| “ | Justice is beautiful! | „ |
| ~ Crusadermon |
Crusadermon (also known as LordKnightmon) is one of the two secondary antagonists in Digimon Frontier, and a major antagonist in Digimon Data Squad, and one of the major antagonists in Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth/Hacker's Memory. They are a minion of Lucemon and partnered with Dynasmon.
They were voiced by Ryōtarō Okiayu in Japanese, Melodee Spevack in English of Digimon Frontier and Susumu Chiba in Japanese, Dave Bushnell in English of Digimon Data Squad.
Appearance[]
Crusadermon (a.k.a. LordKnightmon) is a Mega Class Digimon that looks like a knight wearing pink armor. It carries a golden shield and golden ribbons on its body.
Biography[]
Digimon Frontier[]
LordKnightmon was one of the Royal Knights that work for Lucemon, the other being Dynasmon. This LordKnightmon Was called Crusadermon and was female in the dub. After Cherubimon was defeated, Lucemon summons the two Royal knights, Crusadermon and Dynasmon, and began the accumulation of Fractal Code data for Lucemon in exchange for entry into the human world.
In their first clash with the Legendary Warriors, Crusadermon easily overpowers MagnaGarurumon. The two would fight numerous times as the Legendary Warriors attempt to stop the Royal Knights from stealing the data of the Digital World. On a rare occasions, she employed several SkullSatamon.
When Lucemon was finally reborn and the Legendary Warriors were blasted to the Ophanimoon (one of the Digital World's three moons), Crusadermon pleaded for Lucemon to give them the key to the human world, a request which Lucemon denied.
When Lucemon sent the duo to finally take care of the human children once and for all, Crusadermon was blasted by MagnaGarurumon at close range, finally defeating her, and her Fractal Code was exposed. In the end, Lucemon betrays the two wicked knights and absorbs their data in order to digivolve into Lucemon Chaos Mode.
Digimon Data Squad[]
In Digimon Data, LordKnightmon was a member of the Royal Knights and working for King Drasil. The Digimon's name was LoadKnightmon and was a male Digimon. He came to the real world with an army of Knightmon. MirageGaogamon, Shawjamon, and LoadKnightmon fought each other, but LoadKnightmon proved that he was to strong. Eventually MirageGoagamon Digivolved into MirageGaogamon, Burst Mode and easily defeats LoadKnightmon, becoming a Digi-Egg.
Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth/Hacker's Memory[]
For the first half of the game's story, Crusadermon takes on the form of Rie Kishibe, an executive at Kamishiro Enterprises who contracted EDEN Syndrome after delivering Kyoko Kuremi false information about the president, Satoru Kamishiro, to degrade Kamishiro's image. Crusadermon, posing as Rie, would go on to kill Satoru Kamishiro, former president of Kamishiro Enterprises, and eventually, manipulate his daughter, Yuuko, into using her brother's account in order to rally a team of hackers and storm Under Zero in order to unearth the "original EDEN" envisioned by her father. Little did Yuuko know, that her antics were merely a ploy for Crusadermon to open up the Dimensional Door and merge the Digital World and the Human World. Around this time, she had also manipulated Ryuji Mishima, leader of the hacker team Hudie, into being her personal pawn by using Erika's illness as a manipulation tool.
Rie was first introduced to the player when they infiltrated the special ward in order to gather information about EDEN Syndrome, where she was seen flirting with the guards extremely lustfully and teasing Yuuko about having a potential "crush". She had almost caught the player digging for information correlating with EDEN Syndrome and Kamishiro Enterprises, but the player managed to use their new body to hack into the computer and evade Rie's line of sight.
Rie would reappear in a later chapter where she would declare herself the new president of Kamishiro to the world, as well as announcing a barrage of new updates that she stated "would help improve people's experience on EDEN". She'd then later reappear in that same chapter when she caught Yuuko helping Arata and the player hack into the hidden room within the Avalon Server at Kamishiro, and also unleashed a swarm of Eaters as a security protocol when she'd found out that Arata and the player had found the hidden room and got hold of her secrets.
Not long after, Yuuko (as Yuugo) would rally up the Zaxons to infiltrate the Valhalla Server and retake Under Zero, still unaware of Rie's true intentions. Incidentally, the player, Arata, and Nokia would also infiltrate the Valhalla Server where an all-out hacker war between Nokia's Rebels, the Zaxons, the remnants of the Judes, and the player would begin, with Arata and the player facing the false Yuugo's Machinedramon and Nokia alongside WarGreymon and MetalGarurumon facing Fei's team of Digimon. In the midst of the war, Rie would butt in abruptly to reveal that they've been duped into helping her open the Dimensional Door before unleashing a swarm of Eaters to dispose of the warring hackers, while attempting to erase Yuuko's memories after she had served her purpose. The player hacked their way to the Nakano Underpass to help save Yuuko, only to be teleported somewhere else by Rie, foreshadowing her true identity and the revelation of said identity. Around this time in the Hacker's Memory storyline, Keisuke along with the help of Ryuji's sister Erika would leak Rie who is now revealed to be Crusadermon's secrets from the hidden room onto the world and she'd go on to try and quell any potential backlash from the press that may arise off-screen.
