Stupidest Things the Animorphs Have Ever Done

[TobiasMasonPark]

     The Yeerks are far too arrogant. The only Yeerk to take a physically challenged host would have been a member of the peace movement, or else a low ranking Yeerk.

[Morilore]

Actually, I agree that choosing disabled kids was a pretty dumb idea.  Anyone remember Taylor?  She was offered the chance to become a controller specifically BECAUSE she was disabled.  Granted, the Yeerks fixed her disability, but that still goes to disprove the idea that Yeerks won't touch disabled people.

As I recall, Taylor was specifically wanted as a way to get close to "my mother, the chief of police."  So if it's convenient to infest a specific host the Yeerks would spend the effort to fix her up, but maybe they just don't think it's cost-effective to do that with people with disabilities in general.

[TobiasMasonPark]

     As long as we are temporarily off topping, could someone quickly remind me if it was said that all of the Auxiliaries were killed, or was that speculation on the part of the witnesses.

[DinosaurNothlit]

    The Yeerks are far too arrogant. The only Yeerk to take a physically challenged host would have been a member of the peace movement, or else a low ranking Yeerk.

Actually, I don't think a peace movement Yeerk would take a disabled host.  In general, it would be dangerous for them to take any host that most other Yeerks wouldn't take, as it would make them stand out too much.

A low-ranking Yeerk, though, maybe.  Of course, rank wouldn't matter in the scenario that I described.  And as soon as any Yeerk found a way to get close to the Animorphs, you can bet that their rank would rise dramatically.

As I recall, Taylor was specifically wanted as a way to get close to "my mother, the chief of police."  So if it's convenient to infest a specific host the Yeerks would spend the effort to fix her up, but maybe they just don't think it's cost-effective to do that with people with disabilities in general.

That's a good point, I hadn't remembered that about Taylor.  Of course, since most of the Auxiliaries were more-or-less forgotten by their families, even if they were related to somebody important, it still wouldn't have mattered to the Yeerks.

     As long as we are temporarily off topping, could someone quickly remind me if it was said that all of the Auxiliaries were killed, or was that speculation on the part of the witnesses.

As far as I know, that was speculation.  All of the obviously visible ones would have been killed, because V3 kept shooting until he didn't see any more.  But if some of them had smaller battle morphs, maybe they might have survived?  If any of them did, though, they were never heard from again, which makes it pretty unlikely.

Anyway, to get very slightly back on topic, I just realized something really really REALLY dumb that happened on the Yeerks' side of things.  So, Tom and his parents get back from 'shopping,' right?  Shortly after they're all made into controllers?  So what do they do?  Instead of playing dumb and pretending NOT to be controllers, they immediately start shooting at Jake and make it abundantly clear that they ARE.  They totally had the chance to ambush all the Animorphs if they'd just played along and let Jake rescue them first.  

[TobiasMasonPark]

     Lol. Plot convienience?

[QIfry]

I think the number one stupidest thing the animorphs did in the entire series was walk through that bloody construction site I mean seriously, they could have easily gotten tetnus, or gotten mugged, or raped. THEY WERE 13 FREAKING YEARS OLD CUTTING THROUGH AN ABANDONED CONSTRUCTION SITE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT! GAH

LOL!!! Best one of all!

[Chad32]

I have no idea why the Yeerks in Jake's parent's heads would shoot Jake on sight, even if they did know he was an Animorph. All they had to do was wait a few more minutes, and he wouldn't have been able to do anything. It's plot induced stupidity, just like how Jake decided to go ahead with the mission when he knew they'd be giving the Yeerks blood samples, then waiting to get his family out last even though he should have done that first.

And what a coincidence that Tom's Yeerk decided to have his host's parents infested on that day, without even knowing Jake was an Animorph beforehand.

[Blazing Angel]

Another thing that they never did. They could have robbed a bank (i know that they try not to do bad but some things they could have done for massive help require funding) and hire a troops of soldiers fresh from overseas and pay them to be real gueirilla fighters. The invasion is mainly in America so the chances of a soldier from who has been on duty for 6 months being a controller are pretty low. If they did that from the very beginning and gotten the auxillary animorphs then they'd be golden.

[Chad32]

How are they supposed to get a soldierto do what they want? You know how Cassie goes berserk if Humans are killed. No, robbing a bank and trying to hire people would be stupid. Though going through some kind of training to make themselves better wouldn't be too bad an idea.

[TobiasMasonPark]

     I would have assumed the military was right up there on the Yeerk's to-do list for infestation.

[DinosaurNothlit]

And what a coincidence that Tom's Yeerk decided to have his host's parents infested on that day, without even knowing Jake was an Animorph beforehand.

They did know.  The book says that Jake's parents' car had an escort of unmarked vans when they came home.  So the Yeerks were definitely expecting trouble.

As for hiring soldiers, consider that anyone who's willing to be a soldier for hire might not necessarily be completely loyal, given that the Yeerks could probably pay a lot better than anything the Animorphs could come up with.  Plus, hiring mercenaries might be too dark a shade of gray for their tastes.  It just strikes me as something they wouldn't do.

[Zero_Messiah]

I'm pretty sure throwing the Pemalite Crystal into the sea was a dumb move.

Even if you didn't want to use it to enable violence and scar the Chee for life, it was still more powerful than every computer on the freakin' Earth. Ax could have found SOME use for it.

And if there was a chee that could allow themselves to go through the horror of war and lose their soul for victory.... Just ONE Chee. BOOM; invasion OVER.

Honestly, it's one android soul for the chance to get the entire invasion cut short by about... 3 years.
That's of course, if the Chee killed everyone controller. Which was unnecessary; destroy the Yeerk Pool, that would have skipped straight to open war. Want a minimal loss of life? Have that chee search for the Kandrona at Super Speed. Erek literally got to the bottom of the ocean, ignoring the pressure in minutes after the Chee were fixed. He got there from the city.

Search for a Kandrona, destroy it. Force the Yeerks to invade? Nope. The Yeerks would either send a replacement, the result is unchanged. They go in for an open invasion, said chee disguises his way aboard, and then destroys the yeerks.


Too cruel? Want even more minimal lost of life?
Destroy both pools, offer morphing cube to all yeerks with permanent morph enabled. They have three days or less to make a decision. Even if the yeerks tried to morph back, they would die from the lack of Kandrona; congrats, all Yeerks surrendered, and all it took was destroying the Kandrona and the Pool Ship's own Kandrona(s). Subsequently offering a third solution (forced nothlits) would free them from the curse of being slugs. It would wreck havoc on the Earth's ecology, but at least those endangered species could replenish their numbers.

The cost would be one Chee's soul, which afterwards could be laid to rest by Dracon Beam. A funeral pyre for a war hero that sacrificed everything with minimal casualties.

[Chad32]

Oh. I thought Tom's Yeerk wasn't aware when he first had them infested, and just found out after the fact.

[Blazing Angel]

Nost hoisting up elfangor on their sholuders and running.

[onnicarda]

I agree, throwing the Pemalite Crystal was pretty stupid. What if the Yeerks found it? And, the war would have quickly ended. The Chee could have quickly stopped it.

I think one of the stupidest things was Cassie letting Tom get away with the morphing cube. What if Tom had not led a revolt against Visser Three/One? What if he sided with Visser Three/One? The Yeerks would have become invincible. The main reason she stopped Jake from killing Tom was because she was wanted to prevent Jake from being scarred for life. So, for her own selfish reasons.