Richard's Animorphs Forum
Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: SkyMorpher on May 03, 2009, 03:19:17 PM
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This is a different sense than the other worst thread...what would you never want to morph or the Animorphs wouldn't want to?
-Taxxon
-Ant
-Termite
-Bacteria
Any other ideas?
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A family member.
Just seems creepy beyond belief
A minnow
Plankton
A non-giant squid
Snail or slug.
What possible purpose could that have ???
Pretty much anything on the food chain that would be totally helpless
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A Cricket. A lot of the animals I work with eat them...
And I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be able to morph Bacteria, let alone want to.
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Well I now I'm gonna ask why you couldn't go bacteria? They have DNA.
for that matter so do plants, but I'm under the impression that they couldn't morph that.
Why not?
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personally, i'd never want to morph a tapeworm.
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I probably wouldn't want to morph anything really small. Even flies and ****roaches, which were commonly used to infiltrate areas.
I honestly don't think ants would be much worse than ****roaches, though. I think KA overplayed how bad ant morphs were for the sake of her overall series message about individuality and such.
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I honestly don't think ants would be much worse than ****roaches, though. I think KA overplayed how bad ant morphs were for the sake of her overall series message about individuality and such.
i agree with her.
all colony insects would be a nightmare.
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i wouldent want to morph a pigion.... there flying rats :-\
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I honestly don't think ants would be much worse than ****roaches, though. I think KA overplayed how bad ant morphs were for the sake of her overall series message about individuality and such.
i agree with her.
all colony insects would be a nightmare.
How many girls do you know by the name of Chad?
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he was refering to K.A.....
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he was refering to K.A.....
yes. i was. :)
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I would never want to morph an earthworm. Or anything else that is eaten the instant it shows its face to the surface.
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Ok. My bad.
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LOL the tapeworm thing is mentioned in The Experiment.
I think plants could be morphable because they have DNA but it'd be useless and scary because they can't see or hear or anything. (Vegemorphs anyone? lol)
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I think plants could be morphable because they have DNA but it'd be useless and scary because they can't see or hear or anything. (Vegemorphs anyone? lol)
plus, i doubt they'd be able to morph back ever.
plants aren't sentient (as far as we know) and it would be a completely new experience for the animorphs.
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Well I now I'm gonna ask why you couldn't go bacteria? They have DNA.
for that matter so do plants, but I'm under the impression that they couldn't morph that.
Why not?
it specifically said they could morph any ANIMAL. plants and bacteria are not animals. and plankton is only animals if you are talking about ZOOplankton, which are the larvae of several different kinds of animals from clams to fish.
so I add zooplankton to the list. it would be useless and creepy to morph something so small
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exactly.
"Morph? Morph how?" Rachel asked, her eyes narrowed.
<To change your bodies,> the Andalite said. <To become any other species. Any animal.>
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EDIT: sorry, original version not clear.
The extraterrestrial species they morph aren't part of kingdom Animalia. They didn't develop on Earth.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that they can morph anything with a nervous system, subject to a very small size limit. (mosquito, for example, was too dangerous to repeat)
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Roaches, mosquitoes and moths. Because I really hate them, I can't approach a roach nor a moths, and I can't touch a mosquito without kill it! >_<
Except that... slugs... because I already looks like a slug, and ... really it'd be so horrible to morph a slug >_< I mean... I prefer even my own body!
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I have no problem with moths, but roaches only deserve the "touch" of my shoe.
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yes I'm aware of the animal limitation, but I want to know WHY?
Morphing seems to be fundamentally about extracting, storing and replicating DNA; why is it that only animal dna can be used and not plants and bacteria and etc.
And most animals aren't sentient; the morphers minds is supposed to be linked to the morph somehow, so I don't see how being a plant would render them unable to morph bac
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I remember rachel morphed some kind of alien plant in 48, and Visser three has at least one plant-like monster morph from the Hork-Bajir Homeworld. So morphing plants can work.
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I remember rachel morphed some kind of alien plant in 48, and Visser three has at least one plant-like monster morph from the Hork-Bajir Homeworld. So morphing plants can work.
The instance involving Rachel was powered by the Crayak, and therefore is not credible as 'realistic', and the creature from the Hork-Bajir Homeworld is an animal, it just resembles a plant. (It is described in greater detail in the Hork-Bajir Chronicles).
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Oh, it's an animal that resembles a plant? My mistake.
