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* PsychologicalProjection: At one point Visser Three challenges Elfangor to come out and take credit for the lives he's ended, the Visser noting that Elfanger has "never been one to shy away from gloating about your brutality", when it's safe to say that the Visser has a much greater bodycount and is far more proud of his kills than Elfangor ever was.

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* PsychologicalProjection: At one point Visser Three challenges Elfangor to come out and take credit for the lives he's ended, the Visser noting that Elfanger Elfangor has "never been one to shy away from gloating about your brutality", when it's safe to say that the Visser has a much greater bodycount and is far more proud of his kills than Elfangor ever was.

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* BigSisterInstinct: Rachel goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge after [[spoiler:a Controller shoots Jordan.]]

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* BigSisterInstinct: Rachel goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge after [[spoiler:a Controller shoots Jordan.]]Jordan]].
*BirdsOfAFeather: When circumstances lead to [[spoiler:Elfangor and Jake double-teaming Visser Three, Rachel reflects that they move in total sync during their assault, wondering if that's some kind of connection that only great leaders can achieve]].


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*DidntThinkThisThrough: A minor example; Rachel [[spoiler:acquires Gafinilan as part of an assault on the Pool Ship, and only realises after she's morphed him that he still has his genetic disease, meaning she's in considerable pain while in his form (to Rachel's credit, she doesn't let that slow her down)]].


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*PsychologicalProjection: At one point Visser Three challenges Elfangor to come out and take credit for the lives he's ended, the Visser noting that Elfanger has "never been one to shy away from gloating about your brutality", when it's safe to say that the Visser has a much greater bodycount and is far more proud of his kills than Elfangor ever was.
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* ParentsKnowTheirChildren: Elfangor instantly ''knows'' that Tobais is his son when he sees him for the first time.

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* ParentsKnowTheirChildren: Elfangor instantly ''knows'' that Tobais Tobias is his son when he sees him for the first time.
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* AbledInTheAdaptation: Thanks to Elfangor, encounters Gafinilan and Mertil soon after the crash and carries with him advanced healing tech, Mertil's severed tail is saved.

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* AbledInTheAdaptation: Thanks to Elfangor, who encounters Gafinilan and Mertil soon after the crash and carries with him advanced healing tech, Mertil's severed tail is saved.saved. He does get a RuggedScar out of the deal, but Elfangor suspects he kind of likes it.
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* AbledInTheAdaptation: Elfangor reattaches Mertil's severed tail.

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* AbledInTheAdaptation: Elfangor reattaches Thanks to Elfangor, encounters Gafinilan and Mertil soon after the crash and carries with him advanced healing tech, Mertil's severed tail.tail is saved.

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* LifeWillKillYou: After spending over 30 Earth years involved in an interplanetary war (and being possessed by a PuppeteerParasite for two-thirds of it), the original timeline's Alloran dies peacefully of old age, surrounded by his family.



* LifeWillKillYou: After spending over 30 Earth years involved in an interplanetary war (and being possessed by a PuppeteerParasite for two-thirds of it), the original timeline's Alloran dies peacefully of old age, surrounded by his family.
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* LifeWillKillYou: After spending over 30 Earth years involved in an interplanetary war (and being possessed by a PuppeteerParasite for two-thirds of it), the original timeline's Alloran dies peacefully of old age, surrounded by his family.
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* PainlessDeathForAPrice: The Animorphs kidnap Temrash-in-Tom and tie him up in the woods. Tobias offers Temrash the choice between a quick death and freedom, or a slow and painful one by kandrona starvation; Temrash chooses the former.
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* ThisCannotBe: As soon as Tom is sent back in time, Temrash 114 learns all the Animorphs' secrets from Tom's memories and is confident he'll be able to expose them and infest their leader... only to be blindsided when it turns out the Animorphs were waiting in the house to capture them.
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* GettingSmilesPaintedOnYourSoul: PlayedForDrama. After delving deep into Tom's memories, Temrash 114 sets off his pleasure receptors as a "reward" for not resisting, which only makes Tom feel worse. [[spoiler:Later, Visser Three does the same to Alloran when they're "reunited" in the splinter universe.]]

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* GettingSmilesPaintedOnYourSoul: GettingSmiliesPaintedOnYourSoul: PlayedForDrama. After delving deep into Tom's memories, Temrash 114 sets off his pleasure receptors as a "reward" for not resisting, which only makes Tom feel worse. [[spoiler:Later, Visser Three does the same to Alloran when they're "reunited" in the splinter universe.]]
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* BatmanGambit: When [[spoiler:Visser Three and Jake come face-to-face for the first time since their memories of the original timeline have been restored, with Jake in control of a Pool Ship, Visser Three starts offering to kill only the Animorphs amd let their allies go free while Jake rejects any such offer. Marco guesses that the two will continue to debate the 'offer' until only Jake is 'obliged' to sacrifice himself, as both enemies know that is the only term Jake will accept]].

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* BatmanGambit: When [[spoiler:Visser Three and Jake come face-to-face for the first time since their memories of the original timeline have been restored, with Jake in control of a Pool Ship, Visser Three starts offering to kill only the Animorphs amd and let their allies go free while Jake rejects any such offer. Marco guesses that the two will continue to debate the 'offer' until only Jake is 'obliged' to sacrifice himself, as both enemies know that is the only term Jake will accept]].

