Nightmare Fuel / Digimon Adventure: (2020)

"Now I am become death. The destroyer of worlds."

• The first three Episodes dives right into horror territory with swarms of Algomon attacking the Network. The first swarm tamper with traffic lights and causing multiple trains to go out of control, one of which has Taichi's family on it. The thought of being in a crash involving any kind of vehicle is bad enough, but Taichi would have lost his entire family to a train crash (to say nothing of all the other people who would have lost loved ones) had he and Agumon defeated the Adult-level Algomon any later.
  • The stakes rise even further with another Algomon swarm taking a page from Diablomon's book by trying to force a nuclear warhead to launch. They even stop the failsafes, much to the panic of those operating the system. Ultimately, Taichi and Yamato take down the Algomon responsible for this catastrophe. Disaster averted, right? Nope. The countdown still ticks down to zero even as the lead Algomon evolves to a Mega-level Digimon with the missile launched directly at Tokyo. Not only is Taichi and Koushiro's hometown in danger of annihilation, but as Koushiro notes this has the potential of sparking an apocalyptic nuclear war.
  • Algomon Mega is a terrifying figure despite its more humanoid stature. It gives off an animalistic roar upon evolving with its eyes jittering every which way. Its Chest Blaster even fills up with eyes rendered in a different art style before firing. Every angle it's viewed from in episodes 2 and 3 serves to emphasize its uncanny appearance, particularly its flat, twitchy eyes.

• Episode 16 brings us a brand new Digimon, Eyesmon, and with it a whole bunch of horrors that lead from one thing to another.
  • Things seem to finally be normal when Taichi, Mimi, and Koshiro arrive back home, with Mimi splitting up from the group to get back to her home. When she goes to buy a burger however, things start to be off as the cashier ends up repeating the same line over and over. When Mimi becomes aware of this, they start to glitch out, and Eyesmon makes itself known, its Scatter Mode variants appearing EVERYWHERE in the city in an attempt to swarm the DigiDestined currently there.
  • Once Eyesmon decides its Scatter Mode isn't enough to defeat the Chosen Children, it quickly changes to its original form... A giant shadowy beast COVERED in blood red slit eyes that's quite horrifying for the Digimon that have appeared so far.
• Episode 17: After defeating Eyesmon, the Digimon somehow manages to Digivolve to Ultimate level, Digivolving to Orochimon. While Orochimon was a rather harmless antagonists in its appearance in Digimon Tamers (It forced a Geckomon village to make it sake (Or milkshakes in the dub)), here it becomes MUCH more dangerous, more than capable of laying a beating on all six of the Chosen Children's Ultimate level Digimon and forcing them to retreat until they come up with a way to defeat it later on, and even then it takes everything they have to pull it off.
• Episode 18:
  • Orochimon somehow not only survives its destruction, but Digivolves even FURTHER to Ultimate level, resulting in the birth of Nidhoggmon, a terrifying COLOSSAL beast with More Teeth than the Osmond Family and multiple glowing blood red eyes. And with its presence, it starts to build up energy to gather up in the real world, threatening to use all that energy to annihilate Tokyo once its countdown has ended. And the worst part is that this guy shows his ugly mug while the Chosen Children and their partners are exhausted and weakened from their battle with Orochimon. It's a good thing Omegamon appeared in their most dire hour.
  • How big is Nidhoggmon? Well, its coils extend all the way around the fake city it created. Word of God is that its full length is the distance between Shibuya and Asakusa. That about 11 kilometers, or nearly seven miles, all covered in eyes.

