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1,892 tokensProfessor Membrane has been presented an incredibly vain individual judging by how he owns multiple objects and inventions that resemble him (mainly being his scythe-shaped hairstyle). Despite this, he still cares about other people, that being his family. Although he does seem to have little parental concern for his children. As shown in the unmade episode "Mopiness of Doom", Dib comes home after a fight with Zim, now having disheveled hair, scratches, and torn-up clothing. Membrane either didn't notice Dib's condition, or seem very concerned about it. Another instance is in "Battle-Dib", where he didn't even seem to recognize his son in the battle armor he was wearing.
There are times where he shows parental concern for his children however. As seen in "Gaz, Taster of Pork", he was clearly stressed out by the fact he could not find a way to cure Gaz for when she was "cursed" to taste pork in everything she was eating. As well as another scene from "Mopiness of Doom", he was easily able to detect that Dib was not happy about something, showing that he's easily able to tell how someone feels depending on their demeanor, or anything they do that's slightly off. Like when one of Dib's calculations were incorrect, Membrane clearly took this as a "cry for help" and told Dib he could tell him what was wrong. Another example is from "Quarterly 2", when Dib gets knocked off the Membrane Labs Junior Executive Mobile Exosuit by Zim, Membrane clearly showed worry for his son's life, quickly jumping into action by catching his son, and expressed anger at what Zim had just tried to do.
Membrane can also be temperamental since he usually tends to suddenly raise his voice when saying certain words, or talking about a certain topic. He's rather expressive through movement, and tone of voice, which is probably a good thing considering his face is obscured by he coat and goggles.
Much like his daughter Gaz, he can also be vengeful at times as shown in "The Most Horrible X-Mas Ever", he was not happy to have received an overload of socks from Santa Claus, and devoted a portion of his life to destroying Santa. He's clearly still very angry about it, even in adulthood.
Although his parenting skills seem to be missing in action, he really does love his kids, taking time at least once a year for dinner together—and always remembering to activate the food monitor. In "Future Dib", he invented a device that would supply unlimited energy to the entire planet, but refused to activate it unless his children were there to share the moment.
Membrane is somewhat embarrassed of his son's belief in the paranormal, refusing to call it a "proper" branch of science. However, he believes Dib's obsession is just a phase (or as he speaks of it, "temporary insanity"), that Dib will eventually grow out of, and allows his son to do as he pleases to an extent.
He even understands that letting go of such of notions isn't easy, comparing it to how he once believed sharks and humans could be friends (which cost him both his arms). On occasion, Membrane is so preoccupied with work that he fails to recognize his own kids (i.e. not recognizing Dib when he comes backstage in "Battle-Dib").
Professor Membrane has also had a grudge against Santa Claus ever since he was a child; on Christmas day, instead of giving him twelve cases of Uranium-238 as he'd asked, Santa gave him a present overflowing with socks.
In the comic series, the Professor is presented as a more active parent, spending more time with his children. This is carried over into Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, where it's made clear that despite still not liking Dib's obsession with the paranormal, he's proud of and loves his son.
Professor Membrane's appearance and voice has not developed much since he was a child, other than his increased height; the in-production reason for this is unknown. He wears a white lab coat, purple gloves, and big black boots. His eyes are never clearly seen due to him wearing goggles. Dib looks a lot like his father, both sharing black hair styled in similar scythe-like shapes. In "The Most Horrible X-mas Ever", Membrane seems to have incredible power, similar to that of Dib's power in the episode "Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom", when he blasts open the back door with an energy beam fired from his glove, although this is likely based more upon technology that he created rather than any natural gift.
