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I’m sure I’m late to this meme. The way Tumblr works held me back for not letting this appear in the recent results.
A random video I made on my take on those Ruler of Everything memes that’s been going on.
Yes, I made the whole thing in Windows Movie Maker
Credits:
Models used for the renders seen in the video
Andromon and Angewomon by GuilTronPrime (HD textures for Andromon were by me from using waifu2x along with edits for his mouth)
Metal Wooden Crate from Torisoba’s Wooden Box set
Flowers from 佐久間 風 ‘s Rain set
Full-Length Mirror by ろっし
MMD Boy's Room - Otoko no Heya by arisumatio
PDFTDX Clearing in the Forest Stage Dl by Kneko988
Old Town Square - MMD stage DL by DiemDo-Shiruhane (Archived download link provided by sswafflecone
Fan Art and Images used in the video
https://www.deviantart.com/digiomnimon/art/Andromon-197944858
https://twitter.com/Zombbean/status/1284259224558743552
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/22148137
https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/84212476
https://ameblo.jp/ian-neg/entry-12534325760.html?frm=theme
Footage and Manga Panels
Monxp’s gameplay Digimon World - Day 205 - Andromon in Humanoid Cup
Digimon Tamers Episode 31: Kazu’s Upgrade
Digimon Adventure Episode 5: Kabuterimon's Electro Shocker
Digimon Adventure Episode 49: The Crest of Light
Digimon Next Chapter 14: Reunion! Page 1 and 8
The weirdest part is how the Digimon Reference Book info of the Andromon (the species as whole) states "it possesses neither will nor emotion, and it is faithful to its programmed behavior." despite the various individual Andromon that had appeared in various media greatly contradicts it;
V-Pets - They have a happy and angry emoting sprites. I assume the sad sprites reuse the eating sprite, but I'm not so sure cause' I never had a V-Pet unless someone has one and corrects me on that.
Anime - Obviously the Andromon of Adventure is seen emoting, such as getting hurt (Inflicted by Biyomon's Spiral Twister; blink and you'll miss it! Taking a blow against Machinedramon/Mugendramon's Giga Cannon; he falls on the right side of his face and is shown with eyes shut as he's in pain, Surprised(?); When Birdramon when she talks about fighting Machinedramon he looks up in surprise, himself, Tai, and the others are looking at Piedmon while facing right, witnessed the catfight of Angewomon and LadyDevimon, and smiling; Episode 7 of Digimon Adventure 02. The Andromon in Tamers obviously was in fear that his Gatling Attack failed to make a scratch on Orochimon and pained expressions from taking so much damage from said Digimon. Though I'm not sure about how the two Andromon talks in the original Japanese dubs of their respective appearances (and I'm not talking about the robotic filter over their voices!) It's their speech patterns, it's possible it might be different there, so far, I'm only aware of this one from the Andromon of Tamers. Until someone can point out the Adventure Andromon's dialogue in Japanese (anyone please tell me so I can gather more in-depth info!) And the infamous Andromon that was in Digimon X-Evolution movie (that one was a jerk!)
Manga - The Andromon of Digimon Next has to be the very expressive Andromon that has ever been depicted in official media! He even sheds a tear that the Digimon that got hurt by Barbamon's army that he and the Guardromon had to take care of! The Xros Wars manga alongside the Re:Digitize manga doesn't depict any of their Andromon having expressions.
Video Games - Digital Monster Ver. S depicts Andromon's happy sprite that its smiling with its mouth open while it dances. Dialogue wise as far as I can tell from the Andromon of Digimon World, the three Andromon from Digimon Digital Card Battle (they also have expressions going on within their mugshots!), the player(s) own Andromon within the DS World/Story games and Cyber Sleuth/Hacker's Memory. There's an Andromon in Digimon ReArise in a event who regrets his actions on why he didn't ask Agumon help at first to fight against Machinedramon.
The only way to make sense of the DRB's info on Andromon is that every info of Digimon there is written in the perspective of a researcher, you know, cause' it isn't written in an omnipresent perspective, cause' if it was, said "speaker" would've known everything about them. I can think of the researcher(s) saw the first Andromon created and that one was the one that didn't possess any emotions or free will unlike the other Andromon that came after it, like the ones being raised by Tamers themselves.
Though this does make me wonder if this is one of the reasons HiAndromon never got to debut in an anime is that their respective Ultimate (Perfect) form is depicted to be self-aware, but yet said Mega (Ultimate) form's DRB info describes it that it was Andromon that became self-aware within that form...
Are these guys autonomous? Do they have thoughts and feelings? Are they sapient?
Because if so, Gennai hijacking one of them is much funnier and much, much darker.