Fan:Digimon (2021 film)

Digimon is a fanon live-action film idea created by CAJH. It is the first installment of the fanfictional multimedia franchise idea and the Eight Crests Arc. 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 initial story idea of Digimon was released to the Digimon Wiki on March 2021. But was later removed to be reworked for a better one, with the first version of the updated story idea released on November 2021. The ”Digimon 2021 Fan Fiction Universe Story Idea Group” is also actively recruiting other people to suggest their own ideas or story changes for a potential full script.

Story
Version 2.3.0. Last updated on February 25, 2023.

Some story elements have not been fully planned, but other contributors are to write their own suggestions in the talk page.

Chosen Children

 * Taichi Yagami, a Japanese-American 11 years old boy from Queens, New York. Based on Taichi "Tai" Kamiya. Becomes partnered with Agumon who learns to evolve into Greymon.
 * Connor Smith, Taichi’s 10 years old neighbor who has his own tablet computer. Based on Koushiro "Izzy" Izumi. Becomes partnered with Tentomon who learns to evolve into Kabuterimon.
 * Sonya Tarkovsky, Taichi’s friend and classmate for many years. Based on Sora Takenouchi. Becomes partnered with Piyomon who learns to evolve into Birdramon.
 * Mimi Thwaites, a rich girl and Connor’s classmate who is accustomed to comfortable life. Based on Mimi Tachikawa. Becomes partnered with Palmon who learns to evolve into Togemon.
 * Joseph ”Joe” Kent, a 12 years old nervous student who believes in social norms, responsibility and family honor. Based on Joe Kido. Becomes partnered with Gomamon who learns to evolve into Ikkakumon.
 * Matthew ”Matt” Jephson, a 11 years old distant boy who lives with his father Harry. Based on Yamato "Matt" Ishida. Becomes partnered with Gabumon who learns to evolve into Garurumon.

Allies

 * Tyler Whitaker, Matt’s 8 years old brother who lives with his mother Nancy. Based on Takeru "T.K." Takaishi.
 * Hikari Yagami, Taichi’s 8 years old sister. Based on Hikari "Kari" Kamiya.
 * Huckmon, the messenger of Kernel, the living core of the Digital World. Based on both Gennai and Adventure tri. incarnation of Huckmon.
 * Leomon, a Digimon resistance fighter who tried to stop the Infected Digimon on the File Island.
 * Vegiemon, a restaurant waiter in Source Code City.

Enemies

 * Kuramon, a horde of Virus Digimon created by the Black Sparks from corrupted network data. They can also evolve into Tsumemon and Keramon, with the latter being capable of speech. The most evolved member and the final opponent of the film is Chrysalimon.
 * Ogremon, a proud warrior wants to defeat powerful opponents, targeting Leomon and later the Chosen Children.
 * Devimon, a Dark Digimon who controls the Cloud Continent and co-conspired with the Kuramon to create an outbreak on both the Network and the Digital World. Appears mostly as a manifestation during the film.

Character development

 * The Chosen Children meeting their partners for the first time and learning to evolve them to the Champion Level.
 * Taichi struggling between straight action and thinking things through first.
 * Matt struggling to form friendships and show his care for other people besides Tyler.
 * Sonya learning to genuinely care and accept Piyomon's friendliness towards her.
 * Connor struggling between his curiosity over computers and his relationship towards his parents and new friends.
 * Mimi learning to appreciate helping and cooperate with others rather than being selfish.
 * Joe struggling between being strict and being coward, and trying to prove himself reliable.

Plot

 * The intro shows Huckmon's lecture about information technology and its meaning in today's society, with ”Boléro” (but shortened and partially remixed version of it) being heard in the background. People walking on streets, working in offices, and using smartphones, laptops, and other devices, are shown. Even a world formed by the Network is shown. But the intro ends when small little disturbances start appearing on devices, caused by black sparks that appear into the Network. Then, the ending of ”Boléro” can be heard and the title of the film appears.


