The 10 Most OBSCURE Digimon You've NEVER Heard Of!

[@Karn_EX]

HAPPY SUNDAY AND HAPPY HOLIDAY HOOTENANNY, NOTIFICATION SQUAD! So, how many of these obscure Digimon had YOU heard of?

[@tjzero0008]

Hats off to you Karn, the only Digimon on this list I knew about were the blast modes (from your video) and the Numemon lol. I can always count on you to show me new mons, usually unintentionally lol. I'm so glad I started watching YT again. Your channel is a LARGE contributor to that lol. Great way to cap off the work day.

[@GladDestronger]

The Numemon variants I've already come up with names (unofficially) for. The white one is "Alnumemon". From albino. The teal version is Icenumemon. The dark blue... Malnumeon. From malice. The tan variety is coined... Dirtnuemon. The last one colored red... Volcanumemon. From volcanic/volcano. What do you think Karn? Am I onto something here? Maybe get Toei/Bandai on the phone/email for?

[@Sadhappysmile-gb8jm]

I have idea: What if Yugioh characters from all seasons had digimon partners?🤔

[@RayAkuma]

@Karn_EX hey Karn, had an idea for a custom Digivolution line and made a community post on it. As a fellow Diginerd and fan of your channel, it would be great to read what you think about them, if you have the time to read that post. I can understand if you don't. Also i can't draw and am broke, so no custom art for it :/ just names and descriptions of their special moves, how they look and act^^

[@YeetusVanitas]

I actually didn't know about most of these! Gotta say, Nat-chan and her Digimon form kinda make me envision D-Reaper Jeri.

[@TheHeartlessAlchemist]

For anyone complaining about diferent color pallets being alternative forms, remember: Black Wargreymon is LITERALLY a recolor of regular Wargreymon.

[@Karn_EX]

Facts

[@Bezaliel13]

@@Karn_EX Kind of wish you also noted GUrurumon ngl.

[@michaelbarrett8141]

Altough they are just Color Swaps. They at least have different Book Entries and Typings.

[@danielbarnes1241]

Yeah but he's cool soooooo

[@Sadhappysmile-gb8jm]

​@@Karn_EXI have idwa:What if Sonic and Shadow the hedgehog and the other charcters had digimon partners and crests?

[@gabrielerusso326]

"YARRRRR" -Pirate BlackWargreymon

[@Karn_EX]

He be sailin' the Net Ocean!

[@invisible683]

Looking for the Digital One Piece

[@CD-Gaming]

Why do I suddenly want a Digimon version of the Flying Spaggheti Monster...?

[@zephon6745]

Pirate B Wargreymon needs a crew of pirate digimon.

[@overseerpjoe9477]

With Nat-chan turning into a monster, and it being a wintery area, my immediate thought was she was some kind of Yuki-Onna Digimon. Also, we 100% need more Pirate BlackWarGreymon.

[@bugking1413]

God, now I want Liberators to introduce a new character based on Ota so we can introduce one of the new Volcanomon evolutions. It'd honestly be the best opportunity to work them into the franchise, and just a really cool tribute to Ota and his history with Digimon.

[@Bezaliel13]

Or just have Ota appear.😄

[@LostStarCelestial]

Y'know what would be a funny way of introducing the numemon variants? A group of five costumed individuals all with their own numemon that can fuse into one giant numemon like a megazord

[@Karn_EX]

Hahah the Numemecha!

[@kevingriffith6011]

Numetronmon... Numezordmon... I don't know what to call it but I 100% accept this as a possible ultimate digimon for Numemon, it 100% fits with their goofy vibe. As long as it's clear that it's still just 6 numemons stacked on top of eachother.

[@CD-Gaming]

@@kevingriffith6011 THIS NEEDS TO BE A THING!!

[@michaelbarrett8141]

Kinda reminds of the five different Jack Frost Variants from Shin Megami Tensei.

[@secondbeamship]

Mechanumemon

[@elemomnialpha]

The existence of Pirate BlackWarGreympn made my day that's just so funny

[@christianmathew398]

Nat-Chan story was very unique I got invested immediatly,I do wish Digimon would tell more stories through alternate media in general

[@kylebartlett9683]

I really wish Wikimon would include more game variants. As you mentioned with the Numemon some of these should be considered fully fledged variants

[@Karn_EX]

Very much agree, it seems there's just zero fan or official documentation for a lot of these!

