The D-Reaper, also known as the "True Enemy", is a digital lifeform which appears as the central antagonist in Digimon Tamers. It is referred to as "Matador" (Por: Killer) in Brazilian Digimon Tamers materials.
Unlike most inhabitants of the Digital World in Tamers, it is not a Digimon; while Digimon descend from the virtual wildlife system created by the "Monster Makers", the D-Reaper was allegedly created in the late 1970s by the United States Department of Defense, as an antiviral program for the "Creeper" virus.
Personality[]
As a primitive program, the D-Reaper originally did not, and should not have had, the capacity for intelligence or emotions. It analyzes of its surroundings, including sample specimens, to attempt to understand the unfamiliar and draw conclusions.
Initially, the D-Reaper has no capacity for human language or thought logic at all. This changes once it has analyzed Katou Juri and absorbs these faculties from her. It also duplicates her speaking voice. When communicating its intent to destroy humans and Digimon, it positions its reasoning as objective and based on the facts identified in its analysis: that humans are weak, foolish and contradictory, and that their thought process are illogical and (by its own admission, extrapolating solely from Juri) cause them to desire destruction and wish harm upon others, and to only ever act accordingly