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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

There's a scene in Animorphs where 'Ax', roughly a centaur body-form alien, crash landed on Earth...

Either one or two of the main characters find him, hide him in some cabin or something, and Ax begins to freak out, beg his human friends to stop harming themselves...

When they change into clothes that aren't waterlogged and covered in mud.

Because he has no concept of 'clothing', and thinks they are ripping their own bodies apart.

EDIT:

Derp, I am a dumbass and blended together two different scenes and characters.

It's not Ax who roughly has the above described seen play out.

It is Elfangor, a different Andalite, Aximili's older brother, and IIRC, that actual story about the clothes takes place outside of the mainline books, happens in one of the... couple of sort of extra canon books, that follow different characters, not directly in sync with the mainline serial books.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 12 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I should really re-read the animorph books....

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I got bored of Harry Potter.

I read all of Animorphs, and its expanded canon, outside of the main plotline of the serial series.

Plus, just... those covers man. Those covers.

Fucking ridiculous, but also classic, nothing else like em.

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've only read the main series as they were coming out. Book fairs at school kicked ass for most of the time I was a kid.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They're still out there!

There's even an official graphic novel version now.

https://www.howtolovecomics.com/2025/06/08/animorphs-graphic-novels-reading-order-guide/

[–] Sturgist@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Fuck. Yeah. That's awesome!

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

... there's also a hilariously poorly recieved TV show that had a whole season shot, but was pulled from airing not too long after it started.

It was... very fucking goofy, lol.

You might get a kick out of finding and watching it, I think it had a few actors/actresses in it that did later go on to have some decently successful careers, as adults.

I think technically it may have counted as what we now call lost media for a while, but there are DVD releases of it, it does exist, its just... fairly rare, pretty damn niche.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

I should really read them a first time

[–] sprittytinkles@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for stealing an hour of my life as I recalled Andalite lore.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I am only sorry that my thought-speak was so crass as to require visible symbols to induce the desired effect.