👽Invader Zim👽

Zim is a member of the alien Irken race and a former Irken Invader; however, since his actions usually lead to disaster (having nearly destroyed the Irken homeworld during Operation Impending Doom) his leaders, the Almighty Tallest, banished him to Foodcourtia. While there, however, Zim heard of Operation Impending Doom II, and - obviously not understanding the purpose of his previous exile - "quit being banished" and ventured to Conventia in the hope of getting an assignment. Chagrined, the Almighty Tallest sent him on a "secret mission" to Earth, in order to keep him occupied and away from the real Operation Impending Doom II. The Tallest do NOT like Zim. After arriving on Earth, Zim enrolled in the nearest elementary skool to begin his infiltration and gather information about the indigenous races. There, he became quick rivals with Dib Membrane. Zim's primary desire is to conquer Earth, mostly to prove his superiority and impress his leaders.Zim, like most of the Irken race, seems to be based on the typical "little green men from outer space" stereotype. Many Irkens are about the size of a preteen schoolchild, but Zim is exceptionally short, earning him ridicule from his fellow Irkens, who are respected only if they are tall in height, as confirmed by Dib. In "The Nightmare Begins", Zim was shown to be even shorter than the notoriously diminutive Skoodge. In addition to his short stature and green skin, he also has round teeth (resembling gums more than actual teeth), and a long, worm-like tongue. Zim also has ruby-colored eyes; a very common trait in Irkens. It was also mentioned in "Walk of Doom" that Zim's eyes contain ocular implants. As he considers himself to still be an Invader, he continues to wear the standard uniform: a red tunic-like garment with three black stripes and a triangular pink collar and sleeves, as well as black boots, leggings, and gloves. His PAK is light gray with pink spots. He also possesses a pair of antennae, however, their exact function is unclear. His antennae visibly pick up vibrations While most Irkens are expected to be ruthlessly loyal to the Empire, Zim is considered overzealous even by their standards: Brash, arrogant, and overconfident, Zim's tendency to cause wanton destruction makes him a danger to himself and his own people, yet he still considers himself a mighty Irken warrior. In addition, he is acutely narcissistic and megalomaniacal, congratulating himself on even the smallest of successes; these, however, are few and far between. However, the pride he feels for his planet and its culture, as well as its people, is to be admired. Despite his self-proclaimed greatness, Zim rarely succeeds in his attempts and is sadly held up as a complete laughingstock, a scapegoat, or a figure of contempt by his own species, a fact that he is either oblivious to, knows about but keeps a brave face, or simply chooses not to notice; this is hinted at by the fact that due to his self-absorbed nature, it prevents Zim from seeing his failures, past and present. He claims to be proud of all the past disasters he has caused (as revealed in "The Nightmare Begins" and in the unproduced episode "The Trial", and rarely acknowledges his defeats in his present mission on Earth (often blaming them on other characters like other supervillains do, or other factors, or completely changing the subject). When he is told by Tak in "Tak: The Hideous New Girl" that his "mission" was really an attempt to get rid of him, he simply rejects her statement as a lie. It is not entirely clear whether Zim is aware of his failings in the eyes of his leaders and is desperately trying to compensate for them, or whether he really is just completely oblivious to the opinions of others, as he had deluded himself into thinking he's "amazing" and can do no wrong. Despite this, Zim is innocently loyal and obedient to the Tallest, the Irken Empire, his planet and his people, and is willing to go to ridiculous lengths to please his leaders, to the point that he is zealously willing to endure pain or hardship in order to gain their respect. In the episode "Planet Jackers", Zim even undergoes a rather severe beating in the name of protecting his mission and Irken interests.It's clear that Zim is highly intelligent (in his own crafty sort of way) and is a keen manipulator of tools and devices, but has absolutely no apparent interest in thinking things through to their logical conclusion. The fact that creating and unleashing a giant water balloon on the city from orbit in "The Wettening" will also destroy his house (but not his base) doesn't seem to enter his mind; when he hijacks the Massive in "Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars" he only considers (incorrectly) that the Tallest will be appreciative of his efforts. Nor does he really consider the consequence of restoring the natural time-flow of a city-leveling explosion in "Walk For Your Lives", despite being warned several times, by GIR no less, until his base was coming down around him. An alternative explanation is that he is aware of the consequences of his