The Digimon Iceberg Explained

An Iceberg is a creation storming the internet testing how much you really know about a particular things through it's layering system. In this video, we take this system to go through some trivia and fan theories in the Digimon
franchise starting from the surface level of the Digimon Iceberg and going all the way down to the deep dark depths of the Digimon Iceberg. How much do you know about Digimon? How much do you want to know about Digimon? All of this and more will be answered as we take you through the Digimon Iceberg.
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Footage:
Digimon World: • PSX Longplay [033] Dig...
Digimon Survive: • Five minutes of Digimo...
Digimon World 2: • Digimon World 2 Intro:...
Digimon Digital Card Battle: • Hitler agumon in digit...
Digimon Rumble Arena 2 Prototype: • 🦖 Digimon Rumble Arena...
Songs:
When You're Lonely (ne0 Ver) - Digimon World Next Order
File City (Day) - Digimon World
Heartbreaking - Kevin Macleod
Monochromon Shop - Digimon World
Piercing Digital Sea Breeze - Digimon World Next Order
Hyperfun - Kevin Macleod
Pier 47 - Digimon Rumble Arena 2
Epic Labyrinth - Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth
Dry Land - Digimon World 4
Curiosity Backup - Digimon World Next Order
From the Darkside - Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth: Hacker's Memory
Sentimental Sand Storage - Digimon World Next Order
Digital Grit! (ne0 Ver) - Digimon World Next Order
And last but not least, you for watching the video!! :D

[@MiniSerphent0421]

I'm surprised no one has mentioned this, but in the Japanese continuity, Mimi was in New York during the 9/11 attacks. "Digimon Adventure Original Story 2-nen Han no Kyuka" is a CD audio drama that explains what each DigiDestined was doing between the events of Adventure 01 and Adventure 02. Mimi's entry, titled "September 2001 - Video Mail", starts with Mimi explaining how she and her family moved to New York because of a business trip her father had to take. As Mimi was explaining more about her school, she hears an explosion and then silence. Later, Mimi recalls how after the towers fell, she ran to the Ground Zero site to look for survivors, only to find kids and their Digimon partners already going through the rubble. She helps out, finding and pulling out survivors, until the number of adults arriving to the site grew. Fearing that they would see their Digimon, the group breaks up. The entry ends with Mimi mentioning how she knows she'll see those kids again someday, and leaves with her mom to cook for the first responders.

[@LeNeovein]

Never heard this 10/10 having grown up with and through both this is extremely under appreciated. Time to google deep dive the stuff I've missed 😆 thank you!

[@hiddenleviathan]

The "garurugreymon" part is not entirely correct. Omegamon was originally called Garurugreymon in its original debut, Digimon tamers: Anode/Cathode tamer, not Our war game as commonly believed. That's just a reference to the placeholder name.

[@ResidentUnleashed]

So I found that during my research but the problem with that was that people said that the evidence surrounding it was just not there and it was more speculation. Maybe I should have included that rather than the point about Nokia but because of that fact, I was pretty hesitant to put it in there. Thanks for letting me know though :)

[@user-kp3hd9wr4w]

@Captain D. Bijutsukan Where is this information coming from?

[@theonewhoismany8072]

Umm Omegamon didn't debut in Anode/Cathode but in V-Tamers 01

[@aikou2886]

Didn't Omegamon made his debut on the Pendulums?

[@mightyandray7260]

@@theonewhoismany8072 I’m pretty sure omegamon was in v tamers after the digimenatal chapter and that means that digimon adventure 02 was already airing in Japan.

[@DominatorLegend]

The 2020 Digimon TCG likes to make references to the lore of Digimon and other trivia surrounding it, some of which are a couple of points in this video: -The BT5 printing of ChaosGallantmon's art has Megidramon looming in the background, while the EX2 printing of Megidramon has the ability of "This card/Digimon is also treated as [ChaosGallantmon]". -The BT9 printing of Gaioumon has the alternative evolution method of evolving the card on top of a BWGreymon for a cheaper cost, a trait shared by all X-Antibody Digimon cards. In addition to this, Gaioumon is considered a natural X-Antibody carrier.

[@everythingisbizzaaaaaro3694]

20 something years ago, my friends talked so much crap on the original PS1 Digimon World game. Now they're all trying to find copies of it.

[@ResidentUnleashed]

Haha lol it's tough for sure but it's still pretty good

[@healmyvision5941]

Emulator ftw

[@TheReZisTLust]

Pokemon should have gone that route for open world lol

[@iara0]

I think Digimon Jintrix is so low in the iceberg because of its artists. Apparently, most of the cards artists made extreme hentai doujinshis, which would explain why several Digimon are 'sexualized' in Jintrix card artwork

[@professorcarl1508]

is there a reason why you went in depth with some of them but complete glossed over a few? like augumon or the digibowl... i want to know more!!

