power of darkness. So, the battle between Light and Darkness depends on the potency of such powers, powerful enough light can turn Dark Powers weaker.
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And with the explanation that everything in the world contains both Light and Darkness, and the stronger the light, the darker will be the darkness, there’s an interesting consequence. This equivalence between light and darkness means that even the being with the strongest darkness, in fact has the strongest within its body. There’s no such being that doesn’t have some level of anger, sadness, hatred or any other “negative feelings”. But there are people who are able to control these feelings, having hatred towards someone, doesn’t mean that you need to kill that person. Normally, they feel the feelings, but are able to control them. But others with greater feelings may not be able to control them. By losing control over their own darkness, they turn into “Dark Entities”. But in reality, the ones with great darkness also contain a great light within them, and this makes their darkness so much clear and stronger, that it’s hard to control it. For example, the Angel Digimon are the ones said to be “Gods”, “Embodiment of Virtue” and agents of “The Light”, but having all this holy power means that they also have an equally strong darkness that they need to control. Since they are already high in the scale of light, this means that they are also high in the scale of darkness, they need to do more effort to control their own darkness, and this is the reason for why the Angels are easy to corrupt, they living in the extremity of “Good” also means that they live in the extremity of “Evil”, they just need a bit more of darkness to make them lose control and be corrupted.
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But now that I explained how Darkness works, it’s time to explain the “Holy Power” and how it’s used to fight Darkness. Starting with the basic, the Angel and Holy Beast Digimon. Starting with Angemon, it’s explained that by using the “Holy Power” it’s capable of purifying entities away from evil, destroying evil, erasing it from the world, extinguishing the very existence of that evil. So dangerous is Light for Dark Beings that some very powerful Light Sources are something that evil itself wants to be away from, and doesn’t even try to touch that Light. This type of power is shared among nearly every Angel Digimon from low-level ones like Pidmon that uses meteor-like fire feathers to destroy evil up to the Archangels like Holy Angemon and Angewomon. Angewomon shows multiple aspects of this power, as it’s capable of materializing Holy Power in the form of an arrow of lightning that it’s used to destroy Evil, known as “Heaven’s Punishment”, but can also use the Holy Power to heal allies. The purification might be related with the powers of “Love” and “Life” of Light, as it’s used by Ofanimon in order to do Purification. Also, Seraphimon is capable of using the power that rules over “law and justice” to destroy and cleanse darkness.
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UHcmOVA.png|Fist: Angemon’s Special Move “Heaven’s Knuckle” is powerful enough to instantly extinguish the existence of evil!!
OjzXJ0N.png|It strikes at evil with its shining fist!!
mmWuv4h.png|I will never permit evil! It buries the opponent with holy power!
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qBdQ9Zg.png|It purifies evil with its shining holy fist!
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pHJO3GS.png|It pierces with its rod! These scorching white wings annihilate evil!
i9TgKT7.png|Entrusted with the mission of obliterating evil, it convicts criminals with its blazing meteor feathers!
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0eYMZEI.png|This white winged, holy celestial maiden lowers heaven's punishment, firing its arrows of thunder and lightning!
cK1JZnQ.png|Keeping the sacrifices of its comrades in its heart, it passes divine judgement onto evil with holy light!
AzPMDHC.png|A kind and beautiful Archangel Digimon with eight pure-white wings. On one hand, its affection gives it the ability to heal the wounds of its allies; on another hand, it also possesses Special Moves meant to eradicate the existence of evil. Holy Arrow: Draws its bow to the limit and fires an arrow of lightning at evil. This ray of light is also known as "Heaven's Punishment".
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bLLhll6.png|In its Battle Mode, it consigns the opponent to oblivion with the Beam Shield on its left arm and the holy sword Excalibur it wields with its right arm.
Znv0anL.png|This archangel dances as it descends with its shining silver wings. It punishes evil with the power of light!
DJFWkdO.png|The guardian angel of the fortress of justice, it purifies evil with its holy light!
