Marcus Damon

Marcus Damon (大門 大), is a fictional character in the Digimon Data Squad series. He is the first human lead of any Digimon anime that doesn't wear goggles. (There's been Kentaro of C'mon Digimon, Hiro of Digimon World along with Ryo of the Wonderswam games before Marcus) Marcus is also the first human protagonist to physically hurt Digimon on a regular basis.

Marcus is presented as a fourteen year-old student who loves to fight. He lives with his mother and younger sister Kristy (Chika). Marcus meets and fights Agumon in the first episode of the series. When the fight ends in a draw, Agumon agrees to become his partner. Soon afterwards he's recruited as a member of D.A.T.S. As Marcus's partner, Agumon idolizes him and refers to him as his "aniki" (兄貴, a Japanese colloquialism for "older brother," used in this case with the connotation of "boss" as seen in the Yakuza).

Marcus is one of the few humans shown to fight Digimon by himself, though he still counts on Agumon's help to fight the stronger opponents. Even though other humans can evoke their DNA charges by themselves, Marcus must usually connect a punch on an enemy to do so, subsequently using it to digivolve Agumon. A few exceptions are seen in Episode 13, where Marcus enabled to digivolve Rise-Greymon without punching another Digimon. In episode 46, Marcus is never seen punching anyone; instead his emotions of destorying his father/Yggdrasil enabled to automatically Burst evolve ShineGreymon.

Background
According to the "THERE ARE MONSTERS AMONG US", Marcus' birthday is the same day as day Digimon Savers started in Japan, April 2.

In the Japanese version, when referring to himself, Masaru adds -sama onto his name, equivalent to calling himself "Lord Masaru".

Marcus' Japanese name is probably also an intended pun as it could be read Daimondai, which means "big problem", appropriate for his hot-headedness and tendency to act before thinking.

Marcus makes a cameo appearance in the "The Legendary Tamer" quest of Digimon World Dawn and Digimon World Dusk, as a competitor in Exhibition 3 of the Legend Tournament. He and ShineGreymon Burst Mode fight alongside Thomas and MirageGaogamon Burst Mode, who comment on Marcus acting before thinking.

Possible Couplings

 * Marcus & Yoshino
 * Marcus and Thomas