[@mayborneflower]

8:46 - Huge doubt. Ken is notorious for being an entitled gitbag with an ego to rival an Etemon. He’d be bragging up and down the street about it if he could.

[@sparkgold3852]

as somebody who thought they would know everything in this video, boy was I wrong! This franchise truly is a never ending rabbit hole of lore! My only criticism of this video is that "Digivices are cages" I'm very sure is referring to the design of the first V-pets but your explanation is more interesting anyways

[@ResidentUnleashed]

That's the only thing I could find when I tried to dig up the info about the claim because things about digimon are actually pretty hard to find rip. I didn't know a lot of these myself honestly when I made the video and I've been a fan since I was 3 haha oh also thnaks for stopping by! Really appreciate it :D

[@metageek7878]

I want to add to the summer wars connection, that the virtual world in Cyber Sleuth looks a lot like summer wars online representation, and I want to believe it's intentional bringing the connection full circle in a way

[@adamfrost8313]

About the Purgatory theory: The 4 dark masters are based on the 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse. in the order which they were defeated in the show starting with MetalSeadramon. 1-MetalSeadramon represents the White Horseman of the Apocalypse known as Conquest. I believe MetalSeadramon is Conquest due to him conquering then ruling over the entire sea of the Digital World. 2-Puppetmon which I believe represents the Black Horseman of the Apocalypse known as Famine who has the ability to create famine through controlling food supplies. I know Puppetmon doesn’t control food supplies, but he does have the power to control other Digimon’s physical states and forces them to do his bidding. 3-Machinedramon who best represents the Red Horseman of the Apocalypse War. War has the ability to overturn peace and force others to turn on one another. This ability is mimicked by Machinedramon when he creates his personal army out of other Machine Digimon and then proceeds to make once peaceful Digimon fight against one another. 4-Piedmon represents the Pale Horseman of the Apocalypse Death. And the horsemen are the sign that predates the Apocalypse (Apokalymon).

[@gammabytez]

amazing video. the ryo gennai theory scared the shit out of me when i first heard it, as a tag tamers fan 😭

[@phenixgoku11]

Apocclymon sub: talks about how everybody gets to laugh and have fun while he stuck down there Apocclymon dub: I want pizza

[@NotRealAkira]

They really changed the tone huh Don't forget that Smashmouth Allstar plays at the end of the 02 movie if you watch the dub. I absolutely lost it when my girlfriend was showing me the dub after I had watched it in sub

[@Arvenyte]

-Leomon finally survived! Which is a shame. -Other good examples for removed armour are Wargreymon when he hers hurt by piemon and diablomon, and magnagarurumon when switching modes or getting damaged. -There's actually an even older version of metalgreymon, though that one isn't really used in modern digimon. -Also if you notice, both Babamon and Rosemon share that pink orb with a symbol. -Fun fact. Digimonkey also appears as a secret hacker boss in Digital Monster Ver. S: Digimon Tamers, which is the first Digimon videogame. -I believe part of original digidestined mention was that we still don't know who the others were, since it was a team of 5. -Regarding the parallel universe ones, it makes sense considering nanimon is an Ojisan from tamagotchi that ended up in the digital world, and mons like witchmon and wizardmon are from witchelny, which is based in the magical witches VPet. -The hat theory works a bit more when you see that the hats are the ones emoting and blinking in cyber sleuth/hacker's memory. -The DW1 Debug Mode isn't entirely inaccessible in international versions, since a very specific glitch can make it appear again. -Actually the manhua section isn't completely true. Digimon D-Cyber is a completely original work that was released as a chinese manhua, so it wasn't only abridged versions of the main series. -The Akihoshi Hongo thing is actually that the name is thought to be a combination of the 3 main people that are responsible for the creation of digimon, so Akihoshi Hongo isn't a real person. This theory says that it is a real person, however, but just has never shown themselves. It was really nice though! There's was a single fact I didn't know, which was the cancelled Frontier manhua.

[@redfacegaming7727]

One of the best icebergs I have watched! Tons of information in under half an hour. Thanks for the great videos Res

[@luissantiago5163]

Throwback time. Nice

[@SharkWitchMeruna]

I’m suprised how many I knew (kinda new to the fandom) but I’m even more surpised how much left I didn’t know! So cool! 💙 I thought Luche was a Numemon? Doesn’t she say “Party Time”, one of Numemon’s attacks?

