History Characters / Animorphs

* {{Pride}}: Even as Yeerks go he's pretty stuck-up.

* {{Pride}}: Even as Yeerk's go he's pretty stuck-up.

* TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilised: Subverted. She pretends to be a member of a Yeerk resistance movement in order to gain the kid's assitance in Book 43.

Though he may have been infested by more than one Yeerk, the reader only meets two. The first was an overly-ambitious low-level grunt who was starved to death by the group after managing to infest Jake. The second was a much more dangerous and capable enemy who rose to minor success by becoming one of Visser Three's most capable lieutenants. After Visser Three refused to promote him past the rank of chief of security, however, Tom's Yeerk became sick of taking orders from superiors he percieved to be incompetent failures, and began scheming for ways to amass greater power for himself.

* SomeCallMeTim

* IKnowMortalKombat: He never said he knew how to drive, just that he had the high score on a driving game called [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wipeout_(video_game) Wipeout].

* IKnowMortalKombat: He never said he knew how to drive, just that he had the high score on a driving game called Wipeout.

''Jake is one of those people who are natural leaders. If you were ever trapped in a burning building, you would turn to Jake and ask "What do we do?" And he would have an answer too.''

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: His [[spoiler: assassination of [[SuperSpeed the Inspector]] in Book 37. Even Rachel admits it was amazing, comparing it to snatching a bullet out of midair. Did we mention he was in cobra morph at the time?]]
** "[[DeadpanSnarker Hey Yeerk. You're fast. I'm faster.]]"

* LittleMissAlmighty: His first form.

* [[spoiler:DeadPersonImpersonation]]: [[spoiler: Murders Jake and Rachel's terminally ill cousin and takes his place]].

* [[spoiler: SpotTheImpostor: David morphs Jake's dying cousin, and takes his place. Jake figures it out almost instantly. Everyone else not in on TheMasquerade fails miserably.]]

* BigBad: Somewhat subverted in that, while he is the primary antagonist of the series and is quite high up in the Yeerk hierarchy, there are still several levels above him.

* EvilTwin: Has an [[ImAHumanitarian eviller]] twin, if that can be believed.

* [[spoiler: SpotTheImpostor David morphs Jake's dying cousin, and takes his place. Jake figures it out almost instantly. Everyone else not in on TheMasquerade fails miserably.]]

* TheTrickster: his name means "wild card" to his species.

A sadistic Yeerk sub-visser responsible for capturing and torturing Tobias. Later gets the kids involved in a plot to murder Visser Three in revenge for her demotion. It [[spoiler: turns out to be a trap meant to eliminate both the Animorphs and the Yeerk Peace Faction]].

* {{Badass}}: Probably the straightest example in series.

The quiet and thoughtful loner. Neglected at home and bullied at school, the fight with the Yeerks and morphing ability gave him a chance to escape from his situation. Finding freedom as a red-tailed hawk, he soon accidently trapped himself in the bird body for keeps. [[spoiler:He later regained his morphing ability, but with the hawk as his normal form]].

* [[spoiler:AwesomeMomentOfCrowning]]

Visser Three's host, and formerly Elfangor's commanding officer.

* SadClown

* ColdBloodedTorture: All the time.
* DarkActionGirl: Taylor would rather [[ManipulativeBastard manipulate]] than fight, she's nowhere near the BadAss that [[BloodKnight Rachel]] can become, and maybe not even at [[TheHeart Cassie's]] [[ActionGirl level]]. But the girl can still take and dish our far more damage than you would expect her to be able to, and seems to be one of the few Yeerks who didn't get her training at the ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy. In Book 43 [[spoiler: she's able to take out the entire team (minus Cassie and Tobias) when she catches them by surprise, and fights a Taxxon-morphed Tobias on a fairly even basis]]. Not bad for a ([[BadassAbnormal relatively]]) normal girl.

* EvilCounterpart: Tobias sees her as his, and to a degree he's right. Like him, she's a damaged person from a lousy background, who became involved in the war due to alien intervention in her life. Like him, she's got a lot of insecurites that prevent her from dealing with life, and Tobias frequently compares her decision to become a Controller to his own entrapment in hawk morph. Tobias of course, is still a hero, whereas Taylor...well just look at the list of tropes she's associated with.

* HollywoodCyborg: Somehwat justified, seeing as she was created by advanced alien technology.

* MagicPlasticSurgery: Justified as Yeerk cybernetics were used in reconstructing her arm and face.