Fan:Digimon: Light and Dark (2021 film)

Digimon: Light and Dark is a fanon live-action film idea created by CAJH. It is the sequel to Digimon and second installment of the fanfictional film series idea. The story of the film is inspired by several elements from 1999 Adventure and 2020 Adventure: continuities as well as few recurring elements from Digimon mythologies. The story of the film starts one year after the events of Digimon.

The main story points and ideas of Digimon: Light and Dark were released to the Digimon Wiki in March 27, 2021. The ”Digimon 2021 Fan Fiction Film Series Story Idea Group” is also actively recruiting other people to suggest their own ideas for a potential full script.

Planned intro

 * The film begins with Huckmon's metaphoric speech about ground and skies, demons and angels, and light and dark. It also shows flashbacks of PicoDevimon surviving from the ancient war of the Digital World and jumps into another flashback where he, as Devimon, after the destruction of the Algomon, raises his castle in a very dark place. And awakens the Soundbirdmon to spy and monitor the Digital World.

Planned story elements

 * The Chosen Ones are now fully familiar with the environment of the File Island, but are still exploring the Cloud Continent, and have not found Poyomon or YukiBotamon.
 * During one battle, Will and Lopmon end up separated from others and are captured by Devimon.
 * Alongside the Soundbirdmon, Devimon has recruited lots of Bakemon, Devidramon, and Phantomon, one MetalPhantomon, one Wizardmon, and one Tailmon with black fur (and later referred only once as BlackTailmon).
 * Devimon uses his Infection to corrupt Lopmon and dark evolve her to Wendigomon.
 * Will falls into depression, being reminded of his father’s death, being forced to move from Colorado, believing that he is ”destined” to suffer.
 * Wizardmon is secretly trying to restore Tailmon to her old self, before Infection.
 * Huckmon informs the Chosen Ones about the Crests, a ”power of personality” that will allow their Partner Digimon to Perfect Level:
 * Taichi has the Crest of Courage.
 * Matt has the Crest of Friendship.
 * Sonya has the Crest of Love.
 * Connor has the Crest of Knowledge.
 * Mimi has the Crest of Sincerity.
 * Joe has the Crest of Reliability.
 * Tyler has the Crest of Hope.
 * Hikari has the Crest of Light.
 * Will has the Crest of Destiny.
 * New and more serious disturbances appear in the Network, but no Algomon appears anywhere this time, because Devimon does not possess ability to create new green Digi-Eggs. Instead, the new disturbances in the East Coast of the United States are caused by the Infected Digimon sent to the Network:
 * Infected Sea Digimon led by MegaSeadramon are disturbing any navigational signals of tanker ships and luxury cruisers.
 * Infected Insect Digimon led by Okuwamon are disturbing plane controls.
 * Infected Beast and Dinosaur Digimon led by Mammothmon and MetalTyrannomon are disturbing all other kinds of technology while destroying blocks of data in the Network.
 * The holographic images of the Infected Digimon are seen in the real world by the parents of the Chosen Ones, but not by anyone else.
 * Orgemon tries to figure out what to do with his life but is not willing to cooperate with the Chosen Ones or Leomon, due to his pride.
 * Poyomon’s Toddler Level form, Tokomon, is revealed to live in the Village of Beginnings, a place that was well hidden within the File Island. Its caretaker Elecmon is overprotective of Baby and Toddler Level Digimon and distrustful of the Chosen Ones.
 * Tokomon, however, refuses to obey Elecmon and evolves to Patamon. Patamon even fights Elecmon and wins.
 * When Wendigomon and a group of Devidramon and Infected Airdramon invade the Village of Beginnings, Taichi attempts to recklessly put his own life in danger, hoping to make Greymon super evolve, but Greymon instead dark evolves to SkullGreymon, starts to go rampage around the Cloud Continent.
 * SkullGreymon kills the Infected Airdramon, one of the Devidramon and some innocent Digimon too, causing Mimi to become so distraught that she refuses to fight anymore. She leaves the group with Joe, who does not want to leave her alone.
 * Taichi’s actions and Tyler’s distaste for Matt’s overprotectiveness cause Matt to lash out towards Taichi and leave the group as well.
 * Taichi starts to become uncertain of himself and decides not to make any decisions unless he would understand Matt would want. He even sees nightmares in the real world.
 * Meanwhile, Matt is also starting to become uncertain of himself. He was mostly focused only protecting Tyler and trying not to show much his parents’ divorce affected him during last years. He starts seeing nightmares in the real world too.
 * On next day, Taichi decides to bravely face SkullGreymon alone, this time endangering himself to talk to his Partner Digimon and save him, rather than force him evolve. SkullGreymon keeps attacking, but Taichi keeps talking and showing even stronger resolution to rather lay down his life than see his Partner Digimon suffer from dark evolution. And finally, SkullGreymon degenerates back to Greymon.
 * Wendigomon appears and is too powerful opponent for even an Adult Level Digimon. Taichi refuses to give up and makes Greymon super evolve to MetalGreymon. Wendigomon is defeated and Taichi purifies her back into Lopmon.
 * MetalPhantomon tries to kidnap Tyler who tries to protect Patamon. Matt, who was convinced by Gabumon to return to help others, arrives and realizes how he is still important to Tyler, even though his brother would one day grow up. He also realizes that the other Chosen Ones really do see him as their friend.
 * Garurumon super evolves to WereGarurumon who destroys MetalPhantomon.
 * Sonya starts being overprotective towards Piyomon who was wounded by MetalPhantomon, but this makes her realize the real reason for her own’s mother overprotectiveness.
 * At evening, Connor’s adoptive parents finally confess him the truth. Connor also reveals having known it for over a year and sees they just want him to be whatever he wants.
