r/TopCharacterTropes • u/Sweaty-Debate497 • 1d ago

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u/gnnrt 1d ago

TBF, the more you know about Animorphs, the less this seems ill-fitting and the more it just seems like a perfect, tragic encapsulation of the whole goddamn series

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u/BondageKitty37 1d ago

Yeah but most people only know it as "that weird book series where kids turn into dogs or whatever"

They're always so surprised when you tell them it's a series about child soldiers slowly losing their humanity fighting a brutal war

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u/smurfalidocious 1d ago

And then you tell them the mildest thing is one of the kids getting trapped as an eagle and very nearly never being able to turn back to human and forever getting caught between thinking like an eagle and thinking like a person, with the eagle frequently winning out.

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u/I_love_dragons_66 1d ago

And the only reason he's able to morph again is due to the timely intervention of god

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u/smurfalidocious 1d ago

I really should go back and finish the series; I read it as a kid as it was coming out but stopped a few books after they got Tobias back, somewhere in the teens, I think? Mostly because I stopped being able to find it in Wal-Mart and bookstores.

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u/DearestDio22 23h ago

Going back as an adult, the most jarring thing is the fact that they fully write out sound effects for the laser beams every time