What If Digimon Adventure Had Original VPET Partners? 

Happy Sunday, Digimon Notification Squad! (Get it?) What do you think to this idea for using strictly vpet Digimon for partners, would you like to see other seasons given the same treatment? If so... which seasons... and which vpets?

Idk if there's any direct lore staying this, but I've always believed that the difference between Virus MetalGrey and Vaccine is the Digivolution 'method'. The original lore for the Virus version is a regular Greymon that had literal surgery to give itself cybernetic enhancements, but the procedures had side effects, with the blue skin being evidence of the fact that MetalGreymon is rotting and decaying, presumably resulting in Skullgreymon. The Vaccine variant attains the same cybernetic form but through the Crests and such, skipping the dangerous surgeries and resulting in a MetalGreymon that isn't slowly dying, thus retaining the orange skin.

So funny thing, my best friend LOVES Betamon, it's his favorite rookie Digimon and he always felt kind of locked in to the idea that Betamon goes in to Seadramon thanks to the anime, and of course we would theorize about our partners if we were to get Digimon and he seemed slightly saddened at the idea he'd be locked in to water snake, but then we took a look at the card game and came to the idea of Betamon becoming a Tyrannomon. Small green amphibian with a red fin becomes giant red dinosaur with green spines, keeping the color scheme but also flipping it. Seemed fitting. Not sure what you guys would think of that.

It cool to see you talking about the old school Digimon, like a bit of history about the franchise.

Betamon was my favorite rookie in Digimon World and my go to partner in any games it appears in. I love this little mon so much and giving representation is appreciated.

It’s a little fun to see how in the early days they weren’t totally aimless but it certainly feels a lot more like “here’s our monster design, throw them together to ship the toy” than as much curated and trying to really emphasize lines like newer stuff (I say newer but really as far back as V-Tamer to an extent and imo really taking off with Tamers)

The games really make you realize just how random Digimon evos can be. I always found that weird as a kid considering the anime evos were so streamlined. But even in the lore evolution can be random based on several factors, I completely get why the anime streamlined it though.

It was especially interesting to see you implement this kind of a principle into your digivolution line concepts! I was especially fond of the choice to give Joe a Betamon, and implement their digivolution into the form of one of the opponents they fought in the Adventure anime. Kari and Mimi's lines I thought were also handled pretty well. This kind of a system also allows for a look into Digimon history, in working with a more limited set of Digimon, and using more classic-era Digimon in these lines. All in all, great video as always, Karn EX! I look forward to your next upload, and wish you luck on your current and future content!

As someone who was getting into Digimon near the end of the English dub of Adventure, I would love to see the 02 gang get their own redo with a team that has Digimon released before the anime's debut of August 2000. This could be a fun switch up as I'm fairly certain Veemon, Hawkmon, Armadillomon and Wormmon are all 02 originals. Perhaps you could even get custom art commissioned for original armor Digimon for their replacements or pick out pre-existing mons that could work.

I love how you made a better job with giving a lesson to kids than ALL dark evos together

I think it would also be so cool to see the kids’ Digimon come up from in-training mode together. Joe and Tai both getting koromon but them becoming very different. Izzy and TK both getting tokomon. Sora and Mimi both getting tanemon. I think Matt and Kari would both get tsnunomon then, with Kari getting Elecmon. It’s still a mammal like gatomon, and it’s a nurturing Digimon (works in digi-egg village)

Amazing video Karn! Another way to think about of Tai’s VPet evo line would be that it starts as a Vaccine type Digimon, then slowly loses the purity and becomes neutral (data type) and seeing Tai trying to push Agumon to get stronger to digivolve we see it corrupt into a virus type that being Skull Greymon. Then as you stated, Tai sort of acknowledges that darkness or corruption and incorporates it into the “True Evolution” for his partner digimon

*Gazimon being forced to work under Myotismon becoming a Gatomon* Myotismon: "HOW DID I MAKE THIS WORSE FOR MYSELF?!?"

