Animorphs, put simply, is a deconstruction of the children's adventure serials that had, as early as the 80s, secured their niche in fiction. In these franchises, which we all know too well from our respective childhoods, a child or a group of children, gifted with extraordinary abilities, defend the universe from the forces of evil. Animorphs, however, attempts to recast those same roles in real life circumstances. The protagonists are children, not heroes, and like any normal thirteen-year-old, they possess neither the know-how, the resources, or (in most cases) even the desire to properly fight a guerilla war against The Empire, which, as one might expect, is vastly superior in numbers and firepower. This is not an underdog story; the heroes are regularly confronted with the inconsequen