History Trivia / Animorphs

!![[Series/{{Animorphs}} The TV series]]:

* [[ActingForTwo Acting for Thousands]]: Because only one Hork-Bajir costume existed, a single Hork-Bajir was the only representation of an ''entire race''. Still a better deal than the Taxxons got; they were cut from the show altogether.
* DawsonCasting: A mild example, as the age of the book characters had not yet been revealed when Ani-TV went into production.
* DisownedAdaptation: Applegate was quite vocal in her distaste for Ani-TV, going so far as to insert a TakeThat to it in ''The Return''.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Shawn Ashmore (Jake) is [[{{Film/X-Men}} Iceman.]] And a meteor freak on ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' (where his twin brother was Jimmy Olsen).
** Visser Three's human form is [[Series/{{Arrow}} Alexi Leonov.]]
** He and Christopher Ralph (Tobias) are also both series regulars of ''In a Heartbeat''.
** Who knew that [[{{Film/ResidentEvil}} the Umbrella Corporation]] got its start as an anti-Yeerk movement?
* NoBudget: Painfully obvious in some scenes. [[LiteralMetaphor The slug-like Yeerks were, well,]] [[CallARabbitASmeerp slugs]], [[OffTheShelfFx the Dracon beams were merely repainted flashlights]], and the Andalites were played by PeopleInRubberSuits.
** It's also very obvious that there was only one Hork-Bajir costume, and the Taxxons never appear as they would clearly be impossible on the show's budget.
* RecursiveAdaptation: ''Meet the Stars of Animorphs'', a companion book released shortly after Ani-TV started airing.
* 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 then other examples of the trope

!![[{{Animorphs}} The games]]:

* [[HeAlsoDid She Also Did...]]: One of the ghostwriters for the series was Melinda Metz, who later went on to write ''RoswellHigh'', the basis for the TV show ''Series/{{Roswell}}''.

* HeyItsThatGuy: MelindaMetz, writer of RoswellHigh (which was the inspiration for the TV show {{Roswell}}) and {{Fingerprints}}, was the ghostwriter for ''The Sickness'' and ''The Prophecy''.

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

* SavePointLimits: There is no regular save feature on the GBC game. Think about that... a game clearly modeled after ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'', with the same basic menu screen and gameplay mechanics has ''no save feature''. Instead, either by pressing Select or reaching a checkpoint you be given a password that you have to write down that will return you to something approaching your current party next time you start the game. This means that unless you are either using an Emulator with savestates or trying to [[SpeedRun marathon the whole damn thing]] [[BladderOfSteel in one sitting]] (which is theoretically possible, thanks to unlimited continues), it's virtually impossible to beat the game in a way that feels like a continuous, complete narrative.

* DearNegativeReader: Infamously [[http://web.archive.org/web/20010807200502/www.morphz.com/posts/1061001.htm gave one]] to the ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' fan-base who criticized the BolivianArmyEnding.

* BigNameFan: NeilCicierega, who sometimes references the series in his videos.

* HeyItsThatGuy: MelindaMetz, writer of RoswellHigh (which was the inspiration for the TV show {{Roswell}}), was the ghostwriter for ''The Sickness'' and ''The Prophecy''.

* [[HeAlsoDid She Also Did...]]: One of the ghostwriters for the series was Malinda Metz, who later went on to write ''RoswellHigh'', the basis for the TV show ''Series/{{Roswell}}''.

* NoBudget

* CreatorCouple: Creator/KAApplegate and her husband MichaelGrant. Though it never came out until after the series ended, the pair pretty much wrote the entirety of Animorphs jointly. Grant has [[Literature/{{Gone}} since distinguished himself]] [[Literature/{{BZRK}} as a writer in his own right.]]

** GameBreakingBug

* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: The ghostwritten era began so K.A. could work on ''{{Everworld}}'' and later ''{{Remnants}}''.

* CreatorCouple: Creator/KAApplegate and her husband Michael Grant. Though it never came out until after the series ended, the pair pretty much wrote the entirety of Animorphs jointly. Grant has since distinguished himself as a writer in his own right.

* {{Jossed}}: Every now and then K.A's come out of retirement to answer a few questions and joss a few [[EpilepticTrees theories]].

* HeyItsThatGuy: Shawn Ashmore (Jake) is [[{{Film/X-Men}} Iceman.]] And a meteor freak on ''{{Smallville}}'' (where his twin brother was Jimmy Olsen).

!![[{{Animorphs}} The books]]:

* CreatorCouple: KAApplegate and her husband Michael Grant. Though it never came out until after the series ended, the pair pretty much wrote the entirety of Animorphs jointly. Grant has since distinguished himself as a writer in his own right.

--

** SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: This game was basically a poor man's ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' with the Animorphs property tacked on.

* GameplayRoulette: Hoo boo, yes.

* FillerVillain: Mostly seen in ''Shattered Reality''. In addition to renditions of the baddie aliens, new enemies were created, some of which make more sense than others. The crowning moment of absurdity comes when you end up fight ''pterodactyls'' in the Gardens level.

!![[{{Animorphs}} The books]]:

* HeyItsThatGuy: Jake is [[{{Film/X-Men}} Iceman.]]