Talk:Chronomon (Time Stranger)
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Did the DLC introduce some new info I wasn't aware of? As far as I know, regular Destroy Mode has never been shown. By 'flashbacks', if you're referring to the shadow puppet shows, every single one depicts the boss Chronomon, not regular Destroy Mode. The shadow puppet depictions all have details and design elements specific to the boss Chronomon, as if he's always looked like that in the past. --YongYoKyo (talk) 19:42, 10 January 2026 (CST)
- maybe? but the shadow puppet version also doesnt have the super long hair. so its missing elements of the robot versionMuur (talk) 20:09, 10 January 2026 (CST)
- Regular DM also has hair, so I don't see how that's relevant. The point is that the elements that are there are specific to the the boss version: the wings, the face, the horns, the arms, the body, the legs, etc. Hence why I ask if the DLC introduced anything that proves otherwise, because the Chronomon in the shadow puppet cutscenes is clearly the boss version.--YongYoKyo (talk) 20:35, 10 January 2026 (CST)
- not that long. Anyway they’ll give bith forms liberator trait anyway.Muur (talk) 20:41, 10 January 2026 (CST)
- That is a different situation. If they give a [Titans] trait to a regular DM card, then I see no issues, but as of this moment, they haven't. Until they do, there is no actual evidence of regular DM. Again, the shadow puppet is depicting boss Chronomon. The uploaded in-game model of boss Chronomon is pretty much identical to the shadow puppet.--YongYoKyo (talk) 21:09, 10 January 2026 (CST)
- Evidence of regular DM in shadow puppet scene. This is from the fake Chronomon the hero story cutscene (when Junomon was telling the one he made everyone believe to mobilize the Titans to Agent Inori Aegiomon). Also sorry for the YT screencap, I'm way past that point in the game and it would take me more than a couple days to go back to the same point--R13 (talk) 06:00, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- I believe Chronomon HM should also be included as part of the evolutionary line of this particular Chronomon for two main reasons. It is stated in the in-game profile of DM that this is a berserk form of HM that abandoned his role of maintaining the stability of time/space to revolt against the system that governs over time (Homeostasis). So it's safe to assume that it was HM at some point before the events of the game, also according to HM's profile itself. Plus both profiles themselves are pretty self-explanatory. The system that governs over time wouldn't assign the role of Keeper of Time to a Digimon whose only purpose and nature is to shut time down while in their berserk form. I am aware that those profiles have later been reused for the Reference Book listing, but that doesn't make them less canon for the events of the game. Otherwise we wouldn't have profiles like X4K mentioning Xros Heart, Demon's profile mentioning him seeking to revive the Super Ultimate form or Luminamon (Nene Ver.)'s profile itself. --Shadow Shinji (talk) 06:35, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- @R13 As I've said before, that is boss Chronomon's face, not regular Chronomon's face. Those X-shaped straps on the chin-blade? Only boss Chronomon has them. The large lower horns on the back of its head? Only boss Chronomon has them. The long fangs on its upper jaw? Only boss Chronomon has them. Have you never actually looked at boss Chronomon's face?--YongYoKyo (talk) 07:52, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- I was more looking at the much shorter hair and the lack of jagged teeth--R13 (talk) 08:09, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- Hair is entirely absent, not shorter. Are you talking about the horns, or the armor ridges on the top of its head? Those are, again, specific to boss Chronomon. The shadow puppet is a partially simplified depiction, but the details that are present are exclusive to boss Chronomon.--YongYoKyo (talk) 08:31, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- I was more looking at the much shorter hair and the lack of jagged teeth--R13 (talk) 08:09, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- DM has very short hair anyways so I wouldn't say it is "entirely absent".--R13 (talk) 11:58, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- I was referring to the shadow puppet. Hair of either form is entirely absent. The only thing behind the shadow puppet's head are boss Chronomon's horns.--YongYoKyo (talk) 12:56, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- Yeah, I know what you are referring to. Although it is very easy to see that as DM's spiky short hair. Otherwise yeah like what Shadow Shinji said, there should be either forms of the normal Chronomon before this, we just don't get a direct confirmation. --R13 (talk) 14:43, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- Even if, arguably, the puppet might be just a less detailed version of the Robot form for the sake of simplicity, thematically it doesn't make any sense. The robotic aspect of the final boss is a legacy of the robotic aspect of the Giant Slayer, otherwise the fusion and all the plot behind Chronomon actively wanting humans to build them, would be pointless. Unless we wanna count regular and robotic forms as the same species with a different flair to it (like WarGreymon in Adventure vs tri.).