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"Invasion of the Daemon Corps" デーモン軍団の襲来
(Demon Gundan no Shūrai) "Invasion of the Demon Corps" | ||||||||
Production company |
(Ja:) Fuji Television (En:) Saban Entertainment | |||||||
Airdate | (Ja:) February 4, 2001 (En:) April 28, 2001 | |||||||
Written by | (Ja:) Genki Yoshimura (En:) Michael Sorich | |||||||
Directed by | (Ja:) Atsutoshi Umezawa | |||||||
Chief Anim. Director |
Yoshihiro Takeda | |||||||
Art | Yukiko Iijima | |||||||
Animation studio |
Toei Animation | |||||||
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The DigiDestined's troubles are far from over, as the city comes under attack by a group of merciless Digimon known as the Daemon Corps, in search of the precious dark spore, that Ken possesses.
Synopsis
Returning home, the kids receive news of numerous disappearances of kids. Ken feels as though he knows something about it and starts to remember bits of his past. Daemon then appears in the real world and brings some Dark Digimon with him: Marine Devimon, Lady Devimon, and Skull Satamon and they start to inflict major damage! Even Imperialdramon Dragon Mode couldn’t defeat him... ...mainly because his data was frozen. The other children gave their power to Imperialdramon Dragon Mode to unfreeze him and then he Mode Changes into Fighter Mode and defeats SkullSatamon!
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.)
Humans | In-Training | Rookie | Champion | Ultimate | Mega | Armor |
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Digivolutions
(Number indicates order of occurrence.)
Veemon | 1 | DemiVeemon | 10 | Paildramon | 14 | Imperialdramon Dragon Mode | 18 | Imperialdramon Fighter Mode | 28 | Veemon | ||||||||||||||
(w/ Wormmon) | + Wormmon |
Armadillomon | 2 | Submarimon | 15 | Armadillomon | 16 | Ankylomon | 24 | Armadillomon | ||||||||||||
Patamon | 3 | Angemon | 16 | MagnaAngemon | 24 | Patamon | ||||||||||
Gomamon | 4 | Ikkakumon | 5 | Zudomon | 21 | Gomamon | ||||||||||
Hawkmon | 6 | Aquilamon | 24 | Hawkmon | ||||||||
Gatomon | 6 | Angewomon | 24 | Gatomon | ||||||||
Gabumon | 8 | WereGarurumon | 19 | Gabumon | ||||||||
Biyomon | 8 | Garudamon | 20 | Biyomon | ||||||||
Wormmon | 10 | Paildramon | (14) | Imperialdramon Dragon Mode | (18) | Imperialdramon Fighter Mode | 28 | Wormmon | ||||||||||||
(w/ DemiVeemon) | + Veemon |
Agumon | 10 | MetalGreymon | 23 | Agumon | ||||||||
Tentomon | 10 | MegaKabuterimon (Red) | 22 | Tentomon | ||||||||
Quotes
Tai: "So what are you gonna do?"
Kari: "I don't know."
Tai: "Do any of the new kids know what you're up against?"
Kari: "I don't think so."
Tai: "You may have broken some Dark Rings, a couple of Dark Spirals, but your group has got to be prepared for what you know is coming next."
Kari: "Well we've destroyed Control Spire Digimon. How 'bout that?"
Agumon: "I know they looked like real Digimon, and fought like 'em too, but they weren't real. They don't have hearts, ya know."
Tai: "Agumon's right. Can these new guys make the tough decisions we made?"
Kari: "We're just kids, Tai."
Tai: "You're not just kids, you're DigiDestined."
Kari: "I know."
Tai: "Soon, you'll have to fight real Digimon, and you're gonna have to win, or innocent people will be hurt."
Agumon: "Mm-hmm."
Gatomon: "Arukenimon and Mummymon are still on the prowl here in the real world."
Tai: "And your group has gotta be ready. The whole world is counting on you."
- —Tai makes sure that his little sister is ready for what's coming.
Angewomon: "Aquilamon, I..."
LadyDevimon: "Hold on. You'd better stay out of it, Blondie."
Angewomon: "Try to stop me, you witch!"
LadyDevimon: "As you wish."
Angewomon: "If you can!"
- —LadyDevimon and Angewomon get into another catfight.
"You certainly have a lot of nerve to cross the powers of darkness."
- —Daemon is spoooooky.
Other notes
Dubbing changes
- In the opening scene, the Japanese version has Davis suggest the team all rest up after their recent adventures, surprising everyone with his sensible, thoughtful remark. The dub changes this to him make a baffling non-sequitur remark that has nothing to do with anything anyone else is saying that we'll just quote wholesale here—"Well, I guess I'm due! Doctors say that on average the youth of today are underworked and overpaid, and you gotta admit I'm way above average!"—and everyone's reaction is changed to them gawping at his random stupidity.
- The slapping fight between Angewomon and LadyDevimon is removed from the English dub.
- In the Japanese version, when MegaKabuterimon (a.k.a. AtlurKabuterimon) gets struck by SkullSatamon, Izzy yells his name. In the English dub, he simply comments on SkullSatamon having "excited molecules".
Digimon references
- Ken's flashback mirrors the ending to the WonderSwan video game Digimon Adventure 02: Tag Tamers, in which Millenniummon is defeated by a young Ken and Ryo Akiyama, one of the main characters of Digimon Tamers.
Real-world references
- The title of the episode is an allusion to the film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
Miscellaneous trivia
- Davis announces the episode title in the Japanese episode.
- Despite this being their second appearance in this series, MegaKabuterimon and Garudamon appear without their digivolving sequence. Also, MegaKabuterimon is never seen using his Horn Buster attack.
- All the original Ultimate Digimon are reunited for the first time since the episode The Fate of Two Worlds with the exception of Lillymon, who is in New York with Mimi (as Palmon).