Well if you hand wave Rachel's morph too, then I have nothing.
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I like what Truth said about the animal needing a nervous system, that makes sense and flows what is show as possible in the series.
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hmm i would not want to morph a fruit fly they are smaller than mosquitoes D:
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Someone might have said this already but, dung beetle?
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I wouldn't want to morph insects of any kind, too easy to smush, and too many insecticides in every household.
A spider, maybe, but same principle, too many anti-arachnid sprays.
Although morphing into a trantula and scaring the **** out of some chick would be priceless.
I'd never want to morph any type of fish, unless it was higher/est on the food chain. Nor if it is considered "pretty" and someone would be tempted to collect and display me.
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A tick. My dog is currently infested with them and they are guh-ross. I would never want to be one.
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Ew, hell no! plus, if someone found you, and tried to take you out? They'd disconnect your body, and you'd still be alive just as a head. How sucky would that be?
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yes I'm aware of the animal limitation, but I want to know WHY?
Morphing seems to be fundamentally about extracting, storing and replicating DNA; why is it that only animal dna can be used and not plants and bacteria and etc.
And most animals aren't sentient; the morphers minds is supposed to be linked to the morph somehow, so I don't see how being a plant would render them unable to morph bac
well, if the limitation was only being able to morphy multicellular organisms, which is the big difference between plants/animals and bacteria, then that explains why they cant morph bacteria. also, plant DNA would be different from animal DNA, so maybe its the different genes and such that makes a plant that they would not be able to aquire?
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A tick. My dog is currently infested with them and they are guh-ross. I would never want to be one.
OMG that is the only little critter i'm scared f I don't care that its not an insect it still scares me .. especially teh huge fat ones after they have eaten TT_TT i had nightmares about those
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Leeches.
*gag*
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A tick. My dog is currently infested with them and they are guh-ross. I would never want to be one.
OMG that is the only little critter i'm scared f I don't care that its not an insect it still scares me .. especially teh huge fat ones after they have eaten TT_TT i had nightmares about those
Yeah, I hate them. I haven't been able to sleep for the past two nights because I'm worried that they'll migrate from the dog to me. Ewies.
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off topic i know, but terenia use advantix! itll kill them all w/in 24 hours and you won't have to pick them off 1 by 1.
on topic, guppies. while they are cute, they are useless and too small
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Cow, too stupid and inneffective in any other fashion.
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Yeah, there are normally better animals in every area that a cow would be skilled at. You know, unless you plan to infiltrate a meat packing plant, or slaughterhouse.
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I'd never morph anything that was blind or didnt have any eyes, like a worm, or a maggot, or a naked mole rat(I'd never morph those hideous things even if they could see anyway) I also wouldnt like morphing any kid of see creature unless it's like a shark or Dolphin sumthin lol I'd be paranoid as hell everytime I'd have to go on an ocean mission, u'd never know if some type of shark or Visser Three would come out of nowhere and get you. So yea, no water animals unless they can defend themselves
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Yeah, I'd rather morph a rat or ferrett to infiltrate a place like that, small, manuverable, and blends into the grass/dirt that the cows are walking on. Plus the cows are so fat, no one would notice a small ferrett next to a cow's leg.
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we think of cows of fat, but actually biologically speaking, they aren't really, they are just big hooved animals so they look fat, but its mostly muscle (not counting the meat cows that are over fed on putpose to make them fat and more appealing for human consumption)
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Okay, the cows going into a slaughterhouse that i would be hiding amongst would be so fat-esque that they wouldn't notice me in a ferrett morph hiding underneath.
Field Mouse, nothing beneficial about being a field mouse. they're only good as being food and fodder
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I'd rather be a mouse traveling through the pipes or air vents than a ****roach.
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yes, but i'd rather be a ferrett, or rat than a mouse.
Anyhow, I specified "Field" mouse. A pet mouse can be a pet, or commonplace in a lab. (Pinky and The Brain anyone?)
But a "field" mouse has no beneficial placing except in Tobias's stomach.
I'd never morph a ****zu, Their feces constantly gets stuck in their ass hair. My step-grandparents got one cute, but not an animal I'd like to morph.
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Ew, hell no! plus, if someone found you, and tried to take you out? They'd disconnect your body, and you'd still be alive just as a head. How sucky would that be?