[@springchickena1]

bro literally all i remember is the angela anaconda short and being confused why the import vhs had more of the movie and also less of it at the same time as the american adoption vhs also goodbye parents

[@Marshall_Lee_Morningstar]

20:58 yeah those people have to be on some kind of spectrum.

[@Eerondeimon]

A very dope iceberg video🔥👌🏾

[@velvetchord.]

I was daydreaming of an Iceberg video of this wonderful series. Such a classic!

[@ResidentUnleashed]

Thanks so much for stopping by and giving it a watch! I really appreciate it :D

[@velvetchord.]

@@ResidentUnleashed Keep it up!

[@ResidentUnleashed]

Edit: This video is getting the sick views! Thanks everyone for coming and consider subscribing to help out the channel :) Oh lord this video took me ages but it's finally here! I plan on making more videos about Digimon in the future because I feel like the series needs more attention on this platform so stay tuned for that. With that all out of the way, enjoy the video and thanks so much for watching :D

[@aikou2886]

Gender is also conformed in Digimon Savers since Chika's Piyomon fights Masaru over the latter's sense of "manhood", which had Piyomon feeling impotent at the thought of being unable to protect her.

[@bigbigestwiner92]

The story regarding the brazillian intro was priceless. That intro was from when the series was in another channel which used ro present cartoons/amimes in block with her as a hoster as they would often insert changes like that into intros and stuff for promotional purposes. Despite the impression it might give it was both pretty chilled and popular

[@RayOfTruth]

Ken Penders likely did a few cursed Digimon magazine covers. Not sure if it was ever confirmed to be him, but it looks way more like his art than Digimon The Movie's poster.

[@proximaeon]

An idea that I always want to see in Iceberg about Digimon is about an Iceberg taking information of the Reference Book profiles. Many profiles do make reference to events that have only occurred in the Anime like the whole orthodox evolution line of Palmon in Adventure as its the first appearance of those Digimon, others like the Agumon and Gabumon Bonds and Omegamon's origin referencing Our War Game. This "references" in the Reference Book it could be possible that when a Digimon first debuts in an universe/timeline are their canonical first existence but then Yggdrasil makes them possible in the Multiverse, this makes more sense with Megidramon's profile carrying the X-Antibody, as it explains that this Megidramon with X-Antibody isn't really the diabolical Dramon, but is a mirage that the Digital Hazard and when all hope is lost, the teue body will shown up, erradicating the World, making the idea that this has happened in an Universe, and that it was the last will kf the Yggdrasil's "avatar" in that Universe.

[@proximaeon]

Now that I think about, it would be funny to do a whole Iceberg about the Digimon Reference Book as there are many interesting things. My favorite is that Omegamon Alter-S is specified to be as powerful as the Royal Knight Omegamon, which is the most powerful incarnation of the Digimon. The other is Imperialdramon Paladin Mode's profile, as it is stated that had appeared in the Ancient Era of the Digital World in a "time of great calamity", the thing is that Imperialdramon is the only Digimon possible for that time, but not Omegamon as it is stated that the Holy Knight started to exist after Our War Game (1999 or 2000 according to the timeline and time fluency) so the Paladin Mode of Imperialdramon is impossible, theorizing that Imperialdramon PM of the profile is a time traveler.

[@nightazday7988]

aww I wanted the Ken and Ryo cycle to appear there also Eniac is one of the first computers period not just in the context of Digimon

[@DakNJaxter]

This is a great video with a lot of good trivia, but it's not really an Iceburg. An Iceburg covers all elements of a franchise, starting from least obscure and ending with most obscure as you go deeper. This is more like X Number of Facts video.

[@PrinceBaraButterfly]

-sobbing because the Digimon Frontier manhua has been on my wishlist for YEARS but never released in the US-

[@sakulugh]

Digimon is great, cant wait to play survuve and the other new story digimon game that they are currently develop, My favorite Digimon is Anubismon hope i can play with it so i will go will labramon =)

[@jamesnishimura5623]

14:50 You should have explained further cuz I had to immediately research it if what I thought was true because my mind completely went into the deepest depths of the gutter TT

[@darkstarplays6315]

The .Mon theory has backing in an unreleased manga that takes place before Digimon Tamers and explains the backstory

[@jonathangoodwin5609]

So, what I'm gathering is that a iceberg video is just a collection of unconnected fun facts about the series? Am I wrong? I'm sorry, I'm just a bit confused.

[@jonathangoodwin5609]

Many of which seem to not be facts, but just theoretical ideas.

[@laughingmask3118]

King Sukamon is also in Digimon World RE: Digitize.

