Digimon V-Tamer 01/Characters

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Heroes and allies

Taichi Yagami

The hero, a V-Pet owner drawn into the Digimon World after being unable to participate in a V-Pet tournament. Once in the Digimon World, he meets V-dramon, his partner Digimon from that V-Pet.

Zeromaru

Taichi's partner Digimon, a V-dramon, often called just "Zero". Born from Taichi's Digital Monster Ver.1 virtual pet, he was an anomalous Digimon who wasn't supposed to exist in the devices (this didn't remain the case for long though) and so caused Taichi to be disqualified from the competition. He met Taichi shortly after he was drawn into the Digimon World, taking physical form there.

His evolved forms are as follows[1]:

  • Botamon, Koromon and Agumon, his Baby, Baby II and Child forms; [2]
  • V-dramon, his Adult form and his form at the beginning. A large blue dragon with three horns.
  • AeroV-dramon, his Perfect form. A larger, more powerful V-Dramon, but his biggest development is growing two great wings.
  • UlforceV-dramon, his Ultimate form. A holy dragon knight dressed in Blue Digizoid armor, with a Laser Sword equipped to his right gauntlet.
  • UlforceV-dramon Future Mode, his Super Ultimate form. Drawing on the power of the Digimental, an immensely powerful warrior.
  • Badass
  • Blow You Away: Not the literally intended purpose of the Wind Guardian but he does almost do this to someone on accident
  • Boisterous Bruiser: Zero does enjoy a good fight.
  • Breath Weapon: V-BREATH ARROW!
  • Determinator: Zero is willing to be bloodied and broken until the opponent is defeated.
  • Deflector Shields: The Wind Guardian and Tensegrity shield.
  • Dumb Muscle: Thankfully his Tamer, Taichi, is pretty smart and knowledgeable.
  • Eleventh-Hour Superpower: Future Mode.
  • Merchandise and Story Segregation: Everyone points out that V-dramon is a species that doesn't exist in normal virtual pets at the beginning, but at one point Taichi mentions the newly-released Digimon Pendulum virtual pets, the ones presumably used by Hideto, Sigma and Mari. The Pendulum was the virtual pet in which V-dramon and AeroV-dramon legitimately debuted as potential partner Digimon; Mari probably owns the specific version in which the two appeared! Of course, that doesn't mean they suddenly exist in the Digital Monster Ver.1, the Ver.4 Veedramon has to come from a different path than Zero did and there was no Ulforce V-dramon at all, keeping in line with the story.
  • Genre Blind: At times Zero seems to think he's in a different kind of fighting series. Part of it is retroactive though, since Digimon's tropes were still being cemented during this comic's run.
  • Grievous Harm with a Body: HAMMER ATTACK!
  • Hot-Blooded
  • I Am Not Weasel: It seems like it would be hard to get his species so wrong, but given the way digimon work in this series, he may not look much like dragon to everyone who doesn't see him as one. Eventually he gives up on correcting people.
  • Mighty Glacier, though a little quicker than some expect
    • Lightning Bruiser: becomes one of the fast moving bruiser variety, much to the surprise of many of his foes.
  • Limit Break: DRAGON IMPULSE!
  • Mythology Gag: Much about Zero calls back to C'mon Digimon.
  • Our Dragons Are Different
  • Power Gives You Wings: His evolution to AeroV-dramon was pretty much all about this.
  • Scary Teeth: AeroV-dramon
  • Shout-Out: Try not to shout "Breast Burn!!!" when UlforceV-dramon uses Shining V Force.
  • Undying Loyalty: But not initially
  • Unstoppable Rage:Subverted

Gabo

A Gabumon residing at Holy Angel Castle, he was the first to find Taichi and was subsequently tasked to serve as his guide and advisor.

Leo

A Leomon who serves as the commander of Lord HolyAngemon's army. He is a hard taskmaster, but is wholly devoted to the protection of Holy Angel Castle and is kinder than he would like to let on.

