Infected Digimon

An Infected Digimon (感染デジモン, Kansen Dejimon)　is a Digimon who has been infected and taken over by a powerful force, causing them to completely lose control of themselves and run wild. =Appearances=

Infected Digimon are the result of digital data expressed in binary (i.e. 0s and 1s) or other systems being overwritten and converted into ternary (i.e. 0s, 1s, and 2s). Computer systems and data don't use ternary, so this causes serious errors in both the Digital World and the digital devices used in the Real World. This overwrite causes the appearance of distortions, and when it corrupts a Digimon it is the cause of the Infected state. The Infected Digimon are the first of the two problems caused by the overwrite, and the distortions began to appear after them.

Digimon are usually not affected by the infection immediately, but show symptoms of it with brief appearances of blinking purple static on their body. When an infection completely takes over a Digimon, something inside them becomes deranged, they completely lose their sense of self, and they will madly attack others like wild animals. This mad state can come as both brief fits which eventually end and can be resisted (for example, Leomon and Patamon), and as a permanent berserk state which cannot be reversed easily. Infected Digimon have blank eyes and are often colored with a purple tint.

In "Determination", Himekawa Maki reveals that Meicoomon is the cause of the ternary overwrite and, as a result, the distortions and the infection. She does not reveal this to the Chosen Children or their Digimon.

In "Confession", Homeostasis (in the body of Yagami Hikari) and Himekawa tell the partner Digimon that the threat of the Infected Digimon and the distortions is destabilizing the Digital World and the other realities, and that it is dangerously close to forcing a Reboot to occur, after which the crisis would be fixed as long as no traces of the Infected Digimon remain in the Real World. Izumi Kōshirō figures out that the overwrite is occuring and that it is the cause of the Infected Digimon. He also realizes that Meicoomon is the cause of everything, and the Chosen Children work to capture Meicoomon and stop the crisis. After most of the partner Digimon are taken over by the infection while fighting Meicoomon in her evolved form, Meicrackmon Vicious Mode, the Reboot is initiated while Herakle Kabuterimon has caught Meicrackmon, restoring the Digital World to a clean state and getting rid of all traces of the distortions and infections except for Meicoomon herself.

Digimon who have been infected
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