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== Animorphs ==
''My name is...''
=== Jake ===
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"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.
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* [[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."
* [[Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?]]: Magnificently played out in ''The Attack''. {{spoiler|He manipulates the collective memory of the Howlers to force Crayak into eliminating them.}}
* [[Don't Call Me "Sir"!]] / [[They Call Me Mister Tibbs]]: A [[Running Gag]] between him and Ax.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]
* [[Dreaming of Things to Come]]: In ''The Capture''.
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* [[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 and
* [[Young Conqueror]]
=== Rachel ===
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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".
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* [[Attack! Attack! Attack!]]: Unsurprisingly, this is her battle strategy when she temporarily becomes leader of the Animorphs in ''The Weakness''
* [[Bat Out of Hell]]: In ''The Underground'' her cover morph is a brown bat.
* [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]]: Outside of battle, according to the others. Averted in
* [[The Berserker]]
* [[Big Badass Bird of Prey]]: Her avian morph is a bald eagle. It's the second-largest bird any of them have.
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* [[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.
* [[Laser-Guided Amnesia]]: She suffers from this in the first Megamorphs book.
* [[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]]."
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* [[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.}}
* [[One of the Boys]]: Her father tells her mother in ''The Stranger'' that Rachel is as good as a son because she's a tough as a boy. They go hiking, watch ball games and go to gymnastic events together. [[Double Subversion|Double subverted]], though, since Rachel is ''also'' characterized as [[The Fashionista]] who insists on hiding outfits (not clothes, ''outfits'') in Cassie's barn just because she wants to look immaculate at all times.
* [[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]]}}
▲* [[Starfish Character]]: In ''The Separation''.
* [[Stranger in a Familiar Land]]: In her last book, Rachel notes that she feels like a stranger in her own school.
* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: It's her cover morph in ''The Return''.
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* [[You Dirty Rat]]: A heroic example. She and Cassie morph rats in ''The Secret'' and it's her cover morph in ''The Solution''.
=== Tobias ===
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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.
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* [[Yank the Dog's Chain]]: {{spoiler|In ''The Pretender'', the woman who was going to be Tobias's new family turns out to be Visser Three in a morph.}}
=== Cassie ===
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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.
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* {{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 Face]]: Neither fighting nor scouting etc is her speciality. Her domain is being [[The Empath]].
** [[The Chick]]: arguably the most tradtionally feminine since Rachel is a [[Blood Knight]].
** [[The Heart]]: The "moral compass" of the group. [[Deconstructed Trope|Deconstructed]] in later
** [[The Conscience]]
* [[
* [[First-Name Basis]]
* [[Forgot I Could Fly]]: Infamously done with her alternate counterpart in ''The Familiar''.
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* [[Heroic BSOD]]: In ''The Departure''.
* [[Heroic Dolphin]]: Her first cover morph, seen in ''The Message''.
* [[Horn Attack]]: In ''[[
* [[Identity Impersonator]]: In ''The Reaction'' Cassie acquires and morphs Rachel to throw a suspicious Yeerk off her trail.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]
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* [[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.
* [[Manipulative Bastard|Manipulative Bitch]]: She's the most compassionate, but she also gets people very well, which means that she can manipulate people if she feels like she has
* [[The Messiah]]
* [[Morality Pet]]: She becomes this to {{spoiler|Aftran}}.
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* [[Unresolved Sexual Tension]]: With Jake at the start of the series.
=== Marco ===
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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.
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* [[Affectionate Nickname]]: Often calls Rachel "''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]].''"
* [[Animorphism]]
* [[The Call Knows Where You Live]]
* [[Catch Phrase]]: "Are you insane!?" and variants thereof.
* [[Class Clown]]
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* [[The Drag Along]]: At first.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: A [[Running Gag]].
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* [[Everything's Better with Llamas]]: Invoked by him in ''The Reaction''.
* [[Everything Is Better With Monkeys]]: Or, as Marco would probably specify, gorillas.
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* [[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.
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* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: In ''The Predator''. He changes his mind after {{spoiler|learning his mother is still alive as Visser One's host.}}
* [[Shapeshifter Identity Crisis]]: In ''The Proposal''.
* [[Shapeshifter Mashup]] : ''The Proposal'' again.
* [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids]]: Often tells Cassie this.
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* [[This Is Gonna Suck]]: It's pretty much his job to say this.
=== Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill (Ax) ===
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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.
* [[Affectionate Nickname]]: Aside from "Ax", the others sometimes call him Ax-man.
* [[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.
* [[Aliens Steal Cable]]: He loves television.
* [[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]]
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* [[Humanshifting]]: Ax is unique for morphing more humans than any other Animorph.
* [[Humanity Ensues]]
* [[Humans Are
* [[Humans Through Alien Eyes]]
* [[Humorless Aliens|Humorless Alien]]: At first, though he gets better as the series progresses.
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* [[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]]
* [[Pretty Boy]]: In human morph, which is attributed in part to having two girls' DNA.
