Leomon (Tamers)

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Leomon (レオモン)
Level:	Champion
Voice actor(s):	(Ja:) Hiroaki Hirata (En:) Paul St. Peter
Partner(s):	Jeri Katou
Digivolution
Champion	Leomon

Leomon is a fictional character from the Digimon franchise. Courageous and noble and a firm believer that every living being has their own destiny to live out, Leomon is a master of the secret styles of martial arts. From his fist, he can summon a powerful flaming projectile known as the Fist of the Beast King.

Leomon's name comes from the word "Leo", which is the Latin for "lion".

[edit] Appearance

Leomon is an anthropomorphic lion. His weapon is called the Lion King Sword ("Shishiouken").

[edit] Description

Leomon is the Digimon partner of Jeri Katou. Before Bio-Emerging to the Real World, Leomon only knew of endless conflict. At first, he was a bit frightened by Jeri's affection and insistence that he's her partner. But he grew to care for her, becoming Jeri's partner for real after his near-death experience with Zhuqiaomon.

Despite Jeri's doubts of being worthy enough to be his Tamer, Leomon had much confidence in her. He once commented that she was such a little thing but she had a lion's heart. But things went downhill during the fierce battle with Beelzemon, as Leomon seized his arm to stop him from killing Kyubimon. Leomon informed the ranting Beelzemon that to simply have power did not make him strong – but Beelzemon retaliated by impaling Leomon through the chest with his claws. Leomon died and Beelzemon absorbed his data, with the aftermath being Jeri's depression that made her an ideal subject for the D-Reaper's research. His final words to Jeri were "a part of me will always be with you, remember you have a lion's heart." But Jeri eventually overcame her sadness and remembering Leomon's words gave her the confidence to stand up to the D-Reaper. Unlike Angemon's death in Adventure and Wormmon's death (then later rebirth) in 02, this is the only occasion a DigiDestined's partner dies with no Digi Egg to bring him back to life, because Beelzemon absorbed his data. His spirit did seem to return to help at times: Beelzemon Blast Mode attempted to free Jeri from the Kernel Sphere and he finally broke in because suddenly he was able to call upon Leomon's Fist of the Beast King attack to break the Sphere. When he did this an image of Leomon appeared over him almost like his spirit was lending a hand. Also when Jeri started to regain her confidence she asked him a question and an image of him appeared on her Digivice and nodded at her.

Attacks

• Fist of the Beast King (獣王拳, Juuouken^?, lit. "Beast King Fist"): He shoots fire from his fist that is shaped like a lion's head.

Digimon Tamers
Main characters:	Takato Matsuki | Henry Wong | Rika Nonaka | Ryo Akiyama | Jeri Kato | Kazu Shioda | Kenta Kitagawa | Suzie Wong | Ai and Mako
Digimon:	Guilmon | Terriermon | Renamon | Cyberdramon | Leomon | Guardromon | MarineAngemon | Lopmon | Impmon | Calumon
Allies:	Omnimon | Mitsuo Yamaki | Monster Makers | Digimon Sovereigns | Alice McCoy and Dobermon
Villains:	Hypnos | Devas | Mephistomon | D-Reaper | Locomon/GrandLocomon and Parasimon
Couplings:	Rukato | Jurato | Ryuki | Hirokanta | Jenruki/Jianruki | Henry & Alice
Other media:	Battle of Adventurers | Runaway Locomon | Digimon Tamers 1984 | Original Story: Message in the Packet
See also:	Digimon | List of episodes | Voice credits