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== All the contradictions within the series are due to Loren using the Time Matrix ==
When Loren used the Time Matrix to return Elfangor and herself to their own universe, she specified that everyone would remember her being older. Because of this, instead of returning them to their original universe, it created a copy and sent them there. Since it isn't the "true" universe, Cassie's existence causes "glitches". Since no one notices these glitches [[In
* Doubtful. The reason being that Cassie was grounded to what SHE thought was the correct timeline. Loren's meddling came years before Cassie was born, so Cassie would have no connection to it. It may be the technically true timeline, but Cassie wouldn't see it that way.
** All they say in the book is that Cassie is "temporally grounded." They don't specify that it has anything to do with when she was born.
** They say that Cassie was in one timeline but of another and that she had sensed that things weren't right and where she belonged even without her fully realizing it. If all these changes were made before her birth, however, she never would have been a part of the 'true' timeline and thus wouldn't have been even remotely aware of a shift that happened before her time or that she wasn't in a timeline she had no experience with.
== KA Applegate is a genius. ==
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The invasion of the Yeerk Pool was actually a resounding success, and they destroyed the Kandrona then and there. Afterwards the Yeerks left, and were killed by the Andalites, who were not the jackasses the series makes them out to be. Jake decides to write a book about his experiences. However, the other Animorphs found it, made some changes to it, and wrote sequels. THIS explains all the inconsistencies and extreme coincidences. It is simply a work of fiction for the most part.
* That is an incredibly cynical [[Literary Agent Hypothesis]]. Also, [[Fridge Horror|poor Tobias]].
* The ending was changed so that, in the book, they didn't destroy the Yeerk Pool. Perhaps Tobias requested that he be allowed to keep his privacy and not have to deal with the fame, and so he became 'trapped.' No one would realize that the still-human Tobias helped save the world and should be famous; whatever other similarities they have, he's not a bird.
== The Helmacrons are related to the Generations ==
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* This makes sense. They were said to be an advanced, space-faring race since before the Ellimist even attained some semblance of godhood.
== The unknown ship from the last book was a Space Hulk from [[Warhammer
== The beings that caused Jake's dream in #41 ''The Familiar'' played a large role in the series. ==
Some of their other actions:
* Making it so none of the Yeerks would notice that they never encountered Erek's Yeerk in the Yeerk Pool.
** Why would they notice? It's a big pool with thousands of Yeerks in it. The fact that an individual Yeerk never encountered Erek's wouldn't be surprising and they would have no reason to poll people on whether they've ever encountered that particular Yeerk since it infested Erek.
* Putting the Animorphs' excess mass in a location where it would be hit by the ''Ascalin''.
* Preventing Tobias's injuries from healing during ''In the Time of the Dinosaurs''.
** If you read behind the scenes stuff, that was because KAA forgot about it
* "Hiding" the Morphing Cube where David would find it.
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The Ellimist created both the Time Matrix and the Pemalites. The Pemalites created the Chee. The Skrit Na finding the Time Matrix is the catalyst to Elfangor and Loren's adventure, which is the catalyst to Visser Three and Elfangor's rivalry, which ends in Elfangor creating the Animorphs. Obviously, the Ellimist wanted all of this to happen. He had his "grand-creations" bring the all-important Time Matrix to Earth and set the whole mess in motion. The clincher? The Time Matrix was found beneath a pyramid, and Erek mentions helping build them soon after arriving on Earth.
* Elfangor brought the Time Matrix to Earth when he came with Loren during ''The Andalite Chronicles.''
** Yes, but they only got their hands on the Time Matrix AFTER the Skrit Na took it out from under the pyramid. The whole reason Elfangor, Arbron and Alloran went chasing after the Yeerks and Skrit Na was to get the Time Matrix back. Their original mission was just to drop Loren and Chapman off on Earth and erase their memories.
== Elfangor and Aldrea (and, by extension, Tobias and Toby) are descended from the Ellimist. ==
The Ellimist spent time as an Andalite and had Andalite children. Somewhere ''waaaaaay'' back in Elfangor and Aldrea's family histories are one of those kids. This is why the Ellimist is so interested in Elfangor and Tobias, and why he brought Toby into his master plans.