As someone who grew up with the digimon anime I have to say betamon's line looks interesting I'd love to see this for a sort of Joe stand in if we ever get another series with as large of a cast

A cool alternative for Mat and Tai might be Greymon>Metalgreymon V>Blitzgreymon and Garurumon>MetalMamemon>CressGarurumon, since Cress and Blitz are intended to be the Megas from the original V-Pets evolution line

When talking about the digidestined having different partner lines, I imagine Tai's Agumon following the Tyrannomon line with Machinedramon as the mega. I just like it because it has a main character with a digimon line that is often a minion digimon. And how awesome would it be to have Dark Master Machinedramon vs Good Machinedramon?

Not sure how it would work as a video idea but I've been thinking lately about what it would be like if other season's protagonists had full teams of Digimon like the hunters from Xroswars. I'd imagine these teams would be made up of Digimon they've defeated and/or befriended. So Tai could have Digimon like Shellmon and TK could have Digimon like Elecmon or DemiDevimon

This was a really cool idea for a video, love the evolution lines. I feel like Toei and Bandai kinda toy with ideas like this sometimes, like having Devimon evolutions in the first Agumon DIM (after having the big DoneDevimon fight in the anime focus so much on Agumon). It would be wild if we ever got something that went all in on that like this video.

Karn the Tyrannomon one really made me want an anime where the goggle head has a roockie dino that goes the full base Tyrannomon line

I really like the idea of swapping Leomon and Ogremon roles with Greymon and Garurumon. If it weren't for the lack of a DNA evolution, I think it would work pretty well.

Happy Sunday Karn EX! Always love seeing your Digimon content.

Goddammit Karn you made me spit coffee everywhere with that "Gizamon and Cyclonmon may work but they ugly" lmaooooooo 😂😂😂😂 good video my friend.

you know, Piyomon and Palmon debuting on the same V-pet makes sense of why they have some overlapping design elements like Piyomon's plume and that matches the flower stamen of Yokomon and Palmon. Really interesting!

Depending on how many other youtubers you're friends/acquaintances with, you could make a video giving them partners based on their quirks and personalities

speaking of Kunemon being on both Vpet 3.0 and Survive: Survive references it by having Tokomon as Kunemon's pre-evolution in the hieroglyphs.

Thanks for the video! Today's my birthday, so I'm glad to see one of your Digimon videos!

Cool video and the Patamon line was cool

This was a pretty cool little vid. I actually asked for a Digimon V-pet for Christmas, so this has got me a lot more excited for it! Quick question though. When will we see other Bio-merges? I hate to put on pressure but I'd love to see that topic be covered again

Happy to see Betamon, my fav rookie making his way to a partner!

Another wonderful session of what-ifery with my boy Karn, happy birthday, and also I love when you default to aggressive 🤣 one of the things that hooked me to this channel 3 years ago!

Happy early birthday Karn! I probs wont be online in 3 days to tell you to have a fun day

Cool. A new video!!! What if Tarmers Digimon partners got non-BioMerge Mega Form that are actually Digimon forms, like Guilmon's new mega form would be Darkdramon or Clavisangemon?

THANK YOU!!! FINALLY!!!! Somebody else besides me who’s got love for Betamon!

I always felt like Unimon was meant to be Patamon's de facto evolution in the vpets so I would have went with that. Even their attacks are similar. It goes from Air Shot to Holy Shot. You can still use Holy Angemon Priest mode for Unimon too. Also maybe thats why they made Pegasmon for Patamon later?

I kinda would've liked to see Patamon become Unimon as well, maybe before Angemon to have a "neutral" evo and Devimon as the "bad" evo.

Gazimon works REALLY well for a Gatomon rookie!

