The Digimon Epics Dark Reign/Characters

Medieval Gallantmon
A general description about the character's personality, motivations, etc.

Tropes:

 * The Ace
 * Broken Ace
 * Broken Pedestal: He becomes this to the other Avengers.
 * Cynical Mentor: To Osiris.
 * Fallen Hero
 * Ineffectual Loner
 * Jerkass
 * Jumping Off the Slippery Slope
 * Knight in Sour Armor
 * Revenge Before Reason:
 * The Rival: To Osiris.
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge
 * Unstoppable Rage
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge
 * Unstoppable Rage

Gaiomon
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Tropes:
"Over the hills where spirits soar, I hear you all: the eternal roar!"


 * Defector From Decadence: He didn't necessarily defect from the Dramon Empire, but he put himself in self-imposed exile.
 * Everythings Better With Samurais
 * Morality Chain: His guidance keeps Caesar from straying down the wrong path.
 * The Obi-Wan
 * Morality Chain: His guidance keeps Caesar from straying down the wrong path.
 * The Obi-Wan

Magnamon
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Tropes:
"I am your hope and all that's bright. I am the thing that gives you might. I come to you in blackest night. So let all behold - my golden light!"
 * In Harmony with Nature
 * The Stoic
 * Not So Stoic:


 * Super Soldier: Made as one by the Dramon Empire, though that project was cancelled by Imego.
 * Tyke Bomb: Caesar is a Dramon super soldier.

Omnimon X
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Tropes:

 * Bodyguard Crush:
 * Born Winner
 * Jerkass
 * Undying Loyalty:
 * Undying Loyalty:

Anubismon
""Towards Our Future!""

The heroic, awesome leader... kinda. He's only that because Ajax said Big No. Idealistic, fond of speeches, inspirational to a degree and something of a Warrior Poet, Osiris tries to be a decent guy in a Crapsack World and gets dragged down constantly by it. Ultimately, his idealism and habit of inspiration speeches only earn him What the Hell, Hero?, he suffers with numerous deaths caused under his watch, and this is all on top of his existing dark backstory. When he breaks... it is not good.

Tropes:

 * Berserk Button: Balion stumbles into this one when he inadvertantly insults Ragna. Osiris chews him out for it to the third degree.
 * Cartwright Curse:
 * Catch Phrase: 'Towards our Future!' It's inherited from Ragna and is representive of how Osiris tries to hold up the ideals Ragna established.
 * Cats Are Mean: All of his evolutions are at least feline-themed and are much nastier than his base form. This is why he never fights as Anubismon.
 * Darker and Edgier: Compare Osiris at the start of Dark Reign, and the end of it.
 * Dark Is Not Evil: Rather ironically given the setting. He has the Ancient of Darkness as an evolution and all his evolutions bar one are predominantly black in color, but Osiris is pretty much the most heroic Avenger in Dark Reign (to the point when the name shift to Warbound happens, he still uses Avengers).
 * Ironic Echo: 'The names will be the worst'. Not so much ironic as prophetic... but given what happens between the mentions... they can only be considered ironic for their effect on Osiris.
 * Love Interest: Tytania.
 * Meaningful Name: He shares his name with the Egyptian God of the Underworld and the dead. Fittingly, he is often associated with being close to the past and those who have died.
 * No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: After, he delivers one of these to Azazel and would have killed him, Uriel or no Uriel, had
 * The Hero: Only he truly tries to be, and he gets so hammered for it that ultimately his attempts to be a hero only make things worse.
 * The Rival: To Ajax.
 * Wide-Eyed Idealist: This is Osiris in spades.

Shine Greymon
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Tropes:

 * Action Girl
 * Broken Bird
 * Her Heart Will Go On: From her dead boyfriend to.
 * Light Is Good
 * Love Interest: To.
 * Love Triangle: Triang Relations #4 Strom loves Nova. Gatmuz loves Nova. Nova loves Gatmuz.
 * Super Mode: Her Burst Mode.
 * Super Mode: Her Burst Mode.