* Although, since it was literally millions of years in the past, this would probably hold true for a huge chunk of the Andalite population. Hm, that's probably how they developed thought-speak.
** It was mentioned that they had thoughtspeak before he got there, but thoughtspeak was rudimentary in much the same way as the speech of early humans likely was. The Ellimist breeding with the Andalites gave their offspring a boost in inteligence. ''All'' living Andalites are his descendants.
== Rachel doesn't die; she is saved by Crayak, who erases her memories and uses her as a minion, sort of like the Drode. ==
Crayak and the Drode were showing way too much interest in her potential to let her disappear.
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* Agreed. As much as Crayak wanted her, he probably made an agreement with The Ellimist about who would get her if she died. It went along the lines of Crayak getting her if she died in battle or in a moment of anger (in his opinion, the most likely scenario), and The Ellimist getting her if she died at peace or in a moment of clarity. During her [[Heroic Sacrifice]], one of her last words was "I love you" -- a moment of clarity! The Ellimist then swoops in and brings her up to speed so she can understand what she's going to do from now on.
* Related: Starfish!Rachel is how he can pull this off. She's dead, but as long as she's serving the Ellimist, it can be arranged that only half of her persona is dead.
** But which half? The [[Ax Crazy]] half or the [[Shrinking Violet]] half? Neither seem very useful.
** Wimpy Rachel. Confidence and directness ''can'' be taught, and the Ellimist has all the time in the world (and then some) to do it in.
* Or maybe the Ellimist just assimilated her consciousness.
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This includes the [[Time Travel]] incident that warned Jake against stealing the bug fighter, the morphing cube surviving the destruction of Elfangor's ship, and their mass in z-space being snagged by an Andalite ship.
* Sounds logical. It's a convenient [[Hand Wave]] because they are a pair of "gods" in this universe playing galactic chess with the space-time continuum. In fact, there are quite a few moments like that, where it seemed someone was intervening. Good theory.
* Visser Three is incompetent because the Ellimist put a stupid, murder-happy Yeerk who fights with a sledgehammer and kills anyone with the brains and gut to make useful suggestions like how the 'Andalite bandits' may be human in charge of the important invasion of Earth. Seriously, Chapman and co. mentioned the possibility in #4 The Message but nooo the Visser will eat them for breakfast. In the Andalite Chronicles the Ellimist put Elfangor back to 'fix' the timeline but left things that would benefit him, like Tobias' existence, as they were. Visser Three's promotion from the capture of Alloran, "the greatest intelligence victory in Yeerk history," could have been one of them. That's how that idiot of a Yeerk ended up in charge of Earth.
** He seems smart enough in the Hork-Bajir and Andalite Chronicles but I guess on the other hand, he did completely forget about his original host when trying to infest Aldrea and completely forgets how useful he finds the idea of a stealthy infestation by the time the main series comes around. He did also manage to infest Alloran but his plan for that seemed mostly to rely on other people being stupid and/or unobservant. If Elfangor hadn't seen Chapman capture Loren there would have been no reason to think the Yeerks ever got ahold of them but he didn't seem to have a real plan for capturing Alloran. Had Elfangor not refused once again to kill those Yeerks and Alloran not refused to let it go and had Elfangor not panicked and knocked Alloran out and then immediately left the humans alone with him, it wouldn't have happened so it might very well have been more blind luck than skill.
** He seems to have risen to power mostly by being the first, and probably for a long while the only, Yeerk to study the Andalites. He was the only person to know the best way to defeat Andalites, so he won more and got promoted. It was mentioned in the Hork-Bajir Chronicles that he was obsessed with powerful Andalites. When he infested Aldrea, he couldn't wait to open her memories and feel what it was to be an Andalite. Having an Andalite host became his ultimate goal; once he got what he wanted, he became giddy and a little unmotivated.
== The Ellimist put the morphing cube in Elfangor's ship ==
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Elfangor suddenly realized that he could give morphing to the humans because the Ellimist just zapped his head with that knowledge, in the same way Tobias suddenly knew about the would-be Hork-Bajir valley in ''The Change.'' Let's face it, the guy usually operates ''via'' ''[[Deus Ex Machina|Dei Ex Machina]].''
