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== Animorphs ==

 

 

 

"Big Jake, Fearless Leader" of the Animorphs; not because he wanted to be, but because his friends look to him for guidance. While saving the world is nice, what he really wants most is to save his brother Tom, [[Puppeteer Parasite|a Controller]]. Known as an open and friendly guy at the beginning of the series, the constant pressures of having to act as leader and manipulate his friends for strategic ends gradually cause him to become more ruthless.

* [[The Chessmaster]]: As the series reaches it's climax, Jake resorts to increasingly more amoral actions to win the war.

* [[Comes Great Responsibility]]: "Power enough to win? No. Power enough to fight? Ah, yes. Just enough, little Jake, here is just enough power to imprison you in a cage of duty, to make you fight."

* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]: In ''The Capture''.

* [[The Dutiful Son]]

* {{spoiler|[[Fallen Hero]]}}

* [[Fighting From the Inside]]: In ''The Capture'' Jake becomes a Controller. He never stops fighting the Yeerk in his head.

* [[Fly Crazy]]: This is his cover morph in ''The Capture''. {{spoiler|In ''The Warning'' he almost dies after being swatted as one.}}

* [[Fragile Speedster]]: His flight morph, a peregrine falcon. It's not a [[Big Badass Bird of Prey]], but it's by far the fastest bird any of them have. It's his cover morph in ''The Conspiracy''.

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]

* [[Informed Judaism]]: Jake is identified at one point as Jewish, but it never figures into the overall story.

* [[The Leader]]: Type II meets Type IV

* [[Lovable Jock]]

* [[Lightning Bruiser]]: When he's in his tiger morph.

* [[The Magnificent]]: Jake the Yeerk-Killer.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Not at first, but as the series goes on Jake slowly evolves into one.

* [[Military Brat]]: Neither of Jake's parents are military, but his great-grandfather fought in [[World War II]] and he has a relative who fought in the [[The American Civil War|Civil War]].

* [[My Greatest Failure]]: He feels this way about the David incident {{spoiler|and [[Suicide Mission|sending Rachel to die]].}}

* [[Panthera Awesome]]: Siberian tiger, his favorite morph. He also has a jaguar as his cover morph in ''The Forgotten''.

* [[Reunion Kiss]]: After twenty-six books, Jake's first kiss with Cassie ends up being this.

* [[Rodents of Unusual Size]]: Jake, along with the rest of the team, morphs a beaver in ''The Resistance''. It's his cover morph for that book.

* [[Scaled Up]]: His final book, ''The Answer'', sees him morphing an anaconda on the cover. {{spoiler|He uses it to convince the Taxxons to turn on their Yeerk overlord and go nothlit.}}

* [[Standardized Leader]]: He actually doesn't enjoy it too much, though, and he does have depth.

* {{spoiler|[[Survivor Guilt]]}}

* [[Vetinari Job Security]]: In ''The Weakness'' Jake goes out of town for a week and [[Blood Knight|Rachel]] becomes leader in his absence. The consequences aren't pretty.

* [[The Worf Effect]]: {{spoiler|[[Sixth Ranger Traitor|David]]}} subjects him to this in ''The Threat''.

* [[Young Conqueror]]

 

 

 

 

The beautiful and bold cousin of Jake. She looks like a teen fashion model, but is no [[Dumb Blonde|ditz]]. Don't make the mistake of calling her one, either. She would love an excuse to send you flying through a wall. Unlike the others, Rachel loves the thrill and adrenaline surge of combat, and she becomes more and more unstable as the series progresses. Not helping is the fact that her friends, particularly Jake, implicitly encourage this by using her for her "unique talents".

* [[Action Girlfriend]]

* [[Animorphism]]

* [[Bat Out of Hell]]: In ''The Underground'' her cover morph is a brown bat.

* [[The Berserker]]

* [[Big Badass Bird of Prey]]: Her avian morph is a bald eagle. It's the second-largest bird any of them have.

* [[Blondes Are Evil|Blondes Are Violent]]: She does grow to enjoy the fighting way too much.

* [[Blood Knight]]: Tries not to fall into this, but fails more and more as the series goes on, ending in {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Let's do it!"

* [[Challenging the Chief]]: Her and Jake butt heads a few times. {{spoiler|Crayak uses this to try to persuade her to kill Jake without success.}}

* [[Evil Me Scares Me]]

* [[The Fashionista]]

* [[Fragile Speedster]]: In ''The Weakness'' her and the rest of the team morph cheetahs. It's her cover morph for that book.

* [[Futureshadowing]]: {{spoiler|In ''The Familiar'' Rachel is crippled, horribly scarred, and unable to morph. It's implied Jake is responsible.}}

* [[Giant Squid]]: The whole team morphs one, but Rachel gets it as her cover morph in ''The Exposed''.

* [[Helpless Good Side]]: Nice Rachel from ''The Separation''.

* [[Informed Judaism]]: Rachel, like Jake, is Jewish, but it doesn't play into her story much either.

* [[Jumped At the Call]]: It's often said that she is the only one in the group that actually enjoys fighting the Yeerks. However, in rare moments even Rachel has expressed her desire to be a just [[I Just Want to Be Normal|a regular girl]] rather than [[Blood Knight|the warrior]] her friends see her as.

* [[The Lancer]]: The challenger part of Rachel. At times she's almost closer to the [[Evil Counterpart]] of this trope. For much of the series, and especially near the end, she's effectively [[The Dragon]] to Jake, while Marco and Tobias fullfill the more traditional Lancer roles.

* [[Life or Limb Decision]]: Forced to make one in ''The Solution''. {{spoiler|She chews through her own tail to escape being locked in the cage with David.}}

* [[Lovable Alpha Bitch]]

* [[The Magnificent]]: "[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]."

* [[My Future Self and Me]]: In ''The Stranger'' Rachel meets her counterpart from a [[Bad Future]]. {{spoiler|She's a Controller.}}

* [[Never Smile At a Crocodile]]: Rachel morphs one in ''The Reaction''. {{spoiler|Half the team ends up having to fight the thing at the end.}}

* [[Power Blonde]]: Don't mistake her for just a pretty face. She's called "[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]." for a reason.

* [[Psycho Sidekick]]: Arguably to Jake

* [[Smarter Than You Look]]

* {{spoiler|[[Sociopathic Soldier]]}}

** Mean Rachel from ''The Separation'' also qualifies.

* [[Superpower Meltdown]]: In ''The Reaction''. Her {{spoiler|crocodile allergy starts causing her to morph any time she's under emotional pressure}}.

* [[You Dirty Rat]]: A heroic example. She and Cassie morph rats in ''The Secret'' and it's her cover morph in ''The Solution''.