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]
* [[Running Gag]]: Aside from his food obsession and bluntness, there's the way he always calls Jake "Prince Jake", only for Jake to say "Don't call me Prince", and repeats himself when in human morph. Morph. Mor-''phhh...'' As the series progresses, it evolves from a [[Verbal Tic]] into playful team banter.
** 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.
* [[Sense Freak]]: See [[Big Eater]] above.
* [[Sixth Ranger]]
* [[The Smart Guy]]: Knows about alien things. You know, being an alien and all.
* [[Some Call Me... Tim|Some Call Me Ax]]: Or occasionally, Phillip.
* [[Spock Speak]]
* [[Token Non-Human]]
* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Cinnabons
* [[Two of Your Earth Minutes]]: Very much a deliberate [[Running Gag]] on his part, practically serving as his [[Catch Phrase]]:
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'''Marco''': (after a pause) Seventeen *minutes*?
'''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]]
=== David ===
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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.}}
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* [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: In ''The Return''. {{spoiler|He manages to recruit two henchmen, but they're both bumbling idiots who ultimately end up [[The Dog Bites Back|turning on him]].}}
* [[Take a Third Option]]: {{spoiler|Caught between the Animorphs and the Yeerks, neither of whom he trusts. He eventually turns on them both.}}
* [[Took a Level
** {{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.}}
* [[Unnamed Parent
* [[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|[[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: A rare ''literal'' example.}}
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* [[You Dirty Rat]]
=== The Auxiliary Animorphs ===
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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.
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== Yeerk Empire ==
=== Visser Three (Esplin 9466 the primary), later, {{spoiler|Visser One}} ===
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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]]
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* [[Bond One-Liner]]: He gets a few good ones.
* [[Breath Weapon]]: His most powerful and only recurring morph, the eight-everythinged creature seen in ''The Invasion'' and ''The Resistance'', breathes [[Playing with Fire|fireballs]] from each of its eight heads.
* [[The Brute]]: He only knows one
* [[The Caligula]]
* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: He got this way when handled by the ghostwriters. See ''The Extreme'' and ''The Illusion'' for good examples.
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* {{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.
* [[Cyclops]]: In ''The Sickness'' he morphs a creature that's basically a giant, tentacled eyeball.
* [[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''.
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* [[Spike Shooter]]: In ''The Reaction'' he morphs a [[Sea Monster|Lebtin Javelin Fish]], a kind of manta ray that fires spears from its mouth. His [[Vertebrate with Extra Limbs|Dule Fansa]] also shoots spikes from its four arms.
* [[The Starscream]]: To Visser One. {{spoiler|He succeeds eventually}}
* [[Start of Darkness]]: ''The Hork-Bajir Chronicles'' probably counts, since aside from Dak and Alrea's story, about a third of the novel is spent exploring his own back story.
* [[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.
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* [[Villainous Rescue]]: Without him those kids would have been ''screwed'' by the Nartec.
* [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity]]: And how!
* [[You Have Failed Me...]]: A ''lot.'' Visser One notes that he's executed subordinates "by the poolful," which basically means thousands or more. He does this so reliably that Marco's able to bluff his way out of a situation where three flunkies were expected by saying, "I think Visser Three killed them for doing something wrong". He chastises himself for this, calling it the worse lie he's ever told, only for it to be believed.
* [[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.
=== Visser One (Edriss-Five-Six-Two) ===
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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.
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* [[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''.
* [[Villain with Good Publicity]]: In stark contrast to [[
=== Hedrick Chapman (Iniss-Two-Two-Six) ===
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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.
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* [[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.
=== Joe Bob Fenestre ({{spoiler|Esplin 9466 the lesser}}) ===
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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.}}
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* [[Villain of the Week]]: In ''The Warning''.
=== Karen (Aftran-Nine-Four-Two) ===
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A low-ranking Yeerk assigned to the daughter of a billionaire banker. By chance she observes Cassie leaving a battle and begins to follow her, convinced she has some connection to the Andalite bandits. Due to a series of unfortunate circumstances, they get stranded together in the woods and Aftran learns Cassie's secret, forcing Cassie to face the other side of the war head on.
* [[Creepy Child]]: In her first few appearances, before Cassie figures out what she is.
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* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: She gives Cassie a few in ''The Departure''.
=== John Berryman Jr. (Visser Four) ===
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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''.
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* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: When the Animorphs erase Berryman from history, Visser Four is spared - all that changes in ''his'' history is that Berryman never becomes his host and he never gets the Time Matrix. Despite this, he never appears again.
=== Taylor (Sub-Visser Fifty-one) ===
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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}}.
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* [[Deal with the Devil]]: Taylor the Girl made one with the Yeerks in order to be pretty again. It involved selling out herself and her mom. Taylor the Yeerk makes another one with {{spoiler|Visser Three following her demotion from sub-visser, becoming part of his plot against the Animorphs and the Peace Faction in return for promotion}}. And the Animorphs make one with her in order to try and assassinate Visser Three.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: Can verge on this, when she's not using her situation to her advantage.
* [[Double Consciousness]]: Literally, sort of; see [[Humanity Is Infectious]] below.
* [[The Dragon]]: To Visser Three, apparently.
* [[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]]:
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* [[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.
