Wild Kratts Theory: Zachs Invisibility Cloak

Wild Kratts Theory: Zach’s Invisibility Cloak

I recently watched the episode “The Vanishing Stingray” for the first time and I found that the episode’s villain plot was very open ended, perhaps for a very specific reason.

In the episode, we learn that Zach’s invisibility cloak, which he has deemed his most genius invention, has an unfortunate glitch. The cloak works perfectly unless it gets wet, which causes the invisibility element to glitch and shut off, allowing you to be able to see the wearer.

Zach tries to remedy this problem by attempting to steal Aviva’s new stingray creature power discs, as he believes the discs house the secret to fixing the glitch due to the fact that stingrays can make themselves invisible under water. His attempt to take the discs fails and Zach is actually not seen in person by any of the crew as his plot in the episode ends, only via a hologram projection. Now here’s where it gets interesting.

After the brief hologram interaction with Zach, Martin questions why Zach went after them, saying “Hey, so what did Zach want anyway?”. I think this is the first time I’ve seen none of the crew figure out a villain plot, which definitely gives Zach an advantage. Only he knows that his invisibility cloak doesn’t work when wet and he believes Aviva’s technology is the secret to fixing the problem.

Now, we know that Zach’s invisibility cloak is his most clever invention, seeing as it was revealed in “Back In Creature Time” alongside Aviva’s very important time trampoline. Unlike most of his other inventions, the cloak allows Zach to get away with his evil plans each time he uses it, like how he used it in “Back In Creature Time” to capture Koki and Jimmy and cut off their communication with the others, as well as in “Creepy Creatures” when he was able to successfully steal the miniaturizer while wearing it. We can see the prominence of this invention well over his others, so the fact that they left this plot in “The Vanishing Stingray” very open ended was quite odd to me… Or so I thought.

After some thinking, I came to the idea that this was done deliberately as a prelude to a larger plot, namely for the Wild Kratts movie. The movie would most likely revolve around some big plot about Aviva’s inventions, such as the time trampoline or maybe even a new one, so it would make sense that Zach would be using his invisibility cloak opposite her creation.

In my opinion, I believe there’s going to be a larger plot to further Zach’s quest to fix his invisibility cloak by using Aviva’s technology. I also think that within that continued plot, the crew will eventually find out about the cloak’s weakness and use that to their advantage. I can just picture Koki casually using a spray bottle around the Tortuga to check if Zach is around! Haha!

Anyways, just some thoughts from me! I haven’t seen all of season 6 yet, so I’m not sure if they’ve done anything else around Zach’s invisibility cloak, but I really hope they use this open ended plot in some way! Let me know what you guys think!

Wild Kratts Photoset

Zach Varmitech being a television diva (2/2)

Golden Snub Nosed Monkey Man

Did Zach’s Disrupto-Bots cause permanent damage to Aviva’s creature power suit technology?

I watched the episode “The Erminator” for the first time today and I had a strange realization.

In the episode, we learn that Aviva now programs new creature power discs of similar animals by taking the foundation of a disc she’s already created and adding to it from there. Furthermore, Aviva makes sure to remove the original information from the disc coding so that the new disc won’t malfunction and cycle through ghost programs of past activations… Where have we heard that before?

In “Creature Power Challenge”, Zach uses his Disrupto-Bots to hack into the creature power suits and reactivate ghost programs of past activations at random. This is exactly what happens when Martin decides to try his hand at making a creature power disc in “The Erminator”, as he forgets to get rid of the old programming before creating the new disc.

This makes me think that Aviva didn’t fully clean the creature power suits of Zach’s hacking. Zach’s disruption code is still somewhere within the brothers’ power suits, and could even still be within the Tortuga as he planted a Disrupto-Bot there as well.

The fact that Aviva and the others don’t seem alarmed by this makes me think that they don’t know it’s happening because of Zach’s past hacking. Aviva seems to think it’s just a flaw in her coding that the ghost activations will happen if she doesn’t program the discs properly. While I’m sure that helps, ghost activations were never an issue until Zach’s interference in “Creature Power Challenge”, which makes me think that he has a hidden advantage here that both he and the crew have no idea about. Unless of course he does realize it and it’s being saved up for some big plot, perhaps for the Wild Kratts movie!

Anyways, just my thoughts about Zach’s hidden advantage. Let me know what you guys think about it!

I totally believe this is true. You can see it a bit here when his hair is soaked. Most of it looks wet and straight, but there’s that little curl sticking up at the end! And even the wet hair looks as if it could have been straightened out before hand. Zach just got splashed here and if he didn’t fix his hair right after, we might have seen his hair dry and bounce back into curls!

You can also see it a bit when he’s a kid. He’s not using gel yet, but most of his hair looks like it’s been straightened. You could argue that it just looks like he has naturally straight hair, but again you see those little sprigs on top! Not to mention his hair dives into a bit of a wave, which tells me that his natural wavy hair is trying to emerge. As someone with naturally wavy hair, I can tell you that even straightened the hair goes into a bit of a curve on the ends. Probably the reason he eventually started using hair gel: to keep his hair neat and perfect like he wanted it to be.

Curly Haired Zach Confirmed?

So that stray piece of hair that usually goes across Zach’s forehead is sticking straight up here, and, in my humble opinion, it looks curly. I know it always looks wavy across his forehead, but this is a bit different. It is more noticeable from this perspective, I guess.

This leads me to wonder if Zach MIGHT have wavy or curly hair. Even if this is the case, I feel like he would do everything in his power to ensure that it was sleek and straight, to avoid looking "messy" if in fact his hair is naturally curly/wavy. I know many of us have headcanoned that Zach uses a ton of hair spray/ hair gel to maintain his "perfect hairdo."

But, and I'm unsure if anyone has discussed this before, MAYBE he uses such excessive amounts of hairspray or gel after he straightens his hair? He will straighten his hair then spray or gel it to keep it from doing...well, what we see in this picture.

So, I guess this is a new headcanon for Zach, anyone agree?

I think Aviva definitely has some kind of traumatic past with Zach we’ve yet to hear about.

Why else would this be her deep dark hallucination in “Puffin Rescue”?

Not me wanting to do an AU about Aviva with some mental illness or problem

Smiling Zachy Makes Us Happy