>>283649559
Digimon has evolutions that occur at their time of death, moreso in earlier media like digimon world 1 where any digimon could become the ghost champion level bakemon instead of turning into a digi egg. There were also unique death evolutions for certain digimon.
Having gekkomon's anticipated evolution be a death evolution because it committed suicide with pandamon would have definitely been funny.

>>283135094
Would have been funny if he went for the kill and stomped that baby just for it to undergo death digivolution back to champion.

>>723286984
This isn't even getting into death evolutions.