HVihbbw.png|It eradicates the enemy with the holy sword Excalibur equipped to its right arm.
kSCqPke.png|It has the duty of watching over the world as a representative of light, and it changes into its Battle Mode when darkness draws near. It fights darkness using the holy sword Excalibur on its right arm, and the Beam Shield equipped on its left.
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MJK7V0r.png|One of the Three Great Angels Digimon, it governs over love and all life in the Digital World. It acts as a holy mother that spreads God's love and compassion, and splits its duties with the other Great Angels. Eden's Javelin: Uses the javelin in its right hand to purify the enemy and lead them to Eden.
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Of course, the Holy Power isn’t exclusive to Angels. There are still other “Holy Species” that also utilizes it are the “Holy Beasts” as “Pegasmon” and “Nefertimon” that are capable of using the “Holy Power” that is said to be used to destroy Evil. As already mentioned, one of the proofs of being a member of the “Holy Species” includes the “Holy Ring” that is present among various “Holy Beast Digimon” and is said to be part of the source of their Holy Powers, it’s capable of repelling, purifying, nullifying and destroying evil. According to some profiles, it has some form of “Divine Power” and is used as the “Power of Love” by Marine Angemon in order to erase virus
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ryYi51l.png|An Armor-level Holy Beast Digimon that evolved through the power of the "Digimental of Hope". The "Digimental of Hope" has the attribute of "Holy", and those that don this Digimental are able to obtain sacred power. Those that acquire this power are able to exhibit their absolute strength against evildoers.
7HpFvve.png|With its holy power, it displays absolute strength against evil!
KrtT97s.png|It extinguishes evil with sacred rays, the Pegasus of hope!
XVRuXkx.png|The form Patamon took on after Armor evolving with with the Digimental of Hope. With its body clad in golden armor, it gallops freely in the sky, boasting absolute strength while fighting evil with its holy powers.
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YGl1LXQ.png|An Armor-level Holy Beast Digimon that evolved through the power of the "Digimental of Light". The "Digimental of Light" has the attribute of "Light", and those that don this Digimental will have the ability to purify darkness with the intense power of light.
2yhprAK.png|It purges the darkness with the strength of the Digimental of Light.
T0GMkyt.png|The Armor Evolved form of Tailmon using the Digimental of Light. Possessing the light element, it possesses the ability to cleanse the impurities of darkness with its intense power of light. Curse of Queen: Fires high-temperature beams from the cobra ornament on its forehead, purifying evil.
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XUFEwo8.png|It sucks out nightmares and viruses, returning victims to their normal state.
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R2KufTA.png|It has the ability to purify nightmares and viruses, and possesses a Holy Ring which might or might not be connected to this ability.
CeDe779.png|On its arm is the proof that it is a holy Digimon, and it is considered a kind of Holy-species Digimon from where it wears its Holy Ring. [..] Its Special Move is exploding its holy spirit, instantly mowing down the opponents in every direction (God Flame).
kPlRUBB.png|This fighting god dragon exorcises evil with its fists of divine light!!
8KTi70P.png|A holy Digimon that possesses four wings that shine gold. It is the head of all Bird Digimon, and is said to be the one that presides over Holy-species Digimon. While Holydramon is the ultimate form of Beast Digimon, Hououmon is the ultimate form of Bird Digimon. As proof that it is a Holy-species Digimon, it draws holy power from where it holds its two "Holy Rings", and it is understood that the power possessed by Hououmon is unfathomable. Its Special Move is solemnly flapping its four wings, causing it to rain golden grains (Starlight Explosion). It is said that those who suffer this technique have all of their wickedness purified.
kwiib7E.png|The golden particles that fall from the sky completely purify the world of evil!
pB7RRdH.png|This ultimate holy bird annihilates evil with its crimson flames!
EqMN2hj.png|The flapping of its golden wings purifies all evil.
