Current Events > Animorphs were WHACK.

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No body read that SHIT!

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It's a furry's dream.

Which means that it's a nightmare for everyone else.

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Animorphs was fucking metal.

In what other series would a teenage girl turn into a bear, tear off an alien's arm, and then beat another alien to death with that arm?

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Fuck bump

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I agree as far as the ending is concerned.

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Getting trapped as an animal scared the hell out of me

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refmon posted...

Getting trapped as an animal scared the hell out of me

That's what the Ellimist is for.

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Strider102 posted...

That's what the Ellimist is for.

who

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trappedunderice posted...

Lmfao

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The covers were fire though

marthsheretoo posted...

Animorphs was fucking metal.

In what other series would a teenage girl turn into a bear, tear off an alien's arm, and then beat another alien to death with that arm?

There was a time where Rachael morphed into a whale, but she grew whale size before anything else so she was just a 40 foot teenage girl. I think I realized I had a giantess fetish that day.
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Nah it was an awesome series and youre dumb. Jake gets tried for war crimes, the series tackles hitler and nazis, tackles slavery, the birth and rise of minor deities, ptsd

it was metal as has been stated

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refmon posted...

who

Sorry, assumed you read the books from your comment about getting trapped in animal form.

Basically one of the Animorphs does get trapped in animal form as a Hawk. A few books later the Ellimist appears to him and allows him to be able to morph again. Difference is, unlike the others, he has to return to his hawk form before 2 hours pass, or he'll get stuck in that form. No more saves after the first time.

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ShyOx posted...

Nah it was an awesome series and youre dumb. Jake gets tried for war crimes, the series tackles hitler and nazis, tackles slavery, the birth and rise of minor deities, ptsd

it was metal as has been stated

Then there's Rachel...

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ShyOx posted...

Nah it was an awesome series and youre dumb. Jake gets tried for war crimes, the series tackles hitler and nazis, tackles slavery, the birth and rise of minor deities, ptsd

it was metal as has been stated

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Heartomaton posted...

It's a furry's dream.

Which means that it's a nightmare for everyone else.

Weird thing to immediately think about. Sounds like someone has a guilty conscience.
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Great series, much better than the more popular Goosebumps

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EndOfDiscOne posted...

Great series, much better than the more popular Goosebumps

Shut the fuck up. Goosebumps, book and TV series, is a treasure.

The movies are garbage-tier though.

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EndOfDiscOne posted...

Great series, much better than the more popular Goosebumps

Yes stfu. Haha

Goosebumps are godly. I still got mine

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I had a huge crush on Rachael as a teen.
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i obviously dont remember the series very well, even though i remember reading many of the books. all i can recall is some slug things and an alien that eats through its hoofs...

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SrRd_RacinG posted...

Yes stfu. Haha

Goosebumps are godly. I still got mine

I still have mine too. Goosebumps were my first love. Then Animorphs came out a couple of years later and blew me away.

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I remember one of them, maybe the Alien that was their friend, morphed into a snake to be the perfect killing machine to take out the big bad dude. I'm probably remembering way off, but I read the shit out of those books.

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Duncanwii posted...

There was a time where Rachael morphed into a whale, but she grew whale size before anything else so she was just a 40 foot teenage girl. I think I realized I had a giantess fetish that day.

There were times where weird morphing sequences happened but this never happened and is just something you made up.

Animorphs was dark as fuck. What other kids series deals with brain controlling parasites, child soldiers, genocide, war crimes, and more?

Some things that happen in the series...

Jake is like 16 by the end of the series, and during the big final battle he is given the opportunity to flush 17000 defenseless Yeerks into the vacuum of space. See, the Yeerks are brain slugs that have to leave their host every three days to feed on radiation from their homeworld in a specialized pool, and they're completely helpless in that state. Jake does it with little hesitation and is later tried for war crimes.

