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* [[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."
* [[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''.
* [[The Dutiful Son]]
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* [[Action Girlfriend]]
* [[Animorphism]]
* [[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 battle -- she is just as likely to get hurt as the guys.
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* [[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]]}}.
* [[Bullet -Proof Fashion Plate]]
* [[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.}}
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* [[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.
* {{spoiler|[[Human Mom, Nonhuman Dad]]}}
* [[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.}}
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* [[Real Women Don't Wear Dresses]]
* [[Reluctant Warrior]]
* {{spoiler|[[Ripple -Effect -Proof Memory]]: In the fourth Megamorphs book, Cassie is explicitly stated to be a temporal anomaly who has this ability by default. She remembers the original timeline within the [[It's a Wonderful Plot]] alternate universe.}}
* [[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.
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* [[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]]
* [[DevilsDevil's Advocate]]: Tends to present this view when the group debates something, acting as a foil for Cassie's more idealistic leanings.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]
* [[The Drag Along]]: At first.
* [[Drives Like Crazy]]: A [[Running Gag]].
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* [[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.
* [[If You Die, I Call Your Stuff]]: To Jake in ''The Answer''.
* [[I Just Want to Be Normal]]
* [[I Know Mortal Kombat]]: He never said he knew how to drive, just that he had the high score on a driving game called [[wikipedia:Wipeout (video game)|Wipeout]].
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* [[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]]
* [[Morally -Ambiguous Ducktorate]]: His last book, ''The Absolute'', sees him morphing a mallard duck alongside Tobias and Ax.
* [[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.
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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''.
* [[Shape ShifterShapeshifter Mashup]] : ''The Proposal'' again.
* [[Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids]]: Often tells Cassie this.
* [[Spiders Are Scary]]: In ''The Android'', Marco has to morph a wolf spider. He really, really doesn't want to.
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* [[Klingons Love Shakespeare]]
* [[The Magnificent]]: {{spoiler|After the war he becomes known as 'Aximili of Earth'}}.
* [[Mix -and -Match Man]]: His human morph is made from Jake, Marco, Rachel and Cassie's DNA.
* [[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.
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* [[Manipulative Bastard]]
* [[Military Brat]]: His father was an NSA agent and he had to move around frequently throughout his life.
* {{spoiler|[[Mistreatment -Induced Betrayal]]: One gets the feeling that if the Animorphs had just sent David to live with the Chee instead of making him sleep in Cassie's barn that things might have worked out. Leaving him out of the biggest mission they've ever done up to this point and not, you know, ''[[What the Hell, Hero?|threatening to kill him]]'' also would have helped.}}
* [[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.
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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.
 
* [[Zero -Percent Approval Rating]]: He is universally hated and feared among his fellow Yeerks. [[Asskicking Equals Authority|Not that he needs their approval]].
* [[Aliens Are Bastards]]: Boy is he ever!
* [[Animorphism]]
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* {{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]].
* [[Kill It With Fire]]: He's fond of this. In the first book he morphs a monstrous, unnamed eight-headed creature and in ''The Mutation'' he morphs the Luminar, a blazing creature that can flash-fry its enemies by [[Finger -Poke of Doom|pointing a finger]]. Hasbro must have caught on to it, because the first Visser Three toy transformed into a form never seen in the books dubbed the [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Inferno Beast]].
* {{spoiler|[[Know When to Fold 'Em]]: See [[Graceful Loser]] above.}}
* [[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.
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* [[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.
* [[Don't You Dare Pity Me!]]: She hides the truth about her past from her host because she'd rather have Eva's hate than her pity.
* [[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]]
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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 [[Zero -Percent Approval Rating|Visser Three]].
 
== Hedrick Chapman (Iniss-Two-Two-Six) ==
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* [[Secret Keeper]]
* [[Shapeshifter Mode Lock]]
* [[Super -Persistent Predator]]: Throughout ''The Departure'' she is stalked by a leopard.
* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]]: She gives Cassie a few in ''The Departure''.
 
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* [[Dirty Coward]]: He spends the whole book basically running from the heroes and flees his host after he's crippled.
* [[Drunk On the Dark Side]]
* [[Early -Bird Cameo]]: He's first mentioned (though not seen) in ''The Decision''.
* [[Evil Gloating]]: When Rachel's shot to pieces in front of him in the Battle of Trafalgar. It doesn't stick.
* [[Godwin's Law of Time Travel]]
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* [[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.
* [[Ret -Gone]]: John Berryman Jr's final fate.
* [[Time Machine]]: The Time Matrix
* [[Villain of the Week]]
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* [[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.
* [[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.
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* [[The Quisling]]
* [[Recurring Character]]: Appears in ''The Illusion'' and ''The Test''.
* [[Self -Made Orphan]]: Spiritually at least. Part of Taylor's deal with the Yeerks involved allowing not only her own infestation, but that of her mother as well.
* [[Sociopathic Soldier]]: Even for a member of the Yeerk military she's a twisted bitch.
* [[Stockholm Syndrome]]: Causes it in Tobias.
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* [[Smug Super]]: Jeez, a little overconfident, aren't we Inspector?
* [[Super Speed]]: To cartoon levels. He runs down several cheetahs with ease.
* [[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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* [[Well-Intentioned Extremist]]
* [[Utopia Justifies the Means]]
* [[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.
 
 
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* [[Sufficiently Advanced Aliens]]
* [[Time Stands Still]]
* [[What If God Was One of Us?]]: In the ''Ellimist Chronicles'' he places part of his essence into the body of an Andalite and lives among early Andalites in order to reconnect with his sense of mortality.
* [[Wizard Beard]]
* [[You Cannot Grasp the True Form]]
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* {{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.
* [[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.
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* [[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]]
* [[Out -Gambitted]]: {{spoiler|In his first appearance thanks to the timely intervention of Erek.}}
* [[Reality Warper]]
* [[Recurring Character]]: He appears in ''The Exposed'', the last two Megamorphs books, and ''The Return''.
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* [[Minor Major Character]]: His only appearance covers all of ''four pages''.
* [[No Mouth]]: Subverted in nightmarish fashion. See [[Body Horror]] above.
* [[One -Shot Character]]: Appears only in ''The Beginning''. Fans theorized he was the being behind Jake's trip to the future in ''The Familiar'' but this was [[Jossed]] by Applegate in an interview.
* [[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.
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* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]: In ''The Android''.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: "I gotta stop hanging around with you people. You people are just plain strange."
* [[Deceptively -Human Robots]]: He appears human as long as he can project his hologram.
* [[Do-Anything Robot]]: To some degree in ''The Attack''.
* [[Drop in Character]]
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* {{spoiler|[[Mama Bear]]: In ''The Diversion''.}}
* {{spoiler|[[Mysterious Parent]]}}
* [[Plot -Relevant Age -Up]]: Messing around with the Time Matrix causes her to age a few years prematurely, from 13 to 18.
* [[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.
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* [[Our Mermaids Are Different]]: More amphibious. And totally nuts.
* [[Royal We]]: Averted, surprisingly enough.
* [[Royally Screwed -Up]]
* [[Take Over the World]]: Has delusions of doing this.
* [[Unscaled Merfolk]]
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* [[Aggressive Negotiations]]: He has Jake arrested four times before he starts listening to him.
* [[Badass Normal]]
* [[Four -Star Badass]]: Well, ''Three'' Star Badass, but still counts.
* [[Last Stand]]: He leads it.
* [[The Leader]]: Type II.
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