* That leaves the question of how he even knew it was there. Did the Ellimist inform Elfangor of this fact after he crashed, did he just spot it in the ship, what?
== The Gardens is Six Flags Marine World in Vallejo, California ==
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It's like [[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'s EVAs. At one hour, there is 100% synchronization, and the mind is equally split between the original, grounding body and the morphed, controlled body. At two hours, when synchronization hits 200%, the mind is more used to the morphed form than the original form, and it can't go back ''and'' switch the bodies at the same time. A nothlit cannot regain the morphing power because the natural link to his or her own body has been severed; the artificial link to the morphed body is not strong enough to handle the morphing process.
That time the animorphs got stuck in z-space had nothing to do with the size they tried morphing. It was because of the lack of a proper mental link.
Time spent in morph counts toward how hungry the original body is, but not ''vice versa,'' because the original body is kept intact while the morphs are made from and returned to the nothing in z-space.
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== The One was the being that caused Jake's hallucination in ''The Familiar'', hoping to study humans before he had to fight them directly. ==
Furthermore, The One is also the being that forced Crayak out of his own galaxy before he met the Ellimist.
* [[Jossed]] by [[Word of God]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20140111023958/http://animorphsfanforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2062&p=94014#p94014 here].
== The Yeerks are the victims in the series, the Andalites are the bad guys, and the Animorphs (for the most part) are pawns who do what Andalites tell them. ==
It is incredibly important to note that a Yeerk taking a host is a natural function. Humans kill animals to eat; the human thrives at the expense of the animal. This is not ''good'', but it is ''natural''. Similarly, Yeerks take hosts - they benefit at the expense of the host body. This is not ''good'', but it is ''natural''. To expect Yeerks to not take bodies is akin to expecting humans to not eat meat -- it can be arranged, but it will cause discomfort and difficulties, especially if they are breaking an established habit.
One must note that while Yeerks themselves are <s>good</s> usually no more bastardly than the average human, there ''can'' be genuinely evil Yeerks.
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* The Yeerks now need hosts and are now willing to resort to true parasitism. They successfully take Hork-Bajir hosts and beat back the Andalites, who try to stop them.
** The entire war could have been averted if the Andalites had offered to allow the Yeerks to morph and become nothlits in a body of their choice. Hell if the Andalites hadn't been such collosal assholes, they could have offered themselves up for aquiring on the yeerk homeworld and suddenly, instead of a planet full of yeerks, you have a planet full of nothlit andalites.
*** No, the war could have possibly be ENDED by doing this but we don't know if the technology even existed at the time that the Yeerks escaped their planet and it was really new when Aldrea got ahold of it because her friend's mother worked on it. Morphing was still so new when the Hork-Bajir fell that Aldrea was able to walzt right in as Alloran when the Andalites actually recognized Dak standing next to her.
* When the Yeerks arrive on Earth, they attempt to mix with human society, albeit with a goal in mind. The Animorphs start a violent guerilla war, attacking Yeerks wherever they're discovered. They are joined by a ruthless Andalite soldier-in-the-making. Over the course of the series, the Animorphs kill hundreds of Yeerks in surprise attacks, rarely giving the Yeerks a chance to defend themselves.
* Note Jake's ''extreme'' ruthlessness in the final battle, where he slaughters ''seventeen thousand'' defenseless Yeerks. When he hears this news, ''Visser One'' suffers psychological defeat. He seems genuinely hurt by what Jake has done:
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* This entire war starts with the Yeerks ''doing what they have to do to survive as a sentient race''. It's akin to someone murdering you and calling you evil because you need protein to live.
* Several quotes, such as Cassie's conversations with Karen, hint that the Yeerks may be victims in all of this. Brought home when the kids discuss bombing the Yeerk pool, which is ''dangerously'' similar to a terrorist attack:
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* Also, several hints are dropped that Andalites in general are bad guys (though Ax probably isn't). Andalites only look out for number one. They fuck around for the entire series instead of saving Earth; when they do arrive, they're more than willing to blow up the entire planet to stop the Yeerks, despite the ''millions'' of innocent humans that would have died. Also, Andalites hate the disabled because they are "incomplete" and therefore useless. A quote from Dak Hamee sums it up:
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*** Granted, he was talking about Hork-Bajir, not Yeerks; but every attack he makes on Andalite character is dead on the mark.