The Taxxons. Holy shit the Taxxons. An alien centipede race with a driving hunger so strong that they will literally eat anything, and I mean anything. They eat each other, to the point where wounding one can be a sufficient distraction as the rest would immediately go into a feeding frenzy. They even eat themselves - I can think of at least one instance where one is cut in half and ends up dying as it tries to devour the detached lower half. The entire race is enslaved by the Yeerks, and they came to the Yeerks willingly hoping they could control the hunger. They could not, which leads to the Taxxons eventually turning on the Yeerks and siding with the Animorphs in exchange for the ability to morph into and stay as literally anything else. Most of them turn into anacondas and live peacefully in the Amazon by the end of the series.

David. Maybe the wildest three book arc in the series. Random kid finds the morphing cube that gives people the morphing powers. Tries to sell it online, the team notices, but so do the Yeerks. They manage to save him but not his family, and have to break the news of the invasion to him along with the fact that his parents are now slaves and he can't go home. He joins the team, but something seems off. Very quickly it's revealed that he's a cowardly sociopath. Things David does; kills a random red tailed hawk thinking it's Tobias, tries to sell out to the Yeerks, repeatedly attempts to murder all of the crew, acquires a lion morph and even before he goes nuts fantasizes about who would win between his lion and Jake's tiger.

Then Jake and Rachel's cousin Saddler is involved in an accident midway through the story. He's in a coma, being rushed to surgery, etc. Jake and Rachel show up at the hospital and to their surprise, Saddler is 100% fine. He's awake and fully healed and everyone is saying it's a miracle. They quickly realize it's David, morphed into Saddler, attempting to take over his life and put a stop to that. So from the perspective of Saddler's parents, their son was in a horrible accident, then suddenly miraculously recovered on the way to surgery, then disappeared soon after, until they find his dead body, still sustaining the injuries from the accident, in (IIRC) an elevator shaft.

So they decide they have to handle David, and they trick him into rat morph and lead him into a cage, then abandon him on an isolated island, with one of them staying there to make sure he doesn't demorph within the two hour limit, leaving him stuck as a rat on this island. Shit's fucked.

Leading out of that you have the auxiliary team. Once the team has the morphing cube they decide they need reinforcements. After some thought they decide to visit the sick kids ward at a hospital IIRC, and give the morphing power to a bunch of kids there in order to help out. After a heartwarming scene where these kids get to morph and fly, which for some of them is the most freedom of movement they've ever had, they return to the hospital to demorph. One kid was in due to an accident and had his arm amputated; due to the way morphing works when he morphed back his arm had grown back. This gave the other kids hope...but it only fixes injuries, so the kids with motor disabilities and whatnot morphed back and still had those disabilities.

Then this aux team is sacrificed entirely in the final arc fighting alongside the US military once the war goes open in a distraction so that the main team can make their very important move. They know they're going to die, too, as do the military dudes.

There's so much more than that, too.

Man, you just saying the name David brought so much shit flooding back into my brain. This topic is a nostalgia bomb.

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Animorphs was marketed to middle school children but it was not at all a childrens book series, I loved the books but even I knew it dealt with some really dark and very adult things.

War crimes, PTSD, Rachel going from tomboy to straight up killer, child abandonment, war within your own family, and tons of other shit that anyone who read the books would know was not for children.

The violence and gore describe was no joke and some of the morphs gone wrong were fucked up as well. The tv show was a watered down joke if you read the books but something was better then nothing.

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SrRd_RacinG posted...

No body read that SHIT!

I read it

Heartomaton posted...

It's a furry's dream.

Which means that it's a nightmare for everyone else.

Yeah, maybe it influenced me just a little *points to the artwork I commissioned of two Andalites fucking*

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Murphiroth posted...

There were times where weird morphing sequences happened but this never happened and is just something you made up.

No it did. The rest were dolphins and they got caught in her hair
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Rachel started to enjoy the fact she was basically an enforcer and she struggled with it.

Rachel was a bad ass bitch, from popular cheerleader to essentially the most brutal and go to killer on the team.

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Murphiroth posted...

There were times where weird morphing sequences happened but this never happened and is just something you made up.

Animorphs was dark as fuck. What other kids series deals with brain controlling parasites, child soldiers, genocide, war crimes, and more?