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Still, these are just users of “pure Holy Power”. As you know, “Light” is just the most pure existence in the Digital World and the other elements, and feelings, are ramifications of the same light. And although it can be said that they aren’t as good as pure light in order to fight evil, they still have the capacity to do so, as shown by the members of the Warrior Ten, where 9 of them don’t use “Holy Power” directly, and all the elements are still capable of doing that. The main example of this is “Fire”. Meramon’s profile explains that its fire is from the “Firewall” that prevents illegal access, and as such is capable of destroying viruses, and as shown in Agnimon’s profile, that “Fire” still is considered “Holy” (And as already shown, used by Agnimon in order to purify darkness) and uses its “will of justice” in order to do that. Angewomon X-Antibody used its Holy Power in order to show the “holy spirit” within the other elements, and showed how Fire has the power to destroy evil, the Water to cleanse, Wind to spread gentleness and Earth to spread life.
v9Vh5VK.png|As a Digimon generated from the defensive "Firewall" which prevents illegal entries from the Internet and the like, it possesses a violent temperament like the flames that envelop its body, and tries to incinerate everything it touches.
XGreOjF.png|Complete combustion! It incinerates viruses with its burning fist!!
FS2JvfY.png|Because its "Digicore" is wrapped in the Spiritual Fire which is called a holy blaze, it is able to freely manipulate flames. It is an incarnation of the "Firewall" that defends the Net, and is a guardian deity.
ofX8X1p.png|It drives off evil with its fist of fire, the Firewall Guardian!
M7aBH0Z.png|It clears a path with the dragon fire hidden in its holy fist!
b1ZtvJc.png|This red hot warrior of fire transforms its surging justice into flames!
3zhCh9i.png|Its burning wings of fire consumes evil and incinerates it!
5NqGDV5.png|Its sacred power is amplified, and Angewomon can release pure spirit by touching fire, earth, wind, and water. As a result, fire has the effect of driving away evil, the earth quickly sprouts and blooms, water is purified, and wind makes any Digimon it touches gentle.
But in the end, it’s Revolvmon’s profile that explains the best about how all of this works. According to it, Digimon that acts as “Virus Busters” uses their sense of “Justice” (Revolmon uses that with its Justice Bullet) in other Digimon in order to erase the “Spirit of Evil” that exists in every Digimon, even among Vaccines, but especially among the Virus Digimon. So, they are Digimon with the power of “Delete”. Looking more on some “Non Virus Buster Digimon”, looks like this is mostly related with the very “Vaccine Species” and the Virus Busters simply is an organization, and so not only the power, but the desire to destroy Evil is an instinct shared among Vaccines who uses their “Justice”, “Vaccine Energy”, to erase the “Evil”. This, of course, fits with the concept of “Vaccines” that I explained here. However, even “Vaccine” isn’t the limit of how “Delete” is among Digimon, since even Virus Digimon, like Dukemon and Lord Knightmon, can become members of the Virus Busters and delete Evil.
YRyME7k.png|Although the details of how it was born are completely unclear, it has a deep sense of justice and acts as a "Virus Buster". The "Virus Busters" exterminate the spirit of "Evil" possessed even among Vaccines and especially by Viruses, and are Digimon who have the ability to Delete. [...] Its Special Move is personally becoming a gun barrel and firing off a bullet of justice (Justice Bullet).
DECQP6M.png|Virus Busters (ウィルスバスターズ): The Digimon line with the power to resist the Virus Type Digimon. Leomon, the one with a great sense of justice, and Angel Digimon as Angemon belong to this.
gqPn1E4.png|Its small fireballs are full of pride and have the data of courage contained in them!
ku5GoAM.png|It destroys viruses with its claws of courage, opening the path to tomorrow!
S5PgZK3.png|A rookie member of the 'Virus Busters', an evil-destroying Digimon Team.
jCStPVa.png|With its reinforced head and its physical strength, it kicks off advancing viruses!
Jd42q5d.png|A helmeted dinosaur who harvests viruses with its sharp horn!
MHb69LA.png|An Undead Digimon that was a Mammon, revived from ancient times, that continued to battle with Virus-species Digimon, resulting in its whole body being eaten away by a virus, leaving nothing but bones. Its survival instinct as a Vaccine is strong even in death, and in order to continue battling, it has lost all emotion and intelligence aside from its resolve to exterminate Viruses.
