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(BECAUSE I'M NOT QUITE SURE WHAT HAPPENED IN X-EVOLUTION EITHER okay that's a bit of an exaggeration but having a personal reference that's all from dorubutt's perspective would be nice)
(also i'm using Japanese names and terminology)
Okay so you've got the Digital World, which is exactly what it sounds like. Yggdrasil is the master host computer for the Digital World, basically a god. The world is inhabited by Digital Monsters or Digimon, which are creatures with sentience and free will that happen to be made of data. The Digital World mimics and draws on the real world in many ways, but it's a lot more abstract - structures such as ruins may exist without actually having a history, for example, and though there is a sun that rises and sets, there's no real reason for one to exist other than to match what we would expect of a habitable world.
At the time that this movie takes place, Something Is Happening. The Digital World has become overpopulated and far too complex for Yggdrasil to handle, causing a catastrophic collapse known as the Digital Hazard; the host computer launches the Ark Project, a plan to recreate the Digital World and start anew. If all had gone according to this plan, the new world would be populated by a small number of Digimon chosen from the old world, who could be easily supported by Yggdrasil and overseen by its Royal Knights, eliminating the possibility of another Digital Hazard. The remainder of the old world's Digimon population would be wiped out by the termination command called the X-Program.
BUT THINGS NEVER GO ACCORDING TO PLAN NOW DO THEY
A number of Digimon not chosen by Yggdrasil survived and made it to the new world thanks to the X-Antibody. The existence of the X-Antibody threatened to break Yggdrasil's control over affairs in the new world - and thus, its stability and safety - and so the Digimon who carried it were branded as outsiders and hunted down by the Royal Knights. Many carriers of the X-Antibody banded together in the new world, forming a resistance that opposed Yggdrasil's rule.
Its original plan having failed, Yggdrasil intends to take the Ark Project a step further, wiping out all Digimon.
OKAY NOW WHAT DOES DORUMON HAVE TO DO WITH THIS
Dorumon is a carrier of the X-Antibody. He lived in the old Digital World, survived the X-Program, and made it to the new world. (INSERT WORDS ABOUT LEOMON SCENE HERE) In the new world, though, he was a total outcast, unwanted by other Digimon and unable to make friends. He spends a lot of time wandering and being miserable until one day he's chilling alone and sad in some dusty ruins and SUDDENLY
THERE'S A LOT OF LOUD NOISE OUTSIDE
and he goes outside and there's a fucking WarGreymon X lying there (THAT'S A BIG ARMORED DINOMAN FYI) holding a Tokomon (tiny pink thing). WarGreymon X hands off the baby to Dorumon and tells him to take care of it then flies off all in a big hurry. Dorumon watches him and whoa hey whaddaya know he's being chased by one of the Royal Knights, guardians of the network. That sure ain't suspicious at all.
But anyways now Dorumon's taking care of a baby, and it's pretty great and all because the baby loves him and he's a positive part of someone else's life for once and he's feeling good. BUT THEN OMEGAMON (one of the Royal Knights) SHOWS UP TO EXPLODE A HILL AND KILL A BUNCH OF DIGIMON on Yggdrasil's orders because he's Lawful Stupid. Dorumon and Tokomon manage to not get blown up, but Omegamon sees them and comes after them and they DO THEIR BEST TO FIGHT BACK
which isn't very good at all. It's really pathetic actually and they just bounce off him a lot while he stands there wondering why they keep getting up. They finally can't get up anymore and Omegamon's about to stab them and then that WarGreymon X from before shows up to save the day! And he brings his buddy MetalGarurumon X! They go and fight Omegamon to keep him from brutalizing the children any more, except it's a little too late because Dorumon runs over to Tokomon then shouts out that THIS CHILD IS DEAD!!! Omegamon launches an attack at them, MetalGarurumon X shields them, they live, he dies, but before he dies he gives his X-Antibody to Tokomon so that the kid can live. This whole sequence gives Dorumon flashbacks to that Leomon scene from the very beginning and he EVOLVES MAJESTICALLY to Dorugamon.
AND THEN MORE DIGI EX MACHINA HAPPENS in the form of Dukemon, one of the other Royal Knights, appearing like "whoa dude not cool killing children is bad even when it's on computer god's orders". Dukemon manages to derail Omegamon from its quest to stab small pink babies, and Dorugamon, WarGreymon X, and Tokomon go on their merry way.
Also Dukemon gets stabbed by Omegamon which Dorugamon kind of senses on the way out but nobody cares.
To recap, after that pleasant interlude: MetalGarurumon X got dead, Dukemon got dead but nobody cares, Dorumon evolved, Tokomon is now carrying the X-Antibody. Our heroes have returned to chilling peacefully in that dusty ruin. Except then Magnamon (another Royal Knight) shows up to kidnap Dorugamon because Yggdrasil said so. He delivers Dorugamon to the weird circuit-board otherworld realm where Yggdrasil is. Yggdrasil pulls data out of Dorugamon to make DexDorugoramon (some big ugly evil dragon cyborg thing), then dumps Dorugamon somewhere in the Digital World. DexDorugoramon lays a bunch of eggs, which become bajillions of smaller zombie dragons, DexDorugreymon.
(oh god there are so many long proper nouns in this)
And that is the true life story of how Dorumon became a lot of zombies.
SO DORUGAMON ENDS UP IN A JUNK HEAP SOMEWHERE and members of la resistance find him and he's being hauled around unconscious for the next like twenty minutes of the movie.