** Specifically Tobias thinks about this in her first appearance, when it becomes clear that her perception of the human-Yeerk relationship is similar to Tobias' [[Double Consciousness]] about being a hawk.
* [[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.
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* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: Tobias almost [[Heroic BSOD|shuts down]] when he runs into her again in ''The Test''.
=== The Inspector ===
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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''.
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* [[Villain of the Week]]: And an extremely successful one. In the [[One-Shot Character|one book he appears in]] he nicely upstages [[Big Bad|Visser Three]] as the biggest threat to the cast.
=== Tom Berenson (and his Yeerks) ===
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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.
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* [[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.
* [[Polite Villains, Rude Heroes]]: Deliberately invoked in ''The Answer'':
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'''Tom''': Surly ''and'' unpleasant. Oh well. }}
* [[Puppeteer Parasite]]
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== Andalites ==
=== Prince Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul ===
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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.
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* [[Honor Before Reason]]: In ''The Andalite Chronicles''.
* [[Humans Through Alien Eyes]]
* [[I
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With Loren.
* [[Luke, I Am Your Father]]: {{spoiler|Tobias}} is actually his son.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: The Yeerks come to know him as 'Beast Elfangor'.
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* [[Worthy Opponent]]: It's revealed in ''The Pretender'' that Visser Three eventually came to regard him this way.
=== Arbron ===
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* [[Telepathic Spacemen]]
=== War-Prince Alloran-Semitur-Corass ===
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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.
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* [[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]].
* [[I Call It Vera]]: He calls his beautifully-designed personal ship the ''Jahar,'' [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|after his wife]].
* [[I Cannot Self-Terminate]]: See [[Death Seeker]] above.
* [[Motive Rant]]: He gives Elfangor one in ''The Andalite Chronicles''.
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* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]
=== Aldrea-Iskillion-Falan ===
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* [[Action Girl]]
* [[Animorphism]]
* [[Back
* [[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.
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* [[Telepathic Spacemen]]
=== Arbat-Elivat-Estoni ===
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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''.
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== The Higher Powers ==
=== The Ellimist ===
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An [[All Powerful Bystander]] introduced in the seventh book, the Ellimist is a being so powerful he can directly manipulate the fabric of spacetime, rewrite history, travel through time, and cross between dimensions. He ultimately wants the Animorphs to prevail and save Earth, but he is bound by the rules of the nebulous [[Cosmic Chess Game|Game]], which prevents him from offering direct assistance unless it's in a [[Deal with the Devil]].
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* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Million-to-One Chance]]: {{spoiler|His evolution from Ketran gamer to demigod is due to a series of freak accidents, each more improbable than the last.}}
* [[Mysterious Backer]]: He tries to help the heroes, but he is either too roundabout in his methods to really gain their trust or too caught up in his game with Crayak to help at all.
** {{spoiler|The last ''Megamorphs'' heavily implies that the team basically exists because he arranged things from behind the scene, including the [[Contrived Coincidence
* [[Pointy Ears]]: In his favored form.
* [[Reality Warper]]
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* [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form]]
=== Crayak ===
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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.
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* [[Cyclops]]: Even before ascending, Crayak's original form was a monstrous, one-eyed creature.
* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Shows up with [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|no explanation]] as the Yeerk dies in Jake's brain in ''The Capture''.
* [[Eldritch Abomination]]
* [[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.
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* [[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]]
* [[God of Evil]]: He comes across as this, especially since unlike the Ellimist his backstory is never revealed. Additionally, the author admitted to modeling him after personifications of 'pure evil' such as Sauron from [[The Lord of the Rings]].
* [[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''.}}
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* [[Talking in Your Dreams]]: He appears to both Jake and Rachel in dreams.
=== The Drode ===
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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.
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* [[Wild Card]]: See above. His name literally means wild card.
=== The One ===
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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.
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== Everyone Else ==
=== Erek King ===
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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.
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* [[Deceptively-Human Robots]]: He appears human as long as he can project his hologram.
* [[Do-Anything Robot]]: To some degree in ''The Attack''.
* [[Drop
* [[Foreign Language Tirade]]: In ''The Answer''. See [[What the Hell, Hero?]] below.
* [[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.
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* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: "This is so low. This is so far beneath you, Jake ...I was offering my opinion on your morals and your ethics and your sense of decency. I chose an ancient Mesopotamian dialect well-known for its variety of curse words."
=== Loren ===
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The heroine of ''The Andalite Chronicles'' and Elfangor's love interest. {{spoiler|She's Tobias's mother.}}
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* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: She's curiously absent from the last book.
=== Toby Hamee ===
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The daughter of the first two free Hork-Bajir in generations, Toby Hamee is a seer, a rare anomaly among Hork-Bajir born with genius-level intelligence. Her keen mind and charisma quickly elevate her to leader of the free Hork-Bajir.
* [[A Child Shall Lead Them]]
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* [[Younger Than They Look]]: During the events of the series she is only a year or two old.
=== Queen Soco ===
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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.
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* [[Wicked Cultured]]
=== General Sam Doubleday ===
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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.
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* [[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}}).
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