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MetalSeadramon

Things get pretty interesting now with the Ultimate dragons, because BOTH of them that we're about to look at were major villains in the original anime, and even both on the same team of four "Dark Masters!" Guess Betamon really was pissed at getting so shafted.

Metalseadramon's design is the expected roboticization most Digimon go through at this stage, and not terrible, but the gold and silver is pretty eye-burning. All I can really say about this one is how hilarious his English dubbing is. Just listen to the voice they decided should come out of a giant, murderous dragon, and enjoy his dorky Anomalocarimon minion, too ("Scorpiomon" in the dub):

## Digivolves from

* WaruSeadramon

or

1. Brachiomon
2. Divermon
3. Dragomon
4. MarineDevimon
5. Megadramon
6. MegaSeadramon
7. Mephistomon
8. Paildramon
9. Scorpiomon
10. ShadowWereGarurumon
11. WereGarurumon
12. Whamon
Seahomon

This is more like it! I mean, there's no reason at all for "light" to turn Armadillomon into a seahorse, but it's interesting, for sure, and it has a megaphone for a face. It's curiously said to have a very small body in its natural environment of the deep sea, but "becomes even larger than seadramon" if it swims to the surface. Weird!

## Digivolves from

* Penguinmon

or

1. Armadillomon
2. Chuumon

## Digivolves to

* ?

or

1. MarineDevimon
Mametyramon

Mamemon can already evolve from dinosaur and dragon digimon, but they decided to throw in a reptilian version for good measure, which is pretty cute. It just looks like such a nasty little troublemaker, like it's probably swung from a chandelier or two in its life and wouldn't be averse to picking pieces of an airplane. Still, the Mamemon concept is beginning to wear out a little right around this point.

## Digivolves from

* Airdramon
* Allomon
* Deputymon
* Greymon
* Tyrannomon

## Digivolves to

* ?

or

1. Dinorexmon
2. UltimateBrachimon
SkullSatamon

While this doesn't have "devi" anywhere in its name, Skullsatamon was one of Devimon's go-to evolutions before Neodevimon even existed, and you can tell almost at a glance that we're basically looking at Devimon's skeletonized carcass, so I'm counting it as a true Devimon family member.

This was actually one of my favorites back in the day for being such a decrepit looking ghoul. I still love the gruesome feel of those pure red bones and of course the skull head so perfectly shrink-wrapped in black leather. It's just one wicked undead demon, and I remember a more awkward kid-me pointing specifically to Skullsatamon as evidence that Digimon can get dark and messed up enough for older people to get into, which is odd, because I had absolutely zero such shame when it came to Pokemon.

And, damn, you know, the fanservice is still a whole lot more explicit with the female monsters, but these trading cards still put forth some admirable effort into making buff gargoyles and rocker skeletons look pretty studly themselves.

## Digivolves from

* IceDevimon

or

1. BlackGrowlmon
2. DarkLizardmon
3. DarkTyrannomon
4. Devimon
5. Dobermon
6. ExVeemon
7. KaratsukiNumemon
8. Musyamon
9. NiseDrimogemon
10. Ogremon
11. Oryxmon
12. Raremon
13. Soulmon
14. Strikedramon
15. Togemogumon

## Digivolves to

* Bagramon

or

1. Beelzemon
2. Daemon
3. Ebemon
4. Ghoulmon
5. Lampmon
6. Megidramon
7. Murmuxmon
8. Valkyrimon
Rapidmon

Terriermon's Perfect is the expected cyborg, and as usual from this point onward, it doesn't have any of the tubes or hoses or scars or muscles that made digimon cyborgs so badass in the past.

It does, at least, have a very interesting silhouette, with a weirdly thin midsection and almost spherical abdomen. I'm inclined to think of this whole line as "rabbits," but they are apparently meant to be canine, and kind of like "poodles." This is the only one that even begins to look sort of poodle-esque, and that tiny little dog face is pretty amusing.

## Digivolves from

* Gargomon

or

1. BlackGargomon
2. GoldRapidmon
3. Kyubimon
4. Stegomon
5. Tylomon
6. Wendigomon

## Digivolves to

* MegaGargomon

or

1. Raijinmon
2. Suijinmon
3. Vikemon
Piximon

Hey digifans, how irritating is it that I use the original (arguably only correct) Digimon names just sort of whenever and the English names just sort of also whenever? Sorry. I'm gonna maybe try to be more consistent. Or not. Whatever! I like the name Piccolomon better than the English Pixiemon for this one, the last of our mini-size ball-shaped Perfect Digimon. In the anime, this little creep was giving a Yoda-like role of a mysterious, all-knowing trainer who lived in his own isolated palace and loaded the kids up with chores.

As a design, I'm kinda indifferent to this one, but I do respect that even a "cute" concept such as this pink fuzzball has a bit of an edge in the classic Digimon style, with claws and muscles and those cool stitched-together angel wings. Early artwork also seems to indicate that the whole species can be fairly violent, burning other Digimon either for some kind of ritualistic offering or perhaps because they're flesh-eaters. Maybe it's both, like the Ewoks, who were really pretty sick little bastards.

## Digivolves from

* Pucchiemon

or

1. Angemon
2. Boarmon
3. Dokugumon
4. Gekomon
5. Golemon
6. Kiwimon
7. Kokatorimon
8. Kuwagamon
9. Mojyamon
10. Monochromon
11. Ninjamon
12. Starmon
13. Thunderballmon
14. Tortomon
15. Unimon
16. Vegiemon

## Digivolves to

* Babamon
* Jijimon

or

1. Cherubimon
2. MarineAngemon
3. Marsmon
4. Seraphimon
Ophanimon

SO, LESS GOOD NEWS, here's that alternative, and I have the same complaints here as I do about Magnaangemon. Fortunately, the Angewomon we know in the anime doesn't typically evolve into Ophanimon, but I do see a lot of people treating her as the "more fitting" option, and I have to disagree. I don't have an argument to back up that disagreement other than that this is the boring one. I just disagree.

