DigiDestined

DigiDestined (選ばれし子供) is a term unique to the Digimon media franchise. It is used in several Digimon anime series, to refer to special Tamers, a generic term for people who having Digimon as partners, who are chosen by fate to save the Digital World.

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.

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, akin to aging, but a DigiDestined's Digivice and inherent strength amplifies a Digimon's power to the point where it can Digivolve more easily, especially if the DigiDestined is in danger.

Digimon Adventure / Digimon Adventure 02
In Digimon Adventure, the DigiDestined are chosen by unseen digital beings who wish to help the Digital World. There is no information on who chooses the DigiDestined of Adventure 02, though it is likely that it is the Harmonious Ones. Most DigiDestined become one by seeing or interacting with Digimon in the Real World, and it is the discovery of this point that helps drive the Adventure DigiDestined's search for their missing eighth member.

Although it has been stated that the DigiDestined from Adventure are chosen because of an earlier battle between Greymon and Parrotmon, the second set of DigiDestined are chosen because of various things that the original group did. Yolei Inoue becomes one because she witnessed the battle with Diaboromon on the internet, Cody Hida is chosen because he was in the plane that Garudamon and MegaKabuterimon saved from crashing when the sky opened, and Davis Motomiya was part of the group of people who were being held inside the convention center when Myotismon was searching for the eighth DigiDestined.

The twelve main DigiDestined in Adventure and Adventure 02 all come from Japan. The first inkling that they are not alone comes when they meet Michael Washington, an American DigiDestined Mimi Tachikawa meets, and who gained his Digivice after seeing a Gorillamon. Late in the series, they discover that there are DigiDestined in many other parts of the world, and they need all the help when Digimon begin to invade the Real World. Unlike the Japanese DigiDestined, some of the international DigiDestined teams have multiple children paired with the same species of Digimon. Not all of the international Chosen Children are named, and not all are shown, but all are equipped with the basic Adventure Digivice, and it takes all of their help to defeat MaloMyotismon.

Original DigiDestined
Never seen nor revealed, it was seen 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 a "great evil" (likely Apocalymon). The scene that mentions them features silhouettes of Tai, Matt, Sora, Izzy, and T.K. and their Digimon; this was possibly done to avoid spending money designing new characters, and is not meant to actually depict that group.

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Adventure DigiDestined

 * Taichi "Tai" Kamiya and Agumon
 * Yamato "Matt" Ishida and Gabumon
 * Koushiro "Izzy" Izumi and Tentomon
 * Sora Takenouchi and Biyomon
 * Mimi Tachikawa and Palmon
 * Joe Kido and Gomamon
 * Takeru "T.K." Takaishi and Patamon
 * Hikari "Kari" Kamiya and Gatomon


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Adventure 02 DigiDestined

 * Davis Motomiya and Veemon
 * Yolei Inoue and Hawkmon
 * Cody Hida and Armadillomon
 * Ken Ichijouji and Wormmon
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International DigiDestined

 * American DigiDestined
 * Michael Washington and Betamon/Seadramon
 * Willis, Terriermon, and Kokomon
 * Phil and Flarerizamon
 * Tatum and Airdramon
 * Maria and Centarumon
 * Steve and Frigimon
 * Lou and Tortomon


 * Chinese DigiDestined
 * Three Hoi Brothers and three Syakomon/Octomon
 * Yue Hong and Apemon


 * Vietnamese DigiDestined
 * Dien and Gorillamon.


 * Indian DigiDestined
 * Mina and Meramon.


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 * Australian DigiDestined
 * Derek and Crabmon/Coelamon
 * Unnamed Australian Chosen Children, Bukamon, Divermon, and two Gizamon


 * French DigiDestined
 * Catherine and Floramon/Kiwimon
 * Unnamed French Chosen Children, Elecmon, Gotsumon, two Gazimon, Vegiemon, and two Vilemon


 * Mexican DigiDestined
 * Rosa and Gotsumon/Monochromon
 * Unnamed Mexican Chosen Children


 * Russian DigiDestined
 * Yuri and Kuwagamon
 * Sonya and Snimon
 * Anna and Unimon
 * Unnamed Siberian Chosen Children and Frigimon
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Digimon Tamers
The humans in this series, as the name states, are Tamers. Despite this, in the English dub of Digimon Tamers: Battle of Adventurers, the first Tamers movie, Omnimon mistakenly calls the Tamers DigiDestined.

Digimon Frontier
The DigiDestined in Digimon Frontier are chosen from a pool of potential DigiDestined gathered by Ophanimon to combat the corrupt Cherubimon. These children have no Digimon partners and instead use the power of the Spirits of the Legendary Warriors, deceased Digimon heroes who saved the Digital World of this series in its ancient past, to transform into Digimon themselves.

DigiDestined

 * Takuya Kanbara and the Spirits of Flame
 * Koji Minamoto and the Spirits of Light
 * J.P. Shibayama and the Spirits of Thunder
 * Zoe Orimoto and the Spirits of Wind
 * Tommy Himi and the Spirits of Ice
 * Koichi Kimura and the Spirits of Darkness