 

 

 

The quiet and thoughtful loner. Neglected at home and bullied at school, the morphing ability provided him with an escape. Finding freedom as a red-tailed hawk, he soon broke the two hour limit and trapped himself in the bird body for keeps (he later regains his morphing ability, but with the hawk as his normal form). As you'd expect, flying aside, living as a hawk is not always fun, and the harsh realities of living as a part of nature (such as starving when hunting is bad and having to fight for territory) are piled on top of Tobias' increasing inability to function as a human ''and'' the fact that he's a major component of Earth's defense.

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: It's mentioned that he spends some of his time reading books over people's shoulders.

* [[Big Badass Bird of Prey]]: Red-tailed hawk, the morph he is stuck in.

* [[Body Double]]: In ''The Illusion'' Tobias acquires and morphs Ax to convince the Yeerks he's an Andalite.

* [[Bully Hunter]]: Seen most notably in ''The Android'', where he's more than happy to give a few bullies chasing Erek a talon haircut.

* [[Double Consciousness]]

* [[Fan Nickname]]: Emohawk

* [[Flowers for Algernon Syndrome]]: {{spoiler|Subverted in that he kept his new ability, but still chose to remain a hawk most of the time.}}

* [[Friendless Background]]

* [[Future Badass]]: In ''The Familiar'', Tobias has trapped himself in Ax's morph permanently and is ten years older, giving him the appearance of the second coming of Elfangor. He is also the hidden mastermind behind the EF.

* {{spoiler|[[Genocide Dilemma]]: In the climax of Megamorphs #02.}}

* [[Herald]]: In two senses. He's the one who pushes Jake into accepting what they saw was real, and he's also the Ellimist's favored Animorph.

* [[Heroic Safe Mode]]: He resorts to this in ''The Illusion'' to keep from going insane from being tortured.

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: He hauls this one out in the second Megamorphs book after {{spoiler|arranging the extinction of the dinosaurs.}}

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]: Complicated by the fact that there is much evidence that Tobias prefers being a hawk. This doesn't stop the angst though. {{spoiler|In ''The Change'', after spending an extended time trapped as a hawk, he finds himself wishing to be human again. Yet when he gets his morphing ability back, he chooses to remain a hawk rather than to become human and lose the ability to morph.}}

* [[Jumped At the Call]]: Even more so than Rachel. He was the first of the Animorphs to try morphing, and pretty much dragooned Jake into admitting it was real.

* {{spoiler|[[Karma Houdini]]: He never really faces any consequences or guilt as a result of his decision to genocide the Mercora, and the whole sordid affair is forgotten about for the rest of the series.}}

* [[The Messiah]]: The free Hork-Bajir see him as one.

* [[My Future Self and Me]]: Exploited by the Ellimist to {{spoiler|allow Tobias to acquire his human self as a morph}}.

* [[Non Sequitur Thud]]: In ''The Discovery'' Tobias accidentally knocks himself silly against David's window and starts rambling about ''Clue''.

* [[Number Two]]: Jake appoints him leader of the Marco/Tobias/Ax sub-team, which ended up carrying the end of the war.

* {{spoiler|[[Not Quite Back to Normal]]}}

* [[Parental Abandonment]]

* [[Predators Are Mean]]: Subverted - Tobias regularly kills and eats small animals to survive, but he's actually one of the kinder, gentler members of the team.

* [[Shapeshifter Default Form]]: {{spoiler|The red-tailed hawk became his natural form after he regained the morphing ability.}}

* [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock]]

* [[Super Senses]]: As a hawk he has amazing sight and hearing.

* [[The Chosen One]]: The Ellimist flat-out tells him as such in ''The Change''. {{spoiler|Strangely, it never really seems to go anywhere.}}

 

 

 

The kind and compassionate member of the group, a young animal lover who helps her parents at their Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic. She often serves as the group's "moral compass". Initially a moral absolutist, the things she's forced to do cause her to re-evaluate her ethics.

* {{spoiler|[[Can't Stay Normal]]: She is a temporal anomaly - see the main page for a better description.}}

* [[Color Me Black]]: Inverted in ''Megamorphs #03'' - confronted with a racist in 1934's Princeton University, Cassie opts to turn herself white. Namely, [[Animorphism|into a polar bear]].

** [[The Conscience]]

* [[Forgot I Could Fly]]: Infamously done with her alternate counterpart in ''The Familiar''.

* [[Friend to All Living Things]]: Including, in at least one case, a Yeerk.

* [[Heroic BSOD]]: In ''The Departure''.

* [[Heroic Dolphin]]: Her first cover morph, seen in ''The Message''.

* [[Identity Impersonator]]: In ''The Reaction'' Cassie acquires and morphs Rachel to throw a suspicious Yeerk off her trail.

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]

* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness]]: She's really the only main character who never changes or grows in any way.

* [[Kangaroos Represent Australia]]: Presumably the reason why ''The Unexpected'' exists.

* [[Living Weapon]]: Cassie's plan to get rid of the Helmacrons in ''The Suspicion'' is to acquire and morph anteaters, the one animal in the world specially designed to see, attack, and destroy creatures like them. It works.

* [[The Messiah]]

* [[Morality Pet]]: She becomes this to {{spoiler|Aftran}}.

* [[Nutty Squirrel]]: Cassie's the first Animorph to acquire a squirrel, as seen in ''The Message''. Eventually the rest of the team follow in ''The Proposal''.

* [[Pretty Butterflies]]: Brutally subverted in ''The Departure''. It's her cover morph for that book.

* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: In ''The Sickness'' Cassie becomes the only Animorph to ever morph a Yeerk.

* [[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses]]

* [[Reluctant Warrior]]

* [[The Smart Guy]]: Her parents are both vets, so she knows a lot about animals.

* [[Sapient Cetaceans]]: She morphs one, a humpback whale, in ''Megamorphs #01''. It sees fairly regular use in later books.

* [[Sapient Steed]]: Her first morph is a horse. In ''The Unknown'', she becomes a literal sapient steed for a jockey thinking he's riding a famous racehorse.

* [[Sharing a Body]]: With Aldrea in ''The Prophecy''.

* [[Smelly Skunk]]: Obtains this morph in ''The Secret''. Visser Three finds out not to mess with one the hard way.

* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: With Jake at the start of the series.

 

 

 

Jake's best bud since infancy, the comedian of the group, as well as most cynical, ruthless and practical. He was against fighting the Yeerks at the beginning, but soon changed his resolve when it became personal. Described as a "paranoid nutcase" with a "Hamlet complex", Marco's knack for strategic and critical thinking was instrumental when it came to missions and the security for the group, but his tendency to hold efficiency and pragmatism above all else would cause him to have personal conflicts.

* [[Affectionate Nickname]]: Often calls Rachel "''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]].''"

* [[Animorphism]]

* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Are you insane!?" and variants thereof.