Some things that happen in the series...

Jake is like 16 by the end of the series, and during the big final battle he is given the opportunity to flush 17000 defenseless Yeerks into the vacuum of space. See, the Yeerks are brain slugs that have to leave their host every three days to feed on radiation from their homeworld in a specialized pool, and they're completely helpless in that state. Jake does it with little hesitation and is later tried for war crimes.

The Taxxons. Holy shit the Taxxons. An alien centipede race with a driving hunger so strong that they will literally eat anything, and I mean anything. They eat each other, to the point where wounding one can be a sufficient distraction as the rest would immediately go into a feeding frenzy. They even eat themselves - I can think of at least one instance where one is cut in half and ends up dying as it tries to devour the detached lower half. The entire race is enslaved by the Yeerks, and they came to the Yeerks willingly hoping they could control the hunger. They could not, which leads to the Taxxons eventually turning on the Yeerks and siding with the Animorphs in exchange for the ability to morph into and stay as literally anything else. Most of them turn into anacondas and live peacefully in the Amazon by the end of the series.

David. Maybe the wildest three book arc in the series. Random kid finds the morphing cube that gives people the morphing powers. Tries to sell it online, the team notices, but so do the Yeerks. They manage to save him but not his family, and have to break the news of the invasion to him along with the fact that his parents are now slaves and he can't go home. He joins the team, but something seems off. Very quickly it's revealed that he's a cowardly sociopath. Things David does; kills a random red tailed hawk thinking it's Tobias, tries to sell out to the Yeerks, repeatedly attempts to murder all of the crew, acquires a lion morph and even before he goes nuts fantasizes about who would win between his lion and Jake's tiger.

Then Jake and Rachel's cousin Saddler is involved in an accident midway through the story. He's in a coma, being rushed to surgery, etc. Jake and Rachel show up at the hospital and to their surprise, Saddler is 100% fine. He's awake and fully healed and everyone is saying it's a miracle. They quickly realize it's David, morphed into Saddler, attempting to take over his life and put a stop to that. So from the perspective of Saddler's parents, their son was in a horrible accident, then suddenly miraculously recovered on the way to surgery, then disappeared soon after, until they find his dead body, still sustaining the injuries from the accident, in (IIRC) an elevator shaft.

So they decide they have to handle David, and they trick him into rat morph and lead him into a cage, then abandon him on an isolated island, with one of them staying there to make sure he doesn't demorph within the two hour limit, leaving him stuck as a rat on this island. Shit's fucked.

Leading out of that you have the auxiliary team. Once the team has the morphing cube they decide they need reinforcements. After some thought they decide to visit the sick kids ward at a hospital IIRC, and give the morphing power to a bunch of kids there in order to help out. After a heartwarming scene where these kids get to morph and fly, which for some of them is the most freedom of movement they've ever had, they return to the hospital to demorph. One kid was in due to an accident and had his arm amputated; due to the way morphing works when he morphed back his arm had grown back. This gave the other kids hope...but it only fixes injuries, so the kids with motor disabilities and whatnot morphed back and still had those disabilities.

Then this aux team is sacrificed entirely in the final arc fighting alongside the US military once the war goes open in a distraction so that the main team can make their very important move. They know they're going to die, too, as do the military dudes.

There's so much more than that, too.

Then Rachel really got the shit end of the stick. Slowly becomes a sociopath as the story goes on, becoming a vicious bloodthirsty killer. Is basically sacrificed by Jake. She gets poisoned after a snake bite and slowly dies as the Ellimist is just like "I could help you, but instead I'm going to show you everything you've done in your life as you die."

Then Ax gains the same title as his brother Elfangor, and goes out to wipe out the remaining Yeerks, but then encounters The One, who eats Ax and assimilates him into himself.

That ending to David's arc though. Stories start being told about people passing by the island hearing screams, so they assume it's haunted.

Cassie is pretty much the only one who gets the happy ending.

Jake, Marco, Tobias and 2 Andalites presumably do a suicide attack on The Ones ship.

