Chaperomon is a Puppet Digimon. This Ultimate Digimon is an ornamental doll comprising data from fairy tales. Though Chaperomon is humanoid in appearance, its body is more similar to that of a doll's, meaning its joints can also bend in the wrong direction, potentially startling those who witness such movements. Chaperomon's basket is filled with many "Mini-Monzaemon Gummies" on which it will snack should it have nothing else to do, whether hungry or not. Despite its demure appearance, Chaperomon actually hunts for sport and is quite hostile in nature. When hunting, Chaperomon stocks its basket with an arsenal of weaponry that it later unloads and utilizes to launch a variety of attacks on its prey. As Chaperomon primarily targets wolf Digimon when hunting, if it spots Fangmon, a Digimon possessing especially wicked wolf data, Chaperomon will prioritize hunting it over anything and everything else, and chase it down until the hunt is complete. Another of its hobbies is using the data of wolves it has hunted to design new shoes.[2]
Attacks
- Apple For You: Turns a bottle of cider into a molotov cocktail and hurls it.
- Crimson Ripper: Chaperomon dances wildly and slashes away with its handheld knives as well as the ones attached to its feet.
- Mercy Basket: Unleashes Gatling guns from its basket and fires an extravagant volley.
Design[]
Chaperomon is a doll-like humanoid Digimon that resembles Little Red Riding Hood. It has curly blonde hair that covers most of its face. It wears a black and white maid-like dress with a half frilly apron with four small ribbons on the apron. It wears Big Bad Wolf-like shoes. It carries a basket with eyes, mouth, and hands. The basket has a gatling guns in it. It has a dagger equipped on its back.
Its Bandai art depicts it holding a molotov cocktail in its right hand.
Etymologies[]
- Chaperomon (シャペロモン)
Official romanization given the Digimon Reference Book and used in the franchise.
- Chaperon, a form of hood or hat worn in Western Europe in the Middle Ages and/or Le Petit Chaperon Rouge — the original French name of Little Red Riding Hood.
Development[]
Chaperomon was designed by Fumiya Kobayashi. After creating Cendrillmon based on the fairy tale Cinderella, Kobayashi "worked backwards" and created Chaperomon based on a fairy tale as well (Little Red Riding Hood).[3]
Fiction[]
Digimon Liberator[]
During Arisa's duel against Violet "Vi" Inboots Arisa digivolves EX7-025: ShoeShoemon to EX7-027: Chaperomon. Chaperomon's On Digivolving effect activates, allowing her to play a lv3 Puppet type Digimon for free — which she uses to play ST19-04: PawnChessmon (White). She has Chaperomon attack Violet's security — the attack revealing a copy of BT6-060: Deputymon with Chaperomon surviving as it has higher DP than Deputymon. On Violet's turn, EX7-048: Gundramon attacks and destroys the suspended Chaperomon. Fable Waltz (Part 1)
Digimon New Century[]
Beelzemon Blast Mode mentions that a Chaperomon in Witchelny got angry and digivolved to Cendrillmon to defeat its enemies.