* [[Class Clown]]

* [[Dark and Troubled Past]]: Had an idyllic childhood until the sudden disappearance of his mother caused his family to break down, making him much more cynical and scornful of idealistic beliefs, regarding expedience and pragmatism as of prime importance.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[The Drag Along]]: At first.

* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: A [[Running Gag]].

* [[Everything Is Better With Monkeys]]: Or, as Marco would probably specify, gorillas.

* [[Good Is Not Nice]]: Marco is sarcastic, condescending, and a borderline [[Smug Snake]] at times. He's also firmly one of the good guys.

* [[Genre Savvy]]

* [[The Hyena]]: Ironically, he never actually morphs a hyena.

* [[I Did What I Had to Do]]: How he defends some of his more morally dubious actions.

* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]

* [[I'm Not Doing That Again]]: Spoken word-for-word in ''The Reunion''.

* [[Insistent Terminology]]: He morphs a gorilla, not a monkey.

* [[Killer Gorilla]]: His main battle morph.

* [[The Lancer]]: Jake's other go-to guy and best friend, for his strategic abilities. He's probably the closest to being a traditional Lancer: [[The Hero]]'s best friend, has a contrasting personality, second-guesses all orders (albeit for good reason),etc, etc. Also plays this role consistently, automatically assuming the role of [[Commander Contrarian]] and second-in-command to whoever's giving orders, whether it's Jake, Rachel, or even Tobias.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Of the aggravating variety, as opposed to Cassie's more empathic one. She predicts emotional reactions; Marco screws with you to get the one he wants.

* [[Meta Guy]]

* [[Mister Muffykins]]: His dad's new beau, Nora, has a poodle named Euclid. He morphs it to harass the Yeerk self-help guru William Roger Tennant and it's his cover morph in ''The Proposal''.

* [[Mommy Issues]]

* [[Polar Bears and Penguins|Polar Bear]]: He, along with the rest of the team, gets a polar bear morph in ''The Extreme''. It's his cover morph for that book.

* [[Promoted to Parent]]: In the early books, he was basically the responsible one compared to his father, who fell apart after Eva's disappearance. Fortunately, he eventually gets over this.

* [[Sad Clown]]: He had psychological/emotional issues even before the series started, due to the disappearance of his mother. He often jokes to hide his fears and insecurities.

* [[Scaled Up]]: A rare heroic example. In ''The Discovery'' he morphs David's pet cobra Spawn. It's even [[Lampshaded]] by Rachel.

* [[Spiders Are Scary]]: In ''The Android'', Marco has to morph a wolf spider. He really, really doesn't want to.

* [[The Smart Guy]]: Strategy. "Sees the line" from point A to point B.

* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: It's pretty much his job to say this.

 

 

 

Elfangor's younger brother, Aximili joined the group when he was rescued by the kids from the wreckage of Elfangor's Dome ship, which fell into the Pacific Ocean. Initially considering himself an outsider, Aximili, or "Ax" as he came to be known, retained many of the traits and values of his people (which ranged from loyalty and discipline to outright ruthlessness and xenophobia), and the distinctions led to both comedic and insightful critiques on Earth customs. As the series progressed, it became apparent that he and the kids were more alike than different, and as he adapted to life on Earth Ax was forced, like his Earth counterparts, to question the principles that he had hitherto taken for granted.

 

* [[Alien Among Us]]

* [[Alien Arts Are Appreciated]]: Has a great appreciation for many human inventions. He even wonders why humans use computers when they have books. He considers the cinnamon bun to be our greatest achievement, however.

* [[Almighty Janitor]]: He is an ''aristh'', the equivalent of a cadet, and yet he manages to fight and hinder the Yeerks alongside five human teenagers.

* [[Animorphism]]

* [[Delicious Distraction]]

* [[Does Not Understand Sarcasm]]: He gets better about it as the series progresses.

* [[Exact Time to Failure]]: Has an amazing ability to keep time in his head. He acts as a timer during missions to make sure the group [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock|doesn't spend more than two hours in morph]].

* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Ax has been known to eat everything from nachos to paper cups to cigarette butts.

* [[Humanshifting]]: Ax is unique for morphing more humans than any other Animorph.

* [[Humanity Ensues]]

* [[Humans Through Alien Eyes]]

* [[Humorless Aliens|Humorless Alien]]: At first, though he gets better as the series progresses.

* [[Klingons Love Shakespeare]]

* [[The Magnificent]]: {{spoiler|After the war he becomes known as 'Aximili of Earth'}}.

* [[Mundane Object Amazement]]

* [[My Friends and Zoidberg]]: All of the blurbs on the back cover described the adventures of "X (the main character of that particular installment), the Animorphs, and Ax," with the subtle implication that, being an alien, Ax doesn't count as a true Animorph.

* [[No Nudity Taboo]]: Since his species never wears clothes, he frequently wonders aloud why humans even bother with them. He also feels no embarrassment when the other team members morph nude in front of him.

* [[Our Centaurs Are Different]]

* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]

** It's eventually noted that if Jake ''doesn't say'' "Don't call me prince", it's a sign of how serious the situation is.

* [[Rascally Raccoon]]: His last book, ''The Sacrifice'', sees him morph a raccoon to {{spoiler|sneak off and report to the Andalite military.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Rank Up]]: See [[Awesome Moment of Crowning]] above.}}

* [[Scaled Up]]: In ''The Alien'' he morphs a rattlesnake in an attempt to assassinate Visser Three.

* [[Sixth Ranger]]

* [[The Smart Guy]]: Knows about alien things. You know, being an alien and all.

* [[Spock Speak]]

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Cinnabons

* [[Two of Your Earth Minutes]]: Very much a deliberate [[Running Gag]] on his part, practically serving as his [[Catch Phrase]]:

'''Ax''': (correcting himself) Seventeen of your Earth minutes. }}

* [[Verbal Tic]]: As an Andalite, he has no mouth and communicates with [[Telepathy|thought-speak]]. Whenever he holds a conversation while morphed into a human, he can never go very long without repeating individual parts of words, often but not always drawing out their component sounds. SOU-nds. Sauw-nnnn-dss.

