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Healthy shout out to these two who understood the assignment perfectly and got a good snicker out of me
Personally, my vote was for big Owl himself, with the mental audio playing like
“Because I wanted to show the world that without your precious fucking book, the Cooper line was nothing.”
Fun Question
Scenario- Sly 2: Band of Theives, but it’s bound to pg13 movie rules.
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????
Okay so literally neither writing the necropsy post nor finishing the Skoodge animation has been able to burn the brainworms out, so I need to reach for the nuclear option. Freakin, y’all, fandom, weirdos, help me. I got impulses to begin a little Zib animation and I’m gridlocked by my options. Help settle this so I can stop procrastinating.
Sly Cooper: Honor Among F#*%s
You know how this goes by now. Sly 3 now hypothetically follows PG13 movie guidelines. Someone gets one F-bomb by the end of the game, choose wisely.
ROUND 2 SIDE B: I HAVE ZERO QUIRKY DESCRIPTION IDEAS FOR THIS
Sly Cooper (racoon; Sly Cooper) vs Lord Arum (lizard; The Penumbra Podcast)
PROPAGANDA UNDER THE CUT!
Sly:
"He didn't make it into my furry poll and it made me SO SAD he's my fav!!!! I am a raccoon furry he was made specifically for me. Hes so fucking funny. Gentleman thief character. What else can you want. He's so silly."
"I very much want to point out the series' really impressive comic-book styling in its art, I know that doesn't have much influence on the anthro-ness of it but I think it gives the world (and its character designs) a very unique visual flair that I don't really see in animated mediums. Sly is also a sarcastic fuck and I love his annoying ass he's like my bastard cat who scratches my face"
Arum:
Propaganda post <3
As a fan of both shows, anyone voting amethyst has NOT consumed invader zim. Has Amethyst eaten a live human baby??? Has she committed second degree Tarrare? Has she eaten sawdust filled chocolate bars to the point of hurling, or enough Halloween candy to swell like a grotesque, bloated tick at the end of a cul de sac, as pictured above? Does she still have human bones inside of her body? I didn’t think so.
*cracks knuckles* Propaganda time
Invader Flobee
- Assigned to an unnamed planet of large boulder creatures
- Last shown to be very far along with if not completed his mission, having won over the subservience of the local. Quite competent 👍
- funny rockperson disguise
- looks like he barely has a shit to give at all times
- has my vote
Invader Gooch
- abnormally large PAK
- bad posture
- incredibly comical name
- funny lookin’
Invader Grapa
- 👎 Stolen Valor 👎
- Probably hasn’t even finished his own assignment yet
- Allegedly steals candies from defenseless smeets
- literally why are people voting for this fraud #Justice for Skoodge
Invader Groot
- ha ha he is Groot
- that’s kinda all he has going for him
Invaders are listed left to right, top to bottom
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"
My job in voting and spreading the poll done,
Tangential, but because I love subversive and cheeky humor, imagine if we asspulled and made trendy a different joke where Irkens turn out by freak biological coincidence to be extremely susceptible to nicotine addictions. Where’s my vaping zim headcanons- or better yet, where are my fanworks of Skoodge and Zim reenacting this absurdity basically shot for shot?
THIS IS A QUESTION PEOPLE ARE CAPABLE OF ASKING?!
THE ANSWER MY FRIEND IS
YES. ABSOLUTELY YES.
- He has the blood of countless beings on his hands
This little guy and his sidekick have killed or mangled a lot of sentient life. He’s non-lethally ruined scores more than that, especially within his own species. He raised an entire little civilization/cult once from the ground up, Spore-style, in the comics only to destroy them. He’s killed the show’s main antagonist and his direct rival at least once, on-screen too. Vaporized or blown up irrelevant side characters, launched domestic animals into the sun for no observable reason, etc. Anyone from outside the show, you understand what his kind does, right? They take over foreign planets from the inside, and then they call over backup to either subjugate the inhabitants, or wipe them clean off the face of existence before moving onto the next target. That’s the stakes here and his primary goal in all of this.
- He is a unrestrainable, cosmic-level threat dressed in moron’s threads
His comedic incompetence by no means dampens his ability to be a fearsome force; if anything, he is made all the more intimidating by his unpredictable and chaotic tendencies. He will go to absolutely asinine lengths or choose the most destructive/dangerous path to completing his goals possible on an impulsive, arbitrary whim. Opening a hole in the fabric of this dimension to impress his leaders, tampering with time travel to cripple his rival, blowing up a city to dispose of a lab accident, draining the entire ocean to throw the unholy mother of all water balloons at one kid who pissed him off. Even acting in neutral or “good” intentions, he has caused planetary scale harm to his own brethren multiple times, including the indirect assassination of 2-4 almighty tallests and corrupting their ultimate judicial authorities to madness.