I'm also not letting this affect my rating or anything, but would you believe that guy who drew the boobedy Rosemon card art STILL insisted on sexifying Ophanimon's rigid metal suit?

## Digivolves from

* Angewomon

or

1. Asuramon
2. SuperStarmon
Minomon

So then we've got possibly one of the best-ever Baby digimon, a darling little bagworm! That's one of my favorite insects already! Instead of the silk strand of an actual bagworm, it can hang from the absurd giant hair on the top of its head, but it can ALSO levitate for basically no reason. Get me 22,000,000 of them.

## Digivolves to

* Wormmon

or

1. Dokunemon
2. Kokuwamon
3. Monmon
Maildramon

Nice to see Gatomon getting, in my honest opinion, the coolest looking thing on this page. Sure, it's just a dinosaur dragon in knight armor, but there's something about that specific beaky helmet that I really love. Pointed knight helmets with those grill-style visors are always really neat to me, kind of giving off a weird, emotionless bird-head vibe?

## Digivolves from

* Pegasusmon

or

1. Agumon
2. Gatomon
3. Salamon
4. Terriermon

## Digivolves to

* Goldramon

or

1. Brachiomon
2. Paildramon
Sagittarimon

It was T.K. and Patamon who once used the crest of Hope, and for some reason, the equivalent digi-egg turns V-mon into a scary centaur with claws instead of hooves. Alright. What else can I really say about this one, either? It sure is an armor having thingy.

## Digivolves from

* Centarumon

or

1. Bearmon
2. Tentomon
3. Veemon

## Digivolves to

* ?

or

1. Indramon
2. Pajiramon
3. Sandiramon
UltimateBrachimon

Brachimon has a designated Ultimate, creatively known as Ultimate Brachimon, and I love how much it hearkens back to the cybernetic dinosaurs of early perfect-levels. The tubes running all the way up its neck, possibly pumping blood, are an extremely cool touch that really gives it that "unnatural enhancement" vibe, as do the diesel truck exhaust pipes on its back. Outlandishly, those rocket thrusters on its sides are just supposed to compensate for its weight and allow it to walk at all. That's one way to do it, I guess!

## Digivolves from

* Brachiomon

or

1. Mametyramon
Valkyrimon

Never featured in the anime as an evolution of our own Hawkmon, but probably the most direct evolution of Silphymon. Another, different digimon kind of shares that honor, but it's also another of the "Royal Knights," and I feel like reviewing the rest of those separately if I can help it.

The concept of this digimon unfortunately never does much of anything with the golden hawk on its arm, which I thought was probably the most interesting design feature.

## Digivolves from

* Silphymon

or

1. Andromon
2. Angewomon
3. Garudamon
4. Kimeramon
5. SkullSatamon
6. Taomon
Ogremon

As with Devimon, we're going to place Ogremon at the start of this review, since he's considered an important series character and appeared years before any related evolutionary stages, and you have to admit he's pretty boss. I can't imagine you feeling disappointed by this Digimon if ogres, orcs and trolls are your favorite thing, with pretty much every hallmark of the goblinoid archetype; muscles, battle scars, tats, piercings, horns, a big bone that he hits things with, and of course a lack of any shirt.

Ogremon is also another nod to American entertainment, though it's an easy one to miss at first:

Ogremon's entire facial structure, from his eye shape to the tip of his oversized jaw, is pretty much lifted straight from Violator, the demonic enemy of Todd McFarlane's Spawn, and it won't even be the last time a Digimon borrows this look either!

Unlike his infernal lookalike, Ogremon isn't entirely a bad guy. He begins Digimon Adventure as a minion of Devimon, but by the second season, he's more of a rowdy antihero willing to work together with the kids to defeat still greater villains, and solidified himself as a fan favorite. Who doesn't love a big, loud, violent asshole who's really a big softie?

Best of all, Ogremon has a totally ROCKIN' theme song that he alternately sings and just plain yells his way through:

## Digivolves from

* Goblimon

or

1. Gabumon
2. Hagurumon
3. Kunemon
4. ModokiBetamon
5. Muchomon
6. Patamon
7. Tsukaimon
8. Veemon

## Digivolves to

* Digitamamon

or

1. Andromon
2. Asuramon
3. Giromon
4. Minotarumon
5. Mummymon
6. SkullSatamon
7. Vademon
Volcamon

A fairly fun digimon, Volcamon is a cyborg who looks like he's dropping a BRUTAL diss track, probably about Etemon, who's supposedly his arch nemesis. Volcamon's also got an entire volcano on his back, for no reason other than to make a pun out of his inspiration.

See, Volcamon is actually just a caricature of a Digimon series developer and tournament announcer who calls himself Volcano Ota in public appearances and delighted fans with his loud, outrageous personality. Loud and outrageous by Japanese standards, anyway. By American standards, that's just "every single day, but especially when someone else is trying to have a quiet dinner."

## Digivolves from

* Golemon

or

1. BlackGargomon
2. Flamedramon
3. Shadramon

## Digivolves to

* PileVolcamon
* AncientVolcamon

or

1. Boltmon
2. Imperialdramon
3. MegaGargomon
4. WarGreymon
Mummymon

Next, we've got Mummymon, who doesn't seem to grasp the meaning of "human disguise" quite as well as his partner in crime. He doesn't really scream "mummy," either, but that's fine. I always appreciated that he isn't just missing his right eye, but has no socket or scar or any indication that it was ever there, or any other facial features besides his saw-toothed mouth. In this form, he never exhibits any powers or abilities...but he does know how to drive and owns a little car. That has to count for something.

In monster form, this guy is everything you could have expected from a digimon mummy. He has an overall very Devimon-like shape, with huge claws, excessive leather belts and over the top weaponry, but with the same charming face he always did. His abilities in this form include "snake bandage," which employs his wrappings like tentacles, and "Necrophobia," an attack sometimes described as "summoning evil spirits," but sometimes described (and almost always illustrated) as an energy blast from his giant gun. It's a hilariously dramatic way to say you're just shooting somebody, and better still, the gun itself is named "Obelisk."

