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== Jake ==

 

{{quote|''Jake is one of those people who are natural leaders. If you were ever trapped in a burning building, you would turn to Jake and ask "What do we do?" And he would have an answer, too.''}}

 

== Rachel ==

 

{{quote|''I should have never suggested to Rachel that she's weak or helpless. Rachel may look like Little Miss Teen Model or whatever, but she thinks she's Storm from the [[X-Men]].''}}

* [[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.

* [[The Berserker]]

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

 

== Tobias ==

 

{{quote|''He was a sweet, poetic kind of guy. The kind bullies love to pick on. He used to have messy, out-of-control hair and dreamy eyes that always seemed to be looking at something no one else could see. Used to... Now he has fierce, angry eyes that look through you like laser beams.''}}

 

== Cassie ==

 

{{quote|''If you want to picture Cassie, think of a short, cute girl with very short black hair, wearing overalls and big muddy boots and looking totally capable of giving a tetanus shot to an angry 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 Conscience]]

* [[Farmer's Daughter]]: Maybe. It's not clear if either of her parents were farmers before becoming vets, or if they still are, but she lives on a farm.

* [[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}}.

 

== Marco ==

 

{{quote|''Marco thinks the whole world is just a setup for a joke. Marco will tell a joke while he's bleeding and terrified and in pain. But there are times when his eyes lose their skeptical expression and grow glittery and dangerous.''}}

 

== Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill (Ax) ==

 

{{quote|''You are now the eldest child. Do you, Aximili, take on the burden of avenging your brother's death?''}}

* [[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|[[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: A rare ''literal'' example.}}

 

== Visser Three (Esplin 9466 the primary), later, {{spoiler|Visser One}} ==

 

{{quote|''He looked so much like Ax. So much like Prince Elfangor. And yet, so totally different. The difference wasn't something you saw. It was something you felt. A shadow on your soul. A darkness that blotted out the light of the sun. Evil. Destruction. His body was an Andalite. He was the only Andalite-Controller in existence. The only Yeerk ever to infest an Andalite body. The only Yeerk with the Andalite power to morph. Visser Three.''}}

* [[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 Caligula]]

* [[Card-Carrying Villain]]: He got this way when handled by the ghostwriters. See ''The Extreme'' and ''The Illusion'' for good examples.

* [[Femme Fatale]]

* [[First-Name Basis]]: Taylor's last name is never revealed.

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

* [[Heel Face Turn]]: {{spoiler|Taylor the Yeerk fakes one in order to bring the kids in on her plot. Taylor the Human pulls one in Book 43, temporarily taking control of her body in order to warn Tobias out of trusting her master}}.

 

== Prince Elfangor-Sirinial-Shamtul ==

 

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.

 

== War-Prince Alloran-Semitur-Corass ==

 

{{quote|''I will forever be Alloran, Butcher of the Hork-Bajir. Alloran, the only Andalite to ever be taken alive by Yeerks. But disgraced, even despised, for whatever I am worth, I am yours to command.''}}

== The Ellimist ==

 

 

{{quote|''We watched the rise of other species throughout the galaxy. Helped at times, when we could. We wanted companions. We wanted to learn. We imagined a galaxy filled with millions of sentient species, each with its own science and art, its own beauty.''}}

* [[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.

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

* [[Reality Warper]]