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
Remember the robots that hid in plain sight and were super pacifists anda neutral party but when the slugs found a way to bypass their pacifist programming, the animorphs teamed up with one of the robots to steal the bypass data and implement it in him. He robo boy then had full access to all his weapons and wiped out all the slugs and their hosts with the snap of his fingers.
Another time, they had to infiltrate area 51 because they caught wind that the government had seized andelite tech and the yeerks were gonna steal it. When they got to the tech, they just left because it turned out to be an andelite toilet but the government and yeerks didn’t know.