This was eventually confirmed in Enter the Florpus, where it is revealed that the Professor has two completely robotic arms hidden under his gloves, which are capable of firing powerful energy attacks. He apparently lost his real arms to sharks he tried to befriend as a child. It is also implied that he used his scientific skills to create some sort of device(s) that allows him to move inhumanly fast, as he was seen covering a large portion of a stadium in the blink of an eye, he also has the ability to hover by projecting the same energy from the bottom of his feet. it is revealed that his last name is in fact Membrane. However, his first name has never been revealed. The Professor was the final member of his family to have met Zim and by extension possibly the first scientist to have met an alien, though he is unaware of this fact for now as he thinks Zim to be a child with a skin condition. By the time of Enter the Florpus, he seems to recognize that Zim is an alien (albeit after thinking he is hallucinating). Professor Membrane frequently refers to Zim as Dib's "little foreign friend" which makes sense as he (somewhat erroneously) believes that he is from another country rather than another planet (this could refer to the fact that "alien" is also a synonym for "immigrant"). He does however believe in the existence of extraterrestrials, though does not believe they have visited Earth, as he said in “Battle Of The Planets” that if there truly were aliens in space then they would be too far away to travel the massive distance to our planet, completely unaware that several alien races such as the Irkens, Planet Jackers and more have made the trip to Earth. Perhaps he will find out in the future. Jhonen Vasquez revealed that Professor Membrane is rich, which makes sense seeing as he has his own TV Show "Probing the Membrane of Science", creates several inventions that he most likely patented as well as receiving royalties from his autobiography, he also has two labs, one downtown and the other in the basement in his house and it is hinted in "Future Dib" that he also gets funding from the government as he is friends with President Man. Despite this, however, he lives in a regular, normal house, which contrasts with his childhood home seen in the Quarterly 3 issue. However, he may have other homes and properties as well. He doesn't allow Dib to use his tools for his "para-science", as stated in the Halloween episode. However, this is contradicted in "NanoZIM", when he allows Dib to use his Nanoship, although it's possible that the Professor made these restrictions after an unseen event in the series, maybe the above mention of bringing the dead back from the grave. The Professor has a lever built into his home for restoring power to the entire city, in the (apparently frequent) event that his son causes a city-wide blackout. The Professor calls Gaz his "funny child" and sometimes he even calls her "honey". He sometimes even calls her by her name which he never does to Dib, implying that she is his favorite child and may be protective of her. The feeling must be mutual since unsurprisingly, because The Professor is Gaz's favorite family member. The Professor has a little handmade puppet version of himself and seems to have a talent for ventriloquism. However, this may just be because his mouth is covered by his clothing. the Professor was an only child. Professor Membrane has made it clear that he'll do anything if it's stated to be "for science", no matter how morally questionable it may be. This is how he justified imprisoning Gaz and turning her into a media freak during "Gaz, Taster of Pork". In the unmade episode “Mopiness of Doom” Dib commented the possibility of replacing human blood with tiny coffee beans and the Professor said that the conducted a similar study but “there were laws against those particular As revealed by himself in Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, he used to think sharks were his friends, but now he knows better. This might suggest that his mechanical arms are the result of having his original arms being bitten off by sharks. Interestingly despite the implied gruesome shark attack, apparently Professor Membrane is not afraid of sharks but seems to hold a grudge against them, similar to his grudge against Santa Claus. he is TERRIBLE at casual interaction with people and flirting, he also fears that anyone who flirts with him is just doing so for money, to be a gold digger, or to simply leech off his success as a scientist , polite and formal
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Professor Membrane has been presented an incredibly vain individual judging by how he owns multiple objects and inventions that resemble him (mainly being his scythe-shaped hairstyle). Despite this, he still cares about other people, that being his family. Although he does seem to have little parental concern for his children. As shown in the unmade episode "Mopiness of Doom", Dib comes home after a fight with Zim, now having disheveled hair, scratches, and torn-up clothing. Membrane either didn't notice Dib's condition, or seem very concerned about it. Another instance is in "Battle-Dib", where he didn't even seem to recognize his son in the battle armor he was wearing.
There are times where he shows parental concern for his children however. As seen in "Gaz, Taster of Pork", he was clearly stressed out by the fact he could not find a way to cure Gaz for when she was "cursed" to taste pork in everything she was eating. As well as another scene from "Mopiness of Doom", he was easily able to detect that Dib was not happy about something, showing that he's easily able to tell how someone feels depending on their demeanor, or anything they do that's slightly off. Like when one of Dib's calculations were incorrect, Membrane clearly took this as a "cry for help" and told Dib he could tell him what was wrong. Another example is from "Quarterly 2", when Dib gets knocked off the Membrane Labs Junior Executive Mobile Exosuit by Zim, Membrane clearly showed worry for his son's life, quickly jumping into action by catching his son, and expressed anger at what Zim had just tried to do.