Back in the Cyber Sleuth story, the player, with the help of Nokia, Omnimon, and Fei would go on to traverse the digitized Nakano Underpass in order to save Yuuko from Rie's clutches. When they reached the facility Yuuko is being held captive in, Rie finally shows her true colors and reveals herself to be Crusadermon, who was using Rie's form in order to execute her evil plan to invade and destroy the Human World because it was revealed that the very existence of EDEN had manifested the Eaters into reality, and she alongside Leopardmon, Dynasmon, and presumably Kentaurosmon and Examon came to the conclusion that the salvation of the Digital World can only be acheived through means of destroying the Human World. She would then engage in battle with the player, Nokia, and Fei, only to leave once her health had been chipped into half in order to proceed with her plan to open up the Dimensional Door and leave Yuuko to be forcefully merged and consumed by Eater Eve. Though this plan succeeded, the success was only brief since the Dimensional Door would close down later shortly after. Not that this mattered since for what little time the door had opened, the damage had already been done as Digimon are now manifesting in the Human World, slowly tearing it apart.
Crusadermon would disappear again from the story until later on when the player alongside some of the Royal Knights would go on to take on a corrupted Examon atop the helipad of a destroyed Odaiba. Unfortunately, because of a mysterious energy source rooted within Kowloon Level 5 that is powering Examon, they were not able to wear down Examon and were forced to retreat, which would eventually lead to Gallantmon getting absorbed by Arata, who had merged with an Eater.
Afterwards, Crusadermon would again, disappear from the story until the heroes had finally tracked her down and seemingly cornered her within a Digital Shift, and they engaged in battle once more. After the player seemingly "won" the battle, it was revealed that Crusadermon had been luring the player into a trap all this time, and the player would go on to be the first of the protagonists witness the truth behind EDEN that had been concealed from them all this time, where it was revealed that the player, Yuuko, Nokia, Arata and Yuugo's first contact with the Digital World had been the root cause of the Eaters manifesting all this time.
Eventually, Nokia and Yuuko, in an attempt to rescue the player, would also end up discovering the truth as well, before they were interrupted by Crusadermon after remembering their past traumas who was just about ready to kill them. While her murder plan was almost successful, her plan came to a halt when Kyoko, now revealed to be Alphamon, the secret final Royal Knight, showed up to stop her. With the help of Alphamon and a vengeful Yuuko, the player would go on to eventually defeat Crusadermon once and for all. In her final moments, Crusadermon spent the last of her lifespan listening to Yuuko berate her all about the horrible things she had done to her when she took on Rie's form, before disappearing, leaving behind a rose petal. And just like that, Crusadermon was now dead.
Crusadermon\LoadKnightmon's enemies[]
- MagnaGarurumon (Digimon Frontier)
- MirageGaogamon (Digimon Data Squad)
- The player (Cyber Sleuth)
- Erika Mishima (Hacker's Memory) (former pawn's sister)
- Alphamon (Cyber Sleuth)
- Nokia Shiramine (Cyber Sleuth)
- Yuuko Kamishiro (Cyber Sleuth) (former abuse victim, daughter of murder victim)
- Omnimon (Cyber Sleuth/Hacker's Memory)
- Eaters (Cyber Sleuth/Hacker's Memory) (primary threat)
- Arata Sanada (Cyber Sleuth)
- Keisuke (Hacker's Memory)
- Ryuji Mishima (Hacker's Memory) (former pawn)
- Akemi Suedou (Cyber Sleuth) (secretly resents Crusadermon, former ally)
- Humans (Cyber Sleuth) (assumed to be associated with Eaters)
- Fei (Cyber Sleuth/Hacker's Memory) (friend of Yuuko)
- Satoru Kamishiro (Cyber Sleuth) (murder victim)
Attacks[]
- Spiral Masquerade/Spiral Slice
- Fist of Athena/Fist of Fear
- Laser Lattice
- Scarlet Tempest
Quotes[]
| “ | We are supporters of his right to become this world's supreme ruler. We serve Lord Lucemon by collecting fractal code. | „ |
| ~ Crusadermon |
| “ | Beautiful. At this rate we shall gather enough data for Lucemon in no time. | „ |
| ~ Crusadermon |
| “ | Dynasmon, what are you doing?! Don’t you realize everything will disappear?! Everything! | „ |
| ~ Crusadermon |
| “ | Only four areas remain. Come, let's finish this. | „ |
| ~ Crusadermon |
| “ | Shall I destroy you now, or would you like your humiliation prolonged? | „ |
| ~ Crusadermon |
| “ | Ah, Dynasmon. We’re being bathed in beautiful white flowers in the dawn of light. Could there be a more perfect way to begin this day of destiny? | „ |
| ~ Crusadermon |
Gallery[]
Digimon Frontier[]
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Digimon Data Squad[]
Trivia[]
- Crusadermon's Ultimate form is Knightmon.
- In Japanese Dub of Digimon Frontier & Digimon Data Squad, Crusadermon is male, and was called LordKnightmon.
- In English Dub of Digimon Frontier, Crusadermon is female.
- Crusadermon is voiced by Melodee Spevack in the English anime, who also did the voice of Birdramon, Garudamon, LadyDevimon, Blossomon and Dokugumon.
- Unlike the other Royal Knights who are Vaccine and Data type, Crusadermon and Gallantmon are the only Royal Knights who are classified as Virus types.
- Crusadermon/LordKnightmon is considered the most evil Royal Knight unlike the other Royal Knights because of her/his heinous actions in Digimon Frontier, and Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth.
- Unlike the other Royal Knights who redeem themselves in Digimon Data Squad, Crusadermon (along with Leopardmon) were never redeemed (because they were both destroyed by MirageGaogamon Burst Mode, Rosemon Burst Mode, and Ravemon Burst Mode).
- Out of all the other Royal Knight members who appeared in Digimon Data Squad, Alphamon, Examon, Jesmon, and Gankoomon are the only Royal Knights absent from the anime.
