#deathmon

[notaventura]

kofi batch

[nightclawduke]

[tepi666]

Deathmon ref sheet (commission)

Commission for

@rustybug_   

[ceranoone]

spooky digis!

[koushirouizumi]

Meanwhile with DigiAdvs 02 [...and some O.C.s] (And...??)

KEN: How'd you get out in time?! (From "The {Digital} Void"'s EXPLOSION?!!) Inter-national O.C. Chosen Shane: Well, I ran, but. ... I, "got pulled" back into the "stream" just in time. So I watched from above, and - it basically imploded on itself, and dispersed into Digital data. SHANE: ... Whoever made those "capsules"... didn't want them to be found without a struggle. They were likely meant to be "kept" there indefinitely. And whoever "accessed" those capsules KNOWING the tech involved... KEN: ... They were fighting for release. Shane: Because they ruined the glass from the inside, THEN disrupted this... "plan". Ken: You believe it was a "plan"? Shane: Yeah. And whoever it "was" that made the "plan" could still be active. KEN: Currently, we had been fighting the "Dark" "Digital monsters". But they had all had their corrupted data "healed" as of over 10 years ago. They're ALL on our side now... SHANE: ... And they didn't know if they had a true "leader"? KEN: ... They're innocent. (Firmly!) I genuinely believe them to be. (The majority of them...) KEN: ("Angel" and "Akuma" may know something ELSE but... we'd have to ask them...) Shane: Because. Whoever originally "set up" that place... they definitely had "malicious intent". And... SHANE: I think they meant to do "something" with "the eight" beings "trapped" in there. Eventually... KEN: ... KEN: This is just a hypothetical question, but, that place you "visited"... does the name "Dark Area" mean anything to you? SHANE, HEARD IT FROM 'MON AT TIME: ... (How Do They KNOW--) SHANE: If I said it did? But I didn't find out until much later after the fact. (Half-lying) KEN: If those "eight" were being held in the "Dark Area"... and it was by our current possible "enemy", whom we know very little about... Shane: You all don't know much, huh?... KEN, CONTINUING: And the "intention" of that "enemy" being... for those "eight" to, perhaps, either, "fall under enemy control" or even "PERISH"... Shane: Depending on whatever was the "outcome" of "holding" them prisoner... KEN: Either way, those "eight" were likely being led straight to their eventual "DEATH"s... SHANE: (Flashbacking to the panels accessed) SHANE: ... The password to access the panels was "DEATH". (It Wasn't Very Creative.) And the code... (Was set to let the capsules run indefinitely.) KEN: I'd have to ask Koushiro-san again, but... KEN: I'm pretty sure... these signs are the "CLUE"... that the enemy involved could be CALLED... SHANE: SHANE & KEN, TOGETHER: "DEATHMON". KEN: "DEATHMON" was trying to "KILL" the "EIGHT" "CHOSEN" 'Children'. Shane: So the one who "broke out" from the INSIDE... SHANE & KEN: ... "Koushiro"

[bogleech]

Wait I should make this a poll. I'm getting a digimon vital bracelet and one digimon card for it but I'm torn between two different selections

This one has a digimon I like at every evolution stage including Rareraremon which is one of my overall favorites and I don't care for a lot of fully evolved Digimon but this one can end on the highly acceptable deathmon or devitamamon

This one is all renamon and digimon I don't care for but can end on parasimon, which is tied for my #1 favorite digimon and the only fully evolved one that's really in my top ten. They put it on this one just because it was Renamon's nemesis in a movie

[littleeyesofpallas]

DEATHMON[デスモン]

[otakween]

C'mon Digimon (1997) - Manga oneshot

If you look at any Digimon manga timeline, this was the first manga-incarnation in the franchise. It's like a pilot episode where the concept is still trying to find its footing. It was also clearly made to market the digital pet toy, like a bunch of other Digimon media. I read a scanlation, but it's also included as a bonus in volume 2.

-Haha the slightly off model digimon in this remind me of the American box art for the Digimon Movie

-In the opening scene they're fighting using a big Yu-Gi-Oh-like arena but they're also using digital pet "docks"? Confusing...(Edit: ohhh, you put the dock IN the machine. I want one lol)

-So we have more punny names (Kamon Kentarou) in this. Also, interesting choice giving a human a -mon sounding name.

-We've got the concept of digimon not digivolving again. Shinichiro says that there are some defective digimon out there that won't digivolve no matter what you do. Interesting from a story perspective, but if that turned up in one of the video games I'd be so annoyed lol

-Another concept we haven't seen yet is that Shinichiro's Deathmon can morph into the shape of whatever digimon he's defeated before. Pretty OP...(Death Metal Greymon is a great name)

-Lol cartoonish villain is cartoonish. Shinichiro rubs the death of Kentarou's pet dog in his face. What is this, Elfen Lied?

