History Characters / AnimorphsAnimorphs

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: Unlike the other Animorphs, David thinks it's A-okay to kill animals, as seen in ''The Discovery'' where he kills a random crow just minutes after morphing for the first time, mostly just because he can. [[spoiler:When he betrays the kids, he's able to justify trying to kill them by saying that when they're morphed they're not human, and thus, fair game.]]

* TheNewRockAndRoll: Invoked to some extent. It's supposed to be a warning sign that David likes heavy-metal bands like Music/{{Megadeth}} and reads ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'' as opposed to more wholesome comic books like Jake and Marco do.

* SmallNameBigEgo: While David acquires a series of powerful morphs, once he exposed himself as the villain he soon made it clear that he wasn't as smart as he thought he was, operating on the premise that the rest of the team were idiots where hewas the only one 'smart' enough not to focus on the Yeerks.

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Character sheet for the main protagonists in ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''.

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: Of [[Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Kimberly Ann Hart]]. Like Kimberly, Rachel is TheChick of the team, is a gymnast, an ActionFashionista, and her ColorMotif in the graphic novel is pink. However, while Kimberly is a NiceGirl who embodies HeartIsAnAwesomePower, Rachel is a BloodKnight who gets more ruthless as the series progresses.

** In the finale of this particular trilogy, David makes use of [[YouDirtyRat a rat morph]] [[spoiler: in order to track down the hidden Escafil device... only to end up caught in a trap by the Animorphs and left there until his two hours are up, leaving him as a rat for the rest of his life. ]] For good measure, [[spoiler: when he finally re-emerges later in the series, the rat morph blends perfectly with his sneaky, vicious nature]].]]

->''I should have never suggested to Rachel that she's weak or helpless. Rachel may look like Little Miss Teen Model or whatever, but she thinks she's ComicBook/{{Storm|MarvelComics}} from the Franchise/XMen''.

* AlienArtsAreAppreciated: Has a great appreciation for many human inventions. He even wonders why humans use computers when they have books. He considers the cinnamon bun to be our greatest achievement.
* AliensStealCable: He loves television.

* BookDumb: By Andalite standards. It's implied more than once that Ax was a sub-par student who was more interested in sports and girls than his lessons. The main reason he comes across as smarter than the other kids is because he simply had more to learn. He has a wide general knowledge, because he did pay ''some'' attention, but he can't always remember how to apply his knowledge. It's also justified by the fact that, while he's considered a minor in his culture, he has finished his formal education and has been in military service, meaning he hasn't had to apply the finer aspects of his education in practical situations before. By human standards, however, he's a freakin' genius, able to reconfigure a computer program into a SubspaceAnsible because he thought it was a game where you correct the errors.

* BloodBrothers: The Andalite equivalent ("shorm") with Tobias, which he describes as the one person you trust so much they could come up to you and put their tailblade to your throat and you'd never question that they weren't going to kill you. [[spoiler:It turns out they're uncle and nephew respectively]].

!Jake [[spoiler:Berenson]]

-> '''Debut:''' Animorphs #1: ''The Invasion'' (1996)
-> '''Played by:''' Creator/ShawnAshmore (TV series), [=MacLeod=] Andrews (Audiobooks)

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-->"What kind of spaceship was it?" the clerk asked. [[note]](the team has tracked down a Helmacron ship, which is tiny, in a Goodwill)[[/note]]
-->"Toy," Jake answered.

!Rachel

-> '''Debut:''' Animorphs #1: ''The Invasion'' (1996)
-> '''Played by:''' Creator/BrookeNevin (TV series), Emily Ellet (Audiobooks)

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-->'''Rachel:''' I'm going to take [[spoiler:David back to the island and leave him there again.]]
-->'''Cassie:''' I don't know if you can do it a second time.
-->'''Rachel:''' ''(snapping)'' You know what, Cassie? I don't know, either. So will you do it for me?
-->'''Cassie:''' ''(taken aback)'' I... I don't...
-->'''Rachel:''' Yeah. I didn't think so.

--> [[spoiler:The polar bear said, <[[WorthyOpponent You fight well, human]].>]]
--> [[spoiler:And then he killed me with a single blow.]]

!Tobias

-> '''Debut:''' Animorphs #1: ''The Invasion'' (1996)
-> '''Played by:''' Christopher Ralph (TV series), Michael Crouch (Audiobooks)

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!Cassie

-> '''Debut:''' Animorphs #1: ''The Invasion'' (1996)
-> '''Played by:''' Nadia Nascimento (TV series), Sisi Aisha Johnson (Audiobooks)

!Marco

-> '''Debut:''' Animorphs #1: ''The Invasion'' (1996)
-> '''Played by:''' Boris Cabrera (TV series), Ramón de Ocampo (Audiobooks)

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!Aximili-Esgarrouth-Isthill

-> '''Debut:''' Animorphs #4: ''The Message'' (1996)
-> '''Played by:''' Creator/PauloCostanzo (TV series), Adam Verner (Audiobooks)

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--> [[TwoOfYourEarthMinutes "We have x of your minutes left."]]
--> "[[RunningGag Ax, they're not *our* minutes, they're *everyone's* minutes!]]"
--> "Now we have x-1 of your minutes."
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-->"Yes, Prince Jake."
-->"Don't call me Prince."
-->"Yes, Prince Jake."

