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''[[https://www.sporadicphantoms.com/ Sporadic Phantoms]]'' is an ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' fanfiction podcast with light AlternateRealityGame elements. It follows a trio of environmentalists from California -- Robin, Stevie, and Kyle -- who are protesting against the Dapsen Lumber Company's logging in the national forest. However, what starts as a standard look into an environmental scandal changes completely when they discover Dapsen has ties to not just a weapons development company known as Matcom but a shady organization called The Sharing. Realizing The Sharing is the bigger mystery the trio decides to shift the podcast's focus to investigating its suspicious activities and go undercover- unaware of the [[AlienInvasion horrors]] waiting for them...
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''[[https://www.sporadicphantoms.com/ Sporadic Phantoms]]'' is an ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' fanfiction podcast with light AlternateRealityGame elements.elements (which are stronger in the second season). It follows a trio of environmentalists from California -- Robin, Stevie, and Kyle -- who are protesting against the Dapsen Lumber Company's logging in the national forest. However, what starts as a standard look into an environmental scandal changes completely when they discover Dapsen has ties to not just a weapons development company known as Matcom but a shady organization called The Sharing. Realizing The Sharing is the bigger mystery the trio decides to shift the podcast's focus to investigating its suspicious activities and go undercover- unaware of the [[AlienInvasion horrors]] waiting for them...
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* BreakTheCutie: This happens to all of the three main characters. Going from wide eyed excited environmentalists ready to investigate what seems like a standard illegal logging operation to being paranoid broken messes desperate to find out what's really going in The Sharing unaware of how horrible the truth actually is. Robin gets by far the worst of it. The stress, paranoia, and lack of any real answers cause her to push all her friends away [[spoiler:until all she has left is the Be You Now Course she's investigating. It culminates in her becoming so broken she becomes a voluntary controller]].
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* BreakTheCutie: This happens to all of the three main characters. Going from wide eyed excited environmentalists ready to investigate what seems like a standard illegal logging operation to being paranoid broken messes desperate to find out what's really going in The Sharing unaware of how horrible the truth actually is. Robin gets by far the worst of it. The stress, paranoia, and lack of any real answers cause her to push all her friends away [[spoiler:until all she has left is the Be You Now Course she's investigating. It Despite her first experience with it being profoundly negative, it culminates in her becoming so broken she becomes a voluntary controller]].
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* TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: Kyle walks a fine line between this and EntertaininglyWrong - he's wrong that the Sharing is an animal trafficking ring, but anyone who's read ''Animorphs'' knows he's right that birds are surveying them. He's just wrong about them being from The Sharing. It's practically a RunningGag that he'll say something unsettlingly accurate about the books... and then undercut it with an EntertaininglyWrong claim.
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* TheCloudcuckoolanderWasRight: Kyle walks a fine line between this and EntertaininglyWrong - he's wrong that the Sharing is an animal trafficking ring, ring and ''very'' wrong about Elizabeth's benevolence, but anyone who's read ''Animorphs'' knows he's right that [[AnimalEspionage birds are surveying them.them]]. He's just wrong about them being from The Sharing. It's practically a RunningGag that he'll say something unsettlingly accurate about the books... and then undercut it with an EntertaininglyWrong claim.
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* TheDulcineaEffect: Kyle immediately throws his lot in with Elizabeth shortly after meeting her, getting highly defensive about her and her methods in The Sharing, and is convinced that other Full Members are trying to oust her. It's what starts driving a rift between him and the others. [[spoiler: It also turns out to be legit - despite evidence to the contrary, he was never infested and really was that crazy about her]].
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* TheDulcineaEffect: Kyle immediately throws his lot in with Elizabeth shortly after meeting her, getting highly defensive about her and her methods in The Sharing, and is convinced that other Full Members are trying to oust her. It's what starts driving a rift between him and the others. [[spoiler: It also turns out to be legit - despite evidence to the contrary, he was never infested and really was that crazy about her]].her, going from feeling suspicious and betrayed to being head over heels for her based on a conversation at her apartment]].
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* EnemyCivilWar: Kyle believes there's one going on in The Sharing between the rich donors and Elizabeth's Be You Now course. As usual, he's RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler: Chapman and Visser Three want to get rid of her and her followers, while Elizabeth claims to be working under direct orders from The Council of Thirteen]]. Episode 10 adds another layer to this: [[spoiler: Nancy is confirmed to be a controller, but she attacks Elizabeth and is implied to be a member of the Yeerk Peace Movement]].