I wonder if it would be possible to stay alive long enough to fix that one by demorphing. IT'd take a lot of fixing lol
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And now I can't help put wonder if you morphed a chicken a someone loped off your head, would you be able to morph back?
So of those headless chickens walk around for a fairly long time :-\
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And now I can't help put wonder if you morphed a chicken a someone loped off your head, would you be able to morph back?
So of those headless chickens walk around for a fairly long time :-\
That made me think of something funny.
Visser Three: You dare challenge me as a small ground bird? HAHAHAHA!
Ax: Fool. I have come across valuable information that these creatures can not be killed!
Visser Three: *cuts off head with tail blade*
Ax: I'm still here.
*Visser Three runs away, and Ax chases him.*
Visser three: Help me! He will destroy us all!
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Hahaha
I believe that the chicken running around deal is a product of just nerves reacting, pure reaction, no actual thought. The head would be dead, so you would be dead as well.
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goldfish
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...Wait, plants have DNA?
AP Bio did nothing for me, apparently. :P
I would never want to morph an ant. Beyond the obvious reasons, I just really, really hate ants.
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i would never wana morph a chihuahua. i don't care how cute they are, that's just not normal. a dog should NOT be that small :-X :-X
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goldfish
lol yeah, I saw a cartoon where a guy morph into a goldfish and forget everything... he was a bad guy and the hero win like that... Why they never used that on Visser Three? :P
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...Wait, plants have DNA?
AP Bio did nothing for me, apparently. :P
Yes, dear Virginia, plants have DNA, too. All cellular life, from bacteria to blue-jays has DNA.
*beep*
(If you got that, you're awesome. If not, well, google "film strip," okay?)
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Nah, I'm okay with just not knowing.
I'd never want to be a compy, those little microdinos.
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can you morph a virus? they have RNA..... so idk if you can morph it. It would be pretty worthless though =/
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I doubt it. How would you acquire a virus?
Add an elephant to my list.
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I'd never, ever want to be a mosquito. *shudder*
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Starfish. I wouldn't morph one because of the risk of being split in half, and having two of me. One of me is enough, but another one, with a completely opposite personality, not in my list of things to have.
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i agree adam. 1 of u really is more then enough
i wouldn't morph krill. talk about useless
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how about a lantern fish? he would be exceedingly worthless.
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Here's one....Jellyfish. Or Coral. Now *that's* useless lol
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Starfish. I wouldn't morph one because of the risk of being split in half, and having two of me. One of me is enough, but another one, with a completely opposite personality, not in my list of things to have.
Right... a psychopath-me would be terrible... No, really, we couldn't let the World support that kind of things!
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A Black Death bacteria. Maybe I would morph it if I have to but... I really hope I'm not stupid enough to try to acquire it.
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A TICK :-\
I Hate those things
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Things I would want to morph: all those weird poisonous creatures that live in australia (far better as battle morphs than tigers I think)
on the starfish point, i wonder whether everybody is half sociopath half saint (like Rachel) or some people are part 'excessive emotions' part 'stoical vulcans'... interesting.
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Add lobsters to my list. How can I morph into something which, when confronted with a mirror, would make me hurl?
Of course, that might have something to do with the fact that my sister tried to shove a frozen one down my shirt in the mall.. :barf:
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what about that caterpillar (look up parasites on cracked.com) that has a wasp lay its eggs inside/other creepy crawlies that are frequent victims of mind control.
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i would never morph a snail or slug or anything of the like. not only would it be a useless morph, how disgusting would that be? ew
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And not to mention kids like me who enjoy pouring salt on them to watch them shrivel up. Or pick up the snail while it's still in its shell and throw it in the middle of the road so it'll get run over. :D
I'd hate to morph any insect. let alone invertebrates
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but not all inverts would be bad to morph. id wana morph an octopus. thatd be awesome
on topic, i also would not morph a sea urchin. what would be the point of that?
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Meh, I could pass up being an octopus.
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I would probably not want to morph an earthworm.
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I wouldn't mind morphing an octopus. Mainly because giant squid would be a prefered ocean morph for me. It would be hard to get one, but quite possibly worth it.
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Now a squid is different. I wouldn't mind the squid. It's tougher than the octopus.
