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Summary

Digimon, or Digital Monsters, was a virtual pet created by WIZ Co., Ltd. and released on June 26, 1997. It expanded into a franchise centered around the creatures living inside them that quickly eclipsed the popularity of the Virtual Pets themselves and, as such, began as a series of Virtual Pets but was later made into an extensive multimedia franchise hosting various anime, manga, novels, card games, and video games.

The original stories portray Digimon as computer viruses that have evolved into life-like entities, with a texture overlaying their wireframe to make them comprehensible to humans. Digimons were first identified by the scientific community in 1997 when one was discovered in a personal computer. This led to the creation of devices enabling connection to the Digimon world. Initially, researchers or hackers used these devices to directly influence Digimon and the Digital World. However, Digimon's knowledge became widespread and was often treated as a fictional franchise. A human who trains a Digimon is called a Tamer, and aspiring to be the greatest Tamer is a common ambition.

In some narratives, Digimon are depicted as primordial souls originating from a conceptual realm called Idea, which predates the Real World. The multiverse comprises a hierarchy of existence levels, typically maintained in balance. Occasionally, this equilibrium is disrupted, causing worlds to interconnect and beings from different existence levels to manifest in foreign realms. In the past, humans discovered Idea's inhabitants as summonable ghosts, deities, and demons. In the modern era, technology serves as humanity's new source of magic. When an imbalance arises, it becomes easy to detect these spirits. Consequently, contemporary humans perceive technology-related issues as computer bugs and the souls, such as Digimon, as computer viruses. Inter-world information feedback causes Idea to adapt to human interpretation, leading to its perception as a virtual world. Many Digimon consequently behave according to human common sense, aligning with human expectations.

Digimon narratives diverge between two perspectives: some stories emphasize a human-centric understanding of Digimon, while others focus on deconstructing human interpretation. Typically, Digimon tales unfold across two realms: the Human World and the Digital World. The Human World exists within an infinite multiverse as described by quantum physics, with some narratives sharing the same world, but most taking place in distinct worlds. The Digital World's portrayal varies across media due to its evolving structure. Nowadays, it is depicted as an "infinite multiverse," comprising countless Servers, with only one visible at a time. While earlier stories rarely featured travel between Servers, modern games and anime increasingly utilize this concept, sometimes to facilitate encounters between protagonists from different worlds.

Besides these worlds, other worlds are also presented. Curiously, sometimes these worlds are other franchises developed by Bandai Namco or WIZ Co., Ltd. Franchises like Tamagotchi and Magical Witches are common examples. A current example is Appmon, or Appli Monster, which is basically Digimon but focused on mobile applications. Specifically, these characters reside in the Network between the Real World and the Digital World.

Digimon is a continually growing media franchise that has expanded into various forms of entertainment. The Digital Monster X, a Tamagotchi-style virtual pet device, was released in Japan in 2018, featuring a new setting for the franchise. Digimon Survive is a strategy role-playing video game released in 2022. The game is based on the occult Digimon setting. The Digimon Adventure series also continues to thrive, with "Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna," a film that is a sequel to the original anime series, released in 2020. There is currently Digimon Dreamers manga in production. Nonetheless, several manga series have been adapted from the franchise. Lastly, the manga series "Digimon World Re: Digitize Encode" has remained on hiatus since 2016, with no news of a continuation.

Power of the Verse

Contrary to popular belief, Digimons are not exactly digital beings; they are beings that exist in higher planes of reality and have manifested in the real world with manifestation bodies over the ages, and they are now manifested as computer viruses. All Digimon are Incorporeality beings with Non-Physical Interaction abilities to interact with metaphysical substances far superior to the human mind or soul due to Platonism-based cosmology. Due to interesting physiology, the Digimon have bodies that are actually shielded for their true essence, the Digicores, which gives them extra protection for what corresponds to their souls/minds. Aside from the body being the only protection, it is also the only texture that covers the wireframe. This is completely modeled, and ideas like wounds only exist for the Digimon if they want them, since normally, they can simply regenerate from any wound. All Digimon also have Immortality, Absorption, Power Mimicry, Reactive Evolution, Reality Warping, Mind Manipulation, Soul Manipulation, Information Manipulation, Law Manipulation, and many other abilities. In addition to their general skills, each Digimon has special skills that make them even stronger, such as Conceptual Manipulation, Space-Time Manipulation, Death Manipulation, Matter Manipulation, Existence Erasure, and stronger versions of the skills listed above.

Regarding Attack Potency, the power level varies greatly in Digimon. To facilitate the use of Digimon, they are usually scaled to Real World equivalents within the Digital World unless this begins to influence the very structure of the Digital World. Baby I/Fresh and Baby II/In-Training Digimon are not focused on combat, yet they can train by destroying trees with a single attack, easily reaching Wall level as a result. Child/Rookie Digimon can vaporize or melt large amounts of metal and ice and easily reach Large Building level+ in power. Adult/Champion Digimon have already been able to cause storms, blizzards, and droughts in entire countries as well as split entire islands apart, reaching Island level of power.

The complexity of the Digital World exceeds that of the Human Multiverse even at its most basic level. This indicates that high end Champion level Digimon such as Clockmon is at the very least Low Complex Multiverse level. Perfect/Ultimate Digimon are comparable to other Digimon of the same level, such as Vademon, who destroyed stars, DarkSuperStarmon and Gerbemon, who uses real black holes as attacks, Megadramon, Etemon Chaos and SkullGreymon who can destroy the Digital World itself, Dagomon who can swallow all dimensions in its deep fog and Paildramon who stopped a Digital World destroying explosion, and thus reaching Star level to Low Complex Multiverse level of power depending on the Digimon.

