Headscratchers / Digimon: The Movie

• Why didn't Omega/Omnimon just shoot Diaboromon with his cannon? There was no reason for him not to besides having them stop the countdown just in time.
  • Best guess is that the cannon isn't a particularly accurate one. It's fine for taking out large numbers of enemies at once, but trying to aim for just one is not so easy. Better to just go for the sure thing with the sword. Plus firing that cannon was presumably using up energy, so even if he fired repeatedly, there was probably a risk of running out of energy and devolving before landing a shot.
  • In addition, we're never told that the Diaboromon copies were as strong as the original. There's no guarantee that the cannon would kill him in one shot. And remember, they only have one shot. Better to go for the sure-thing sword.
  • Also, Diaboromon is shown to be freaking fast in all his forms. He might be able to dodge a shot from Omnimon's cannon, because he can see it coming, but charging in at higher speeds and stabbing him running him through is harder to predict and even if he dodged that, they'd be close enough to finish him quickly anyway.
    • Nope, he wouldn't have even been able to dodge the cannon or the sword either way. He was being slowed down by the e-mails all the kids were sending him.
    • Omnimon was shown to be attempting to aim at Diaboromon when he was alone, but he kept moving, he was certainly too fast to hit. He closed in for the kill with his sword before Izzy redirected the mail. Hence, it was more a case of 'I'm already charging in, why stop?'
  • Also, there's the possibility of needing to follow up. If Diaboromon had narrowly dodged the cannon shot, there'd be more delay before a second hit, whereas the sword can transition attacks.

• Why did the Agumon who arrived at Tai and Kari's house become really huge as opposed to being a normal sized Agumon like in the series?
  • I think perhaps it was because Tai and Kari were really young. We know that the digiworld is made up of lost things and dreams- especially the dreams of children. So maybe that the Agumon was interacting with two small children did something to his growth. Basically kids are magic. Plus, Digimon get stronger by interacting with children- this Agumon was interacting with two children with equal weight, as opposed to the other Digimon we later followed who bonded with one child that was considered theirs exclusively. So he was being fed twice as much as the other Digimon, and the food was probably saturated with Phlebotinum.
  • After learning more information on the creation of the series (following the toys obliviously) I assumed the differences in size was because the "movie" was basically a super pilot (e.g with an actual production budget) so the design choices for certain Digimon wasn't set in stone yet. Now Digimon adventure is pick up as a show, and the company decides to air the pilot as the first movie and background for the series proper so you have mismatched sized Agumon.
  • Alternatively, it was a possible glitched Agumon. Maybe.

• In the series proper, Izzy's laptop is clearly a Bland-Name Product of an Apple laptop, complete with not-Mac OS System 9. However, in Our War Game and presumably in part 2 of the dub Movie, all of the computers shown are running a Windows 9x OS (either 95 or 98, I don't remember if they actually specify). Other than the Yagami family computer and the barber's shop computer, which probably would have been running Windows anyway, this includes Izzy's laptop and desktop. I don't remember if Izzy's desktop ever showed up in the series, but suddenly having the OS on his laptop change was somewhat jarring to me.
  • Given that it's Izzy, he may simply have hotswapped the OS at some point. Kid's a computer wiz, he could probably manage it. Maybe there were some programs he needed that ran on Windows exclusively.

• It may be out of continuity but there's something just wrong with Hurricane Touchdown. It obviously takes place after Ken's Heel–Face Turn, since Daisuke very clearly knows what to do with the Digimental of Miracles, while Angewomon's presence (and Holydramon's,HolyAngemon's and Seraphimon's) means that it has to be after the Core absorption. Where the hell is Ken?
  • That's just it, it's not in continuity, so it doesn't have to follow the rules of the series. But if it was in continuity it would be before Ken's Heel–Face Turn because he's not there, before the new kids had the power to make the Digimon naturally evolve (the movie was released sometime during the emperor arc if I'm not mistaken) and probably before Miyako got the Digimental of Purity (since Shurimon is a better fighter than Hawkmon and more likely would have been used) so it's probably supposed to fit somewhere between episodes 11 and 14. And in the movie's canon the original Digimon never lost the power to go to perfect and Patamon and Tailmon must have obtained the power to evolve into Ultimate (Mega in the dub) sometime in between season 1 and 2
    • Saying that it's set post-series, covers about every issue; How Patamon's and Gatomon's Mega forms were reached, where they obtained one of the other six Digimentals they didn't have by series' end. Ken's absence could just as easily be explained as him being occupied somewhere else in the world. And as for the Halsemon thing, he has flight capabilities, along with greater speed and maneuverability, justifying that choice over Shurimon.
    • No, no it doesn't. If it's sets post-series then the new Digimon should have been able to evolve to their natural levels, in lieu of using their armor forms. And Aquilamon can fly too. The movie isn't canon, but if it was it would obviously take place before the new Digimon started naturally evolving.
  • The Kaiser was defeated in early August, and the movie opens with Hikari and Takeru visiting Mimi during summer vacation, which in Japan is typically the last two weeks of August. Based on that, it probably takes place after Ken's defeat but before Daisuke first evolves Vmon to XVmon. So Ken's in the process of figuring himself out, therefore he's not part of the team yet, Submarimon doesn't appear because no water, and Shurimon doesn't appear because Holsmon's flight capabilities were preferable for an opponent as large as Wendimon and its evolved forms. Tailmon becoming Angewomon makes little sense, but she already broke continuity to do that in episode 13 - it was implied that the Crests would replenish eventually as they "still existed in everyone's hearts" (which I'm quoting from Patamon, immediately after the story of the Crest sacrifice is told, not when we found it out from season 1, so I assume that it's still true), so maybe Hikari was just closer to recovering hers than everyone else's, but not close enough to do it regularly. Seraphimon and Holydramon was bullshit but they at least handwaved it with "combining light and hope" or whatever so it's vaguely acknowledged that those were special circumstances that, for whatever reason, couldn't be replicated. Hell, that would explain why two holy Vaccine Ultimates couldn't beat one virus-infected enemy on their own; they didn't actually have full Ultimate-level power for more than a few seconds.
• How could Kokomon be reborn as an egg at the end of the movie? When Digimon die in the real world, they're supposed to stay dead.
  • The movie isn't canon.
  • It's possible that a digimon connected to a human with a digivice will simply save state and be reborn as an egg when destroyed.