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ya but an octopus is smarter and can fit thru openings 10 times smaller than its body. plus havent u seen the vid where a giant octopus takes down a shark?
anyhoo, i wouldnt wana morph a ****roach. the disgustingness factor is there big time :barf:
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I haven't heard of a giant octopus, or any octopi taking down sharks. Though I have heard of them squeezing through small places. It might be good for a small morph, and I said I wouldn't mind morphing one. But since most Yeerk operations take place on land, I usually thing of water morphs in regards to travel and battle.
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A TICK :-\
I Hate those things
Oh I so agree x52420. ICK
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to not excessively deviate from the topic, watch this video of the octopus taking the shark down:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9A-oxUMAy8
on topic i would never wana morph a squirrel on the shere principle i hate them
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Has anybody mentioned pigs yet? Because that would be one thing I couldn't morph. So fat and dirty and ugh.
Not to mention that I'd have the same problem that the Animorphs had in trout morph; only being able to think about myself served up on a plate. Mmm, bacon.
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A sponge. That would be nearly as bad as a plant.
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Well if the shark is only as big as the octopus, then yes I'd say the octopus has the advantage. No big surprise there.
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still, its a shark that got owned by an octopus. it forces u to look at the octopus in a new light. it may not look as nasty as a squid, but it can hold its own
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A sponge. That would be nearly as bad as a plant.
I wouldn't stop thinking about Sponge Bob after morphing that ... XD
I'm not afraid of roaches don't mind touching them. but Ticks... i have had nightmares with those things ugh... but i think i mentioned that before. lice would also be a no no. I think anything Blood sucking would be a No no for me
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I couldn't be a fish.. Goldfish are dirty and stupid.. And I think it would be way too risky.
And I agree with ticks and lice.. Really any kind of bug would be out of the question.
The fate of the world rests on me becoming a tick. Goodbye world..
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A mosquito. Everyone'd want to swat you. :P
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I would never want to morph anything that fed off of someone else, like a leech or tick or something gross like that!
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That would be interesting, if they morphed leeches. But what cause would they have to do that?
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Anything lower on the evolution then an ant...Just way to simple to me. I don't want to lose who I am.
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That would be interesting, if they morphed leeches. But what cause would they have to do that?
Ugh. That would just be too gross. XD They remind me of yeerks. The only morph that can gross me out anymore is when Cassie goes yeerk in #29.
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I couldn't be a fish.. Goldfish are dirty and stupid.. And I think it would be way too risky.
And I agree with ticks and lice.. Really any kind of bug would be out of the question.
The fate of the world rests on me becoming a tick. Goodbye world..
the gold fish are not dirty and stupid! sure they arent geniouses, but they can remember some things
anyhoo on topic, i would never wana morph a sea slug. besides it being a useless morph, its just gross
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Any hemophageous (hematophageous? -- "blood-eating") species would be a "no" from me.
And pretty much anything lower than amphibians on the evolutionary scale, I would be pretty resistant to morph -- especially if they lacked decent eyesight.
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anyhoo on topic, i would never wana morph a sea slug. besides it being a useless morph, its just gross
Land slug i wouldn't want to but a sea slug ... idno they seem quite beautiful to me not to mention colorful. But why morph that i have no idea. Nudibranch are colorful and can swim ok but they are not exactly battle morphs
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Well you guys seem to have named most of the animals I wouldn't want to morph for whatever reason. Thinking of more animals from work, I wouldn't want to morph a Locust. There are better insects you could morph that don't stand out as much and they're UGLY.
Also wouldn't want to be a male Praying Mantis, or any male insect/archnid where the females are known to kill the males. Male Praying Mantids are incapable of copulation until they are decapitated by the female.
Not forgetting any type of prey animal which lacks natural defences. I also would hate to morph anything that's blind or has very poor eye sight.
On the list of aliens in the series, I definitely wouldn't want to morph a Taxxon, Yeerk Skirt Na, Helmacron or Venber, Gedd, Iskoort, Nesk, Mak or Sstram (two alien species also invaded by the Yeerks). However, I would very much like to morph an Andalite, Hork-Bajir, Leeran, Howler, Garatron Ketran and Kafit Bird.
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How can you say you don't want to morph a Mak or Straam, when you don't even know what they are? The only thing you know about them is that they were conquered by Yeerks, yet you say you do want to morph a Hork-Bajir, which were also conquered by the Yeerks.
I wouldn't mind morphing something that has poor eyesight, as long as the other senses are good. Grizzly bears and Rhinos have poor eyesight, but they can still run a Hork over. I don't know about an Andalite, though. Ax took down a T-Rex once, though it wasn't running straight at him.
