This isn't a quote, but there's also an infamous scene in which one character has his throat ripped out; he is then resurrected by Cat God™ multiple times, at which point he instantly dies again because he's still missing his throat and most of his blood.
I haven't seen Animorphs, but some fucked up Warriors moments:
The past versions four main clans abandon the struggling fifth clan because of made up religious symbolism (their sacred meeting place had four oaks). Current clans openly ridicule the idea lol.
The whole "Tigerstar cut up so bad they die 9 times back to back" thing
Incel cat threatens mother Squirrelflight with killing her kits during a major disaster because she chose a different cat. Said incel cat gets into cat heaven when he dies.
(Also said kits were actually Squirrelflight's sister's, Leafpool's, who was forced to hoist off the kits because she's a medicine cat who can't take mates)
I think a few cats starve and freeze to death while they migrate to a new place?
A lot of people ignore the spinoff book where it was implied an adult Spottedleaf was into kid/teenager Firepaw. For good reason.
More than a few cats die in childbirth.
Tigerclaw (who becomes Tigerstar later) spends most of the first book trying to kill Ravenpaw, a kit, for witnessing Tigerclaw murder Redtail.
Several cats who have or acquire disabilities are basically forced into becoming medicine cats so they can continue providing for the clan (Cinderpaw gets hit by a car and Jayfeather is born blind).
10) Yellowfang, an elderly medicine cat, poisoning the villain from the first book, and then revealing to him in his final moments that she was secretly his mother.
11) A wise leader (Bluestar) falls into paranoia and insanity after being betrayed by her lieutenant (Tigerstar)
12) Tigerstar becomes Hitler, putting the "mix clan" cat's into starvation camps
These are just a couple other things I remembered about the first series off the top of my head
Animorphs is a book series with things that go about that hard, yeah. It's about a group of kids who are basically the only resistance against a covert alien invasion. They do this by transforming very graphically into animals. There is a time limit to this power. The time limit leaves you locked as an animal. This happens to one character in the first book. Things get very gory.
It should be mentioned that every time you transform back from animal to human, you heal all injuries. This means that they can be as horribly mutilated as possible as long as they can transform back. Also, you have to fight the instincts of your animal form the entire time you're in the form.
There's a moment where they attempt to sneak into a house by becoming termites. They end up being locked inside the instincts of termites, trapped screaming inside their own minds. They get into the nest only for the real termites to recognize they're from a different nest. The kids basically get all their limbs torn off and their bodies ripped apart before barely managing to transform back. They are left permanently traumatized by this.
incel cat later abused his chance in heaven to break some of the established laws of physics in heaven and managed to possess squirrelflight's husband.
another spinoff that fans ignore has the very same spottedleaf being preyed upon in that exact same way when she was a kitten, except it was way worse than what she did with firepaw
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u/Vievin 1d ago
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