List of minor humans (Animorphs)

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Minor humans from the Animorphs series.

Contents 1 Lore David Altman 2 Tom Berenson 3 John Berryman 4 Jenny-Lynne Cadwalader 5 The Carpenters 6 Ronnie Chambers 7 Hedrick Chapman 8 Melissa Chapman 9 Mrs. Chapman 10 Darwin 11 DeGroot 12 Derek 13 Sam Doubleday 14 George Edelman 15 Jeanne Gerard 16 Hildy Gervais 17 The Governor 18 Allison Kim 19 Loren 20 Madra 21 Jeremy Jason McCole 22 Captain Olston 23 Polo 24 Saddler 25 Santorelli 26 Taylor/Sub-Visser Fifty One 27 William Roger Tennant 28 Mr. Tidwell 29 Captain Torelli 30 Yami

[edit] Lore David Altman

Edriss 562's fourth human host, with whom she created The Sharing. Originally a real-estate agent named Lawrence Alterman, Edriss changed it to Lore David Altman, thinking that leaders are more inspirational with three names. While his mind was a "wasteland" compared to Allison Kim's, he had a powerful voice and looked the part of a charismatic leader. He was later killed because Edriss said that humans will always tear down a man who is alive but idolize one who is dead.

[edit] Tom Berenson

Tom Berenson is Jake's older brother. Described as almost identical to Jake, only taller with shorter, darker hair, Tom became an involuntary Controller after following a crash into an exclusive meeting of The Sharing. Tom was a Controller even before Elfangor crash-landed on earth, and blew his cover when he acted too interested in the scene at the construction site, and when he gave up basketball, his all-time favorite sport. It was Marco who discovered the fact that he was a Controller. By the end of the series Tom had been a host to a total of two Yeerks, the first having been a high-ranking official (Temrash 114) killed by Jake. The second was an ambitious low-level grunt who rose quickly in the ranks after gaining the morphing cube. Becoming one of the most trusted Yeerks under the former Visser Three, now Visser One's control, he used this advantage to form a league of followers whom betrayed Visser One in hopes of starting their own empire. He was highly intelligent, and would have succeeded if Jake hadn't been smarter. Tom and his Yeerk die in cobra morph at Rachel's hand, at Jake's word. Their other morph was a jaguar, and Tom's Yeerk was capable of morphing Tom himself.

[edit] John Berryman

Host of the Yeerk formerly known as Visser Four, the Yeerk was demoted after the loss of Leera. The Yeerk then found the Time Matrix and used it to travel through time to try and weaken the human domination and make the Yeerk invasion of the future easier. When even Crayak and the Ellimist agree that he is a threat, they have a short truce and send the Animorphs to follow him. After several disastrous attempts to stop him, they finally catch up to him on D-Day. Berryman is freed from the Yeerk. Berryman, however, is erased out of existence. The Animorphs prevent his mother from meeting his father, so he was never born, which stopped the chain of events that led to his initial discovery of the Time Matrix itself.

[edit] Jenny-Lynne Cadwalader

Edriss 562's second human host. She was addicted to drugs and aspired to be an actor. She was Edriss' first real experience with humans; Edriss' first host, an Iraq soldier, was very temporary. Cadwalader's addiction to drugs led Edriss to initially consider using drugs to infest humans, but she later decided that it also impaired their usefulness. She was later killed when Edriss wanted to infest Allison Kim. Edriss dragged Kim into the deep end of a pool and transferred hosts; her last command was for Jenny to breathe.

[edit] The Carpenters

Richard, Lewis, and Emily Carpenter are three campers whom the Animorphs meet in book 47 in the Hork-Bajir valley. Richard is the father, while Lewis and Emily are his two kids. They are avid Star Trek fans. In that book, the Yeerks capture a free Hork-Bajir. Although the Animorphs want the other Hork-Bajir to evacuate, they want to stay and fight. Tobias conducts aerial reconnaissance and finds three campers. Jake and Marco attempt to frighten them off, but they don't believe it, so they tell them the truth. The Carpenters are then only too eager to help the "good aliens" against the "bad aliens".