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The David trilogy was a real high point for me. Especially at the end of the second book when you think he's killed Tobias, and the end it with Jake almost dying. Then in the preview for the next book, they make it look like David takes out another Animorph in bird form with a baseball bat (don't remember if it was Cassie or someone else). The Solution was easily the most excited I ever was for an Animorphs book.

And that Saddler shit was beyond fucked up.

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Duncanwii posted...

No it did. The rest were dolphins and they got caught in her hair

Pretty sure it didn't. I remember the series quite well and I don't remember anything like that. They use whale morphs a couple times, specifically humpback whales, sperm whales, and orcas.

The only time I remember one of them morphing a whale while the others are dolphins are when Cassie morphs humpback to scare off David in orca morph who was trying to kill the others.

I don't think there's actually any scenario where Rachel is morphing whale while the others are dolphins. Might be wrong but again I remember the series pretty well.

Cassie has sever PTSD, if by happy ending you mean she does not have suicidal tendencies and tries to get a normal life post the war then yeah ok shes normal.

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Strider102 posted...

Jake, Marco, Tobias and 2 Andalites presumably do a suicide attack on The Ones ship.

Fun fact, it wasn't a suicide attack! Back then there were theories that it was meant to be a deliberate parallel to Elfangor ramming the Blade Ship (and he survived) but no one knew for sure. A couple of years ago KA Applegate's husband and co-writer confirmed in a reddit AMA that was the intention and that they survived to keep fighting.

RiKuToTheMiGhtY posted...

Cassie has sever PTSD, if by happy ending you mean she does not have suicidal tendencies and tries to get a normal life post the war then yeah ok shes normal.

That's what I meant. Never said she was perfectly fine with no adverse effects on her or her mentality.

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Strider102 posted...

That's what I meant. Never said she was perfectly fine with no adverse effects on her or her mentality.

Ok, some people do not remember how fucked up Cassie was post war, she refuses to even go help Ax because she cant do that shit again.

Jake, Marco, and Tobias all had guilt due to their actions and Tobias never forgave Jake for sacrificing Rachael nor not trying to help her keep her humanity. Tobias hated himself for not trying to help Rachael more which is seen in some of his books towards the end.

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Murphiroth posted...

Fun fact, it wasn't a suicide attack! Back then there were theories that it was meant to be a deliberate parallel to Elfangor ramming the Blade Ship (and he survived) but no one knew for sure. A couple of years ago KA Applegate's husband and co-writer confirmed in a reddit AMA that was the intention and that they survived to keep fighting.

Didn't know that.


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Oh here's another fun one.

The initial scouting team consisting of two Yeerks almost entirely falls into the experience of being human to the point where they have kids using their human hosts bodies. IIRC those hosts had a decent understanding and bond with the Yeerks and it was like a weird foursome couple. Then when the time comes to signal the main fleet one of them doesn't want to do it, wanting to protect the children and humanity as a whole. The other is hesitant but still a loyal soldier to the Empire. This leads to the one who didn't want to do it starving, and when a Yeerk dies they instinctively try to leave their host. But for some reason he gets stuck halfway out, the host attempts to pull him the rest of the way, tearing him in half and leaving the other half inside his head connected to his brain. This causes him to go nuts, having both his human memories and personality and pieces of the Yeerk's.

i love animorphs

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Wasnt Cassie the most boring one?

Now Im glad I started reading books I couldnt finish in 2/3 hours and never finished the series.

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Wasn't Marco's presumed dead mom one of the Visser's?

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Murphiroth posted...

There were times where weird morphing sequences happened but this never happened and is just something you made up.

Animorphs was dark as fuck. What other kids series deals with brain controlling parasites, child soldiers, genocide, war crimes, and more?

Some things that happen in the series...

Jake is like 16 by the end of the series, and during the big final battle he is given the opportunity to flush 17000 defenseless Yeerks into the vacuum of space. See, the Yeerks are brain slugs that have to leave their host every three days to feed on radiation from their homeworld in a specialized pool, and they're completely helpless in that state. Jake does it with little hesitation and is later tried for war crimes.

