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p sure she gets cut in two and then both half morph back into people but ones evil lmao
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Jul 31, 2015 15:58
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didn't they send crippled kids to their deaths near the end?
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Moldy Taxes posted:didn't they send crippled kids to their deaths near the end? Yeah, they recruited a dozen crippled kids and turned them into animorphs, because they knew the Yeerks wouldn't use crippled bodies. At the end they sent them on a diversion so they could sneak into the Yeerk mothership, and all the crippled kids were killed.
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Jul 31, 2015 16:34
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Moldy Taxes posted:didn't they send crippled kids to their deaths near the end? Yup. Jake turns into a total cold-blooded 'ends justify the means' type, makes a bunch of kids with disabilities into animorph soldiers (because the Yeerks won't possess them) and then they end up in a microwave tunnel and get cooked to death, IIRC. He also vents something like 100,000 Yeerks (who are defenseless at that point because they're just brainslugs) into space, killing them all. So the series ends with Jake being horribly hosed up mentally, Rachel's dead, Tobias goes 'gently caress y'all I'm out' and loses his humanity forever, Cassie breaks up with Jake and does charity work, Marco is a celebrity who tries to hide the fact that he's got horrible PTSD, and Ax turns into some sort of evil alien king, I think? The other animorph, David, tries to sell them out to the Yeerks to save his parents, and so they trap him as a rat forever and drop him off on some lovely island in the middle of the ocean to live out the rest of his life. I remember that it talked about how people sailing by the island afterwards would hear psychotic screaming in their heads. That series was dark as poo poo. (But for real, why didn't they just let Tobias touch the morphing cube, get stuck back in human form, and then touch the morphing cube again to get his morphing powers back?)
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Sonofsilversign posted:hey at 14 i started smoking weed and became the pinnacle of cool i am to this day peaked at 14. shameful
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Pinball posted:Yup. Jake turns into a total cold-blooded 'ends justify the means' type, makes a bunch of kids with disabilities into animorph soldiers (because the Yeerks won't possess them) and then they end up in a microwave tunnel and get cooked to death, IIRC. He also vents something like 100,000 Yeerks (who are defenseless at that point because they're just brainslugs) into space, killing them all. So the series ends with Jake being horribly hosed up mentally, Rachel's dead, Tobias goes 'gently caress y'all I'm out' and loses his humanity forever, Cassie breaks up with Jake and does charity work, Marco is a celebrity who tries to hide the fact that he's got horrible PTSD, and Ax turns into some sort of evil alien king, I think? You could only use the cube one. Getting morphing powers back in hawk form was a one-time exception (from the ellimist, I think?) and if he got stuck in human form he couldn't fight anymore. Of course he could get stuck in an older human form and then just buy a gun to fight with but whatever.
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Jul 31, 2015 16:44
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Jul 31, 2015 16:45
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ax flipping the gently caress out over m&ms because he'd never eaten anything but hoofgrass until then
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Applegate did a AMA somewhat recently where she revealed most books from 20ish onwards were ghostwritten. Explains a bit.
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loquacius posted:Sounds kind of like Heroes but vaguely different I found it, it's called Mindwarp. Doesn't even have a Wikipedia page but it does have some rad 90's as gently caress covers with silver foil effects: https://www.goodreads.com/series/61016-mindwarp Doing a deep dig through my own memory I'm pretty sure at the end of the "Jason Bourne Powers" book the kid discovers he was killed at the beginning and replaced by a shapeshifting assassin clone with his personality who is supposed to hunt down the other kids and has been losing a grip on his identity. It was a pretty weird series. Tender Bender fucked around with this message at 17:25 on Jul 31, 2015 |
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mind the walrus posted:Apparently like 75% of those books were ghostwritten so that's probably why no one gave a gently caress about it Its something like the first 23 are her, the last 5-10 are and than a handful of important ones in between. Everything else ghost written
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Jul 31, 2015 18:12
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Area 51 has an andalite toilet
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Waroduce posted:Its something like the first 23 are her, the last 5-10 are and than a handful of important ones in between. Everything else ghost written Except for the ending to one because the ghost writer was so ham-handedly shoehorning her vegetarian agenda into it she had to write a new ending where they go to the mall and pound down cheeseburgers.
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Great Beer posted:Except for the ending to one because the ghost writer was so ham-handedly shoehorning her vegetarian agenda into it she had to write a new ending where they go to the mall and pound down cheeseburgers. I bet that was a Cassie book too
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Tender Bender posted:I found it, it's called Mindwarp. Doesn't even have a Wikipedia page but it does have some rad 90's as gently caress covers with silver foil effects: I read a handful of these too! I remember he gets transported to a mysterious wasteland and has to outfight this crazy dude in a hockey mask and it's his dad! Also the fat Latino kid could understand a fax machine by listening to its beeps. So what happens to Marco's Mom as Visser 3? Is that ever resolved?
