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* ArtisticLicencePaleontology: Jake discusses this while watching ''Film/JurassicPark''; during the scene where a character says a ''T. rex'' can't see them if they're standing still, Jake says that's not true, which he knows from first-hand experience.
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* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: In-universe. A woman appears on ''Series/DrPhil'' because she cheated on her husband while under the control of a PuppeteerParasite, but Dr. Phil victim-blames her by saying that a Yeerk is just a voice in one's head.
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* DoubleStandardRapeSciFi: In-universe. A InUniverse, a woman appears on ''Series/DrPhil'' because she cheated on her husband while under the control of a PuppeteerParasite, but Dr. Phil victim-blames her by saying that a Yeerk is just a voice in one's head.
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* PardonMyKlingon: Ax says something in the spoken version of the Andalite language that Marco asks him not to translate in front of his mom.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The story begins with Tom trying to jailbreak a Yeerk phone, but after the main plot with Rachel gets going, it's never mentioned again.
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* {{Understatement}}: After Tom is bitten in half while in cobra morph, he spends several paragraphs talking about how people used to believe snakes would grow back if you decapitated them, followed by: "Anyway, you can see why I was a little worried."
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* ARottenTimeToRevert: Tom becomes lost in the sewers while in king cobra morph and begins getting dangerously close to the two-hour limit. He barely has enough time to demorph in a relatively wide part of the sewer, and it's incredibly painful. Amazingly, he survives.
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* TheNthDoctor: Jean says that in the cheesy soap opera she writes for, an evil scientist injected a character called Emily with a drug that turned her into a different actress.
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* HellIsThatNoise: Tom describes the Howler's normal speaking voice as "nails on a chalkboard".
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* SneezeOfDoom: Tom doesn't realize the danger (though Marco does), but Jake morphing into a Howler could be lethal to everyone in the hospital if he sneezes.
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Wait, the thing about Hork-Bajir friendly stairs was in Total Recall, so this belongs in the series-wide folder.
* InhumanableAlienRights: It's mentioned a few times that some humans are uncomfortable with the Hork-Bajir presence on Earth. Most of those Hork-Bajir were born in Yeerk slavery and have no means or will to return to their species' home world, so leaving them to inhabit Yellowstone is the best option as it was in canon. However, Cassie darkly mentions that certain humans want Hork-Bajir classified as animals to have free reign over them and their new habitat, while the authorities who allowed for Hork-Bajir rights care more about surface victories like "Hork-Bajir friendly stairs", never mind that Hork-Bajir are perfectly capable of climbing human stairs and don't regularly hang out in human buildings, being an arboreal species.
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* InhumanableAlienRights: It's mentioned a few times that some humans are uncomfortable with the Hork-Bajir presence on Earth. Most of those Hork-Bajir were born in Yeerk slavery and have no means or will to return to their species' home world, so leaving them to inhabit Yellowstone is the best option as it was in canon. However, Cassie darkly mentions that certain humans want Hork-Bajir classified as animals to have free reign over them and their new habitat, while the authorities who allowed for Hork-Bajir rights care more about surface victories like "Hork-Bajir friendly stairs", never mind that Hork-Bajir are perfectly capable of climbing human stairs and don't regularly hang out in human buildings, being an arboreal species.
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* InhumanableAlienRights: It's mentioned a few times that some humans are uncomfortable with the Hork-Bajir presence on Earth. Most of those Hork-Bajir were born in Yeerk slavery and have no means or will to return to their species' home world, so leaving them to inhabit Yellowstone is the best option as it was in canon. However, Cassie darkly mentions that certain humans want Hork-Bajir classified as animals to have free reign over them and their new habitat, while the authorities who allowed for Hork-Bajir rights care more about surface victories like "Hork-Bajir friendly stairs", never mind that Hork-Bajir are perfectly capable of climbing human stairs and don't regularly hang out in human buildings, being an arboreal species.
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Decided to make the spoiler warning more noticeable.
!Due to the nature of this series, all spoilers for the ''Animorphs'' books will be unmarked.
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** {{Discussed}} in ''How I Live Now''. Cassie says it would be illegal for the bus company to not let Toby on the bus; [[spoiler:Rachel]] is shocked to learn there are anti-discrimination laws for aliens.
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* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Bonnie threatens to slander Cassie into oblivion for [[spoiler:coming up with the plan to infest Tom]].
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The Blade Ship snuck back to Earth not to start another infiltration or war, but because the host bodies they're using are starting to suffer from malnutrition, or "space scurvy" as [[spoiler:Rachel]] calls it. Freeze-dried nutrition pills are a poor substitute for actual human food, which they can only reliably get on Earth.
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: The Blade Ship snuck back to Earth not to start another infiltration or war, but because the host bodies they're using are starting to suffer from malnutrition, or "space scurvy" as [[spoiler:Rachel]] calls it. Freeze-dried nutrition pills are a poor substitute for actual human food, which they can only reliably get on Earth. The author mentions on her blog that an early draft had them morphing bears, cutting out their livers, and eating those for vitamins.
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Moving to the characters page.
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* SamusIsAGirl: [[spoiler:Tom assumes that the serial killer is male, but it turns out to be Margaret White, a regular Matter Over Mind attendee.]]
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* DeathByAdaptation: In canon, Efflit 1318 survived to become a herald to The One. Here, he's killed as soon as he exits his host.