 * The major plot points of the First Act:
 * Taichi, Connor and Sonya prepapre to go to the summer camp. Mimi and Joe are convinced to go there by Mimi’s grandfather Gordon Thwaites and Joe’s older brother James ”Jim” Kent.
 * Hikari stays home with her parents.
 * Matt is about to arrive to New York to meet Tyler to spend summer with him.
 * At some point, the electrical distrubances go worse and holographic images of two Kuwagamon start appearing in the real world, in both the summer camp and New York. They are able to cause physical damage, but only Taichi, Connor, Sonya, Mimi, Joe, Matt, Tyler, and Hikari are able to see the Kuwagamon. Taichi, Connor, Sonya, Mimi, Joe, and Matt receive Digivices and end up inside Network.
 * Connor remains in the real world, but the Crest of Knowledge installs mysterious software into his tablet computer that helps him analyze the mysterious behavior in the Network.
 * The six children discover the Digivices in their hands and gets acquinted with each other, but Matt remains distant while Mimi and Joe want to get back into the real world as soon as possible. Then, they meet Koromon, Mochimon, Pyokomon, Tanemon, Pukamon, and Tsunomon who are chased by the Kuwagamon. The black sparks also transform damaged data into Digi-Eggs that hatch into a group of Fresh and In-Training Level Virus Digimon called Kuramon and Tsumemon, respectively.
 * Koromon, Mochimon, Pyokomon, Tanemon, Pukamon and Tsunomon, who already know the children’s names, evolve into their Rookie forms: Agumon, Tentomon, Piyomon, Palmon, Gomamon and Gabumon who defeat the Kuramon and the Tsumemon, and drive the Kuwagamon away into a portal opened by the surviving Kuramon. The Kuramon are then seen to be speaking to mysterious black manifestation who wants the ”Chosen Children” to be destroyed.
 * The children then return back to the real world while still having the Digivices. Connor keeps getting emails from unknown address, but the content of the messages is corrupted. During the day the summer camp is supposed to end, Taichi, Connor, Sonya, Mimi, Joe end up back in the Network. Matt ends up in the Network too, right in front of Tyler’s eyes. But instead of remaining in the Network, they falling through into another dimension. But the mysterious dark manifestation separates the children, and when they fall into the Digital World, they end up in separate locations on the File Island (Note: the visuals of the scene where they go through the Network into the Digital World and fall into the File Island is inspired by the first part of 1999 Digimon Adventure opening sequence).


 * The major plot points of the Second Act:
 * Taichi and Agumon wake up alone, noticing how their Digivices have a function that allows them to communicate with each other. While trying to find the other, they confront one of the Kuwagamon, and Agumon learns to evolve into its Champion form: Greymon. Taichi’s Digivice suddenly reacts and extinguishes a Black Spark inside Kuwagamon, stopping its violent behavior. But Greymon is not powerful enough to keep its form, so it degenerates back into Agumon after the battle.
 * Matt and Gabumon are the first ones Taichi and Agumon manage to reunite with. They have disagreements with how to find the others and defeat the Black Sparks and the brainwashed Digimon. But Taichi comes to understand Matt, when the latter opens up to them about Tyler and his parents’ divorce.
 * They get attacked by a brainwashed Seadramon who almost kills Matt. Gabumon puts itself on Seadramon’s way to protect Matt, making a loner Matt see Gabumon as his first real friend for a long time. Gabumon evolves into Garurumon and purifies Seadramon.
 * In the real world, Tyler and Hikari meet each other and become acquinted.
 * Connor ends up in a place that contains knowledge about the File Island. After from Taichi and Matt about the Kuwagamon and Seadramon, he realizes that the Black Sparks do not only take the form of the Kuramon but can also infect other Digimon. He copies the untranslated information to take with him in order to find a solution to the Kuramon Outbreak and a way get back to the real world.
 * The children hear about Source Code City, capital of the File Island, and decide to travel there. A humorous scene is seen where Vegiemon is told that the children have only American Dollars, and no Japanese Yen to pay (Note: inspired by scene from Digitamamon’s restaurant in 1999 Digimon Adventure). The children also meet Leomon, a resistance fighter who has been fighting the Infection and has waited for a chance to rise against the Dark Digimon who try to take over the Digital World. He refers the children as Chosen Children, humans from another world capable of making the other Digimon evolve. But another Digimon named Ogremon searches worthy opponents to defeat and wants to defeat Leomon, despising the latter’s heroic attitude.
 * Source Code City ends up attacked by Meramon and Drimogemon who are both Infected. They are defeated when Piyomon and Tentomon learn to evolve into Birdramon and Kabuterimon. After that, the Kuramon and the Tsumemon, with some of them evolving into Keramon, invade the city. The Keramon are capable of speaking and are more powerful than regular Rookie Level Digimon. The Chosen Children are forced to escape the city, while the Keramon and the mysterious black manifestation offer Ogremon a way to become stronger than Leomon.