Generally speaking, Zim gets what he wants, barring something that would outright break or end the show’s broader formula. From the surface it MAY look like he’s the idiot being strung along by Red and Purple, but truth be told, they are the ones wrapped around his little finger. Those two are rightfully scared of what he could do if their one effective method for keeping him away failed. He’s crazy, but not stupid by any means, given he’s the single most brilliant and powerful inventor in the whole series. Yes, even more than Membrane. The comics went further to demonstrate that his technology is hypothetically capable of outright destroying the universe or trapping all of its inhabitants into a perpetual time loop purgatory. Every character in Invader Zim is completely at the mercy of his protagonist plot armor.
- He purely looks out for himself and has zero sense of loyalty/honor
Being a useful ally to him rather than an opponent only tenuously, if at all, saves you from the disasters he leaves in his wake. He will betray those he works with on a dime the instant it becomes convenient to do so, and he’s a competent manipulator who uses humans and aliens alike to self-serving means only to immediately throw them under the bus or abandon them. Additionally, he’s proved himself the most unsoldierly soldier of the Irken military. It is very likely the reason that the role of invader was even appealing to him was because it allows for the freedom to operate absent of accountability to fellow comrades or supervision. His biggest “accomplishment” in training ended in the obliteration of his commanding officer and fellow team members. For the countless ways he has been a menance to his homeworld he has bragged in the place of showing remorse. Other Irkens are just as expendable npcs to him as the very creatures he’s actively trying to conquer, and it’s evident that his reverent feelings toward his leaders themselves don’t actually penetrate beyond a surface formality. To quote him directly, “I know not of sides, Earth Stink.”
- He is overtly monsterous and sadistic to the point of straining the boundaries for what a kid’s show can even allow
Oh, Hebert over there robbed a bank? How about the attempted and sometimes successful enslavement/genocide of all humanity? How about frakensteining an innocent schoolroom hamster into Godzilla? Bugs in chili? Zim put bologna into the genetic sequence of a 12 year old. One time, and I’m not exaggerating, he was the bug in Dib’s food! Ripped another child’s eyes out of the sockets and replaced them with hallucinating implants. Kidnapped and subjected hundreds of humans and many animals to fridge horror types of probing and experimentation. Swapped the brain of a witness with a regular squid’s. *cough cough* Dark Harvest. Don’t get me started about rubber pigs or muffins, but I could certainly keep going on. Zim is a brutal little bastard when he gets any opportunity to be. He doesn’t just want to beat his enemies, he wants to crush them with all of the unbridled glee of a bully cackling while burning ants with a magnifying glass.
- As Megamind would say: Presentation!
As we all know, it’s mostly a matter of theatrics and domination that really puts the “super” into the title supervillain, and goodness does this lil green man have a penchant for the dramatic. His maniacal laughter and his hammy mannerisms have reigned pretty iconic going on over 20 years now, after all. “Over the top” is likely one of the first things any fan of the show will think when asked to describe this guy in a nutshell, and justly so.
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
Okay here’s the thing. I love and adore Doof as much as the next high class cartoon fan, but if you are voting for him, you genuinely do not know what a “villain protagonist” is. The main protags of phineas and Ferb are Phineas and Ferb, and even within the classic doof-centered B plot, Perry the Platypus is the one in the protagonist role.
Like all other campaign arguments are thrown aside. One of these guys is an actual villain protagonist, and the other one is a villain antagonist. It’s not your fault, Doof, you are amazing and iconic, but this is not your banner to fly and I will not deprive you of your proper taxonomy.
Propaganda
Heinz Doofenshmirtz: He has a tragic backstory. It’s so tragic that not even his parents showed up for his birth. He also has a found family of ocelots! And a nemesis with whom he has a mildly homoerotic rivalry. He predictably gets his plans utterly decimated each time, but he never gives up! Give the guy props for tenacity. He’s also legitimately good at building crazy machines, his downfall is his habit of building self-destruct buttons. He’s ridiculous. He tries so hard. He’s such a babygirl.
Invader Zim: An autistic icon who paved the way for so many shows people praise today - Steven Universe, She-Ra Princesses of Power, Hazbin/Helluva, Owl House and so many more. Also, a non binary icon, as this beautiful small bean rocks a pink dress and on multiple occasions is the draggest of queen's. Vote Zim for the road he died paving for all the recent LGBT faves to run on.