Digimon of the Week: Moosemon

Take one Hawk

Add one egg with hair

And that equals...

In other words welcome to Digimon of the Week and today we get to learn about alternate armor evolutions.  Now most people that grew up with Digimon remember the second season which had two gimmick evolutions armor and DNA. Armor digivolution was using Digieggs, or Digimentals if you feel sub over dub, based on the crests from the first season to create vaguely champion level Digimon when normal digivolution failed.

In the show proper the main five Digimon each got at least one. Veemon had Flamedramon, Raidramon, and Magnamon. Patamon had Pegasusmon. Gatomon had Nefertimon. Aramdillomon had Digmon and Submarimon. While Hawkmon had Halsemon. Yet outside the show the makers went wild creating and armored form for every egg to every Digimon and then some which today we talk about the one called Moosemon.

Moosemon is one of those armor digivolutions that really doesn't look anything like either the egg or the Digimon it was before. Hell some would say it looks closer to an elk than an a real moose even. Though thinking about its color scheme it almost looks like some strange cousin to Garurumon which is really weird. It also has the tendency some do in this franchise for random buckled belts around each of its legs that look fine and could be somewhat said to be based on the buckled belt on Hawkmon's head.

Moosemon from what I can tell is just based on moose. Not really any mythological moose and I'd have to check were it graduate college to say if it was a pop culture based moose but that probably not a matter to you.  So for this section might as well give a fun fact about moose.

Did you know that in the Americas more people are injured by a moose than any other wild animal. Though the injury isn't always has harsh as with other wild animals the numbers make one of the few things to injure more people be the hippopotamus.

This aggression doesn't seem to be shared by Moosemon as in its only TV apperances it was either just a beast Digimon mook in the Frontier film or  one of the collected Digimon by a character in Young Hunters. In fact in its major video game appearance, Digimon World Data Squad to be exact, it is a digivolution from Gaomon based on the HP stat. 

So over all Moosemon is just a somewhat generic armor digivolution based on a kinda silly looking animal. Though I personal like moose so this one gets a thumbs up in my book. Besides with armor digivolution almost anything besides Manbomon can be considered good.