WarGreymon

Siiiiigggh. Now we come to that "ultimate" or "mega" stage I mentioned, and it unfortunately marks the beginning of the artistic shift I was talking about in our intro page. This more anthropomorphic, more armored, more toyetic dinoman isn't too bad on its own, but its look and feel would sort of become the base template for almost all Digimon and especially all higher-level Digimon introduced in the years to follow.

It's a design that has its place and appeals to a lot of people, don't get me wrong, but even Digimon's original creature designer has said that he was aiming for a visual feel similar to dark American comic books and horror films, something we will be exploring in much further detail over the pagesto come, whereas Wargreymon here is a very, very "anime" kind of design.

It's not "bad," but it's also not what I signed up for, and it wouldn't bother me if not for the fact that those more "monster movie" kind of designs would eventually fall almost entirely to the wayside in favor of armor-plated anthropoids.

There are, of course, other agumon variants and spinoffs we could review here, but we're going to be keeping these as simple as we can for now.

I guess it's kind of ironic that I went with Agumon's evolutionary line, from Koromon to Wargreymon, as our 5-star rating meter, when Wargreymon itself isn't actually going to earn a 5/5 score. I'm sorry, Wargreymon, according to my hare-brained rating scheme you apparently aren't worth yourself. I'll at least give you a three, acknowledging that you are fairly popular and you at least communicate the idea of an ultra-powerful super-duper gray man well enough. That's honestly all I can really think to say about the design itself, except that I'm glad it kept the weirdly human red hair hanging out from under the helmet...or maybe those are saurian feathers?

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 * MetalGreymon