Mirage Gaogamon
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Tropes:

 * BFG: The Zeed Cannon in his Zeed Gaurumon form.
 * Big Badass Wolf
 * Carry a Big Stick: His morning-star staff in Burst Mode.
 * Despair Event Horizon: When he thought
 * Determinator:
 * Light Is Good: All of his Burst Mode attacks are essentially light-based, with his weapon made of solidified light.
 * Light'Em Up: His Burst Mode revolves around light attacks.
 * Love Interest: To Nova.
 * Love Triangle: Triang Relations #4 Strom loves Nova. Gatmuz loves Nova. Nova loves Gatmuz.
 * Lunacy
 * Macross Missile Massacre: Full Metal Blaze in Zeed Garurumon form is this.
 * Meaningful Name: His surname is derived from 'lycan', short for lycanthrope... better known as a werewolf. Gatmuz is an wolf-based beast-knight.
 * Shout-Out: His first name is derived from the two 'Gatmuz' monsters in the Yu-Gi-Oh card game (though said monsters are known as 'Gottoms' in the Western version of the card game}.
 * Super Mode: Burst Mode.
 * Wolverine Claws: His usual weaponry are these attached to his gauntlets.
 * Shout-Out: His first name is derived from the two 'Gatmuz' monsters in the Yu-Gi-Oh card game (though said monsters are known as 'Gottoms' in the Western version of the card game}.
 * Super Mode: Burst Mode.
 * Wolverine Claws: His usual weaponry are these attached to his gauntlets.
 * Wolverine Claws: His usual weaponry are these attached to his gauntlets.

Rosemon
A psychotic, mutilated Rosemon who wants bloody revenge on Samhain and all who follow him for what was done to her hometown and the wounds she suffered during her fight to try and save that home, Tytania is ax crazy and more. Thanks to Osiris sharing his own experiences with revenge and pain, Tytania begins to balance out and there are hints of chemistry between the two.

Tropes:

 * Ax Crazy: In her debut appearance, she takes extremely great delight in being soaked in blood.
 * Custom Uniform: Horrifically done. Her signature black-stained, burned attire is actually the result of her data being so terribly damaged by the flames when she was left amidst her burning home that it will never heal. It's implied she wears her petal-mask because her skin suffered damage of the same kind.
 * Doomed Hometown: Her home was burned down on Samhain's orders, executed by Siegfried of the Black Hands. This sparks her Roaring Rampage of Revenge.
 * Extreme Melee Revenge: Your guess is as good as mine as to whether her crazy bondage-theme methods of fighting (with a touch of fencing for good measure) are just how she fights, or deliberately done for revenge. Granted she's fighting Diaboromon...
 * Good Is Not Nice
 * Green Thumb: She technically has limited control of plants, most seen with her own vines. In the Crapsack World of Dark Reign, with limited plant life anywhere, this is fairly useless anyway.
 * It's Personal: Samhain had her home burned. She wants his whole empire to come down in flames.
 * Living Weapon: Her signature vine whips/rapiers are actually a part of her and Samhain has exploited this by tearing the whips off of him and ripping them apart, causing Tytania clear pain.
 * Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Initially, her whole reason for existence and her creed. She gets better.
 * Royal Rapier: Her secondary weapon option.
 * Shout-Out: Tytania's dynamic of the 'witch of black rose' is a more than coincidental parallel to Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, specifically Aki Izayoi/Akiza Izinski of that series. Word of God... she was inspired by Aki.
 * Whip It Good: She. Uses. Vine. Whips.
 * Shout-Out: Tytania's dynamic of the 'witch of black rose' is a more than coincidental parallel to Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's, specifically Aki Izayoi/Akiza Izinski of that series. Word of God... she was inspired by Aki.
 * Whip It Good: She. Uses. Vine. Whips.
 * Whip It Good: She. Uses. Vine. Whips.