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* EnemyCivilWar: Kyle believes there's one going on in The Sharing between the rich donors and Elizabeth's Be You Now course. As usual, he's RightForTheWrongReasons: [[spoiler: Chapman and Visser Three want to get rid of her and her followers, while Elizabeth Elizabeth, who studied directly under Lore David Altman aka Visser One, claims to be working under direct orders from The Council of Thirteen]]. Episode 10 adds another layer to this: [[spoiler: Nancy is confirmed to be a controller, but she attacks Elizabeth and is implied to be a member of the Yeerk Peace Movement]].
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* EntertaininglyWrong: Understandably, the trio don't immediately realise that The Sharing is a front for mind-controlling aliens. From the information they ''do'' have, they come to the conclusion that they're some kind of cult (particularly after hearing a recording of a Be You Now meeting where Elizabeth extols TheEvilsOfFreeWill and tells a participant that by taking up music he's wasting her time and empathy and that the entire group is disappointed in him) and maybe an animal trafficking ring (based on Kyle hearing a tiger roar from the Sharing building's basement). While Kyle is closer to the truth in some ways, his flip into enthusiastic support of Elizabeth and her faction despite the ''many'' red flags is pretty strikingly off base.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Elizabeth's Be You Now sessions include the idea that while people think choice and control will make them happy, it really won't and they can find their true, authentic, spiritual and content selves by being able to passively exist and be aware of their thoughts and feelings, choosing how to feel instead. This is of course a good step along the way to becoming voluntary hosts who can placidly accept infestation. She's ''very'' displeased when one of her participants mentions that the course has made him feel freer to try creative pursuits - an individualistic practice that would give him more of a life outside of the Sharing - and guilts him into tears and promising to give music up.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Elizabeth's Be You Now sessions include the idea that while people think choice and control will make them happy, it really won't and they can find their true, authentic, spiritual and content selves by being able to passively exist and be aware of their thoughts and feelings, choosing how to feel instead. This is of course a good step along the way to becoming voluntary hosts who can placidly accept infestation. She's ''very'' displeased when one of her participants mentions that the course has made him feel freer to try creative pursuits - an individualistic practice that would give him more of a life outside of the Sharing - and guilts him into tears and promising to give music up.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: Understandably, the trio don't immediately realise that The Sharing is a front for mind-controlling aliens. From the information they ''do'' have, they come to the conclusion that they're some kind of cult (particularly after hearing a recording of a Be You Now meeting where Elizabeth extols TheEvilsOfFreeWill and tells a TheEvilsOfFreeWill, telling one participant that by taking up music he's wasting her time and empathy and that the entire group is disappointed in him) him and driving another into a sobbing-laughing breakdown) and maybe an animal trafficking ring (based on Kyle hearing a tiger roar from the Sharing building's basement). While Kyle is closer to the truth in some ways, his flip into enthusiastic support of Elizabeth and her faction despite the ''many'' red flags is pretty strikingly off base.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Elizabeth's Be You Now sessions include the idea that while people think choice and control will make them happy, it really won't and they can find their true, authentic, spiritual and content selves by being able to passively exist and be aware of their thoughts and feelings, choosing how to feel instead. This is of course a good step along the way to becoming voluntary hosts who can placidly accept infestation. She's ''very'' displeased when one of her participants mentions that the course has made him feel freer to try creative pursuits - an individualistic practice that would give him more of a life outside of the Sharing - and guilts him into tears and promising to give music up. Then she focuses on a teenager and has the group help shame her into a breakdown.
--> See, we think we have to have such a big say in our lives. That we need to be in control of our circumstances. But when we release that belief, we experience true happiness. Because we won't be hiding ourselves anymore.
* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Elizabeth's Be You Now sessions include the idea that while people think choice and control will make them happy, it really won't and they can find their true, authentic, spiritual and content selves by being able to passively exist and be aware of their thoughts and feelings, choosing how to feel instead. This is of course a good step along the way to becoming voluntary hosts who can placidly accept infestation. She's ''very'' displeased when one of her participants mentions that the course has made him feel freer to try creative pursuits - an individualistic practice that would give him more of a life outside of the Sharing - and guilts him into tears and promising to give music up. Then she focuses on a teenager and has the group help shame her into a breakdown.
--> See, we think we have to have such a big say in our lives. That we need to be in control of our circumstances. But when we release that belief, we experience true happiness. Because we won't be hiding ourselves anymore.
