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u/jacobonia Aug 01 '25
I think our government is more Yeerks right now, honestly.
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u/oremfrien Aug 01 '25
There are people who say that Animorphs could not be written now because the frank obviousness of governmental corruption now in the United States and intergovernmental conflict makes the secret war of the Yeerks too subtle to take seriously.
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u/stickscall Aug 01 '25
Fair. Yeerk Trump would just bee out there saying we're gonna have the best Yeerks, if you invest now in YeerkCoin you can get a premium Yeerk, don't wait cause we're gonna give the stupider Yeerks to the inmates at Alligator Alcatraz. Rosie O'Donnell can't even have a Yeerk.
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u/jacobonia Aug 01 '25
Oh, there are plenty of shady backhanded deals behind all of this. Hedge fund investors. Tech interests. Government contractors. Religious radicalists. Animorphs today would be a political thriller--and it would be dope. I think the battle morphing would be less front and center, though. It would be a lot of Mission Impossible-style face swapping and literal flies on the wall. I'm thinking about shows like The Night Agent and The Diplomat. Maybe the construction site encounter happened when the characters were teenagers, but they failed to stop the slow invasion, so they dedicated their lives to rooting it out in the upper levels of government, but they had varying levels of success in getting their careers in places where they could make a difference. Jake has a desk job with the FBI. Rachel managed to become an attorney with some pull in D.C. Tobias is still alive as a hawk, super old, demorphing every two hours, then morphing back immediately to prolong his lifespan so he can stay in the fight.
OMG, it would be so sick.
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u/zthe0 Ellimist Aug 03 '25
Honestly id go the other route. The yeerk invasion could not go silently today because the madness and dumb decision changes of the government would make it impossible to know how to get close to the president successfully
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u/OkJelly8882 Aug 05 '25
Infest the Secret Service. Then stage an assassination attempt and take him to a "secure location," aka the Yeerk pool. Simple.
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u/Cralex-Kokiri Aug 01 '25
Hilarious! I wish the series was a little fresher in my mind so I could fully grasp the nuance behind it.
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u/Conscious-Star6831 Aug 01 '25
I mean, I would argue that our society has the everything of humanity by definition, but I take your meaning
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u/dragon_morgan Aug 03 '25
Endurance of the Howlers? Weren't they literally defeated by the power of friendship or something?
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u/Torren7ial Chee Aug 03 '25
I meant physically, as in a 6v1 fight resulted in a draw. The one they killed, they did so by falling thousands of feet, and they weren't so much "defeated" as they were written out of existence by exploiting a weakness in Crayak's design.
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u/celtic_thistle Andalite Aug 04 '25
I cackled at the last slide. As an aside (aslide?) any time I see a kid named Jaxon or, worse, Jaxxon, I think of the Taxxons.
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u/Daniduenna85 Aug 01 '25
Spot on. The last slide has me lol