Top 10 Digimon Digivolutions That Make No Sense

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Top 10 Digivolutions That Make No Sense

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Welcome to WatchMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the Top 10 Digivolutions That Make No Sense.

For this list, we’ll be looking at the digivolutions that don’t quite add up, either due to odd design choices or inconsistent in-universe logic. And here’s your spoiler warning - we’ll be discussing digivolutions from every season of the franchise, including Adventure (2020). You’ve been warned!

Let us know in the comments which digivolutions took you by surprise!

In a season focused on mashing Digimon together to make cool, new, and generally bizarre combinations, it’s surprising that the weirdest one doesn’t involve fusion at all. There’s just a different level of strange to this digivolution, which sees a mammal digimon turn into a girl in a pig suit. Oh, and she has a hammer, too. Did we mention this is a totally natural digivolution, too? We could at least cut it some slack if it was using the season’s main digivolution conceit. But as it stands, there’s just nothing in their designs to tie these two together in an organic way, making this a standout oddball in a season already full of them.

At least this digivolution maintains a consistent color scheme, but otherwise, this feels like an inconsistent melting pot of bird species. This digimon is named after a falcon, but more resembles an owl, and then digivolves into an ostrich. Unless we’re missing an evolutionary link, this digivolution line is all over the place. Digimon have never been strict about their commitment to anatomy, but the naming convention here implies some intent, and yet the result is just a weird collection of misrepresented birds. Did we mention the ostrich then turns into a Crow?.

Night and day. Chocolate and vanilla. Cats and dogs. They feel like natural opposites, but this odd digivolution doesn’t seem to care. If it weren’t enough these digimon were inspired from species often seen as rivals, their design philosophies don’t mesh, either. Salamon doesn’t have much in terms of flourish, and could easily pass as a normal dog in the real world. Gatomon, on the other hand, stands on two legs instead of four, wears yellow gloves, and sports a pink and purple color palette. Anatomy aside, it’s weird to go from the puppy howl technique to cat’s eye hypnotism!

Angewomon has proven to be one of the most popular and recognizable Digimon in the whole franchise, but bizarrely, its digivolution doesn’t share much of its predecessors design influences. This scantily-clad holy digimon transforms into a furry pink dragon with horns, foregoing any angelic, or even humanoid, features. It may keep Angewomon’s wings, but by shedding any other identifiable characteristics, Magnadramon lacks the same personality of its prior form. It may look cool in its own right, but Magnadramon just doesn’t feel like a natural endpoint for Angewomon, which is a weird choice for the Mega level of one of the digital world’s holy digimon. For our money, Ophanimon is the better choice.

For longtime digi-fans, Pegasusmon needed no introduction when he appeared in the 2020 reboot of Digimon Adventure, but that doesn’t mean his inclusion didn’t lead to some head scratching. Pegasusmon made his debut in Digimon Adventure 02 thanks to the new and shiny armor digivolution, which uses the power of digi-eggs to make armor variants of our favorite digi-pals. Talk about digi-branding. When Patamon digivolved to this armor digimon in the 2020 series, it was without the aforementioned digi-egg. So, how did they reach this form? Is Pegasusmon no longer an armor digimon? Is the mountain behind them a big digi-egg in disguise? The world may never know.

Hey, another armor digimon - and this one has the digi-egg and everything! Hawkmon digivolves into Shurimon using the digi-egg of sincerity, which is representative of Palmon’s line in the original Digimon Adventure, but that doesn’t excuse the strangeness of a bird samurai turning into a plant ninja! You can see some design similarities in their ninja theming, but overall it’s a bizarre leap of anatomy. And you can’t blame the digi-egg either, since Hawkmon’s other armor digivolution, Halsemon, blends it’s influences from the past series with a design that still feels like it could naturally come from Hawkmon.

As a fusion between two of the strongest digimon in the series, it’s only natural Omnimon has become a fan-favorite, making numerous appearances across the lengthy franchise. But, in his recent showings in the 2020 reboot, it seems Matt and Tai’s Digimon can attain this fusion without first reaching their Mega forms. Despite this, Omnimon’s arms are still very clearly inspired by the designs of WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon respectively. How can two champion digimon fuse into something beyond that of a Mega - and why would it have arms representing forms they haven’t reached yet? At least Omnimon’s cool, because his recent showings don’t make any sense.

It’s not uncommon for digimon to change drastically in appearance between digivolutions, especially early on, but Yokomon takes this a step too far. This radish-looking plant gives Biyomon her signature pink color, but otherwise, this digivolution makes no sense whatsoever. There’s nothing plant-like about Biyomon, and Yokomon doesn’t seem like it’s going to grow feathers any time soon. Worse, the rest of Biymon’s digivolution line maintains very clear theming, meaning if you were to line all of them up, it would be painfully obvious that Yokomon just doesn’t belong. Maybe that’s why Yokomon doesn’t like Sora in Digimon Adventure: Tri.

This iconic pair of angel digimon have more in common with each other than their prior forms. As guardians of light and hope for all of the digital world, these holy Digimon sure aren’t very recognizable at their early stages. Neither Gatomon or Patamon look particularly angelic, or even remotely humanoid at all. Even weirder, Patamon and Gatomon don’t even share any design traits, either - how do these completely different looking digimon, who are also at different stages, digivolve into two that are so similar? These digivolutions may strike fear into the hearts of evil digimon, but their designs don’t make much evolutionary sense. We’ll give them a pass though because both of their digivolution scenes left our jaws on the floor!

In a franchise no stranger to unique methods of digivolution, by far the weirdest is when digimon weren’t the ones doing the digivolving. In one of the boldest creative moves the franchise has ever made, Digimon Frontier introduced spirit digivolution, where humans themselves digivolved into ancient beings of the digital world. We got spirit digivolutions, beast spirit digivolutions, fusions of those digivolutions, and more, but not with a digimon. Yeah, we don’t really get it either. The show does little to explain how these children access digivolution - ancient spirits or not, it has ‘digi’ in the name. It’s a great season, but maybe it would’ve made more sense if they changed it to something with less of a digi-ring to it.