[@IvanSumida]

Angélica at 4:03 just killed me. Lol

[@aikou2886]

7:05 Not Medarot/Medabot S (which is a mobile game) but it's supposed to be a reference to the franchize as a whole. In fact, it wemt two ways. Medarot got GreatWars (a WarGreymon modeled medabot), GaruruMetal (same but modeled after MetalGarurumon) and OmegaKnight (this Omegamon modeled medarot has two hand configurations. Regular hands and the classic sword/cannon combo) while Digimon only got Omedamon, which is the Omegamon-looking medarot. It first started as an april's fools Digimon (Omedamon) that got a profile added to the reference book just for that one day but then it extended when the medarots were added to the mobile ge Medarot S and then all of these characters were added to the special Medarot-based Vital Bracelet DiM card. Isn't Kentaurosmon/Sleipmon Burst Mode also avilable on some other V-Pet? Can't remember if it was the Accel or the Neo but I'm fairly certain it had a burst mode in one of the LCD toys.

[@GeoRyukaiser]

Ken Penders is not the artist of the movie cover art. The characters aren't horrific enough

[@stinkbanana2522]

Got your vid in my recommendations. Algorithm is picking you up. have some engagement 1

[@ResidentUnleashed]

Thank you!

[@sarcasticallyobssessed2835]

Um aren't meicoomons pre forms just gatomons pre forms?

[@davidstratigos1658]

Appreciate it

[@xibalbalon8668]

My memory is quite rusty but I'm pretty sure Project Digiclipse was also the origin of the term "otakukin" which would later morph into he more general fictionkin. Or at the very least, just two digimon fan communities who both believe digimon are real to some extent and popped up online at around the same time. I have no idea how culty either were, at least not to Final Fanasy 7 house extent

[@AbdriMoon]

I've never heard of Project Digiclipse! Am i too late to participate?!

[@e2011ugdia]

Would you smash a Digimon Like ranamon, angewomon, calamarmon or anyother digimon

[@notme8152]

The fact with sex/gender remains pretty strange. We know that Digimon can evolve/deevolve in pretty much every other Digimon in their lifecycle. Which is curious because some (especially the human resembling ones, like for example angemon/angewomon) SEEM to have sexual characteristics. Come on, why does a digimon need boobs? And why are "female resembling" Digimon completely flat between the legs while "male resembling" are uh... not, or not always? I am an artist and I know a bit of anatomy, but it really isn't required to notice those things. Anyway to me it's because, even if in digital form, they do resemble existing creatures with their physical caratteristics, but since a male resembling looking Digimon could potentially digivolve into a female resembling one and viceversa, they hat to find out something to excuse it, saying they don't reproduce sexually, but have gender identities. I know that in a kids show things like this don't have any importance, kids want the cool fire breathing Dinos, but well, it's an interesting topic. Especially knowing that the digimon counterparts, the Tamagotchi, have sexes and reproduce normally.

[@hawktalon7890]

Honestly the only reason I can think of for all the "this is literally just a woman/man" Digimon is that the people making them had a fetish for that and put no further thought into it.

[@alex-8736]

4:18 im pretty sure this theory actually turned canon

[@FiggFig]

SCREAMING OVER THE DIVORCE

[@Eldagusto]

Damn I didn’t notice they blackwargreymon thing in digimon world 2

[@kenalf123]

im glad im not the only one who thought that mon was a file type T^T

[@svrt370]

i have a original copy of the first dogmon episode on dvd

[@IcarusOOT]

Man I WISH Digimon was real

[@Seriouskai]

Ah yes, digimon. I remember this.

[@ripleyandweeds1288]

"Holy Angemon" >shows an image of normal Angemon

[@RosietheOni]

The algorithm do be spooky.

[@purplebeast8353]

Of course i see this while working on a digimon iceberg video 💀 Good vid tho

[@user-ep9sv4yg9i]

Digimon 🤩👍🤩👍🤩👍

[@HitTheR0ad]

Man, the brazilian opening... even here we still cringe that thing. there is some crazy stuff about it.

[@XxSoraMifunexX]

Just because my Norse Nerd brain can't let it go, Yggdrasil is pronounced like: EEG (like in "Eager") - DRA (like in the use of the "-dramon" suffix) - SIL ( like in "Windowsill") Not trying to "Um, actually~" you, just had to get it out. XD

[@EthanTheDinoNerd]

I'm mad that Snow Agumon exists but not Ice Greymon and long with it's snow digiforms or even have original forms but instead it turns into a bear.