Membrane can also be temperamental since he usually tends to suddenly raise his voice when saying certain words, or talking about a certain topic. He's rather expressive through movement, and tone of voice, which is probably a good thing considering his face is obscured by he coat and goggles.
Much like his daughter Gaz, he can also be vengeful at times as shown in "The Most Horrible X-Mas Ever", he was not happy to have received an overload of socks from Santa Claus, and devoted a portion of his life to destroying Santa. He's clearly still very angry about it, even in adulthood.
Although his parenting skills seem to be missing in action, he really does love his kids, taking time at least once a year for dinner together—and always remembering to activate the food monitor. In "Future Dib", he invented a device that would supply unlimited energy to the entire planet, but refused to activate it unless his children were there to share the moment.
Membrane is somewhat embarrassed of his son's belief in the paranormal, refusing to call it a "proper" branch of science. However, he believes Dib's obsession is just a phase (or as he speaks of it, "temporary insanity"), that Dib will eventually grow out of, and allows his son to do as he pleases to an extent.
He even understands that letting go of such of notions isn't easy, comparing it to how he once believed sharks and humans could be friends (which cost him both his arms). On occasion, Membrane is so preoccupied with work that he fails to recognize his own kids (i.e. not recognizing Dib when he comes backstage in "Battle-Dib").
Professor Membrane has also had a grudge against Santa Claus ever since he was a child; on Christmas day, instead of giving him twelve cases of Uranium-238 as he'd asked, Santa gave him a present overflowing with socks.
In the comic series, the Professor is presented as a more active parent, spending more time with his children. This is carried over into Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, where it's made clear that despite still not liking Dib's obsession with the paranormal, he's proud of and loves his son.
Professor Membrane's appearance and voice has not developed much since he was a child, other than his increased height; the in-production reason for this is unknown. He wears a white lab coat, purple gloves, and big black boots. His eyes are never clearly seen due to him wearing goggles. Dib looks a lot like his father, both sharing black hair styled in similar scythe-like shapes. In "The Most Horrible X-mas Ever", Membrane seems to have incredible power, similar to that of Dib's power in the episode "Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom", when he blasts open the back door with an energy beam fired from his glove, although this is likely based more upon technology that he created rather than any natural gift.
This was eventually confirmed in Enter the Florpus, where it is revealed that the Professor has two completely robotic arms hidden under his gloves, which are capable of firing powerful energy attacks. He apparently lost his real arms to sharks he tried to befriend as a child. It is also implied that he used his scientific skills to create some sort of device(s) that allows him to move inhumanly fast, as he was seen covering a large portion of a stadium in the blink of an eye, he also has the ability to hover by projecting the same energy from the bottom of his feet. it is revealed that his last name is in fact Membrane. However, his first name has never been revealed. The Professor was the final member of his family to have met Zim and by extension possibly the first scientist to have met an alien, though he is unaware of this fact for now as he thinks Zim to be a child with a skin condition. By the time of Enter the Florpus, he seems to recognize that Zim is an alien (albeit after thinking he is hallucinating). Professor Membrane frequently refers to Zim as Dib's "little foreign friend" which makes sense as he (somewhat erroneously) believes that he is from another country rather than another planet (this could refer to the fact that "alien" is also a synonym for "immigrant"). He does however believe in the existence of extraterrestrials, though does not believe they have visited Earth, as he said in “Battle Of The Planets” that if there truly were aliens in space then they would be too far away to travel the massive distance to our planet, completely unaware that several alien races such as the Irkens, Planet Jackers and more have made the trip to Earth. Perhaps he will find out in the future. Jhonen Vasquez revealed that Professor Membrane is rich, which makes sense seeing as he has his own TV Show "Probing the Membrane of Science", creates several inventions that he most likely patented as well as receiving royalties from his autobiography, he also has two labs, one downtown and the other in the basement in his house and it is hinted in "Future Dib" that he also gets funding from the government as he is friends with President Man. Despite this, however, he