If we’re not thinking about too much about Megas, an alternate one for Sora could be Biyomon -> Kokatorimon -> Hououmon. Kokatorimon debuted with Biyomon in Ver. 4, and Biyomon’s profile mentions wanting to become Birdramon and not the flightless Kokatorimon. As for Hououmon, it actually debuted earlier than Garudamon did and was originally a Perfect level in Digimon World. Having Sora’s partner evolve into a form it doesn’t like could be a source of drama until it later gets “reborn” as a flying phoenix. Magnadramon debuted as a Perfect as well in Ver. S, so I could see Gazimon -> Tailmon -> Magnadramon as a more focused “dark beast to holy beast” line.

Wait no way! Karn, you and I share the same birthday haha! Happy Birthday to you man! Have a fantastic day!

“Pick whatever you want to fucking call it-mon” 😂😂😂😂

Happy future birthday!

Cool idea to have more variant evolutions. Honestly, I could see making MetalTyrannomon the dark digivolution and MetalGreymon (virus) the good digivolution. Interesting to make both good and bad forms cyborg T-rexes.

I always thought that the V-Pets were the OG Digidestined Digimon.

I saw Kunemon (my favourite Rookie) and immediate popped off

You know this is something I never considered

HAPPT ALMOST BIRTHDAY KARN EX!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉

A very interesting video I liked it

Can't wait to see you do another Gym Leaders as Digimon Tamers video Karn

Stop me if you've done this idea before. But what if you got to pick all the main characters' lines in a brand new show? Like, basically what would be your ideal reptile line, mammal line, plant line, machine, aquatic, etc for a brand new cast of Digidestined in a brand new show if you had that power?

Hey I love your videos I was wondering if you would ever make a video with hypothetical dark digivolution for the Frontier digimon with Pre established digimon

I've always thought kari would be paired with gatomon and wizardmon,since wizardmon did comefirm he would follow gatomon as long as she needed his help,so if wizardmon never died,I can see them helping each other out alot,maybe we could've even seen wizardmon digivolve

Agree regarding Tyrannomon being Agumon's more intended Champion outside Adventure. There seems to be more visual cohesion between Agumon and Tyrranomon than there is between Agumon and Greymon

Such a dope concept! i tihkn havjng leomon being tai's partner would be fun! heart of lion = courage..idk haha

Duuuude a version of Omnimon with a Sabre Leomon arm would be sick and maybe a BlackWargreymon arm duuuude

8:43 That must have taken so many tries. And it was so worth the bit. 🤣

Happy 3 days early birthday also jokes on you I don’t have a twitter

You should do this for 02 but with the second set (excluding partners changed in this video)

hey this was uploaded on my birthday i’ll get the merch for myself as a present

Cool video even if, yes, some of these can be boring :p But hey! Isn't today your birthday? If it is, Happy Birthday Karn!! Hope you have an awesome day and I wish you the best👍

Interesting idea.

6:04 i thought for a while and i think Airdramon works better as a champion than Birdramon, he retains the dramon in his name plus he is still winged, and is also a common champion for Megadramon

Saying Angemon was in the same vpet as Patamon is driving me crazy, Unimon and Centarumon were the evolutions that Patamon evolved into specifically on the Version 3, meanwhile Angemon was actually on the Version 2 that Gabumon and Elecmon were on to be a direct counterpart to Devimon who was on the Version 1

I still would like to do a video on the appmon spinoff series. Also happy early birthday karn, my birthday was yesterday

Are you still working on a review for v tamer?

Notification squad happy Sunday!

Habu really did bring it back to the og material for survive, it really is a love letter to the franchise

I'm a simple man I see tyrannomon I like.

If you wanted to do the branching evolution thing from the VPets into the anime, you could have them all have normal digivolutions, and then sometimes they can digivole into other digimon, and have Tyrannomon be Agumon's normal Champion form, while sometimes turning into other dinosaur Digimon. A really cool idea would be that, when they are battling Myotismon/Vamdemon's forces in the real world, Agumon digivoles into a new form, Greymon, and that's what triggers the children's memories of seeing Greymon battle Parrotmon from the Digimon Adventures pilot OVA. I feel like that would work better than Tai seeing Greymon a hundred times and never once piecing together that it was literally another Greymon who he saw up close that night.