His evolved forms are as follows:

  • Leomon, his Adult and the form he takes initially.
  • Panjyamon, his Perfect form. A white, ice-themed Palette Swap of Leomon.
  • Regulumon, his Ultimate form. An enormous muscular lion warrior.

Gekovitch

A TonosamaGekomon who worked for Lord HolyAngemon, and inadvertently tested Taichi and Zeromaru in combat for him.

Lord HolyAngemon

The ruler of the Holy Angel Castle, the force responsible for fending off Demon's assault on the Digimon World, and the one responsible for drawing Taichi into the Digimon World to help out.

His evolved forms are as follows:

  • HolyAngemon, his Perfect form and his default form. There are two variations on this form: he spends most of his time in the white-robed Priest Mode, but can transform into the armoured Battle Mode.
  • Seraphimon, his first Ultimate form. An immensely powerful ten-winged angel dressed in ornate blue armour.
  • Dominimon, his second Ultimate form. Accessed after his loss to Arkadimon and the subsequent drop of his Win Ratio, a six-winged blue angel of lesser power than Seraphimon.

Lord Whamon

The guardian of the Net Ocean, and the one who gave Taichi his Digivice 01.

Gon

A Gomamon living in the Net Ocean, who regularly braves the dangers of the Ocean to keep Lord Whamon informed of the events of the wider world.

His evolved forms are as follows:

  • Ikkakumon, his Adult form and the form he takes as the new guardian of the Net Ocean. A giant furred walrus with a single horn.

Rei Saiba

The younger sister of Neo Saiba, who was found by Taichi wandering the Digimon World alone and subsequently joined him. She was paralyzed from the waist down some time before entering the Digimon World, and the accident weighs heavily on both Neo and Hideto.

  • Expy: Sora Takenouchi resembles her, but that's really where the similarities end.
  • For Your Own Good: She is never told outright but her accident and injury is the primary motivation for everything Neo and Hideto do in serving Demon.
  • Guilt Complex: It's masked by her sunny disposition, but it's there.
  • I Can't Feel My Legs: In the Digimon World, her ability to walk is restored temporarily, but otherwise this is her situation.
  • Plucky Girl
  • The Pollyana: How she was viewed by Hideto and kind of was until he and Neo went crazy(see guilt complex)
  • Voice of Reason:She thought she acted as this to Neo but didn't get through

Igamon

A ninja Digimon in the service of Lord HolyAngemon, assigned to observe Demon's castle. He departed to warn Taichi of the birth and evolution of Arkadimon, and later joined Taichi's group for the rest of his journey.

Pal and Pul

A brother-and-sister duo of PetitMamon. They initially "served" Demon, but eventually became disillusioned with him and started following Rei around.

Lord Demon and his forces

Lord Demon

The antagonist, a power-hungry Demon Lord Digimon who seeks to conquer the world.

His evolved forms are as follows:

  • Daemon, his Ultimate form and his default form.
  • Daemon Super Ultimate, his Super Ultimate form, attained by killing and absorbing Arkadimon Super Ultimate from within. A more humanoid take on Daemon, wielding immense power.
  • Big Bad: The opposing force to Lords Whamon and HolyAngemon
  • Dystopia Justifies the Means: He truly believes the Digimon World will be better off under him, regardless of how miserable it would make anyone who lives in it.
  • Emotion Control: How he's swayed his more unlikely followers
  • Evil Counterpart: In the broader Digimon canon, Daemon is treated as a Fallen Angel counterpart to Seraphimon, the evolved form of HolyAngemon. This puts the relationship between Lord Demon and Lord HolyAngemon in quite a new light.
  • Good Wings, Evil Wings:Note he's the only one on this page with tattered wings
  • Mutants: He, and several other antagonists are described as such. (Outside of this comic, very few of them actually are, even many mutant monsters created in this series tend to get different labels)
  • Olympus Mons / Demon Lords and Archdevils: In the broader canon, he's a member of the Seven Great Demon Lords, representing the sin of Wrath.
  • Our Demons Are Different
  • Spikes of Villainy
  • Straw Hypocrite: He explains to Etemonkey that monsters fight better when tamed by humans. He actually believed the opposite but needed to convince Neo to work for him.
  • The Strong Should Dominate the Weak: The reason he made war in the relatively peaceful Digimon World
  • The Virus: His manipulations are referred to as the "dark virus" in a metaphorical way

Etemonkey

An Etemon serving as a subordinate of Demon, tasked with obstructing Taichi's quest for the V-Tamer Tags.