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Bd4qUdj.png|The "Commando Dragon" that aims to be a Virus Buster is Strikedramon. [..] Although it is naturally a kindhearted Digimon since it is part of the Vaccine-species just like Angemon, once it discovers a Virus-species it becomes possessed by the extermination instinct (destruction instinct?), and it won't try to stop fighting until it has reduced the opponent to trash data.
5DHmuJT.png|This commando Digimon massacres viruses, following its extermination instincts!
O2DIsO6.png|This kind exterminator eradicates evil with its justice of steel!
AGXLdGt.png|A solitary warrior who does not belong to the group of justice "Virus Busters", no one knows its true identity. The super-oscillatory wave "Erase Claw" emitted from both arms will erase any data.
pkK4qpP.png|When Virus Digimon break out on the Computer Network, it suddenly appears out of nowhere and annihilates them all. However, it is a lone warrior that is not affiliated with the group of justice, the "Virus Busters", and its true colors are shrouded in mystery. As for its unique rubber armor, not only does it have excellent defensive ability, but it also has a feature it unleashes that amplifies its offensive ability. Its Special Move is producing a super-oscillatory wave from both of its arms that destroys configuration data, completely erasing each of the opponents in the surrounding space (Erase Claw). If you suffer this attack, you are annihilated without leaving behind a single scrap of data.
JfjijGC.png|This prideful warrior uses its super-vibrating claws to delete evil!
Y2Cc3ox.png|It moves stealthily, making every step count, and exterminates Virus Digimon. Its "Erase Claw" has been sharpened and enhanced further, and it also acquired a Special Move called "Extreme Tailer", which compresses the Vaccine energy it charges its wings with and releases it from its tail.
zqGlTz0.png|It stakes everything on its pride as a Royal Knight! Its holy attack is proof of its chivalry!!
yGyHlAx.png|Its holy shield purifies the evil of the Net!
jv3amNF.png|An unmerciful head knight who judges evil with its spiral dance!
For finishing, I’ll talk about one more concept that is used against “Evil”, the “Hellfire”. The “Hellfire” has been mentioned a lot of times and is used by many Digimon, mostly Dark Digimon or Digimon related with Darkness. Most of the cases, it was said that Hellfire was capable of burning up everything without a trace. Then, it was said that they sent things to the Dark Area and there, it was the “Flames of Purgatory” that brings suffering even in death. Finally, some Holy Digimon started to also use Hellfire as if Hellfire is in fact something sacred used against Evil. Finally, Beelzebumon X-Antibody profile answered what “Hellfire” really is. According to it, “Hellfire”, also called “El Evangelio”, are flames that impose judgment against Evil beings. So, they offer salvation for those who sinners, basically you could say that Hellfire is used to purify evil beings from their sins, the process is painful, but in the end the Digimon will be purified. This is worst for Dark Digimon whose existences are pure sin, and so El Evangelio may destroy the entirety of that Digimon, including its Digicore.
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UEoHpYV.png|Its Special Move is a red-hot jet of flames (Hellfire).
HogHrsC.png|The hellfire of the Dark Area surges from within the Demon Dog's jaws!
JM00UKY.png|Its Special Move is the extremely high-temperature flames of hell (Flame Inferno). Those who incur this technique burn up without a trace.
UtfwCfp.png|The cruel and inhuman leader of the Dark Digimon. It commands the flames of Purgatory!
3349eNz.png|Its Special Move is spewing hellfire, which is said to inflict eternal suffering even in death (Gehenna Flame).
ZkA8lap.png|This fallen angel count of dead-tormenting hellfire leads a demon army of 30!
yAfD2mU.png|Its Special Moves are black flames cast from the chains coiled around its body (Lampranthus), and a slash attack which is unleashed from its claws, clad in the flames of hell (Gift of Darkness).
r1VmRGW.png|Lampranthus: Throws the enemy into the Dark Area using the flames of sloth created from the chains that bind its body.