* [[You Can't Go Home Again]]

 

 

 

After finding the [[Super Empowering|Morphing Cube]] and subsequently revealing its location, David became target number one for Yeerk forces who were searching to gain the morphing power. After a battle that destroyed his house, David's parents were taken by Yeerk forces. Frightened, alone and unable to trust anyone, David was given the morphing power by the others as part of an attempt to recruit him, but his growing resentment for them strained relationships within the group. {{spoiler|Feeling that his life was threatened not only by the enemies that took his parents but also by the new strangers that now surrounded him, he revealed a sociopathic side and turned against the Animorphs attempting to eliminate them one by one.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Create Your Own Villain]]: Arguably pushed over the edge into villainy by Jake's threat on his life and being forced to sleep in a barn, unable to go out in public as himself. He even justifies his actions with an [[Ironic Echo]] of Tobias's own words.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Dangerous Deserter]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Dead Person Impersonation]]: Disposes of Jake and Rachel's mortally wounded cousin and takes his place.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Death Seeker]]: By the end, he's given up on revenge and begs Rachel to kill him, preferring death to going on trapped as a rat.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Despite bluffing the Animorphs with the threat of it, David never attempts to go over to the Yeerks, and by all accounts hates them as much as the Anis do.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Fate Worse Than Death]]: Trapped in rat morph for the rest of his life.}}

* [[Flaw Exploitation]]: He rivals Marco in how good he is at this. {{spoiler|When he turns on the Animorphs, he exploits Ax's ignorance of alarm clocks and Rachel's preconceptions about him to split them up and attack Rachel. He get a taste of his own medicine when the Animorphs subsequently exploit his ego and need to psychologically dominate Rachel to bring him down.}}

* [[Hallucinations]]: Blink and you'll miss it: {{spoiler|Jake hallucinates a terrified rat-David in the [[Bad Future]] of ''The Familiar''.}}

* [[He Knows Too Much]]

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]

* [[Military Brat]]: His father was an NSA agent and he had to move around frequently throughout his life.

* [[New Transfer Student]]

* [[Nobody Calls Me Chicken|Nobody Calls Me Coward]]: One of his main character flaws. He does stupid things to show off and look good, and totally loses his cool when Rachel calls him a coward.

* [[Recurring Character]]: {{spoiler|He was built up to the [[Villain of the Week]] for his trilogy and later returned for one last hurrah near the end of the series}}.

* [[Rule of Pool]]: His house has a pool and Marco is envious of his good fortune. The pool comes into play again a book later, when Ax tricks a trio of Hork-Bajir into throwing themselves into it.

* [[Scaled Up]]: He morphs a rattlesnake in ''The Solution''.

* {{spoiler|[[Shapeshifter Mode Lock]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Sixth Ranger Traitor]]}}

* [[Smug Snake]]: Like Marco, he can be [[Alternate Character Interpretation|interpreted]] as this.

* {{spoiler|[[Spot the Impostor]]: David morphs Jake's cousin, who is badly injured after being hit by a car and expected to die in surgery, and takes his place. Jake figures it out almost instantly, when "Saddler's" injuries are miraculously healed. Everyone else not in on [[The Masquerade]] fails miserably.}}

* [[Take a Third Option]]: {{spoiler|Caught between the Animorphs and the Yeerks, neither of whom he trusts. He eventually turns on them both.}}

** {{spoiler|[[From Nobody to Nightmare]]}}

* {{spoiler|[[Tricking the Shapeshifter]]}}

* [[Ungrateful Bastard]]: He's not too thankful to the Animorphs for saving his life. Whether this is just straight-out ingratitude or bitterness that they left his parents behind is never made clear.

* [[The Unchosen One]]: Both literally and figuratively. {{spoiler|He eventually decides to fight on his own terms, declaring both the Animorphs and the Yeerks his enemies. In ''The Return'' he is literally the unchosen one, as Crayak sets him up to be his weapon only to reveal he's just a tool being used to persuade Rachel to join him.}}

* [[Verbal Tic]]: David has a tendency to say the name of the person he's talking to [[Department of Redundancy Department|several times]] in a single conversation, usually when he's trying to be threatening. In one occasion in ''The Solution'', he says Rachel's name six times in one page.

* {{spoiler|[[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: He goes from a relatively normal kid to an unflinching killer after gaining the morphing power.}}

* [[Xanatos Speed Chess]]: {{spoiler|David plays a pretty mean game of it until he starts carrying the [[Villain Ball]], unless it's an [[Indy Ploy]] - we never know for sure if he's had it all planned out or just making it up as he goes along.}}

* [[You Dirty Rat]]

 

 

 

When the Animorphs are finally uncovered and forced to go on the run, they decide to recruit some fresh blood in case they are killed. Rationalizing that the Yeerks would have no use for handicapped hosts, they do their recruiting at a children's hospital. Enter the Auxiliary Animorphs.

* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Collete

* [[Disability Superpower]]: They master morphing a lot faster than the kids originally did. Cassie theorizes this is because, while their bodies are weaker, their minds are stronger.

* [[Fragile Speedster]]: James, like Jake, has a peregrine falcon flight morph.

* [[Handicapped Badass]]

== Yeerk Empire ==

 

 

 

The only Yeerk to ever infest an Andalite, Esplin 9466 Primary, in his time as Visser Three, was put in charge of operations on Earth. Though he carried out the orders of his superiors and employed the strategy of infiltration and subversion suggested by his rival Visser One, his violent and impulsive personality lent itself more brutal tactics. A long-time proponent of a strategy of open war, his efforts to be promoted to Visser One were stymied by his inability to capture or kill what he believed to be "Andalite bandits", and his growing obsession with the Animorphs paved the way for his descent into insanity and paranoia.

 

* [[Aliens Are Bastards]]: Boy is he ever!

* [[Animorphism]]

* [[Authority Equals Asskicking]]: One of the reasons he's still in power.

* [[Ax Crazy]]

* [[Big Bad]]: Played with in that, while he is the primary antagonist of the series and is quite high up in the Yeerk hierarchy, there are still two Vissers and the Council of Thirteen above him. {{spoiler|However, he is ultimately promoted to Visser One. And in one [[Bad Future]], he works his way up to [[President Evil|Emperor]].}}

* [[Big Damn Villains]]: In ''The Mutation''.

* [[Bigger Is Better]]: A philosophy he subscribes to wholeheartedly. Subverted in ''The Arrival'', when he finally realizes bigger is not always better and morphs a small creature to avoid being assassinated.

* [[Blob Monster]]: One of his morphs in ''The Return''. Rachel aptly describes it as 'Killer Jell-O'.

* [[The Caligula]]

* [[Combat Tentacles]]: More than a few of his morphs feature them, most notably the Lerdethak from ''The Forgotten'' and the unnamed monster he morphs in ''The Ultimate''.

* {{spoiler|[[Cruel Mercy]]}}: {{spoiler|After he's finally beaten, he's robbed of his prized Andalite body and forced to live out the rest of his natural life in his natural Yeerk state, blind and helpless. For Visser Three, who was in love with the sense of sight, this is very fitting}}.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: Most of his fights with the Animorphs end up like this.

* [[Dishing Out Dirt]]: In ''The Visitor'' he morphs a three-legged, twenty-foot tall creature that's strong enough to rip up chunks of cement from the ground and throw them.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: Teams up with the Animorphs to escape The Nartec in ''The Mutation''.

** Don't forget when he (however briefly) teams up with the Animorphs against the Aliens With Big Egos. I am, of course, [[Captain Obvious|referring to the Helmacrons]].