• At the end of episode 19, Taichi and Yamato find that Minotarumon and his underlings have been transporting Yamato's brother Takeru to Devimon. It's bad enough knowing that they have malevolent intentions toward your world, but knowing that they've managed to get their hands on one of your loved ones just makes it so much worse.
• In Episode 21, Splashmon bites MetalGreymon to poison him directly with the miasma. We even get a lovely close-up of all those needle-like teeth jabbing right into his arm.
• Episode 22:
  • SkullKnightmon/AxeKnightmon is only too willing to attack the children directly, first causing a pillar to fall on Takeru, which WereGarurumon saved him from at the last second. He then fires Eye Beams at Yamato when he goes to help his brother get to the egg. Finally, he fires a Magic Missile Storm at the two while they're dangling over the miasma pit. They would have fallen in if not for WereGarurumon's Mode Change, speaking of which...
  • AxeKnightmon nails WereGarurumon to a pillar with a multi-shot from his Energy Bow in what might be the most brutal moment in the series thus far. The arrows actually pierce through WereGarurumon into the pillar behind him as what looks like blood appears around the wounds. WereGarurumon can barely even scream from the pain until AxeKnightmon hits him in the stomach with different attack. Fortunately, he's able to absorb them and undergo a Mode Change to save Yamato and Takeru.
• Episode 23, showing Taichi, Yamato, and Takeru's confrontation with Devimon, grows more terrifying as the battle continues on.
  • During the battle, when Devimon starts to have a mental breakdown, we see SOMETHING that's significant to the Digimon universe appear for just a brief second... Specifically, we see Moon=Millenniummon appearing in a crystal used to evolve Devimon to NeoDevimon. The fact that one of THE most powerful antagonists in the franchise's history appearing in this series (Even if it's just one of his lower forms) implies a MUCH more brutal battle is on the horizon for the Chosen Children's adventure...
  • Just when the battle seems to finally be over, it only gets worse. When NeoDevimon's finally defeated, things seem to be alright... until DarkKnightmon arrives to use the crystal one more time to save him. Which soon leads to ANOTHER evolution, bringing Devimon to a horrifying new Mega level: DanDevimon.
• Episode 24:
  • DanDevimon himself is even more the stuff of nightmares. It begins with what remains of NeoDevimon melting as he evolves into his new form. Then, when he starts to attack, it becomes apparent that Devimon has become an Almighty Idiot who's Laughing Mad, with all his power having increased while his mind has absolutely shattered. He proceeds to tear apart both MetalGreymon and WereGarurumon, and nearly kills the former and Yamato with his flame breath. Other hallmarks include crawling around on the ground like an insect, growing spikes on his shoulders to impale his enemies, and eating Taichi.
  • The latter of which sends MetalGreymon into such an Unstoppable Rage that he evolves...into a incomplete Machinedramon. He lacks the cannons, but he fires a barrage of lasers from his tail that nearly take out Yamato, Takeru, Gabumon and Tokomon in the process. The entire time, he's cloaked in a bright red light, and he begins absolutely tearing into DanDevimon in a rather horrific and brutal fashion. And even then, the latter still manages to get the upper hand and deliver an equally brutal beatdown to Machinedramon. It's only due to Tokomon and Takeru's intervention that Agumon was able to gain his true Mega Form, WarGreymon, save Taichi (who was still alive inside of DanDevimon), and defeat DanDevimon seemingly for good. Either way, the entire sequence was very intense, less a homage of SkullGreymon and more of one for Megidramon!
• Episode 28 features Angemon doing what Devimon did in the original series - separate all the kids, although this time the intention is to save them from SkullKnightmon. Yet, SkullKnightmon not only found Taichi and Hikari easily anyway, but also, he managed to snatch Hikari literally out of nowhere, and with insanely fast speed too, speed he didn't demonstrate in his earlier fights. The scariest part here is that neither Taichi nor Agumon even realized SkullKnightmon was there for a moment, until he already has Hikari. In fact, they only find out it was SkullKnightmon because he bothered to show himself after snatching Hikari, as if taunting Taichi and Agumon.
• Episode 29 introduces its Monster of the Week, Tankdramon, by having it loom out of the flames and straight-up annihilate a Budmon with its Breath Weapon. From the way the poor little 'mon screams, it wasn't exactly painless either. Tankdramon then tries to run over the other one, but is luckily stopped at the last second by Taichi and Greymon.
• Episode 31 has Lopmon reveal that in the original war for the Digital World, the forces of darkness had ZeedMillenniumon as their trump card and it didn't have its Power Limiters. The eight main Digimon defeated it with their ultimate forms but couldn't destroy it completely, instead scattering pieces of it across the Digital World. MoonMillenniumon's dark crystal is just one part of a much larger whole and is using the data that the Algomon and Eyesmon have been stealing from the human world to resurrect itself. One shudders to think just how much stronger ZeedMillenniumon will be should it succeed.
• In Episode 38 Gabumon and a few of Elecmon are about to be sacrificed to MoonMillenniumon. Terrifying already. Mephistomon crucifiying them and painfully killing Elecmon one by one while using Ominous Latin Chanting to control nearby Troopmon makes it a straight up satanic ritual.
  • Mephistomon's chanting has been translated. He's actually saying "El Sabbath Millennia" as in the Millennial Day Theory. As in when Millenniumon finally rises he will establish a perfect kingdom for his followers. The implications here are eerie.

