Who Are Your Favorite Irkens In Invader Zim?

Who are your favorite irkens in invader Zim?

Precious anon, this is like walking up to me pigging out on a box of oreos, and asking me which individual cookie is my favorite in the package. The answer is probably “the one I’m currently eating!” with a dumb, cockeyed grin before I turn and reach for the milk.

So thank god you gave me a plural option. If you didn’t, I’d find it challenging to not say Zim himself. Series protagonist, an absolute riot, complex, and, well, it’s hard not to absolutely adore the vibrance Richard Horvitz’s voicework breathed into him.

Skoodge, on the other hand, is one of the characters most of all I have long wanted to see more official content of, most especially even though impossibly in the TV show. He’s usually the one I’ve cited as my favorite Irken over the years. He’s relatable, hilarious, endearing, repulsive, somehow inspiring, but most of all extremely interesting for how unique of an outlier he is in the show when he’s not being the universe’s preferred butt-monkey. Ted Raimi made him pretty easy and fun to listen to, and he has this history and dynamic with Zim incomparable to any other character in the franchise that just... it had so much potential that nickelodeon really slept on. I’m fairly certain I even heard Vasquez complain a bit in a dvd commentary about how underutilized Skoodge went when the series was cancelled. There were serious plans to involve him more as part of the actual main Earth cast and a couple of the unfinished scripts incorporate that, and I’m always one to recommend them. Not even to mention that there was a pitch in the works for an episode where he and Tak would both get screen time.

And speaking of Tak, she’s up there as well, as cliché as it might be in this fandom. The Dibship is nice to have and all, but it just doesn’t scratch that same spot her flash in the pan performance did. Goes without saying she had incredible value as a recurring foil to zim, and like skoodge, she stands far apart from other Irkens in a way that gives her so much more personality for it.

The current tallest, of course, but definitely Red a deal more than Purple. Out of all Tallest we know of? Miyuki, hands down.

If Zib counts, he deserves mention, for no other cause than the fact that he’s kind of the entire reason I got back into invader zim to the point of it over taking so much of my blog activity. That’s not even an exaggeration much, the brainrot started anew with finding out about him. The horrid thing.

Tenn and Larb purely for their proximity to major parts of the series’ world building. Gashloog has a funny name and reminds me a lot of when I used to work in food service myself.

If I could only pick one Irken to kidnap from the horrors of Jhonen’s writing and provide a good home to? Table-headed service drone Bob, any day.

Oh love this absolute unit

He literally built like Spiderverse Kingpin

Also, when you think about it, he’s really only meant to be intimidating to Zim. Through that lens, he’s a sadistic prison warden.

Objectively… dude is a fast food manager,

and not even a terrible one. His other employees are presumably there of their own free will and aren’t miserable like Zim. Gashloog is explicitly there as a voluntary hire and gets to take regular breaks. Don’t forget that, rather than take his vacation sooner and F out of his post absent of Zim, he doesn’t leave his employees to shoulder the burden of fending for themselves in the middle of a Foodening. His hostility to Zim is because of a personal grudge and a desire to punish a legitimate menace who nearly wiped out their society on multiple occasions.

Relative to Irken standard, he seems like a fairly decent guy and a good leader???

sizz-lorr is so cute and for what. why's he so cute. isnt he supposed to be intimidating? hes just funny and has a silly round head with silly round eyes and a silly round body.

hes just like. ugh

Obsessed with tiktoks of high school girls doing Steve Harvey cosplay. My favorite genre of video tbh

Comic main Dib: Pretty much the same as Florpus

Zib The Ultimate Dib: There is an important distinction that must be drawn between the words “dissection” and “vivisection”. A distinction that would appear to be lost on this guy.

The difference between pilot, series and movie Dibs is just the amount of time they would hesitate before dissecting Zim (and would they hesitate at all)

I mean obviously not just that but you know what I mean

Clay is? Not a werewolf??? I thought. There was some big twist down the show. That I haven't watched. And assumed that a character is a werewolf. Because fanarts

Sorry

Yo who went and made the app widget so freaking m o i s t ?