actions, but believes that they are worth reaching his goals and is willing to amend them after he does so. Zim clearly is more than capable of destroying Earth, but he hardly ever uses this capability correctly. For instance, when he is accidentally sent a Megadoomer robot, he decides to use it to kill Dib, when the robot obviously has the destructive power to do better things. He has often come very close to taking over the planet, only to be thwarted by Dib or Gaz, Jhonen Vasquez has gone on record by saying that Zim has a "horrible sense of direction" and he is so preoccupied with unimportant "threats" that he doesn't get anything done, this may be a result of his paranoia. One of Zim's abilities is his somewhat inconsistent skills at piloting; while in a tense situation he flies masterfully but seems to crash on most other occasions, and his skills pale in comparison to opponents adept at hand-eye coordination or overall agility (such as Gaz). Zim also has admirable engineering ability; in "Walk of Doom" he singlehandedly improved the SIR Unit guidance system chip, and in "Walk for Your Lives" he hand-built a variable time stasis field capable of altering individual time-fields. He is immensely proud of anything he creates, yet is often frustrated when his devices fail to live up to his grandiose expectations.More or less he considers everyone else but himself (even members of his own race) expendable for his own plans, often exploiting them to reach his own goals with apparent disregard for their safety or well-being. For example, in "Hobo 13", Zim sends the soldiers under his command to their dooms when other, safer methods could be taken (even using Throbulator, the last soldier in his unit, as a battering ram), causing Sergeant Hobo 678 to fail him automatically despite the fact that Zim manages to survive the obstacle course. Another example is when Zim destroys a candy machine in "Tak: The Hideous New Girl", ending Tak's mission to become an Invader and he either doesn't realize that she's trapped or, more likely, he doesn't care. His behavior and unawareness of his actions are most likely the result of him being Defective, as revealed in the cancelled episode "The Trial". Zim is most comfortable in ensuring destruction rather than gaining power and when he does gain power, he seems not to care much for it, treating it more like a means to an end since it has been heavily implied that he only seeks to take control of the planet to mainly earn the praise and respect of his leaders. An example of this was seen in "The Most Horrible X-Mas Ever", where he easily got the entire human race to worship him when he disguised himself as Santa Claus, but rather than to build an empire for himself, he cared more about sending the humans away to the Tallest and thus, their own doom. Towards the end of Enter the Florpus, Zim grows bored of the humans' panicking at the Florpus Hole, saying "why don't you bow down before me or something?". Zim usually shows little to no affection, often claiming to "need no one", but he occasionally lets a softer side of him slip by accident. In "Parent Teacher Night", when Zim thought back to when he was born, he remembered the first thing he ever said was that he loved the "cold, unfeeling robot arm" that "hatched" him from his incubation capsule and activated his PAK. In "Walk of Doom", he yells at GIR for leaving behind his guidance chip and stranding them in the middle of the city but when GIR starts to cry, he forgives GIR (despite the fact that he was crying because he missed the cupcake he ate). If he removes his PAK, with the exception of the life support and personality components, perhaps all the aforementioned negative traits of his personality can change.Zim, like all Irkens, was fused at birth with a mechanical device called a PAK. Zim's PAK provides him with life support, all the necessary nutrients for survival, and an array of different weapons and tools. These tools include a set of four spider-like mechanical legs, an organ harvester, scanner pads, hand-held communicators, memory drive, charging cell, atmospheric processor, high tech infrared/night vision binoculars, holographic transmitters, and four rocket boosters, as well as a sort of biomechanical rebreather mask used in environments without air or with polluted air. It can also be 'rebooted' and revive Zim after a sudden shock to the system (like the wave of raw stupidity in "Plague of Babies").Despite his incompetence, Zim is actually shown to be intelligent. He is an excellent engineer, being able to tool with many devices and equipment. He has a very impressive arsenal, and he was able to fix GIR's behavior using a behavioral modulator and enhance his guidance chip. He also created Minimoose, who has been known to be very powerful and dangerous (although Zim doesn't know how to use him properly).

Like Gaz, Zim is a very skilled pilot of extraterrestrial spacecraft. However, in some episodes, he is shown crashing and his ship in flames, which hints at the possibility that while he can pilot certain ships, he is prone to accidents.

