History Trivia / Animorphs

* SpoiledByTheCastList: The real-life narrators being listed on the audiobook covers spoils that something's unusual about #19 ''The Departure'' and #42 ''The Journey'' as they're the only 2 with more than one narrator listed (outside the Megamorphs, some Chronicles, and #54). Book #47 ''The Resistence'' also spoils that another character shares narration duty but there's still some surprise as Mark Bramhall, the 2nd narrator for #47, doesn't narrate another book, leaving his character a mystery.

* SpoiledByTheCastList: The real-life narrators being listed on the audiobook covers spoils that something's unusual about #19 ''The Departure'' and #42 ''The Journey'' as they're the only 2 with more than one narrator listed (outside the Megamorphs, some Chronicles, and #54)

** The [[AlphaAndBetaWolves pack mentality of wolves]] mentioned in the books has since been discarded by science along with the biology and mentality of many other creatures featured since they were written.

* TheOtherDarrin: Tom Barnett replaces Eugene Lipinski as Visser Three in Season 2. Given that this is a series where people can change into anything alive (within reason), it is more easily explained than other examples of the trope.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: Only had 12 episodes released on VHS, and nothing else. Fans have taken to uploading the rest of the series online, even though most consider it a bad show. Qubo (one of Creator/{{Ion}}'s spinoff cable channels) reran it in 2014.

* HeAlsoDid: Melinda Metz, writer of ''Literature/RoswellHigh'' (which was the inspiration for the TV show ''Series/{{Roswell}}'') and ''Literature/{{Fingerprints}}'', was the ghostwriter for ''The Sickness'' and ''The Prophecy''.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: The original plan was for all the aliens to be the {{rubber forehead|Aliens}} kind, to make a then-theoretical LiveActionAdaptation easier to produce. Scholastic told Applegate to be more creative, so she made them all StarfishAliens instead. And then, of course, they tried to make a LiveActionAdaptation...

* TheWikiRule: [[http://www.Animorphs.fandom.com Seerowpedia]]

* TheOtherDarrin: Tom Barnett replaces Eugene Lipinski as Visser Three in Season 2. Given that this is a series where people can change into anything alive (within reason), it is more easily explained than other examples of the trope.

* CreatorKiller: [=SingleTrac=] was already hurting due to a string of flops after they were purchased by GT Interactive as well as many of their employees leaving to form Incognito, but the TroubledProduction this game received, combined with its critical roasting and commercial failure (not helped by releasing a month before both the PS2’s North American launch and the release of ''VideoGame/SpyroYearOfTheDragon'') proved to be the killing blow.

* NamesTheSame: New readers of ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'' must have been surprised to see K.A. named the main hero of that series after the SixthRangerTraitor of this one.

* ReferencedBy: An instance of Wiki/{{SCP|Foundation}}-[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1468 1468]] started producing a carving of ''The Invasion'' before dying from malnutrition.

* TorchTheFranchiseAndRun: Never confirmed, but K.A has admitted Scholastic owns the full rights to ''Animorphs'' (much to her frustration), and it'd go a long way to explaining that BolivianArmyEnding.

** There were originally going to be a few more books (including one more Megamorphs which was to be released between books 53 and 54), which is why Applegate's letter at the end of the final book [[OrphanedReference erroneously says there were five instead of four]]) that were cancelled for unknown reasons. This may also be why the number of "main series" books is 54, rather than something more regular like 55 or 60, which is truly tragic as it meant that book 54 (which would become ''The Beginning'', the last book of the series) would have been a '''Rachel''' narrative book had the series not been cancelled and kept on it's then-current track:[[note]]Book 55 likewise would have been Tobias' next narrative book, same would have been for book 56 for Cassie, book 57 for Marco, along with the final two books going back to Ax and Jake respectively, whom all missed out on extra final book covers[[/note]].

** There were originally going to be a few more books (including one more Megamorphs which was to be released between books 53 and 54), which is why Applegate's letter at the end of the final book [[OrphanedReference erroneously says there were five instead of four]]) that were cancelled for unknown reasons. This may also be why the number of "main series" books is 54, rather than something more regular like 55 or 60, which is truly tragic as it meant that book 54 (which would become ''The Beginning'', the last book of the series) would have been a Rachel narrative book had the series not been cancelled and kept on it's then-current track[[note]]book 55 would have been Tobias' next narrative book, same would have been book 56 for Cassie and book 57 for Marco, whom all missed out on extra final covers[[/note]].

** There were originally going to be a few more books (including one more Megamorphs which was to be released between books 53 and 54), which is why Applegate's letter at the end of the final book [[OrphanedReference erroneously says there were five instead of four]]) that were cancelled for unknown reasons. This may also be why the number of "main series" books is 54, rather than something more regular like 55 or 60, which is truly tragic as it meant that book 54 (which would become the last book ''The Beginning'') would have been a Rachel narratied book had the series not been cancelled and kept on it's current track.

** There were originally going to be a few more books (including one more Megamorphs, which is why Applegate's letter at the end of the final book [[OrphanedReference erroneously says there were five instead of four]]) that were cancelled for unknown reasons. This may also be why the number of "main series" books is 54, rather than something more regular like 55 or 60.

* NoHitWonder: The GBC ''Animorphs'' game was the only one developer Runnyfun ever made, and it was hardly a success.