Things that happened in
Animorphs that people don’t talk about enough:
A man was forced to cannibalize his former student
It’s canon that humpback whales are telepathic and can communicate complex ideas such as the locations of shipwrecks
One of the kids was infested by a yeerk and literally saw Satan when the yeerk died. It wasn’t a vision. Satan is a canon character
God randomly shows up once in a while to help them out?
Dogs have been genetically engineered by furry androids
One of the kids is knocked unconscious and eaten alive by bullet ants but it’s okay because it happened via time-travel magic, so she was fine in the next book
One of the kids is allergic to alligator DNA and ends up expelling an entire fully grown alligator from her back, Alien: Covenant style
This universe’s version of Jonathan Taylor Thomas gets controlled by a yeerk, sees someshit, and moves to Uzbekistan after it’s all over
That entire book that was just about horses and an alien toilet
Zone 91, the secret military base where they supposedly keep aliens
The Animorphs crashing a party at the amusement park (because it was a cover to infest high-ranking military officers) and all the attendees thinking it’s a parade
Living, but remote-controlled, hammerhead sharks
The internet was designed by a yeerk who lives in a mansion and cannibalizes other yeerks and is the brother of Visser Three
They travelled back in time and killed Hitler
God is just a gamer
who was given too much power on accident
Don’t forget the time one of them ensured the future of humanity by going back in time and killing all the dinosaurs
Atlantis is real and they steal humans for breeding, then vivisect them for a museum.
Broccoli is an alien plant cultivated hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Dust monsters that feed off energy live on Jupiter
One of the characters crashes a plane into a building, jumps out the impact hole and begins fighting. This act of terrorism is never followed up on by any government agency.
This same character beats an enemy to death with her severed arm.
A split starfish causes one character to develop split personalities.
A time machine is hidden on Earth and it is universally considered the most dangerous thing in existence. It’s an orb with no discernible controls and no one knows who created it. It is implied the creator(s) redacted themselves from existence on purpose.
One of the characters is able to detect when they are in an alternate universe and return them to the original one.
In one of these alternate universes, five children are able to expose and possibly defeat an alien invasion in a week, with massive property damage.
One character escapes military prison so many times it becomes a running joke.
Don’t forget the giant cannibal centipede rebellion
Or the B-movie scifi aliens who are Very Very Small
Cinnamon buns. Bun-zuh. Buh. Uns.
Remember the time that they infiltrated area 51 to find the Roswell crash was an alien septic tank?
Of when they used that orb time machine to abort a famous actor from time by preventing his parents from meeting because the afformentioned God told them that the actor was time traveling and destabilizing the universe
Also the God let them be chronologically linked with the actor so they’d be at whatever time and place the actor went to but told them up front he was gonna kill one of them which happened in the American revolution where their leader took a musket ball to the face
Also he was fine though because after they aborted the actor none of the events in the book happened so the version of him from the timeline that didn’t die was okay
Thinks about how Fallout 1 introduced bottlecaps as currency but Fallout 2 moved on from this because a new society was in place that had developed paper money again but then Bethesda took the franchise and went back to bottlecaps in Fallout 3 because it was more iconic so then Obsidian set New Vegas in a region where both forms of currency are present with the reason that people don’t fully trust the stability of the paper money in that region and meanwhile Bethesda just kept it bottlecaps-only for 4 and 76
I guess I’m making some kinda point about how the original Fallouts and New Vegas are interested in telling a story in a cohesive world while Bethesda Fallout feels more like they’re selling you “Fallout” as an aesthetic
Yeah exactly that, something about Bethesda Fallout feels like it’s just going down a checklist of Iconic Fallout Things without really building on it in a way that makes sense
