Cassie in wolf morph
- "One of Cassie's best fighting morphs is a wolf. The wolf has good speed. Great ripping abilities with the teeth. Terrific endurance. They can run all night."
- ―Rachel to Aldrea-Iskillion-Falan[src]
The wolf is a large canine native to Earth and was Cassie's preferred battle morph, as well as a morph possessed by her, Jake, Rachel, and Marco. Upon their arrival on Earth in ancient times, the Chee grafted the essence of the Pemalites into wolves, creating dogs in the process.
Unwilling to acquire her own unique battle morph, Cassie morphed into a wolf during most combat situations, preferring to rely on its agility and the fact that she was not as dangerous as her teammates in morph.
Acquiring
- "We had first acquired the wolf morphs a while back, when we were on a mission to destroy a Yeerk truck ship."
- ―Jake[src]
In 1997,[note 1] two wolves, a male and a female, were treated at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Clinic. In The Encounter, the Animorphs, minus Tobias, acquired these wolves as they needed a morph fast enough to run through the mountains to get to the Yeerk Truck ship. Jake acquired the male wolf while Rachel, Marco, and Cassie acquired the female, as they believed that wolf packs could only have one male.[1]
Three years later, in 2000,[note 2] a group of morph-capable Controllers acquired wolf morphs to use as their battle morphs.[2]
Usage
Cassie using the wolf as her battle morph
After Tobias discovered a Yeerk Truck ship in the mountains, Jake, Rachel, Cassie, and Marco used wolf morphs in order to traverse through the mountains within two hours, as wolves are endurance runners. As Jake was male and served as their leader, he was the only Animorph to possess a male wolf morph while the other Animorphs possessed a female wolf morph, due to the fact that the Animorphs believed in the alpha male wolf pack theory.[1]
When preparing for a battle to seize a Bug fighter, Cassie used the wolf morph as she lacked her own unique battle morph, and morphed into the wolf as it was her most powerful available morph at the time.[3] While infiltrating a Yeerk-run hospital, Cassie was asked by Jake to use a dangerous morph to prepare for conflict, as she did not have a battle morph, and Cassie elected to use the wolf once more; Rachel also morphed into the wolf during this conflict before switching to elephant. Later that night, Marco and Rachel used the wolf morph to signal a wild wolf pack when Temrash 114, a Yeerk controlling Jake, used the wolf morph to try and escape from the national forest. Following his liberation, Jake partially morphed into the wolf to disguise his voice so that he could call Tom and leave him a message.[4]
Shortly after, Cassie adopted the wolf as her official battle morph[5] and continued to do so even after acquiring much more powerful animals. This was because Cassie liked that the wolf wasn't supremely powerful, as it allowed her to not be able to hurt her enemies significantly during combat, preferring to give them non-lethal wounds whenever possible,[6] although she was still capable of delivering the occasional kill, such as using the wolf's jaws to rip out the throats of Hork-Bajir hosts.[7] However, due to the wolf being not that powerful, Cassie only used the wolf morph when fighting alongside her teammates, as she intentionally relied on the other Animorphs to do the bulk of the damage.[6] As a result, when she found herself in situations where she had to fight alone or was forced to seriously harm her enemies, she would elect to use a much stronger morph, such as the polar bear.[8][6]
Despite the fact that Jake, Marco and Rachel also possessed the wolf morph, they did not use it very often, especially Rachel. Jake and Marco morphed wolves to track Rachel and flee from the Veleek,[9] and Jake later used the morph along with Cassie to rip off the flesh of Jara Hamee and Ket Halpak in order to trick the Yeerks that Jara and Ket had been killed.[10] The four Animorphs also used wolf morphs to survive for 24 hours in the North Pole, as they had no other adequate morphs,[11] and used it again in order to evade the pursuit of the Yeerks, who were tracking the morphing signature emitting from the Escafil Device.[12]
The wolf morph was also used by a handful of morph-capable Yeerks. While controlling Jake's body, Temrash 114 morphed a wolf to escape his confines, although he was prevented by the other Animorphs.[4] A number of Yeerks, through their morph-capable human host bodies, morphed wolves to fight the Animorphs and the National Guard, although the latter simply killed them all using assault rifles.[2] The wolf was also briefly morphed by Aldrea-Iskillion-Falan when she temporarily possessed and controlled Cassie's body.[13]
Appearances
Book Series
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TV Series
- The Alien (acquired and morphed by Marco)
- The Capture (Part 2) (morphed by Marco)
- The Forgotten (morphed by Marco)
- The Release (morphed by Marco)
Known Morphers
- Cassie
- Jake
- Rachel
- Marco
- Temrash 114 (using Jake's body)
- Aldrea-Iskillion-Falan (using Cassie's body)
- Some of the Auxiliary Animorphs
- Morph-capable human-Controllers
Gallery
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Notes
- ↑ This transpires in #3: The Encounter, which is set less than a month after #1: The Invasion. The Andalite Chronicles explicitly states that it is set 21 years before Elfangor met the Animorphs and 10 years after the Yeerk exodus, which The Hork-Bajir Chronicles explicitly reveals to be in 1966. This sets The Andalite Chronicles in 1976, meaning that the events of #1, and subsequently #3, are set in 1997.
- ↑ Books #44-53, plus the pre-time skip section of #54, are set in 2000. This is because it is January 2000 in #44: The Unexpected and in #53: The Answer, Jake says that they had been fighting for three years; the Animorphs met Elfangor in 1997, which therefore puts the end of the war in 2000.