The Taxxons. Holy shit the Taxxons. An alien centipede race with a driving hunger so strong that they will literally eat anything, and I mean anything. They eat each other, to the point where wounding one can be a sufficient distraction as the rest would immediately go into a feeding frenzy. They even eat themselves - I can think of at least one instance where one is cut in half and ends up dying as it tries to devour the detached lower half. The entire race is enslaved by the Yeerks, and they came to the Yeerks willingly hoping they could control the hunger. They could not, which leads to the Taxxons eventually turning on the Yeerks and siding with the Animorphs in exchange for the ability to morph into and stay as literally anything else. Most of them turn into anacondas and live peacefully in the Amazon by the end of the series.

David. Maybe the wildest three book arc in the series. Random kid finds the morphing cube that gives people the morphing powers. Tries to sell it online, the team notices, but so do the Yeerks. They manage to save him but not his family, and have to break the news of the invasion to him along with the fact that his parents are now slaves and he can't go home. He joins the team, but something seems off. Very quickly it's revealed that he's a cowardly sociopath. Things David does; kills a random red tailed hawk thinking it's Tobias, tries to sell out to the Yeerks, repeatedly attempts to murder all of the crew, acquires a lion morph and even before he goes nuts fantasizes about who would win between his lion and Jake's tiger.

Then Jake and Rachel's cousin Saddler is involved in an accident midway through the story. He's in a coma, being rushed to surgery, etc. Jake and Rachel show up at the hospital and to their surprise, Saddler is 100% fine. He's awake and fully healed and everyone is saying it's a miracle. They quickly realize it's David, morphed into Saddler, attempting to take over his life and put a stop to that. So from the perspective of Saddler's parents, their son was in a horrible accident, then suddenly miraculously recovered on the way to surgery, then disappeared soon after, until they find his dead body, still sustaining the injuries from the accident, in (IIRC) an elevator shaft.

So they decide they have to handle David, and they trick him into rat morph and lead him into a cage, then abandon him on an isolated island, with one of them staying there to make sure he doesn't demorph within the two hour limit, leaving him stuck as a rat on this island. Shit's fucked.

Leading out of that you have the auxiliary team. Once the team has the morphing cube they decide they need reinforcements. After some thought they decide to visit the sick kids ward at a hospital IIRC, and give the morphing power to a bunch of kids there in order to help out. After a heartwarming scene where these kids get to morph and fly, which for some of them is the most freedom of movement they've ever had, they return to the hospital to demorph. One kid was in due to an accident and had his arm amputated; due to the way morphing works when he morphed back his arm had grown back. This gave the other kids hope...but it only fixes injuries, so the kids with motor disabilities and whatnot morphed back and still had those disabilities.

Then this aux team is sacrificed entirely in the final arc fighting alongside the US military once the war goes open in a distraction so that the main team can make their very important move. They know they're going to die, too, as do the military dudes.

There's so much more than that, too.

What the FUCK at that second detail.

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I read the first few books in Jr high but then lost track of the series. Does it get a solid ending? I thought I heard once it ended on a never resolved cliffhanger . I might someday try to reread it and finish it.

I remember they morphed into ants and it was too intense, and they almost got stuck. I still think about that sometimes..

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Strider102 posted...

Wasn't Marco's presumed dead mom one of the Visser's?

yar

Jake got to be this basically mythic figure at wars end. Crayak wanted him dead sooooo bad

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Strider102 posted...

Wasn't Marco's presumed dead mom one of the Visser's?

Visser One, actually. The Yeerk in question was actually the other half of the initial scouting party, the one who called in the Empire.

Zikten posted...

I read the first few books in Jr high but then lost track of the series. Does it get a solid ending? I thought I heard once it ended on a never resolved cliffhanger . I might someday try to reread it and finish it.

its not a cliffhanger. Its pretty clear what happens.

Its also a very very sudden end where you think more is going to happen, but that doesnt make it bad.

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