#amazingly

#1, The Invasion

“But if the Visser looked like any normal Andalite, he felt different. It was like he was wearing a mask, only you just knew that under the fake sweetness of the mask there was something twisted and foul.” #2 The Visitor 

“But I knew this was no true Andalite. Dread washed over me. Dread too strong for even my cat brain to ignore.” “Part of me just wanted to run. Even a hologram of Visser Three makes your skin crawl.” “But I had met a real Andalite. You could feel the difference between a real Andalite and the evil beast that was Visser Three. It was like he glowed with some dark light. A light that cast a shadow over your mind.” 

“It was the first time any of us had ever been spoken to directly by the Visser. His voice was in my head, threatening and cruel and foul beyond description. It was a voice full of power - and hate.” “It was like I could feel the terrible force of his will battering me. In an instant I knew: I would never survive his questioning. I would tell him everything. His power was a million times greater than mine. His will was a vast, huge, irresistible thing. And what was I? Just some foolish little girl. A foolish, lost girl. Lost.” #3 The Encounter “The voice in my head made me reel. I almost took wing out of sheer fright. He had never spoken directly to me before. It was a voice of such absolute power. Such utter confidence. The mere silent sound of it in your head makes you want to obey. Makes you quiver and fear. It is the voice of dread. The voice of destruction.” #4 The Message 

“We had all heard that silent voice in our heads before. It was like hearing the most terrible curses. It was pure malice and hatred poured directly into our brains.” #5 The Predator 

“He looked so much like Ax. So much like Prince Elfangor. And yet, so totally different. The difference wasn’t something you saw. It was something you felt. A shadow on your soul. A darkness that blotted out the light of the sun. Evil. Destruction. Not the impersonal, programmed destructiveness of the ants. This was warm-blooded, deliberate evil.”

#6 The Capture

(Visser Three is in this book for like thirty seconds, but the space heater of evil is running. Not much of it, though.) 

<He’s a human. He staggered a little, walking toward the door. He looks like a normal guy, but all the others are acting very nervous. And … I know this sounds dumb, but I get a bad feeling from this guy.> 

#7 The Stranger 

“Seeing Ax along with Visser Three, the crowd of Controllers immediately knew the difference. Visser Three has an Andalite body, but there is no mistaking him for anything other than a creature of pure evil.”

#9 The Secret “Then from the building there came a man. And yet… This man felt wrong. Even from up in the air, I felt a chill that seemed to emanate from him.”

#11 The Forgotten 

“I knew that thought-speak voice. We all did. Somehow the sound of it in your brain made you feel afraid.” 

“It’s strange how two almost identical things can be so totally different. See, Visser Three looked almost exactly like Ax, or any other Andalite. And yet, there was never a moment of doubt when you saw him that this was an evil creature.” 

#12 The Reaction “I saw an icy smile, and cold, dead eyes. I had seen him before. Just briefly. But once was enough.” “The Visser was in his human morph. But it was him. And having recognized him, it was as if the sun was gone from the sky. I felt darkness reaching out from him. Darkness that clutched at my heart.”

#13 The Change

“It’s not that he looks any different on the outside. I mean, he looks like an older Andalite is all. But there is some dark, evil glow that shines from within him. And when you meet him you have no doubt…no doubt at all that he is dangerous. Deadly dangerous.” (Also I love that it says, “And Visser Three, bless his evil heart” in this one XD)

#17 The Underground 

(None of them for a while, but here’s Rachel with the latest)

“But even though Visser Three had infested an Andalite body, there was no mistaking him for a real Andalite. Not once you knew him. There was a darkness you couldn’t see, but could definitely feel. A darkness spreading outward from him that caused people to lower their voices, speak in whispers, and try to shrink inside their own skin.” 

…

“<Stop!> that awful voice roared. And every living thing stopped. They barely breathed. Hork-Bajir stood poised as if they’d been frozen. When the Visser said “stop,” you stopped. Period.”

#18 The Decision 

“I looked into the eyes of the Abomination. And there I saw evil.”

…

<Look, Ax, the first time I saw Visser Three…and you know when that was…I cried, I was so scared.> 

<He was an alien. He was unfamiliar to you.> 

<Elfangor was an alien. He was unfamiliar. He didn’t scare me. Visser Three did. Not because of what he looked like, but because I could feel something coming from him. Like a dark cloud. Like a smell, almost. This feeling, I don’t know any other word for it. Like I was looking at something that needed to be destroyed. He was evil. I felt it. And I had this horrible understanding, this knowledge, that one way or the other, that evil was going to touch me and change me. So I just cried.>

#24 The Suspicion 

“Visser Three! We knew his human morph. It was Visser Three, unable, even in his human guise, to conceal the dark evil within.”

#25 The Extreme

(Doesn’t need and doesn’t have a specific Visser Three callout because this is the torture device wall-hanging episode). 

#26 The Attack No Visser Three here. 

#27 The Exposed (He’s here, but he barely does anything.)

