In the sickness, we see Cassie volunteering to become Aftran's host. She is imminently shut down for this because it's too dangerous, but what do you think might have happened if Cassie did become a controller? Do you think there might have been an advantage for the animorphs?

According to what we learn in Visser, there is way more humans in the world than there are Yeerks. The high number of hosts is a big part of what makes our planet an appealing target in the first place, but here is the thing: the Yeerks reproduce and mature way faster than us, so they could probably make enough of them to infest every human beeing on Earth within a few years... by forcing a great number to sacrifice themselves to produce these new soldiers.

To make hundreds of new Yeerk grubs, three adults have to die.

We don't know how the Yeerks treat this. Is this a noble, natural way to go for the elderly Yeerks at the end of life? Do they, when they grow old enough, develop strong drive to reproduce that surpasses their self-preservation instinct? Are any sort of feelings involved in the mate selection?

We aren't told any of that, but I still presume that there would be thousands of young, happy Yeerks, who would be less than thrilled with being forced to sacrifice themselves so that the next generation can inherit the Earth.

Thoughts?

Given how the war on Earth ends,is it possible to “Nothlit”-ize all the Taxxons? Would it be a good idea? Would it be right and fair?

Just finished up #37.

I thought the introduction of a species with a common ancestor to our andalite fellas could be cool!

The rough consensus I've seen is that people don't like them- why is that? I also tend to enjoy the Chee and Leerans when other don't, so I tecognize my taste can be a little more loosey goosey.

,Are they just used in this book and never elaborated on? I can see that being disappointing if true.

I don't mind spoilers for future books, so: if you dislike garatrons, I'd love to know why!

Hey folks! My buddy and I decided to make our own Animorphs podcast called Morphin' Buddies and we're releasing episode bi-weekly. He's never read them, I've read most of them (I made it into the mid 40s). We discuss the themes, make jokes, and talk about how we would film it as an updated TV show since we're both film majors. If anyone is interested, we're live on Apple podcasts and Spotify!

Visiting my parents and saw Visser in a box, picked it up on a whim, Jenny Lines went completely over my head as a child.

Hilarious.

Apparently the main reasons why the last tv show was cancelled was because of it's large special effects budget, Nickelodeon thought it was too creepy for kids, and fans didn't like how much the violence was toned down compared to the books.

Today all these things can be resolved.
we have better, better special effects and supernatural thriller/horror fanbases are large enough to lower the censor to make it creepy enough to draw in a new audience

So why not make a new live action or anime series, there are already more gruesome high budget shows out there?

After all, Netflix and Disney+ have greenlit far worse lol XD

Not the whole connecting to your brain part, that's a whole other can of slugs.

Specifically, I'm talking about the ability to shove a large slug through the ear canal without major damage. Is that actually something that a human ear can withstand? Does the ear canal even lead directly to the brain?

I know religion is a third rail topic (unlike war crimes, murder, PTSD, child soldiers, slavery, attempted suicide, and torture which are all apparently kosher) but I think it would have been interesting to see how Ax would have reacted to going to synagogue with Jake or Mass with Marco.

It would be interesting to see how an alien with his own religious traditions might compare and contrast to human traditions. I think this was a (understandably) missed opportunity in the series in general, to show how faith affects people’s reaction to trauma and war.

I always thought I despised Ax, having read the entire series when I was younger. I thought he was a terrible person, given how he treated disabled people, how he treated Cassie and Rachel, and especially his actions in Book 52 (acting as a spy for the Andalites, almost selling out earth and causing their genocide, despising Cassie)

Now that I'm older and I'm able to pick up more on my second read-through, his opinions on disabled people, war, and honor are... still horrific, but he's also shown great capacity for change. He's willing to give up the deeply ingrained ideas his culture gave him if shown why they're wrong.

Not only that, but book 52, which I always saw as the moment he became the worst person in the book, is actually a lot better now that I can consider that he is a child, too. When he contacts the Andalites, it's out of fear and want for security and guidance. When he says he hates Cassie, it's an angry outburst, and later in the book when he thinks she's dead he frantically looks for her and realizes he doesn't hate her at all. And his realization that he's not different from her keeps him there.

EDIT: If you're here to debate the morality of blowing up an entire planet, realize that more than one perspective exists, and while Applegate was willing to discuss it, the answer the books gave was decisively "that's a bad thing"

When the Ellimist came to Earth to pick up Elfangor and put him back where he belonged, he mentioned that "battles were lost that should have been won". Suggesting that playing with the Time Matrix and building a new life on Earth crippled the Andalites.

But how much?

Ax was also mentioned to never have been born (for some reason, maybe their mother died in the new timeline). And if the battles were pivotal enough, maybe the Yeerks would have lost before even reaching Earth. And the battle that the Ellimist brought him to was also a massive one, but in the present. Meaning those lost battles would stay the way they went.

What do you think?