What's unusual about Mummymon, and I've said this in at least two other articles, is that his design is only about 1% "Egyptian mummy," courtesy the striped crooks on his back. Otherwise, his inventory includes not just white bandages, but a purple bandana, leg braces, bandoliers, and a rifle that is also a giant crutch. Meanwhile, his "human" form wears a stylized captain's uniform emblazoned with gold badges, and walks with a cane.

Mummymon's motif is that of a heavily wounded military soldier, and that's actually not all that surprising for a "mummy" in a Japanese cartoon.

As someone more observant of Halloween monsters than is usually considered reasonable, I can tell you that a lot of mummies in anime, manga and Japanese video games display a more "medical" than "ancient egypt" motif, or don't even make a distinction between the two at all. It's a strange little cultural distortion I've always found interesting, and I have to say I kind of like the "hospital mummy" idea even better than the "haunted pharaoh" version.

For pre-evolutions, Mummymon has an expected selection of ghosts and goblins including Wizardmon, Bakemon, Devimon, Devidramon, Ogremon, Vilemon and even, strangely, Nanimon.

By the way, look at these friggin Bandai Finger Puppets. WHY DON'T I HAVE THESE!?

## Digivolves from

* Clockmon

or

1. Dogmon
2. Gladimon
3. Gorillamon
4. Ogremon
5. Tuskmon

## Digivolves to

* Pharaohmon

or

1. AncientSphinxmon
2. Anubismon
3. Daemon
4. Ebemon
5. Murmuxmon
6. VenomMyotismon
GranKuwagamon

So, this at least changes the anatomy up, but honestly...I don't like this one as much as regular Kuwagamon, either. As a slightly newer digimon, its details are a lot smoother, cleaner, and just less interesting to me than its predecessors, and the addition of eyes knocks it even further down the coolness scale. All the other big beetly digimon are eyeless to better evoke their Alien inspiration. Now, we've got one with the fully swept-back head, but they had to go and stick cheesy demon eyes on it!

## Digivolves from

* Okuwamon

or

1. Datamon
2. Dinobeemon
3. Jewelbeemon
4. MegaKabuterimon
5. Mephistomon
6. Persiamon
7. Shakkoumon
NeoDevimon

This "artificially enhanced" Devimon is arguably both less goth and more goth than Devimon Classic. It doesn't have nearly as many accessories, but what it does have includes little metal coffins for kneepads, a series of subcutaneous red orbs, even more exaggerated arms, wild silver hair and an eerie golden mask hearkening to Evangelion, showing off its six eerie pairs of eyes.

Neodevimon must also get some points, of course, for also going shirtless and showing off the most skin of the entire Devimon family, even compared to the really fanservicey one we're gonna get to shortly.

## Digivolves to

* NeoMyotismon

or

1. Daemon
Vilemon

Oh, hey, and here's a Digimon even MORE blatantly based on The Violator from Spawn. It's not even just a jaw being borrowed here, this is basically Violator if you trade the horns for fur, hair, and batty wings.

But, that's fine. It's wild as hell that a mons game has so many references to such a specific 90's comic book series. Vilemon, sometimes called Evilmon, are an Adult demon digimon said to be small, cowardly and impish, though in some portrayals they're actually pretty large - sometimes larger than a human!

## Digivolves from

* DemiDevimon

or

1. Biyomon
2. Hawkmon
3. Impmon
4. Tsukaimon

## Digivolves to

* Mephistomon

or

1. BigMamemon
2. Myotismon
3. SkullGreymon
MaloMyotismon

So, spoiler alert, another evolution of dracula turns out to be the true main villain of Season 2, and to be honest, I don't really care. I guess it's neat that he has mouths on his shoulders, which his official profile hilariously tells us are nicknamed Sodom and Gomorrha, and it's kinda funny how he looks like he has a manta ray on his back now, but otherwise, I just wasn't that impressed by this reveal back in the day and I'm still not impressed by the design. This was after Digimon took a shift away from organic shapes and textures, which at the time felt tied in with the new "armor digivolutions," but soon, the armor aesthetic took over the franchise almost completely, and it's never really felt the same.

Before more of those "what about..." or "you forgot..." comments flood in, other Digimon related or partially related to Myotismon will get their own reviews, for reasons I'll be giving in those reviews. Try to remember that I'm not going for perfect completion here (humanly impossible) but if a Digimon is even remotely cool to me, I'm including it. There just isn't any single, sound way to organize these guys.
Shurimon

So, whoa, that is pretty unexpected. Hawkmon can evolve into SEVERAL possible bird-based armors, but the anime chose only two to showcase at all, and decided one should be its very, very least avian option. I'm certainly not complaining, because this void-faced plant-ninja is a pretty damn interesting being, with wacky springy arms and legs constantly gripping massive, frightening shurikens. That's just such a neat combination of design features. It's a monster whose anatomy completely revolves around wielding its signature weapon with maximum efficiency, and just a fun as heck overall visual.

## Digivolves from

* Kougamon

or

1. Goblimon
2. Hawkmon
3. Kazemon
4. Salamon

## Digivolves to

* ?

or

1. AeroVeedramon
2. Karatenmon
WarGreymon

Siiiiigggh. Now we come to that "ultimate" or "mega" stage I mentioned, and it unfortunately marks the beginning of the artistic shift I was talking about in our intro page. This more anthropomorphic, more armored, more toyetic dinoman isn't too bad on its own, but its look and feel would sort of become the base template for almost all Digimon and especially all higher-level Digimon introduced in the years to follow.

It's a design that has its place and appeals to a lot of people, don't get me wrong, but even Digimon's original creature designer has said that he was aiming for a visual feel similar to dark American comic books and horror films, something we will be exploring in much further detail over the pagesto come, whereas Wargreymon here is a very, very "anime" kind of design.

