Invader Zim is an American animated television series created by Jhonen Vasquez. It was produced by and subsequently aired on Nickelodeon. Invader Zim revolves around the life of its lead character, Zim, his malfunctioning SIR Unit GIR and the humans and aliens who become involved in his schemes. Zim is a member of the imperialistic Irken race, an extraterrestrial species whose social hierarchy is based on height. The Irken leaders, known as The Almighty Tallest, serve together because they are exactly the same height. As recounted during the series premiere, “The Nightmare Begins”, Zim, who is both very short and very naïve, was banished to the planet Foodcourtia for overzealously attacking his own planet and allies during Operation Impending Doom I.
Upon hearing of Operation Impending Doom II, Zim “quits” his exile in Foodcourtia and arrives at the Great Assigning. Here, elite Irken soldiers are chosen to become Invaders: special soldiers whose mission is to blend in with the indigenous life forms of their assigned planet, collect intelligence and prepare the planet for conquest by the Irken Armada. Zim pleads with the Tallest to assign him a planet and, in a desperate act to get Zim as far away as possible, they assign him to a presumed planet on the outskirts of their known universe that has never been explored. This “mystery planet” is Earth, and Zim’s erratic attempts at world domination and/or the eradication of the human race begin when he lands on Earth for the first time.
Dib sees the school’s counselor, Mr. Dwicky, about his problems at school, and Dib tells him about how Zim’s an alien trying to take over the Earth. Surprisingly Mr. Dwicky says he believes him and that he wants to help him out. He later reveals to a colleague that this is just a ruse to get Dib to trust him. They trick Zim into thinking aliens are coming to meet him in the woods to give him super weapons but [...]
Dib is again working on Tak’s crashed spaceship, which turned on him the last time he activated it because its computer AI is a digital copy of Tak’s mind. To stop it from acting so hostile to him he downloads his own personality into the ship. This does not go as planned because the ship then starts to believe that it is Dib. Zim discovers what Dib has done and reminds the ship that it is Irken technology and must do [...]
A girl selling cookies gets her foot trapped in Zim’s front yard and it attracts the attention of the neighbors, press and the Earth president. The girl loves all the attention and won’t let anyone simply pull her out. Dib manages to persuade the president to use a digging machine to dig under the girl to get her out. He suggests this because then Zim’s base will be discovered. Zim finally decides that enough is enough and simply pulls the [...]
Dib has managed to get a spy camera into Zim’s base in the hopes of recording some evidence that will prove he’s an alien. Unfortunately for Dib, his hard drives aren’t working and need to be automatically repaired, so Dib watches Zim while this is happening. It is a quiet day for Zim. GIR is trying to get Zim to eat waffles, but every now and then he reveals part of an evil plan, or gets attacked by a giant [...]
Dib summons a mystical beast called Mortos Der Soulstealer to attack Zim and prevent him from taking over the world. Mortos will grant Dib anything he wants, but is tired and requests time and food to regenerate. It soon becomes clear that Mortos just wants to have fun and spends time eating and trying on clothes. Dib confronts Zim with Mortos and demands that he fulfill his request to stop Zim, but Mortos grants a random person’s request for ice [...]
Zim desires to bring his masters to Earth to witness his next plan for world domination involving a brain parasite, so he remotely takes control of the “Massive”. However, at the time he takes control, the Tallest are under attack from a resistance group known as “The Resisty” (a name met with breath-taking laughter from the Tallest). Meanwhile, Dib has been attempting to salvage/reverse engineer Tak’s spaceship (which he acquired in Tak: the Hideous New Girl) and manages to repair enough [...]
A new girl at school, Tak, joins the class and “has a crush on Zim” according to the other children. Tak is actually an Irken, and reveals herself after many failed attempts by Zim of trying to get Tak to be his “love-pig” so he can find out more about the humans. Tak reveals her plan to hollow out the Earth’s core and fill it with snacks as an offering to the Almighty Tallest. Zim, Dib, Gaz, and Gir team [...]
Zim is hit by a muffin during the school lunchbreak and suspects it is Dib, but he cannot know for sure. That night, in a dream, Dib is visited by aliens and they say they have given him special powers. Dib then uses these powers to threaten Zim, who then willingly turns himself in and has Gir self-destruct. Time passes and Dib spends his life solving other mysteries and thwarting aliens. Finally, at a very old age, Dib is being [...]
Zim is frustrated with how useless GIR is, and puts him in permanent defensive mode. Things start to go wrong when GIR sees Zim himself as a threat to their mission on Earth. GIR escapes to gain more knowledge of the humans so that he can complete the mission. He also tires to zap Zim with his laser vision. GIR is very hard to capture when he’s being dutiful, but Zim follows him and manages to put him back into [...]
Subscribe
Follow us
Like us