!David

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-->[[spoiler:'''Jake''': If the Yeerks don't get you, we will.]]
-->[[spoiler:'''David''': Yeah, I know. But already there used to be six of you and now there are just five. Pretty soon, Jake, it'll be four.]]

!The Auxiliary Animorphs

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!You

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* SignatureMove: Red-Tailed Hawk, his default form. Which makes you wonder if the kid has a bit of a death wish sometimes, seeing as how he takes on hordes of deadly enemies armed with ray guns as nothing but a bird.

* SignatureMove: Siberian Tiger. His standard bird morph is the Peregrine Falcon.

* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: Jake didn't get really determined to fight the Yeerks until he found out about his brother being a Controller.

* GoodIsNotNice: Cassie is undoubtedly the most moral and compassionate member of the team. She's also an uncompromising PrinciplesZealot and a take-no-prisoners ManipulativeBitch when she feels it necessary to manipulate her teammates.

* PrinciplesZealot: Cassie knows in her heart what she believes to be right, and when it comes to those beliefs, she does not budge. Even when it means disagreeing with the rest of the team, even when it means going behind their backs (as she does in ''The Departure'' and ''The Test''), hell, even when it means '''outright working against them''' (as she does in ''The Diversion''), Cassie will follow what her principles tells her is right every time. Because the narrative agrees with her conviction that her principles are always right, she never has to deal with the usual negative consequences of this behavior.

* LoopholeAbuse: In ''The Departure'', she makes a deal with a Yeerk who discovers that she and the other Animorphs are actually humans and honors her end of it by willingly trapping herself in the form of a caterpillar (even after said Yeerk pulls a HeelFaceTurn and tries to talk her out of it), but is ultimately spared from suffering the long term consequences of this choice when her new caterpillar form becomes a butterfly, which resets the morphing clock and allows her to demorph back to human form. It's left unclear whether she intentionally chose the caterpillar as the form to trap herself in knowing this would happen or if it was just a happy accident.

* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: [[spoiler: The red-tailed hawk became his natural form after he regained the morphing ability.]]

* ActionGirl: Collete, Kelly and Erica.

* CuteBruiser: Collete

* NeverSmileAtACrocodile: Collete's battle morph is a crocodile.

** James was injured in an accident, so he is healed by the morphing power, as are Erica and Craig. Most of the other auxiliaries aren't so lucky.

* RedShirts: Some of them, like the kid who morphs the walrus, don't even get named.

''You'' is a character from the ''Alternamorphs'' spin-off {{Gamebook}}s ''The First Journey'' and ''The Next Passage''. In both cases he is not the same character, but two different people. In ''The First Journey'' the character becomes an Animorph along with the others and receives his powers from Elfangor. In ''The Next Passage'', the character takes the place of David, and joins the Animorphs at this point in the story. In both cases, the reader of the book slips into the role of the new Animorph.

* BigDamnHeroes: In ''The First Journey'' the narrator fights as a giraffe against Visser Three and even defeats him. Just in time to save Marco's mother.

* DisproportionateRetribution: At one point in ''The Next Passage'', refusing to promise Rachiel to stay out of an upcoming battle for (supposedly) letting Cassie die to a Howler results in an ending where the survivng Animorphs trick the narrator into getting stuck in a fly morph for good. Keep in mind that, unlike [[spoiler:David, who succumbed to a similar fate in canon]], the narrator didn't intend to get Cassie killed. It was all dumb luck on their end.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: In ''The Next Passage'' the narrator has to choose whether they will experience an adventure in the time of the dinosaurs or on the planet Iskoort. If they choose the dinosaurs, the happy ending will be that the Ellimist will bring him back a week before the Yeerks kidnapped their parents. The narrator can then choose to rejoin the Animorphs or has an ordinary life.
** The happy ending on planet Iskoort ends with the reader becoming a new and accepted member of the Animorphs (though Rachel probably won't like him very much).

* GenialGiraffe: In ''The First Journey'' the reader has a giraffe as his second battle morph.
* HeinousHyena: Zigzagged. In ''The First Journey'' this is the narrator's preferred battle morph, and he is one of the heroes. Yet the hyena's mind is still described as very aggressive, and the first time the narrator morphs into it is a bad ending.
* TheMindIsAPlaythingOfTheBody: Inverted in ''The Next Passage''. Much like David, the narrator has no problem with the mind of the animal he is morphing into and is not overwhelmed by its instincts.

* EarnYourHappyEnding: In ''The Next Passage'' the narrator has to choose whether they will experience an adventure in the time of the dinosaurs or on the planet Iskoort. If they choose the dinosaurs, the happy ending will be that the Ellimist will bring him back a week before the Yeerks kidnapped his parents. The narrator can then choose to rejoin the Animorphs or has an ordinary life.

* TechnicallyNakedShapeshifter: Inverted. After the first morph, humans are usually naked. However, the narrator is one of the few humans who can morph with their clothes right from the start. On a meta-level, it is easier for the reader to project his gender onto the narrator because it does not describe whether the male or female Animorphs have to look away when the narrator demorphs.

* WickedWeasel: Inverted. In ''The First Journey'', a ferret is the first morph the narrator receives. And he used it successfully for spying twice.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Played with -- in the ending to ''The Solution'' it is stated that the team never heard from David again, but that was later retconned in ''The Return'', a book written just to explain what did happen to this mouse (or rat, as the case may be).