It's not "bad," but it's also not what I signed up for, and it wouldn't bother me if not for the fact that those more "monster movie" kind of designs would eventually fall almost entirely to the wayside in favor of armor-plated anthropoids.

There are, of course, other agumon variants and spinoffs we could review here, but we're going to be keeping these as simple as we can for now.

I guess it's kind of ironic that I went with Agumon's evolutionary line, from Koromon to Wargreymon, as our 5-star rating meter, when Wargreymon itself isn't actually going to earn a 5/5 score. I'm sorry, Wargreymon, according to my hare-brained rating scheme you apparently aren't worth yourself. I'll at least give you a three, acknowledging that you are fairly popular and you at least communicate the idea of an ultra-powerful super-duper gray man well enough. That's honestly all I can really think to say about the design itself, except that I'm glad it kept the weirdly human red hair hanging out from under the helmet...or maybe those are saurian feathers?

## Digivolves from

* MetalGreymon

or

1. Asuramon
2. BigMamemon
3. Dinobeemon
4. Gigadramon
5. Giromon
6. Knightmon
7. MagnaAngemon
8. Mamemon
9. MasterTyrannomon
10. MegaSeadramon
11. MetalTyrannomon
12. Phantomon
13. Piximon
14. SkullGreymon
15. Volcamon
16. WarGrowlmon
Yokomon

...And then there's the second baby stage, even more botanical, and even more confusing when we get to our next digimon, but it's also super cute, and illogical or not, I really like the idea of a bird monster evolving from a flower monster.

## Digivolves to

* Biyomon
* Tinkermon
* Penguinmon
* Muchomon

or

1. Floramon
2. Mushroomon
Conomon

This digimon line is important to some major plot points in Tamers as well as the Adventure 02 movie, The Golden Digimentals, and if it looks familiar, it's because its first few stages are simply brown, multi-horned counterparts to Terriermon's line. Since we're judging as individual designs, these aren't going to get much different ratings.
Silphymon

Hawkmon's perfect form is actually a fusion evolution, achieved in the anime when Aquilamon merges with good old Gatomon, so apparently an eagle and a cat make a human in a bird suit. Odd, busy, not especially cool or interesting to me.

## Digivolves from

* Aquilamon

or

1. Airdramon
2. Birdramon
3. Gatomon
4. Kokatorimon
5. Nefertimon
6. Witchmon
7. Wizardmon

## Digivolves to

* Valkyrimon
* AncientKazemon

or

1. Dynasmon
2. Fujinmon
3. Hououmon
4. Ornismon
Pajiramon

Sheep Deva and servant of Zhuqiaomon. Another traditionally "cute" animal cast as a menacing virus digimon! It's basically a sheep centaur, and of course, it has power over peoples dreams, including the power to trap others in an illusionary nightmare. I really like the idea of a fluffy white sheep as a Freddy Kreuger sort of villain.

## Digivolves from

* Sheepmon

or

1. Opossumon
2. Ranamon
3. Sagittarimon

## Digivolves to

* ?

or

1. Beelzemon
2. Cannondramon
3. Diaboromon
4. Gulfmon
5. Kuzuhamon
6. Rosemon
7. Zhuqiaomon
Bara hon älskar mig

**Bara hon älskar mig** är en sång skriven av Stephan Berg. Den framfördes av Blond i Melodifestival 1997. Låten slutade på en 1:a plats med 80 poäng.

Därmed bar det av till Dublin i Republiken Irland i maj samma år, för Eurovision Song Contest där den slutade på 14:e plats.

## Sångtext

*Hjälp gärna till genom att lägga till sångtexten till låten*

## Källor

1. ↑ Johan Andersson (15 maj 2004). "Så har det gått för Sverige år för år" (på svenska). Aftonbladet. https://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/a/kaEzeA/sa-har-det-gatt-for-sverige-ar-for-ar. Läst 29 mars 2021.
Tylomon

Well, that's different I guess. The angelic cat's "sincerity" armor is a tylosaur?! Not bad, either. The "armor" part of it detracts a little, but the rest is a decently organic, scaly sea reptile.

## Digivolves from

* Mantaraymon

or

1. Crabmon
2. Gatomon
3. Guilmon
4. Syakomon

## Digivolves to

* Plesiomon

or

1. Blossomon
2. Etemon
3. Garudamon
4. MarineDevimon
5. Mermaimon
6. Paildramon
7. Rapidmon
8. Whamon
Vademon

Yes, the official perfect evolution of Vegiemon - its equivalent to the likes of Monzaemon, Etemon, Digitamamon and Extyrannomon, is this absolutely wonderful martian invader complete with tentacles, buggy eyeballs, a B-movie raygun and a huge, purpleish, exposed brain! The electronic cables are also a nice touch, especially how one of them is always shown disconnected. I'm not sure exactly why they decided a space alien should be the evolution of a noxious little plant. Maybe it's a "pod person" reference. Maybe it's because a "weed" is kind of an "invader." Maybe it's purely because both have tentacles. Whatever the logic, it's a pretty fascinating idea, with Vademon's official description stating that it is "shaped" like a space alien but "rumored" to have sprouted from a seed!

Because the original "failures" were all just re-skins of Numemon and their evolutions were all just re-skins of Monzaemon, Vademon was yet another whose attack animation resembled a flying heart. The heart thing made sense for a teddy bear, a rock-singing monkey, a stuffed purple dinosaur (wait...is Extyrannomon a BARNEY joke!?) and I guess for a big tamagotchi egg, but it's a little tougher to tie it into Vademon, who's apparently just blowing kisses when he uses the move. Is it some kind of tentacle joke? He doesn't really hit any of the design tropes that read to me as that kind of tentacle monster.