I feel like Tyrannomon has had its potential totally squandered in the Digimon series.

Is the music in this video from sonic heroes?

Has he done "different 02 jogress pair" original design commissions? I'd love to see XVMon + Angewomon, Stingmon + Ankylomon etc for example

Oooooo happy early birthday mine was today lol

I miss my Digivices. I had a house fire in 07 that destroyed everything. I even had a D-Terminal.

Betamon :D lightning froggo :)

haha very similiar with the Digimon Survive crew

I would like to see custom art for evolutions for digimon who doesnt have a complete line like bearmon and toyagumon

Mind blowing, theres a dragon ball super dub where goku is played by the guy who voiced wargreymon

Started with Vpet v1 myself

I love it I tired this once too and it did.not work well at all I tired making Biyomon to Airdramon and Patamon to Unimon

I know you talk about your idea for Omnimon being all eight megas combined but what about that concept for the other seasons like all the 02 megas combine, all the tamers megas combine, a version of Susannomon that's all the megas (if the others got megas that is) combined, etc.

I think an interesting possibility would be for Tai's Tyrannomon to Dark Digivolve to MetalTyrannomon instead of SkullGreymon, and maybe he doesn't realize it is a Dark Digivolution at first and instead refuses to try to digivolve past Tyrannomon (because MetalTyrannomon goes berserk just like SkullGreymon). Then, when he finally musters the courage to digivolve again, he gets Virus MetalGreymon. Tying both the courage to overcome his fears of his partner going berserk and hurting someone, to the virus typing of MetalTyrannomon, and getting a more in control but still virus type ultimate. That way the metal part of his ultimates stays the same, and maybe whenever he starts seeing the metal form on Tyrannomon he refuses to go through with the digivolution. That way there's a bigger payout for when he finally digivolves, and it becomes a journey for him to trust himself and his partner again. I think SkullGreymon did the same thing to Tai in the anime, making him fear trying to digivolve to ultimate again, so they serve the same purpose there, I guess. But MetalTyrannomon would feel a lot more personal because he would have no reason to think Tyrannomon wouldn't become another Tyrannomon species? While Greymon becomes a Greymon either way, which lessens the impact a little bit to me. Especially with how different SkullGreymon's and MetalGreymon's silhouettes are.

I think all your choices were good.

I approached it slightly differently-- Perfect/Ultimate is the top stage, but to make up for that I gave dual Adult/Champion and Perfect/Ultimate, zero use of original partners or lines, and only Digimon from 1997/1998. Fairly happy with how it came out, though I have some complaints: Tai - Elecmon / Tyranomon / DarkTyranomon / MetalTyranomon / ExTyranomon Matt - Gizamon / Tuskmon / Ogremon / Digitamamon / Minotaurmon Sora - Betamon / Seadramon / Airdramon / MegaSeadramon / Megadramon Mimi - Tyumon / Numemon / Sukamon / Monzaemon / Etemon Izzy - Kunemon / Flymon / Kuwagamon / Picollomon / Okuwamon Joe - Syakomon / Shellmon / Gesomon / Anomalocarimon / MarineDevimon TK - Gottsumon / Monochromon / Starmon / Triceramon / Mamemon + MetalMamemon Kairi - Gazimon / Devidramon / Evilmon / LadyDevimon / Dagomon Basically without thinking I wound up with Etemon / LadyDevimon / Shellmon / Seadramon / Kuwagamon in the lines, so I would need to have a think about who the villains of this now-totally rewritten series are (Probably pulling from the five or six megas available from the time period for the big-bad). TK gets a double ultimate mainly because I can never choose between the two but also as something to differentiate him as being special, likewise Kairi gets a light in the darkness motif. I was initially going to have Matt/TK have Mamemon and MetalMamemon, but I couldn't get it to fit. Mimi with Tyumon should be fairly obvious. That's all I've got. Honestly, flipping hours spent on the brainstorming for this comment, I can see why this video took Karn so long to get out!