Well that was...fine. Just a little bonus manga from the '90s. It had heavy Yu-Gi-Oh! vibes for me. The villain, Shinichiro was rich and associated with a big corporation (like Kaiba) and the battles had the high stakes of losing your digimon if you lost. Without an isekai element, this felt a little too generic, so I'm glad they developed things further.

[magpiejay1234]

So Belial Vamdemon. Or as the fandom calls it Marshmalomyotismon.

"Belial" means worthless in Semitic languages, and the demon it refers to has multiple different characterisations. So literally, Belial Vamdemon is Worthless Vampire Demon Monster. Rather unintentionally appropriate.

His parasites, Sodom & Gomorrah, apparently reference the fact that Belial is thought to be the one who brought immorality to those cities, but this is only referenced in one of SMT blurbs, I can't find the original source of this idea.

Belial Vamdemon is one of the lesser Demon Lord Digimon. One of the others is Deathmon, from V-Tamer manga, which is later repurposed as the pseudo-canonical final form of Fantomon, Vamdemon's right-hand man in Odaiba arc in OG Adventure. It is likely that these lesser Demon Lords will get their own sigils in the future.

Neither Belial Vamdemon, nor Belial in SMT are accurate to the Ars Goetia depiction, they are based off the Jewish depictions of the demon.

Belial is described to be the second demon created after Lucifer in Ars Goetia, as such it tends to be a high ranking demon in SMT, albeit after many others. Belial in early SMT games would be showcased in opposition to Metatron (hence the official art of them fighting), though in later games Metatron was significantly ranked up.

Belial Vamdemon is interesting because of the fact that Vamdemon's natural line is mostly based off Undead Digimon, whereas Belial Vamdemon takes the Demon Digimon part of the line.

Belial's association with Sodom & Gomorrah is somewhat amusing considering the ambigious nature of Oikawa & Hiroki's relationship, feel free to read into that.

Belial Vamdemon's design features many insectoid features, which makes one wonder if the original intention was for it to absorb Mummymon & Archnemon to reconstruct itself. This will likely become a plot point in a 02 reboot.

Vamdemon being the final boss doesn't work very well, especially considering 02 already had two unresolved antagonists that are stronger than it (Dagomon, or at its hypothetical final form, and Demon). Thematically, it only works somewhat.

Vamdemon was the villain of Daisuke's, and Hikari's childhood, and indirectly connected to various elements of the rest of the cast. Vamdemon was the one that helped Ken developed Evil Rings through Tailmon's Holy Ring (again, not properly expanded upon), and was part of Piemon's Nightmare Soldiers like Devimon (though this is only something one can infer through V-Pets, or learn from the novelisation), and would later become Piemon's Jogress partner, thus giving the Takeru connection. He is not directly connected to Iori beyond Oikawa, and has no connection to Miyako, though.

Vamdemon also works somewhat due to being a literal manifestation of children's nightmares, due to being a Dark Digimon created out of children's views of vampires, but also due to events of both Adventure series. This reconstructed body is also ultimately powered by the fear of children, with the help of copied Millenniumon pieces that are the Dark Seeds. Even then, these justify Vamdemon being a major villain, not the final boss.

(It would have been probably more thematically appropriate if the cast defeated Vamdemon with other Digimental Evolutions, including the Golden Digimentals, and Kindness, but that opportunity wasn't used either.)

Neither of these two aspects are really developed in the series proper, though. Vamdemon being Daisuke's tormentor should have been played up probably, but Miyako isn't involved in the Diablomon movie really, so this isn't the lost opportunity of 02 with the returning antagonists.

[sushy00]

Sketchbook update

[jadeazora]

Ok, so I guess that eye shown a few episodes back wasn’t Deathmon’s then, Just thought it was cause it was initially yellow and round. Hopefully, the big bad will be something much more intimidating.

[notaventura]

kofi batch

[conventionalwisdomcomic]

Yes, I'm exaggerating the bloobiness for comedic effect here, but it's not THAT much of an exaggeration.  There's just so many Digimon with skulls and fangs phobia-inducing gangly skeleton limbs and THIS is the one they waste the name "Deathmon" on?  I mean, God bless Adventure 2020 for at least TRYING to make it seem really big and intimidating, but there's only so much it can do to project fear onto something so hugable.

(After some quick research, it seems Deathmon came out of one of those "Design Your Own Digimon" contests, which I guess explains a little bit.  Still, though, way to waste a great name...)

Conventional Wisdom / Patreon

[izzyizumi]

Me after watching DigiAdv 2020 #63, seeing not only literally everything that just happened, but also That Preview with THAT 'MON: I Love Being rIGHT TM

[ceranoone]

silly stuff

[digi-tama-in-your-pocket]

Just got Deathmon. I think this guy is oddly cute for one of those big bad demon lord digimon.

It took forever to get this guy because it required me to jogress two mega level digimon, but also been keeping my digimon in freeze mode a lot lately. Super distracted from them lately.