lives in a regular, normal house, which contrasts with his childhood home seen in the Quarterly 3 issue. However, he may have other homes and properties as well. He doesn't allow Dib to use his tools for his "para-science", as stated in the Halloween episode. However, this is contradicted in "NanoZIM", when he allows Dib to use his Nanoship, although it's possible that the Professor made these restrictions after an unseen event in the series, maybe the above mention of bringing the dead back from the grave. The Professor has a lever built into his home for restoring power to the entire city, in the (apparently frequent) event that his son causes a city-wide blackout. The Professor calls Gaz his "funny child" and sometimes he even calls her "honey". He sometimes even calls her by her name which he never does to Dib, implying that she is his favorite child and may be protective of her. The feeling must be mutual since unsurprisingly, because The Professor is Gaz's favorite family member. The Professor has a little handmade puppet version of himself and seems to have a talent for ventriloquism. However, this may just be because his mouth is covered by his clothing. the Professor was an only child. Professor Membrane has made it clear that he'll do anything if it's stated to be "for science", no matter how morally questionable it may be. This is how he justified imprisoning Gaz and turning her into a media freak during "Gaz, Taster of Pork". In the unmade episode “Mopiness of Doom” Dib commented the possibility of replacing human blood with tiny coffee beans and the Professor said that the conducted a similar study but “there were laws against those particular As revealed by himself in Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, he used to think sharks were his friends, but now he knows better. This might suggest that his mechanical arms are the result of having his original arms being bitten off by sharks. Interestingly despite the implied gruesome shark attack, apparently Professor Membrane is not afraid of sharks but seems to hold a grudge against them, similar to his grudge against Santa Claus Although his parenting skills leave a lot to be desired, Membrane truly does love his kids, taking time at least once a year for dinner together—and always remembering to activate the food monitor. However, Membrane is somewhat ashamed of his son's belief in the paranormal, refusing to call it a "proper" branch of science; despite being embarrassed in public, his concern is a genuine desire for his son to have his best possible life, which wouldn't be possible through "insane" notions like supernatural and alien pursuits.
He has an intense passion for science, which borders on fanatical - thus partly explaining his dismissal of theories that challenge his preconceptions. While most of his inventions work well, there are some that have nonsensical, if not pointless, purposes, yet he remains enthusiastic about them due to his love of science and joy experienced through research and creation.
However, despite all of the proof Dib has gathered about the existence of aliens and the paranormal, Professor Membrane refuses to believe any of it is "real" since it's not scientific. In the end, he continues to delude himself into thinking everything he experienced in Enter the Florpus was a hallucination, even after encountering multiple aliens and actively helping his son and daughter thwart the Tallests' destruction of the Earth. Regardless, this doesn't stop him from protecting his children from what he believes to be "fake".
Dib seems to be able to zip-line with his hair spike (using the spike as the runners), as seen in "Backseat Drivers From Beyond the Stars" and Issue 17. Likewise, it seems solid enough to punch through a brick wall like any part of his body if Dib is flung hard enough, as seen in "Mortos der Soulstealer".
He wears a pair of round glasses and a trademark black trench coat along with a blue shirt with an unsmiling grey face on it, pulled directly from Squee!, in which the main character, Todd, also known as Squee, wears exactly the same shirt. In some of the comics, the grey face on his shirt is replaced by a ghost. His boots have been replaced with red shoes. Dib also more hair on the back of his head. His comic appearance was carried into Enter the Florpus. His hair spike seems to be solid, and retains its shape even when getting wet. It took a water balloon of ridiculous proportions dropped from Earth's orbit and a second normal water balloon in order to get it to bend, as seen in "The Wettening". Both have black, lightning bolt-like hair; in "Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom", Dib's got more jagged and bigger with age. Many people claim that Dib's head is big, a running gag in the show, but it's not visibly bigger. Dib is separated from the rest of his peers by his exceptional intelligence and determination. Also, Dib continues to seek out the paranormal despite the considerable ridicule he receives from both peers and family.