VoaS30X.png|Its Special Move is hunting down the opponent with its "Flame Hellscythe", which is shrouded in flames that serve as a weapon, then plunging the hunted soul into hell with hellfire.
7y4rKf8.png|Flame Hellscythe: Swings its fire-cloaked Flame Hellscythe, and sends the souls it has harvested together with hellfire to the underworld.
YG02wNV.png|"Brave Beat Rock Double Xros" is Shoutmon DX's Final Move. Omega Shoutmon's and Zeke Greymon's flames become one, clothing its body with the hellfire that purifies all corruption.
P1aixG7.png|As a result of Beelzebumon's data being overwritten by the X-Antibody, it was granted the ability to summon "El Evangelio", crimson flames of the underworld (Dark Area) capable of changing their form at will. El Evangelio are sentient flames that are used to impose judgment upon and offer salvation to the souls of the sinners that fall into the Dark Area. Being a Demon Lord type, Beelzebumon would have been completely eradicated by the flames under normal circumstances, including its Digicore.
==Conclusion/TL;DR/Q&A==
Now that I finished the main content of the blog itself, I’m going to answer a few questions that I think are going to be common. I know that this blog is huge, and not everyone will read it in order to know why our Digimon are in some ranting or how some abilities work, then you can use this as a “summary” of the blog itself.
::Question: What Darkness really is in Digimon?
Answer: “Darkness” is an umbrella term for anything that isn’t represented by “Light”, this includes the concepts of “Death”, “Nothingness”, “Non-Evolution” and any of the “Negative Feelings”, including the “Seven Deadly Sins” that makes someone closer to “Evil” (Another thing that is also included in Darkness). You can think of Darkness as the void of nothingness that predates existence and is everything that will be once all of creation has been destroyed.
::Question: What Light really is in Digimon?
Answer: “Light” is an umbrella term that is inspired by the concept of Plato’s “Form of Good” ”. As such, everything that exists in the world of Digimon is in a way, an emanation of this primordial concept. The most direct way of thinking of “Light” is to think of it as encompassing the ideas of “Life”, “Existence”, “Evolution” and the “Positive Feelings” like “Love”, “Courage”, “Friendship” or even the ideas of “Law” and “Justice”. When the world was in chaos, it was the very world that decided to follow the concept of “Light” and so start to exist.
::Question: How are Light and Darkness related?
Answer: Light is all of existence, Darkness is the void where there’s no existence. You can think of it as how the “Platonic Good” is an “Entity”, while the “Platonic Evil” isn’t, it’s a “Non-Entity” that represents the lack of “Good”. In truth, “Light” and “Darkness” are two sides of the same coin and the World contains both of them, the same is valid with the beings in the world. Everyone has two sides, one of Light and the other of Darkness.
::Question: Then what are the Dark Digimon and the Dark Evolution?
Answer: Dark Digimon are the ones that were removed from the world, erased from existence and sent to the “Void”. They are entities (Or, more correctly Non-Entities) that shouldn’t exist in the “World of Light”, as their existence contradicts the very meaning of the world. The same is valid for the “Dark Evolution”, although it’s seen as a form of evolution, it isn’t. For evolution is the power of light and the expansion of the Good, the Dark Evolution is simply a mutation that increases “Darkness” in a being, it’s simply something that brings the advancement of Nothingness and isn’t really something that “Exists”.
::Question: What about the World of Darkness?
Answer: Normally, it’s a void of nothingness without time and space that predates creation. When the “World” is created, then it’s divided into two sides. One is the side of “Light” filled with Life, Good and Evolution, while the other side of “Darkness” is “filled” (It’s in fact the “lack of” something that truly exists) Death, Evil and those who were “removed” from the path of “Evolution”. The “Two Sides of the Same Coin” is true not only for the world itself, but the beings in it. Nobody is completely Evil nor God, everyone has the same amount of Light and Darkness and it’s just the case that some may control it, while others don’t.
