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Animorphs Section => Animorphs Forum Classic => Topic started by: ThinkAgain on November 05, 2010, 02:50:52 PM
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What are some of the more disturbing ways to describe specific books or parts of books without lying or significantly stretching the truth?
I thought of this when I described #33 to a friend unfamiliar with the series as a book where, "A homeless kid gets put in a glass box and is tortured until he tries to kill himself." I didn't consciously make it sound twisted, I just described it that way because it's what happens.
It got me thinking about how even moremessed up a lot of the scenes of the books can be when taken out of context. What are some other significant examples of this? Another one I can think of offhand is, "Rachel used her severed arm as a bludgeon to kill someone." Can't remember which book that one's from though, it's been too long.
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Some kids tied up another kid for three days to kill a parasite in his brain. >>;
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To be fair the Rachel's arm bludgeoning thing was in #32 and it was Mean/Psycho Rachel that did it. We also didn't witness that fight, she just told Nice Rachel about it.
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I don't remember for which part that was, but I also did that once, telling the story of Animorphs and making it sound weird and twisted... even without trying to. Same for Everworld and Remnants of course. Sometimes my friends look at me like O.O when I try to tell them the story...
*thinking deeply*
I think one of them was something like: "The chief of the heroes of the books ask his cousin to kill his own brother, and watch them both die."
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You have to remember this is a series in which
...a Lovecraftian horror is pitted against a "brilliant loser" and entire species are caught in the middle.
...the cuter the alien species, the more horrific its inevitable demise.
...a character wakes up, realizes that she's still got alien flesh stuck in her teeth, and there is a perfectly reasonable (if awful) explanation for all of it.
...a combination of time travel and biotechnology makes for some shocking family trees.
...chemical warfare counts as comic relief.
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...chemical warfare counts as comic relief.
I had some of that chemical warfare for breakfast yesterday.
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There's this guy named David, and he's the new kid in town. But his parent's move a lot so he's always the new kid; he doesn't have any friends. Anyways, This kid's house is destroyed, and his parents get kidnapped (and killed, for all practical reasons), leaving him on the streets at the mercy of these teen-aged guerrilla soldiers who frankly, don't have time for him. He gets dragged into their crazy terrifying lives, and ends up being pushed around all the time. When he tries to get out of it and live his own life, this crazy psycho girl drives a fork into his ear, wild animals are sent to kill him, and he's tricked into being turned into a rat and trapped on a deserted island, where he's bound to be eaten by a bird.
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you know there are a lot of plot points where you don't have to come up with a twisted way of describing it, because no matter what way you put it they are going to come out fairly messed up. For instance I defy you to come up with a non-twisted way of describing the time where the heroes met up with the main bad guy's brother who kept himself alive by luring strangers into his house, cracking their head open with an ax, and eating the slug inside the stranger's head turning himself into a cannibals. Oh and who knows what he did with the bodies, but I suspect a furnace was involved.
Also the animorphs let the guy live.
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Number 30
A ruthless teenager must figure out a way to take out his mother while taking out his worst enemy at the same time.
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Number 30
A ruthless teenager must figure out a way to take out his mother while taking out his worst enemy at the same time.
I JUST read that one last night! TEC An alien is forced to endure a sic, and corrupted world where he is held as the prisoner of a giant sea sponge and forced to play games.
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A teenager seriously contemplates brutally killing a young child in the woods, while a leopard tries to eat the young child's broken ankle.
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A teenager seriously contemplates brutally killing a young child in the woods, while a leopard tries to eat the young child's broken ankle.
Marco is just so cruel ;D
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^And of course, the interesting flip is that moments before in the book, he attacked a leopard as a frigging osprey to defend her. But once she's a threat...
I've always liked to compare #30 to a Greek tragedy. So much poetic irony! Hubris! Drama! I've always put it as "a teenage soldier realizes he'd rather kill his own mother than let her stay in enemy hands, deludes himself into thinking it's a good idea".
#8 - a lost alien teenager and his untrusting human friends, after causing mass starvation for their enemies, attempt to assassinate the enemy leader with poison. The 'good guy' aliens scapegoat a teenager for a crime he didn't commit because it's better for morale.
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#32.
Girl with anger issues gets chopped in half; both halves survive. Involves using severed appendages as bludgeons; issue is resolved later by electrocution of both halves.
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#32.
Girl with anger issues gets chopped in half; both halves survive. Involves using severed appendages as bludgeons; issue is resolved later by electrocution of both halves.
Nothing makes me smile more then reading about Rachel beating someone with her severed arm.
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Now that I think about it, the Animorphs book can supply plenty of twisted statements without even trying. No wonder Rachel flipped.
Here's mine. From countless Animorphs books:
A ten foot earthworm with nothing but teeth for a head bursted open, filling the room with a foul stench. His brother and sister worms gathered around him, and feasted on the dying worm.