* In conclusion, Yeerks are victims who take hosts because there is no better alternative for them. Andalites are hypocritical, arrogant, irresponsible douchebags.
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** Point being, this troper has a hard time believing that the Yeerks were SO hard up before infestation because they wouldn't have known any different. If a Gedd on the Yeerk home world hadn't fallen face first into the pool and one of the Yeerks hadn't decided to burrow into its ear canal (erm... however it happened...) they would probably have been content in their natural state. And anyway, they are not really true parasites because they use their hosts for recreation, essentially, not survival. In fact, to get the one thing that is imperative for their biological survival, Kandrona rays, they have to abandon their "parasitic" role.
*** It's mentioned in the books that living without, say, eyes isn't too bad until you actually ''get'' eyes - then you want them all the time. Visser Three was happy enough swimming around in the pool, but when he infests a Gedd for the first time he reflects on how dreary and limited his life actually was.
*** Parasitism is defined as "a type of symbiotic relationship between organisms of different species where one organism, the parasite, benefits at the expense of the other, the host." It says nothing about whether the parasite ''needs'' its host to survive. Also, that was one of the points Aftran made. Before the Yeerks infested someone, they were perfectly content. We know from the Hork-Bajir chronicles that all Yeerks infest at least a Gedd for a short period in order to figure out how to control a host. Once this is done, those that liked the experience and had their previous existence ruined by the new sensations they could have if they infested someone are the ones that go around infesting people. Since the flight from the Yeerk homeworld, ALL Yeerks understand what else is out there so it doesn't matter that theoretically they could live their lives never knowing the difference if they hadn't infested anyone.
* One of the main themes of the series is that there is no black and white that you can apply to such a complex situation. Yeerks are not all evil and Andalites are not all good, but the reverse isn't true either. One more thing that needs to be remembered when making comparisons of the Andalites is that we see a very limited number of them in the series, and those we do see are almost completely exclusively military. IIRC, Book 54 says that civilian Andalites are somewhat different.
* Dude, humans ARE horrible to eat meat. We don't have to. We have the technology not to.We're barely missing out on anything, but hey, we're taking lives in gruesome fashion because it tastes good! Trust me, if I had the power or technology to forcefully stop humans from eating meat, I would. On the other hand, Yeerks are deprived of much more than humans are without their hosts. But say a tiger hunts its prey. Does the prey go: "Oh, well, I understand your position and deem you morally correct in your actions," and go ahead and let itself get eaten? No! Of course not. The tiger does what is most beneficial to it. The prey to it. Or, at least beneficial in a way that doesn't leave room for it to think about universal happiness. Unlike people.
== There is no Crayak. ==
The Ellimist's experiences with Father are enough to drive anyone off the deep end. After he defeats Father, he absorbed dozens, if not hundreds, of minds. He had more knowledge than anyone was ever meant to have, and he explicitly mentioned the sensory overload and impulses to move body parts he didn't have.
All of this, combined with the millenia he spent wandering alone, drove him crazy. And then the Crayak shows up, an opponent who is always strong enough to challenge him and to drive him to greater achievements, but never quite good enough to defeat him.
The Crayak is a split personality the Ellimist unknowingly created to give himself purpose in what would otherwise have been a long, lonely life.
* So then, the Ellimist and Crayak are the Sentry and the Void respectably?
* "Never quite good enough to defeat him"? When he first showed up, it was the other way around. They played games across the galaxy and Crayak always won (or won disproportionately often). Sure, he didn't kill Ellimist outright, but that's because he was toying with him and probably appreciated having a near equal as much as Ellimist did. It was only after Ellimist ran away and [[Took a Level
** That wouldn't invalidate the theory. So the Ellimist's crazy side was stronger than him. It's happened [[Fight Club|before]].