[@GuyWithAGreatsword]

i would love it if he could turn into a snowtyrannomon

[@2009wyvern]

Now I know the Angela Anaconda reference Jaiden Animations came from LMAO

[@stormerbuzz352]

Honestly that whole Angela Anaconda addition to the start of the Digimon movie was cruel joke and a waste of everyone's time. It's so fucking long, your popcorn is finished before the actual movie starts!

[@ResidentUnleashed]

Growing up, I had the VHS tape of the film rather than the DVD and winding the tape forward past that point was such a pain so I can relate lol

[@datadrain6564]

No olympus XII facts? Their lore is good tho Like how Royal Knight don't want have problem with them just becauss they are powerful Also they also have their own digital world free from Yggdrasil

[@josephkuforiji9407]

Ooo spooky algorithm.

[@lukedelameter7961]

Oo spooky algorithm

[@michaelmoreno7889]

commenting for the algorithm

[@AutumnWoodham]

"Wargreymon has a mouth" well that's cursed

[@BboyStunna]

Nah, he looks badass actually imo. Shows his dinosaur/dragonkin side even more.

[@harrisonwhaley7872]

Ooo spooky algorithm

[@TrainTheoryOfficial]

21:23 ._.

[@mitchryan257]

Why does Hermmon look like a Lich, and why don’t we have a Lich Digimon?

[@maii_IV]

Algorithm go brr

[@laughingmask3118]

I actually Prefer Cherrymon's design in Digimon World.

[@digidaddy1]

It wasn't 1% of the Digimon it was 2%.

[@Barakon]

I thought “tailmon” was called gatomon.

[@ResidentUnleashed]

Gatomon is the English name for the digimon

[@Barakon]

@@ResidentUnleashed oh…

[@Chibi1986]

I shouldn't be surprised there's a Digimon cult out there.

[@Kafj302]

I am like number 715

[@PKMNCappy]

Leomon didn’t die in Digimon: (2020)

[@ResidentUnleashed]

The original Iceberg was made in 2019 I believe

[@juliagoodwin9510]

HitlerAgumon... why... just... why?

[@DarkfoxTamamo_21]

I love the Why do you get the pizza while I get the crust line. it was relatable for me. Also Renamon is Furry bait. also ken penders hater btw. and as an artist I despise Ken Penders because of his entitled behavior.

[@virgillains4375]

In the German version Renamon said that Digimon do not have genders, but there are exceptions.

[@alex-8736]

I do think taking dubs as source material is just straight up wrong

[@johnnycaralta]

Gender and sex are the same thing. That's why it was translated that way.

[@alex-8736]

They aren't, things change

[@johnnycaralta]

@@alex-8736 Yes they are. That will never change. People are just brainwashed and ignorant. 2+2 is always 4. Men are always men and women are always women. Sex and gender are the same thing. All of these are concrete facts of reality, regardless of how many morons buy into the delusion.

[@infinimexinfinite]

Agumon with hitler beard? Now I've seen it all hahahahahaha

[@jobreau1725]

Nothing about the other digiserver huuu

[@mgreen7804]

Well, that was clickbait. I got one layer in before I couldn't stand anymore of this half-baked "iceberg" video.

[@Luftha]

Как же Американцы плохо делают Айзенберги... Вам должно быть стыдно. Есть же стандарты, как их нужно делать.

[@2bussy]

gender and sex are the same thing 5head

[@TheWeirdDinosaur]

sorry but i'm pretty sure they meant the same by saying sex or gender. remember that when it came out nobody cared what gender you feel like but if you had tits or a dick so it meant the same. so it'd be a fair assumption that digimon are genderless which makes sense for essentially data

[@protectorshieldprotectorsh5285]

Iceberg?????

[@LuniNightwind]

Digimon with no gender meaning they are non binary..... which is ironic :P

[@RamenCupBMG]

I wish a lot of these were elaborated on more. frustrating video to watch

[@kademcneely6009]

Digi-deviants

[@ZombieChimps]

cursed video

[@klessarkein4061]

Why are you using Digimon World walkthrough? This is not pertinent and distract the watcher. Using more illustrations or jokes for the entertainment is a better idea.

[@brotherlongshadow8854]

They have a gender but not a sex? Wtf does that mean?

[@justinwickham2099]

Gender and sex are literally the same .. the hell?!?! 😂😂😂😂

[@XxSoraMifunexX]

... Yes? People didn't want to mention "sex" over and over around kids, so the word "Gender" was invented to be used as a euphemism. Means the same thing, it just makes it easier to talk to kids about "Oh, Boys and Girls" instead of "Penises and Vaginas".

[@persownage]

how a digimon have a gender but no sex don't make any sense xD

[@Eldagusto]

Bruh the digimon movie didn’t cause the divorce the brat crying did hoho