History Anime / DigimonAdventureTri

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Going DarkerAndEdgier means that some things that were taken for granted earlier in the ''Adventure'' are deconstructed in some form in ''tri'':
** In most other ''Digimon'' seasons, a fight between two giant monsters would result in some property damage but hardly anyone noticing. Not here. After the fight with Kuwagamon, the terminal and runway at Haneda airport, along with Palette Town and the Kaiheinkoen of Odaiba, are completely leveled, and one side character remarks they know someone who was hospitalized in the attacks. The news treats the Chosen Children's partners like ''they're'' the bad guys, and Yamato nearly attacks two boys who say they just want all the Digimon to die. Then Taichi starts to worry that he might wind up ''killing someone.''
** In a way, both Mimi and Joe end up inadvertently evoking their Crest traits up to detrimental point in ''Determination'', though thankfully they manage to break out of this by the end of the arc.[[note]]In particular, Jou's trait (Reliability) translates to being very responsible, but now he's at the age where trying to be a responsible adult (studying and achieving high marks in school so that he may work to become a doctor) clashes with his desire to be a reliable ally and helping his friends in a new crisis at the cost of studying. This ends up bringing him intense inner turmoil over what he feels he should be doing for himself and causes some friction between him and his friends. Meanwhile, Mimi's time in America led her to becoming an even more outspoken person compared to those around her when she returned to Japan. Her trait of Sincerity/Purity is shown off when she states that she prefers BrutalHonesty and saying what you want to say over keeping your feelings hidden for the sake of others (believing that doing otherwise is selfish). However, this attitude ended up making Mimi herself come off as more self-centered than she intended, causing her to question her own behavior since she always believed she has everyone's best interests in mind whenever she takes initiative like she has been.[[/note]]
** CharacterDevelopment aside, the Chosen Children are no longer the same people they were years ago. For starters, Taichi no longer has the same HotBlooded, adventure-loving attitude he had in the first series.
** While most of the Digidestined were able to easily bond with their digimon partners again, Sora [[spoiler:and Maki]] have trouble reconnecting with someone who doesn't remember them at all.
*** The latter's case particularly: If you're just minding your own business when a clearly unhinged person you don't recognise appears and acts like you're lifelong friends, before picking you up and saying stuff like "we'll never be apart again"... most people are going to be creeped out.

* PlotHole:
** The main cast's lack of interest in the absent 02 kids and their Digimon. [[spoiler:The explanation that the 02 kids and the main cast had "drifted" doesn't account for why they go ignored when the Digimon return, the Digital world is revealed to be in crisis, or when hostile Digimon arrive in the real world, which are all big changes in the status quo that would be relevant to the whole team. The last one is especially bad, because it leaves Taichi, a known strategist, ignoring useful tactical assets.]]
** Overall, the movies appear to outright forget the setting itself and sometimes even blatantly violates MagicAIsMagicA for the sake of being convenient. For example, in "Our Future", [[spoiler:Gatomon is capable of breaking free from Ordinemon through some friendly dream magic from Wizarmon, despite the Reboot means that ''she shouldn't be able to remember it.'']]

* FauxlosophicNarration: The narration of the opening sequence is saturated with neoplatonic jargon [[spoiler:that only serves to obscure that [=MaiCoomon=] was infected with Apocalymon's data.]]

* SanitySlippage: Both Meiko and [[spoiler:Hikari]] go through this, the former because Meicoomon is no longer her Digimon partner, [[spoiler:the latter because Tai is apparently ''DEAD''.]]

** Koushiro having an all-out crush on Mimi now, with his blushing reaction to their reunion and coming to the school festival just to see Mimi in her cafe outfit. He goes so far as to ask Takeru for fashion advice to impress her, though he [[BadLiar unconvincingly denies that being the reason]].

* AllThereInTheManual:
** Promotional "Hyper Colosseum" cards featuring antagonistic Digimon featured in movie releases indicate that the Imperialdramon and Mugendramon featured in movies 2 and 4 are infected Digimon, like Kuwagamon and Ogremon from movie 1.

* HopeSpot: When all of the Digimon [[spoiler:get infected]] with 10 minutes until reboot, Koshiro sets up a backup port that allows him to collect the data of all of their Digimon so that [[spoiler:their memories won't get erased when the reboot happens]]. However, even though [=HerculesKabuterimon=] is able to hold the Digimon enough to push them back into the distortion, [[spoiler:none of them got to the backup port in time]]. [[spoiler:Subverted, when it's revealed in ''Our Future'' that during the confrontation Meicoomon's data was mixed in and as a result she got all of the digimons' memories from before the reboot]].