• Coming off as the love-child of Mr. Face and a bionic manatee, you thought the living hunk of rotting meat that is Raremon was kinda disgusting before? Digimon Adventure (2020) would like to introduce RareRaremon,◊ its new Ultimate level, complete with Multiple Head Case and eyes all over every single one. It had some pretty disgusting attacks before, but now it relies on eating its opponents and dissolving them with its now highly-corrosive body. Oh, and it also ate a bunch of Chumon as a Champion.

• Episode 46 is chock full of disturbing imagery. First off, Devimon "resurrects" using a copy of himself that Sephirotmon as a vessel while taking great pleasure in torturing Angemon again. Then Angemon reveals Devimon to be his inner darkness with the latter unable to fully destroyed without killing Angemon too. The real horrifying part is Devimon poisoning Angemon with more of The Corruption to the point Angemon grows horns, a helmet resembling NeoDevimon's six-eyed mask, and his wings are nearly destroyed. If Takeru hadn't talked him into resisting, Angemon would have strangled the child to death and become a Fallen Angel as bad as Devimon.
  • As mentioned above, in the same episode comes this series’ version of Sephirotmon. No longer is he a theatrical Large Ham - now, he’s a creepy creature stealing everyone’s data, wearing his prey down with increasingly larger-numbered, stronger and even bigger-than-usual copies of the victim’s previous foes, all for Millenniummon’s new plan. His data stealing also works very quickly, gaining MetalGreymon and WereGarurumon’s signature moves shortly after they use them. If not for MagnaAngemon’s timely arrival, the children would have lost then and there. Worst of all, that was just one sphere - Sephirotmon himself survives the encounter unlike all the other completely bad Digimon the children have faced. While he may not have the children’s data anymore, he’s still able to give what data he’s learned to his master, meaning the children likely haven’t seen the last of Sephirotmon...