* [[Evil Gloating]]: He's a master of this. Read ''The Threat'' for the most triumphant example.

* [[Evil Overlord]]

* {{spoiler|[[Humiliation Conga]]}}

* [[The Juggernaut]]: In ''The Message'' he chases the kids as a giant, untiring [[Sea Monster]] called a Mardrut. They're only saved by the fortuitous arrival of [[Fan Nickname|magic talking]] [[Sapient Cetaceans|whales]].

* [[Large Ham]] / [[Chewing the Scenery]] / [[No Indoor Voice]]: Something of a [[Running Gag]]; every time it is explained that thought-speak can be sent to one person or a few, that's when the Visser ANNOUNCES HIS PRESENCE TO EVERY PERSON IN RANGE!

* [[The Leader]]: Type III.

* [[Muck Monster]]: He's got two known morphs like this, one seen in ''The Weakness'' and the other in ''The Hidden''.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Among Andalites, he is known as 'The Abomination'.

* [[No One Could Survive That]]: The actual Yeerk Esplin 9466 has made a shtick out of surviving against impossible odds. See ''The Andalite Chronicles'', ''The Hork-Bajir Chronicles'', and ''The Alien''. {{spoiler|He also survives the war, which is no mean feat when you consider how many people want him dead.}}

* [[Plant Aliens]]: His [[When Trees Attack|Lerdethak morph]] from ''The Forgotten''.

* [[Prehensile Hair]]: In ''The Suspicion'' he morphs a [[Medusa]]-like creature with scythe-tentacles for hair.

* [[Sea Monster]]: In ''The Escape'' he morphs a bright yellow alien sea serpent. His Lebtin Javelin Fish from ''The Reaction'' and and Mardrut from ''The Message'' also count.

* [[Shoot the Messenger]]: All the goddamn time.

* [[The Starscream]]: To Visser One. {{spoiler|He succeeds eventually}}

* [[Stronger Sibling]]: Labeled as such at birth, hence his 'primary' designation.

* [[Stupid Evil]]: It's only most of the way through the series when he even begins to ''suspect'' that the Animorphs are human.

* [[Torture Technician]]: In ''The Extreme'' it's revealed that he collects torture devices from around the universe.

* [[Villain Decay]]: Suffers from it, due to being the main villain for the entire series. Even more extreme if you read the Hork-Bajir or Andalite Chronicles, in which we see his beginnings as a ''very'' capable [[Manipulative Bastard]], and long before his degeneration into the [[General Failure]] he is now. Despite this, fighting him head-on is still not a good idea.

* [[Villainous Breakdown]]: His repeated defeats and humiliations at the hands of the Animorphs take their toll.

* [[Villainous Rescue]]: Without him those kids would have been ''screwed'' by the Nartec.

* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: And how!

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: He has a form devoted to this, a Vanarx, which can suck the Yeerk out of its host and eat it.

 

 

 

Cold and calculating, it was Edriss 562 who suggested the strategy of infiltration that defined the war for the majority of the series, after years of living amongst her enemies ({{spoiler|under the guise of Marco's mother Eva}}). Though she punished failure harshly, she also rewarded well for success, and her calm and collected tactical abilities made her a star in the eyes of the Council.

* [[Body Surf]]: In a sense during ''Visser''. Over the course of the narrative she moves through seven different hosts.

* [[Deliver Us From Evil]]: Ultimately subverted.

* [[Enemy Mine]]: {{spoiler|She aids the Animorphs for her own ends in ''The Predator'' and allies with them against Visser Three in ''Visser''.}}

* [[Even Evil Has Loved Ones]]

* [[Unexpected Successor]]: Before ''Visser'', Edriss held the lowly rank of Sub-Visser Four-hundred-nine.

* [[Villain Episode]]: She (and Visser Three) have a starring role in ''Visser''.

 

 

 

Assistant principal at the school attended by the Animorphs and a prominent Human-Controller, he and his wife became Controllers to protect his daughter Melissa from infestation. One of the more frequently-recurring antagonists, he has a prominent role in ''The Andalite Chronicles'' as a villain, contradicting everything about him learned up to that point.

* [[Fighting From the Inside]]: He and his wife in ''The Visitor''. It's notable as the greatest act of resistance an infested human in the series ever puts up.

* [[Hostage Situation]]: Twice the Animorphs make him victim of it, in ''The Conspiracy'' and ''The Answer''.

* [[Middle Management Mook]]

* [[Mook Lieutenant]]

* [[No One Could Survive That]]: Midway through ''The Andalite Chronicles'' he falls into a frigging ''black hole''. He shows up in the third arc none the worse for wear.

* [[Papa Wolf]]: "If you harm my daughter I will fight you. I will fight you forever."

* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: Iniss

* [[Recurring Character]]

* [[The Quisling]]: In ''The Andalite Chronicles''.

* [[Starter Villain]]: For the first five books the Animorphs encountered him pretty regularly and then he faded into the background as more formidable threats began to make themselves known.

 

 

 

The billionaire owner of Web Access America and mastermind behind a web site devoted to exposing Yeerks, the Animorphs seek him out to learn if he is friend or foe. It turns out he's a Controller, but no ordinary Controller - {{spoiler|he is in fact the twin brother of Visser Three, a lowly Yeerk who amassed a personal empire by allying with his host.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Cannibalism Superpower]]: He can live without the life-giving Kandrona rays Yeerks need to survive, but only by consuming another Yeerk once every three days.}}

* [[Corrupt Corporate Executive]]

* {{spoiler|[[Diabolical Mastermind]]: Fits most of the items on the checklist.}}

* [[Eccentric Millionaire]]: He's got extraordinary defenses around his mansion to keep any animal out and his guards see him as a paranoid eccentric in the vein of Howard Hughes. {{spoiler|It turns out he's just making sure his brother doesn't come pay him a house call.}}

* [[Friend or Foe]]

* {{spoiler|[[I'm a Humanitarian]]}}

* [[Man of Wealth and Taste]]

* [[Meaningful Name]]: 'Fenestre' is the Latin word for 'window'.

* [[Nouveau Riche]]: Joe Bob Fenestre was a lowly programmer working in the bowels of a telephone company before building Web Access America.

* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]

* [[Rags to Riches]]: Fenestre's backstory, which his company plays up for the public.

* {{spoiler|[[Serial Killer]]}}

* [[Technology Marches On]]: His company, Web Access America, is a thinly-veiled take on America Online.

* [[Villain of the Week]]: In ''The Warning''.

 

 

 

 

* [[Creepy Child]]: In her first few appearances, before Cassie figures out what she is.

* [[Dead Little Sister|Dead Little Brother]]: Her pool-brother, Estril-Seven-Three-One. He's killed by Cassie at the beginning of ''The Departure''.

