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I do like how Ophiomon, Wormmon's Dark Armour looks like a "Natural" Armour form, owing to (in my head) both Wormmon and the Digi-Egg of Darkness actually belonging to Ken, while all the others look twisted and warped, like he's perverting something that isn't his.
How about for original art full digivolutions for the 01 digimom like a agumon line but with the others 7 crests inspiring it champion form and on. Fixing the armor evolutions. Original dark digivolution lines.
I like how ophiomon almost looks like a normal armor digivolution compared to the others seeing as to how wormmon would likely be the only digimon to willingly dark armor digivolve in the situation you presented us
I think if Ken used Ophiomon too much to where he would not be able to control him a la Kimeramon, it would ultimately lead to his redemption and joining the group after Wormmon's rebirth
It would be a cool for the other Dark Digimentals for them to be more about making armour based on what they would represent, instead of what the Dark Digimentals look like.
I agree, we were shown what happened to a spirit that was corrupted properly in my eyes with Duskmon and Velgemon. The other four were more or less turn into a digimon based off their spirit instead of having their spirit twisted and changed. It would be a nice contrast to see the others corrupted or see the four that were turned evil to become proper spirits like the rest of the main five we got to know.
I... love them. I love all of them. I love edgy and dark designs, as well as creepy and eerie designs, and all of these designs are just gorgeous. Kudos to the artists for such amazing designs. As for the Digi-Egg of Darkness, I’d like to imagine that triggering evolution through it is really easy, kind of reflecting how hating something or thinking negatively about something is too easy. But because it just leads to pain and suffering, the evolution is short lived and will lead to the partners getting hurt when the evolution ends.
Venomdramon and Ophiomon are FANTASTIC. I've toyed with using the Digimental of Darkness in my TTRPG games and these are all so great. Venomdramon and Ophiomon feel like they could move onto a "Dark Armor" Jogress line, with a Paildramon/DinoBeemon-esque horror creature. Dark Evolution is such a genuinely interesting concept to expand upon and explore!
This kind of makes me want to see a whole video (or even videos) covering concepts of the 02 partner mons’ armor evolutions with your criteria of the digivolution taking the base digimon and combining them with the aspects of the armor (logically skipping those already have armor evos that fit them, like the courage one our worm boi gets).
Love exploring ideas through new art! I don't think there's a single Digimon fan who hasn't drawn up their own digimon OC. Gotta say, though, that Veemon evolution is pretty sick. Gotta be my fave of the bunch shown here.
Another idea I would like to see explored with this... based on the Spirit of Darkness from Frontier... the idea that you could actually have TWO Armored forms from this one Digi-egg similar to how Koichi actually had two Human Spirits of Darkness and two Beast Spirits of Darkness. It also would seem to fit well with Ken and Wormmon being that both Ken and Koichi started out as antagonists in their respective series. So I think having an alternate Darkness evolution, especially for Wormmon, so he has a Corrupted form and his true armored form would be really cool. Of course in Frontier Koichi losing the corruption also changed the designed his Spirits not just the Digimon he could turn into. It's worth noting that the Digi-egg of Darkness is the only Digi-egg that doesn't have some sort of crest associated with it so maybe an alternate design for the Digi-egg itself, one that actually has a Crest, could influence the alternate designs so they're still Dark but are no longer Evil. I could even see a way to work it into the story using BlackWarGreymon as he also seems to have a change of heart turning good and ultimately sacrificing himself which could act as the catalyst for demonstrating that Darkness doesn't have to mean evil. The whole idea of giving Ken a corrupted Digi-egg of Darkness that later would be cleansed I think would also work better into his story and fit him a lot better than the Digi-Egg of Kindness that he never actually used anyway.
Ophiomon is definitely my fave, the Darkness Armor becoming it's visor is so cool! It also being based on the Ophiocordyceps could lead to it being the "final" Dark Armor evo, where Wormmon is fully placed under the armor's control (like how the fungi takes over the ant's body) and runs rampant with it's own evil plan until the Digidestined have to take him down.
@@sableyefan and have Wormmon's sacrifice after being freed, making it hurt even more since he was just forced into a state where he wasn't in control of his own body.
I'd love to see full evo lines for the World Tour partners, honestly! And possibly what armor forms might look like for some of the more prominent auxiliary heroes like Michael. I don't know, that's just me! (Also, Maumon was for sure my favorite in this lineup of dark armors, though all were great.)
I think a great topic to do in the future is “digimon groups that should exist”, focused on taking pre-existing Digimon and putting them into themed groups, and/or original Digimon based on the group them. I have my own ideas for this: Astrology/Tarot group. Kabbala/arc angel group. 4 horsemen group.
One of the best parts of fandoms like Digimon or Pokémon is being able to see the creativity if the fans, expressed as new designs and characters. I love it
Venomdramon, Strixmon, and Metaltheriummon have a slight resemblance to the Three Great Horrors of the Tulgey Wood from Alice in Wonderland, the Jabberwock with jaws that bite, the Jubjub Bird with claws that catch, and the frumious Bandersnatch.