However, Richard didn't quite understand what Jake meant, and thought that "killed" meant "stunned" or temporarily paralyzed or captured (despite Jake's warning about "spilled guts, severed limbs, and psychological horror"). When he found out, he wanted to leave, but Lewis wanted to stay and fight. The Animorphs couldn't let him go anyway because the battle was about to begin. The Animorphs stage a successful defense and force the Yeerks to retreat before evacuating the valley. But during the intense fighting, Richard is killed. Emily and Lewis' fates after they are evacuated are unknown.

[edit] Ronnie Chambers

Along with Cassie, Ronnie Chambers is one of the assigned protectors of the Hork-Bajir. Although they presumably have many duties, the only one that is seen is scouting for new places for the Hork-Bajir to inhabit. He is Cassie's current boyfriend.

[edit] Hedrick Chapman

Hedrick Chapman was captured by Skrit Na in The Andalite Chronicles with Loren. After they were rescued by the StarSword, an Andalite ship, he was forced to detour onto the Taxxon homeworld where he was infested by Esplin 9466. After that Yeerk infested Alloran-Semitur-Corrass, the ship was attacked, drained of its energy, and was drifting to a black hole. Esplin, Elfangor, and Loren escaped in the Time Matrix, but Chapman, who was unconscious, was about to be sucked in, and Elfangor believed that he was dead. However, the Ellimist saved him, wiping his memory and returning him to Earth, as he still served a purpose.

When the Animorphs continuity begins, Chapman is the vice-principal of the school that the Animorphs attend. He is also the head of the Yeerk front organization The Sharing. He plays a critical role in plot of the first novel - Jake watches him enter the Yeerk pool via the janitor's closet, which the Animorphs would use in their first invasion.

At first, the Animorphs hated Chapman because he was a Controller, but they became more sympathetic when they discovered that he became a voluntary host to prevent the infestation of his daughter, Melissa Chapman. When the Yeerk was threatening to turn Melissa over, Chapman rebelled and caused much trouble. This was the Animorphs' first evidence that Controllers could rebel against their Yeerks.

[edit] Melissa Chapman

Melissa Chapman is the daughter of Hedrick Chapman, and was once one of Rachel's best friends. She owns a cat named Fluffer McKitty.

Melissa thought her parents no longer loved her and became depressed (leading to the dissolution of her friendship with Rachel). However, in reality, her parents gave up their freedom and became voluntary Controllers to protect her from becoming infested. Rachel types up a short, unsigned letter in an attempt to help cheer her up.

In the altered reality seen briefly in Megamorphs #3: Elfangor's Secret, Melissa was an Animorph and was Tobias' girlfriend and Cassie's best friend. This is due to the fact that Rachel was in a re-education camp in that reality and never joined the Animorphs or met Tobias.

[edit] Mrs. Chapman

Mrs. Chapman is Hendrick Chapman's wife. Like her husband, she voluntarily became a Controller to protect her daughter. Mrs. Chapman revolts against her Yeerk, which causes the Yeerk to request that Mr. Chapman try to talk Visser Three out of taking the cat. In The Weakness, it is revealed that she owns a barbershop, which the Animorphs invade and tear up.

[edit] Darwin

The human son of Edriss 562 and Essam 293, and twin brother of Madra. His name was a joke on said Yeerks' part, for he represented something that had never evolved, the product of not two but four parents, two human and two Yeerk. Darwin was captured by Visser Three and made a Controller. Visser Three tried to force Edriss to shoot him in an attempt to prove her loyalty, but the Animorphs attacked before she could pull the trigger. One of the Animorphs knocked him unconscious.