* [[Even Mooks Have Loved Ones]]

* [[Mook Face Turn]]

* [[Not So Different]]

* [[Secret Keeper]]

* [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock]]

 

 

 

The commander of the Yeerk invasion of Leera, Visser Four is demoted and assigned lowly actor John Berryman as punishment after the Animorphs thwart his plans in ''The Decision''. While on Earth he finds the Time Matrix and attempts to use it to alter history in his favor. He's the main villain of ''Megamorphs #03: Elfangor's Secret''.

* [[Conflict Killer]]: Visser Four is unique in being the only threat in the series that forces Crayak and the Ellimist to agree to a truce, however temporary.

* [[Dirty Coward]]: He spends the whole book basically running from the heroes and flees his host after he's crippled.

* [[Evil Gloating]]: When Rachel's shot to pieces in front of him in the Battle of Trafalgar. It doesn't stick.

* [[Powder Trail]]: He uses this to blow a hole in ''HMS Victory''.

* [[The Power of Acting]]: Aside from the [[Psychic Static]] John Berryman uses it for, Visser Four uses his host's experience to more effectively disguise himself. He blends in well at Agincourt and Traflagar, but abandons disguise after that as the Animorphs already know what he looks like.

* [[Psychic Static]]: John Berryman Jr. thinks Henry V at Visser Four so much so that the very first thing he does when he finds the Time Matrix is try to change the result of the Battle of Agincourt so that Shakespeare would never be inspired to write it.

* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]: Visser Four.

* [[Time Machine]]: The Time Matrix

* [[Villain of the Week]]

* [[Villainous Friendship]]: The Andalite traitor in ''The Decision'' says Visser Four and Visser Three are 'such good friends'. If that's true, Esplin's influence wasn't enough to keep him from being demoted after losing Leera.

 

 

 

A sadistic Yeerk sub-visser responsible for capturing and torturing Tobias. Later gets the kids involved in a plot to murder Visser Three in revenge for her demotion. It {{spoiler|turns out to be a trap meant to eliminate both the Animorphs and the Yeerk Peace Faction}}.

* [[Axe Crazy]]: Makes [[Complete Monster|Visser Three]], [[Eldritch Abomination|Crayak]], and a whole host of alien monsters look stable by comparison.

* [[Blondes Are Evil]]: [[Axe Crazy|Are]] [[Torture Technician|they]] [[Sociopathic Soldier|ever]]!

* [[Dark Action Girl]]: Taylor would rather [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulate]] than fight; she's nowhere near the [[Badass]] that [[Blood Knight|Rachel]] can become, and maybe not even at [[The Heart|Cassie's]] [[Action Girl|level]]. But the girl can still take and dish our far more damage than you would expect her to be able to, and seems to be one of the few Yeerks who didn't get her training at the [[Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy]]. In Book 43 {{spoiler|she's able to take out the entire team (minus Cassie and Tobias) when she catches them by surprise, and fights a Taxxon-morphed Tobias on a fairly even basis}}. Not bad for a ([[Badass Abnormal|relatively]]) normal girl.

* [[Electronic Eyes]]: Her entire skull has been replaced, bone by bone with steel. I think we can safely assume her eyes have been as well.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]:

** Also somewhat to Rachel, since both are blonde, immaculate-looking valley girl types capable of violence and associated with Tobias.

* [[Femme Fatale]]

* [[Foe Yay]]: Largely averted. It is ''possible'' to read her obsession with capturing and breaking Tobias (and some of the [[We Can Rule Together|lines she says to him]]) as rather [[Foe Yay]]-y, but it requires you to ignore her personality. She's described as so cold, nasty, and downright insane that most of it comes off exactly the way it's supposed to: as the behaviour of an insecure, sadistic bullying bitch who doesn't like letting her victims get away. [[Yandere]] she ain't.

* [[Hollywood Cyborg]]: She was healed by advanced alien technology.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]: Plays mindgames with Tobias, tricks the kids into helping her plot to attack the Yeerk pool, and generally manipulates everyone's emotions for kicks and profit. She's good at it too, to the point where Tobias cannot get her out of his head.

* [[Not So Different]]: Claims she and Tobias aren't in order to screw with his mind. On some level, he seems to believe her.

* [[Psycho for Hire]]: Or whatever the "gainfully employed by a megalomaniacal alien empire" equivalent is.

* [[Puppeteer Parasite]] - Sub-Visser Fifty-one, who's actual Yeerk name is never revealed.

* [[The Quisling]]

* [[Recurring Character]]: Appears in ''The Illusion'' and ''The Test''.

* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: Even for a member of the Yeerk military she's a twisted bitch.

* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: Causes it in Tobias.

* [[Villain of the Week]]: [[Recurring Character|Twice]].

* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Offers Tobias this deal in ''The Test''. He turns her down.

 

 

 

A candidate member for The Council of Thirteen, sent to investigate Visser Three's progress on earth. Is hosted by a Garatron, one of the Yeerk's "Newest and most capable host species." A real problem in ''The Weakness''.

* [[Jerkass]]: Consistently.

** [[Jerkass Dissonance]]: He's doing it to [[Big Bad|Visser]] [[Axe Crazy|Three]] though, so really, who cares?

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}

* [[Large Ham]]: On par with the Visser. When the two of them are together, it's like a pork convention.

* [[Smug Super]]: Jeez, a little overconfident, aren't we Inspector?

* [[Super Speed]]: To cartoon levels. He runs down several cheetahs with ease.

 

 

 

The real Thomas Berenson was the eldest son of Jean and Steven Berenson, and Jake's brother. Although three years older, Tom is described as almost identical to Jake in looks, though different in temperament. Growing up, Jake and Tom were extremely close, but Tom became more distant due to his infestation (prior to Elfangor's crash). His status as a Controller caused Jake a great deal of emotional suffering, as the latter saw it as his duty to rescue him.

* [[The Dog Bites Back]]

* [[Evil Gloating]]: He indulges in ''The Answer''.

* [[Informed Ability]]: He claims he's acquired the morphing power for his own Yeerk body. We never really learn if this is true or not.

* {{spoiler|[[Killed Off for Real]]}}

* [[No Name Given]]: Tom's second Yeerk. Even among fellow Yeerks, he is referred to simply as Tom.

* [[Panthera Awesome]]: He's acquired a jaguar battle morph, though we never get to see it.

'''Tom''': Surly ''and'' unpleasant. Oh well. }}

* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]

* [[Reliable Traitor]]: {{spoiler|Ironically, Visser Three [[Genre Blindness|never clicks to it]] until the end. [[Genre Savvy|Jake does]].}}

* [[Replacement Goldfish]]: His original Yeerk gets killed early in the series and a new Yeerk quickly infests him.

