 "We make quite a team!" -Gomamon Gomamon's forms are vaccine-type. Gomamon usually stays in his Rookie form but he seems to be able to stay as Ikkakumon for reasonable periods of time, often serving as a boat. ^_^. He reverts to Bukamon two or three times after digivolving to Zudomon stage but doesn't stay in that form for very long.
 Bukamon (in-training) We first see Bukamon in the touching first meeting between him and his digidestined partner - Joe is running screaming from him. ^_^. Bukamon is a friendly and cheerful Digimon who is very similar in personality to Gomamon.
 Oddly, Bukamon can fly, or at least float in the air. I guess he's most adept to water but when on land he has to get around somehow and he's not really the right shape to bounce like some of the other in-training Digimon, nor does he have any legs. Bukamon's attack is just bubble blow, like all in-training Digimon. Gomamon (rookie) Gomamon is Joe's Digimon partner. Most Digimon have similar personalities to their human partners with their few differences being as such that they complement them. In this case, Joe and Gomamon are very different in personality, and as such are the only partners who really argue (except TK and Patamon, who are both rather childish and huffy ^_^.). Joe is reluctant to trust Gomamon at first, being nervous of all monsters and probably a bit suspicious of his friendliness. Still, he was grateful to Gomamon for saving his life when he fell off a cliff in the second episode and in the third I guess they were used to each other. He was proud of Gomamon for saving TK. ^_^. Anyway, at first both of them are kind of annoyed by each other. Gomamon thinks Joe is too stuffy and is bringing the group down with his attitude, and Joe, not the world's biggest fan of positive thinking, finds Gomamon a bit much. Episode 7 is a good one for Gomamon-dom. He continually urges Joe to lighten up, and later accompanies him when he sneaks off to climb Infinity Mountain. Joe doesn't want Gomamon to come but Gomamon says "the whole world doesn't revolve around you" and that he's just going because he has his own business to take care of.
 Gomamon is already learning how to handle Joe, he's good at subtly tricking him. A later example of this that I like is when Joe's depressed because it seems like things are a hopeless case. Gomamon says they might as well just give up, and Joe says he wouldn't go that far, and that things could be worse. Joe and Gomamon's friendship is really cemented when they climb Infinity Mountain together. Joe has to help his Digimon quite a bit (flippers are not made for mountain climbing ^_^.) and they make it up the mountain with great teamwork. Gomamon is cheerful, positive-thinking and constantly encouraging Joe. He's friendly, quick-thinking, very gutsy and brazen. He knows - or thinks he knows - the right way to handle things. He can also be rather stubborn, likes bad jokes and can be a bit careless/irresponsible. But really he is extremely loyal to Joe. He tries to find the best way to help him, push him and encourage him, and is always quick to stick up for him. As befits a sea mammal, Gomamon loves the water. He spent most of the second episode in the water while everyone else was on the shore and goes swimming when the chance comes up. He's not so good on the land, actually; he has awkward legs and sort of lollops along (rather cute), which means he can get tired easily. He can also talk to fish; he has a lot of fish friends and gets along with them well. In one episode, Izzy got mad at him because he was fishing but Gomamon kept playing in the water and warning all the fish away. ^_^. What's kind of weird is that he later catches fish for the group to eat. I don't think you should eat your friends. Gomamon's attack is Marching Fishes, or as he occasionally calls it, Fish Power (I think that's what it's called when he uses it non-offensively). It's an odd attack. In it, he summons a lot of his fish friends. They either fly at the enemy or help Gomamon out somehow (for example, forming a 'raft' to catch the kids when they were falling off a cliff into the water, and towing a piece of rock to the shore). Gomamon doesn't have to be around water for this attack to work (I think) but he usually does do it when in the water.
 As this is a rather odd/awkward attack, Gomamon doesn't use it as often as most Digimon use their attacks. Ikkakumon (champion) Gomamon first learns to digivolve in episode 7, Ikkakumon's Harpoon Torpedo. I think Ikkakumon is very cool; a big, soft, fluffy walrus who can shoot things out of his head. ^_^. He has nice blue eyes too, he's kinda cute for a champion. He also has this great woofy sort of voice that seems very appropriate. Reminds me of something out of The Neverending Story. ^_^.
 Ikkakumon (and other forms) is the only Digimon in the group who can really swim, so he can be useful. He serves as a boat a number of times. He seems to choose his fights where he can, and often opts for ones against water Digimon or ones in the water. Gomamon's champion and ultimate forms are both quite solid and strong (like, as their fighting technique, they seem to take brute strength over speed/agility/brains/etc), still brave and willing to fight but lacking the flippancy and cheerful playfulness of their previous forms.
 Ikkakumon's attack is Harpoon Torpedo. He looks really cool when he does it, rearing back and launching the horn off his head (it is instantly replaced), sometimes firing more than one. The horn breaks apart in mid-air revealing a missile underneath, which explodes on impact. Zudomon (ultimate) I forget the episode name and number (^_^;;;) but Ikkakumon learns to digivolve to battle MegaSeadramon. Ikkakumon was transporting TK and Joe across a harbour when this mean, Ultimate Digimon attacked. TK nearly drowned but Joe saved him at his own expense, which caused his crest of Reliability to react for the first time and Ikkakumon became Zudomon.
 The first two or three times Ikkakumon digivolves, it takes so much energy out of him that he dedigivolves right back into Bukamon. But after a little while, he, like all the others, learns to dedigivolve back to Rookie. Zudomon's attack is Vulcan's Hammer. (research!) He slams his hammer down into the ground, and it makes a big explosion that runs along and up into the enemy. His hammer is made of very strong material. One time, he threw the hammer itself (at Metaletemon) which was rather funny but very effective.
Apparently, Gomamon's baby stage is called Pitchmon or Pitchimon and his Mega is MarineAngemon. Neither of these are shown in the show, or at least not in the 01 dub, so I don't know much about them. I've seen pictures of them though, I can try to describe what they look like. ^^;; (I can't actually post pictures of them 'cos I'd have to scab them from another site and that's kind of rude. ^_^;) Pitchmon is a little whitish blob with tiny 'spikes' (I don't know what to call them; Palmon has similar protrusions on her back) on its back, long thin ears, flippers. Its body kind of ends in a tail. MarineAngemon seems to be a small pixie-like Digimon with a head that vaguely resembles a Koromon but lighter pink, and with greenish eyes. It has the body of a seal with a gold collar around its neck, a red heart on its chest and two pink wings spread from its back. It's rather cute. Looks more like Gomamon than Ikkumon or Zudomon. And in the Digimon games, I think most Digimon can digivolve into a number of other Digimon, so Gomamon technically has alternate digivolutions but I won't go into that because that would be scabbing information that I have no other exposure to, which I also think is pretty rude. ^_^;; Gomamon-y links Joe might be lacking in the shrine department but Gomamon has a few sites for himself. |