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fuckin lol
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this one hit the spot pretty good
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We leave Jeopardy on the big screen over the bar at work and tonight like 4 seconds ago "Animorphs" was the answer to a question about animals in literature and I screamed the answer out and all 8 people in the restaurant were probably super impressed. Thanks for being here, thread.
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I stopped reading them around book 30 but they were rad as hell the hork-bajir chronicles were loving awesome. I really liked the whole canyon-world idea, like the surface of the world is like mars with a thin atmosphere and stuff but the planet is covered in cracks from an asteroid impact and in those cracks the atmosphere is thick enough for life. and the hork-bajir with all their terrifying blade arms and poo poo were just peaceful goofs eating tree bark. and there was some other alien race that lived at the bottoms of the canyons that had engineered them. they had made themselves immune to yeerks by weakening a blood vessel in their brains, so if they ever got infested it would burst and they'd die. don't remember that part as well.
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Bust Rodd posted:I read a handful of these too! I remember he gets transported to a mysterious wasteland and has to outfight this crazy dude in a hockey mask and it's his dad! Also the fat Latino kid could understand a fax machine by listening to its beeps. think she was visser 1 or 2. she was like the first yeerk on earth iirc. they save her but im pretty sure she was voluntarily being infested anyway?
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read one of those books and saw some of the episodes those mind control slugs man
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How is it there have been multiple animorphs threads but none for goosebumps? I would start but I remember literally nothing about those 50+ books I read
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Aug 1, 2015 02:14
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funny blog that reviews goosebumps. theyre real bad like way worse than you remember http://www.bloggerbeware.com
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Also this is top notch
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facebook jihad posted:How is it there have been multiple animorphs threads but none for goosebumps? I would start but I remember literally nothing about those 50+ books I read gently caress GOOSEBUMPS THERE I SAID IT
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Cassie was a dumb crybaby whose biggest, baddest battle form was a stupid loving wolf
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facebook jihad posted:How is it there have been multiple animorphs threads but none for goosebumps? I would start but I remember literally nothing about those 50+ books I read  Seriously this is new GBS. Post a thread. OP is "remember goosebumps? how bout that poo poo. Like the one where the girl put on the mask and couldn't take it off  ". Done.
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Pinball posted:Yup. Jake turns into a total cold-blooded 'ends justify the means' type, makes a bunch of kids with disabilities into animorph soldiers (because the Yeerks won't possess them) and then they end up in a microwave tunnel and get cooked to death, IIRC. He also vents something like 100,000 Yeerks (who are defenseless at that point because they're just brainslugs) into space, killing them all. So the series ends with Jake being horribly hosed up mentally, Rachel's dead, Tobias goes 'gently caress y'all I'm out' and loses his humanity forever, Cassie breaks up with Jake and does charity work, Marco is a celebrity who tries to hide the fact that he's got horrible PTSD, and Ax turns into some sort of evil alien king, I think? I never read the books to the end of the series, but that sounds about right. I still remember reading the book where they trap the traitor kid as a mouse on the island, that definitely happened. IIRC they did give Tobias the power to morph again but since he was suck as a hawk that became his base form. He could morph into a human, but idon't remember if it was some blend like the human form Ax used or his original human form, somehow. Did the Ellimist give his original form back or something?
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Zeno-25 posted:IIRC they did give Tobias the power to morph again but since he was suck as a hawk that became his base form. He could morph into a human, but idon't remember if it was some blend like the human form Ax used or his original human form, somehow. Did the Ellimist give his original form back or something? The Ellimist gave Tobias the power to morph again, and then took Tobias back in time to meet himself and reabsorb his human DNA.
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Zeno-25 posted:I never read the books to the end of the series, but that sounds about right. I still remember reading the book where they trap the traitor kid as a mouse on the island, that definitely happened. he took him back in time so he could get his original form i think ellimist liked him cause he was the son of his favorite andalite lol beaten on animorphs trivia
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Aug 1, 2015 03:14
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Here because of Jeopardy.
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as much as i loved the books i feel like it probably is responsible for a big part of the furry problem
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If you're nostalgic for bad transformation effects, might i suggest the tv show face off?     
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Aug 1, 2015 03:58
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i read goosebumps as a kid I remember vague storylines kind of. some camera killing the kid's family or whatever.
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I remember one book that was a kid at summer camp and a werewolf was attacking, but no one believed him, so he had to deafeat the monster himself, and at the end it turned out the whole thing was a test set up by his parents to see if he could handle going on a mission to an alien planet with them. And that alien planet was Earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
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