Gabumon

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ガブモン

**Gabumon** (ガブモン) is Ishida Yamato's Digimon partner and a main character in Digimon Adventure.

## Appearance

In his Baby I form, Punimon, he is a small round creature with black eyes, red, elastic skin, and three very soft horns on its head. In his Baby II form, Tsunomon, he is still a small round creature but has red eyes, one black horn on its head, and yellow fur that covers his body, except for his face, which stands on end when it gets angry or surprised.

## Personality

Gabumon cares about his friends and always thinks about them. He doesn't like being pulled by his fur, or horns in Baby form.

## History

Gabumon's digitama, along with the other Digimon partners, was made by Gennai and the other agents by orders of Homeostasis. Upon the Dark Masters' attack, Gennai managed to escape with the digitamas and hide them on File Island. The digitamas eventually hatched, and as the baby digimon awaited their human partners, Punimon evolved to Tsunomon.

## Digimon Adventure

After a long wait, Tsunomon meets Ishida Yamato who arrives in the Digital World. The two later find the other children and digimon; Takaishi Takeru and Tokomon, Yagami Taichi and Koromon, Izumi Kōshirō and Motimon, Takenouchi Sora and Pyocomon, Kido Jō and Pukamon, and lastly Tachikawa Mimi and Tanemon, who were running from Kuwagamon. The group has to flee the raging beetle, until they reach a cliff. When Kuwagamon is about to hit, following Koromon's example, the digimon attack. The little creatures take damage from Kuwagamon but are still determined to fight and protect their human partners. When Kuwagamon reemerges, they leap out of their partners arms and evolve to their child forms. Now stronger, Gabumon and the other digimon attack Kuwagamon and momentarily defeat him. However, as they celebrate with the children, Kuwagamon recovers and breaks the cliff, sending them all plunging into the river.

## Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna

In Ginza, after years have passed, Gabumon and V-mon are having drinks at a grown-ups bar, when the famous "Shibuya-type" Pumpmon and Gottsumon enter. Gabumon recognizes them and asks if they are the two he had met back in Shibuya. As the two confirm this and tell them of their heroic story, Gabumon is skeptical of their exaggerated tales that have nothing to do with Shibuya. When they tell them how they joined Vamdemon and later faked their deaths, Gabumon is shocked and demands back Yamato's tears for them. The two "Shibuya-type" Digimon claim to have graduated to "Ginza-type" Digimon, as they leave the bar with two women, leaving V-mon and Gabumon behind, feeling like children in comparison.

On July 19, 2010, on the morning after an aurora appears in Japan, a Parrotmon emerges into the streets of Nakano, Tokyo, and as Greymon, Angemon and Angewomon already battle it, Garurumon and Yamato join just in time to stop it from crushing a building. Garurumon and Greymon Super Evolve into MetalGreymon and WereGarurumon, overwhelm Parrotmon with their attacks, and slam it into the Digital Gate site with Angewomon and Angemon's help to pin it down, until the Gate opens, and Parrotmon is safely sent back to the Digital World. After the battle, Takeru offers to take the group to breakfast, but Taichi and Yamato are unable to make it as they need to get to class, so Takeru, Hikari, Patamon, and Tailmon take Gabumon and Agumon with them to the cafe.

On July 20, with a strange case of a worldwide wave of comas, Gabumon and Yamato join a meeting at Kōshirō's office, where they meet Menoa Bellucci and Imura Kyōtarō. Asserting that the cause for the comas is a Digimon named Eosmon, Gabumon and Yamato, along with Taichi, Agumon, Kōshirō, Tentomon, Takeru, and Patamon, enter the Network to battle Eosmon and stop it. The Digimon attack Eosmon, but it evolves to its perfect form. To give Menoa more time to recover the consciousness data, Greymon and Garurumon fuse into Omegamon, who opens fire with its Garuru Cannon to destroy the panels, inhibiting Eosmon's movement. Taking advantage of Eosmon's confusion, Omegamon hits it with another Garuru Cannon blast, causing it significant damage, and breaking one of its legs off. Just as it deploys the Grey Sword to finish Eosmon, Omegamon is immediately paralyzed, unable to retain its form, and splits back into Koromon and Tsunomon, allowing Eosmon to escape.

Back in Kōshirō's office, Tsunomon and Koromon eat their way to their Child forms as Menoa reveals that Omegamon's fusion failed because the Taichi and Yamato's partnerships with Gabumon and Agumon are about to end due to them reaching adulthood. When Yamato discovers the ring of light countdown on his smartphone Digivice, Gabumon follows him as he storms out of the office, refusing to accept this. As they leave the building, Gabumon and Yamato spot Kyōtarō taking a phone call and decide to tail him. After Yamato uses a pay phone to recruit Daisuke, Ken, and Iori to perform background checks on Menoa and Kyōtarō in New York City, Gabumon and Yamato continue to tail Kyōtarō and witness him exchanging material, including a gun, with an anonymous contact.

