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Pilot dib honestly gives me “season one Dib” vibes if anything. Dib took a quite a number of episodes to calming tf down since he met Zim. He’s the same overly dramatic, childishly cruel, potentially teetering on an edge of darkness little dork, but that last part becomes a little bit more contained by a rising apathy and maturity I think as things progressed. I feel like “The Wettening” follows the same skeleton of the Pilot Episode (dib discovers an Irken weakness, over enthusiastically exploits it, than stages a showdown meant to reveal it to everyone else, etc.), just with an altered ending.

P.Dibby stays up all night to make a food launching weapon, series dib spends an entire weekend to do the same for an auto-filling water balloon slingshot. Pilot dib says out of pocket shit like “only then will his evil intestines be revealed” and the iconic 🅱️eans line, series Dib doodles graphic vivisections in class and rambles about wearing his enemy’s clothes. Same twerp, different day.

I think it really does chalk up to the art style vibes AND the fact that Pilot Dib’s limited screen time didn’t give us much view of him outside the context of staring Zim down like a cat chattering at birds outside the living room window.

nobody understands a single THING about pilot dib vs series dib all they know is fandom osmosis and artstyle bias