Etemon (Adventure)

Etemon is the second main villain that the encounter and the first they come into conflict with when they arrive on the continent of Server.

Description
Etemon is one of the first creations of, along with his predecessor, , and successor,. The most technological among the three, Etemon can pinpoint any location at will via his Dark Network, and has a very large army of Digimon working for him throughout all of the desert region of the Server Continent, which is hardwired to his base via his Dark Network.

The Champion forms of the children's Digimon are not strong enough to defeat him, and it is revealed that they need to Digivolve to their Ultimate levels to stand a chance against him.

However, in order to do that, they have to find the crests. Through their battles with him, they each find of their crests, but it turns out that more is needed to Digivolve to Ultimate.

Etemon has the character of an impersonator. He is often frustrated when people fail to acknowledge his over-inflated ego.

Etemon considers himself to be a great singer, and often has his minions to praise his terrible music, even though most of his mooks, mostly Gazimon, do enjoy his music genuinely.

Etemon is ultimately defeated when the children go into an upside-down pyramid to find Sora's crest. However, they also find, a prisoner of Etemon, who kidnaps Sora and tries to use her to defeat Etemon.

The children come up with a plan to infiltrate the pyramid to save her, and while carrying it out, Tai is forced to accept his courage, activating his crest.

Datamon, in a last ditch effort, programs the Dark Network to absorb all Digimon in its reach, including himself and Etemon, but Etemon fuses with the Dark Network and uses its power to attack the children.

However, digivolves to  and uses his "Giga Blaster" to defeat Etemon.

When resurrects the evil Digimon, Ryo Akiyama fights Etemon on his palace

Later, Ryo must fight Etemon and two Gazimon to save Tai and Agumon.

Attacks
 * Dark Network (Dark Spirits): Fires dark energy blasts from his guitar.
 * Concert Crush (Love Serenade): Plays his and sings either degenerating any enemy Digimon in hearing range, or damaging them badly.
 * Dark Solo: Fires a blast of dark energy from his fist.

Digimon Tamers: Digimon Medley
Etemon is a boss in the "Nanomon of the Labyrinth!" chapter.

Digimon Tamers: Battle Spirit
Etemon appears as a playable character, as a digivolution of Sukamon.

Digimon Tamers: Battle Spirit Ver. 1.5
Etemon appears as a playable character, as a digivolution of Sukamon.

Sukamon
Sukamon is Etemon's Champion form in Digimon BattleSpirit and Digimon Tamers: Battle Spirit Ver. 1.5.

Etemon (Chaos)
Etemon (Chaos) is a form Etemon assumes after fusing with the Dark Network.

Plunged into his own net of darkness by Datamon, Etemon was assumed dead by the DigiDestined until he emerged form the rubble of the upside-down pyramid that used to be his base after it collapsed under the strain of his network's dark power.

Etemon becomes significantly stronger and vastly overpowers Kabuterimon and Birdramon, reverting them to their Rookie forms and manages to take down Greymon, only to have him digivolve to the Ultimate level and have the villain outclassed himself and dipped into a dimensional gate, swearing revenge as he was absorbed. However, Etemon was not defeated just yet.

Attacks
 * Dark Spirits Chaos: Throws a dark sphere at the opponent.

MetalEtemon
MetalEtemon is Etemon's Mega form.

Etemon survives the battle with without any injuries at all and falls into a time-space limbo.

He refuses to accept such a fate, and fully absorbs the Dark Network's energy to return to the, while digivolving into the Mega-leveled MetalEtemon in the process, increasing his already over-inflated ego by becoming vastly faster and more powerful and, courtesy of his now-armored body, having a much higher resiliency and stamina.

MetalEtemon goes looking for the and finds Mimi, Joe,, , and , but after a short and intense yet fully humorous battle with one of the , , they escape, and MetalEtemon continues searching, and gets very close to them.

Luckily, rescues the team, and takes them to 's now-abandoned restaurant.

However, MetalEtemon tracks them down and attacks, and SaberLeomon gets wounded while protecting Mimi from MetalEtemon's "Dark Spirits DX" by taking a direct hit, which eventually proves fatal.

Ikkakumon digivolves to, and when MetalEtemon brags that his armor is made out of "indestructible Chrome Digizoid", Zudomon reveals that his hammer is also made of the same metal, and uses it to crack MetalEtemon's armor.

MetalEtemon is then finally finished off for good when SaberLeomon rams his claw through the crack in his chest with all the remainder of his power. As he dies, he promises the DigiDestined will pay big time for his death.

Attacks
 * Banana Slip: Trips the opponent with a banana peel.
 * Hekoki Attack (へこきアタック): Emits flatulent gas.
 * Metal Punch (Number One Punch): Unleashes a punch with all of its confidence.
 * Metal Punch (Full Metal Hip Attack): Slams its hip into an enemy.
 * Dark Spirits Deluxe: Calls down dark lightning made from negative energy.

KingEtemon
KingEtemon is Etemon's alternate Mega form.

Notes and references
Etemon (Adventure)