While examining records about Menoa's life in the library, the two receive a call and meet up with Taichi and Kōshirō at Jō’s hospital, where they find Mimi afflicted with the Eosmon-induced coma. When the Chosen Children speak on the situation, Gabumon and Agumon wait outside. Agumon tries to look for Taichi from the balcony, despite Gabumon's warnings and ends up falling off the fence, damaging it. When Gabumon tells him he doesn't grow up, Agumon misinterprets and tells him he hasn't become any bigger either. The two later sit on a bench by the broken fence and talk about Taichi and Yamato growing up and becoming adults. They also talk about their current situation and the fact that they will have to say goodbye to their partners, but they realize that their memories and experiences won't disappear. They determine to face problems they come across together with their partners and to create more memories with them. As the two shake hands at their resolve, Jō calls them back.

Later, Gabumon and Yamato tail Kyōtarō to a makeshift office in a warehouse, where they find a pin-board with information on Menoa and the Chosen Children, and they immediately assume the worst, as Daisuke’s team calls Yamato and reports their concerning discoveries on Kyōtarō as well. Shortly after, Yamato receives a call from Kōshirō, and he and Gabumon head to Nerima where Takeru is held unconscious. When they arrive at the warehouse on Yamato’s bike, they find Kyōtarō waiting for them, armed with a gun, and as Gabumon prepares to attack him, he reveals he is an undercover FBI agent investigating Menoa. As they attempt to assist Takeru they realize that Kōshirō is in danger and they hurry to his office. When they arrive, Eosmon has already taken Kōshirō's consciousness, and Menoa has stolen the list of Chosen Children. When Taichi and Agumon arrive with a text message from Kōshirō with Menoa’s coordinates, Kyōtarō opens a Digital Gate and sends them through.

The four emerge in a black void that contains a crystal facsimile of the trolley car that they encountered on File Island in 1999. When they notice Menoa, she reveals that the void is Neverland, in which the Chosen Children are being held as little children, trapped in their own memories with their partner Digimon. As Menoa summons a Perfect-level Eosmon and invites them to join Neverland as well, Gabumon and Agumon snap their partners out of their trans, and they evolve into Greymon and Garurumon. Although they defeat this one Eosmon, Menoa summons hundreds more. As Menoa tells them how she created Eosmon, and of her intentions to “save” all the Chosen Children by trapping them in Never Land, Greymon and Garurumon move to stop her, but are attacked by their fellow Digimon. After Menoa sends hundreds of Eosmons to the Real World, Greymon uses his Mega Flame to spring up a wall of water to cover the group's retreat.

The group takes refuge in a crystal mountain. Although their human partners lose their spirits, Gabumon and Agumon rally them back into battle, knowing the consequences but optimistic about their future. As they return to face Menoa and her Eosmons, Gabumon and Agumon fuse into Omegamon again, consuming four points from their countdowns. Although Omegamon effortlessly destroys all of the Eosmons, Taichi and Yamato’s attempts to reason with Menoa fail and the Eosmons' remains merge around her, forming an Ultimate-level Eosmon. After it attacks and hurts Taichi and Yamato, Omegamon attempts to attack Eosmon, but is blocked and then attacked by Eosmon’s panels. With its left leg and Garuru Cannon arm cut off, Omegamon keeps fighting, until Eosmon slices off its Grey Sword arm and blasts it point blank, forcing it to revert into Gabumon and Agumon. They only awaken when Taichi manages to blow Hikari's whistle, which also awakens the Chosen Children and partner Digimon.

As the Chosen Children and their Digimon join the fight against Eosmon, Gabumon and Agumon are united with their partners in their determination to finish their mission, and evolve one last time into new Ultimate forms. Gabumon and Agumon destroy all the Perfect-level Eosmon, then knock Ultimate-level Eosmon to the ground, and suppress it with an unrelenting wave of fire. As Eosmon’s attacks fail to hit them and instead tear Neverland apart, Gabumon and Agumon deliver a final punch in unison, shattering the center of Neverland in the process. With Menoa's memories of Morphomon appearing on the shards of Neverland, Gabumon and Agumon understand that Menoa has been needing help dealing with her grief all along. As they break through Eosmon’s last barrier, Taichi and Yamato attempt to reach out to Menoa, releasing her from Eosmon, and dissolving Neverland.

With the Chosen Children reawakened, and Menoa arrested, Yamato and Gabumon look over all of Tokyo from a high-rise balcony, as only one point remains on their countdowns. Gabumon requests that Yamato play his harmonica one last time. He asks Yamato what he wants to do the next day, but disappears before he can get his answer.

## Epilogue

By 2027, Gabumon has reunited with Yamato who has become the first astronaut with a Digimon partner. When the two visit Mars Gabumon manages to evolve there even though they are far from Earth. They plan to go to Jupiter next, where they might encounter an enemy, but Gabumon reminds Yamato of his kid's school entrance ceremony, and they return to Earth. One day Gabumon accompanies Yamato and his family to a meeting with all the other Chosen Children in the Digital World.

## Trivia

* Gabumon's name comes from the Japanese onomatopoeic word がぶがぶ (gabu gabu), which means "gulp gulp".

## References

1. ↑ Digimon Real Size Comparison
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Digimon Adventure Official Encyclopedia
3. ↑ Digimon Adventure, episode 45
4. ↑ Digimon Adventure, episode 1
5. ↑ 20th Memorial Story: The Shibuya-ish Heroic Saga of Pump and Gotsu
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna
7. ↑ 20th Memorial Story: Hole in the Heart
8. ↑ Digimon Adventure Character Perfect File
9. ↑ Digimon Adventure 02, episode 50