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* WatchItStoned: At the end, Tom crashes at Bonnie's house and they watch ''WesternAnimation/YellowSubmarine''. Tom doesn't understand any of it, so Bonnie tells him you're supposed to get high and watch the pretty pictures go by.
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* FaceYourFears: Tom's plan to save Rachel involves [[spoiler:getting Cassie to morph a Yeerk and infest him so he can pretend to be a controller. He's squicked out by the whole process, and Cassie accidentally opens so many traumatic memories that he has a panic attack, but it works.]]
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* PromotionToParent: Jordan's doing her best take care of Sarah while their mother deals with Rachel's death, and their father flakes off even worse than he did before.
* VisitByDivorcedDad: For Jordan and Sarah, who attend the reunion with their father. It goes no better than it usually does, with Dan making promises he won't keep, Sarah believing him and being disappointed, and Jordan not bothering to hide her dislike of him. When it ends, Tom understands why Naomi hates their side of the family for siding with Dan in the divorce.
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* ChekhovsGag: Tom is constantly mistaken for Jake. [[spoiler:It stops being funny when everyone realises why someone tried to kill Jake- the would-be killer saw Jake standing next to Eva, but from behind, assumed that Jake was Tom and shot him without making sure they had the right target first.]]
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* ChekhovsGag: Tom is constantly mistaken for Jake. [[spoiler:It stops being funny when everyone realises why someone tried to kill Jake- Jake-- the would-be killer saw Jake standing next to Eva, but from behind, assumed that Jake was Tom and shot him without making sure they had the right target first.]]
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* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: [[spoiler:Margaret in snow leopard morph]] bites Tom in cobra morph in half. Fortunately, he doesn't die instantly.
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* NoSympathy: Taylor has been trying to get into Mind Over Matter for a while, but since she infamously sold out the human race to have a pretty face again, nobody there wants her around.
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* TwoFaced: Taylor's body is falling apart, with the most noticeable part being the half of her plastic face that has broken off.
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* VileVulture: [[spoiler:Margaret's bird morph is an Andean condor. It's big and powerful enough to kill the policeman who was guarding the house and nearly kill Tom in owl morph, but Tobias is able to fly rings around her]].
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* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: Discussed at the end. Eva tells Tom that death isn't the only way to escape from the Yeerks by reminding him of the free Hork-Bajir, Hildy Gervais, and all the hosts whose Yeerks died in ''The Alien'' who weren't tracked down and killed.
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* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: Discussed at the end. Eva tells Tom that death isn't the only way it's possible to escape from the Yeerks infestation ''and'' live by reminding him of the free Hork-Bajir, Hildy Gervais, and all the hosts whose Yeerks died in ''The Alien'' who weren't tracked down and killed.were freed during the war; Yeerk propaganda had just convinced Tom that death was the only way out.
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* NotSoInvincibleAfterAll: Discussed at the end. Eva tells Tom that death isn't the only way to escape from the Yeerks by reminding him of the free Hork-Bajir, Hildy Gervais, and all the hosts whose Yeerks died in ''The Alien'' who weren't tracked down and killed.
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* ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: [[spoiler:Rachel is shocked to learn that everyone on Earth thinks she's dead.]]
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* CommonLawMarriage: There's a minor lesbian couple who consider each-other wives, but WordOfGod is that they're not officially married because same-sex marriage wasn't legal in 2001 California.
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* WhamEpisode: Turns out Rachel was alive this whole time, [[spoiler:and the Animorphs get rid of the threat of the last human-controllers on the Blade ship.]]
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* APlaceHoldsMemories: PlayedForDrama. When Tom enters the tunnels leading to the ruins of the Yeerk Pool, the smell of kandrona brings back awful memories of all the times his Yeerks forced him to swallow it.
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* IfYouEverDoAnythingToHurtHer: Bonnie threatens to slander Cassie into oblivion for [[spoiler:coming up with the plan to infest Tom]].
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* MercyKillArrangement: Eva promises Tom that if he's ever infested again, she'll shoot him in the head.
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* RunningGag: In chapter 13, [[spoiler:the Blade ship's computer responds to everything Tom says, including when he's talking to other characters, which gives him "unknown command" error messages. He keeps yelling at it to shut up.]]
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* TechnologyPorn: Tom spends a ''lot'' of words admiring how sleek and efficient [[spoiler:the Blade ship]] is. Lampshaded by Rachel, who asks if they want to spend some time alone.
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* EmptyShell: The Yeerk in Rachel claims that she stopped fighting back within two months. It's a lie, of course, [[spoiler:evident by how quickly Rachel kills the Yeerk as soon as it exits her body]].
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** The Yeerk in Rachel claims that she stopped fighting back within two months. It's a lie, of course, [[spoiler:evident by how quickly Rachel kills the Yeerk as soon as it exits herbody]].body]].
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** The Yeerk in Rachel claims that she stopped fighting back within two months. It's a lie, of course, [[spoiler:evident by how quickly Rachel kills the Yeerk as soon as it exits her
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* ItWasThereTheWholeTime: The presence of several seagulls around them on the boat hints to the reader that Tom and Eva never actually shook the past Animorphs off their scent. They simply decided to watch and learn why Visser One and Essa 412 were working together and so protective of each other, and then learned that they were uninfested future versions of them trying to close a sario rip, and come clean before it happens.
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