All I know is that the anime Vademon spoke in a falsetto voice with dainty hand gestures and other "effeminate" behavior, which feels like a cheap gay joke and that's an ongoing problem with cartoon villains, but at least Vademon doesn't have to be a villain. You can, in theory, be best friends with a gay tentacle monster who wants you to believe he came from space...and who wouldn't want to be? He's still supposed to be a highly desirable evolution, at one time one of the most powerful digimon possible. No wonder they painted him like this in the new Battle Spirits card line:

Holy shit.

## Digivolves from

* Vegiemon

or

1. Airdramon
2. Angemon
3. Bakemon
4. Birdramon
5. Centarumon
6. Coelamon
7. Devimon
8. Drimogemon
9. Frigimon
10. Garurumon
11. Greymon
12. Kabuterimon
13. Kokatorimon
14. Kuwagamon
15. Leomon
16. Meramon
17. Mojyamon
18. Monochromon
19. Nanimon
20. Ninjamon
21. Numemon
22. Ogremon
23. RedVegiemon
24. Seadramon
25. Sepikmon
26. Shellmon
27. Sukamon
28. Tyrannomon
29. Unimon
30. Weedmon
31. Whamon

## Digivolves to

* Ebemon

or

1. Babamon
2. Gryphonmon
3. Parasimon
Parrotmon

Parrotmon is SUCH a more interesting concept than it ought to be. How many times have you ever seen a tropical parrot as a giant kaiju-like monster? How often does anyone think of a parrot as big, scary beast material? They're always goofy little pets and sidekicks. Even in monster franchises they're frequently one of the smaller creatures, usually with sonic attacks or magic to compensate. But no, Parrotmon is a huge, terrifying, Perfect-level bird monster whose realistically adorable little fat parrot face has nothing but murder in its watery blue eyes, with clawed arms in addition to its wings and metallic plates bolted over its face and I guess also its cloaca, just in case the enemy digimon is going to pull that cheap a shot.

## Digivolves from

* Diatrymon

or

1. Birdramon
2. Harpymon
3. Kokatorimon
4. Saberdramon
5. Thunderbirmon

## Digivolves to

* Eaglemon

or

1. Hououmon
PrinceMamemon

Likewise, the first Ultimate stage ever devised for the beans sacrifices their monstrous qualities for a gag that kind of falls flat, for me. Nothing against this guy, he seems like a funny character and all, but the Mamemons really deserved something more frightening to evolve into, maybe something with the same exact regular Mamemon body but even bigger, awfuller arms and legs than any of them.

## Digivolves from

* BigMamemon

or

1. Datamon
2. Giromon
3. Mamemon
4. MetalMamemon
5. Tekkamon
Mephistomon

The villain of the Labramon movie is quite possibly one of the best looking of all demon digimon, and a perfect level that can evolve from the likes of Devidramon or little Vilemon! That realistic goat head is eerie as hell, and I really love the distribution of colors they went with. The hands and face, the most engaging parts of a character, get to be chalky white. The other extremities are black, they're connected together by bulbous purple areas, and a few bright orange highlights break it all up with a splash of more vibrant color. It's just so damn PRETTY.

You're pretty, Mephismon.

## Digivolves from

* Vilemon

or

1. Baromon
2. BlackGrowlmon
3. BomberNanimon
4. Boogeymon
5. Devidramon
6. Dinohumon
7. Duskmon
8. Gargoylemon
9. Kyubimon
10. Wendigomon

## Digivolves to

* Daemon
* Gulfmon

or

1. GranKuwagamon
2. MetalSeadramon
3. Sakuyamon
Betamon

Maybe I should feel bad that I gave Numemon priority over this poor little guy, but then again, Numemon has a pretty rough time of existing and could always use a break. Betamon's only problem is that it was passed over as the face of the franchise or even a main character at all, despite debuting alongside Agumon as one of the two possible child Digimon in the original pet.

It's a shame, because while Agumon is alright enough and easily marketable, I think Betamon could have made for a more memorable, instantly recognizable series mascot if they'd only given it a chance as one. The combination of its pudgy, watermelon-like form, huge orange mohawk crest and those rad little monodactylic feet makes for an overall truly unique little reptilian beastie that I think a lot of kids would have eaten up in all manner of toy forms.

## Digivolves from

* Koromon

or

1. Bukamon
2. Tanemon

## Digivolves to

* Seadramon
* Tortomon

or

1. Airdramon
2. Chuchidarumon
3. Coelamon
4. DarkTyrannomon
5. Devimon
6. Ebidramon
7. Guardromon
8. MoriShellmon
9. Nanimon
10. Numemon
11. SandYanmamon
12. Shellmon
13. Sukamon
14. Swanmon
15. Whamon
Ali Jammali

**Ali Jammali**, även känd som **Alibrorsh** (tidigare **Alibi**), född 2 februari 1982, är en svensk rappare, låtskrivare och musikproducent från Hjällbo, Göteborg. Medlem i bandet Medina.

## Medverkan i Melodifestivalen

### Bidrag

 "In i dimman"
 2024 | "Que sera"

## Externa länkar

* Officiell Facebook-sida
* YouTube-kanal
* Ali Jammali på Discogs
* Ali Jammali på Spotify
* Ali Jammali på Instagram
* Ali Jammali på Popfakta
* Ali Jammali på Svensk Filmdatabas
Renamon

Sssiiighh, and here she is, the digimon that changed the fandom forever. Weirdly tall for a "child" digimon, Renamon is kind of simultaneously the Lucario and Gardevoir of digimon, in the sense that a disproportionate number of people seem to consider this thing either the coolest digimon, the "sexiest" digimon, or both. I suppose it's also a simultaneous Lucario and Gardevoir in the sense that I neither dislike it as much as Lucario or like it as much as Gardevoir; I just find the design far too boring. I see a dog standing up, and not a dog that conveys any particular personality, visually.

I feel like the success of this digimon with the fan base might have unfortunately been the final nail in the coffin for digimon's original aesthetics. Once they saw how much money they could make drawing just any old fox or bunny thing, our fate was sealed.

