The Animorphs! It had a stupid title, but shit got real in the Animorphs. Those kids fucking murdered innocent people and got PTSD and shit.

Yeah, Harry Potter might have “hooked a generation on reading” or whatever. But did Harry ever have to weigh the ethics of enlisting disabled kids as cannon fodder in a desperate war? Did Ron ever murder a former friend in cold blood because he knew he’d be a liability down the road? Did Hermione ever transform herself into a worm, forever, just to try to prove to herself that she hadn’t lost the moral high ground that she felt slipping through her increasingly-desensitized fingers? Nah man, and that’s why Animorphs were the best.