Top 11 Saddest Animorphs Moments

[Darth Zakryn]

Well, this is, quite simply, where we write down what we think to be the top 11... well, the title says it all. Why top 11? To quote the Nostalgia Critic: "Because I like to go one step beyond." But since I can't think of any right now, at least any more than two, I won't be listing mine right now. I'll leave it up to you guys to decide the Top 11 Saddest Animorph moments, and when we get enough popular ones, I'll add mine. Enjoy. XD

[NateSean]

Ax crying over Estrid ranks up there.

[RYTX]

1 Rachel taking Cassie in book 19
2 Rachel's Death
3 Jara's Death
4 Elfangor's death
5 When Marco was stopped by Jake in book 30 and had to hold on after thinking he'd seen his mother die, again
6 Jake's Death until the end of MM3
7 Tobias's panic & suicide attempt in book 3
8 The release of the virus in HBC
9 The death of all the Andalites on the ship in 18
10 You may now demorph
I'm not doing 11.

[Darth Zakryn]

Fine, RYTX, you don't have to. Really, it was just a joke. But which is the number one saddest, is it 1 or 10?

[RYTX]

1

[Toc']

8 The release of the virus in HBC
10 You may now demorph

Those would be in my top saddest moments

The saddest one though, was when the ellimist took elfangor away from Loren and erased her memory of him.
Also in my top 10, there would be:
The moment when the buffaman was killed (I know, it's the worst book, yet it made me cry :s )
The moment when Cassie realizes that the old Australian man was seriously injured by the something from the ship explosion (also an overall pretty bad book).

[Darth Zakryn]

Um... that's only six. What are the othern four (or five)?

[Noelle]

1. When the Ellimist took Elfangor away from Loren
2. When Elfangor found out minutes later he had a kid.  (This made me think the Ellimist was scum for the rest of the series.)
3. Arbron being trapped in Taxxon morph.
4. When the only reason Tobias lived after finding out Elfangor was his dad was because he forgot out to show emotion.  (I got teary eyed over that.)
5. When the Andalites told Ax to take the blame for giving humans morphing power.
6. Ax crying over Estrid.
7. Rachel's death.
8. Ax being assimilated...and then the series being over.
9. Tobias taking away Rachel's ashes.
10. Arbron being killed by poachers.
11. Melissa crying over her parents not loving her anymore.


I could probably think of more, they aren't in any particular order.  So I guess its not really a top 11, I don't think I could decide on that.

[XtheoniongirlX]

One wasn't really a single moment but still deserves mention was all the scenes in #50 The Ultimate involving the Auxiliary Animorphs. Considering how effective James and his subgroups turned out to be, it never fails to make me fantasize about how much sooner the war would've ended if they received the morphing power in place of David. Their collective death scene was hard to read through, particularly how effortlessly Visser One pulled it off (VO having one of them get incinerated mid-morph will never stop bothering me).

[yunyun]

1. Rachel dying
2. Elfangor taken away from Loren
3. The ending for HBC
4. ...Um...I'll post the rest when I think of them...

[Bealocwealm]

Typed up a post and it went missing. Too annoyed to remake it. I dunno where it would go on this list, but this moment scores pretty high for me.

"You ask me to kill my own people today and to lead my people in killing their brothers,"
Dak said. "You say they are not Hork-Bajir, but Yeerks. But when the dead have given up
their souls to Mother Sky, there will be Hork-Bajir bodies lying dead."
<Dak, we've been over this and over this!> I exploded. <lt's too late to be worrying about all
that. This is a war! If you want your people to survive, you will ?>
"Be quiet, Aldrea," Dak said.

He didn't shout. He said it calmly, in a low voice.
"These are my people who will die today. Be quiet, Andalite. Be quiet."

[Darth Zakryn]

Dang it, I STILL can't think of any. Well, Tobias saying "I love you" before Rachel died was pretty heart-wrenching for me, but I can't help but feel that at least he got to SAY it before she died; some people don't even get that much. Another sad moment for me, at least, might be the little five-year-old boy who was infested. I mean, it really showed that despite all of their wonderful shades of gray, what the Yeerks were doing was still evil, if not totally evil to the core, and I think I did cry a little when I first saw that. Imagine that being one of your kids. Totally sad.

[yunyun]

Dang it, I STILL can't think of any. Well, Tobias saying "I love you" before Rachel died was pretty heart-wrenching for me, but I can't help but feel that at least he got to SAY it before she died; some people don't even get that much. Another sad moment for me, at least, might be the little five-year-old boy who was infested. I mean, it really showed that despite all of their wonderful shades of gray, what the Yeerks were doing was still evil, if not totally evil to the core, and I think I did cry a little when I first saw that. Imagine that being one of your kids. Totally sad.

Yeah, that part made Rachel dying even sadder

[warren_bearclaw]

I have no order.

*When Marco's dad was totally lost to his depression in the first book(s?). That really made me hurt for Marco.

*The first human ever infested in Visser, and the woman that soon-to-be Visser One drowned in the pool while changing hosts.

* The destruction of the entire Pemalite race.

[yunyun]

* The destruction of the entire Pemalite race.

Agreed, that was really sad.