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  • The first American broadcast of Digimon Tamers is best summed up with this trope. It got a lot of stuff that shouldn't have passed onto Fox Kids. It was "the season the censors were asleep". Tamers and Shinzo (which had a lot of violence in it, too) were the last two shows by Saban before Disney took it over; hence, a GaoGaiGar-like final blaze of glory was probably Saban's intent.
  • The three main characters and the Sixth Ranger naked during their Fusion Dance with their respective Digimon. Although Barbie Doll Anatomy is in full effect after the fusion, the fusion sequences themselves show clearly Ruki's nipples and Takato's (also Henry's, although less so) genitalia.
  • The most explicit, not to mention heartbreaking, killing of a main character seen in a Digimon anime, all with an established All Deaths Final rule in place making a return of the killed off character impossible.
  • In the original Ruki/Rika's mother was eighteen when she gave birth. The dub actually made it "worse", by aging Ruki up by three years, without aging up her mom. This means according to the dub, she was around fifteen, when she had Rika. How they got away with that one is anyone's guess.
  • The localization team decided to have a little girl share the same name with a fictional prostitute.
  • From the first episode onwards, Renamon finishes off her (?) enemy by stabbing it with hundreds of shiny things, and absorbing (eating!) the remains, and Guilmon melts some real-life rats to show us what it could do to the kid right next to him.
  • The teacher quite obviously has a hangover in one episode, but is just shown as inexplicably frustrated and rubbing her head. Then there's the clearly drunk man in the subway helped up by a cop, who instead ate a questionable ham sandwich.
  • In episode eight, there is a scene with a man and a woman. The dialogue goes like this:
    Man: Um, I've been doing a lot of thinking... (Places his hand on her lap.)
    Woman: Ohh.
    Man: Oh, not that. Not about that!
  • The Japanese broadcast was aired by the morning, so it couldn't exactly make sexual references at all, but that didn't impede the makers from slipping some under the door, like Ruki's grandmother talking to someone in an internet chat room. She types and reads, out-loud: "Don't say things like that. You know I'm too old for that. Ho ho ho."
  • "Calumon zoom zoom! NO UNDERWEAR, ZOOM!"
  • In the dub, after getting called out by Renamon, Impmon angrily shouts "Hey! Foxface!" at her. However, the 'x' sounds more like a 'ck' with his voice in that moment, making it sound like he's swearing.
  • After abducting Ruki, IceDevimon holds her very inappropriately while demanding she become his partner. Coupled with the fact that he's been stalking her from afar to determine that she's the ideal Tamer for him and that he proclaims he will kill her current partner to prove this, this all has unsettling undertones.
  • There's also the scene from episode fourteen where Digimon are pulled into Juggernaut where they are mercilessly torn apart, their screams of agony causing one of the operators to have a near nervous breakdown.
  • In Episode 16, when Takato's and Jian's classes go to the river for a field trip, Takato's teacher Asanuma-sensei is briefly seen in a black swimsuit, and Jian's teacher Mori-sensei is offering to apply a layer of suntan oil for her.
  • During the episode where Juri follows Leomon around, he demands that Juri stop cooing over him. She responds by giving what can only be described as bedroom eyes, saying "Then... like this?". Leomon is understandably weirded out.
  • Episode 22 features a scene of Henry looking at a Chinese zodiac poster in a shop window and comparing the signs in it to the devas. Rika walks past at that point, sees him looking at it and sarcastically comments, "I thought guys only like posters of girls in bikinis." Later, Henry shows the poster to the rest of his friends, and the boys are equally confused about there being no bikini girls on it.
  • Henry, a teenager, encountering Yamaki, a grown man, alone in the park is very creepy, especially when Yamaki lifts the kid by the collar when Henry won't give him what he wants.
  • When Yamaki is moping around his apartment after getting canned before resolving to help the kids, there's quite clearly an ash tray full of cigarette butts on his desk next to the laptop.
  • In Episode 26, Kazu and Kenta's Excellent Adventure, the two non-Tamers meet Babamon and Jijimon (granny and grandpa-looking Digimon) and eventually ask to be their Tamers, however the roles somehow get switched, and the human boys battle. There is a point where Babamon says, "Digimodify... STEP ON HIS NECK!" and then lifts and presents her large breasts...
  • When Jeri, who has long since been Mind Raped past the Despair Event Horizon, considers committing suicide by choking herself to death in Episode 49 with her own dog hand puppet! We even see her hand squeezing her throat. You know, for kids! (Thankfully, Calumon intervenes and throws the hand puppet away)
    Jeri: It's time to go!
    [She clutches her throat with her puppet-covered hand]
    Calumon: NOOOOOOOOO-O-O-O!!!!!!
    [He jumps onto her hand, and grabs the hand puppet, flinging it away]
    Calumon: [desperately pleading] Don't listen to that rag!
  • The infamous episode thirty-four. Hint: it involves Leomon, Demon Lord and a clawed hand.
  • In the final episode:
    • When the Biomerged quartet enter the D-Reaper Mass, the Mother D-Reaper forms another massive creature out of the physical matter of phone lines, computer cables, electronics, and metal it has consumed: the Cable Reaper. Rika's first reaction to it? If this were less G/PG-rated...
      Rika (paralyzed with fear): I am not scared... I am scared witless...
    • Justimon asks Sakuyamon to lend him her strength so he can beat the Cable Reaper (the penultimate enemy to the Mother D-Reaper). This would be alright if it didn't involve Sakuyamon blowing off her external armor and Justimon's sword swelling to twice its length. Good Lord, the only way it could have been more obvious was if someone had made a "why'd you take off your clothes for him?" comment.note 
      • It's worth pointing out again that, despite nudity being present almost constantly in the third act, no private parts are ever shown. In the scene described above, however, the skin-tight outfit Sakuyamon is left wearing afterwards leaves... extremely little to the imagination. Sure, you don't actually see anything, but that doesn't change the fact that her nipples are quite clearly accentuated.
      • The fight between Gallantomn Crimson Mode and the disfigured ADR-01 has the latter grabbing the former in a rather sexually predatory way, giggling included. Also, it seems the makers changed their mind on the target of her kicks between photograms: one of them looks clearly directed to Gallantmon's groin before deviating weirdly to his chest.
  • After the Final Battle in Runaway Locomon one of the shots involve Sakuyamon being freed from the swamp of Combat Tentacles, or, rather, a close-up of her Breast Plate and the solitary breasts bouncing of her chest as she's released.
  • Episode 19 Has Impmon going on a bit of a rampage amongst humans. Police officers surround him with not invisible guns. The dub gets around this by having one officer ask, "Should we tell him we weren't issued any ammo, sir?"

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