I know a lot of people love this one as a character, though, and for a lot of people this series was their entire introduction to digimon. I don't fault that at all, but it just dropped a lot of things I originally loved about the series, and there are whole swathes of the fandom now who even talk as if most pre-Tamers digimon designs were just a bad mistake.

## Digivolves to

* Kyubimon
* Youkomon

or

1. Apemon
2. BlackGrowlmon
3. Depthmon
4. Devidramon
5. Dogmon
6. Ebidramon
7. ExVeemon
8. Gargoylemon
9. Guardromon
10. Harpymon
11. Kiwimon
12. Musyamon
13. Orcamon
14. Prairiemon
15. Raidramon
16. Rinkmon
17. Seadramon
18. Sukamon
19. Yasyamon
Wizardmon

Today we review a couple of weirdo magic-users, starting with the heroic Wizardmon! He's really quite a bit cooler than our typical image of a wizard, with a pretty kickass outfit loaded with zippers and stitches and a couple of skulls for good measure. If you've closely followed these reviews, you may notice the inside of his cape bears the same sort of pattern as Phantomon, and the little reaper is even one of Wizardmon's possible evolutions! I also like how the end of his staff is a golden tamagotchi, and according to his bio, the "sorcery" he practices is just "higher level programming code!" I love the idea of digital creatures manipulating code as "magic."

Wizardmon is perhaps best known for his role in Digimon Adventure, as the best friend of Gatomon and another minion of Myotismon working against their evil master. This particular Wizardmon was also a total drunk, but the English version, not wanting children to accidentally hear that beer exists, opted to dub Wizardmon's alcoholism as an addiction to drinking "hot sauce" straight from the bottle, which, like many dub decisions, is honestly much funnier.

Also of note? Wizardmon's true face isn't as human as it might look at first glance, but a sort of noseless, ghostly scarecrow! ...With a rat tail. Not ALL of his fashion decisions are perfect.

## Digivolves from

* Impmon

or

1. Bakumon
2. Candlemon
3. DemiDevimon
4. Gabumon
5. Keramon
6. Kotemon
7. Palmon

## Digivolves to

* Baalmon

or

1. Asuramon
2. Mistymon
3. Phantomon
4. Silphymon
5. SkullMeramon
6. WereGarurumon
7. Wisemon
Numemon

Behold one of the original seven Adult Digimon from the very, very first Digimon Virtual Pet, and one of the other courses down which Agumon could go.

Numemon, however, was ostensibly an "undesirable" evolution - if you can believe it - actually even weaker than a child Digimon and only obtained should you fail to meet any of the minimum requirements for any other Adult, most notably when you fail to clean up any of your digimon's virtual poop.

Yeah, its traditional color throughout the series may be candy-pink, but that's neither yogurt nor ice cream nor merely "sludge" or whatever else the English dub wound up calling it, and as I'm sure you can imagine, Numemon's primary attack method is to generate even more of it.

I'm not usually that big into toilet humor, but a pitiful, unwanted slug that eats dookie and typically lives in the sewer really speaks to me on a spiritual level, and anything with bare, lidless eyeballs on veiny stalks is love at first sight. There's a real "Rat Fink" vibe to Numemon, if you ask me, but knowing the creator's love of Western monsters, I think Numemon's real inspiration is obvious; where else have we seen such distressingly human teeth and gums on a gluttonous green blob, also bearing in mind that "nume" means basically "slimy?"

As you can imagine, Numemon are often the butt of jokes throughout Digimon media, often showing up when they're in the mood for a gross-out joke or just a really, really pathetic monster, though in the first season, it was actually the prissy Mimi who first befriended a band of the smelly mollusks.

## Digivolves from

* Chuumon

or

1. Agumon
2. Bearmon
3. Betamon
4. Biyomon
5. Elecmon
6. Gabumon
7. Gotsumon
8. Kunemon
9. Palmon
10. Patamon
11. Penguinmon
12. SnowGoburimon

## Digivolves to

* Monzaemon

or

1. BlackKingNumemon
2. Vademon
3. Zudomon
Tentomon

And then, we get TENTOMON! Look at him! Look at how rad he is! He's obviously supposed to be a ladybug, and that's really interesting to me as a lifelong insect nerd, because a "cute" ladybug is a fairly predictable choice for an arthropod protagonist, but Tentomon does not shy away from a truly insect-like appearance, and while that's not completely unheard of in Japanese media - thanks largely to Kamen Rider - it was novel as hell to me back when the Digimon dub first premiered.

It was pretty much Tentomon who hooked me into the series first, and I tuned in to the first few episodes just to see what the little beetle would say or do next. It helped that I found (and still find) his English voice completely endearing, which you can listen to for almost three solid minutes in this old interactive short from the official Fox Kids website.

That's not to say Japanese Tentomon isn't also lovable, which you can listen to for ANOTHER three minutes of your life in this official song, because oh yeah, tons of early Digimon also have official songs.

Tentomon's dorky voice and mannerisms are part of his characterisation as a "scholarly" digital monster, and this is also a reflection of his human partner, another one a lot of us little geeks related to all too well:

Fascinated by computers, video games and scientific trivia, "Izzy" was probably the #1 person you would want tagging along on an adventure through anything called a "digital world," but as an introvert with niche interests and a lot of difficulty reading social cues, he often came across as cold and distant to the other children.

These days, we all know that a kid like Izzy probably falls somewhere on the autism spectrum, but that was barely a concept anyone had heard of in the mid-90's. Instead, kids like Izzy were just considered "weird" or "antisocial," appearing in countless cartoons as insufferable know-it-alls, comedic sidekicks or even skeevy little villains.

Not Izzy, though. Not Digimon Adventure! While Izzy does have to learn how to show more sensitivity towards the differing needs and feelings of others, he never has to change who he is to be accepted in turn. Instead, Izzy's bug pal encourages him to fully embrace his interests and talents, seeing through Izzy's "weirdness" to a bright kid with a good heart and always willing to stick up for him, just the way he is.