[@yusufkadar]

Nat-chan as a concept is cool in a kinda horrifying way-just what I'd expect from the franchise that gave us the Dark Ocean and D-Reaper

[@AleksKwisatz]

I remember that in Digimon World 3 you could also find white Whamon when diving using Submarimon. And a white Whamon is mentioned in Hookmon's official profile, so I guess the differently colored digimon in the game are presumed to be canon. Hell, even Hookmon himself has a different color in DW3 that hasn't been shown anywhere else.

[@AngelPerez-tu1nk]

I wasn't aware Numemon had so many variants. And Nat-Chan scares me, she should return.

[@Karn_EX]

It's wild, right?

[@AngelPerez-tu1nk]

@@Karn_EX Definitely!

[@donaldwright8567]

I always headcanoned that Nat-chan from the "02" Audio Drama could of been the same species of Digimon as Rythem from the "Data Squad" movie, since they are both digimon that can easily pass as normal looking human girls.

[@hiddenscorpiusXI]

Along the lines of "Implied existence," there are Beatmon, Irismon, Megatheriumon, Sphinxmon and Troiamon. Yes, I bring up the missing modern variants of the other half of the Warrior Ten. If A. Garurumon, A. Greymon, A. Mermaidmon, A. Volcamon and A. Wisemon have a "modern" variant, why not the other five?

[@DakNJaxter]

I think the reason Numemon are used so often as enemy variants (along with Goblimon) is that they're analogous to the low-level slimes (and Goblins) you;d fight in RPGs. BTW, Wikimon has asterisks next to the DW3 NPC roster in reference to the enemy colour variants.

[@NobleFaeriie]

The two number 4 variants would make such good rookie levels for Tyrannomon and Tuskmon!

[@Karn_EX]

Definitely!

[@jean-pierrebenzenique]

I kinda think that Volcano Ota might be the equivalent of Koji Nishino of Pokémon franchise, lol dude has literally being an inspiration for literal monster collection in the series, has some unexplainable lore but fans are just kinda understand it right away

[@mattwo7]

9:12 The funny thing about that black Areo Veedramon is that there is a Veedramon (Black) Hyper Coliseum card. That single card is the only time this variant ever appeared. The gold variant is all over the place, the red variant reappeared in Next Order and Master Veedramon has yet to return but that's probably because there's no real visual distinction far as I am aware, it just has a different sprite.

[@Karn_EX]

I know, I was just showing examples.

[@aprilfools9741]

What i really like about learning about obscure digimon is that many of them have the individuality to be main characters in a digimon storu, whether it's a comedy series featuring the various numemons and other recolour digimon, or a story about various ocupational digimon, pirate black war greymon, santa agumon, agumon hakase, terriermn assistant, holyagemon priest mode, digimon that could very easily be slotted into a story without digimon in them to spice them up, for example, you could have a main character who's motivation is not lknowing how he wants to raise his digimon, and so he goes to meet the variious ocupational digimon, and their partners.

[@Jmon7007]

I love when we get monsters based on people, other than volcamon we have snorelax in Pokémon and Satori in zelda as a tribute to satoru iwata

[@kirbogdiconguy82]

Karn's Holiday Hootenanny 2024 lets gooo!! Fujitsumon is also an incredibly obscure species, although its just the barnacles on Octomon

[@Highretrogamelord]

Thank you so much for this! Respect for picking out the most obscure of the obscure! I don't think I've ever heard of any of them before.

[@Karn_EX]

My pleasure!

[@4wheal]

Looks like Digimon might be giving more attention to the blast mode as Erlangmon from new century has a blast mode and he was made in the last year.

[@bradtobin839]

8:24, LadyVolcamon is an interesting concept that deserves to be explored. She'd be the Angewomon to Volcamon's Angemon, if you know what I mean. (Equals, despite their differences)😎😎 Update, December 7, 2024: SkulllVolcamon and OniVolcamon sound great, too! (the former could be a dark digivolution, and OniVolcamon could be a red or blue masked variant with similar body armor to PileVolcamon).

[@gonzaloegonzalez8106]

Merry KarnExstmas and happy digiholidays! I love how you dig and fot even more rare digimons

[@hollyswackyworld]

I did not know about all the Numemon variants, nor the Green or V-Agumon. But the Pirate BlackWarGreymon takes the cake for me. I need this goober in the Reference book. Thank you for making this video Karn EX!

[@Karn_EX]

Glad I could introduce you to some new creatures! Thanks for watching!

[@StarDragonJP]

It kinda annoys me that they've never done anything with Earthdramon despite it being one of the fan art winners. I hope one day we can finally get the Airdramon, Seadramon, and Earthdramon together, and then give them all evolution lines.