The Animorphs antagonists are an alien race who can take over human bodies, read their every thought, and imitate them to perfection. Meanwhile, the protagonists have the ability to transform into any life form and any person they can get their hands on.

This setup seems tailor-made for a scifi spy story, where both sides play clever mind games with each other, it's incrediby hard to tell if you're looking at a friend or a foe, and everyone can be morphed/infested at any given time. You'd think one of the core animorph strategies would be morphing other humans because duh! Morphing controllers to gather intel on the Yeerks, or sabotage their plans, etc.

Nope.

To make sure the characters discard this obvious strategy, the author handicaps them with a dumb "don't morph sentient beings" rule that they keep holding onto, even after the theory that was the basis for it (morphing creating a mind) is repeatedly disproven. And then that pesky spy stuff is handled off screen by the Chee - a race of super advanced robots who conveniently get written into the story to deal with it so that the main characters can focus on kicking ass in animal morphs.

The insistance on putting the focus on melee is downright bizarre in a series about a war with aliens who have guns that can disintegrate targets on impact (or stun them and render them infestation-ready just as easily). It takes incredible suspension of disbelief to buy that, in the countless battles in one book after another, our heroes are never injured to gravely to demorph before they die, finished off when they're knocked out, or that there is always anough time to demorph the injury away under heavy enemy fire. An espionage-focused plot wouldn't have that problem, and the whole idea of the story seems made for it, but, strangely, that's not what we ended up getting.

I'm going to the one at the B&N on Saturday the 18th. Anybody else gonna be there? I'll be in an Andalite hoodie and quite possibly crying my eyes out 😂

This is really short only a couple pages long, but I finally did it guys! I hope you enjoyed it. If the link doesn't work for you my username on Wattpad is smpstories44 and the name of the book is "A Collection of Animorph Fanfics." I'm sorry it's the only way I can post fanfics on a school Ipad ao3 and fanfic.net are both blocked.

https://www.wattpad.com/1444755119-a-collection-of-animorph-fanfics-the-yeerks-and

Ok so this might be a little silly, but does anyone have any ideas for an animorphs inspired tattoo? I’m not interested in getting the title or a characters face tattooed or anything like that, but I thought it could be really cool to have a tattoo inspired by a series I’ve loved so much for so long. (Not even necessarily looking for pictures or anything, I’ve just have a hard time coming up with ideas and thought Reddit might have a few cool ones!)

https://preview.redd.it/vfhv9lzywezc1.jpg?width=1576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a4634ba643c1de80a44c8b6344c79d50da051b4c

https://preview.redd.it/c72sry90xezc1.jpg?width=1576&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=17514f0bc6c9c0c7a820ff242171eb2aad667a68

https://preview.redd.it/16t4e0z0xezc1.jpg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d652aefe3c8b4c43a394469f1e6f027beba3d4fa

I got to meet Applegate at her signing event in Dallas and a great handful of Animorphs fans. Some of whom are also active on this reddit. One great guy I met was even from India. After the signing, she was generous enough to have a conversation with us andalite bandits and take a group photo. Katherine Applegate is a treasure of an author. Even if she never returns to youth sci-fi, she has an honored place on the bookshelves and hearts of young readers around the world and across generations.

This was a gift and it gonna get trashed

Absolutely blown away by the community of fans here in NTX! Katherine Applegate was incredibly gracious, loving, and hilarious, she made such an effort to meet each one of us where we were. Group’s top battle morphs were: Bear, Tiger, Lion, Hyena, Gorilla, Dragonfly (stealth), Skunk, Koala and Emu

I was always a fan, but tonight has really renewed it for me!

I am David Mattingly, the illustrator of 54 of the Animorphs covers. I am selling some of the rare Animorphs items in my collection on Ebay here:

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I started this series on release. I'm rereading them as an adult, and I'm on The Decision, Ax book, overall #18. The mosquito cover.

Please for the love of anything don't spoil this. I've avoided spoilers for a lifetime. I'm not asking for anything here.

I just want to say, it really bothers me that Ax is confused why Visser Three can morph a Kafit when Ax should know it's the first or second morph every Andalite can acquire. This is discussed in Andalite Chronicles, and I can't remember but it might be discussed in Ax's book The Alien too.

I would ask if he remembers eventually or what but I don't want to even know the answer, so I'll be turning off notifications and I'll come back after I finish the book.

I'm also curious to what younger people think of this book. So much stuff would not fly (and some of it has made me smile to remember, like the AOL reference and talking about modems that weren't even 56k).

Happy reading to everyone!

This is one of the most messed up aspects of being a controller by the end of the series. Ultimately, only a small percentage of humans on Earth ended up becoming infested during the 5-year or so invasion. Imagine someone was unfortunate enough to be a controller for all that time. They get freed by the end of the series but have lost years of their lives and faced severe trauma. Meanwhile, most of the people around them had no idea there was even an invasion in the first place and got to enjoy life as normal for all those years. Damn.