Throughout the show, there are subtle but noticeable hints about Zim's biology. He is shown to do many things that no human could do, hinting that he might have powers or inhuman abilities of some sort. Zim has been shown to have super strength - in "Attack of the Saucer Morons", he body slammed a woman who was twice his size and overweight and knocked her over, while in "Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars", he is shown throwing a child into another person hard enough to knock them off their feet. However, Dib was easily able to pin him down for a short moment in "Megadoomer", though this could have been because he was caught off guard. He is shown to be very fast and agile. In "FBI Warning of Doom", he is able to evade most of the booby traps set in the mall, in "The Frycook What Came From All That Space", Zim was able to outrun Sizz-Lorr, and he was also able to outrun Dib in "The Nightmare Begins". He also seems to have inhuman stamina as he doesn't need to sleep (thanks to his PAK). And while he still eats food, Zim is seen to have the ability to go a substantial amount of time without eating as he (supposedly) didn't have any food on his six month trip from Conventia to Earth. Zim is also shown to have incredible durability, as he is shown taking hits from stronger enemies such as Oog-Ah, Sizz-Lorr, and Sergeant Hobo 678. In many episodes, GIR has been shown falling directly on his head, but he's usually fine afterwards. He has also survived falls from heights, such as in "Battle of the Planets" and "Walk of Doom". He also has been seen surviving crashes; in "Attack of the Saucer Morons", Zim survives two crashes (the first in his Voot Runner, the second in the Voot Carrier) and he also survived an even more disastrous crash in "Hamstergeddon". In "Zim Eats Waffles", Zim was attacked by a demon flesh eating squid and zombie soldiers and was only covered in bruises. In "Tak the Hideous New Girl", he and GIR are thrown into the Voot Runner, causing it to fall from the sky, and he walks away unharmed. In "Battle of the Planets", Zim is shown to be impervious to fire (or at least physically resistant to it). At the end of Enter the Florpus, Zim's head is caved in by a puppy GIR had recently shot into space. While not shown, he most likely survived this and was only knocked unconscious, this evidently showed that Zim is extremely lucky, as he has survived countless incidents that would have ended in certain death, as exampled above. Zim has been shown to have regenerative powers, as he's been shown to heal from bruises, broken skin (or skin deformities), and broken bones. He has healed from a popped zit, meat fused to his head, and his skin torn off his head and body ("Rise of the Zitboy", "Bolognius Maximus", and "Lice"). In "Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom", Zim is left with a broken spine, and implies it will heal soon. It is unknown how powerful Zim's regeneration powers really are, it should be noted however that this is all possible as a result of his people's genetic engineering, so these abilities are more than likely common among the Irkens.During the events of the series, Zim is severely allergic to several Earth substances, including meat, barbecue sauce, beans, pizza, and most school lunches. The last item may not be considered a weakness exclusively to Zim, as the food in the cafeteria has been shown to be harmful to humans as well. Exposure to excessive grease leads to the creation of an enormous transparent, semi-permeable, hypnotic pimple, known first as Pustulio. It's unclear whether these effects are due to Zim's alien biochemistry or because the Earth itself appears to be, in the timeframe of Invader Zim, excessively polluted. The episode "Bolognius Maximus" offers an additional suggestion that the Irken body may be physiologically and biochemically much more delicate than a human's. Zim's genetic structure breaks down and turns into bologna much faster than Dib's after exposure to an identical infusion of bologna-DNA. However, for each weakness Zim has found a compensatory mechanism, he discovered that germs could be repelled by covering his body in "space meat" and using conventional Earth disinfectant sprays (despite the meat then fusing to his flesh). He also discovered his pimples have hypnotic properties over humans. In the episode "Zim Eats Waffles", he thinks that eating enough Earth food will allow him to build up an immunity to it. Whether it has or not wasn't seen; however, the cancelled episode "It Feeds on Noodles" would have confirmed that Zim would have indeed become immune to Earth's food.Zim's school disguise consists of some contact lenses and a bouffant wig. The contacts give his eyes a human appearance, and the wig covers his antennae; however, everything else about him, including his uniform and green skin, is left unchanged. Zim is notably older than any living human