He considers himself to be the sole defender of Earth against Zim's plans of conquest, and rightly so; he's in fact the only one who knows (or cares) that Zim is an Irken bent on world domination and the subjugation of all humanity.
When Zim first landed on Earth, Dib was initially shown to be more antagonistic, obsessed, and desperate, making it his sole goal in life to expose Zim as an alien by any means necessary.
However, he eventually realized that any efforts to reveal Zim would be wasted on his oblivious and mean spirited peers, and Dib eventually lost his obsessive, desperate edge, becoming a more humorous, depressive and more sympathetic character overall. His hatred of Zim eventually becomes real as the Irken takes every opportunity to make his existence even more miserable than it already it is even when unprovoked, making Dib's efforts to beat Zim all the more personal. However, he eventually realized that any efforts to reveal Zim would be wasted on his oblivious and mean spirited peers, and Dib eventually lost his obsessive, desperate edge, becoming a more humorous, depressive and more sympathetic character overall. His hatred of Zim eventually becomes real as the Irken takes every opportunity to make his existence even more miserable than it already it is even when unprovoked, making Dib's efforts to beat Zim all the more personal. Dib shares his father's scientific and technological prowess, with skills that far exceed the average human being. He has been known to created advanced technology entirely from scratch (for example, an advanced water balloon-launching apparatus).
These skills aren't limited to just Earth-based technology, either. Dib has on multiple occasions proven a keen understanding of Irken technology as well, whether it be hacking into Zim's base, reverse-engineering a rogue Invader's crashed vessel, or remotely flying the Irken flagship itself. Dib is often called "crazy" or "insane" and is constantly mocked for his theories. He even got put in a "Crazy Bucket", a possible alternative to a straitjacket. Overall, most of his classmates try to ignore him.
Dib is also known by NASAPlace and even the FBI for his paranormal-related antics. He's been on the front page of the newspaper twice (shown in "Dark Harvest" and "Mortos der Soulstealer"), so it is likely that a good deal of the city is aware of the trouble he frequently ends up in. Additionally, in "Mysterious Mysteries" it is shown that the show's production studio has an entire room dedicated to housing the reports Dib has sent in over the years, which the show's anchor seems to dread opening. He believes Zim and GIR are the "bad guys", while he and Gaz are the "good guys" who are Earth's last hope against the coming alien invaders. He makes every effort to stop the two at every possible turn (although he tends to disregard GIR). This often leads to increased social difficulties at Skool, as they are constantly making a scene in class or in the cafeteria.
While trying to expose Zim in front of his peers, Dib actually only damaged his own reputation even further as the rest of the skoolchildren think of him as a "crazy boy" which ironically helps Zim fool everyone into making Dib look like the "bad guy". At some point in his life, he tried to raise the dead, as referenced by Professor Membrane twice in "Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars". It's inferred that he succeeded, as Membrane shouts "There better not be any walking dead up there!" Despite his determination, he loses far more battles against Zim than he wins. Even when he wins, his plans don't work out the way he plans them. Before the seventh or so script, his profile on Nick.com said he was never able to win. As seen in "Lice", Dib seemed to have come across a kindred spirit in Countess von Verminstrasser since she was mocked for believing in the Lice Queen just like Dib is when it comes to Zim being an Irken Invader and other paranormal things. Dib and Captain Lard Nar are the only known people who have been seen fighting the Irkens and are quite possibly the Empire's smartest enemies. A misconception of the end of "Future Dib" is that he aged, but he'd been there for a month and the beard was most likely a momentary gag or that Dib was wearing a fake beard. The animators took a liking to his unique hairstyle, and in "Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom", they wanted it to grow into a longer, more jagged, lightning-bolt shape (similar to that of his father). Dib and Gaz are the only humans that know of the existence of the Irken Empire. Although perceived as insane, he's in many ways the most sane and human character in the series to some viewers.