[@ZalgoReplays]

WORLD 4 MENTIONED LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOO! wonderful vid Karn!

[@Karn_EX]

Thank you!

[@krx50]

Okay, considering the Digimon Accel was like the prototype to the Digivice IC, I think it’s safe to say that “Blast Mode” was later developed into Burst Mode

[@Karn_EX]

They're similar but given we had a new Blast Mode this year with Erlangmon I don't think Burst Mode has replaced Blast Mode.

[@ramirezthesilvite]

10:10 ohhhhhh, THAT'S where she came from. I played through Cyber Sleuth and was a bit confused by the random inclusion of a multiverse, that did nothing except bring an exhibitionist to CS's world because her partner happened to be a Royal Knight lol

[@kirbyofthestarsfan]

16:05 DARKSIDE MY BELOVED

[@joejunior5991]

My Favourite is always been, Gaiamon from DW3 since Ragnamon (Snatchmon) apparently can merge with the whole earth to evolve to this monstrosity that can kill all human that live in this very earth itself

[@Shamazya]

Always appreciate seeing obscure parts of a franchise!

[@gaizadarkaa8769]

I'm so excited all! I got my son to start playing old digimon games. He's super fond of crabmon and gabumon

[@nickvang7]

A Digimon you might've not yet considered for a pirate crew: Gokimon. I can see him scrubbing the deck.

[@rabbitcorp.103]

Hell ya I love it when u do these kinda videos also I like ur theories I think u should do more digi theories 💚

[@anonymousyoutuber1405]

NAT-CHAN MENTION! 02 GANG STILL WINNING

[@Karn_EX]

We mooooove

[@reggaemortis4117]

Why dont we have a Santa Jijimon and Mrs. Claus Babamon?? Lol

[@zerplergon]

this was a fun video ,cool to learn new digimon exist (like Schrodinger's cat)

[@Nightxx9199]

Karn. You've given me everything I could have ever wanted out of Digimon. My love for Numemon has only grown ever more stronger. And the Ice and lava one reminds me of Nep-Enut & Blargg from Yoshi's island.

[@FullFatMark]

Happy holidays! I've been looking forward to that intro.

[@Karn_EX]

Same to you!

[@QBnoYouko]

Knew about 8 and 7 but not the rest! Great list. It would be neat to see some of those realized.

[@CopingContinuous]

So gooood!! Numemon is my FAVORITE DIGIMON CANT BELIECE WE GET MORE COLORS

[@mazusagou1946]

Pirate Black Wargreymon is a reference to Shonen Jump's pirate mascot who really isn't referenced much outside of Japan!

[@pieguy5323]

As a longtime Karn viewer, I’d love to see those blast modes realized one day!

[@Karn_EX]

You and me both!

[@Rondorix]

Is it just me(and a possible fixation), or did the last one have yuki-onna vibes? Like, a human-looking girl, a wintery realm of unknown origin completely separate from the real and Digital worlds.. Fireflies(except not really).. and a hidden danger factor.

[@josmarwerleman5068]

Black flag greymon

[@zephon6745]

They need to make the recolour digimon their own thing. Such Red LadyDevimon from Xcross.

[@BeIlG]

always interesting! great video!

[@TheWrestlingPenguiN]

I love the Christmas intro

[@casteanpreswyn7528]

A-chan meme, top tier inclusion.

[@appolionos]

All those digimons should be added to the wiki ASAP !!!! And most of them should even become "official" and added to the Reference book ! They look so SICK !!!

[@raymondchapa2039]

Awesome video

[@Karn_EX]

Thanks!

[@Jonasaurus7]

Merry Christmonth

[@heart3460]

Wow, a lot of stuff I did not know. Thanks for the vid

[@Karn_EX]

No problem!

[@cmbaz1140]

Digimon world 3 is goated .

[@kevingriffith6011]

0:11 That's Holigreymon to you!

[@Dr.SamCarterPhD]

Another note on Kaminarimon's design is that its face is made up of the characters in its name, 雷門

[@drevilstrange3560]

thanks for the infos 😍

[@Karn_EX]

Hope you enjoyed!

[@maximillionchaoswolf]

Good video. I know it would be confusing but i kinda like recolors that are not unique digimon and i hope they make a game where you can raise both recolors that are separate digimon and recolors that are just recolors. That being said i could also see flamenumemon being its own thing too.

[@erict.miyahira6241]

10:10 this is the last place I thought I would see Friend A.