* [[Scaled Up]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

== Andalites ==

 

 

An Andalite general, military genius and war hero, Elfangor was made a household name for his contributions to the Andalite-Yeerk war effort. Though this was not generally known amongst his own people, he spent a great deal of time on Earth permanently morphed as a human: a sort of self-imposed exile after a miscalculation led to the infestation of his superior officer, Alloran. His longstanding and well-known subsequent rivalry with Visser Three ended with his death at the hands of the latter after a battle in Earth's orbit, though not before he was able to give the morphing power to Jake and his friends.

* {{spoiler|[[Eaten Alive]]}}

* [[Going Native]]: With humans.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]

* [[Honor Before Reason]]: In ''The Andalite Chronicles''.

* [[Humans Through Alien Eyes]]

* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With Loren.

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The Yeerks come to know him as 'Beast Elfangor'.

* [[No Mouth]]

* [[Telepathic Spacemen]]

* [[Take Up My Sword]]

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: It's revealed in ''The Pretender'' that Visser Three eventually came to regard him this way.

 

 

 

One of Elfangor's fellow cadets from his days with Alloran. Gets trapped in Taxxon morph partway through ''The Andalite Chronicles''.

* [[And I Must Scream]]

* [[Animorphism]]

* [[Beware My Stinger Tail]]

* [[Dark Is Not Evil]]: A pretty striking example. He's trapped as a giant, cannibalistic centipede. He's one of the good guys.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: A rarity among the Andalites.

* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Taxxons can eat and digest pretty much anything.

* [[Foil]]: To Elfangor; he'll crack jokes and is pretty easy-going, in contrast to Elfangor's more serious nature.

* [[Going Native]]: Although he retains his sense of morality.

* [[Telepathic Spacemen]]

 

 

 

Visser Three's host, and formerly Elfangor's commanding officer. Perhaps the best example of the ruthless mentality of the Andalite military, Alloran was infamous even before becoming the only Andalite to ever be taken by a Yeerk. Disgraced and despised by even his own people, he becomes more humble and pacifistic during his time as Visser Three's slave.

* [[General Ripper]]: In ''The Hork-Bajir Chronicles''. He tried to wipe out the Hork-Bajir once he realized they couldn't be saved from the Yeerks.

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: When {{spoiler|the Andalites threaten to destroy Earth in order to contain the Yeerks, and Ax is told he is too low-ranking to challenge the officer's decision, the recently freed Alloran takes up the challenge for him. The Andalite officers promptly reconsider, thus sparing earth.}} Not bad for an ex-[[General Ripper]].

* [[Motive Rant]]: He gives Elfangor one in ''The Andalite Chronicles''.

* [[No Mouth]]

* [[Our Centaurs Are Different]]

* [[Pet the Dog]]: With Arbron and Loren at various points.

* [[Synthetic Plague]]: In ''The Hork-Bajir Chronicles'' this is his secret weapon.

* [[Telepathic Spacemen]]

 

 

 

The daughter of the infamous Prince Seerow and heroine of ''the Hork-Bajir Chronicles''. She makes a guest reappearance in ''The Prophecy''.

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Animorphism]]

* [[Break the Cutie]]: In the first fifty pages of ''The Hork-Bajir Chronicles'' she loses her pride, her home, and her entire family.

* [[Bratty Teenage Daughter]]: At first.

* [[Telepathic Spacemen]]

 

 

 

An Apex Level Intelligence Advisor and the biological brother of Alloran-Semitur-Corass. Veteran of over twenty conflicts, Arbat is assigned to the Andalite task force Unit 0, ostensibly tasked with the assassination of Visser Three. The true mission of Unit 0, known only to Arbat himself, is to unleash a deadly new biological weapon against the Yeerks. He appears only in ''The Arrival''.

 

* [[Animorphism]]

* [[Badass Bookworm]]

* [[Beware My Stinger Tail]]

* [[Synthetic Plague]]: He plans to wipe out the Yeerks using one. [[Not So Different|Sound familiar]]?

* [[Telepathic Spacemen]]

* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]

 

 

== The Higher Powers ==

 

 

 

 

* [[All Powerful Bystander]]: Not technically all powerful, but so close as to make little difference from human perspectives.

* [[Cosmic Entity]]

* [[Eldritch Abomination]]

* [[A Form You Are Comfortable With]]

* [[I Am Legion]]: Throughout most of his appearances he refers to himself in the plural, making it unclear if he is a singular entity or part of a collective, or even a race of creatures like him. {{spoiler|It is eventually revealed he is a singular individual who absorbed millions of minds in a freak incident, explaining his predilection for referring to himself in the plural}}

* [[Loophole Abuse]]: He's forbidden to interfere directly except when he makes a deal with Crayak, but gets around it by sneakily arranging for them to realize things on their own that they wouldn't have without him. This is actually the defining trait of him in his first appearance, where he shows the Animorphs a vision of a [[Bad Future]], and a background event clues them in to the location of the Yeerk Kandrona in the present.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]

* [[Pointy Ears]]: In his favored form.

* [[Reality Warper]]

* [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]]

* [[Time Stands Still]]

* [[Wizard Beard]]

* [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form]]

 

 

 

Foreshadowed early on, the Crayak remains a mystery until halfway through the series, when the Ellimist reveals his story. A being of power equal to the Ellimist but with very different goals, the Crayak is a malevolent being chased from his home galaxy by the one power in the universe that can defeat him. He seeks extinction on a galactic scale, and eventually the ability to control all of space-time as his own.

* {{spoiler|[[Create Your Own Villain]]: The Ellimist ascended into his godlike state before Crayak did and had a chance to destroy him before he also achieved semi-omnipotence. He didn't.}}

* [[Cyclops]]: Even before ascending, Crayak's original form was a monstrous, one-eyed creature.

* [[Evil Counterpart]]: To the Ellimist.

* [[Evil Is Petty]]: After ''The Attack'' he spends most of his time coming up with ways to punish Jake for what he did to the Howlers.

* [[For the Evulz]]: He massacres entire species and enjoys the suffering and torment of others... because hey, it's something to do. When he and the Ellimist first acquire their near-omnipotent powers, the Ellimist suggests that since they're incapable of killing each other now and can just undo any damage the other does to the galaxy, they could call a truce and just watch the advance of evolution. Crayak refuses because he finds the idea boring.

* [[Giant Eye of Doom]]

* [[I Lied]]: To {{spoiler|David}}. He promises him revenge against Rachel, but merely uses him as a tool against her.

* [[Leave Your Quest Test]]: Playing up his role as the Ellimist's [[Evil Counterpart]], Crayak extends Jake an offer to alter history so he never met Elfangor. {{spoiler|Jake accepts this offer, and it's the basis for ''Megamorphs #04''.}}

* [[Talking in Your Dreams]]: He appears to both Jake and Rachel in dreams.

 

 

 

An alien being who resembles a humanoid dinosaur, he serves Crayak and acts as his representative. He has incredible powers, presumably a gift from his master.