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what kind of prey lacks natural defense? wouldn't they be extinct (from predators over-eating them) by now, if they didn't have some kind of defense mechanism? even running away real fast is a natural defense...
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I think Pheonix means defenses besides just running into the nearest place that whatever is chasing you can't get. Like a rabbit's only defense is running to a nearby hole. While a simarly sized housecat can at least bite and claw.
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Jellyfish =D
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I think Pheonix means defenses besides just running into the nearest place that whatever is chasing you can't get. Like a rabbit's only defense is running to a nearby hole. While a simarly sized housecat can at least bite and claw.
They can kick.
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What is the force of a rabbit's kick? What can it hurt with that kick?
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How can you say you don't want to morph a Mak or Straam, when you don't even know what they are? The only thing you know about them is that they were conquered by Yeerks, yet you say you do want to morph a Hork-Bajir, which were also conquered by the Yeerks.
I know that Hork-Bajir are badass and they're not all enslaved anymore anyway. True I have no idea what the Mak or Sstram are but they weren't good enough to resist being taken by the Yeerks AND they apparently aren't even good enough hosts to be worth mentioning more than once in the entire series. If either of them were preferable hosts to Hork-Bajir or Taxxons, then I'm sure they would have come up at some point.
I think Pheonix means defenses besides just running into the nearest place that whatever is chasing you can't get. Like a rabbit's only defense is running to a nearby hole. While a simarly sized housecat can at least bite and claw.
Yeah that's pretty much what I meant. Plenty of animals don't have any real defences besides running. A lot of very widespread rodents and insects are practically defenceless against predators but they survive due to numbers.
A Rabbit's kick isn't likely to help them against most larger predators. It certainly won't help them against Hork-Bajir...
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What is the force of a rabbit's kick? What can it hurt with that kick?
it can daze a hawk, or at least that's what tobias says, so about as much force as a similarly sized cat.
well if you're gonna use fighting a hork-bajir to determine, wouldn't you pretty much take out prey altogether, not just the ones that only have running as a defense?
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Yeah, it's true some creatures only survive because they reproduce too fast for the predators to eat them all.
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"Breeding like jack rabbits."
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Rabbits due tend to run and hide pretty well though.
And it suddenly dawned on me I'd be cool at least trying most animals, there is a whole host of people I'd never want to morph. Some might be cool; but Oprah, Connie Chung, Bobby Lee, that s.o.b. that I went to high school with.
Now those would be some truly nasty experiences
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BUT u could morph them, do something to ruin their image, and then get ur revenge.
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Most of these people already have their image pretty f'ed up. (No one needs to see bobby lee naked. Again)
Either way, not worth the sheer disgust.
And I'm not that easy to disgust when it comes to fundamentally altering my DNA
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Yeah, you could do what Family Guy did with James Woods and Peter Griffin. ;D
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And I'm pretty sure you wouldn't be able to morph Bacteria, let alone want to.
Obviously, you never heard the story of Parry, the Paramecium. :P
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I wouldn't want to morph anything huge(like an elephant), because they would be WAY too noticeable. I wouldn't want to have no place to hide.
Nor I would morph anything without inner skeleton, like slugs, snails, insects and insect-like organisms, any loose aquatic animal(such as jellyfishes, squids, etc.) and so forth. I wouldn't want to morph reptiles/amphibians or fish, either. Especially not plants or bacteria, if those even are morphable. No way...
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I wouldn't mind morphing a more threatening insect/arachnid like a Hornet or something--an insect/arachnid that a person would be too frightened/squeemish to squash on sight. In addition to that, I think I would be fairly paranoid about morphing a rat, especially if I was present during the David fiasco. I would be too worried about losing control of the morph, or getting lost in a wall and becomming a nothlit.
I can totally see myself being the selfish Animorph. I wouldn't be a sociopath like David, and I wouldn't defy Jake's orders. But I can totally see myself breaking the "no using morphs for personal use" rule.
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This is a different sense than the other worst thread...what would you never want to morph or the Animorphs wouldn't want to?
-Taxxon
-Ant
-Termite
-Bacteria
Any other ideas?
Shrew (Rachel in "The Visitor").
Ladybug (which seems defenseless).
Chickens, Turkeys at Thanksgiving, Pigs, Cows.
Weeds.
Tunafish.
Butterflies.
****roaches, Fleas, Flies.