Devimon

Devimon is the first antagonist to face the DigiDestined. He is responsible for enslaving File Island with his Black Gears, hiding the Tags and Crests, and attacking the children directly and indirectly multiple times.

Appearance
Devimon is a Champion Digimon, although a very powerful one, rivaled only by Angemon. He is a jet-black demon with horns and red eyes and two wings with holes in them.

When he fights the DigiDestined in giant form, his wings spread out like VenomMyotismon's.

Personality
Devimon is cruel and cunning, focused only on the spread of darkness. He waits for the perfect moment to strike, otherwise using proxies or manipulation to achieve his own ends. He has no qualms about using illusions to weaken his foes and striking during the night. Devimon also shows remarkable self-knowledge in that he acknowledges that he himself is a small fry in the grand scheme of things.

Digimon Adventure
When the DigiDestined arrive on File Island, he indirectly attacks them with Black Gear-infected Digimon and puts the renowned Leomon and infamous Ogremon under his thrall. The children eventually climb Infinity Mountain and reach his mansion. There, he gives the DigiDestined an amazing dinner and a nice, hot bath in a sauna—all of which are designed to lull them into a false sense of security so that he can strike while their guards are down. After he reveals that the mansion was a fake, he splits the island using his Black Gears and separates the DigiDestined, but his attempts to kill Tai are stopped when Tai's Digivice frees Leomon from his spell. Fortunately, the DigiDestined manage to find ways to return the pieces of the island to their original state.

As he observes T.K.'s resolve to fight, Devimon knows that he has to kill him and his partner Patamon before they can digivolve to the Champion level. To this end, he sends Leomon and Ogremon to kill the pair, who are only saved by T.K.'s brother Yamato "Matt" Ishida, Tai, and their Digimon Garurumon and Greymon. When Leomon seems to be losing his edge, he sends more Black Gears to power Leomon with darkness. Using the light of their Digivices, however, Tai and Matt banish both the Black Gears and Devimon's own influence, as their Digimon force Ogremon to retreat.

Unfortunately, all of this is to according to his plan. Leomon leads the DigiDestined directly to him, where he has absorbed a large amount of Black Gears, as well as Ogremon, to increase his size and strength. Now standing as tall as a mountain, he shrugs off the Champion Digimon's attacks and tears through the ranks, effortlessly flinging them away. With the rest of the Digimon incapacitated, Devimon turns his attention toward T.K., whom the prophecy says will defeat him. Attempting to crush him in his hand, Patamon instead interrupts and digivolves into Angemon. Angemon deletes him with a "Hand of Fate" empowered by the light of the Digivices and Angemon's life.

Digimon Adventure 02
Three years later, when the Digimon Emperor finds the Dark Whirlpool and goes down into it to find the piece needed to bring Kimeramon to life, he finds the broken remains of Devimon. The Emperor disregards Devimon's taunt-like warning that "the powers of darkness cannot be controlled" and harvests his data for what would become the upper arms of Kimeramon. However, Devimon's influence causes Kimeramon to rebel against the Emperor, and his voice returns to taunt him again until Kimeramon is destroyed by Magnamon, and Devimon's data with him.

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