Neo Saiba

An arrogant tamer who first encountered Taichi in the V-Pet tournament at the beginning. He too was drawn into the Digimon World, this time by Demon, and serves him as the tamer of the "super ultimate" Digimon, Arkadimon. Before Arkadimon was born, Neo was the tamer of multiple Digimon, discarding those who lost in combat.

Arkadimon

Neo's (current) partner Digimon. The immensely powerful "super ultimate" Digimon which Demon selected Neo to raise. All of Arkadimon's evolved forms are named "Arkadimon", each appended with the level to indicate the difference. It's evolutions will ultimately end with an Eldritch Abomination, or so it is said, Neo has other plans.

MetalGreymon

The guardian of the Metal Empire Tamer Tag. Formerly a Greymon belonging to Neo, he was discarded and deleted after a lost battle, but pulled himself together, mechanised his body and evolved to MetalGreymon out of sheer determination to survive and prove his true worth to Neo. Neo, for his part, wasn't interested.

Callismon

One of the first artificial Digimon created by Neo, born by merging a Grizzmon with a sample of the power data of Arkadimon. It was dispatched to apprehend Rei during her escape from Demon's castle, but was stopped by the arrival of Taichi and Zero.

  • Badass Boast: Its constant boasts that it is a "new Digimon for a new age", well beyond the average sort of Digimon previously faced by Taichi and Zero.
  • Everything's Worse with Bears
  • Hand Cannon: RODEO BULLET!
  • Improbable Use of a Weapon:he uses his gun as a shield
  • Lego Genetics: Sort of justified, because it's all data.
  • Natural Weapon: DEEP FOREST!
  • Quirky Miniboss Squad: Was supposed to be part of one but the other three were scrapped to meet the deadline. You can still see them in two panels if you look close enough.
  • Sadly Mythtaken: In universe, Neo named him after a female figure
  • Scary Teeth:Brown bears usually have a dental structure similar to human's but Callismon's mouth is full of fangs, fangs just like Zero's. Likey an intentional design choice by Neo.
  • Shockwave Stomp: Or rather he punches the ground. Not a special attack, more like an act of frustration
  • This Cannot Be!:when things really go south for him
  • "Wake-Up Call" Boss: The first non-Alias III Digimon to really put up much of a fight to Zeromaru as AeroV-dramon.


The Alias III

Sigma

The "Alias I", a highly introverted masked boy who communicates solely through a vocalisation program on his computer, feeling this is the only way he can express himself. His partner Digimon is Piemon.

Piemon

Sigma's partner.

Mari Gotokuji

The "Alias II", a cold and sadistic girl who plays up a flighty bimboish facade to confuse her opponents. Her partner Digimon is Rosemon.

Rosemon

Mari's partner.

Hideto Fujimoto

The "Alias III" of the Alias III, a trio of tamers convened by Neo to serve him. Hideto was a friend of Neo and Rei long before the events of the manga, and never quite got over Rei's accident. His two partner Digimon are Warg and Melga.

Warg and Melga

Hideto's dual partner Digimon, a WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon respectively. They spend most of their time jogressed together into Omegamon, an immensely powerful holy knight Digimon.

  1. ↑ Note that as Zeromaru evolves, as with almost all Digimon in this manga, he stays in his new form permanently
  2. ↑ only Botamon is shown in the comic but Taichi says Zero used to be like the Agumon training at the castle, so Agumon and Koromon are the most likely forms. The two after Botamon could be anything though since V-dramon couldn't be gotten from the established Botamon paths at that time.
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