• Episode 48:
  • Cloud Continent has begun to descend from the sky for reasons unknown, dominating the horizon and creating an appropriately menacing backdrop for the final battle.
  • This episode brings us a proper fight against Machinedramon, recreated by Sakakkumon from its data on Agumon. While a Killer Robot like the version from original series, Kari sensing MoonMillennumon controlling it, this Machinedramon is more destructive with the Vademon leader's monologue revealing that Millennuimon tasked Sakakkumon to gather the data of the strongest Digimon it could find while also making the DigiDestined Digimon its prime target for analysis.
  • Machinedramon proves to be strong enough to take on WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon together so after a power-up from Hikari and Angewomon, Taichi tells Yamato to take the others and run. Taichi and WarGreymon win, but not before WarGreymon takes one of Machinedramon's claws through the chest.
  • Machinedramon manages to fire off several shots at Cloud Continent from its cannons throughout the battle and does enough damage to create cracks that are big enough to be seen from miles away. WarGreymon is able to defeat it before it finishes whatever the Vademon want it to do. Mission accomplished, right? Nope! The Vademon leader sets Machinedramon's reactor to overload and rocket up to the continent with Taichi and WarGreymon in tow, its impact causing a titanic explosion.
• Episode 49:
  • We find out why Machinedramon was shooting at Cloud Continent: It was trying to create cracks for the miasma, Millenniumon's essence, to seep through. When it does, it forms into an enormous Machinedramon-like head that turns into a giant storm of darkness. Not dangerous on its own, but imagine that big and hateful flying right at you.
  • As if Sephirotmon fused to Millenniumon's crystal weren't already a disturbing sight, the storm of darkness causes it to evolve, hideously mutating into a Kimeramon. This isn't a normal Kimeramon, being an albino-like creature that initially was tumorous mass constantly secretes a liquefied mass, a piece of its body breaking off to become a fully-formed Griffomon.
  • Despite the Chosen Children's best efforts, Griffomon's distraction pays off. Millenniumon is here. And it's huge. So huge, in fact, that it makes the already city-sized Nidhoggmon look tiny.
• Episode 50:
  • The preview for the episode showed a shot of WarGreymon confronting Millenniumon and being dwarfed into a tiny orange speck. The size difference proves to be even more than that, with WarGreymon briefly not even being visible as he charges at this titan. Millenniummon's claws on their own are larger than the mountains below.
  • Millenniumon's version of the Mugen Cannons are as destructive as their size suggests, with their impact causing colossal volcanic eruptions. The result looks like Siberia at the end of the Permian.
  • Millenniumon tries to crush the Chosen Children by biting down on the dark orb it's trapped them in. Their Digimon can't do anything to free them even at full power and it takes WarGreymon empowered by all of their emotions just to knock the orb free with seconds to spare.
  • The holy dragons curb stomp Millenniumon with their attacks and leaving him floating in the sky, giving off a huge cloud of smoke. It seems that they've won, but the scene pans up the pillar of black smoke and from the top of it stares an enormous, hateful eye. This isn't Millenniumon anymore. ZeedMillenniumon has returned and is now the size of a small moon. Even with its power-limiters in place, the lightning shooting out randomly from its mouths carves streaks of apocalyptic destruction across the entire Digital World.
• Anybody remember Burpmon? You know, that joke Digimon from the Digimon Twin v-pet from back in 2007? It's back with a tremendous upgrade. It's sent by the dark forces to eat up any data that the tree everyone's at is able to find, and it makes its entrance as just a pink blob with a Slasher Smile before consuming all the data it can. It then breaks into the crests' chamber and turns into a Majin Buu-esque liquid (complete with a very grotesque-looking eye) that succeeds in fully consuming a Mekanorimon. When it goes into its regular form, it's capable of eating anything in sight, including enemy attacks, growing bigger and bigger the more it eats. Lastly, despite recently getting a profile in the Digimon Reference Book after its episode aired, it still doesn't have a known level or attribute.^note To put it into perspective, that's the same as Culumon, a being capable of triggering evolution. Burpmon is in the same ballpark as something like that. In short, take Kirby, exaggerate his Adorable Abomination status, make it an Extreme Omnivore and a Blob Monster with incredible resilience, and watch as a seemingly insignificant Digimon gets boosted into a full-on destructive force.
• Episode 64 ends on a particularly ominous note. Though Deathmon and the Soundbirdmon have been destroyed and the crests have been activated, the Great Catastrophe has begun. The Chosen Children hear a noise from outside the tree of knowledge and go to investigate. They get outside and find that part of the sky is just gone, replaced with a portal to an empty void and within awaits Negamon, the bringer of the end. The mastermind of every disaster to befall either world over the course of the series is here and the Digital World is breaking.
• Episode 65:
  • The portals to the void have opened all across the Digital World. Despite the Soundbirdmons' destruction, they succeeded in weakening the Digital World's integrity that Negamon can just punch through wherever it wants. Its first target? The Chosen Children. An enormous tentacle strikes the ground, dragging them into the void and trying (and luckily failing) to choke the life out of them as it does so. More tentacles descend from holes in the sky to begin the Digital World's destruction. Negamon continues to make new openings and any Digimon caught in them just stop existing.
  • Algomon gives us Negamon's origin. Negamon had originally existed to counterbalance the Digital World's propensity for endless life and growth by introducing conflict and disaster, but when the Digital World reached out to humanity to break out of the resulting cycle, Negamon tried to do the same thing. Where the Digital World and its Digimon found humans to form bonds with, Negamon found the Network, which was full of data produced by humanity. That data carried their negative emotions and when Negamon used that to power itself, it became addicted to consuming the resulting negative energy to the point that it overrode its original purpose. Now Negamon exists only to devour and won't stop until it's the only thing left.
  • Even consuming the Digital World isn't enough for Negamon. It reaches up, away from the Digital World and cracks appear in the sky over Tokyo. Negamon is breaking through to the human world.
• Episode 66
  • Negamon starts evolving into Kuzurumon, which is basically just a writhing worm with a giant mouth full of human like teeth, a blood curdling scream, and another mouth inside its main mouth. Just trying to scan it causes Koushiro’s laptop to get a blue screen of death.
  • When to chosen children seemingly destroy that form, it evolves again into Abaddomon, the with the only being that it’s covered in eyes, before converts the negative energy sphere it resides in to a giant mouth, as all its Combat Tentacles sprout eyes and mouths all over themselves. It then proceeds to take out all the other characters except for WarGreymon, MetalGarurumon, Seraphimon, and Ophanimon and their partners. What’s more, there attacks can’t even hurt it any more, because any attack that gets near its main body is straight up erased from existence.
  • It’s then reveals that it devoured the very existence of the characters it took out, leaving them as monotone phantoms who are barely holding onto their own existence. Algomon wasn’t joking about it being able to reduce everything to nothing.
• Episode 67
  • Abaddomon’s core is basically an anthropomorphic mass of eyes and mouthes that vaguely resembles Omegamon. One of its attacks is shooting blobs of goo that transform into a copy of Kuzurumon and another is growing a tumor-like mass with a mouth to try and bite Omegamon, its last attack is to grow a huge one to try and swallow Omegamon whole.

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