[@baka1fred642]

bandai after watching this video: boys, i found a way for every colour decks to use numemon

[@Karn_EX]

All according to keikaku

[@creature6715]

It'd actually be funny if they formed a megazord which can just, digivolve from any Digimon color

[@CryBlueofZ]

Red MetalGarurumon that I have in my Xros Loader

[@AutumnWoodham]

Ah yes, the completed line. Hookmon -> CaptainHookmon -> PirateBlackWarGreymon

[@Dappledvine]

I was hoping my favorite obscure (technically a joke) digimon would make it but she might be more obscure. Okunimon, from the digimon frontier audio drama. Maybe because I’m a digimon frontier fan but it always had a place in my heart after learning about it. I always thought of it as what would be the human spirit of fire if it was used by a girl rather than a boy.

[@carlosblanco5975]

Karn doing Yggdrasil's work by bringing some attention to this lost mons! We LOVE to see it 🥰

[@MajoraZ]

I hadn't ever heard of a lot of these. Kinda crazy that something as big as Digimon can have stuff like this that's so poorly documented. Hopefully somebody at Wikimon steps up and adds them all! I really like the V-Jump Agumon variants a lot, would love those as official digimon.

[@RandyLibbyJr]

Interesting and awesome but there are some Digimon characters that I never heard of either

[@jonatanmonsalve11]

I imagine how weird and out of tone it would have been if suddenly Gabumon Bond of Friendship had transformed into a motorbike on the final fight in the Kizuna movie ams Agumon started riding him XD I was already detoured by how the look, that would have made it worse for me personally

[@CD-Gaming]

On a point you made, when I first played Digimon World 1 way back in the day, before tinterweb was all that much of a thing, I always thought the wild Digimon you encountered were jus pallet swaps of Digimon we were already familiar with, whether to save money or give us something like what we knew but, as the names showed, not quite! I didn't realise they were actually their own species with their own lines! Imagine my surprise in 2020, picking up on all that Digimon Lore, I uncovered the truth about Tsukaimon and Psychemon! I was shocked! And, speaking of obscure, a recent video I saw covering a playthrough of Digimon World 1, I commented how I never realised that the building on the left screen in Toy Town was shaped like ExTyrannomon and how it'd clearly been some time since I played the game that I'd forgot about Tinmon found in a building on the right screen! (Okay, that belongs with Housemon under "forgotten" more than obscure, but as far as I know, wasn't it only named Housemon in the Manga adaptation of Digimon Adventure 01?) 2:46 I want those notes...

[@nicholase82]

Nice list.

[@Karn_EX]

Glad you think so!

[@genisisbeing]

i'm gonna say some of these are pretty shocking! I think more of the color variants need to be acknowledged especially if they come with Elemental or type shifts.

[@muhammadiqbaldwirizky35]

11:23 Should've named it, BlackYarrrgreymon. With its signature move, Gai-yarrr Force

[@daviddent5662]

I am proud to know about the Bond of Friends Motorcycle Mode Change. I remember being shocked when I found it while doing research on it. I'm still shocked it's not used in any art or anything besides that one little pic you have to scroll or get lucky on a search to see. Though I will say Nat-Chan sounds more like D-Repaer than a Digimon. Especially Fake Jeri's transformation into a hybrid of features. It would be a been a killer idea for a TV movie or halloween special. Shame they didn't act on it.

[@alessandrobaggi6129]

That "beastly digimon" silhouette is clearly a KH heartless... 😏😉

[@Karn_EX]

Yes

[@maadacoomber9090]

thank you yet again Karn

[@Karn_EX]

My pleasure!

[@Mordramon]

Knew about Kaminarimon. Could've sworn they were included in your videos before, but maybe I'm misremembering. Knew about the Numemon thanks to Digital Tamers 2! Funky lil guys, but fun! So the Blast Modes you did forget one! Beelzemon BM isnt the only one with art now, as we've gotten Erlangmon BM thanks to New Century! Didn't know 7 or 6, but knew a few recolors from 5 thanks to DT2! Didn't know 4 or 3! Pirate B-WarGreymon is really neat! Would love to see a proper redesign for this, like Gaioumon! Recently learned about #2 which caught me off guard while researching the digimon. Nat-Chan didn't know about them either! Good video!!

[@Karn_EX]

I said I've talked about Kaminarimon but we have more info now. Didn't say Beelzemon was the only Blast Mode. Thanks for watching :)

[@TheLovelyDJ3]

Posting before the video starts hope Cardmon from Digimon World 3 is here.

