Digimon Savers/YMMV

• Alas, Poor Villain: A few when you realise they're fighting a needless war. For example, SaberLeomon and Merukimon. Merukimon's death in particular is tough to watch.
  • And There Was Much Rejoicing: For the audience when Kurata dies.
• Author's Saving Throw: Yoshi's inferiority complex, which explained away her Faux Action Girl status and allowed her to get better.
• Awesome Music: You bet
• Broken Base: Fans are split on how good this series was.
• Complete Monster: Kurata, who's essentially the Digimon franchise's answer to Dr. Weil. Let's put this into perspective - Myotismon from Digimon Adventure used to hold the title of the most evil Digimon villain by far. Kurata, metaphorically speaking, blasted him off his throne. Kurata is an evil, evil, evil bastard. And unlike Myotismon, Kurata isn't even a Card-Carrying Villain. He's just a genocidal asshole who honestly believes that his views are right.
  • Much less notorious than Kurata, but still an example nonetheless, is the evil MetalPhantomon from episode 15, who sadistically made Thomas suffer through the memory of his mother's death in order to suck out his lifeforce. This Is Unforgivable!, indeed.
• Crowning Music of Awesome
• Epileptic Trees: The dub director, Jeff Nimoy, believes that Yggdrasil/King Drasil was a computer created by Digimon Adventure's Izzy and the entire world was his simulation.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: The Digimon you would usually root for in the previous series^[1], are bad guys, as members of the Royal Knights. Well, at least until the final battle.
  • Many Monster of the Week Digimon were good guys in previous series. A lot of people were rather unhappy with seeing so many of their old favorites shoot at the good guys for a few minutes and then die. Examples include Digmon, Garurumon, Togemon, Garudamon and Zudomon. This goes into Fan Dumb territory when one realizes that Digimon were always portrayed as both individuals and members of a species, and that Digimon Adventure once used a second Greymon - the evolved form of the main character's digimon - as a Monster of the Week.
• Good Is Dumb: Too often, the heroes just stand and watch Kurata's weaponry line up, and waste time openly wondering what he's up to instead of trying to prevent it. Given that his stated motive is Digimon extermination, it's hard to understand why they let his minions work away with little opposition. This is particularly prevalent during the Eldradimon siege.
• Growing the Beard: With the debut of Falcomon and Merukimon.
  • Jumping the Shark: For some, Yggdrasil's decision that kickstarted the final arc came completely out of left field, and the arc itself felt like retreading old ground.
• Ho Yay: At least in the original, Lalamon gets a little too touchy when Ivan says he will become Yoshino's boyfriend. Then again, it's hand waved as Lalamon playing along Ivan as an excuse to distract him from commanding the Gizumon, but she does get some suggestive lines like "Don't worry, I won't hand you over that easily".
  • Then there's Touma's battle with Nanami. Touma seems to really ignore the half-naked Nanamis in favour of the powers even he cannot calculate (read: Masaru). As much as he doesn't get over being ignored because Masaru is today's designated saviour, that particular scene fired up the bipolar sensors.
• Idiot Plot: Hashiba gives Kurata his support despite working with Satsuma and Yushima, who can both confirm that the man has open issues with authority, questionable mental stability and was responsible for compromising the original rescue mission in the Digital World. The whole Japanese Government takes this beyond reason by hand control of the entire military to a Kurata, even after he had committed an open act of terrorism by personally bombing DATS headquarters.
• Jerkass Woobie: Nanami and Ivan of the Bio-Hybrids; Nanami when solemnly monologuing about how she's been lonely all her life due to being socially isolated because of her intellect, and Ivan when it's revealed that he only works for Kurata because he needs the money to support his many little brothers and sisters, and is too dim-witted to truly realize what he's doing is wrong.
• Love to Hate: Fans sometimes praise the series for having a villain who is genuinely despicable and hateful, not least of all because watching him get his just desserts is so satisfying.
• Mind Rape: What Metal Phantomon does to Marcus,Thomas,and Yoshi,not too different from what happened to Jeri
• Misblamed: No, Ikuto's Tarzan-speak was not added to the english dub; he spoke broken Japanese in the original version too.
• Moral Event Horizon: Kurata crossed this at lightning-speed the moment he devised a method of perfect, permanent genocide against Digimon. And then he kept on going.
• Motive Decay: At first Kurata's goal is the elimination of all Digimon. Then he suddenly decides, screw that: he wants the cliched "world domination" too! This is debatable, however, as Kurata's motivation also derives from his jealousy and inferiority complex towards Masaru's father, so total control probably would be something he'd want to achieve through digimons' power.
• Nausea Fuel: A great many things count, but most especially Kurata's head coming out of Belphemon's body.
• The Scrappy: Justified example: Ahikiro Kurata, since his evil acts are outnumbered only by his Unwitting Instigator of Doom tendencies, and usually go hand in hand. His very motive for killing the Digimon was based on at least one act of cowardice on his part, which he's even told by Marcus but he's too much of a self-centered Jerkass to accept this.
• Stupid Sacrifice: Baronmon stands on a wall, yelling out to the ships not to hurt Eldradimon, and gets shot in the back by a Gizumon XT. Even assuming the ships could hear him over that range, what made him think they'd comply, and why did he feel the need to expose himself to attack?
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: Much of the fandom scorned (and still scorns) the season for the demographic shift.
  • See Funny Aneurysm Moment, but many returning Digimon who fared less well in Savers than in previous series got this reaction. Piyomon/Biyomon arguably has it the worst, not least of all because the director made him male, subjected him to The Worf Effect, and made him much larger. Had he been another species, the fans would probably have viewed him as The Woobie, not hated him.
• Toy Ship: Keenan and Kristy.
• Unfortunate Character Design: The Savers redesign of Yatagaramon suffers from this. He has a white mane that really stands out thanks to his mostly black and purple design. Said mane is braided into a single rope that dangles freely with a bell to each side of it. Guess we should call the Savers version the four legged crow.
• Values Dissonance: Within the franchise itself. Previous Digimon series had firmly established that humans should not put themselves in the path of an angry Digimon, especially if it's large enough to cause serious harm to you. In Savers however, Masaru can only put himself in danger. Agumon can't evolve without him risking life and limb.
• The Woobie: There are at least three: Keenan, due to his tragic backstory and conflicting feelings over his own human-Digimon identity; Thomas, due to his family struggles and the loss of his mother; and Yoshino, who suffered from a severe childhood-rooted inferiority complex for the first third of the series.
• Woolseyism: Masaru/Marcus makes a pun on Thomas/Touma's name when they first meet and calls him "Tonma". (This means something along the line of "Stupid" or "Fool") Because it's a Japanese pun, it doesn't translate well...however another nice pun works, too. In the English Dub, Marcus/Masaru calls him "Nerdstein", a pun on his last name. Doesn't have exactly the same meaning as the Japanese pun..but instead keeps the bit about Masaru making fun of Touma.

1. ↑ specifically, Omnimon, Magnamon and Gallantmon