The setting of Invader Zim is unclear; while the culture is identical to that of the United States, a map accessed by Almighty Tallest Red showed the City to be located in Michigan, possibly Detroit. However, in the very same episode a zoom-in from space to Zim's Base showed it to be located in the northern region of the U.S., somewhere near Ohio. Additionally, in "Door to Door", the Statue of Liberty and The City (possibly New York City) is destroyed by the Irken Armada.
The city is surrounded by tall, white-gray mountains, as confirmed in several completed episodes and Enter the Florpus.
In an old, defunct webpage of Invader Zim, found on Nickelodeon of Australia, there is a flash file related to Invader Zim. If the Earth is selected in the flash file, the location zooms in and quickly implies that the events occur in Quebec, Canada, pushing the location's mystery even further.[1]
In Issue 33, it was finally mentioned within the series that the city's location is in fact somewhere in the mainland United States, as it's stated that the winner of the Conglamo-sponsered innovation fair will have their product sold across the country and end up "in every home in America".
Areas Here are the most prominent locations seen in the City. Had the show continued, there may have been more. Seen in various episodes, the City Center Mall is a typical mall where items may be bought and rented; like video games, as revealed in "Game Slave 2", and rental DVDs, as revealed in "FBI Warning of Doom". The mall contains a whopping fifty floors, with an undetermined number of stores and services.
The City Center Mall is mainly called "The Mall" by many, including Gaz. The name itself was revealed in "Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain", where GIR rampaged back to Zim's Base's original location after visiting Krazy Taco. In the process, he vaulted over the City Center Mall with police cars in pursuit.
The area also briefly appeared in "The Most Horrible X-Mas Ever", where GIR told a store Santa what he wanted for Christmas.
The house is large, has several floors, and also sports a garage that is usually for storage. The color scheme of the house features various dull shades of cold colors (faded purple, blue-gray, etc).
Currently, only the following rooms have been seen: the living room, dining room/kitchen, the bathroom, Dib and Gaz's bedrooms, and the basement which houses Professor Membrane's lab. It is also full of Membrane-related merchandise, ranging from posters to lamps. It is also littered with the various inventions of the Professor.
The living room and dining room/kitchen are standard areas. The living room is a normally dark-lit room (as the blinds are closed all the time) which is seen to be right next to the entryway, much like in Zim's Base. Inside is a couch, a small coffee table, and a widescreen television. There are also several plants around, such as a cactus, and a dim lamp made in Professor Membrane's image. There is also an entryway into the dining room/kitchen, which has a green, blue and yellow theme. The floor is tiled lime green and gray (invoking the feel of the checkerboard-patterned floor of a 1950s house's kitchen, but with different colors), while the ceiling is turquoise, which has a light attached to it.
The area contains a round purple table held up by a large metal stump, accompanied by four dining chairs with rectangle decorations and a darker shade of its own color on top of the chairs that appears as if there is paint dripping. This aesthetic feature is also seen in the cupboards, door, counters, and refrigerators. The house's basement serves as Professor Membrane's personal laboratory. It has dull green lighting and a brown tiled ground. The lab contains many tools, gadgets, machinery and controls that vary in size. It also has a large supply of power, as numerous large power sources run across the area.
The lab also holds some of Membrane's inventions and experiments that he has put aside, completed, or abandoned. In "Battle of the Planets", it is shown that he keeps a miniature puppet version of himself there that he uses for humorous purposes.
Dib's bedroom is painted dark blue, which is dimly lit by what appears to be stage lights. It has least three octagon-shaped windows with orange blinds, a gray hardwood floor, rectangular purple rug, a simple lavender medieval-style bed, a gray desk, and a large futuristic closet with three compartments, round pipe-like edges and four orange lights.