*** Which logically leads to…
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== ''Everybody'' on [[TV Tropes]] is a controller. ==
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== Marco has an Oedipus complex. ==
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== Visser Four from ''#18 The Decision'' and ''Megamorphs #3'' is Visser Two from ''#46 The Deception'' ==
Ok, bear with me for a moment. First of all, Visser Two is unlikely to be the "missing" visser from the earlier books because he's fiercely loyal to Visser One (that is, Esplin 9466, formerly Visser Three) and it would be extremely out of character for a Yeerk Visser to show so much loyalty to someone promoted ahead of them like that. So it stands to reason that Visser Two was a lower ranking visser who got promoted at the same time as Visser Three. In #18 a Leeran controller mentions that Vissers Three and Four are very good friends. Visser Two doesn't remember the events of Megamorphs #3 because that timeline was erased, and the Animorphs don't recognise him because he has a different rank and host.
* Then what happened to Visser Two? Err, pre-Big Promotion Visser Two? Well, he or she could've been offed by the Council, either for supporting Visser One somehow or for unrelated incompetence (perhaps Two finally cost the Yeerks the Anati system somehow?). ''But'', since this is Wild Mass Guessing, maybe Two got promoted - to the Council. After all, even Yeerks die of old age eventually.
** Promoted to the Council? Oh my god, Visser Two is Garoff (the Council spokesman in ''Visser'')
** The Council is elected, not appointed.
*** Says who? That doesn't sound very Yeerkish, and it doesn't mesh with the Council's stated purpose in ''Visser'' (to basically be twelve decoys in case anyone tries to assassinate the Emperor).
**** But the reason that the former Visser Four infested John Barryman in the first place was because he was demoted following the loss on Leera. Why would the Animorphs making it so the former Visser Four had to infest somebody else get him promoted back up to Visser Two so quickly? He was hardly going to be in a position to do anything spectacular to regain his rank after Leera.
**** He called in a favour from his "very good friend" Visser Three. Probably the same way he might have ended up on Earth to find the Time Matrix in another reality, come to think of it. If that's what happened, it would further explain his unflinching loyalty to Visser One (formerly Three) once he becomes Visser Two.
**** That does make sense. Had Visser Four not discovered the Time Matrix when he was controlling Barryman, he would have still ended up being Visser Two because Visser One wanted to have someone powerful on his side for once.
== Everything in the book, from Yeerks to Andalites, are real. The world is [[The Chessmaster|currently being]] [[The Omniscient Council of Vagueness|controlled by Yeerks]] ==
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* Ax states outright that they'll wipe out whatever they don't see as strictly necessary for producing and making hosts. Most of Earth's biodiversity can go fuck itself as far as they're concerned. Just look at what they did to the Hork-Bajir homeworld.
** Yeah, but Ax was spoonfed Andalite propaganda. He's not exactly a reliable source on Yeerk plans.
*** Define "decent." Hosts can live in much less than ideal conditions. And even if the Andalites are completely lying about what the Yeerks do to planets, we saw the Hork-Bajir Home World and the Taxxon Home World as well as two nightmare futures of Earth where it indicated that Ax was totally right. And Temrash seemed convinced thath if nothing else the Yeerks would go about wiping out thousands of species just for convenience.
== World leaders who don't appear to care about the environment are trying to make things worse for the Yeerks. ==
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== Crayak is the good guy and the Ellimist is the bad guy ==
The Crayak wanted the Iskoort destroyed so the Yeerks (his chosen race) would never submit to the tyranny of the Andalites (the Ellimist's chosen race). The andalites have proven ruthless and manipulative, and the Crayak wanted to prevent the militial destruction of Earth, under the guise of "defending the universe's sentient races." The yeerks couldn't try to find a paceful alternative, because the moment they did, the andalites would decimate them in order to rule the cosmos. Which is also why the andalites get involved in conflicts: to get rid of any race that may interfere with their universal monopoly. All along, the Crakay has been trying to destroy races with potential for aggression. Since the Ellimist engineered the andalites, the crayak couldn't touch them, so instead made the yeerks develop into what would eventually threaten the andalites' control. The ellimist used time-shifting and elfangor to construct a team of wildcards to ensure the andalite race's dominance in the universe. Also, the Kelbrid are fairy tales imposed by the high command to make them seem to be peacemakers.
* [[Gray and Grey Morality|This point is moot]]. Sorry, but trying to pinpoint a good guy or bad guy in [[Animorphs]] is like...something else that can't easily be done. That's the whole point of the series. That, and (much like [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|another series]]) don't [[Recruit Teenagers
** Per ''The Ellimist Chronicles'', Crayak is a straight-up [[Omnicidal Maniac]]. ''Animorphs'' may be grey-shaded, but he's the closest thing to pure evil that exists in the series no matter how you slice it.