When he wakes up, a lot of Digimon are being slaughtered by the ENDLESS HORDES OF FLYING ZOMBIE DRAGONS and he has a moment of OH
GOD
and evolves from the stress again
except now he is Dorugreymon and he looks like the zombies and when he sees his reflection in the water he has a small nervous breakdown because oh my god it's all true, I really am a monster
~~~STILL IN PROGRESS~~~
(also i'm using Japanese names and terminology)
Okay so you've got the Digital World, which is exactly what it sounds like. Yggdrasil is the master host computer for the Digital World, basically a god. The world is inhabited by Digital Monsters or Digimon, which are creatures with sentience and free will that happen to be made of data. The Digital World mimics and draws on the real world in many ways, but it's a lot more abstract - structures such as ruins may exist without actually having a history, for example, and though there is a sun that rises and sets, there's no real reason for one to exist other than to match what we would expect of a habitable world.
At the time that this movie takes place, Something Is Happening. The Digital World has become overpopulated and far too complex for Yggdrasil to handle, causing a catastrophic collapse known as the Digital Hazard; the host computer launches the Ark Project, a plan to recreate the Digital World and start anew. If all had gone according to this plan, the new world would be populated by a small number of Digimon chosen from the old world, who could be easily supported by Yggdrasil and overseen by its Royal Knights, eliminating the possibility of another Digital Hazard. The remainder of the old world's Digimon population would be wiped out by the termination command called the X-Program.
BUT THINGS NEVER GO ACCORDING TO PLAN NOW DO THEY
A number of Digimon not chosen by Yggdrasil survived and made it to the new world thanks to the X-Antibody. The existence of the X-Antibody threatened to break Yggdrasil's control over affairs in the new world - and thus, its stability and safety - and so the Digimon who carried it were branded as outsiders and hunted down by the Royal Knights. Many carriers of the X-Antibody banded together in the new world, forming a resistance that opposed Yggdrasil's rule.
Its original plan having failed, Yggdrasil intends to take the Ark Project a step further, wiping out all Digimon.
OKAY NOW WHAT DOES DORUMON HAVE TO DO WITH THIS
Dorumon is a carrier of the X-Antibody. He lived in the old Digital World, survived the X-Program, and made it to the new world. (INSERT WORDS ABOUT LEOMON SCENE HERE) In the new world, though, he was a total outcast, unwanted by other Digimon and unable to make friends. He spends a lot of time wandering and being miserable until one day he's chilling alone and sad in some dusty ruins and SUDDENLY
THERE'S A LOT OF LOUD NOISE OUTSIDE
and he goes outside and there's a fucking WarGreymon X lying there (THAT'S A BIG ARMORED DINOMAN FYI) holding a Tokomon (tiny pink thing). WarGreymon X hands off the baby to Dorumon and tells him to take care of it then flies off all in a big hurry. Dorumon watches him and whoa hey whaddaya know he's being chased by one of the Royal Knights, guardians of the network. That sure ain't suspicious at all.
But anyways now Dorumon's taking care of a baby, and it's pretty great and all because the baby loves him and he's a positive part of someone else's life for once and he's feeling good. BUT THEN OMEGAMON (one of the Royal Knights) SHOWS UP TO EXPLODE A HILL AND KILL A BUNCH OF DIGIMON on Yggdrasil's orders because he's Lawful Stupid. Dorumon and Tokomon manage to not get blown up, but Omegamon sees them and comes after them and they DO THEIR BEST TO FIGHT BACK
which isn't very good at all. It's really pathetic actually and they just bounce off him a lot while he stands there wondering why they keep getting up. They finally can't get up anymore and Omegamon's about to stab them and then that WarGreymon X from before shows up to save the day! And he brings his buddy MetalGarurumon X! They go and fight Omegamon to keep him from brutalizing the children any more, except it's a little too late because Dorumon runs over to Tokomon then shouts out that THIS CHILD IS DEAD!!! Omegamon launches an attack at them, MetalGarurumon X shields them, they live, he dies, but before he dies he gives his X-Antibody to Tokomon so that the kid can live. This whole sequence gives Dorumon flashbacks to that Leomon scene from the very beginning and he EVOLVES MAJESTICALLY to Dorugamon.
AND THEN MORE DIGI EX MACHINA HAPPENS in the form of Dukemon, one of the other Royal Knights, appearing like "whoa dude not cool killing children is bad even when it's on computer god's orders". Dukemon manages to derail Omegamon from its quest to stab small pink babies, and Dorugamon, WarGreymon X, and Tokomon go on their merry way.
Also Dukemon gets stabbed by Omegamon which Dorugamon kind of senses on the way out but nobody cares.
To recap, after that pleasant interlude: MetalGarurumon X got dead, Dukemon got dead but nobody cares, Dorumon evolved, Tokomon is now carrying the X-Antibody. Our heroes have returned to chilling peacefully in that dusty ruin. Except then Magnamon (another Royal Knight) shows up to kidnap Dorugamon because Yggdrasil said so. He delivers Dorugamon to the weird circuit-board otherworld realm where Yggdrasil is. Yggdrasil pulls data out of Dorugamon to make DexDorugoramon (some big ugly evil dragon cyborg thing), then dumps Dorugamon somewhere in the Digital World. DexDorugoramon lays a bunch of eggs, which become bajillions of smaller zombie dragons, DexDorugreymon.
(oh god there are so many long proper nouns in this)
And that is the true life story of how Dorumon became a lot of zombies.
SO DORUGAMON ENDS UP IN A JUNK HEAP SOMEWHERE and members of la resistance find him and he's being hauled around unconscious for the next like twenty minutes of the movie.
When he wakes up, a lot of Digimon are being slaughtered by the ENDLESS HORDES OF FLYING ZOMBIE DRAGONS and he has a moment of OH
GOD
and evolves from the stress again
except now he is Dorugreymon and he looks like the zombies and when he sees his reflection in the water he has a small nervous breakdown because oh my god it's all true, I really am a monster
~~~STILL IN PROGRESS~~~
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