::Question: Then, what powers “Darkness” grants ?
Answer: So, this is something interesting. The nature of Darkness is that of erasing everything its touchers, corrupting it with “Darkness”. Since Darkness is in fact a void of non-existence, then Existence Erasure is obvious. But since “Darkness” also encompass others things, we could also include Death Manipulation since “Darkness” also is “Death”, and Corruption as it’s responsible to corrupting other Beings into Dark Beings (You could include Morality Manipulation, Empathic Manipulation over “Negative Feelings” or even Mind Manipulation). Darkness could also include some type of Absorption since everything it touches is “absorbed by darkness” as part of erasing everything. Also, as “Light” manifests in the form of life and evolution, Darkness can also be used to negate Light based powers, that I’ll explain later. Of course, “Dark Digimon” (Or Dark Beings as a whole) have Nonexistent Physiology and Empowerment via their own Negative Feelings. On some level, they also have Reactive Evolution, but in the opposite way of its “Light” counterpart.
::Question: Then, what powers “Light” grants ?
Answer: You could say that it grants the opposite. If “Darkness” erases, then “Light” has Creation, it’s capable of Purification, it has Empathic Manipulation over “Positive Feelings”. And since “Light” is “Life”, it also has Life Manipulation and of course Resurrection, Regeneration and Healing and you could say that in Digimon, they are all the same thing. “Light” is also the essence of “Evolution”, so in some level it also has some connection with Reactive Evolution and Empowerment (Via their own Positive Feelings), since every Digimon changes its own data in order to adapt to the environment becoming stronger and gaining new abilities. Of course, it also has the power to negate Dark based powers.
::Question: Wait… Darkness can negate Light Powers, but Light can do the same with Dark Powers ? How does that work ?
Answer: As I said before, Light and Darkness are two sides of the same coin that are balanced, anything that Light can do, Darkness can negate. And Light can do the same with Darkness. In a battle the decision is which one is stronger. Stronger enough darkness can negate weaker “light abilities”, and Light can do the same with “dark abilities”. For example, in “Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01” we are introduced to the “Overwrite, an ability that Digimon have that works as Reactive Evolution, it’s a Digimon becoming stronger. This ability works alongside a Digimon’s emotion, and is triggered by anger, pain, joy, sadness, pleasure, etc. This gives an amazing boost of power and new abilities for a Digimon, but the downside is that the more violent the Overwriting is, the more pressure it puts the Digimon in, ultimately destroying the Digimon’s own body. However, this is for the “Overwrite” born from Negative Emotions, there’s also a “Holy” overwrite born from the positive emotion, called Ulforce, that grants an amazing regenerative ability that opposes the “destruction” of the Negative Feelings. However, Demon Super Ultimate had an improved “Dark Virus”, a power that rules over the Negative Feelings. And since Ulforce is a Holy Power, born from Positive Feelings, the fact that the Dark Virus had a “Dark Power” stronger than the Ulforce “Holy Power’, was enough to seal the Ulforce. The only solution to that was to give Ulforce V-Dramon an even stronger Holy Power born of stronger Positive Feelings so they could surpass the Dark Virus power
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So, yes. In a way, every “Holy Power” is resistant and can negate any “Dark Power”, and the “Dark Power” can do the same. The main point is which of them is stronger.
::Question: Okay, so Holy Digimon can resist Dark Power, and Dark Digimon can do the same with Holy Digimon. But what about the Digimon that aren’t Holy Digimon? How can they simply not be erased by darkness every time that a Dark Digimon appears in a fight ?