 * On next day, both Lopmon and Patamon sense that one of the places visited earlier by the Chosen Ones, the Miasma Lake, is where Devimon’s castle is hidden.
 * Wizardmon frees Will, and they escape the castle with Tailmon who is purified by Hikari’s Digivice and revealed to be YukiBotamon’s Adult Level form. Wizardmon had found YukiBotamon and raised her to Nyaromon and then to Plottmon, until Devimon had forced them both into his servitude and the Infected Plottmon to dark evolve her to BlackTailmon.
 * The Chosen Ones are split into groups that try to fight against the Infected Digimon and Dark Digimon in the Network, with Devimon himself fighting MetalGreymon and WereGarurumon.
 * After coming terms with his adoptive parents and fully accepts his ”curiosity”, Connor makes Kabuterimon super evolve to AtlasKabuterimon and faces Okuwamon.
 * After fully understanding her mother’s love, Sonya makes Birdramon super evolve to Garudamon and faces Mammothmon.
 * Mimi and Joe and meet with Leomon who also convinces Orgemon to give up their fight until Devimon is destroyed, then they together travel to the Miasma Lake to meet other Chose Ones.
 * Mimi realizes that she cannot avoid fighting forever and admits not wanting to just watch when others are hurt, making Togemon super evolve to Lillymon and facing MetalTyrannomon.
 * Joe shows willingness to risk his own life to protect others from MegaSeadramon’s attacks, his personal promise from being the oldest Chosen One. This makes Ikkakumon super evolve to Zudomon.
 * After the Chosen Ones are starting to gain the upper hand by purifying all the Infected Digimon and destroying Devimon’s own minions, Devimon tries to re-Infect his previous victims. Lopmon, whoever, evolves to Tueryemon and with help of Tailmon, prevents re-Infection.
 * Devimon, however, absorbs data of all the Soundbirdmon and the formerly Infected Perfect Level Digimon, and the data they have stolen from the Network to himself and super evolves to NeoDevimon, who is too powerful opponent for the Partner Digimon to defeat even in their Perfect Level forms.
 * Orgemon, who would rather die than allow someone else kill Leomon instead of him, sacrifices himself to prevent NeoDevimon from killing Leomon.
 * NeoDevimon also tosses Wizardmon to the Miasma Lake due to his betrayal, making the Chosen Ones and Tailmon think Wizardmon has drowned.
 * NeoDevimon is also able to continue the disturbances on the Network by himself and decides to crush the hope of the Chosen Ones by launching a missile from a U.S. base in Pacific Ocean towards New York. Because of this, in the real world, the parents of the Chosen Ones see holographic images of their children fighting NeoDevimon.
 * Patamon tries to fight by himself until Tyler finally manages to make him evolve to Angemon.
 * Tueryemon and Tailmon join Angemon to fight against NeoDevimon who defeats the two, while Angemon chooses to use another kind of method to defeat NeoDevimon: to use allow himself being absorbed by NeoDevimon.
 * Angemon’s body turns to data that flows with the Heaven’s Knuckle attack towards NeoDevimon. NeoDevimon's body starts to glow white light and Angemon rematerializes as Tokomon inside NeoDevimon’s body. Out of desire to save humanity, he uses Holy Power to redirect the missile away from the Americas and blow it up somewhere safe.
 * The Holy Power weakens NeoDevimon severely, giving the other Partner Digimon chance to defeat him but they lose lots of power and degenerate back to their Toddler Level forms.
 * NeoDevimon survives from by degenerated back to PicoDevimon. Tokomon is freed in the process but is about to die due to losing all his power.
 * Everyone is crying but Tailmon and Tueryemon refuse to be separated from Tokomon, so they use some of their data with help of the Crests of Hope, Light and Destiny to save Tokomon. This, however, makes Tailmon and Tueryemon degenerate back into Nyaromon and Chocomon.
 * Wizardmon is revealed to have survived and he crawls out of the purified lake.
 * PicoDevimon laughs how the Chosen Ones failed to kill their enemy and warns the Chosen Ones about even more powerful opponents who cannot be defeated by only nine Chosen Ones, especially ”Him”. He then escapes into a distortion-like gate.
 * Huckmon assures the Chosen Ones that the Partner Digimon will slowly but certainly regain their powers. Will also realizes that while destiny did not allow them to have a complete victory over Devimon, it does allow them to live to fight Devimon and their future enemies another day.
 * Taichi and Matt reconcile and promise not to let go of their friendship ever again. They also express their proudness over how Tyler and Hikari have grown up.
 * Connor develops a way to fix all the malfunctions caused by the Infected Digimon and sends secret messages to authorities how to proceed with fixing everything.
 * The Chosen One also decide that it is time to tell the truth about the Digimon to their parents.
 * Most common themes are:
 * Taichi struggling with knowing when it is the right time to risk one’s own life to do the right thing.
 * Matt struggling with his friendship with others and his overprotective attitude towards Tyler.
 * Sonya struggling with relationship towards her mother.
 * Connor being uncertain of what his adoptive parents really think of his life with computers.
 * Mimi becoming hesitant to fight but later realizing that she hates the suffering of the innocent far more than fighting.
 * Joe becoming more and more certain of himself.
 * Tyler trying to be more independent but struggling to make Patamon evolve.
 * Hikari’s hearing the voice of her own Partner Digimon in her head and being determined to save her.
 * Will struggling to understand whether things ”destined” to happen and whether ”destiny” can truly be chosen.
 * Separation is also a side element:
 * Matt, Mimi, and Joe being separate from other Chosen Ones for a while.
 * Matt fearing Tyler becoming more independent of him.
 * The oath of Patamon, Tailmon, Lopmon never to be separated if they ever reunite after their rebirth from previous wars.