--Shadow Shinji (talk) 14:21, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- Whether it is logical is a different argument. The logic that the embodiment of time is bound by causation is also arguable in of itself. By that logic, Jupitermon shouldn't exist at the end of the game, as the events leading to Jupitermon's birth was essentially erased and rewritten. Regardless, my point was that the shadow puppet is depicting the boss Chronomon, thus there is no such evidence of regular Chronomon. Moreover, the game mentions multiple times that Chronomon was 'unsealing' its body from the Akashic Records, rather than 'rebuilding' it. The Giant Slayer was only described as a catalyst to open a spacetime rift leading to the sealed records. Considering the shadow puppet depiction, for all we know, Time Stranger's Chronomon may have always looked like that. The game's artbook only refers to the boss form as "Chronomon: Destroy Mode", and its datamined internal name is just "ChronomonBoss" (the internal name "ChronomonRobo" that some people misidentify with the boss is actually referring to the Giant Slayer itself).--YongYoKyo (talk) 15:41, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- Even if, arguably, the puppet might be just a less detailed version of the Robot form for the sake of simplicity, thematically it doesn't make any sense. The robotic aspect of the final boss is a legacy of the robotic aspect of the Giant Slayer, otherwise the fusion and all the plot behind Chronomon actively wanting humans to build them, would be pointless. Unless we wanna count regular and robotic forms as the same species with a different flair to it (like WarGreymon in Adventure vs tri.).--Shadow Shinji (talk) 14:21, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- Yeah, I know what you are referring to. Although it is very easy to see that as DM's spiky short hair. Otherwise yeah like what Shadow Shinji said, there should be either forms of the normal Chronomon before this, we just don't get a direct confirmation. --R13 (talk) 14:43, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- I was referring to the shadow puppet. Hair of either form is entirely absent. The only thing behind the shadow puppet's head are boss Chronomon's horns.--YongYoKyo (talk) 12:56, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- @R13 As I've said before, that is boss Chronomon's face, not regular Chronomon's face. Those X-shaped straps on the chin-blade? Only boss Chronomon has them. The large lower horns on the back of its head? Only boss Chronomon has them. The long fangs on its upper jaw? Only boss Chronomon has them. Have you never actually looked at boss Chronomon's face?--YongYoKyo (talk) 07:52, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- I believe Chronomon HM should also be included as part of the evolutionary line of this particular Chronomon for two main reasons. It is stated in the in-game profile of DM that this is a berserk form of HM that abandoned his role of maintaining the stability of time/space to revolt against the system that governs over time (Homeostasis). So it's safe to assume that it was HM at some point before the events of the game, also according to HM's profile itself. Plus both profiles themselves are pretty self-explanatory. The system that governs over time wouldn't assign the role of Keeper of Time to a Digimon whose only purpose and nature is to shut time down while in their berserk form. I am aware that those profiles have later been reused for the Reference Book listing, but that doesn't make them less canon for the events of the game. Otherwise we wouldn't have profiles like X4K mentioning Xros Heart, Demon's profile mentioning him seeking to revive the Super Ultimate form or Luminamon (Nene Ver.)'s profile itself. --Shadow Shinji (talk) 06:35, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- Evidence of regular DM in shadow puppet scene. This is from the fake Chronomon the hero story cutscene (when Junomon was telling the one he made everyone believe to mobilize the Titans to Agent Inori Aegiomon). Also sorry for the YT screencap, I'm way past that point in the game and it would take me more than a couple days to go back to the same point--R13 (talk) 06:00, 11 January 2026 (CST)
- That is a different situation. If they give a [Titans] trait to a regular DM card, then I see no issues, but as of this moment, they haven't. Until they do, there is no actual evidence of regular DM. Again, the shadow puppet is depicting boss Chronomon. The uploaded in-game model of boss Chronomon is pretty much identical to the shadow puppet.--YongYoKyo (talk) 21:09, 10 January 2026 (CST)
- not that long. Anyway they’ll give bith forms liberator trait anyway.Muur (talk) 20:41, 10 January 2026 (CST)
- Regular DM also has hair, so I don't see how that's relevant. The point is that the elements that are there are specific to the the boss version: the wings, the face, the horns, the arms, the body, the legs, etc. Hence why I ask if the DLC introduced anything that proves otherwise, because the Chronomon in the shadow puppet cutscenes is clearly the boss version.--YongYoKyo (talk) 20:35, 10 January 2026 (CST)