Answer: This is an interesting question. The answer is that in a way, every Digimon is a Holy Digimon and a Dark Digimon at the same time. “Light” itself is simply the most primordial source of “Good”, but everything that exists and every single Positive Feeling has the same effect as the original Light, it can be used to nullify Darkness. Holy Digimon are simply Digimon that show a great amount of Holy Power (Marked by looking like an Angel or due to the use of a Holy Ring), but literally every Digimon has both Holy and Dark powers. The very fact that a Digimon evolves is proof that it can use the Holy Power, since Evolution is at its core simply Holy Power. The same with Darkness, every Digimon contains both Light and Darkness and so, any Digimon can in a way resist the power of Darkness and Evolve. The biggest example are the “Virus Busters”, not all of them are “Holy Digimon” (But some of them are), but much of them are “Vaccine Digimon” that uses their sense of justice (Vaccine Energy) in order to destroy the “Spirit of Darkness” that exists within every single thing in the world, even among the Vaccine themselves. And this isn’t exclusive to the “Virus Buster” or even the “Vaccine”, they are simply the ones with the sense of justice to use that power for the “greater good”, literally every Digimon has that.
::Question: Can Holy Digimon like the Angels use Dark Power ? And can Demon Digimon do the same ?
Answer: Going from my previous answer, then you know that the answer is “yes”, but there’s a good point here. As I said, Digimon is about the constant fight against Light and Darkness, and the Holy Digimon are ones with great amounts of Light Power and via the “Light = Darkness” thing that I said above, they also have great amounts of Dark Power with them. The fight now is of control. Darkness is filled with ill intent and Holy Digimon in fact are full of them, so they need to control it. If they can’t control that power, they’ll fall into Darkness becoming a Dark Digimon. The bigger the light, the bigger the darkness, and since Darkness is the power used with ill intent, if a Holy Digimon used a lot of “dark power” this would make the digimon to be corrupted. It’s not that they can’t use it, but it is something against their nature and if they use the power, they will “cease to exist”. You could say the same with the Dark Digimon, but in a different way. Holy Power is that of Justice and Good, and even if the Dark Digimon also have an inner “holy power”, they simply normally aren’t beings that fight for justice and goodness, and so using Holy Power goes against their nature. And this is what makes Digimon like Mastemon or Lucemon Falldown Mode very powerful, they can control both Light and Dark powers without losing control, and being at the same time agents of creation and destruction. Other Digimon may be able to do the same, but it’s simply against their nature.
::Question: What about Hellfire ?
Answer: Hellfire is in a way, Holy Power. It’s fire that exists in the Dark Area, but is used for purification. The hellfire can be seen as torture even in death (Remember that Dark Digimon are in a way, Undead Digimon) because it’s a purification of the death, it’s punishment for sins, but in the end the one who suffered the pain by hellfire, may become a new being of pure goodness. Digimon that are seen as pure “Wicked Beings” such as the Demon Lords can be completely destroyed by hellfire, since some say that their existence is of pure darkness. But, Helfire simply is “fire-like” sacred power that exists in hell in order to punish Digimon that commited sins. It’s clear that a Dark Digimon would try to use that power, especially against other Dark Digimon, because in a way, darkness exists within every single thing. But it's a double-edge sword, since the Hellfire could also affect that Dark Digimon. Some Digimon have a power over the hellfire so big that they can survive Hellfire’s power.
::Question: What about Black Holes?
Answer: This is very important. Normally Black Holes are celestial bodies with a very high density with gravity so strong, that not even light can escape its gravitational pull. However, in Digimon we have “Darkness” as “Nothingness”, black holes aren’t really “high-density spheres”, but “spheres of darkness” that erase everything that they touch sending it to the “Dark Area”. In a way, it functions in a similar way as real Black Holes, but they don’t have “mass” and are in fact a “non-thing”. So, they still have Dark powers such as erasure, but they can’t be used to calculations like real Black Holes.
::Question: What about Dark Matter?
Answer: In real life dark matter is this mysterious “matter” that we can’t see and only suppose its existence due to how the universe works. However, in Digimon “Dark Matter” is in fact, “matter of darkness”. It’s Darkness itself. It’s born from the Negative Feelings and if used in a Digimon may cause it to lose control due to the hatred that exists within Dark Matter. Dark Digimon are also made of this “Dark Matter” and their attacks are also made of if, it’s also called “Darkside Power”, “Power of Darkness”, “Dark Power”, “Dark Energy” or “Negative Energy”. All of them are in fact the same thing.
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