## Digivolves to

* Kabuterimon
* Kuwagamon

or

1. Ankylomon
2. Beetlemon
3. FlaWizarmon
4. Flybeemon
5. Flymon
6. Gatomon
7. Gekomon
8. Honeybeemon
9. Roachmon
10. Sagittarimon
11. Salamandermon
12. Searchmon
13. Snimon
14. Stingmon
15. Submarimon
16. Tortomon
17. Yanmamon
Okuwamon

Kind of disappointing, to be honest. Megakabuterimon was different enough from Kabuterimon, but Grankuwagamon adds little more than a color swap. It's still cool, as any giant, fanged beetle creature is going to be, but...could have been better. I should also take this moment to complain again about how the majority of Digimon have NEVER had artwork released for them at any higher than this resolution. The larger images we've been using are from an art book scanned by With the Will, and it's not going to be long before we run completely out of those.

## Digivolves from

* Kuwagamon

or

1. Flymon
2. Fugamon
3. Gekomon
4. Gururumon
5. Saberdramon
6. Unimon
7. Youkomon

## Digivolves to

* GranKuwagamon

or

1. AncientBeetlemon
2. HerculesKabuterimon
3. Magnadramon
4. MetalEtemon
Tsubumon

You know from the name that we're heading for an armadillo, but neither of its baby stages do much to telegraph that. Tsubumon is a kind of mediocre design for one of these slimebabies, but I do really like the idea behind it; it's an "animal" digimon, but looks like a fluffy seed and even gets carried on the wind in the same way.
Moosemon

Yeah, a moose. The only thematic connection here is that Hawkmon and Moosemon are both drawing from North American wildlife, I guess. It's supposedly a sort of sacred guardian beast associated with frozen mountains, and it definitely has that vibe to it at a glance.

## Digivolves from

* SnowAgumon

or

1. Hawkmon
2. Lopmon
3. Psychemon
4. Tsukaimon
Vegiemon

OKAY, I've been putting off another of my beloved trashmons long enough. I feel like doing one of my personal favorites - or an especially important villain - roughly every ten reviews might make for a good pace, wouldn't it? That gives me plenty of room to drop more obscure digimon or even some of my least favorites without getting too bored.

So, Vegiemon here was another of the original failure evolutions associated with poop, and it's a rather odd choice for one. The others all make sense as "gross and unloved" creatures, sort of, but this is just a cool looking plant monster with no overtly disturbing or unsanitary characteristics. If they'd made it an eggplant I'd have understood immediately, eggplants being the stereotypical "yucky, healthy vegetable" in Japanese cartoons, but there isn't even any particular plant that Vegiemon resembles.

I guess the idea here is that Vegiemon is just an undesirable "weed" of some sort, and it's a PRETTY cool looking weed. It doesn't fall back on any of the more obvious plant monster tropes, resembling some bizarre veiny bulb with just a couple of tentacles and an almost bird-like head with such marvelously sinister eyes. What an utterly shit-eating face on this thing, in both the figurative and literal sense, though by way of being a plant, the coprophile slant is almost wholesome here. There's nothing disturbing about some good quality nightsoil if you're at all into gardening, though maybe Vegiemon's problem is that it has exceptionally bad taste even in crapola? Maybe it likes dog turds or other lower-grade fertilizer. Maybe I've spent too much time talking about this subject.

Perhaps the funniest thing about Vegiemon is that its debut Vpet appearance was as a possible failure evolution for Gabumon. I guess you definitely have to be a special kind of screwup if you're trying your absolute best to be the ultimate wolf furry and evolve into the wrong biological kingdom entirely.

And, hang on a second, what's going on here? Vegiemon's official bio says that it eventually blooms and produces a "fruit," but this doodle is the only example we've ever been shown, and that "fruit" has a very, very particular appearance to it...

## Digivolves from

* Palmon

or

1. Elecmon
2. Floramon
3. Gabumon
4. Kunemon
5. ModokiBetamon
6. Mushroomon
7. Penguinmon

## Digivolves to

* Vademon

or

1. Blossomon
2. Cherrymon
3. Piximon
TonosamaMamemon

So this is our last true Mamemon, and what I said about the loss of monster qualities still stands, but it's at least a step up from its prince in terms of weirdness, if at least for that unsettling face on the end of its topknot. Apparently, this is a Mamemon who absorbed data from a period drama about feudal lords, which is a pretty funny concept, basically a more Japanese-flavored counterpart to Princemamemon's obsession with European royalty.

All in all, the Mamemon family is an interesting monster concept that unfortunately stretches itself a little too thin without as big a payoff as I personally think it warrants.

## Digivolves from

* CatchMamemon

or

1. Blossomon
2. MetalMamemon
Shadramon

It's too bad we never see this in the anime. I'm not really into its design style, but it's an evil butterfly-themed digimon, so it's one of those Skullgreymon style evolutions, but for Wormmon! It gets an extra point entirely for being a bad butterfly. A badderfly.

Interestingly enough, though, Flamewizardmon, which we reviewed a ways back, is an alternative Courage form for Wormmon.

## Digivolves from

* Roachmon

or

1. Gizamon
2. Psychemon
3. Wormmon

## Digivolves to

* ?

or

1. Dinobeemon
2. Karatenmon
3. Paildramon
4. ShadowWereGarurumon
5. Volcamon
Phantomon

Bakemon can evolve into all sorts of Halloweeny Digimon, including a particularly special one we'll get to later, but its most direct evolution is this neat little Grim Reaper. I miss the teeth, but you can never go wrong with glowing eyes in a hood, and Phantomon has a lot of cool accessories going on, like the eyeball around its neck, the proportionately MASSIVE scythe, the cosmic inner lining of its cloak and the odd radiation-skull-warning on its forehead.

A single Phantomon appeared in Myotismon's employ, naturally as a sort of "general" to the many Bakemon.