This was really cool! Expanding upon this idea more would be nice, with Agumon, Gabumon, Biyomon, Tentomon, Palmon, and Gomamon all getting Dark Armour Digivolutions. I don't really have any of my own ideas on how to go about doing that, though.
Loved Venomdramon & Strixmon!! For Wormmon, I would've thought you & the artists you commissioned would go with a giant freaky venomous centipede., but the design y'all settled on is rad! I'd love to see Miracles and Destiny Evos for everyone, and unique ultimates and megas for Veemon, Hawkmon, Armadillomon, and Wormmon. "Fill in the gap" unique evos would be cool, like a champion and ultimate for Impmon that felt like reasonable transition points before Beelzemon, or a rookie for Leomon that's actually a lion cub
*Deep breath* HOLY CRAP THIS IS SO GOOD. The fanart/Fan Made Digimon, how well they use the Darkness DigiEgg, the corrupted/monstrous forms of the 02 partners, dear lord these were so amazing!!!! I love seeing this type of stuff and I cannot get over these designs!!! Aaaah!!!! Though. With the addition of these DigiEggs, it made me think….are there corresponding Crests for these Eggs? Like is there a Crest of Darkness? I…I may have drawing to do after this. Dear god this is such a great video, fantastically done Karn!!
I love this concept and the artists did a great job with it! I think Orphiomon is my fave, but there's a lot of cool stuff here. Also, would absolutely love to see more fan-made digivolutions!
I think it would be interesting to have opposing digimentals for each of the known crests. I even have some ideas for the names, and I think it would be cool to see some of these as well. Obviously, the digimental of darkness would mirror Kari's Crest of Light. The rest basically amount to this: Courage---Fear Friendship---Jealousy Love---Temptation Hope---Despair Reliability---Doubt Sincerity---Deceit Knowledge---Ignorance Kindness---Hatred Miracles---Fate And the aforementioned Light---Darkness(Likewise, this digivolution is covered in this video) Pairing these with the digidestined of adventure 02 instead, I can only imagine what these would become. In fact, a dark armor digivolution of Fear could possibly instill some of the same feelings in the cast as when Tai dark digivolved Agumon to Skullgreymon.
All of these designs - just *_W O W!!_* Holy Arceus the sheer quality and attention to detail on all of these is *_A M A Z I N G_* - I really like the way all of these digivolutions incorporate the digimental as a parasitic infestation that corrupts and mangles the digimon body inside out and gives them all this grotesque zombified look - they look so believably reminiscent of the official digimon visual design and aesthetics that if I didn't have the context of this video and I saw this on an official website, I think these would all pass as official digivolution designs if I saw them for the first time - *_massive kudos to the artists they knocked it out of the park!!_* - Armadillomon and Patamon and Wormmon were my personal favorites
Oh god the hype is real Karn. Been waiting all month for this vid! To fill in some blanks with Metaltheriumon, I wanted to do something similar to digmon in stance, with the idea for the megatherium sloth coming in later. For me the idea came from the digiegg of darkness being used for “digivolution,” meant I should evolve armadillomon into something armadillo’s are vaguely related to. My options were sloths and ant eaters, and sloths have cooler bone structures, so here we are. As for the digimental sort of “bursting out,” I actually took inspiration from digivolving armor toys. Where the armor was dismantled and reconfigured onto a twisted toy of the digimon. Reverse that, and you have what we came out with.
If I had to choose one, I’m gravitating toward Armadillomon’s dark armor evolution as my personal favorite of these six. I’ve probably said before, but I just love them all because I’m a sucker for dark evolutions.
This was actually my favorite video yet and that’s because that type of video where you show us new evolution and I love amor digivolution and liked the other tamers getting a dark digivolution video so this was right up my ally ( also my favorite on was wormmon armor evolution
Awesome video! Loved all the desings! What if videos really give a lot of life to exploring and enjoying a franchise you love, specially when this much effort goes into it!
Darnit, this is so amazing, but painful at the same time because it won't ever be oficial. I've always liked the idea of the Dark Digimental and the others as well. Also, I always wondered if there are crests to go along with them, and what kind of digimon and partners would be using them. You are an absolute legend for going as far as paying for getting this done, you completely earned my subscription. Now if you excuse me, I'll go mourn the fact I'll never have an Strixmon in any Digimon game ever. T-T
I think Wormmon's dark armor evolution should look more parasitic and zombie-like. It looks too much like it's just armor being worn by Wormmon, and not actually him being controlled by the egg.
Headcanon: Digimental of Vanity digivolves Angel-type Digimon into Fallen Angel types like Lucemon into Lucemon Falldown, Seraphimon to ShadowSeraphimon, Angewomon to LadyDevimon, Angemon to Devimon, etc. Otherwise it does nothing
My favorite is definitely the gatomon dark evolution. I think patomon's was really good. I wouldve expected more of a devimon vibe from it though, almost like a devidramon actually. But the idea was definitely original and cant complain.
I would love to see armor digivolutions based on the seven evil crests from the demon lords (eg Wormon corrupted by Greed or Envy, Gatomon by wrath, etc)
strixmon and ophiomon are my favorite (probably ophiomon first) but they are ALL amazing! Thank you Karn and all the artists involved for this video. You guys make this community so much brighter and inspiring to be apart of.