== Some selfish-gene speculations about Yeerk evolution ==
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== Crayak or the Ellimist created the taxxons as a joke ==
It would be an understatement to say that the taxxons kinda suck. While they are immensely intelligent and evidently very good pilots, the simple fact is, they're giant fluid-filled condoms that will break into a feeding frenzy at the sight of blood. In other words, you have a creature whose fragility is virtually a running gag, and who'll completely wig out and cannibalize one another, or even themselves given the slightest suggestion of a chance.
At a lesser scale, this wouldn't be so bad. We're physically unimpressive, but good with technology, even though our brains can make us do silly things. But consider a human controller, like Tom. He sees his family constantly, knowing the yeerks are going to get them, but his yeerk maintains perfect control of him at all times.
A taxxon controller, aboard the Blade Ship with Visser Three no less, sees the animorphs and gets cut in half for his trouble. Rather than say something, it immediately sees its blood-soaked ass sitting in front of it, and starts chowing down.
So we have a species of bulbous, fluid-filled condoms that could probably be busted open by harsh language, who have a feeding instinct apparently greater than self preservation, or the preservation of one's loved ones, and is triggered by blood.
Imagine what taxxon controllers go through. Imagine one of their coworkers getting a papercut. For the love of Crayak, they're water balloons perched atop dozens of little needles!
I cannot see natural selection favoring these guys under any circumstances. And we've already established that the Ellimist and Crayak have both created life forms that they like(Ellimist has the pemalites, Crayak has the Howlers). Is it a stretch to say that Crayak created the taxxons for the sheer audacity of it?
* Humans may be a similar-but-upgraded version, where either the taxxons' creator or the taxxons' creator's opponent took the original build, but took [[Point Build System|points]] from Metabolism, # of Legs, and Multitasking Dexterity, and put them in Endurance, # of Digits, and Creativity. While the taxxons are a [[Crippling Overspecialization|poorly-balanced]] [[Dune|Navigator]] [[Munchkin]] species of [[Horror Hunger|gluttonous]] goo wrapped in an overfull water-balloon, humans are a slightly-better balanced [[Gadgeteer Genius]] [[Zerg Rush|Plus Infantry]] [[Munchkin]] species of [[Seven Deadly Sins|gluttonous]] goo [[Futurama|wrapped in a t-shirt]] (with the [[Horror Hunger]], the taxxons couldn't effectively act as [[Game Breaker|tech-savvy]]
* It would have to be Crayak considering that they are in constant pain from hunger. We know the Ellimist tries to be nice to his team and Crayok...
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== The One is the monster of the same name from "Ultraman: The Next" ==
Both are aliens, both are shapeshifters, both assimilate other organisms in order to alter their form, both are, you know, called "The One".
Naturally, we can also conclude that the series ends with Ultraman swooping in to save the day.
== Stephenie Meyer's Novel 'The Host' takes place in an alternate universe of Animorphs. ==
Bear with me here for a minute. The very first moment I started reading The Host, the description of the aliens that control your body made my mind jump to Yeerks. It's an alternate universe where the Yeerks took over Earth so quickly that the Animorphs never had a chance, and were either killed or turned into Hosts themselves.
* This troper came to a similar conclusion when a friend explained the plot of The Host to her.
* This troper read The Host specifically because of this similarity.
* Shit! It just occurred to me that the Yeerks, the Souls, and the [[Stargate SG
** Actually, those three races have absolutely nothing in common beyond being [[Puppeteer Parasite|Puppeteer Parasites]]. They'll probably just wipe themselves out fighting over the human hosts. The Goa'uld and the Yeerks will first destroy the peace-loving Souls and then the Yeerks will be destroyed by the Goa'uld, who actually ''are'' [[
* There MUST be fanfiction for this.
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A lonely Yeerk that infested a human teenager learned about the concept of fanfiction, and subsequently used the host body to write a story where the Yeerk invasion went much more smoothly - no pesky Andalite bandits - and where the Yeerks themselves weren't ugly slugs, but beautiful, feathery creatures called Souls. When the Yeerks surrendered, the human host found the story on her computer and decided to publish it as a piece of "original" fiction. This human was....Stephenie Meyer.
