History Literature / Animorphs

* AlienBlood

* AlienSky: Lots of alien tropes, huh?

** Also, at least one whale is confirmed to be sentient: [[spoiler:the Drode must spare its life for this reason.]]

--> '''Jake:''' No, sir. This is Earth. This is a human planet. We are not the Hork-Bajir, we know how you 'rescued' them. As long as you're on earth, you'll get along with us. Am I clear on that?

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: After the war, Jake is so guilty about [[spoiler:ordering to have the Yeerk pool flushed into space]] and [[spoiler:sending Rachel, his cousin, to kill Tom, his brother (the former dies in the process)]] that he is driven to clinical depression. As Marco puts it: [[spoiler: "He wore Rachel and Tom and those seventeen thousand Yeerks around his neck like the [[RimeOfTheAncientMariner Ancient Mariner and his albatross]] ... He could've snapped his fingers and had anything he wanted, but he didn't ''want'' anything. Except for Rachel and Tom to be alive. For Tobias to come back. To unlive that fateful order that doomed seventeen thousand Yeerks."]]

-->'''Crazy Helen''':"...It's a big roan mare. She's acting all funny. Like maybe she's been eating the [[ReeferMadness loco weed.]]"

* TechMarchesOn: #16, the "Internet is weird" book.
* TechnicalPacifist: The Chee in general, Erek in particular: [[spoiler:Erek helps the Animorphs capture the Pool ship because Jake threatens to kill a prisoner every time Erek refuses to cooperate. Erek finds both choices abominable but helps the kids to minimize casualties.]] Cassie may also qualify.

* {{Autocannibalism}}: Annie cuts off Paul's thumb, uses it as a candle on a birthday cake, and threatens to make him eat it.

** A little less harsh than it sounds, since Visser Three is killing the host body and not the Yeerk inside. Not that it makes anybody like him any better.

* AbortedArc: Book 41, "The Familiar" centers on a BadFuture where the Yeerks have conquered Earth--Marco is Visser Two in charge of Earth, Cassie is a jaded terrorist and member of a resistance lead by Tobias, using the morph as Ax and looking like Elfangor, Ax is a Yeerk general that conquered the Andalite homeworld, and Rachel is crippled. The only free member is Jake, who tries to figure out what's going on. Even in-universe the world doesn't make sense though, such as how Cassie at one point uses thought-speak while human and Tobias stating that Jake is supposed to be dead, and its revealed to be AllJustADream. As Jake awakens he hears an entity speaking that humans require "more study", implying it was a vision from the entity. Nothing in the book ever comes into play in the rest of the series and the mysterious entity is never mentioned, though it is known that it isn't the Ellimist or Crayak.
** A few off-hand references are made to the Yeerks have some presence on the Andalite homeworld, but this never developed into anything and by her own admission Applegate just forgot about it.

The franchise included fifty-four regular installments, four extra-length specials (the Megamorphs), two ChooseYourOwnAdventure books, four backstory specials (The Anadalite, Hork-Bajir and Ellemist ''Chronicles'' and ''Visser''), a short-lived TV series adaptation by {{Nickelodeon}}, and [[LicensedGame Game Boy and PC games]]. The series has been re-released some time around [[http://www.hiracdelest.com/blog/?p=543 summer 2011 with new 3D/animated covers.]]

* CasualInterstellarTravel: Averted.

* PlayingHamlet

** Also, the Andalite were originally supposed to resemble stereotypical Grey aliens. Scholastic [[ExecutiveVeto vetoed]] the original design and asked Applegate to be a little more "creative" so that if an ''Animorphs'' TV series was ever produced, they would have an interesting looking alien race to showcase. She then went ahead and made them as unnecessarily complex as possible out of spite to the point where they proved virtually impossible to properly dramatize when said TV series finally came into fruition. Take that, indeed.