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Someone going in blind would figure out early on that the show is about a conspiracy theory rather than environmental scandal, but it's not until The Sharing is namedropped that the world the show is set in becomes clear - Dapsen and Matcom, which the Phantoms look into in that first episode, are both taken from the books, but they're each only attached to a threat-of-the-week and someone who'd recently read book 9 and 10 might catch the significance, but it's easy not to. Not like the Sharing, which is a presence throughout ''Animorphs''.
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Someone going in blind would figure out early on that the show is about a conspiracy theory rather than environmental scandal, but it's not until The Sharing is namedropped that the world the show is set in becomes clear - Dapsen and Matcom, which the Phantoms look into in that first episode, are both taken from the books, but they're each only attached to a threat-of-the-week and someone who'd recently read book 9 and 10 might catch the significance, but it's easy not to. Not like the Sharing, which The Sharing is a presence throughout ''Animorphs''.''Animorphs'', so a fan will immediately catch on. Non Animorphs fans, though, will be in the dark.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: Understandably, the trio don't immediately realise that The Sharing is a front for mind-controlling aliens. From the information they ''do'' have, they come to the conclusion that they're some kind of cult (particularly after hearing a recording of a Be You Now meeting where Elizabeth probes a girl about her problems until she breaks down in tears) and maybe an animal trafficking ring (based on Kyle hearing a tiger roar from the Sharing building's basement).
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* EntertaininglyWrong: Understandably, the trio don't immediately realise that The Sharing is a front for mind-controlling aliens. From the information they ''do'' have, they come to the conclusion that they're some kind of cult (particularly after hearing a recording of a Be You Now meeting where Elizabeth probes extols TheEvilsOfFreeWill and tells a girl about participant that by taking up music he's wasting her problems until she breaks down time and empathy and that the entire group is disappointed in tears) him) and maybe an animal trafficking ring (based on Kyle hearing a tiger roar from the Sharing building's basement).basement). While Kyle is closer to the truth in some ways, his flip into enthusiastic support of Elizabeth and her faction despite the ''many'' red flags is pretty strikingly off base.
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* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Elizabeth's Be You Now sessions include the idea that while people think choice and control will make them happy, it really won't and they can find their true, authentic, spiritual and content selves by being able to passively exist and be aware of their thoughts and feelings, choosing how to feel instead. This is of course a good step along the way to becoming voluntary hosts who can placidly accept infestation.
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* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Elizabeth's Be You Now sessions include the idea that while people think choice and control will make them happy, it really won't and they can find their true, authentic, spiritual and content selves by being able to passively exist and be aware of their thoughts and feelings, choosing how to feel instead. This is of course a good step along the way to becoming voluntary hosts who can placidly accept infestation. She's ''very'' displeased when one of her participants mentions that the course has made him feel freer to try creative pursuits - an individualistic practice that would give him more of a life outside of the Sharing - and guilts him into tears and promising to give music up.
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* TheEvilsOfFreeWill: Elizabeth's Be You Now sessions include the idea that while people think choice and control will make them happy, it really won't and they can find their true, authentic, spiritual and content selves by being able to passively exist and be aware of their thoughts and feelings, choosing how to feel instead. This is of course a good step along the way to becoming voluntary hosts who can placidly accept infestation.
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* RedHerring: When it's revealed in episode 7 that [[spoiler: one of the Sporadic Phantoms is a controller all evidence initially points to Kyle. He disappeared for 2 hours at the end of episode 2, and when he reappeared he said they should give the Sharing a chance; he's obviously infatuated with Elizabeth (who the audience knows to be a controller) and is highly defensive of her; and is the one willing to play Devil's Advocate for the Sharing. However, in the Emergency Livestream, it's revealed Stevie was the mole. In fact ironically Kyle is the only Sporadic Phantom to ''not'' get infested]].
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* RedHerring: When it's revealed in episode 7 that [[spoiler: one of the Sporadic Phantoms is a controller Controller, all evidence initially points to Kyle. He disappeared for 2 hours at the end of In episode 2, and when two he reappeared he said they should give the Sharing a chance; he's obviously infatuated with was intrigued by Elizabeth (who the audience knows to be is a controller) high-ranking Controller) but skeptical of the Sharing, and after overhearing her talk about killing birds he fled in tears, telling his recording device that she can't be trusted and deciding to spy on a meeting of full members - in Animorphs proper, that's how ''Tom'' got infested. Then Kyle disappears for a few hours, reappearing cheerful and saying they should give the Sharing a chance. His infatuation with Elizabeth is highly back and stronger than ever and, based on one conversation, he's now quite defensive of her; her and is the one willing to play Devil's Advocate for most pro-Sharing of the Sharing.trio by a country mile. However, in the Emergency Livestream, it's revealed Stevie was the mole. In fact ironically Kyle is the only Sporadic Phantom to ''not'' get infested]].infested. He's just really flighty, so it really did just take a conversation with his crush and her telling him buzzwords about the Sharing actually being anti-capitalist and revolutionary to win him over]].
