Marco: Venber? What happened to them being extinct?
Marco: Ax, are you developing a sense of humor? If so, stop it, okay?
—Animorphs #25: The Extreme
The X Parasite, a dangerous life form capable of mimicking its prey, was thought to be extinct...until the Galactic Federation received a troubling transmission that suggested otherwise. Seven Extraplanetary Multiform Mobile Identifier robots, or E.M.M.I., were dispatched to investigate. However, soon after the E.M.M.I. arrived on the planet where the transmission originated from...they disappeared.
Marge: Say hello to Jim Proudfoot from the Mohican tribe.
Bart: Mohican? I thought you guys were all gone.
Jim: Ha, ha. No, but we encourage the myth. Chicks really dig you when you're the last of something.