[edit] DeGroot

DeGroot (pronounced 'de-groat' and rhymes with 'boat') is Elfangor's (Alan Fangor) lawyer. Although the Ellimist had erased all traces of Elfangor and Alan Fangor's existence on Earth, he was able to leave a final testament. DeGroot found the letter, and brought Tobias in, as it stated that it would be read on his birthday. However, it is revealed that DeGroot is a Controller, and that Visser Three is using the letter to try to trap Tobias.

[edit] Derek

Derek is an Esquimau/Eskimo teenager who lives in the Arctic where the Animorphs visit for a mission in #25: The Extreme. He believes that the Animorphs are special spirits; thus, the Animorphs feel friendly and don't try to hide anything. He helped the Animorphs acquire 'Nanook' the Polar Bear for a cold-weather morph. He trades fur pelts and likes Star Trek.

[edit] Sam Doubleday

Sam Doubleday is a three-star Army general is in charge of Alien Task Force One (ATF1), a U.S. Army group assembled to knock out the Yeerk's plans for global conquest. The Animorphs pay him a visit. After he throws Jake in jail three times, thinking that he was an alien, he eventually listens to Jake's plan. He agrees to send a ground force involving tanks, men, and helicopters to provide as a distraction force while the Animorphs attempt to sneak on the Pool Ship. He loses most of his men, but the Animorphs succeed.

[edit] George Edelman

George Edelman is a Controller who goes insane after eating oatmeal. He tries to throw himself off a building, but he is saved by the Animorphs and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Edelman tells Rachel that the Yeerks used microwavable ginger ale oatmeal as a substitute for Kandrona, but that the food also made the Yeerks go insane. With this fact, the Animorphs acquire mole morphs and dig a tunnel down to the Yeerk pool and dump lots of oatmeal into it. The Animorphs succeed. At the end of the novel, Rachel's mother represents him in a court case, but Rachel (in bear morph) helps him escape from the psychiatric asylum.

[edit] Jeanne Gerard

Jeanne Gerard is a student of French descent who is in Jake's morphing academy. Jake selects her as one of two students to join his mission to save Ax. She is picked for both her skill and lack of any close family (as they may never come back from the mission).

[edit] Hildy Gervais

Hildy Gervais is Essam 293's third human host body. He married Allison Kim (who had been infested by Edriss 562), and fathered two children: Madra and Darwin. Gervais was not the most stable of people, and he suffered a lot of agony as Essam 293 died of Kandrona starvation. He was diagnosed as 'mad' after he attempted to attack Allison Kim. During the trial of Visser One, Visser Three brings him in. He looks so worn down and changed for the worse that Edriss does not recognize him at first. His testimony incriminates Visser One of treasonous activities.

[edit] The Governor

The Governor is a gray-haired woman described as 'frumpy, lumpy and dull' by Marco. She is alluded to in several earlier books, but in The Absolute (#51), the Animorphs decide to contact her to publicy announce the Yeerk invasion threat. The Animorphs actually believe that the governor is a man; when Marco, Ax, and Tobias first meet her, Marco yells to her husband to not shoot. The Yeerks later attempt to capture her, but Marco morphs into the governor in a feint to lead the Yeerks away.

[edit] Allison Kim

Allison Kim is Edriss 562's third human host body. Edriss took much information about the human race from her and also found herself respecting and admiring her. She believed Allison to be the more passionate and alive than any Yeerk. Allison tried to commit suicide while under the control of Edriss. She married Hildy Gervais (under infestation of Essam 293) while under Edriss' control, and bore two children: Madra and Darwin. She was later killed by Edriss.

[edit] Loren

Loren was first introduced in The Andalite Chronicles, a prequel to Animorphs. She was a human captured by the Skrit Na along with Hedrick Chapman. The two were rescued by Elfangor, whom Loren later married. Their son is Tobias. Loren's memory and sight were lost in a car crash after the Ellimist takes Elfangor – who had morphed and become a human to be with her – away, returning him to his own timeline.

Loren is reunited with Tobias near the end of the series when the Yeerks discover who the Animorphs really are, which puts their families in danger. She is given the morphing power to escape, although her only morph is Tobias' red-tailed hawk form. The morph returns her eyesight permanently, but not her memory.