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** In the second episode Kyle is suspicious of the burgers the Sharing is grilling up, a reference to the ground beef that supposedly takes away human free will in book 28.
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* MotorMouth: In order to attend an in-person Sharing event in the second episode the Phantoms have to attend a Sharing Zoom event, and the only option available is Speed Dating. Kyle's paired with someone who talks rapidly and at length about a partner who's clearly been infested (going to the mall every three days and losing cell phone reception for a couple hours each time) and who doesn't let him get a word in edgewise.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: A strange case where much of the darker tone comes from how selective it is with the source material. As Sporadic Phantoms focuses on the {{Original Character}}s of Robyn, Stevie, and Kyle, much of the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness (and regular weirdness) of Animorphs has no presence within the narrative. The show also takes inspiration from real-life cults such as Synannon in its portrayal of the Sharing, and rarely shows characters that are obviously infested by Yeerks, distilling much of the silliness of Animorphs into an atmosphere of pure paranoia.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: A strange case where much of the darker tone comes from how selective it is with the source material. As Sporadic Phantoms focuses on the {{Original Character}}s of Robyn, Stevie, and Kyle, much of the EarlyInstallmentWeirdness (and regular weirdness) of Animorphs has no presence within the narrative.narrative outside of These Messages. The show also takes inspiration from real-life cults such as Synannon in its portrayal of the Sharing, and rarely shows characters that are obviously infested by Yeerks, distilling much of the silliness of Animorphs into an atmosphere of pure paranoia.
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* EntertaininglyWrong: Understandably, the trio don't immediately realise that The Sharing is a front for mind-controlling aliens. From the information they ''do'' have, they come to the conclusion that they're either some kind of cult (based on a recording of a Be You Now meeting where Elizabeth probes a girl about her problems until she breaks down in tears) or an animal trafficking ring (based on Kyle hearing a tiger roar from the Sharing building's basement).
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* EntertaininglyWrong: Understandably, the trio don't immediately realise that The Sharing is a front for mind-controlling aliens. From the information they ''do'' have, they come to the conclusion that they're either some kind of cult (based on (particularly after hearing a recording of a Be You Now meeting where Elizabeth probes a girl about her problems until she breaks down in tears) or and maybe an animal trafficking ring (based on Kyle hearing a tiger roar from the Sharing building's basement).
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Someone going in blind would figure out early on that the show is about a conspiracy theory rather than environmental scandal, but it's not until The Sharing is namedropped that the world the show is set in becomes clear - Dapsen and Matcom are both taken from the books, but they're associated with a threat-of-the-week, not like the Sharing which is a presence throughout.
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Someone going in blind would figure out early on that the show is about a conspiracy theory rather than environmental scandal, but it's not until The Sharing is namedropped that the world the show is set in becomes clear - Dapsen and Matcom Matcom, which the Phantoms look into in that first episode, are both taken from the books, but they're associated with each only attached to a threat-of-the-week, threat-of-the-week and someone who'd recently read book 9 and 10 might catch the significance, but it's easy not to. Not like the Sharing Sharing, which is a presence throughout.throughout ''Animorphs''.
* MeaningfulRename: Inner circle Sharing members call each other by Yeerk names - Inness, Girmas, etc - when away from the public, rather than using the names of their hosts. The Phantoms eventually decide that joining the Inner Circle involves being assigned a Sharing name.
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* NoFullNameGiven: Every episode begins with Robin saying that the trio can't tell you their last names out of fear of retaliation, as a mythology gag for the books' tendency to do this. It's later mocked and lampshaded when Robin and Cassie's mother describe how using first names only makes the podcast untraceable.
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* NoFullNameGiven: Every episode begins with Robin saying that the trio can't tell you their last names out of fear of retaliation, as a mythology gag for the books' tendency to do this. It's later mocked and lampshaded when Robin and Cassie's mother describe how insists that only using first names only makes the podcast untraceable.untraceable, and when they mention this to Cassie's mom she agrees. [[spoiler: [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome However]], it's later mocked by the Yeerks. Unlike the Animorphs who, if they actually were writing the books, kept them secret for the duration of the war, the Sporadic Phantoms were putting out a monthly podcast that Sharing members could just listen to, and they didn't change enough details for leaving out their last names to be more than a PaperThinDisguise at ''best''.]]
