Jakushi's Japan Pop Culture World: Theory: Wormmon's ability for the Armor + The Perfect Digivolutions as well as the Ultimate Digivolutions of V-Mon, Hawkmon, Armadimon and Wormmon

Ken Ichijōji and his Wormmon

Since Ken wasn't the Digimon Kaiser anymore, the Digimental of Kindness hadn't appeared in Digimon Adventure 02. Even it wasn't necessary for Wormmon digivolving to the Armor-Level, it's a really good question if it was at least able to do so.
Another question being left unanswered about Wormmon's Perfect- as well as Ultimate-Digivolution (i.e. if it can so even without Jogress Digivolution, the same for V-Mon, Armadimon and Hawkmon).

Furthermore, as you know, the movie Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning which is set AFTER the events of Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution - Kizuna (2020) in the story-line is gonna be released on 2023/10/29 and yet, no details about the Perfect- and Ultimate-Digivolutions of V-Mon, Hawkmon, Armadimon and Wormmon have been revealed in the trailer. So, despite I'm exorbitantly hyped about said movie, my expectations ain't that high. Especially since the Jogress Digivolutions we know from back then are gonna return. Per se, I don't have anything against the Jogress Digivolutions but feel free to admit it: You also wish the Perfect Digivolutions and Ultimate Digivolutions of the aforementioned Partner Digimon finally appeared someday.

The Character Design for Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning
above (from left to right): Daisuke Motomiya with V-Mon, Ken Ichijōji with Wormmon and
Miyako Inoue with Hawkmon
below (from left to right): Iori Hida with Armadimon, Takeru Takaishi with Patamon and
Hikari Yagami with Tailmon

Well then, in the following, I'm gonna:

refer to the Armor-Digivolution whom Wormmon could digivolve by the Digimental of Kindness,
elaborate the Perfect- as well as Ultimate-Digivolutions of V-Mon, Hakwmon, Armadimon and Wormmon, respectively
and last but not least, elaborate the initial question being split it two pieces: Possesses Ken the Digimental of Kindness? Is his Wormmon able to digivolve into the Perfect-Level as well as into the Ultimate-Level?

Without further ado, here we go:

Before answering the question if Ken possesses the Digimental of kindness at all, I first off show you the Armor Digivolution of Wormmon. It's Pucchiemon:

Pucchiemon
Level: Armor
Type: Fairy
Attribute: Vaccine
Attack No. 1: Heartner Beam
Attack No. 2: Love and Fire

Until now, Pucchiemon never appeared in the Digimon Adventure-series but only in the anime Digimon Frontier and Digimon Xros Wars, respectively with minor parts.

This is how the Digimental of
Kindness looks like

As for the Digimental of Kindness, it was indeed determined for Ken but due to the dark seed, he became the Digimon Kaiser. Thus, the Digimental of Kindness was turned into the Golden Digimental which was used by Daisuke's V-Mon in order to digivolve into Magnamon during the fight against Chimairamon. Since then, that Digimental hadn't appeared anymore.

So, the good question being unanswered yet is: Has Ken meanwhile received the Digimental of Kindness after the battle against BelialVamdemon?
Probably yes, because between Digimon Adventure 02 and the hexalogical film-series Digimon Adventure tri., there's a time skip of three years and during this period, many things could've been happened. It's not for nothing that Daisuke, Iori, Miyako and Ken have been chosen for fighting against Yggdrasil and are captured and kidnapped by a beam at the beginning of Digimon Adventure tri. - Chapter 1: Reunion. This might be the reason why Taichi, Yamato and Co. had to go into action.

Despite Daisuke, Iori, Miyako and Ken appeared in the movie Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution - Kizuna, none of their respective Partner Digimon digivolved to the Perfect Level, let alone, the Ultimate Level - yet, it wasn't necessary to do so during their fight against the Eosmon army. Nevertheless, it doesn't exclude the possibility that they're able to digivolve to the Perfect Level as well as to the Ultimate Level without relying on the Jogress Digivolution and they did so at least one time off-screen. Besides, this applies for Wormmon's Armor Digivolution as well. Between events of the tri. hexalogy and the events of Kizuna, there's a period of five years, many thing might have happened during these five years.

Since their respective Perfect- and Ultimate-Digivolution didn't appeared in the entire Digimon Adventure-series on-screen, I'm gonna introduce them:

※V-Mon → XV-Mon → AeroV-Dramon → UlforceV-Dramon
※Hawkmon → Aquilamon → Hippogriffomon → Griffomon

※Armadimon → Ankylomon → Brachimon → Cannondramon

※Wormmon → Stingmon → Jewelbeemon → Banchostingmon

AeroV-Dramon as well as UlforceV-Dramon had appeared only in the manga Digimon Adventure V-Tamer (not to be confused with the anime Digimon Tamers) as V-Dramon's digivolutions. This manga has nothing to do with the entire Digimon Adventure-anime series.
Hippogriffomon has an apperance in Digimon Adventure tri. - Chapter 4: Loss but as a Partner Digimon from one of the five original DigiDestined as shown in a flashback. On the other hand, Griffomon only appeared in Digimon Tamers, Digimon Frontier and Digimon Xros Wars.
Brachiamon only appeared in Digimon Xros Wars while Cannondramon has an appearance in nothing but the games.
Jewelbeemon as well as Banchostingmon appeared in the games only.

All in all, all implications shows that Ken has meanwhile received the Digimental of Kindness and that Wormmon is able to digivolve into the Perfect- as well as the Ultimate-Level without being depended on the Jogress Digivolution. The latter extends to V-Mon, Armadimon and Hawkmon.

Let us hope that this theory is right because the movie Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning is gonna be released on 2023/10/29 and there might be a surprise, in one way or another. Either way, I'm looking forward to this movie.

Now, I ask you: Do you also wish V-Mon's, Hawkmon's, Armadimon's and Wormmon's respective Perfect Digivolutions as well as Ultimate Digivolutions finally appear? Should they take precedence over the Jogress Digivolutions? And are the Armor Digivolutions still necessary? Don't hesitate writing it in the comment section below.

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