Things You Never Want To Morph

[Shark Akhrrana]

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

[Phoenix004]

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.

[Chad32]

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.

[morfowt]

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...

[Chad32]

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.

[Shark Akhrrana]

Jellyfish =D

[Cloak]

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.

[Chad32]

What is the force of a rabbit's kick? What can it hurt with that kick?

[Phoenix004]

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...

[morfowt]

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?

[Chad32]

Yeah, it's true some creatures only survive because they reproduce too fast for the predators to eat them all.

[Darth Revan]

"Breeding like jack rabbits."

[RYTX]

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

[estrid]

BUT u could morph them, do something to ruin their image, and then get ur revenge.

[RYTX]

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