History Trivia / Animorphs

* OlderThanTheyThink: Watch Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan, from 1982. Do those slug brain parasites - that crawl into your ear and take over your mind - seem a little familiar?

* AccidentallyAccurate:

* WordOfGay: [[https://twitter.com/MichaelGrantBks/status/662071118098857984 A twitter post]] from Michael Grant has stated that Marco is bisexual.

* AttentionDeficitCreatorDisorder: The ghostwritten era began so K.A. could work on ''{{Everworld}}'', although she seems pretty frustrated that it had to happen.

* AccidentallyAccurate: "In the Time of Dinosaurs" describes ''Spinosaurus'' as having shorter hindlegs than a ''Tyrannosaurus'', before discoveries in 2014 suggested this may have been true.

* ScienceMarchesOn: Tobias breaks the fourth wall at the end of ''In the Time of Dinosaurs'' to acknowledge that scientists dispute that several of the dinosaurs depicted in the book were alive at the end of the Cretaceous, asking the reader, who're you gonna believe, some scientists with nothing but bones, or a guy who was actually there?

** Although after what Erek did in the second to last book, you really have to feel sorry for the real Erek King.
** Why? Erek is amazing.
** Because his actions helped lead to Rachel's death, and his hypocritical lecture rubs a lot of people the wrong way. Why did Jake flush the pool? In the end because he wanted the Yeerks dead. Why did Erek not share what he had learned about the Howlers? Because he wanted them dead, and used the Animorphs to do it.
** Yes, that's what makes him awesome. He's a complex character who does both good things and bad things.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Film/XMen fans will recognize ''Shawn Ashmore'' as Jake. Ashmore plays Bobby Drake/Iceman in the X-Men film series. The first X-Men film was starting production at the time, and the casting agency were impressed by Ashmore's performance. He was the only young actor to have a career after this show ended.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Film/XMen fans will recognize ''Shawn Ashmore'' as Jake. Ashmore plays Bobby Drake/Iceman in the X-Men film series. The series premiered just two years before the first X-Men film, and the casting agency were impressed by Ashmore's performance. He was only young actor to still have a career after this show ended.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Film/XMen fans will recognize ''Shawn Ashmore'' as Jake. Ashmore plays Bobby Drake/Iceman in the X-Men film series. The series premiered just two years before the first X-Men film, and it's likely that the casting agency were impressed by Ashmore's performance.

* HeyItsThatGuy: Franchise/XMen fans will recognize ''Shawn Ashmore'' as Jake. Ashmore plays Bobby Drake/Iceman in the X-Men film series. The series premiered just two years before the first X-Men film, and it's likely that the casting agency were impressed by Ashmore's performance.

* HeyItsThatGuy: ''X-Men'' fans will recognize ''Shawn Ashmore'' as Jake. Ashmore plays Bobby Drake/Iceman in the X-Men film series. The series premiered just two years before the first X-Men film, and it's likely that the casting agency were impressed by Ashmore's performance.

* HeyItsThatGuy: X-Men fans will recognize Shawn Ashmore as Jake. Ashmore plays Bobby Drake/Iceman in the X-Men film series. The series premiered just two years before the first X-Men film, and it's likely that the casting agency were impressed by Ashmore's performance.

** ''Animorphs: Shattered Reality'' ([[{{Playstation}} PSX]]) - Straightforward 2D PlatformGame.
** ''Animorphs'' ([[GameBoyColor GBC]]) - RolePlayingGame

* ObviousBeta: The GameBoyColor Animorphs game.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: As mentioned under TotallyRadical, the original release is one for the 1990's.

** Because his actions helped lead to Rachael's death, and his hypocritical lecture rubs a lot of people the wrong way. Why did Jake flush the pool? In the end because he wanted the Yeerks dead. Why did Erek not share what he had learned about the Howlers? Because he wanted them dead, and used the Animorphs to do it.

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

* HeyItsThatGuy: Shawn Ashmore (Jake) is [[Film/XMen 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?

!![[The games]]:

* HeyItsThatVoice: Rachel in ''Know the Secret'' was Melissa Disney ([[WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger Ginger Foutley]] and [[VideoGame/Spyro2RiptosRage Elora the Faun]]).

* {{Shovelware}}: All three games were labeled with this title and quickly forgotten. The only game that really deserves it is the [[TheScrappy GBC one]].

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

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

** Because his actions helped lead to Rachael's death, and his hypocritical lecture rubs a lot of people the wrong way. Why did Jake flush the pool? In the end because he wanted the yeerks dead. Why did Erek not share what he had learned about the Howlers? Because he wanted them dead, and used the animorphs to do it

** 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

* AccidentallyAccurate: "In the Time of Dinosaurs" describes ''Spinosaurus'' as having shorter hindlegs than a ''Tyrannosaurus'', before 2014 discoveries suggested this may have been true.

* AccidentallyAccurate: "In the Time of Dinosaurs" describes ''Spinosaurus'' as having shorter hindlegs than a ''Tyrannosaurus''. In 2014, it seems ''Spinosaurus'' really did have such short legs.

* AccidentallyAccurate: "In the Time of Dinosaurs" describes ''Spinosaurus'' as having shorter hindlegs than a ''Tyrannosaurus'', before studies in 2014 suggested this.