[@Karn_EX]

Hah no Cardmon is quite well known

[@celenial6009]

Happy holidays peoples

[@windsmith4048]

Honestly if bandi decide to use skull lulamon, i could see it being a champion for ladydevimon, since the only other ones that work a bit are black gatomon, and maybe regular devimon.

[@TerraEmperor1]

Holiday themed digimon are always fun. Idea for next year and i know this going to be a considerable lift. But what if the adventure one cast partners were frontier spirits instead. Patamon and Gatomoms line would translate pretty easy since they are mostly humaniod, but the rest would be cool

[@SaiyanTCG]

I saw an image of a girl that has a bancho hat in the liberator manga. I am hoping we get a character that has a bancho digimon based deck and that we get a bancho digimon deck similar to Royal Knights or 7 demonlords.

[@eamonnwalker4512]

I will always consider the Accels to be criminally underutilized in the franchise for how cool they were. IIRC, box lore indicated (or at least suggested) you were actually revving the digicore of your Digimon. And since blast modes occurred at a specific RPM for each 'mon, I always assumed it was supposed to be like tuning the speed to peak efficiency or something. But... nothing says there wasn't some X-antibody-like "DNA" or code that was only activated by resonating at that particular speed.

[@aaleven4728]

Hear me out: BlackAeroveedramon should evolve into BlackImperialdramon. But anyway, after seeing Digital Tamers Reborn using stuff such as the DW3 Numemon as separate special Digimon I do wish Digimon fans did more games/media/whatever with these obscure forms more kinda similar to Pokémon fans adding beta scrapped Pokemon.

[@mattwo7]

9:44 Isn't that Gallantmon recolor the basis for ChaosGallantmon the same way HiMachinedramon and Chaosdramon were based on Chaos Lord?

[@Karn_EX]

Maybe.

[@NytoDork]

Huh , I never knew the Numemon variants in the fangame Digital Tamers 2 are actually real.

[@Karn_EX]

Yup

[@mikelenz1990]

3:52 yeah steaming about the Numemon to me is very much valid, especially if they did a God version as an evolution in one of the Digimon gains which hello never showed up in the TV series either for game reference the game I speak of is Digimon data squad which also has some Digimon variant that were also on the TV series from what I can tell just like on the game you mentioned in from the first two Digimon gain that even I remember so the producers have Bandai and creators of Digimon have definitely had kept their belts tight on Digimon evolutions and variance that’s for sure

[@Biz_God]

Dma dex has all the color variants of Digimon from games but it's hard to navigate the site sometimes

[@kitsunepop1077]

i would love a custom art series for the blast mode digimon, like a few per video, maybe putting some lore for it too!

[@avch1209]

fans of the franchise have better ideas creating digimons than those officially commissioned

[@ryuuronin9852]

Don't know if I missed a video where you had mentioned them before, but I'll posit my favorite obscure trio of Digimon (that said, they do have Wikimon pages, sparse as they are, so probably not the same level of obscurity as this actual list. Lycamon, Hermon, and Panimon, the scrapped trio from V-tamer. They show up as background enemies in Neo's army, and were planned to have a battle against Dominimon, Regulumon, and Omnimon; but it got cut for time constraints.

[@Karn_EX]

Yeah I talked about them a couple years back, they're pretty well known I'd say

[@Nusa9376]

i love Digimon adventure 02 CD drama about door to summer Davis/Daisuke finally popular lol

[@sambutler953]

I need 17 of Pirate BlackWarGreymon for myself, like yesterday.

[@neildamonjones2956]

I've seen the artwork of motorcycle mode. But the rest were new to me!

[@midnightflowerlivi]

I knew about the numemon as I loved playing dw3 and heard of the blast mode but, never saw any of them. The rest I didn't know of.

[@geoknuckles4629]

Was Heavymetaldramon and Cthyllamon inspired by the blast modes in Accel?

[@Karn_EX]

Cthyllamon I think almost certainly, though we have no official confirmation. Heavymetaldramon I'm less confident about.

[@Eddman368]

pirate Black Wargreymon might be a reference to the shonen jump logo if we're keeping up with the theme of the other costumes being manga magazine references

[@stratusasterion2285]

I did not expect to see A-chan in a KarnEx video lmao. I wish the weird grizzled Elecmon in the Frontier OP was a variant

[@michaelbarrett8141]

A Design for Technodramon should be easy. I already can imagine a Rookie, Champion and Perfect Level. Plus it would make such a great Partner in a Digimon Anime about Music. Especially for the Main Character who wants to be a Muscician.