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== Animorphs ==

* [[Lovable Jock]]

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

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

* {{spoiler|[[My God, What Have I Done?]]}}

* [[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''.

* [[In Harm's Way]]

* [[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.

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

* [[Starfish Character]]: In ''The Separation''.

* [[Super-Powered Evil Side]]: It's her cover morph in ''The Return''.

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

* [[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.

* [[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.}}

* [[Hair-Raising Hare]]: Tobias morphs a rabbit in ''The Pretender'' to experience what it feels like to be prey.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: {{spoiler|In more ways than one.}}

* [[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.}}

* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|Why Did It Have To Be Water?]]: He hates water missions. It's a bird thing.

* [[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.}}

* [[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.

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

{{quote| '''Jake:''' Do you hate trash cans? Is that it? Do you just '''''HATE TRASH CANS?''''' }}

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

* [[First-Name Basis]]

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

* [[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.

* {{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.}}

* [[First-Name Basis]]

* [[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]]

* [[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.}}

* [[Took a Level In Badass]]

* [[Unnamed Parent|Unnamed Parents]]

* [[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.}}

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

* [[Bond One-Liner]]: He gets a few good ones.

* [[The Brute]]: He only knows one tactic -- Hit the enemy with everything you've got until it's dead.

* [[The Caligula]]

* {{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]].

* {{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!

* [[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.}}

* [[One-Winged Angel]]: He has a menagerie of monstrous morphs he's acquired from across the galaxy.

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

* [[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}}

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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''.

 

== Hedrick Chapman (Iniss-Two-Two-Six) ==

* [[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.

 

* {{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.}}

* [[Even Mooks Have Loved Ones]]

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

* [[Mook Face Turn]]

* [[Not So Different]]

* [[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.

* [[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]]

* [[Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act]]

* [[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.

* [[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.

 

== Taylor (Sub-Visser Fifty-one) ==

* [[Cold-Blooded Torture]]: Tortures Tobias.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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.

* [[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]]}}

* [[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]]

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

* [[Going Native]]: With humans.

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]

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

* [[Telepathic Spacemen]]

* [[Take Up My Sword]]

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

 

* [[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.

{{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.''}}

 

 

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

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.

* [[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.

* [[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]].

* [[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.

 

== Toby Hamee ==

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

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

* [[Noble Savage]]

* [[Rebel Leader]]

* [[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]]