Animorphs kill-count?

[Visser Phi]

Sorry if this had been done before, but I'm rather new to the site.

I was wondering if anyone had compiled a list of confirmed kills for each one of the Animorphs. I thought it'd be interesting (in a morbid kind of way) to see just how many sentient lives each member has taken, and maybe how those numbers would compare with those of history's most prolific soldiers, serial killers, and other miscellaneous disturbed people.

[musicman88]

That would be cool to see, but any kills reported in the books would just be a fraction of the number they "really" killed.  Still, it would be kind of interesting.

[Tiana]

Hm, I thought in the battles, the Animorphs usually fight to injure/knock the enemy out instead of outright killing. There were some pretty graphic descriptions of fights, but even at the most it would be Ax lopping off some Hork Bajir's limbs or them slicing up Taxxons (ok which basically means killing the Taxxons).

But like what musicman said, the Anis most likely killed way more than what the books described.

[Phoenix004]

Either way, I think it;s safe to say Jake is going to have the highest body count.

[Tiana]

Either way, I think it;s safe to say Jake is going to have the highest body count.

Very good point. It's hard to top seventeen thousand casualties, even over three years of war.

[Phoenix004]

Exactly. Plus I believe he killed 100 others in book 6 when he boiled the Yeerks in that mini Yeerk Pool at the hospital.

[Homiegee]

These are all I can think of right now because I recently re-read these two.

In "The Stranger," the Animorphs topple the Kandrona sphere from the EGS tower and then Yeerks start dying once Visser 3 can no longer shuttle them back and forth from the pool ship to get Kandrona rays. The Ellemist showed the Animorphs the alternate future, and this event had enough of an impact to where Earth's future went from certain slavery to the Yeerks to still up-in-the-air. So I'd say at least 1000 Yeerks died.

Also in "The Weakness" they kill at least a couple hundred Yeerks with wreckage from the private jet. Jake wasn't even involved in that one.

[EscafilDevice]

They flushed a Yeerk pool in #34 on the Hork Bajir homeworld.

I feel like the actual killings were mentioned indirectly, it always seemed that more was written about them attacking Taxxons than how many Taxxons they directly/indirectly killed.

I didn't really pick up on killing sometimes until someone mentioned a Taxxon being eaten or someone picking alien flesh out of their teeth.

[goom]

jake wins hands down with book #54.

of course, this would still be an interesting idea.
we could each take a book or two, read it, and reply with results.

[dasada122]

You know, it's interesting how little fuss was raised over the yeerks killed in #6.

[anijen21]

so if they kill a Taxxon or Hork-Bajir Controller are we counting that as one kill or two?

[Chad32]

At the time of 6, the Yeerks were regarded as always chaotic evil. I don't really remember how many were killed. If it was a lot, or just a dozen or less.

Tehn as the series goes on, they realise that maybe all Yeerks aren't evil. That maybe some of them are just trying to live normal, happy lives.

Tehn late in the series, everything goes downhill, and Jake isn't being himself. so he tries to rationalize flushing that huge pool into space.

[anijen21]

You know, it's interesting how little fuss was raised over the yeerks killed in #6.

lol that's one of my main pieces of evidence for hating Cassie. She was in the room with him and was basically "let's boil us up some Yeerk stew"

[Chad32]

That may be the first hypocritical thing she ever does. But then, like I said, at that point they were just monsters.

[AniDragon]

Not to mention that the Yeerks in that tub were actively part of the invasion. They were all meant for important human hosts, so they must have been relatively high-ranking.

As opposed to the Yeerks Jake flushed at the end, who were probably just unfortunate souls at the wrong place at the wrong time.