No ideas about the sparkly vampires, though.
== Just an observation... ==
The [[Fictional Counterpart]] for [[America Online]] (AOL) is Web Access Amercia. Is it any wonder that its initials are {{color|purple|
== Rachel becomes The One becomes Crayak ==
I don't know why I decided this but it actually fits in some ways. We never actually see what happens to her. Her death is kind of implied but... and she was on the Bladeship which Ax was after when he got taken over. It shows an assimilation simuler to the type the Ellimist went through in his book. Kay maby other characters would work better. Crayak has an interest in Rachel out of all the Animorphs.
** Jossed by [[Word of God]]. KAA herself said The One was a future villain-type thing unrelated to anything else in the series. And Crayak existed long before the Animorphs' time, as explained in The Ellimist Chronicles. Rachel might've been assimilated by The One, but it doesn't show them her face, only Ax's. And there's no evidence that she turns into The One, especially considering her last words to Tobias are "I love you": hardly evil.
*** "Kind of implied"? Rachel says "Then he killed me with a single blow." And Cassie, who was right there watching it, said "Rachel dead? How could that be? How could that be real?" They all watched her die. Even if she became something else post-death, she still died first.
== The alternate future in #7 is caused by Jake's infestation in an altered timeline ==
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== The Pemalites are the race that uplifted humans in ''2001: A Space Odyssey''. ==
== Tobias is a comment on the
We are not suggesting that Applegate was psychic or anything but consider. A whiny Emo teen with an awful home life and no real friends inside the body of a beautiful predatory creature with wings and shapeshifting powers? Yeah.
== The Ellimist sympathizes with humanity. ==
Visser One described the human mind as constantly in conflict with itself, arguing, doubting. Sounds a bit like the [
* Definite possibility. More likely, what he said was true (about him being unable to at the time until... people cleared out, I think?) however he DIDN'T CARE one way or another. His attitude towards it was likely 'If it happens, it happens. I won't complain. Not like I have anything to lose.'
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* Finally, Rachel is also too young to be diagnosed with a personality disorder more severe than conduct disorder with violent features, but the books sum it better than the DSM ever could - she's a violence junkie.
* I thought it was pretty clear that David was supposed to be Not Right somehow. Sure, a lot of horrible stuff happened to him, but that doesn't excuse the sadistic tendencies, the weird rationalizations for what he thought was murder, the seeming lack of morals or guilt, the ego, or [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|owning a cobra and naming his cat "Megadeth"]]. While he might not be textbook ASPD, he probably would've ended up as a juvenile delinquent, had things gone differently (or possibly already was).
** There's a ''huge'' gap between a juvenile delinquent and a sociopath, and even comparing the two is baffling. It's been [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14738243/ns/technology_and_science-science/t/study-teenage-brain-lacks-empathy/ scientifically proven] that teenagers tend towards a distinct lack of empathy - Jake and the team are the ''exception'', not the rule. In many ways, the David arc was about showing what would happen if an ordinary kid were recruited to the war, and clearly the results aren't pretty.
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**** Is that possible? They have to be living because otherwise the Yeerks wouldn't die when their hosts do and it's canon that they do. I think it's strongly implied that the hosts have to be sentient as we have no evidence of non-sentient beings being able to be used as hosts. When the Yeerks want to take sharks, they have to artificially make them sentient as shown in #15 before they can control them. If the Yeerks made a non-sentient race artificially sentient that wouldn't make enslaving them okay and if they did what the Yoort did and made it so that they would die without the other that would be even worse because if it hadn't been for the Yeerks' meddling then the new hosts could live out their lives non-enslaved and the Yeerks don't really lose anything since they wanted hosts all along.
***** Horses. As I recall, the sharks had something about their brains which meant they had to be fiddled with, not their level of sentience. Unless you're saying the horses were sentient... which is a point you could debate, I guess, but there really isn't any evidence on that front.