Rapidmon (Armor)
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Tropes:

 * Determinator
 * The Heart: He's constantly the one bucking up peoples' spirits and encouraging people with pep-talks and insults. Particularly notable when he both directly and indirectly snaps Strom out of two Heroic BSODs in the final battle.
 * The Nicknamer
 * Odd Friendship: With Erebus and Karasu.
 * Plucky Comic Relief
 * Vitriolic Best Buddies: With Karasu. Later Balion.
 * Vitriolic Best Buddies: With Karasu. Later Balion.

Ravemon
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Tropes:

 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Vitrioic Best Buddies: With Rai.
 * Vitrioic Best Buddies: With Rai.

Spinomon
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Tropes:

 * Achey Scars: The Dramon data that was taken into Strom's hand after he cut himself twice on the Wyrmflame causes intense pain to him every so often, particularly when the dramon data becomes dominant.
 * All Love Is Unrequited: Strom develops a crush on Nova and it quickly grows. He soon finds out that Nova and Gatmuz love each other.
 * Berserk Button: Do not insult or hurt Strom's friends. And 'especially' don't kill them. Strom won't forget it.
 * Cold Sniper:
 * Deadpan Snarker: Not as much as in Civil War, due to his issues, but he still has a lot of sarcasm to spare.
 * Dead Sidekick:
 * Dogged Nice Guy: To Nova, even after it's painfully clear that she loves Gatmuz. After  Strom's less concerned about her being single and much more concerned about trying to make her feel better.
 * Eyes of Gold: In his Spinomon form
 * Good Is Not Nice
 * Green-Eyed Monster: See "The Resenter"
 * Green Eyes:
 * Hopeless Suitor: Strom is this to Nova, who's in love with Gatmuz.
 * Kaleidoscope Eyes: Sort of. Whenever Strom is
 * Love Hurts: Strom's first brush with love doesn't go very well. It gets even worse when
 * The Power of Friendship: This drives him constantly throughout the RPG, sometimes to a fault.
 * Love Triangle: Triang Relations #4 Strom loves Nova. Gatmuz loves Nova. Nova loves Gatmuz.
 * The Resenter: To Hyperion and
 * Revenge Before Reason: Quite a bit in Dark Reign, but especially when Strom's willing to
 * Scars Are Forever: While played straight for the scars on Strom's chest, the scars on his palm could have been removed were it not for Dramon data that was absorbed into the tissue.
 * Took a Level In Badass: Strom did this after
 * Tragic Dream: Through Belial's dream manipulation, it's revealed that Strom's greatest desire was that his friends were brought back to life. Unfortunately, the universe they're in follows the Digimon Tamers mechanic of dead digimon staying dead.
 * Tranquil Fury:
 * Trauma Conga Line: A massive one.
 * Tsundere: Type A. He's typically gruff and sarcastic but if Nova casts him so much as a look, Strom's insides will melt
 * Vitriolic Best Buddies: With Ranney.

Cyberdramon
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Tropes:

 * Badass
 * Badass Normal: He's an Ultimate who can take on most Megas due to his fighting skills.
 * Berserk Button: Beings of evil and darkness.
 * Black and White Morality: Erebus believes that you're either good or evil, and if you're the latter, prepare to be ripped apart.
 * Blood Knight: Depending on your interpretation of him.
 * The Comically Serious
 * Defector From Decadence: He didn't necessarily defect, but he constantly went against his superiors' orders, always landing him in trouble.
 * Determinator
 * Friendless Background
 * Good Is Not Nice: Depending on the situation
 * Holy Hand Grenade: While not technically holy, Erebus specializes in destroying virus type digimon. His form might qualify, though.
 * Ineffectual Loner: Subverted in that he's perfectly capable of fighting off the Black Horde (in small portions) on his own.
 * In-Series Nickname: Dubbed "Trevor" by Rai, who was guessing his name with Karasu. Strangely (or maybe not so strangely), he likes "Trevor" more than he does "Erebus".
 * I Work Alone
 * Knight in Sour Armour: Erebus knows the way the world is and has no delusions about the darkness lurking in it. Despite this, he took it to himself to do all that he can to destroy the evil.
 * Loners Are Freaks: He's not the most socially adept digimon around.
 * Mysterious Past: Currently nothing's known about him prior to his service in the Dramon Empire's military. He hopes to keep it that way.
 * No Social Skills
 * Odd Friendship: With Rai.
 * Power Fist: Has one as a Justimon.
 * The Quiet One
 * Sacrificed Basic Skills For Awesome Training: He's an extremely skilled fighter, but he's horrible at being around other people. He personally says that fighting is the only thing he's good for.
 * The Stoic
 * Swiss Army Appendage: As Justimon.
 * Tin Man: Though extremely subtle.
 * Tranquil Fury: Erebus can be this when fighting. He usually acts this way unless he's worked up
 * Unstoppable Rage: Erebus can take to high levels of anger depending on the threat of darkness that he's faced with.