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Animorphs as a series is so messed up that maybe it helps in part to explain why we're all so bizarre. :)
It's a series in which right in the first book, the main villain turns into a gigantic thirty-foot monster and eats his wounded nemesis alive. And then makes a really bad pun out of it. And then his centipede-like minions eat the pieces that fall from his mouth.
Where there's an awful place underground in which human beings are shoved into cages all day by creepy bladed monsters until they can have their heads shoved into liquid mercury. Then a tiny slug crawls into their heads and takes control of their mind. I mean even Marco points out how this looks out of context. XD
Where a human and a blue deer can use technology to have inter-species sex and give birth to an unwanted, sad child. And then the mother promptly forgets about most of this. ^___^
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Oooh I gotta get in on this!
#14. A group of teenagers deduce by watching a horse go to the bathroom that they are not really horses and use them to get into a military base where they find out the bad guy is really obsessing over a toilet.
Ok now that sounded REALLY twisted... :o
And yeah, it always bothered me that Marco was willing to murder a child instead of holding her for three days. Even in war, you NEVER. KILL. CHILDREN....
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you do when said child could quite easily lead to the death of you, your friends, and as such the world. as said in many times throughout the books, war is never pretty.
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How about this one? I found it here: http://www.exposingsatanism.org/animorphs.htm
Animorphs
I read all but the last four books. However, I did read the book Miss Applegate wrote about the Ellimist and Crayak. The beginning of this book starts out with the Ellimist talking to a dying Animorph. The story makes it seem like the Ellimist is almost afraid of Crayak. The Ellimist starts out as a humanoid creature who is sent out on a journey when his planet is destroyed. Through a series of adventures the Ellimist is transformed into a god-like creature. (It definitely sounds like some of the New-age beliefs to me. I believe that even the Mormon church believes that.)
At the end of this book, the Ellimist tells the dying Animorph that, although he supposedly loves life and can save her, he will not. Her “soul”, if such a thing exists in the Animorph universe, is described as shriveling into nothingness and going dark. (I do not have an exact quote because I threw the books away some time ago.)
The Animorphs themselves were well on their way to becoming something more than human. The last book has an inside cover that shows their faces among a background of stars. In book #48, Rachel is given supernatural powers by Crayak, although they get taken when she refuses to kill her cousin. The very act of morphing is spiritual in nature. It is very similar to the practice of the druids. The Andalites, the “good guys” who often resort to genocide and biological warfare, rely on telepathic and empathic abilities to communicate, practices forbidden in the Bible. There is even evidence of nature worship in Animorphs. There is a scene in the Andalite Chronicles where Elfangor asks a “pet” tree for forgiveness for atrocities he committed on another planet. And the trees sometimes talk back! (Animism, I think it’s called, when one personifies plants and animals and gives them souls. The druids also used the principles of Animism to acquire the traits of animals. Again, a process similar to morphing in Animorphs.) This might be a bit of a stretch but you’ll notice that there are FIVE Animorphs. Five is significant because of the pentagram.
It is a good thing that people expose Animorphs for what it is. Even though the series ended 4 years ago, there is still a wide fan-base. Even after 4 years they still have a hold on me. Reading Animorphs once a month became a sort of religious ritual for me. Delusions filled my head and are still there to this day. I really believed they were real for a time and I could see them following me, judging me. I still have these delusions. It infringes on the love I have for Christ and all that Christ has done for me.
P.S. Bring the death threats on! I don’t care what you do with this after you read it. (Maybe a nice bit of prayer…. J )
This is just my testimony to the evil world of Animorphs and I don’t care if you use my name if you share it
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Um....that person is paranoid. Just a little. I like the Animorphs a lot, but even when I was 10 I never thought they actually existed.
Oh and I like the whole "I never finished the series and threw the books away but I'm a expert" tone, too.
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you do when said child could quite easily lead to the death of you, your friends, and as such the world. as said in many times throughout the books, war is never pretty.
Again, there's such a thing as Kandrona starvation.
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How about this one? I found it here: http://www.exposingsatanism.org/animorphs.htm
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Oh geez. I'm not sure if that's the exact same site, or if they just removed it (cuz I can't find it), but I remember a similar thing once saying that the TMNT were Satanic, because 'it showed animals acting as humans'. Um...that also encompasses like every cartoon ever made in America.
There's an article on Digimon there too, and of course Pokemon. This site oughta be good for some laughs. :XD:
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How about this one? I found it here: http://www.exposingsatanism.org/animorphs.htm
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Oh geez. I'm not sure if that's the exact same site, or if they just removed it (cuz I can't find it), but I remember a similar thing once saying that the TMNT were Satanic, because 'it showed animals acting as humans'. Um...that also encompasses like every cartoon ever made in America.
There's an article on Digimon there too, and of course Pokemon. This site oughta be good for some laughs. :XD:
[offtopic] I'm just reading the page about vampirism, and it's really funny ^^ lol [/offtopic]
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What are some of the more disturbing ways to describe specific books or parts of books without lying or significantly stretching the truth?