 * The major plot points of the Third Act:
 * The Chosen Children and Leomon arrive at the Holy Ruins where the content of the emails Connor receives are becoming less corrupted as the emails are coming from the Ruins themselves.
 * The Digivices release Huckmon who has been turned to stone. Huckmon reveals himself as the messenger of Kernel, the living core of the Digital World. He reveals that the Black Sparks and the Kuramon are a Digimon species that corrupts other Digimon and steals data from the Network. They have often collaborated with the Dark Digimon who waged three wars in the ancient Digital World.
 * When the possibility of a fourth war became more likely, Huckmon was tasked to create Digivices to wield the power of the Crests, embodiment of benevolent personality traits. He was also tasked to send them with the Digi-Eggs to the Network, so the Partner Digimon could call the Chosen Children to the Network and the Digital World. Botamon, Punimon, Nyokimon, Bubbmon, Yuramon and Pichimon appear in a flashback scene. The seventh one is a special kind of Digi-Egg, so it was hidden far deeper in the Network.
 * A giant pillar of energy rises from the Infinity Mountain, located in the centre of the File Island. It opens a large distortions with an army of Kuramon, Tsumemon and Keramon coming through it, fusing with the leader of the Keramon who evolves into a giant Chrysalimon. The Infected Digimon around the File island, including the other Infected Kuwagamon, Yukidarumon, Airdramon, Monochromon, Tyrannomon and Ogremon, start walking towards the mountain. (Note: the visuals of the scene where the giant Chrysalimon appears at the top of the Infinity Mountain is inspired by the the giant Devimon in ”The Legend of the DigiDestined” (the 13th episode of 1999 Digimon Adventure)).
 * Taichi and Matt decide to go to the top of the Mountain while others are forced to remain behind to fight the Infected Digimon. Greymon and Garurumon are able to destroy some of the Kuramon, Tsumemon, and Keramon, but Chrysalimon is too powerful and it starts extending its tentacles to the Network to eat and corrupt even more data, making the New York City Subway lose control and risking several subway trains colliding into each other, including ones where Hikari and her mother are. Tyler is drawn into the Network by a mysterious yellow light.
 * During the final battle, Mimi learns to make Palmon evolve into Togemon and Joe learns to make Gomamon evolve into Ikkakumon. Leomon faces Ogremon again, but the Infected Ogremon is more powerful and almost kills Leomon before being stooped by Sonya, Connor, Mimi and Joe.
 * The other Chosen Children arrive to the top of the Infinity Mountain to help Taichi, Matt, Greymon and Garurumon fight Chrysalimon, but are followed by the surviving Kuramon, Tsumemon, and Keramon who help Chrysalimon overpower Birdramon, Kabuterimon, Togemon and Ikkakumon. Connor sees from his tablet computer that a seventh human child has ended upinto the Network. Matt recognizes him as Tyler, going with Taichi, Greymon and Garurumon try to reach Tyler and the Holy Digi-Egg, but Chrysalimon’s tentacles manage to reach them and over power them too.
 * After sturggling against Chrysalimon’s tentacles himself for a while, Tyler manages to find the Holy Digi-Egg and touch it. Then, both the Digivices and the Digi-Egg send a powerful wave of light that eliminates all of the Kuramon, Tsumemon, and Keramon, but only weakens Chrysalimon. The wave also powers up DigiGates, with Connor figuring out a way to manipulate them to bring the trains to the Network and then into different rails in the real world, with Hikari seeing a glimpse of Taichi and the others. The trains stop when Greymon, Garurumon, Birdramon, Kabuterimon, Togemon and Ikkakumon succeed at destroying the weakened Chrysalimon. Before the finishing blow, Chrysalimon refers the heroes as ”insignificant children”, whil the Chosen Children counter this by referring Chrysalimon as ”nothing but a nasty computer virus”.
 * The Holy Digi-Egg then hatches into Poyomon and a Digivice appears in Tyler’s hand. But Poyomon is soon caught by a dark cloud. The power of the Digivices opens a DigiGate that sends Poyomon into an unknown safe location. The cloud transforms into a shadowy manifestation of Devimon who had encouraged Ogremon to join forces with the Kuramon. Leomon and Ogremon both recognize Devimon as the Dark Digimon who controls the Cloud Continent. When the Chosen Children realize that Devimon was the Dark Digimon who co-conspired with the Kuramon, Devimon assures them that he will bring forth a new threat in the future and might even face the Chosen Children personally one day. After that, his manifestation disappears. Leomon and Huckmon ask Ogremon to help them and the Chosen Children, but Ogremon refuses and runs away.
 * The Chosen Children return to the real world, and resolve to return one day, so they can explore the Cloud Continent, find Poyomon, and defeat Devimon. After the summer vacation ends, they finally return to the Digital World through their Digivices and the DigiGate software in Connor’s tablet, but their arrival is monitored by Devimon whose body is now fully shown.