Ulforce Veedramon
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Tropes:

 * Aristocrats Are Evil: Maybe not evil in Balion's case, but certainly not nice.
 * Blue Blood
 * Byronic Hero: For awhile, his only redeeming quality are his skills and his courage. Otherwise, he's a prejudiced, holier-than-thou, womanizing jerk.
 * Casanova: Pre-character development, Balion would only hit on every Dramon female he'd see, due to his prejudice. Now that he got over that, there's no attractive woman he won't hit on... starting with Yggdrasil... right in front of Hyperion.
 * The Charmer
 * Deadpan Snarker
 * Friendless Background: He doesn't really have any friends, for obvious reasons.
 * Good Is Not Nice
 * Handsome Lech: He hits on Yggdrasil!
 * Hellish Pupils: Whenever Balion gets really into a fight.
 * In-Series Nickname: Rai calls him "Ballyhoo" and it sticks. Also classifies as Fridge Brilliance when you realize what 'ballyhoo' means.
 * Jerkass: He battles with Ajax for the biggest heroic Jerkass of Dark Reign.
 * Jerk with a Heart of Gold: This doesn't show until late Dark Reign. It's much more clear in Dracocide, though.
 * Lonely Rich Kid: His background, pretty much.
 * Noble Bigot: He still holds the view of Dramonic superiority to all other races, believing they're better in all regards. He especially likes to make fun of dinosaur digimon.
 * Red Eyes, Take Warning
 * Red Oni, Blue Oni: Blue, to Ajax's red.
 * Smug Snake: A heroic example.
 * The Starscream: He was this to Imego, but he never actually wanted to be in a position of power. He just hated Imego for deposing the Three Great Dramon.
 * Unknown Rival: To Imego.
 * Upper Class Wit
 * What Could Have Been: Word of God says that he
 * Wicked Cultured

Zudomon
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Tropes:

 * An Ice Person

Sakuyamon
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Tropes:

 * Action Girl
 * Broken Bird: Her husband died in the Civil War. Became even more of one after
 * Squishy Wizard
 * White Magician Girl

Crusadermon
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Tropes:

 * Camp Gay
 * Camp Gay

Dino Rexmon
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Tropes:

 * Big Eater
 * Deadpan Snarker: It must be a dinosaur thing.
 * Heterosexual Life Partners: With Strom.
 * Keet
 * Morality Chain: After  Ranney's existance is the one thing that keeps Strom from giving up completely.
 * Vitriolic Best Buddies: With Strom.
 * Welcome Back, Traitor: Strom has since forgiven Ranney for betraying him.

Growlmon
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Tropes:

 * : To Strom.
 * Eyes of Gold
 * Heroic Wannabe
 * Keet
 * Naive Newcomer
 * Keet
 * Naive Newcomer

Alphamon
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Justimon
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Tropes:

 * Authority Equals Asskicking
 * Big Brother Mentor: Braon is definitely this to Strom. He cares about him quite a bit and he tries ti help him get over his baggage, but he'll Bright Slap Strom at the drop of a hat if he needs to. Even, Braon serves as this role to Strom, talking and eventually slapping Strom out of a Heroic BSOD while
 * Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!: Delivers one to Strom.
 * Morality Chain: Braon acts as Strom's morality chain, even
 * Scarf of Asskicking
 * : To Strom, in a way.
 * : To Strom, in a way.