The level of the Ultimate/Mega Digimon begins to vary a lot since from here begin the "most powerful" that begin to reach the whole Digital World. The most common can be considered at least Low Complex Multiverse level if not far higher because they are far above Perfect levels and capable of bringing peace or danger to the Digital World.

After this level, most Digimon reaches a level on par with or exceeding that of the Four Holy Beasts. The Four Holy Beasts have created a higher level of existence than all the others in the Digital World. They maintain their position at the pinnacle of a vast transcendental hierarchy. They are also in charge of keeping the space-time of the whole multiverse stable, all the way up to a 9-dimensional reality or the Complex Multiverse level. Above the Four Holy Beasts are entities such as Yggdrasil and the Eaters. These characters reach 10-Dimensional and 11-Dimensional respectively, being High Complex Multiverse level. Above the Eaters, there are even more levels of existence to reach the level of the true Digimon gods, which are purely theoretical entities that have not yet been identified.

At speeds, the Digimon normally range from Massively Hypersonic+, Relativistic and FTL with MFTL+ to Infinite Reactions and Combat speeds for Perfect/Ultimate and normal Mega Digimon, but the characters at the level of the Four Holy Beast are already considered to be Immeasurable.

Important information

Many of the terms and concepts utilized in the profiles are uncommon but integral to the franchise since a lot of the crucial information for comprehending the lore is obscured or buried in antiquated sources, unavailable in English, or otherwise hard to come by. Nevertheless, Digimon has many blogs devoted to explaining its concepts to newcomers so that even a total novice can immediately grasp the essentials.

  • History of the Digimon Franchise: Important to understand the change in the structure of Digimon's narrative during the creation of the anime and then the return of this narrative during the Xros Wars era;
  • Souls, Ideas, Mythology: Explanation of Digimon's occult narrative based on neo-platonic emanationist theorists;
  • World Hierarchy: Digimon cosmology structure based on neo-platonic emanationism;
  • Digimon Gods: Establishment of the divine hierarchy of Digimon, a deepening of the layers of gods present in the previous blog;
  • Power of Darkness: Further explanation of the power of darkness in Digimon;
  • Data: A better demonstration of how Digimon works and the characteristics of a neo-platonic emanationist cosmology.
  • Digimon Cosmic Feats and Power Scaling: A general explanation of the cosmic feats in the Digimon franchise plus an explanation of the power scaling between the characters.
  • Canon: This blog explains Digimon Canonicity and, overall, what is accepted as canon in the Digimon franchise.
  • Evolutionary Stages: This blog post explains basic Digimon digivolution mechanics.
  • Seven Great Demon Lords: As well as this blog, that explains the individual abilities of the Seven Great Demon Lords.
  • Lower Tiered Digimon Feats: A list of feats and calculations used to scale lower-tiered Digimon profiles.
  • Perfect/Ultimate level feats: This blog lists the feats and supporting feats for Perfect/Ultimate level Digimon.
  • The Royal Knights: Explaining the feats and abilities of the individual members of the Royal Knights.
  • Light and Darkness: This details the powers of both light and darkness and their relationship with one another, as well as what they mean in the franchise as a whole.
  • Digimon and Quantum Destruction: Details and compiles evidence explaining data and its relation to quantum particles.

Note: Blogs in Digimon are constantly updated, and at any time, they can be updated with even more information. If, even after reading the blogs still have some doubts about Digimon, do not hesitate to ask in the Digimon Discussion Thread.

Note 2: Since the Digimon are naturally beings of a different plane of existence from the conventional one, the interaction between them and the beings of a lower plane in their normal conditions is not expected, which is translated into unfair disputes between Digimon and other characters in battles. Conveniently, in the franchise itself, there is the process of Realize (Also called Re: Digitize, ReArise, or Materialize) in which a Digimon manifests itself in the Real World using pseudo proteins that follow its true form so that it is possible to equate its existence with that of Humans, although still being able to use their powers, although in a more "real" way.

Note 3: Digimon have many diverging evolutionary lines, and as such, they can evolve, devolve, and obtain multiple different abilities. The profiles take all canon evolutionary lines (minus lore-based contradictions) into account. However, a Digimon should only be assumed to have its baseline skills (basically its own skills and it skills obtained from its mainline pre-evolutions) as a standard. When making a battle the original poster must state if the Digimon is allowed all its inherited skills as they are to be treated in a similar way to Optional Equipment.

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Opponents

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Character Profiles

Digimon Adventure

Fusion Digimon

Digimon Tamers

Digimon Frontier

Digimon Savers

Digimon Xros Wars (Anime)

Digimon The Young Hunters Who Leapt Through Time

Digimon Adventure 2020

Digimon Ghost Game

Digimon Adventure V-Tamer 01

Digimon Next

Digimon Xros Wars Manga

Digimon World 2

Digimon World Re: Digitize Decode

Digimon World -next 0rder

Digimon Story

Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth & Hacker's Memory

Digimon Linkz

Digimon ReArise

God's of the Digital World

Arbitrators

The Royal Knights

Sistermon

Kernel (God's Domain)

Seven Great Demon Lords

Others

Guardian

Inhabitants

Warrior Ten

The Emperor & The Four Holy Beasts

Apocalymon & The Dark Masters

Four Great Dragons

BAN-TYO

D-Brigade

Legend-Arms

Crack Team

Digital World: Iliad

Prototype Digimon


Big Death-Stars

Witchelny

Digimon Species

Digimon Universe Appli Monsters (Anime)

Appmon

Discussions

Discussion threads involving Digimon
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