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Skoodge has been excluded in the name of actually underrated characters. Had the series not been canceled, he was already on schedule to join the main cast on Earth anyway.

Tak was never officially an invader to begin with.

And Tenn’s unfortunately failed in her mission, as far as implications go.

I’ve mentally been running with option 2 for years. “Irken Empire” could mean a lot of things bereft of context. We never call our civilizations stuff like the Human Empire. Look out, here comes the homosapien army! He can know the word Irken before Zim arrives but wouldn’t know for sure if that’s like, a nationality, an ethnic identity, or even some multi-species alliance of dominant factions.

That said, option 3 is really, really funny to picture. Six months of this poor boy anxiously lying awake at night just wondering what do the curly fries mean. Are they a code for something else? are they like Earth curly fries, and why? And how? Was it a taunt? Do they want our fries? Do they want to make us into curly fries?

A fun little question for the IZ Fandom!

So if Dib was listening in on the Great Assigning transmission back in ‘the Nightmare Begins’

How comes he doesn’t seem to retain any of the information he might’ve learned from it?

Such as the existence of the Height-Based Caste System, which surprised him in ‘Tak: the Hideous New Girl’

The name of the Irken Empire itself, which he explicitly didn’t know in ‘The Wettening’

And one of the recordings shown in ‘A Room With a Moose’

(We never explicitly see him learn about Irk but he does mention it by name later on. I assume he learned the name from ‘Bloaty’s Pizza Hog’.

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And, you know, the fact that Zim’s ‘Mission’ is bogus, which he never actually learns about. (Unless he was paying very close attention to the Implications in ‘Enter the Florpus’ - and honestly, he kinda had a Lot on his mind so I won’t be surprised if he missed that)

So, pick your favorite answer!

Aliens in the IZ Universe don’t actually speak English. Dib picked up a transmission of incomprehensible alien chatter and only assumed it means ‘they’re coming!’

Dib only picked up the last few lines of the transmission (“the universe will be ours for the taking!” and onwards) so while he might’ve been aware of the Irken Empire as a force with aspirations of conquest (“It’s only a matter of time until all the races in the universe serve the Irken Empire!”) he didn’t know for sure at first if he can link it to the alien who came to earth six months later.

Dib only picked up the very last line of the Great Assinging Transmission (“I’ll have them serve me curly fries”) and drew a lot of Accidentally Correct Conclusions from it.

Dib didn’t hear anything. The transition between the Great Assigning and Dib’s introduction doesn’t necessarily mean he was listening in on that. He was probably just listening to random Space Noises and assumed it is a broadcast from some conquest-hungry alien. This probably a regular occurrence for him and it’s just that today it was happening coincidently around the time an actual boardcast from conquest-hungry aliens was happening somewhere too far away for his equipment to reach.

The transmission was not perfect and Dib ended up missing a few key words like ‘Irken’ and ‘Tallest’ and then also he just happened to take a very long bathroom break just as Zim showed up.

Dib just… forgot some of the details of the broadcast. There’s like a six-months-gap between him hearing it and Zim actually arriving on Earth and he just forgot some of the broadcast. Six months is a long time, cut him some slack okay????

Wait a second…..

By popular consensus, Invader Skoodge deemed slightly more fuckable than Zim.

Results: promising, but inconclusive.

Recommendation: further research.

"don't disappoint me, society"

A. Come on you’re asking this about Dib “Agent Mothman” Membrane

B. Let me explain for serious why this is PERFECT for Dib-

Interpretations of the actual Mothman myth are ambiguous and conflicted. A lot of mothman-related speculation and “lore” was a snowball of things added onto and after the original Point Pleasant Sightings. Originally, mothman was only another “someone said they saw something weird” case, until coincidental timing and dot-connecting started to link his presence to other occurrences. There’s maybe an obscure handful of mothman attack anecdotes, but the creature’s gist is actually wholly one of association to other things he appears to have no understood direct connection to. A major instance of this was the theory that Mothman was connected in some way to the Silver Bridge collapse, just because of the way reports about him flooded in around the same time. Since then he’s also been associated with UFO sightings, to the point of some conspiracists pondering if he himself is an alien, and precognitive visions people report experiencing after his appearance. Long story short, other paranormal activity in the area often gets linked to mothman in some way, while the exact nature/behavior of the entity himself beyond being the original inscrutable glowing-eyed silhouette is… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ?

So put all of this together and it adds to the menace factor of Mothman’s reputation, in a way that led many to thinking of him as a harbinger of doom or some kind of creepy, nihilistic watcher; however, it also gave rise to the theory of Mothman as, actually, a misunderstood, benevolent critter. Some paranormal writers cast Mothman as a being that is attempting to protect humans, his sightings not being a cause of these events, but rather a warning of them. If anything I always interpreted this specific legend as a very intentional choice for Dib’s Swollen Eyeball alias.

C. Between the coat and the glasses reflection idk what more anyone’s asking for as far as aesthetic parallels

Also true yet I think even that is underselling it. Disorganized colonizer to Earth, natural terrorist to his own species. I woulda gone with “He’s a walking natural disaster”

Also, me when propaganda works

Taylor art by @tactilescream

Propaganda

Invader Zim: No Propaganda Submitted

Taylor Hebert: - She's the protagonist and main POV character

- She spends the first several arcs going from "insecure teen" to "widely feared supervillain" over the course of a few months

- Her actions are definitely villainous, from robbing a bank, to attempting taking over a city, to putting bugs in the chilli someone was cooking