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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

the comic relief character finds out that his dead mom is alive, but as a helpless slave of the head overseer for the invasion of earth. he can’t make any contact with her— let alone free her— without dooming himself and his friends to execution or enslavement. he also can’t tell his father, who’s been grief-stricken to the point of child neglect for several years. this happens pretty early on.  

The series ends with the brutal and bloody deaths of MULTIPLE MAJOR characters, before destroying all relationships they made. The survivors later go onto pull a Star Trek, “Thrusters to full, target that ship!” ending where it’s heavily implied EVERYBODY DIES! 

And that’s not counting the alternate universes. Where the bird boy gets controlled by an alien, before he’s brutally beheaded. Several characters are vaporized, and death is everywhere. 

Or how somebody gets his blown off in the American Revolution! The entire series is insane!

There’s a race of super advanced robots who would conquer the universe if they weren’t programmed to be pacifists. When one manages to bypass the pacifism protocal, he annihilates and entire underground enemy base with the flick of his hand. This gives the robot PTSD and he demands that the protagonists remove the chip that allows him to bypass the pacifism.