- "Four hundred pounds, give or take a few. But not four hundred pounds of fat. No. I was becoming four hundred pounds of hard-core, bad-as-bad-can-be, don't-even-look-cross-eyed-at-me, shoulders like a cement truck, neck like a fire hydrant, fists like sledgehammers, dominant male Silverback gorilla. Sweet, gentle animals... unless you insist on making them mad. At which point they are capable of ripping up a small tree by the roots and playing baseball – with you as the ball."
- ―Marco
The Silverback Gorilla is Marco's main battle morph, having acquired Big Jim's DNA.
Acquiring
In The Invasion, set in 1997, Marco acquired Big Jim, a Silverback gorilla at The Gardens, making it the very first animal he acquired as well as his first morph. In The Ultimate, set three years later in 2000, one of the Auxiliary Animorphs acquired a gorilla morph as well.
Usage
- "In this morph I have lifted guys up and thrown them through the air. In this morph I have punched Hork-Bajir and they stayed punched. In this morph I could kick the butts of the entire Dallas Cowboys all at once."
- ―Marco
The gorilla is Marco's main battle morph, as well as his favorite and most used morph. One of the Auxiliary Animorphs also used a gorilla morph as their battle morph. The morph comes in useful for the Animorphs due to the fact that Marco possesses fingers and opposable thumbs, allowing him to pick items up and operate machinery and vehicles.
Appearances
- The Invasion (Big Jim; acquired and morphed by Marco)
- The Visitor (mentioned)
- The Predator (morphed by Marco; cover morph)
- The Capture (morphed by Marco)
- The Stranger (morphed by Marco)
- The Andalite's Gift (morphed by Marco)
- The Alien (morphed by Marco)
- The Secret (morphed by Marco)
- The Android (morphed by Marco)
- The Change (morphed by Marco)
- The Unknown (morphed by Marco)
- The Escape (morphed by Marco)
- The Warning (morphed by Marco)
- The Underground (morphed by Marco)
- In the Time of Dinosaurs (mentioned)
- The Departure (morphed by Marco)
- The Discovery (morphed by Marco)
- The Pretender (morphed by Marco)
- The Suspicion (morphed by Marco)
- The Extreme (morphed by Marco)
- The Attack (morphed by Marco)
- The Exposed (morphed by Marco)
- The Experiment (morphed by Marco)
- The Sickness (morphed by Marco)
- Elfangor's Secret (morphed by Marco)
- The Reunion (morphed by Marco)
- The Conspiracy (morphed by Marco)
- The Separation (morphed by Marco)
- The Illusion (morphed by Marco)
- The Prophecy (morphed by Marco)
- The Proposal (morphed by Marco/gorilla–trout hybrid; morphed by Marco)
- VISSER (morphed by Marco)
- The Mutation (morphed by Marco)
- The Weakness (morphed by Marco)
- The Arrival (morphed by Marco)
- The Hidden (morphed by Marco)
- The Other (morphed by Marco)
- Back to Before (morphed by Marco)
- The Familiar (morphed by Marco)
- The Journey (morphed by Marco)
- The Test (morphed by Marco)
- The Unexpected (morphed by Marco)
- The Revelation (morphed by Marco)
- The Deception (morphed by Marco)
- The Resistance (morphed by Marco)
- The Return (morphed by Marco; Rachel's nightmare)
- The Diversion (morphed by Marco)
- The Ultimate (acquired by an Auxiliary Animorph; morphed by Marco and an Auxiliary Animorph)
- The Absolute (morphed by Marco)
- The Sacrifice (morphed by Marco)
- The Answer (morphed by Marco)
- The Beginning (morphed by Marco)
Known Morphers
- Marco
- Unnamed Auxiliary Animorph
Gallery
"Someone took a picture of me? Not cool. Do you see what I'm wearing? I'm Spandex-boy. Totally not cool."
The image gallery for Silverback Gorilla may be viewed here |