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Offline CounterInstinct

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What if Ax didn't crash land on Earth?
« on: June 15, 2008, 07:31:06 PM »
If the Animorphs were to fight off w/o Ax, if #4 continued without Ax.... then do you think the war would have still be won?
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Re: What if Ax didn't crash land on Earth?
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2008, 07:37:14 PM »
He's saved the butts of everyone at least once, so no, I don't think they could've won without him.  In fact, I don't think they could've won without any of them really.
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Re: What if Ax didn't crash land on Earth?
« Reply #2 on: June 15, 2008, 07:57:00 PM »
The main point of Ax as a character is that there needed to be one who understood alien concepts. Without his knowledge, they wouldn't have been able to make nearly as many of their plans as they did. Not to mention his abilities with technology.
They may have still won, but it would've taken much, much longer
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Re: What if Ax didn't crash land on Earth?
« Reply #3 on: June 15, 2008, 08:12:52 PM »
If Ax hadn't been there, Marco would have quit the group. Marco stayed because he recognized his mother on Visser Three's blade ship in book five, and the reason they were on there is because they were trying to get Ax home at the time.

Ax is the only one who has a natural sense of time, can fight in his normal form (except for Tobias, but Tobias isn't very good in hawk form), and has some knowledge of alien technology as has already been stated.

Ax is very integral. Also, if Marco hadn't found out Eva was still alive he would have quit the group. Without Marco and Ax, the others wouldn't have gone far.
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Re: What if Ax didn't crash land on Earth?
« Reply #4 on: June 15, 2008, 08:15:32 PM »
and without ax visser 3 would have figured out that they were human looooong before
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Re: What if Ax didn't crash land on Earth?
« Reply #5 on: June 16, 2008, 12:09:07 AM »
Basically, they'd be dead meat without Ax. Like Shanker said, they would have been discovered much earlier, and they wouldn't have half of the knowledge they did without him.
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Re: What if Ax didn't crash land on Earth?
« Reply #6 on: June 16, 2008, 03:42:02 AM »
not to mention his tail blade and reaction time came in handy quite a few times.
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Re: What if Ax didn't crash land on Earth?
« Reply #7 on: April 02, 2010, 01:59:39 AM »
I agree with this, and it brings up the whole question of if you could ditch any member of the group and have it still function?

Jake: Obvious, no leadership, gets replaced by rachel, too reckless group dies.
Cassie: Less animal knowledge for the group, harder to make plans. Less morality... Debatable if that is a good thing or a bad thing.
Rachel: The 'pure power' factor would be lost.
Marco: This one is harder... Uh... I guess the group might get more PTSD without his sarcastic quips :D
Tobias: No ariel support... Except... One of the others could morph a bird... So... Hmmm...
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Re: What if Ax didn't crash land on Earth?
« Reply #8 on: June 01, 2010, 12:28:25 AM »
The animorphs would be as good as a rusty paperclip without Ax. First, there would be only four Animorphs fighting for Earth. Talk about depressing, four kids saving the planet? That's worse than six! Ax is the reason why they get on a yeerk ship and see Visser One, hence Marco's stay. Then, they would be pretty much dead when Jake gets infested.  Ax was the first to notice, and even then, the others doubted him.  So the yeerk got all the information on "Andalite Bandits" and sold them all out. Goodbye Earth's main protectors! Have a nice afterlife; if that. Third, if somehow Jake does get un-infested, then when they find out what is in Zone 91, how are they gonna figure out it's a toilet? Exactly. And, the Animorphs would die in Z-Space without Ax's quick thinking.  I could rant on and on about this, but I won't. Everybody helped with saving the planet, with local (as in human) things, but Ax did any and all "alien" stuff, plus a few other things.
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Re: What if Ax didn't crash land on Earth?
« Reply #9 on: June 02, 2010, 11:56:11 PM »
In The Andalite Chronicles, it is implied (either by Elfangor or the Ellimist, I don't remember) that having these six time lines converge with one another was absolutely essential for the war to be won, which implied to me that the absence of any one of them would have been enough to fail. That's why it was so essential that Elfangor needed to go back to his original time line - that was the only way that the integral six Animorphs would eventually meet.

So, no, I don't think that the war would have been winnable without Ax, for this and probably many other reasons.
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