did anyone ever actually read animorphs or did we all just glance at the covers and assume it needed no explanation on the way to the goosebumps section in our elementary school library
animorphs is a scifi series about the grey morality of war and child soldiers experiencing trauma, depression, PTSD, being frequently and brutally dismembered, disemboweled, literally tortured to the brink of death, forced to murder their own family members with their bare hands, and on page 22 of the very first book they watch the alien prince who gave them their ~wacky animal morphing powers~ scream while be eaten alive in vivid and gory detail
One dude permanently turned into a bird for a while, forgot how to make facial expressions when he was a human and ate roadkill. And that was one of the tamer things.
You know the starfish cover everyone likes to mock especially? The girl beat someone to death with her own severed arm in that one :)
What the fuck did I miss out on
At one point, they have to travel through time to stop someone from fucking everything up and they elicit the help of a magic space leprechaun but, because space leprechaun is neutral, he demands a blood price.
THe leader gets shot in the head during the american revolution and they find out the human who is stuck as a hawk is the son of the alien who gave them their powers and they also prevent the asshole who fucks time up from ever being born by preventing his parents from ever meeting. They all gain two sets of memories and the leader remembers being shot in the head and it drives him crazy.