Zibs Single Cracked/chipped Lens Is The Most Subtle Change In His Appearance From The Dib We Already

Zib’s single cracked/chipped lens is the most subtle change in his appearance from the Dib we already know and enjoy and yet I’m obsessed I’m so obsessed with it over anything else about his design you have no idea there’s SO much to be symbolically said about it

+ the use of glasses in media very often being a way to indicate a character with exceptional intelligence and insight and how Zib having damaged spectacles could be a hint to how this trait of his has been altered or corrupted

+ broken glass in general as a literary metaphor for transformation, the casting off of limitations, or the loss of innocence

+ “seeing through a broken lens” literally being an idiom for someone having a distorted and false perception of their world

+ Dib’s spectacles normally being one of his most defining/consistent features, not just the literal window through which he views others but also the one they see him through. In a destroyed universe, they’re one of the final connections to humanity he has left, degraded.

+ While Zib’s mutations only display how his body has been changed since he conquered his Zim, the unexplained chip possibly serves as a clue that he has also been personally damaged by the events of his past in some way. Irken biology remembers no grave wound, but human imperfections never forget.

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Good god my life flashed before my eyes

Favorite joke from the Invader Zim Lost Episode (😏) is how for absolutely no reason Zim changes art style every new shot

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I think so often about how she was the Tallest that all of our current main Irkens grew up under. Red, one of the most selfish and lax characters in the franchise, was more appalled and shocked at that particular crime of Zim’s than just about anything else on his rap sheet. He even referred to her as Almighty Miyuki. That’s higher reverence really than current Irkens give to R & P, keeping in mind they’re pretty popular rulers.

Spork’s reign was brief and inconsequential, but we have no idea how long Miyuki had been around for. She ruled the empire all the way back during the time when Vort and Irk shared an alliance. She literally referred to a group of near-entirely Vortian scientists as her “finest minds” which is more respect for another race than I think I’ve EVER seen from the modern batch of soldiers/Tallests. It’s heavily implied that it was her death that led to the sudden shift in relations toward Vort being conquered by force, too. Given what Vortians have contributed to Irk’s technology she may have even been the despot that oversaw Irk’s rise to a galactic superpower in the first place. Her memory’s honor appears to be extremely well earned, and it’s tragic we didn’t get to see more of her in the canon.

The fact that Red seemed the most shocked by Miyuki’s death in the Trial makes me sad.