Loren's father is a disturbed veteran of the Vietnam War. Tobias' aunt is her sister, and his uncle must be either her brother or her sister's husband or ex-husband.

It is never said what happened to Loren at the end of the series.

[edit] Madra

Visser One's human daughter and twin sister of Darwin. Madra was named by her Yeerk-controlled parents – Visser One and Essam 293 – after the tiny, bright moon of the Yeerk home world. Visser One advocated for a slow infiltration to prevent the possibility of Madra being killed in a battle. In Visser, Visser One voices hopes about someday having her daughter as a host.

[edit] Jeremy Jason McCole

Teen superstar Jeremy Jason McCole was a major character in the hit TV series Power House. He willingly becomes a Controller when offered greater wealth, fame, and glory by Visser Three. McCole goes on tour to promote The Sharing on the Barry and Cindy Sue Show. However, when the Animorphs storm the studio, McCole is nearly killed by a crocodile and the Yeerk in him dies. His stardom and fame shattered, McCole dissapears from the public eye and retires to Uzbekistan.

[edit] Captain Olston

Captain Olston is the head commander of the National Guard detachment around the Animorphs hiding location. In The Sacrifice (#52), the Animorphs decide to blow up the Yeerk pool, so they send the adults in as lost campers to distract the Guard while the rest of them invade warehouses of explosives to steal. When they are stopped, Jake introduces himself, and states that he needs explosives. Olston is reluctant. Rachel's lawyer mother, Naomi, introduces herself as well, and Olston thanks her once again for defending his son, who was wrongfully accused of a car theft. If he hadn't been cleared, Olston would likely have left the service in order to continue the case. Naomi stands firmly behind her nephew Jake, and Olston concedes. He later escorts the trucks full of explosives into town.

[edit] Polo

An Amazon Indian tribal leader. Polo helps Jake and the others fight a group of pursuing Hork-Bajir.

[edit] Saddler

Saddler is a cousin of both Jake and Rachel and is two years older than them. One of his parents is a sibling of their fathers, Steve and Dan. He was hit by a vehicle while riding his bike and was in intensive care. David later morphed Saddler (presumably disposing of the real Saddler) and displayed himself to Jake's family. Since a morph is made from a DNA copy, David-as-Saddler was healthy, and the family marveled over the seemingly miraculous recovery. However, when the Animorphs trapped David in morph, the family realized that there were no miracles, and that Saddler had really died. Saddler's parents are Ellen and George and his siblings are Justin, Brooke, and Forrest (a two year-old). When the cousins played together as small children, Saddler would break things and then blame it on Jake.

[edit] Santorelli

Santorelli is a student at Jake's morphing academy. Like Jeanne, Jakes selects him because he does not have any close family. Jake calls him the "best BS artist" after Marco. When Jake and the others finally find the lost Blade Ship, Jake orders Santorelli to pose as the captain of their ship. Santorelli performs the job superbly, but The One senses and unmasks the deception.

[edit] Taylor/Sub-Visser Fifty One

Sub-Visser Fifty-One, more commonly known as Taylor, is a character featured in the book series Animorphs, in The Illusion (#33).

Sub-Visser Fifty-One is Visser Three's first lieutenant on Earth. Her host's name is Taylor, who was, at first, a voluntary controller. Taylor was once the homecoming queen, tennis champion and president of the student body, but was horribly burned in a house fire one night. Because she lost her beauty, she lost her popularity among the students. Upon hearing about The Sharing, she joined, after being convinced that she would some day regain her lost prestige. Taylor was granted her wish, at an enormous cost; to relinquish control over her own body and betray Earth and humanity. Thus, she became the host body for Sub-Visser Fifty-one.

Taylor's new body was composed of her original burned flesh, and metal and plastic alloy prostheses. She was also able to paralyse opponents with a crystal substance projected from nozzles in her prosthetic fingers. A certain dosage could knock a victim down for a long time.