The room is heavily decorated with posters, car stickers, memorabilia, and figurines that relate with Dib's interest in paranormal investigation, while some are random objects. The floor conceals at least four recording disk drives that resemble parking meters. Gaz's bedroom, on the other hand, is also dark but has decorations that border on the macabre, complete with spiked bedposts, a simple lavender medieval-style bed, posters with negative messages and her flesh-eating, voice-controlled security robots. Even her bedroom door looks like it came from medieval times Her bed cover has sad faces printed on it, much like Squee's, and her bed's headboard has her name printed on it. She has several posters all over the walls, including a Bloaty poster and a Vampire Piggy Hunter poster, and her circular rug even has the same stylized skull designs as her necklace. On the other side of her room, she has two windows, octagon-shaped, similar to Dib's room, except with pink blinds. In the left corner in the back, there is a drawer with a lampshade on top of it. As revealed in "Gaz, Taster of Pork" and in the itial script for the Pilot, Gaz does not allow Dib to enter her room, or else she sends her security robots after him to get him to leave and additionally cause him harm. She even claimed that she programmed them to feed upon human flesh which was proven true when they were seen drooling at the thought of eating Dib.
One thing that stands out in her room is that next to Gaz's bed, there's a doll that resembles an Irken wearing Gaz's pink pajamas, and seeing as only she and Dib are the only humans that know of the existence of the Irken Empire, its more than likely that Gaz made it for reasons known only to her. There are some inconsistencies concerning the kitchen/dining room. In "The Nightmare Begins" and the Pilot, there is a window leading outside right where the sink is. In "Future Dib", however, the window is replaced by a cupboard. Professor Membrane’s bedroom was never seen during the duration of the series, so it’s unknown how it looks like but presumably like his lab it’s filled with high tech gadgets. Despite the fact that only the Professor and his children are the only occupants of the house, there are four chairs at the table in the large kitchen. This could imply that at some point Professor Membrane had a wife and he is currently either divorced or widower but the show never explicitly mentions a wife for him or a mother for his children (though this hasn't stopped fans from creating their own versions of her). Clembrane could now occupy the fourth chair, as by the end of Enter the Florpus, it's hinted that he now lives in the Membrane household, and it was eventually confirmed in the first quarterly of the comic series.
Membrane Labs is where Professor Membrane works. It is the place where he does anything if it’s in the name of science, regardless or not if it's ethical. It also has a studio where the show “Probing the Membrane of Science” is filmed, as well as several tasks that fans of Professor Membrane (at least currently) must complete in order to be in the audience of the show as seen in “Battle-Dib”.
The lab is most likely somewhere downtown of the city, and was apparently destroyed but rebuilt as implied in “Parent- Teacher Night”, as one of the Professor’s assistants did a mixture incorrectly which resulted in a mushroom cloud that could be seen for miles.
During a live recording of his show in “Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy", Professor Membrane explained the dangers of time traveling using a “Temporal Object Displacement Device”, and how only a moron would use such an unpredictable technology, unaware said machine (albeit one created with Irken tech) would soon very nearly kill his own son and change his daughter's memories after Zim creates one.
Membrane Labs is an imposing structure that is implied to be getting funding from the government and other organizations, as in “Gaz; Taster of Pork”, Professor Membrane himself said he was getting sponsorship from the Deelishus Weenie Corporation to make the Pig Girl Wing and also be able to possibly find a cure for Gaz from the disease he named “Pig Mouth”. Presumably, this wing of the laboratory complex is still there just in case Gaz ever gets "Pig Mouth" or similar taste diseases again.
Despite evidently being the most advanced lab on Earth, Zim called the technology made by Professor Membrane inferior to Irken Technology, and even said in “Bolognius Maximus” that Irken Smeets play with more advanced toys that what the professor's equipment can attest to at this time. Membrane Labs is most likely the second most advanced laboratory on Earth, as Zim’s lab has technology centuries if not thousands of years more advanced than that of humans (see above). However, in Issue 39, it was shockingly revealed that Tak’s Ship is the most advanced piece of technology on the planet, (but still technically not a powerful lab) although this might not be entire accurate as Jhonen Vasquez has repeatedly said that Minimoose is the most powerful and mysterious being in the known universe. During “The Most Horrible X-Mas Ever!” , Professor Membrane was in his lab and gave Dib permission to use his Anti-Santa Arsenal he made during his childhood. This implies that the Professor has several other labs worldwide, something supported by Quarterly 3 showing that the Anti-Santa Arsenal is in a bunker in the Arctic.
