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Matt, one of the original DigiDestined, starts out as a secretive loner whose Digimon partner is Gabumon. His younger brother, T.K. Takaishi, is also one of the eight DigiDestined. He is very protective of T.K., and often acts harshly when he (T.K.) is in trouble. In the English language dub, the two were said to be half-brothers near beginning of the series in the episode "Garurumon", but that was a dialogue mistake, as it was proven during the Myotismon saga that T.K.'s mother is also Matt's mother, and his father was Matt's father. The half-brother line was also never mentioned in the dub after the episode in question. Matt was voiced by Yuuto Kazama (Japan) and Michael Reisz (US). Matt is the bearer of the Crest of Friendship.

Digimon Adventure 02

Matt in Digimon Adventure 02 (season 2)After the end of the first season, at the age of fourteen, Matt became the vocalist and bass player for a rock band called the Teenage Wolves. He was very popular and girls were always running up to him wanting his autograph, much to his dismay. One of his biggest fans was the older sister of Davis, Jun Motomiya, who constantly pursued him in the storyline. One time, when Matt was going to tell the Motomiyas that Davis was going to be gone for a little while, Jun said that she knew he was lying, and blackmailed him into going on a date. She also wanted to go camping with him, but he told her to close her eyes and left her behind; she later tracked him down at the campground itself.

His friendship with Tai changed considerably: while there was still a note of rivalry, it was a rivalry based on friendship, with mutual love for each other. At one point when Tai felt he had let down Agumon, Matt punched him in the face to snap him out of it. Unlike in the previous season, Tai said, "I needed that."

In the final episode epilogue in 2027, Matt grew up to become an astronaut (being the first person on Mars), is married to Sora and has two children with the same digimon as them as well.