Seraphimon
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Cherubimon
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Ophanimon
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God
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Tropes:

 * Big Good
 * God: Controls the entire Digital World, though her power is not absolute, as Samhain's rule proves.

Bancho Leomon
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Gran Dracmon
"The Blackest Night falls from the skies. The darkness grows as all light dies. I crave your hearts and your demise. By my black hand, the dead shall rise!"

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Tropes:

 * A God Am I: Samhain's God complex grows to extreme levels.
 * Catch Phrase: His signature chant used for... everything. Even his minions use it with minor variations.
 * Dark Is Evil: Does this need explanation?
 * Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": For a time anyway. For much of the RPG Samhain is referred to as 'The Black King', as uttering his name allows him to find you and drop his minions on you.
 * Shout-Out: His chant is derived from the Black Lantern oath in the Green Lantern comics.
 * Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": For a time anyway. For much of the RPG Samhain is referred to as 'The Black King', as uttering his name allows him to find you and drop his minions on you.
 * Shout-Out: His chant is derived from the Black Lantern oath in the Green Lantern comics.
 * Shout-Out: His chant is derived from the Black Lantern oath in the Green Lantern comics.

Piedmon
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Tropes:

 * Ax Crazy: And just plain crazy anyway.

Chaos Gallantmon
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Tropes:

 * Evil Counterpart: To Ajax.

Malo Myotismon
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Tropes:

 * Lotus Eater Machine: Can put people in one with an attack.
 * Our Vampires Are Different

Dex Dorugoramon
"The Blackest Night falls from the skies. The darkness grows as all light dies. He craves your hearts and your demise. By Samhain's will, !"

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Tropes:

 * Arch Enemy: To Strom. Then again, Strom makes a lot of these due to his revenge issues.
 * Meaningful Name: Nidhogg is a dragon in Norse Mythology which gnaws on corpses and Yggdrasil's roots. Though this Nidhogg just resurrects his fellow Death-X Digimon instead.
 * Necromancer: He is able to continually resurrect his Death-X Digimon.
 * Night of the Living Mooks: The Death-X Digimon he commands.
 * Night of the Living Mooks: The Death-X Digimon he commands.

Shadow Seraphimon
"Will they thank you?"

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Tropes:

 * Evilly Affable
 * Hannibal Lecture: To Osiris, mainly revolving around the quoted question above.
 * "The Reason You Suck" Speech: He gives one to Osiris in the final battle.
 * Warrior Poet: In spades. Comes to a head in his final fight with Osiris where they have a little philosophical banter.
 * Warrior Poet: In spades. Comes to a head in his final fight with Osiris where they have a little philosophical banter.

Dark Cherubimon
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Tropes:

 * Evil Counterpart: To Rai.
 * Shock and Awe: Storm of Judgment!
 * Shock and Awe: Storm of Judgment!

Arkadimon (Mega)
"I grant you life with Death and Sin. Break the seal that lies within. With icy terror their hearts quake. By my black hand, their world shall break!"

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Tropes:

 * Blood Knight
 * The Dragon: Explicitly noted as the strongest of the Black Hands, and named by Samhain as his 'Black Hand'.
 * Names to Run Away From Really Fast

Black Omnimon X
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Tropes:

 * Evil Counterpart: To Hyperion.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: The fact that two or so years after Dark Reign ended, a canon black version of Omnimon was revealed, Omnimon Zwart.
 * Meaningful Name: He's named for the Greek God/personification of Death itself. He, in his own words, represents Death as the ultimate enemy.
 * One-Hit Kill: All Delete!.
 * Meaningful Name: He's named for the Greek God/personification of Death itself. He, in his own words, represents Death as the ultimate enemy.
 * One-Hit Kill: All Delete!.