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* ElectricInstantGratification: PlayedForDrama. After delving deep into Tom's memories, Temrash 114 sets off his pleasure receptors as a "reward" for not resisting, which only makes Tom feel worse. [[spoiler:Later, Visser Three does the same to Alloran when they're "reunited" in the splinter universe.]]


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* GettingSmilesPaintedOnYourSoul: PlayedForDrama. After delving deep into Tom's memories, Temrash 114 sets off his pleasure receptors as a "reward" for not resisting, which only makes Tom feel worse. [[spoiler:Later, Visser Three does the same to Alloran when they're "reunited" in the splinter universe.]]
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* ElectricInstantGratification: PlayedForDrama. After delving deep into Tom's memories, Temrash 114 sets off his pleasure receptors as a "reward" for not resisting, which only makes Tom feel worse. [[spoiler:Later, Visser Three does the same to Alloran when they're "reunited" in the splinter universe.]]

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* TheDogBitesBack: Tom beats Ferris 512 (in his host) to a bloody pulp in retaliation for the years of abuse Feriss inflicted upon him in the original timeline.



* KickTheDog: We only get sparse details of what happened to Tom while he was a controller, but it included constant MindRape, being forced to have sex with Visser Three, and near the end he was chained up in a cage to himself in the Yeerk Pool. No wonder he wanted to die.

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* KickTheDog: We only get sparse details of what happened to Tom while he was a controller, but it included constant MindRape, being forced to have sex with Visser Three, and near the end he was chained up in a cage to himself in the Yeerk Pool.Pool towards the end. No wonder he wanted to die.
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* TermsOfEndangerment: Tom has a particularly visceral reaction to Temrash calling him a "good boy".
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* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:The last chapter shows that James and co are fighting the Yeerks in the Animorphs' stead.]]
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* ExpendableAlternateUniverse: Discussed. Chapter 53 begins with [[spoiler:a flashback where Cassie asks Jake why he wants to go back to the original timeline and leave the splinter universe to die. Jake responds that it's the only way to make the splinter universe stable again, and that he gave the morphing cube to James.]]
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Tom is so overcome by rage when he sees Feriss that he throws a rock at him and then bludgeons him with a Dracon beam until he's a bloody pulp.
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* KickTheDog: We only get sparse details of what happened to Tom while he was a controller, but it included constant MindRape, being forced to have sex with Visser Three, and near the end he was chained up in a cage to himself in the Yeerk Pool. No wonder he wanted to die.
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* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Gafinilan hasn't spent as much time among humans as Ax or Elfangor, so he's unfamiliar with mundane objects such as beds.

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* HumansThroughAlienEyes: Gafinilan hasn't and Mertil haven't spent as much time among humans as Ax or Elfangor, so he's they're unfamiliar with mundane objects such as beds.
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* ThoughtTheyKnewAlready: When Mertil and Gafinilan ask Ax what happened to them in the original timeline, Ax says that Gafinilan died of Soola's disease. This shocks Mertil, because Gafinilan had explained away his symptoms as "fatigue".
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* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler:After Jake decides he'll return to the original universe, he visits James in the middle of the night and gives him the morphing cube along with a list of instructions.]]

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* BigSisterInstinct: Rachel goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge after [[spoiler:a Controller shoots Jordan.]]



* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Esplin ''so'' wants to kill Feriss along with his current host in revenge for the latter betraying him in the original timeline, but he decides to keep him around and command him to [[spoiler:kill the Animorphs' families]] because he can rely on him to be cruel.

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* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: Esplin ''so'' wants to kill Feriss along with his current host in revenge for the latter betraying him in the original timeline, but he decides to keep him around and command him to [[spoiler:kill the Animorphs' families]] because he can rely on him to be cruel. Later, Jake talks Rachel out of killing some human-Controllers when he points out that they don't know what Feriss' host looks like; if he dies, the original timeline's version of him will be sent over.


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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Jake flies in on Rachel when she's in elephant morph, wrecking a group of Controllers' car because [[spoiler:one of them shot Jordan.]]
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* AscendedExtra: Tom is freed early on and becomes a SixthRanger for the Animorphs. Mertil and Gafinilan actively fight the Yeerks and become their allies.

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* AscendedExtra: Tom is freed early on and becomes a SixthRanger for the Animorphs. Mertil and Gafinilan actively fight the Yeerks and become their allies.part of the resistance.
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* OutlivingOnesOffspring: Cassie mentions that her parents outlived her in the original universe.
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* ShapeshifterMashup: Cassie is so terrified by [[spoiler:the Yeerks burning her house down with her parents in it]] that her wolf morph gains dragonfly features.

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* ShapeshifterMashup: Cassie is so terrified by [[spoiler:the Yeerks burning her house down with her parents in it]] that her wolf morph gains dragonfly features.turns into a wolf/dragonfly hybrid.
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* ShapeshifterMashup: Cassie is so terrified by [[spoiler:the Yeerks burning her house down with her parents in it]] that her wolf morph gains dragonfly features.
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* EnemyMine: Marco makes a deal with [[spoiler:Visser One to borrow one of her ships and use it to take out Visser Three, their common enemy.]]

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