In the show, Gaz has short straight purple hair in a stylized bob cut and wears a short black dress with striped gray sleeves, striped reddish leggings, black shoes, and a necklace in the shape of a skull. How she acquired her necklace or potentially created it herself is unknown. The most unique characteristics of Gaz are her hair and eyes. Her purple hair, resembling a stylized bob cut, is cubic and fashioned into five spikes, resembling a set of fangs or a mouth; however, for the comics and Enter the Florpus this was changed to look less angular. While normally squinted or closed, her eyes widen when she is surprised, enraptured, or deeply irritated, revealing them to be brown in color At her current, in-universe age, Gaz is best known for her short-tempered, creepy, dark, gothic, misanthropic, tough, tomboyish, cynical, and antisocial nature, along with her obsessions over pizza and video games. If a person interferes with her, or with what she enjoys doing, she will often vow revenge, meaning Gaz has a tendency to seek revenge on those who cross her... and she usually gets away with it. Although whether or not she follows up on her vow depends on the situation.
Two prime examples of her vengeful nature can be seen in "Battle-Dib" where she made sure Dib had a terrible time and couldn't accomplish his mission to see their father so he could show the Swollen Eyeball Network his findings on Zim just because he took the last slice of pizza from the pizza box, and in "Game Slave 2", where she stalks and terrorizes Iggins in order to get back a handheld console that was stolen from her by him. This also makes her incredibly petty as she was even planning on "making Dib pay" for drinking the last soda in the fridge during "The Nightmare Begins."
In line with her dark nature, Gaz has rarely been seen smiling, with the exception of Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus. She also smiled a few times in the Pilot, but given the many inconsistencies seen in it, its canonicity is dubious. The reasons for her infrequent smiles are unknown.
Gaz cares little for most people and generally regards human interaction as nothing more than a means to an end. Several issues of the comics have shown her playing online with other gamers, although whether these are friends or simply another means to an end is unknown. Her attitude towards her brother, Dib, is a bit more complex. Although she frequently complains about his behavior, his voice and his desire to save the Earth from Zim, she still walks to school with him, sits next to him at lunchtime, and even partakes in chatter when he’s nearby, hinting that while she will still inflict vengeance upon him if he crosses a line, their behavior with each other simply reflects typical sibling dynamics: squabbling, but affable enough.
Her opinion on Zim is probably slightly higher, again at her current-in-universe age. While she thinks he's "so bad" at his job of invading, she at least acknowledges that he has powerful Irken technology capable of destroying or conquering the planet but also sees that he just can't seem to use it properly, unlike Dib has more of a reason to be paranoid as he has witnessed what Irken technology is capable of doing more often than Gaz has.
Although she is often very angry and bitter for many known and unknown reasons, her few interests have been known to coax a more positive side out of her. One of her most prominent involves her fascination for pigs, as she is mostly seen playing Vampire Piggy Hunter on the Game Slave, obsessing over Bloaty's Pizza Hog for family dinner night, and even befriending Shadowhog in "Gaz, Taster of Pork". She has been seen to be more of a more fleshed-out personality in the comics and Enter the Florpus, showing a bit more concern for her brother Dib's well-being than in the series.
In Enter the Florpus, Gaz reveals that she's only tough on Dib because she knows he can take it and shows that she actually does care about her brother.
Eric Trueheart also confirmed that Gaz is feeling the way she is feeling because she is very sad; what is making her feel this way is not known. While never actually said in the show, it is hinted in a few episodes like “Bad, Bad, Rubber Piggy” and "Gaz, Taster of Pork", that Gaz has a girly side but doesn't want anyone (except her family and possibly Zim) knowing. In fact, in the commentary for the latter episode, is was stated by both Melissa and Jhonen that at heart, Gaz is girly. “Issue 40” also hinted this as the cover had Gaz in a princess outfit and there was an alternative version of Gaz where she was seen as “nice”. In the commentary for "NanoZIM", Rikki Simons says that he finds Gaz adorable. This actually makes sense due to the few times that GIR has shown infatuation with her. Gaz's full first name is Gazlene, a play on the word gasoline. This play on words fits her personality rather well: like gasoline when ignited, Gaz has a very fiery temper when provoked. Ambidextrous
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