The result of Taylor and Sub-Visser Fifty-One's experiences developed a Yeerk brand of split-personality disorder. In The Illusion, she tortures Tobias after failing to force him to demorph with the Anti-Morphing Ray (AMR). Taylor tortures the nothlit with a machine that controls the parts of the brain that induce pain and pleasure. He almost went insane and nearly died after receiving heightened, alternating doses of painful and pleasant memories. Here, he experienced an Utzum, a vision Andalites believe happens at the moment of death. Following Tobias' rescue by the other Animorphs, she was stripped of her rank, and faced certain death at the hands of Visser Three.

Much to the rude shock of Tobias and the other Animorphs, she reappears in book 43, The Test. She appears to Tobias, attempting to enlist his help in overthrowing Visser Three and creating a democratic Yeerk society by hijacking the Pool. This was to be achieved by holding the inmates - both Yeerk and host - hostage by threatening to destroy the Pool with a gas explosion. The Animorphs discover that this conspiracy was really Visser Three's instrument to annihilate the Animorphs and the Yeerk Peace Faction. The plan failed, and Taylor was blown away by the pressure of the gas. Her death is probable but not definite. Tobias discovers that Taylor and the Yeerk's relationship had been severed, when Taylor momentarily regains control over her body and warns him not to listen to the former Sub-Visser. In this episode, Tobias acquires Taylor's DNA. Taylor also has her own website, www.earthisours.com. She also introduces Ax and Tobias to their first Taxxon morph.

To Tobias and the Animorphs, she appeared to be a weak, deluded, and power-hungry Yeerk. However, Tobias could understand her lust for power, because she saw herself as a weak individual. In spite of this analogy, it can be said that Taylor is stronger than anyone perceived her to be, since she returned from certain death at the hands of Visser Three.

[edit] William Roger Tennant

William Roger Tennant is a Yeerk Controller and media personality. Marco first noticed him when he was channel surfing and saw Tennant recommend the Sharing (a front organization for the Yeerks) to an old, lonely lady. Tennant's Yeerk is constantly at odds with his host, as seen when the Yeerk rants about his host's pleas to not hurt his birds. The Animorphs begin a harassment campaign against Tennant to try to knock him off the air. In a grand finale, Tennant begins choking Marco (while in a toy poodle morph) in front of a television camera on the TV set. Ax hacks into the computers and sends a live feed out to the country, exposing Tennant as a lunatic. He is promptly disconnected from the air and disappears.

[edit] Mr. Tidwell

A teacher at the middle school, Mr. Tidwell is the Yeerk Illim's host. He was depressed and unhappy because of his wife's death last year and presumably joined the Sharing to help himself. Tidwell was initially an involuntary Controller, but as Illim was part of the Yeerk Peace Movement (not wanting to dominate their hosts), they soon developed a friendship of sorts, working together to help each other.

He contacts Cassie when Aftran 942 was captured. Because Ax and the other four Animorphs were disabled by an Andalite flu, Cassie had to go in there herself to save Aftran. To defeat the system (which only permits entry of Yeerks and humans), Cassie morphs into Illim and slides into Tidwell's ear canal. Cassie places Illim in a bag of water and lets him out when she drops into the Yeerk pool. Cassie successfully rescues Aftran.

[edit] Captain Torelli

Captain in charge of Zone 91 (the Animorphs' version of Area 51). Cassie, Rachel and Marco give him fake names and phone numbers when they are captured, and then escape as insects, leaving Torelli bewildered and furious.

They later encounter him at The Gardens during an attempt by Yeerks to infest the staff of Zone 91, and are forced to rescue him from Hork-Bajir (Torelli is unconscious at the time, so has no memory of the incident).

[edit] Yami

An Aboriginal Australian who Cassie encounters after accidentally coming to Australia. Lives near Alice Springs in the Northern Territory, and believes Cassie could be distantly descended from his spiritual ancestors, owing to the Dreamtime tales of people turning into animals.