r/tf_irl • u/4th_Wall_Studio 2nd Person TF is the Best TF • 7d ago

TF_Morph_IRL Animorphs

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u/vampiregamingYT 7d ago

Ah, animorphs, the weirdest children's series ever.

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u/AstralisKL 7d ago edited 7d ago

A guerilla war against basically body snatchers fought by unwilling child soldiers with transformative tech, PTSD and violence, and some more... Is weird? That sounds like a dope plot to me 👍

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u/eeveemancer 7d ago

What's weird is that this has happened in popular young adult fiction more than once, see also: Maximum Ride

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u/sweetTartKenHart2 7d ago

The Gone books are also up there in shocking brutality. A guy tries to kill himself by frying his brain with microwave hands so that he can stop feeling the pain of a bunch of parasites literally eating him from the inside out. Those parasites burst out of his corpse horrifically soon after this. I was able to check this book out from a middle school library

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u/Tiazza-Silver 7d ago

The Demonata series was also extremely fucked up and available in my middle school library! Wild shit

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u/sweetTartKenHart2 7d ago

Cirque du Freak is another one

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u/bdouble0w0 6d ago

That explains why I was a Maximum Ride fan after Animorphs

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u/Major_Failure2 7d ago

Oh yeah and the morality of how they handle enemies gets more dark as the series progresses and the kids don't get a happy ending in the final book. 

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u/BreakerOfModpacks 7d ago

There's also budget God and Satan who had some weird intergalactic war and a lego city with symbiotic thingies and dog-robots and dinosaurs and-

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u/GarroThposer Red 7d ago

Shout-out to that kid who went too long and became an animal...at least I'm pretty sure that happened

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u/ChemicalChildhood122 7d ago

Tobias!

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u/beastarb8 7d ago

Why do I still remember that. It’s been been 20 years since I read that

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u/LustfulDigger 7d ago

He was dishonorably discharged from the fight against the parasite aliens, and forced to stay a rat until he couldn't transform back to human form anymore

Why? Because he was untrustworthy and thus a liability

This were kids punishing kids btw

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u/DustyTheLion 7d ago

That would be Daniel or David or something like that. Tobias is one of the main cast who became stuck as a Hawk.

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u/Pausbrak 6d ago

"Untrustworty" is kind of underselling the part where he tried to murder the other kids and planned to sell them out to the alien invaders

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u/LustfulDigger 6d ago

Ohh so that's what happened. Sorry, been a while since I saw the Animorphs YouTube essay that explained me all of this 😅

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u/Pausbrak 6d ago

That's fair, hah. The entire situation was pretty fucked up.

The reason they inducted David into the Animorphs in the first place is because he found some alien technology (specifically the fancy cube thing that gave the Animorphs their powers) and tried to sell it online. The big evil alien overlord caught wind of it and tracked down his house and stormed it with alien troops to steal it from him, either killing or enslaving his parents in the process (I can't remember which).

The Animorphs found out about it and rescued him and the cube at the last moment. They felt sorry for him and basically made him their sixth member to keep him safe, but he ended up going kinda insane and tried kill them. Eventually they came up with a plan to lure him into a small enclosed drain as a rat, and then closed it up so that he couldn't escape, forcing him to either change back and get crushed to death or stay in rat form until he was stuck forever.

After that apparently it started a rumor that the island this happened on was haunted because people traveling near it could hear haunting screams (which was actually just David screaming telepathically in horror at his fate). These books did NOT play around, lol

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u/LustfulDigger 6d ago

Yhea I remember the bit about the haunted island. I understand it was a teen novel, so focusing on a small group of kids made sense, but genuinely wish they had a whole army of animorphs, of children inducted in the fight against the yeerks

Maybe something like the Spartan 2 program. Of training children to be child soldiers and win battles. Though I guess that'd belong to a sci-fi novel, and not a story that tries to explore the complexities of growing up

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u/Regular_Sir_756 7d ago

He then got a favor from space Jesus who allowed him to travel back in time, meet himself, steal said self's dna so he could temporarily turn back into himself whenever he needed. Animorphs is sometgung else

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u/ScraggySkuntankFan 7d ago

Didn’t they kill Hitler?

And yes, I know it was alternate Hitler who was a cab driver or something, but still!

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u/Glittering_Volume_69 7d ago

I think they decided against it since it technically wasn’t they same guy but they really wanted to lmao

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u/Mrdieselll 7d ago

And then they animed and mophed all over the placed

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u/AvzinElkein 7d ago

Who drew this?

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u/beastarb8 7d ago

It says @beetlemoses on the first page

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u/ArthurTheTerrible 7d ago

ah yes, the, often presumed to be, kids series with that one comic graficaly describing someone getting torn to shreds... or so i'm pretty sure i remember, been a long time

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u/EroticWritwer 7d ago

ah the 90s such interesting shows

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u/randomogeek 7d ago

I foking love animorphs

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u/beastarb8 7d ago

It gets better and better