 

* [[The Dragon]]: To Crayak.

* [[Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor]]

* [[From a Single Cell]]: He can regenerate, possibly from any wound. {{spoiler|Rachel rips his head off in ''The Return'' to no effect.}}

* [[Giggling Villain]]

* [[Hannibal Lecture]]: His first appears in ''The Exposed'' has him pop out of nowhere and snarkily pick the Animorphs apart one by one.

* [[Last of His Kind]]: {{spoiler|It's implied that he sold out his entire species so he could become Crayak's right hand man.}}

* [[Loophole Abuse]]: Like his master, he is bound by the rules of The Game. That doesn't stop him from bending the rules to achieve the outcome he desires.

* [[Manipulative Bastard]]

* [[Reality Warper]]

* [[Recurring Character]]: He appears in ''The Exposed'', the last two Megamorphs books, and ''The Return''.

* [[Wild Card]]: See above. His name literally means wild card.

 

 

 

A [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere]] that shows up in the epilogue of the final book. He gathers the remnants of the shattered Yeerk Empire under his aegis and plots to [[The Assimilator|assimilate]] the Animorphs into his being. The book ends with the Animorphs ramming his ship and the outcome of the conflict is never revealed.

* [[Minor Major Character]]: His only appearance covers all of ''four pages''.

* [[No Mouth]]: Subverted in nightmarish fashion. See [[Body Horror]] above.

* [[Path of Inspiration]]: Hinted at. The Yeerk remnants he leads worship him as a god and his lieutenant, Efflit One-Three-One-Eight, carries himself in a manner more befitting a high priest than a ship's captain.

* [[The Remnant]]: He leads it.

== Everyone Else ==

 

 

 

Erek King was a member of the Chee, a race of ancient androids that had been living in secret on Earth for thousands of years. He revealed the existence of his people to Marco after it became apparent that they were both secretly fighting for the same cause. Though he was at heart a pacifist and found physical violence abhorrent, he and other Chee helped Animorphs in their missions by gathering information and providing alibis.

* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: In ''The Android''.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: "I gotta stop hanging around with you people. You people are just plain strange."

* [[The Gump]]: Franklin Roosevelt got the name for the "New Deal" from Erek during a game of poker. Erek was Louis Pasteur's lab assistant and gave him the idea to try killing bacteria with heat.

* [[Heavyworlder]]: The Pemalite home world's gravity was four times stronger than Earth's, accounting for Erek's obscene strength.

* [[Hologram]]: His human form is one, and he can project basically whatever he wants - boulders, dump trucks, and so on.

* [[Holographic Disguise]]

* [[Hologram Projection Imperfection]]: In ''The Exposed''.

* [[Immortality]]: Type II

* [[Ignored Epiphany]]: He learns the truth about the Howlers in ''The Attack'' after uploading their memories. He doesn't care.

* [[Moral Dissonance]]: He's forbidden to harm living creatures but keeps a Yeerk captive in his head, bound by wires and effectively as helpless as a Yeerk host would be.

* [[Morality Chip]]

* [[Nigh Invulnerability]]: He and the other Chee can tank Dracon beam shots, though he admits a full power blast, sustained for long enough, would destroy him.

* [[Older Than They Look]]

* [[Person of Mass Destruction]]: If he and the Chee had joined the war in earnest, the Yeerks would have been defeated in a week.

* [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|Really Five Thousand Years Old]]: At ''least''.

* [[Robot Names]]: In ''The Android'' we learn all Chee have their own names, such as Chee-Ionos. Curiously, we never learn Erek's.

* [[Robotic Reveal]]

* [[Sixth Ranger]]: During ''The Attack''.

* [[Super Speed]]

* [[Time Abyss]]

* [[Tuckerization]]

 

 

 

The heroine of ''The Andalite Chronicles'' and Elfangor's love interest. {{spoiler|She's Tobias's mother.}}

* [[Action Girl]]

* [[Animorphism]]: From ''The Diversion'' on up.

* [[Badass Normal]]: In ''The Andalite Chronicles''.

* [[Batter Up]]: She takes on Esplin's Mortrons [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|with nothing but a baseball bat]].

* [[Disability Superpower]]: In ''The Diversion'' she is able to master morphing very quickly. The Auxiliary Animorphs later exhibit this same knack, and the Animorphs speculate it may be because they are physically disabled, forcing their minds to become stronger.

* [[Foot Focus]]: In ''The Andalite Chronicles''. Justified, since the Andalites are a hoofed species and have never seen bare feet before.

* [[Little Miss Badass]]

* {{spoiler|[[Mama Bear]]: In ''The Diversion''.}}

* {{spoiler|[[Mysterious Parent]]}}

* [[Plucky Girl]]: She's more or less Rachel lite.

* [[Throwing Off the Disability]]: She's blind and crippled in ''The Diversion'', but is healed by morphing.

 

 

 

 

* [[A Child Shall Lead Them]]

* [[La Résistance]]: The free Hork-Bajir, which she leads.

* [[The Leader]]: Type I meets Type IV.

* [[Noble Savage]]

* [[Rebel Leader]]

* [[Younger Than They Look]]: During the events of the series she is only a year or two old.

 

 

 

Queen of the Nartec, a villainous group of merpeople encountered in ''The Mutation''. She plots to take her people into a war with the surface world, but hasn't reckoned on the Animorphs... or Visser Three.

* [[Cruel and Unusual Death]]: Likes having survivors of shipwrecks vivisected and stuffed.

* [[Evil Versus Evil]]: She's ambitious, but she really wasn't ready to go up against likes of [[Big Bad|Visser Three]].

* [[God Save Us From the Queen]]: Blood-thirsty ruler of a dying civilisation, she's enough of a problem to force an alliance between the Animorphs and the Visser.

* [[Green Rocks]]

* [[Our Mermaids Are Different]]: More amphibious. And totally nuts.

* [[Royal We]]: Averted, surprisingly enough.

* [[Take Over the World]]: Has delusions of doing this.

* [[Unscaled Merfolk]]

* [[Wicked Cultured]]

 

 

 

A three star-general and the leader of ATF-1 (Alien Task Force One), the U.S. Army's answer to the Yeerk invasion. He doesn't take kindly to Jake and the kids at first, but agrees to help them after he's been brought up to speed.

* [[Aggressive Negotiations]]: He has Jake arrested four times before he starts listening to him.

* [[Badass Normal]]

* [[Last Stand]]: He leads it.

* [[The Leader]]: Type II.

* [[The War Room]]: He runs his campaign against the Yeerks out of one. Jake notes that it seems an awful like what you'd see in a movie; old guys chomping cigars, guys in suits and [[The Big Board|a big map]] (that has his hometown crossed out, {{spoiler|presumably because it isn't there any more}}).