Oo nice video

Also what 5 to 8 digimon would you like to see in an anime for digidestined. I honestly would like to see the cyber slueth line of Gotsumon to Icemon to Meteormon and maybe even into Ebemon. I mean honestly just watching a Main character have Gotsumon digivolve into basically another type of Gotsumon would be kind hilarious and then into just another Gotsumon form.

Last video I commented about this but I feel it's even more appropriate here.... Why not give Mimi for example the blue palmon (Aluramon? Something with A) from Digimon World. I mean it would be a great Ugly Duckling story. Imagine her feeling inadequate because Palmon being bright and pink while she's a dull blue, concluding with either a pretty ultimate/mega or just a lesson about not judging by appearence. Pixiemon? Can work for both since it's adorable. On the same vein, Tsukaimon for TK, with ab arc about being afraid of evolution since he becomes Devimon more often than not, but has the potential to become Angemon. (Although Tsukaimon hasn't been as forgotten as the other Digimon World encounters.) I don't want to throw any more options because I'm not all that certain about which digimon are pre-2000.

I like these swaps, but i thought Patamon would Digivolve into Unimon which i think looks more like Patamon's next form than Angemon, also do you plan to make Custom art version of videos where you Swap Digimon ? Also i can't wait to see part 2 of video where you gave variants to Digimon that didn't had any.

the vpet thing reminds me of V tamer god I wish it had an anime or at least a movie or ova

I vaguely remember that... I wanted an Angemon so badly

I had the old digital pet. The only other person who had one either really sucked at it or knew something I didn't, because I raised a Greymon/Tyrannomon (whichever it was) and he had a Numemon. I won our battle pretty easily.

Hey dude we're do u get all the digimon stuff. I've been looking and what I found was expensive.

Since yukio oikawa was a digidestined and met his partner while playing video games with Cody’s dad I think Cody’s dad was also digidestined and should have a partner we haven’t met yet and is an entirely new digimon

I'm curious as to why you mentioned tyranomon being a defacto evolution of agumon in the card game. You meant the other one? Because a lot of agumon have grey family support effects xwx

*Suggestion;* How about Digivolutions for old Champions (Adults), like Tankmon, Unimon, Fangmon, Gururumon, Centalmmon, Saberdramon, Tuchidarumon, Drimogemon, Nise Drimogemon, etc.? I mean, not just connecting Digimon, such as Centalmon into Assaultmon, but something like Gururumon getting a new Digimon, like a "Cadejomon," not to be confused for Cadejomon (Black), and a Mega (Ultimate).

You should make custom armor evos for the original adventure gang

Might be a fun idea , but fusions for all the spirits minus light and fire

THANK U KARN, FINALLY! SOME BETAMON REPRESENTATION

I wish we hava megas in the first vpet

I remember you couldn't think of a design of a dark Digivolutions of Chessmon in "What If We Gave Digimon Data Squad DARK Digivolutions?", but I think I thought of one that might work. Have them turn into queen of hearts and king of hearts from Alice in wonderland. While they are base on cards instead of chess, it is still hierarchy where king and queen are the most important pieces in the game. Also cards game like poker and blackjack tend to viewed generally as gambling, not a positive light compared to chess. The dark evolution of Queenchessmon could be RedQueenmon, a tyrannical ruler that use a axe to remove the head of it victim called Executioner Slash. Giving irrational decisions that only benefit her and ignore the ideas and thoughts of other digimon. Kingchessmon dark evolution is RedKingmon being a pushover that agrees to anything that Queen want to make her happy. His attack could be Beserker Ramage, attacking with all his might, ignoring any damage he may be inflicted until he accomplish his goal.

Wow it is going to all are birthdays on the 9th Jen and Mike we are twins and your Birthday to Karn!

What about the Tyrannomon like but make SkullTyranomon?