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* RealitySubtext: The Sharing explored in this fic is shown to explicitly play on the feelings of isolation that people felt during the COVID-19 pandemic, touting their safe in-person gatherings and feelings of community to draw people in. %% InUniverse
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* RealitySubtext: The Sharing explored in this fic is shown to explicitly play on the feelings of isolation that people felt during the COVID-19 pandemic, touting their safe in-person gatherings and feelings of community to draw people in. In the second season, Share the Truth [[spoiler: attacks a medical centre the Sharing was using to, among other things, distribute COVID boosters, which lets the podcast paint them as militant anti-vaxxers]]. %% InUniverse
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* SettingUpdate: Moves from the source material's 1990's setting to the 2020's. The Covid-19 pandemic is a part of the backdrop of the podcast's events-it's even a minor plot point that the hosts notice The Sharing somehow is able to circumvent restrictions on pubblic gatherings that have been put in place due to the virus. Passing references are also made to current events (for instance, Joe Biden's victory over Donald Trump in the 2020 election).
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* SeriousBusiness: One of the key discussions Robin and Stevie have when visiting the Chicago Sharing office is whether they've been able to construct a pool, how they need to convince city officials to let them construct a pool, alternate locations for a pool, and installing rapid transit lines to make it easier for Sharing members to reach the pool. To unaware viewers it seems like a really specific thing to worry about, but those in the know recognize they're talking about a ''yeerk'' pool.
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* WildGooseChase: In "The Flight", Robin and Stevie head to Chicago to follow a lead on their hotline about Kyle's whereabouts. While they're away, [[spoiler: a Sharing-backed medical facility is destroyed by the Animorphs]], prompting Robin to wonder if the caller was working for Share the Truth.
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* NamedByTheAdaptation: Visser Three's human guise is Richard Stinton. Might also count as an AdaptationNameChange - in the TV series he's Victor Trent.
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* FirstEpisodeSpoiler: Someone going in blind would figure out early on that the show is about a conspiracy theory rather than environmental scandal, but it's not until The Sharing is namedropped that the world the show is set in becomes clear.
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* OutsideContextProblem: The three start out running basically a true crime investigation in a world that seems like ours with just a smidge more in the way of science fiction technology. They are in no way prepared for the culty organization that they start looking into to be the "soft" side of an AlienInvasion with {{Puppeteer Parasite}}s being able to infest people to take them over.
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* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: The trio's efforts to investigate lead to several people getting infested, from the park ranger in the first episode to their cults consultant [[spoiler: to some of themselves]].
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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Robin confronts Kyle in episode 8 all but accusing him of [[spoiler:being TheMole in the trio]]. Kyle insists this isn't true but the fact he can't give a proper explanation as to [[spoiler:how he knew the password to the flash drive the Animorphs gave him(Ax transmitted it to him via thought speak.)]] results in this trope.
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* YouHaveToBelieveMe: Robin confronts Kyle in episode 8 all but accusing him of [[spoiler:being TheMole in the trio]]. Kyle insists this isn't true but the fact he can't give a proper explanation as to [[spoiler:how he knew the password to the flash drive the Animorphs gave him(Ax him (Ax transmitted it to him via thought speak.)]] speak)]] results in this trope.
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* TakeThat: Crazy Helen's ad in episode 9 has her express delight at how well her stock of Ivermectin has been selling, and assumes there must be some kind of horse-worm epidemic. When her assistant informs her that some people think it can [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation#Ivermectin cure COVID-19]], she scoffs at it.
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** Crazy Helen's ad in episode 9 has her express delight at how well her stock of Ivermectin has been selling, and assumes there must be some kind of horse-worm epidemic. When her assistant informs her that some people think it can [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_misinformation#Ivermectin cure COVID-19]], she scoffs at it.
** Robin and Stevie take some time to [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall lean on the fourth wall]] and describe the events of the infamously loathed Animorphs book #37 as "truly, truly an awful episode," and refer to it with terms that make it ambiguous whether they're describing the book.
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* EvilIsOneBigHappyFamily: Very much an AvertedTrope. It is quite clear from early on that Elizabeth is at odds with Chapman and Stinton/Visser Three, with her commitment to the Be You Now program being viewed as at best an annoyance and at worse an obstacle. They do still [[TeethClenchedTeamwork have to cooperate]] [[spoiler: until Elizabeth's failed attempt to make Kyle a host allows the rest of the Sharing to throw her under the bus.]]
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