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pe0pleall3rgy · 1 month

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Projecting my misery onto him.

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spaceboibrainrot · 2 months

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sorry if this seems rude, but isn’t zim confirmed to be an adult? i’m just trying to confirm the ages of zim and dib, and zims age isnt really confirmed in the show

jhonen vasquez has said Zim is older than any human currently alive but Zim is intended to be seen as a kid.

The show Bible calls him a kid

In the ETF scene where Zim is human he's a human kid

Zim is intended to be seen as a kid and a lot of people who worked on invader Zim make stuff to encourage ZaDr which they wouldn't do if it was an adult and child

Zim is intended to be seen as an equal to Dib the same age, size, power, ways of thinking, etc.

If you see Zim as a kid that's accurate, if you see Zim as an adult that's also accurate.

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inbarfink · 4 months

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There’s just something about the fact that Zim reads as So Autistic. Like, both in the sense that it’s easy to map his experiences as an alien secretly living on earth to Autistic experiences:

A lack of understanding of social cues and conventions

The Anxieties of feeling like you have to fit in some arbitrary social standards or Something Bad will happen

Unusual sensory sensitivities

Pickiness about food

General alienation

Even the whole ‘fully grown alien disguised as a human child but he’s so immature he basically acts like a child’ shtick can really resonate with a sort of Growing Up Autistic Feeling of… being both far too mature and childish for your age at the same time.

And also in the sense that even in the context of comparing him to other Irkens...

He has problems with volume control

And possibly audio processing

And definitely with emotional regulation

And is extremely impulsive

And uses very unusual wordings and turn-of-phrases

And experiences sensory overloads.

And these aren't even Alien Things. That's just Zim being Zim. So he can be read as a metaphor for being Autistic and also as just having the Irken Equivalent of Autism

AND ALSO

His human arch-enemy Dib also has SO MUCH AUTISM VIBES

Like being single-mindedly obsessed with a special interest from a young age

(The part where his interests alienate him from his peers at school and he only finds companionship with an assortment of fellow weirdos of various ages he met online is something I find especially relatable for my own experiences)

Also having problems with reading social cues

And a tendency to rant and info-dump

AND ALSO ALSO

There’s also Gaz

Who is ALSO single-mindedly obsessed with a singular subject

And it’s something that always gives her something to do with her hands

And avoid eye-contact

Which she generally prefers to avoid

And also seems to dislike any sort of physical touch

And either expresses her emotions in a way that is terribly understated or overstated

And it could also apply to their dad too, who’s been obsessed with science stuff from a young age

And also doesn’t seem to do so well with social interactions

Outside of just, like, me looking back at my Autistic-but-unaware-of-it middle-school ass imprinting on this show and being like “oh yeah, That Makes Sense” - it’s also kinda darkly hilarious how this show is basically about two autistic boys who just fucking hate each other to death (plus one of the boys' extremely autistic and extremely dysfunctional family). I mean, in the real world Autistic Solidarity is so incredibly important, obviously. But Invader Zim, a show that was everything to me as a lil autistic teenager is all about that sweet sweet Autistic Hostility.

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unreliable-at-best · 3 months

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chocoperrito · 3 days

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Zim from invader zim?? :3 he's very buggy and cool ^_^

zim 4 yewwwww

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strawowoberry · 26 days

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BIRTHDAY POST🥳🎉

♡

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molokolox · 3 months

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^^

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phantomzthief · 3 months

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I fucjing died on the toilet today, don’t eat sweet potatoes that might or might not have gone bad kids

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4animalcanibal · 11 days

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iz draw request: dib getting his first autopsy kit :)

This was so fun to draw

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amanda-youngs-slvt2 · 2 months

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Dumb dumb garbage brain son is happy to see his father and forgot what he was doing.

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pe0pleall3rgy · 1 month

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My sillies….

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spaceboibrainrot · 4 months

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I refuse to acknowledge that Zim is taller than Dib

I refuse to believe this.

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inbarfink · 6 months

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No, you see, one of the funniest things about Zim is that he’s not, like, 100% fully incompetent. Throughout the entire IZ Canon, Zim has occasionally demonstrated some moments of surprising competency in combat -

Infiltration -

Mechanical engineering and science -

Spaceship flying -

And Diabolical schemes -

Of course, all of these moments are contrasted with major scenes where he is very comically bad at all of those same things. But a lot of this can be attributed to his actual core flaws which are - his ego and his absolute inability to accurately assess threats.

(and obviously these two traits are extremely related. Zim falls into either underestimating genuine threats to his safety and goals due to his own overconfidence - or overestimating ‘threats’ and turning minor problems into anxiety spirals as a way to justify why he keeps failing).

And you can see how all of Zim’s other screw-ups kinda all stern from that one core Flaw. Zim is probably decent enough at hand-to-hand combat for a tiny little alien, but he’s totally unable to assess whether or not he’s punching above his weight. And so he ends up losing in horrible and embarrassing ways to guys much bigger and tougher than he is.

He’s a pretty impressive scientist and inventor - but his inability to see his own limitations and flaws means he can’t notice when his project is too ambitious for his abilities or even just when he makes some error that he could’ve probably fixed before test-running but.. well… he doesn't and he didn’t, so…

And all of his plans overlook serious problems, while focusing far too much on minor threats. Even when his inventions work well and he comes up with something legitimately cunning, they are wasted on Literal Petty Schoolyard Drama.

Threat assessment is the one thing Zim is Legitimately Bad at. Pretty much the only times he identifies danger correctly are explicitly a ‘even broken clock is right twice a day’ situations (see: ‘Plague of Babies’).

And that is so funny.

Because while it seems like the Irken Empire sees an Invader actually conquering the plant on their own as, like, a Good Bonus Assignment to do on the side and Zim, ever the overachiever, has basically decided that it’s his duty.

The actual main role of an Invader - as stated in the first episode is - quite simply