DigiDestined

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DigiDestined is a term unique to the Digimon media franchise. It is used in several Digimon anime and manga series. DigiDestined is an English term; in Japanese DigiDestined are known as Chosen Children.

DigiDestined are children selected by benevolent beings to protect the Digital World (and sometimes Earth) from evil forces. The Digital World is a plane on which Digimon, anthropomorphic creatures that originated from data produced by Earth’s communication networks, live. The Digital World is volatile and is vulnerable to attack, and the Digimon that live there often find that they cannot defend their world on their own. Therefore, human children are recruited to defeat their enemies.

Only children up to the age of twelve are chosen to be DigiDestined. An episode of Digimon Tamers explains that the programmers of Digimon and the Digital World designed them according to the dreams and fantasies of their children (though each series is separate, so this may be true only in Tamers). Thus, Digimon have a natural affinity for them. It is also said that a child's innocent faith is needed to open a gate to the Digital World.[1]

In Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02, a DigiDestined is defined by the possession of a Digivice and a link to a Digimon partner. When a Digimon is partnered to a DigiDestined that child becomes its sole source of Digivolution. Digimon become stronger through Digivolution; this is usually a difficult process to achieve but a DigiDestined's Digivice amplifies a Digimon’s power to the point where it can Digivolve easily.

Non-DigiDestined can have Digimon partners as well, but they cannot be called DigiDestined if they don't have some sort of Digivice.

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[edit] The Original DigiDestined

Never seen, nor revealed in great length, but was revealed in Digimon Adventure that another group of children were chosen to be DigiDestined even before the group in that series had ever been called upon. They were in fact the first to defeat and seal away Apocalymon.

[edit] Digimon Adventure / Digimon Adventure 02

In Digimon Adventure the DigiDestined were chosen by unseen digital beings that wished to help the Digital World. There is no information on who chose the DigiDestined of Adventure 02.

Although it has been stated that the Digidestined from Adventure were chosen because of an earlier battle between Agumon and Parrotmon (in which Tai and Kari helped Agumon Digivolve into Greymon), the second set of Digidestined were chosen because of various things that the group from Adventure did. Yolei was chosen because she sent many emails during the battle with Diaboromon on the internet, Cody was chosen because he was in the plane that Garudamon saved from crashing when the sky opened, and Davis was part of the group of people who were being held inside the convention center when Myotismon was looking for the 8th Digidestined.

[edit] List of the DigiDestined (Adventure)

[edit] List of the DigiDestined (Adventure 02)

[edit] Digimon Tamers

The children that would be called DigiDestined in Adventure and Adventure 02 are referred to here as Digimon Tamers. However, in the English dub of Digimon Tamers: Battle of Adventurers, the first Tamers movie, Omnimon calls the Tamers DigiDestined.

[edit] List of the DigiDestined

[edit] Others With Digivices

[edit] Digimon Frontier

The DigiDestined in Digimon Frontier were chosen from a pool of potential DigiDestined gathered by Ophanimon. These children have no Digimon partners. They use the power of the spirits of the Legendary Warriors, deceased Digimon heroes that saved the Digital World of this series in its ancient past, to transform into Digimon themselves.

[edit] List of the DigiDestined

[edit] Digimon Savers

The main human characters of this series possess Digivices but they are not referred to as DigiDestined.

[edit] Characters With Digivices

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Shibumi Speaks". Digimon Tamers. Fox Kids. 2002-03-02.


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