 * The mid-credit scene:
 * Poyomon is seeing playing with a couple of Botamon, Punimon, Nyokimon and Yuramon, before suddenly evolving into Tokomon.

Removed story

 * Algomon being the Virus Digimon species instead of Kuramon.

Removed characters

 * Will Dunham, a 10 years old body partnered with Lopmon.
 * Centaurmon, a guardian of the Holy Ruins and a friend of Huckmon.

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
While discussing with CLTwins15 about potential story ideas that were left out of Cinematic Sagas and the Digiversum, CAJH made a decision to make a third film series idea. He also planned that this time the story would start with main characters being 11 years old, two years younger than the main characters of the Cinematic Sagas or Digiversum. And no government organizations or private companies are involved. CAJH also hoped that he could have multiple people join his ”Digimon 2021 Fan Fiction Film Series Story Idea Group” to help develop this fan fiction. The project, however, proceeded without CLTwins15 due to creative differences about one character from CLTwins15's own fan fictions.

The previous film series ideas had also started before real-life anime film Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution Kizuna as well as the Digimon Adventure:, reboot of the Adventure continuity, premiered. And CAJH wished to adapt some of the new villains to these new stories. Although CAJH liked the stories he wrote, he came to consider that Cinematic Sagas was too dependent of adapting existing stories and that the idea of the Digiversum as a shared universe didn't sound like something a real filmmaker would be very likely to do. And he also admired the idea of Adventure: making the threats of the Digital World affect the real world through technological problems rather than disrupting the interdimensional balance.

CAJH was also interested of the approach used by Harry Potter films and Marvel Cinematic Universe's Spider-Man films of having each sequel take one school year later than its predecessor.

Trivia

 * Just like Cinematic Sagas film idea Digimon: First Adventure, Devimon appears the first villain faced by the Chosen Children. But in this continuity, Devimon starts as a background villain, with much more important role being planned for the sequel.
 * Unlike Digimon: First Adventure and first Digimon main film of the Digiversum, the main characters do not gain any human allies from technology companies or government agencies right in the beginning.

Digimon: Light and Dark
The second installment, a sequel titled Digimon: Light and Dark, focuses on the Chosen Children actively fighting against Devimon and searching for Tyler’s lost Partner Digimon who is a Holy Digimon.

Digimon: Worlds Collide
The third installment, a threequel titled Digimon: Worlds Collide, focuses on facing a greater villain behind the previous challenges of the Chosen Children and finding the eighth Chosen Child and the second Holy Digimon.