ADigimon ’s ability to digivolve is intrinsic to their existence , but for something that happens so naturally , the act of actually attaining those upgraded figure was incredibly obscure .

All Digimon begin their life cycle as Digi - Eggs before of course digivolving into a mellow - degree life form . The main stages of digivolution are : invigorated , In - Training , Rookie , Champion , Ultimate , and Mega . In theDigimon Adventureanime , fans are probably most familiar with the Digimonin their Rookie stage , like Augumon or Gabumon . Their Rookie forms are seemingly their infrastructure for the majority of the gum anime . Even after the Digimon digivolve into a stronger translation of themselves – like Augumon becoming Greymon and Gabumon becoming Garuruom – those digivolutions are only impermanent , and the Digimon quickly go back to their Rookie state . However , the temporary nature of their digivolutions is n’t even close to as interesting as the initial Champion digivolutions themselves , as they ask a significant stresser to actuate .

Digimon Require their Partners be In Danger to Digivolve

InDigimon Adventureepisode 3 ( write by Satoru Nishizono , direct by Hiroyuki Kakudo ) , Tai and the gang are reeling after go two separate clash with wild , powerful Digimon . Thankfully , after they arrived in this strange newfangled world , they were greet by their own personal Digimon , who were all immediately anxious to serve them . When the mathematical group look their first ferine Digimon threat , the Digimon pardner digivolved into their Rookie forms and fought off the Cancer the Crab - like Kuwagamon . When that was n’t enough , Augumon digivolved into Greymon and stop over Kuwagamon once and for all . The very next episode , however , the squad is attacked by another wild Digimon , Seadramon . This meter , it was Gabumon who make unnecessary the mean solar day after he digivolved into Garurumon and defeated the deadly beast .

apart from the obvious , these two battles had one very of import thing in coarse : two of the kids had to be in deathly risk before their Digimon were able to digivolve . The added stress of seeing the people they care for almost mangle in front of them pushed Augumon and Gabumon over the edge , and gave them the boost they needed to temporarily become Champions . This was n’t recede on the reference within the Digimon anime either , as they sat down and dissect those instances before fare to the ending that the Digimon only respond to their partners being in risk before they could make their powerful transformations – which is candidly pretty dark . Sure , it can be viewed as courageous on the part of the Digimon , but there ’s another possibility that come to mind as well , one that ’s much more malign .

Not only is it fabulously dark that Digimon have to nearly witness the death of their ally in parliamentary procedure to digivolve , but it also calls into question the lawful allegiances of those Digimon . Could they be using their humans to attain newfound levels of power ? And if so , would n’t they benefit from those humans being put in danger to digivolve ? While that clearly is n’t the case in the anime , it does give fans pause to wonder , and that alone is moderately heavy for an gum anime that is pitch towards people of all ages – prove thatDigimon ’s original secret to digivolving was incredibly dark ( for more reasons than one ) .

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Jujutsu Kaisen’s Yuji Itadori next to The Apothecary Diaries' Maomao

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Digimon dark origins.

Digimon’s Greymon and Garurumon.