I thought of this when I described #33 to a friend unfamiliar with the series as a book where, "A homeless kid gets put in a glass box and is tortured until he tries to kill himself." I didn't consciously make it sound twisted, I just described it that way because it's what happens.
It got me thinking about how even moremessed up a lot of the scenes of the books can be when taken out of context. What are some other significant examples of this? Another one I can think of offhand is, "Rachel used her severed arm as a bludgeon to kill someone." Can't remember which book that one's from though, it's been too long.
Tobias isn't homeless,he lives in the meadow/his messed up aunt/uncle's house/the free hork-bagir colony(then again it depends of what your definition of "home" is) and he didn't try to kill himself unless i missed something
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He did try to crash into the skylight at the mall in book #3. Marco threw a baseball and broke it before he hit though... I don't know why he had a baseball....
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I assume he stole it. Desperate times call for desperate measures!
Tobias did try to kill himself in #33. He smashed his face against the box so hard his beak broke off.
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I assume he stole it. Desperate times call for desperate measures!
Tobias did try to kill himself in #33. He smashed his face against the box so hard his beak broke off.
Then the box is very strong. I'd rather try and smash the box then fly away
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"I flew up, flung myself at the glass. {Stop!} I cried. I wanted it to end. If she wouldn't stop, I would end it myself. By ending me. I threw myself against the side of the cube. My beak cracked. Splinters of pain electrified my face."
-#33: The Illusion
I'd say that counts as him trying to kill himself, not break the box.
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X3 Okay now I seriously have to read the Animorphs-Satanism page. I mean how the hell did that get into the discussion?! XD
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X3 Okay now I seriously have to read the Animorphs-Satanism page. I mean how the hell did that get into the discussion?! XD
I believe that it could be cosider as one of many 'Twisted ways to describe the books'.
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#46 The Deception
In which a foreigner incapacitates his American leader, steals a nuke and threatens to detonate it on a largely populated area of U.S. soil. And he's the good guy.
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Oh wow, I forgot about that one, Jessi :P
#41 - A young terrorist girl attempts to blow up a building in New York City. And she's the good guy.
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#21 - A gang of teenagers deliberately disrupts an international summit for peace in the Middle East.
God, let me not be ostracized for this one:
#42 - A group of soldiers fights a battle for a child's body.
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#26: A teenager destroyed an entire species with a single kiss to his GF and that, to save a species of parasites.
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I was going back and forth about whether or not to mention on RAF something I'm reading. It is very (excessively, really) violent, involves over-described zombies and somehow manages to turn it all into grade-A dead baby humor.
Then I realized that there's a lot of disturbing crap that happens in Animorphs; this thing isn't much worse. Just to be on the safe side, I decided to withhold judgement until I finish the whole thing.
Glad I did. A chapter or two later, I came across [image mercifully censored] and [oh, hell no], giving me this realization.
Animorphs:
At least there's no rape and all the bad words are made up.
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Animorphs:
At least there's no rape and all the bad words are made up.
Well, no rape on-page. There's a lot of fridge horror if you consider than a lot of Controllers still probably upheld their host's normal sex lives. The host really can't consent, and the uninfested person is having sex under false pretenses. Definitely, definitely squicky.
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Animorphs series: A story about teens wearing tights and touching animals. (NOT MINE)
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Animorphs:
At least there's no rape and all the bad words are made up.
Well, no rape on-page. There's a lot of fridge horror if you consider than a lot of Controllers still probably upheld their host's normal sex lives. The host really can't consent, and the uninfested person is having sex under false pretenses. Definitely, definitely squicky.
Yeah ^^' Actually, I put this aspect in my fanfiction (that you can't read because it's in French ^^')...
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^I've referenced it too.
Though I can read a bit of French (grew up speaking it, can only read it now), so do you have a link to your fic?
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where the hell has this topic been? i think im in love :pwease:
anyways..
#34-a bug eyed remnant of a race who bio engineered entire races of monsters come to earth to a group of teenagers who bring along an alien consciousness to put inside one of their heads. one of the teenagers accepts and now has to share her head along with a long dead alien warrior suffering from PTSD about having her long dead lost child. the alien consciousness continues to fight the girl for the body again and again and the conflict climaxes as she is fighting for control over her body as her friends are trying to avoid getting blown up. the alien consciousness then submits to the girl.
after the main conflict is resolved, the girl then blackmails the alien consciousness by telling the group that she is trying to take control again. the alien consciousness is then thrown back into oblivion, never to be hear or seen again.
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43- the Test
An already traumatized young boy--forced to live the live of a common animal (hawk))-- is forced to face his tormentor's face, with his tormentor's face...
Ladies and gentlemen--the first Ani-Cross-Gendered-Morph
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A group of kids in spandex/leotards, along with a blue centuar fight for the freedom of the world due to invading slugs from space. excuse me if thats already been touched upon. More to come as i re-read the series.