#28 The Experiment 

(Okay there’s no need for a specific Visser Three callout with this one, and so the book doesn’t bother, but what it DOES give us is Visser Three cutting off a dude’s hand, threatening him, and then asking him to reattach it, and afterwards Hand Dude is supposed to feed monkeys to Taxxons. 

The reason there’s no need for his evil lamp in this one is because what he does is so evil and pointlessly sadistic on its own that it doesn’t matter.)

#29 The Sickness 

<I am ready to interrogate the prisoner.> 

That voice! It was the voice of evil. It ripped through me, sending spikes of terror through my small, soft body. 

#30 The Reunion 

(No Visser Three shenanigans here. He only appears close to the end, and he’s satisfyingly him, but there’s no Evil Chorus of Evil). 

[#32 is the next book where it shows up, since #31 has no Visser Three at all.]

#32 The Separation 

“And in the middle of them, the one, the only, the most dangerous creature that I had ever fought.” (This is from Mean Rachel of all people, so it counts).

#33 The Illusion 

(The Illusion has my favorite V3 moment of all). 

“In the most superficial of ways, I suppose he could pass for your average, benign suit. But if you actually looked at him, you sensed that incredible coldness. Emptiness. The dark evil that destroys life like a hand closing strong fingers around your throat.” 

“My breathing stopped. My stomach was stone. The darkness in his gaze was terrifying. We had met many times, he and I. But visible through those Andalite eyes was an evil that still gripped my heart. Still gripped me with hopelessness and despair. 

Perhaps it was the knowledge that this Yeerk had managed something that years of battle had been unable to do: take down the great Elfangor. Stamp out that brave warrior’s life. Or maybe looking into Visser Three’s eyes made me face the hard reality that despite all our campaigns - the numerous ways we’ve succeeded in weakening and slowing his invasion of Earth - this Yeerk still stood powerful and strong. 

Was he just lucky? Or was he really smarter than we were? Would he always triumph? Would we never be able to end the invasion? To change the course of humanity’s future?”

#34 The Prophecy

(No Visser Three here as far as I know.)

#35 The Proposal 

(No Visser Three here either. Although the implied conversation Tennant has with him is absolutely hilarious. XD)

#36 The Mutation 

(This is another one of those cases where what Esplin does is so fucked up that no hammy intro is necessary. There’s a line about “the evil that is Visser Three,” but not much because he’s so prominently here already in all of his awful glory. There is at least ONE though.)

“With a grin that sent tingles like painful static electricity up my spine, Visser Three slammed the inner door shut.”

#37 The Weakness

“Controllers led by Visser Three, evil emanating from his stolen Andalite body like the nauseating smell of sour milk.” (This one’s FUNNY. XD)

#38 The Arrival 

(He’s technically in this book, but there are no dark Visser Three-isms.)

#39 The Hidden

“Never attempt to think for me.” A cold, sinister voice. A voice I had heard before. A voice I would never forget. Visser Three. 

#40 The Other 

(Visser Three isn’t in this book, although he’s mentioned). 

#41 The Familiar 

(Same deal!)

#42 The Journey 

(Not here either!)

#43 The Test

(No Visser Three!)

#44 The Unexpected 

<You didn’t think I’d forget you, did you?> Pure evil penetrated my skull. <Surrender now, or I will annihilate every living thing within a square mile. You have three minutes.>

#45 The Revelation 

(Visser Three isn’t in this book for long enough for there to be an evil speech about him, even though it absolutely is his plan). 

#46 The Deception 

(No Visser Three at all here). 

#47 The Resistance 

“And then came the voice. That crackling, roaring, crushing voice.” 

(Whatever it is, it’s how he sounds). 

#48 The Return 

“Visser One laughed. No mistaking, ever, that demonic sound.” 

#49 The Diversion 

(No V3/V1!)

#50 The Ultimate 

(Visser Three/One is definitely here, but he’s all business and so are the Animorphs). 

#51 The Absolute

“He stopped in front of me. His cold, hard eyes bored into my skull.”

“His lips stretched across his teeth in a cold smile. And suddenly I knew. I was looking into the eyes of Visser One. He wasn’t in the human morph he usually used, but it was him.” 

(This is part of why I was so confident that any of the mainline Animorphs could recognize Visser Three in a human host body). 

#52 

(He’s there, but BARELY.)

#53 and #54 are much too much SERIOUS ANIMORPHS BUSINESS to feature V3’s evil-ing. He’s there, but he’s…Having A Day. 

The Megamorphs Books 

Megamorphs #1 

(OH BOY HOWDY do we get one here!) 

“And with a fear that chilled me to the bones, I realized that I knew its master’s name.” 

“I am ashamed to admit it, but I felt terror in his presence. Evil radiated from him. And power. A great and frightening power.” 

“And the awful force of the Yeerk Visser’s power held me mesmerized.” (Ax, that’s called charisma.)

“Visser Three laughed again, soundless, but vile in my mind.” Megamorphs #2