Top 11 Saddest Animorphs Moments

[Blaise Zebrataur]

I've been reading most of the books(that I have) of the series and alot of mine are of Tobias of course, Rachel dieing as well as Elfangor when he was taken away from Earth and taken back to the Andalite home world and back into the war, leaving Loren without ever a peep or that. Even though of course her memory was scrapped,it still would have been better if he could say good bye.

[redtailedsaffa]

Well I'm reading the series after a long time now and I haven't even finished it (no thanks for the spoilers here even though I knew Rachel dies!) but for me the saddest books on the whole from what I've read so far are (I've made it till #36)

1. The Andalite Chronicles
2. #30
3. Visser
4. Megamorphs #3
5. #3
6. #19, just the whole thing with Cassie being forced to split sides
7. #35
8. #31

I think this list will be complete once I'm done reading the series, and judging from the thread #54 will probably head it.

[Jdorsey314]

1 ) the end of the series. dont understand why most people dont put it first.
2 ) elfangors death.
3 ) whats-his-name hork bajir with gills death
4 ) book 33, somewhere around the middle
5 ) marco's comment on the used car lot incident in book 3
6 ) marco's comment on what HE thinks the least of the worries are on what happened in, either book 15 or 16 with the rich guy and the fly zapper.
7 ) every moment marco breaths
8 ) the ratio of animorphs in the first book to animorphs in the last book
9 ) the fact that the new spaceship is named after...
10 ) basically everything in the series, its goal, its tragedy, the fact that it exists at all, the fact that it is called a childrens book series just to lure in those who are unprepared and get them attached to a character so well written they seem like a real person and then tear them out of it abruptly, basically... everything in, around, about, of, or related to, everything in the entire collection.



slight exagerations may be present, and this may reduce the accuracy of my opinions. its a good book series, but everyone needs to rant occasionally.

[donut]

10.  Rachel waiting for David to be trapped in morph, having to listen to his pleas and knowing he can't be set free.

9.  The ellimist telling Tobias he will give him what he wants most, then giving his morphing power back instead of making him human.  That he doesn't want to be human; he wants to fight along side his friends.  I don't know if it's sad, but it's powerful.

8. When Visser 3 leaves Alloron.  He tries to kill himself but he's too weak, and then asks Ax to do it.

7. Cassie getting trapped in her morph.  Later we find out she isn't, but at the time it's sad.

6. Tobias's flashbacks to his Aunt and Uncle when he's being tortured.

5. Arbron being trapped as a Taxxon.

4. Elfangor choosing to return to the war minutes before finding out he has a son.

3.  Marco getting his mother back in Visser, but having to let the yeerk back into her and losing her again.

2.  Jake being the one who loses his family.  I guess I was prepared for Marco to lose his mom, but him getting his mom back made it harder when Jake loses everything.  His reaction to it too, becoming a shell of what he was when it ended.  I honestly think he only held it together because he was the leader and he had to.  In book 16 he says he's the leader, he isn't allowed to show fear, or sadness or be hurt.  He has to always look strong for his troops.  That really hit home.  As soon as it's over, he breaks down.

1. The way Rachel dies.  Not stopping Tom's yeerk, but when she's talking to the ellimist. 

"Answer this, Ellimist: Did I . . . did I make a
difference? My life, and my . . . my death . . .
was I worth it? Did my life really matter?"
"Yes," he said. "You were brave. You were
strong. You were good. You mattered."
"Yeah. Okay, then. Okay, then."
I wondered if —

It just stopping there.  In the middle.  She's gone.

[KingAlanI]

Not rescuing Tom from the Yeerk Pool always stuck out to me. Still does. I'm only a few books through my reread, so I don't have much to work with yet, but also the whole Melissa Chapman situation. The Ketrans being nearly exterminated by the Capasins and then that sea creature finishing off the rest of the species except for the Ellimist.

[Oceanspray]

One I didn't see in this thread:

When the ellimist gets the last of his people killed when they go to the planet with the "father" creature.

[Elfangor555]

This isn't in order
1. Melissa crying when she thinks her dad doesn't love her
2. Jara dying
3 Arbron getting trapped in taxxon morph
4.Erik reprogramming himself and then crying
5. Elfangor leaving before meeting his son
6.jake losing his family
7. Marco having to let his mum go back to being a yeerk
8. Rachael listening to David asking her to kill him
9. When classiest dad asks her about the dusabled kids
10. The rash in jakes head telling him about tom
11. The ending

[Chad32]

I liked Jara a much as the next character, but I was a bit too stunned that Rachel and Tom died to really feel for the guy dying. I will always remember his answer to Tobias or Ax asking how they can be sure he doesn't have a Yeerk in his head.

[Adam]

The saddest part about Jara's death is, to me, simply the fact that it's just thrown in there for no reason and with little consequence or feeling. He was a great character, one that everyone could side with, and in the end K.A. is just like, "Oh and that guy died. Moving on...". That, and the character wasn't really utilised as much as he could be.

[Chad32]

Yeah, that's just insulting. He's barely a character after book 13, and then he's just discarded because KA wasn't done telling us how many people she decided to kill off in the last book. I don't know why she decided that suddenly killing a bunch of sympathetic characters in the last book or two would make it more realistic. All it does is break willing suspension of disbelief.

[SmartGirl333]

Rachel's funeral would rank pretty high for me. And before you ask, I know this is an old topic.

[Chad32]

That just made me mad, more than anything. I am not happy with a main character being killed off in the last book of a series where this kind of thing never happened before. Jake dying temproarily doesn't count, for reasons that should be obvious.

[SmartGirl333]

The battle scene... I didn't feel a thing, as textual depictions of violence don't get to me.
Page 24 (in case you're wondering, that's where the Ellimist Chronicles canonically fits)... My brain crashed from the magnitude of it fitting together.
The funeral... MAI FEELS