I Think Ophiomon feels like the most natural Dark Armor digivolution which really fits with the Idea of the Digimon emperor being the one that wields the Digiegg cause Wormmon is his partner so it looking the most natural just makes sense.
Is it okay to do fanart of these designs? These are all so cool! Patamon and Hawkmon are probably my favorites of the dark evos. Though the body horror on Armadillomon's is amazing!
What if you did an armor video about all of the tamers from season 3... I'd love to see Renamons armor forms... it would be cool to see all the possibilities plus this dark armor as well! Keep up the cool content bro
You could definitely make a fun story with the Digimon Emperor recruiting a team of “evil Digidestined” and giving them the Digieggs of Darkness, Desire, Vanity, and Guts a la the Pscho Rangers from Power Rangers in Space.
"Dark Armor Digievolution". Interesting idea. Aside Darkness, there should be 3 other Dark Digimentals, but... They don't have design, I think. Desire, Pride and Tenacity. As for Favorite... Gatomon and Wormon ones.
Amazing video I love the lore and design. I always love these videos because I get to follow loads of new Digimon artists Wish these designs showed up in the show, can you imagine the digivolution and then each of the forms screaming something like this; Venomdramon, The infection of Darkness Strixmon, The Screech of Darkness Metaltheriamon, The Corrupter of Darkness Keshimon, The Rider of Darkness Maumon, the Vein of Darkness Ophiomon, The Puppetmaster of Darkness
I counter with Metaltheriumon, the Power of Darkness. It pulls from both Digmon’s self given title of “the Drill of power,” and also works off of the fact that I made him to be a bulky boy,”
@@morallygary9098 yeah much better than mine it's simple and just works. Originally I went with Metaltheriumon, the infection of Darkness but that worked better with Venomdramon especially with the symbiote angle or perhaps the parasite of darkness going off both the essence of evil from the digiegg as well digmon's insectoid nature. But yeah the power of darkness could mean different things depending on the inflexion but that fact "power" link back to Digmon's self-given title just works better...tbh Metaltheriumon was the hardest title to come up with.
5:57 Karn: Often Digimon's names, etymologies, designs come from multiple sources Also Karn: Names it Keshimon with "keshi" (消し) being a Japanese word for "erasure," which can allude to destruction Mad lad, I'd press like on the video twice but I don't think that's a good idea
This is a banger! I would love to see a take on golden digimental forms for the other cast (I know they *technically* have them, but none of them really feel equal to Magnamon, you know?), as well as what if the dark digimental was equivalent to the miracles digimental and gave them ultimate/mega equivalent form that was evil (maybe with Chimaeramon inspiration?). Keep up the good work!
I'd love to see more dark variants of Digimon. What of Cherubimon got a hold if the other Spirits and tainted them like Duskmon? What if the other Hackers in Cyber Sleuth and Hacker's Memory got transformed by Eaters? What if the other 01 partners got dark Digivolutions like SkullGreymon?
Watching this for a second time, i really like your videos with original art especially with 02 characters. You should make a video where you do a fan story with these and your other ideas like double armor digivolution. Kinda like an 02 reboot but how you wouldve taken the series. Lol idk, watching these videos makes my headcannon go crazy. Im surprised you havent already made a fanfiction yet.
Happy Holidays ^^ I know you had similar videos already but how about a video about Digimon who are to weak or to strong for their level and maybe an possible explanation for that Digimon.
Maumon was my favorite!!! It had darkness vibes, but not evil. I’m a firm believer that dark doesn’t mean evil. Actions make a Digimon evil, not the element 😝
Those fan creations are awesome! I am a big patamon fanboy so I have to go for keshimon as my favorite! My ideas for more fan creations: "What if the zero-two jogress partners were swapped?" by example Stingmon + Patamon Or: "What if the original digidestined were able to jogress digivolve?" :D
I would absolutely be down for the Pride, Desire, and Tenacity Armor Digivolutions (Pride is probably music-related as it can be alternatively translated as “singing ability” and Tenacity/Gutsiness would probably be more organic/gross themed. I don’t know what’s up with Desire, maybe it’d be like Rei’s but fancy?)
Ophimon's wire also play into the Orpheus theming too being like the lyre that he plays. Maybe Ophimon could lure other Digimon with a haunting melody using its webs as its instrument
In terms of existing digimon I feel like Manticoremon is a perfect dark armor digimon for Gazimon or any other canine-like rookie if you change the symbol on its helmet to a dark crest from a dark digimental, not necessarily the one of darkness itself. (seriously, it looks like a Gazimon under there)
I would say they all appear to be in serious pain and, honestly, I feel bad saying this but I'm in love with the design. Don't know if it's because I love every digimon design, even if they look totally wretched or evil, or maybe it's the same feeling I have for Skullgreymon, that guilty pleasure you have for something that doesn't mean to be that way
I really like the concept with dark evolutions and i really love Venomdramon and Maumon and Ophiomon talking about 02 have you made a Video about when the partners have own ultra level forms or mega level? Because thats also something i like to watch.
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