****** We don't know if those were regular horses are specially engineered sentient horses. The Yeerks probably made non-sentient species sentient before the shark program since they seemed so sure that it would work (and it ''was'' working). And if they were just regular horses then why did the horse-controller who got bitten by a snake need to be destroyed? That destruction was a lot more public and suspicious than just finding a dying horse and a small slug that wouldn't have been around for very long anyway so it only makes sense to do if they were trying to hide something...such as the horse being altered to be fit for infestation.
***** In #41 The Familiar, Cassie/Niss says that one of the goals of the Evolutionist Front is the use of nonliving, artificial host bodies instead of living ones. This, however, is at least ten years in the future, so who knows where Yeerk technology is at that point.
***** It may be a goal of theirs do to that but have they actually made any progress on that or is that just the 'you know, this would solve all our problems' solution? Plus, you have to consider that that wasn't actually real so the things that happened and are mentioned in it may not necessarily be true either.
****** Guess this is why it's ''wild'' mass guessing.
******* That doesn't mean you can't debate a guess.
== After the war, the Hork-Bajir become a [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] culture. ==
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== Tobias and Ax genocided the Mercora based on faulty logic. ==
They based their decision on the lack of fossil evidence of the Mercora, but by inference they lived on what is now the Yucatan peninsula, which due to its geology and climate is very unfriendly to fossils and their recovery. A promise to limit themselves to their colony and leave when they were back on their feet may well have done the trick anyway.
* But then how would the Animorphs have gotten home in order to save the planet (and possibly the universe if #41 is to be believed) from the Yeerks?
== The city the series takes place in is [[The Weekenders|Bahia Bay]] ==
It fits. Located in California, contains a convenient mall, beach, amusement park, is within driving distance of mountains/desert, etc.
* [[Jossed]] by Book 37, The Weakness. The tv station has the call letters WTVK. The fact that the first letter is W means that the Animorphs live east of the Mississippi River, since all tv stations have W at the first call letter east of the Mississippi, and all tv stations west of the Mississippi have K as the first call letter.
** The station must have been a mistake (or, as the books were apparently written down during the war, a deliberate lie to throw people off). It outright says that they live in California in one of the later books.
== The events of Book 48 led to the Yeerks figuring out the Animorphs were human in Book 49. ==
It didn't seem like there was ever any explanation as to how the Yeerks suddenly knew, other than some speculation about them always leaving blood behind at battles. When Rachel scares off the two thugs working for David, she's concerned that they'll tell their story where a Controller will hear, and the Yeerks will find David and get information from him. This is why she decides that she has to do something about David (what this something is, of course, is left ambiguous). However, she doesn't seem to do anything about, or even mention, the fact that their story also includes a girl who can turn into a rat and a bear, with nary a mention of freaky blue centaurs. Also, while she says there's no threat of Visser One recognizing Super-Rachel as one of the Andalite bandits, it's possible that his encounter with her could make him more open to the possibility that the bandits are human, at least subconsciously.
* It's been suggested that the Hork-Bajir captured by the Yeerks in #47 also led to the big revelation of #49, which is perhaps plausible, but two direct eyewitnesses would hammer it home even further. I like this one.
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* I'm afraid I don't follow this one. What does [[Assimilation Plot|Borg-style assimilation]] have to do with Satan? Part of what makes Animorphs great is that it avoids getting bogged down in issues of religion, so it'd be a huge step backwards, for this troper at least, if the series ended with the introduction of a disguised Judeo-Christian villain (though this would enable crossovers with [[Supernatural]], which is perhaps the theory's sole redeeming point).
== The events of Book 8 led to the events of Book 9. ==
In Book 9, the Yeerks start searching the woods behind Cassie's farm, thinking they'll find the Andalite bandits' feeding ground (which is partly right, since that's where Ax and Tobias live). They really have every reason to do this at pretty much any point in the series, but at the end of Book 8, Ax finds the meadow Visser Three feeds in and nearly succeeds in assassinating him. Visser Three's definitely arrogant and paranoid enough to feel the need to immediately retaliate, and that's what they're doing in Book 9.
== Varnax feed on Yeerks for (more or less) the same reason Esplin 9466 Lesser does. ==
Esplin resorted to cannibalism because he didn't have access to a Kandrona. Varnax eat Yeerks because they need Kandrona rays to survive, but can't absorb them directly.
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