Featured characters
(Numbers indicate order of appearance. Bolded characters are fought by the protagonist(s), and italicized characters feature non-explicitly, e.g. voice, silhouette, image.)

Development
CAJH planned from the very beginning that Devimon would be the first recurring antagonist of the fan fiction film series. He also planned that Tyler Whitaker, Hikari Yagami and Will Dunham would not participate in battles during the first film, ”making them new members, in a way” in the sequel.

CAJH decided that Light and Dark would indeed take one school year later than Digimon, but also decided that it might not be the case with every upcoming installment of the series. He explained that hw would not want to write the films or plan a production schedule for them in a way to ”exhaust” potential actors or actresses. Centuarmon was decided to be left out from the sequel, due to CAJH not coming up with any good storyline idea for him. Leomon, Orgemon and Huckmon still remain as supporting characters. And the Chones Ones’ relationships to their families were opened up even more as part of the ”Crests storyline”. As for the decision to introduce the first six Perfect Level forms in the sequel, CAJH explained that he needed to ensure that every main character of the film would have a proper storyline, just like in the first film.

Trivia

 * Unlike in 2000 Adventure: continuity, this version of Soundbirdmon does not possess an ability to brainwash Digimon. That role, as well the role of Black Gears, is given to the Infection that makes its return from the first film. But only in Light and Dark, the Chosen Ones manage to find a way to purify the Digimon from Devimon's Infection without any outside help.
 * This version of Devimon has minions who are familiar serving Vamdemon in 1999 Adventure continuity or Millenniummon in 2000 Adventure: continuity.
 * SkullGreymon was initially planned not to appear and the parents were not initially meant to find out the truth about their children in this film, but that was changed for the benefit of the story.
 * Angemon was planned from the beginning to be the one who would ensure NeoDevimon's defeat. But because NeoDevimon was a Perfect Level Digimon and CAJH wanted to keep using Devimon as a villain for more than just two films, Devimon's defeat was not developed to be his end in this film.

Sequel
The third installment, titled Digimon: Armorization, will focus on Armor Evolution and introducing new members based on Adventure 02 characters. Devimon's influence in the story will continue due to his survival, but he will no longer be the only villain.