## Digivolves from

* Bakemon

or

1. Devidramon
2. Devimon
3. Meramon
4. Piddomon
5. Soulmon
6. Unimon
7. Wizardmon

## Digivolves to

* Piedmon

or

1. Machinedramon
2. VenomMyotismon
3. WarGreymon
Pegasusmon

I forgot this one completely when we reviewed Patamon, even though it was one of the ones that actually appeared in the anime. Maybe because it just didn't impress me that much. It's a gold pegasus and that's pretty much all there is to it. Absolutely pales in comparison to the existing winged unicorn digimon, Unimon.

## Digivolves from

* Patamon

or

1. DemiDevimon
2. Gabumon

## Digivolves to

* Maildramon

or

1. Garudamon
2. Hippogriffomon
3. Indramon
4. MagnaAngemon
Minotarumon

Getting straight back to the obscurities, this big cow man with a cybernetic gun arm is another Digimon that, like Whamon, was retconned at some point from an Adult to a Perfect and can technically evolve into itself. How funny would it be if there were Child and Ultimate versions, too? Minotaurmon just digivolves to Minotaurmon, Minotaurmon, Minotaurmon and Minotaurmon.

The most interesting design detail hear is clearly that there's a zipper embedded all the way down this minotaur's chest. Why? What's in there? Does he just need that much open-heart surgery? Actually...those eyes sure look like they're peering out of a lopsided mask. That entire "cow head" appears to be nothing but a hood!

As some commenters have also hit on, it turns out the gun arm is supposed to aim straight down like that because it just produces earthquakes. So we've got a big, burly, hairy man-thing who dresses like a minotaur in a patchwork bull skin, and his arm is a jackhammer. It's certainly more interesting than I thought it was, in any case.

## Digivolves from

* Bullmon

or

1. Centarumon
2. FlareRizamon
3. Leomon
4. Ogremon

## Digivolves to

* ?

or

1. Callismon
2. Piedmon
3. SkullMammothmon
4. Titamon
5. Vikemon
6. Zanbamon
Parallelmon

Another manga-exclusive Digimon villain, which I guess means it should have come after Deathmon, but I put up Dobermon so there'd be a bigger review to read after I missed several days of updates in a row.

Parallelmon is a digimon who travels between parallel versions of reality, and is even capable of sending other objects, people and digimon between continuities, allowing characters from different Digimon series to meet up in the same manga. Unfortunately, Parallelmon's real goal is to absorb digimon tamers or digidestined to gain their power, making it one of the few digimon that exist specifically to hunt down humans.

Parallelmon has an appropriatelly ominous and slightly alien design for a dimension-hopping villain, borrowing a little from Diaboromon with its ropey sinew limbs and bony armor, while the simple, horned head and single eye look decidedly unlike anything else in digimon. It's through that eye that the monster imprisons children in its own digicore, ensnaring them in an attack strangely known as the "Absorbent Bang," which for some reason looks like this:
Mekanorimon

Actually one of my favorite adult Digimon, this creepy thing has the flat, segmented arms and long, skeletal fingers that make some of those oddball Gundam robots look so cool, the "teeth" give its face an alien skull quality and of course I love that it has just one eerily organic eye, surrounded by exposed flesh!

What's really interesting about this Digimon, though, is that it's a brainless vehicle. Everything it evolves from is sapient, and everything it can evolve into is sapient, but it has absolutely no mind of its own and no ability to function without a pilot. This is a Digimon that actually evolved into a mobile suit, and I'm glad that didn't become a major norm for Digimon or it could have easily taken over a whole chunk of the franchise, but it's really neat to have at least one digital monster that works this way.

In the anime, we've even seen bakemon piloting these things!

## Digivolves from

* Hagurumon

or

1. Kokuwamon

## Digivolves to

* Datamon

or

1. Andromon
2. Armormon
3. BigMamemon
4. Bulbmon
5. Locomon
6. Mamemon
7. Megadramon
8. WaruMonzaemon
Tinmon

This Perfect-level machine digimon appeared exclusively in the original "Digimon World" game and never, ever, ever again, anywhere. It may as well be considered "unofficial" at this point, but I for one refuse to leave Tinmon behind. It could even evolve from yesterday's Clockmon in the same game, and evolve further into the Frankensteinian Boltmon, which is a pretty weird sort of technological progression. From a clockwork puppet to a clunky robot to a golem of artificially animated flesh. It's like a series of increasingly impressive, yet still very crude attempts at making an artificial being.

There isn't anything else we can say about it - no particularly interesting abilities, bio or personality quirks - but a boxy retro robot is definitely something sorely missing from this franchise, and if anything deserved to have an entire thematic line all its own.

## Digivolves from

* Omekamon

or

1. Clockmon
2. Tankmon

## Digivolves to

* ?

or

1. Boltmon
Pteramon

See? Armadillomon has a tendency to evolve into reptiles and prehistoric creatures, so when he borrows the same crest as the Biyomon line, he turns into a pterosaur! Duh! It's also one of the more "armored" armor evolutions, but a little cooler than some others, I'd say. I probably feel this way because it has an almost shark-like feel to it, but it's also an airplane monster. Reptilian, sharky airplane monsters are almost always cool.

## Digivolves from

* Soundbirdmon

or

1. Armadillomon
2. Biyomon
3. Muchomon

## Digivolves to

* ?

or

1. Andromon
MetalMamemon

Of course something as novel as a killer bean-ball wound up with an extended family, and the very next Vpet introduced this cybernetic version, which adds even scarier appendages to the mix. I like the unsettlingly human hand with the horrible metal claws on it.

## Digivolves from

* Deputymon

or

1. Frigimon
2. Garurumon
3. Gladimon
4. Kabuterimon
5. Mojyamon
6. Monochromon
7. Ninjamon
8. Tankmon
9. Whamon

## Digivolves to

* MagnaKidmon

or

1. Lampmon
2. Machinedramon
3. MetalGarurumon
4. PrinceMamemon
5. TonosamaMamemon