The Tai clones

good morning/evening/noon/night depending the time you may be reading this. the simple end of this porpouse is quite simple, show all the clones of Taichi Yagamai from digimon adventure 01 and compare them to the original. there is no other end to this,but to simply have fun messing with digimon.

Overview or Tai`s description in this case

Tai in adventure 01

Tai in adventure 02

Taichi Yagami is young boy with a brave and sometimes hot-headed nature. he is kind and sometimes aggressive. he is one of the persons who is used to take on leadership in a group and try to become the "hero". due to his somewhat impulsive nature he is prone to commit many mistakes in which we include sometimes overseeing the others needs or problems. despite his immature nature Tai is a very good friend and partner, nor retreating neither holding back much less fleeing. he is very outgoing and brave his emblem is courage) taking little importance of his own life to save others. his personality drastically changes in adventure 02 when he becomes much more mature and calm, i would say he was brain swapped due to the fact he changed so much that he looks like a different person in adventure 02. he is more cunning and calm,laid back and easygoing.his leadership skills changed drastically, he is not the leader but just a "member". the most important fact is that he created the google fashion and the reptile digimon fashion. he is the very first and legendary chosen child to be copied (i`m not saying the others weren`t). in a short answer he is the very first leader to who personality and model is copied in later series.

the bad-made clones

Davis Motomiya

the very first "clone" Tai got and to date the only one he is really related. in appearance Davis or Daisuke to others is phisically alike to Tai excepto for shorter hair which is more red in his case. Davis inherits Tai`s emblem of courage which clearly leads to him being the replacement leader in this new story. his personality is however much different from Tai`s. he is much less impulsive, more cooperative, somewhat less rash and definitely despite all clear routes he IS NOT THE REAL LEADER. to be clear in this sense he never was a proper leader (T.K actually was the true leader) and never did that much to keep a group. he mas far more romantic and emotional with his crush Kari or Hikari to others. (ironically Tai`s sister). his digimon has great resemblance to Agumon,both are dragons or reptiles, share the fire attributee and are very close to their partners. to conclude Davis is phisically similar to Tai but, his persona was more similar to an openhearted Matt. he never was a proper leader and was definitely not as impulsive as Tai.

Takato Matsuda

to begin with he is a CRYBABY ssensible boy. he is not exactly alike to Tai phiscally (except for the googles and the usual protagonist with the dinosaur digimon) and his persona is much different from his. he is sensible, somewhat shy and a little coward (this changes as the series progresses). he is definitely not hte sticker of the group as Tai was, he barely made friends with Rika and Henry and was not exactly the glue of the relationship. his status as the leader of the group is even more different form Tai`s since in reality he like Davis/Daisuke was never a proper leader. he however shared the same feeling Tai had for his beloved digimon when they turned berserk (Skullgreymon for Tai and Megidramon for Takato) and developed far more courage and friendship as the series goes on. he i far more similar to Joe from adventure 01/02 if you think better of it...



 

Takuya Kanbara 

finally the only well made clone!, but not perfect to clear out. Takuya like the whole digimon frontier series is basically an analogy of the original series, he is very similar to Tain in apperance (the googles ain`t missing here) and he is around the smae age as Tai, heck even his evolutions are a direct reference to Agumon and his evolutions. (Agunimon,BurningGreymon,Aldamon,KaiserGreymon and Susanoomon which is similar to Omegamon) his leadership skills are very similar to Tai`s and he is basically the absolute leader and protagonist with Koji. his personality is once again very similar to Tai: very enthusiastic, has a crush for the gril in the group(Zoey/Mizoe), becomes the leader of the group, is the first  to gain the evolution and his emblem is fire which is directly a reference to Agumon`s main atribute. he however has certain characteristics that differ him from the original protagonist, he is far lesss friendly to his younger bro unlike Tai which was overprotective to Kari most of the series, is somewhat less impulsive since he never harmed or tried to fight any of his allies (unless you count Koichi as Duskmon) and is definitely the type of guy which at least plans before acting (nah Tai ain`t have a plan for something. 

Marcus/Masaru Daimon 

AKA as the guy that solves everything with his deux ex machina punch. to begin with he is older than Tai and physically( he doesn`t wear googles!) he is not alike to his in, mostly, however he does share certain similarities with Tai in persona but to a higher degree. he is even more impulsive and hot-headed than the original Tai often recurring to violence and a fight to solve everything (he fought his Agumon in a fist fight) and is less likely to speak things. he again is the typical "i am the protagonist and hero" hoewever like Takato and Davis/Daisuke he is not the true leader of the group, Touma/Thomas was in fact. despite not sharing certain charcteristics he does share some things in his personality with Tai like: being an overprotective or afective brother hto his younger sister Chika/Christy, being a brave moron boy and his true and even deeper friendship with his fellow digimon. Masaru/Marcus may not be a clone or even a copy to my opinion he is a different character that tries to break with the clonemania and indeed succeeds at this.

Taiki Kudou 

 my favorite protagonist to date! i woudn`t call him a clone exactly. he is WAY more different than Tai(at least the one in adventure 02) in personality,but since he is a protagonist in digimon he is classified a s a clone. to begin with his hair is spiky and is somewhat alike to Tai`s, he is around the same age Tai was in adventure 01 and is wears the typical googles (only Masaru broke the law). his leadership skills are even better than Tai since he is able to control and keep the a bigger group in order and control i, he despite this is a good tactician something unseen in other leaders or protagonists. his kindness is way more impressive than the other clones and Tai himself, he will protect and help anyone whenever he can even against their will or if they refuse this is caused due to a childhood trauma he had when he was unable to help a kid who was caught in the middle of the rain and Taiki offered his help,but the kid refused and eventually faded away and an ambulance came to pick him up. since then Taiki is like Shirou Emiya from Fate/stay night helping everyone and anyone.his digimon is not exactly a clone from Agumon, much less i would clasify him as a clone of Agumon, Shoutmon is very different in skills and evolutions. to end with Taiki like Masaru is a different concept from the original protagonist whic becomes and independent character from the original protagonist, he is indeed a better version of Tai (someone will troll me for this)

 

final words

this was fun to do! i really hope you can enjoy this material and leave any comments if you please. (putting a comment won`t kill you) please have a nice day/noon/night and keep tuned since i usually bring out fresh material when i smoke think deeply 

disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THIS PICTURES NEITHER DIGIMON OR THE CHARACTERS.