#megadoomer

Megadoomer!!

Okay first off, this ep has SPOT ON CHARACTERIZATION for basically everyone:

- The Tallest! Purple being a childish shit and Red being a little better (but still not having much of a reaction to Tenn's plight). They just have an amazing dynamic here and I love it.

- GIR actually being halfway helpful for once!

- Zim obsessing over Dib, from ranting about him to a random kid for several minutes to INSTANTLY deciding he's gonna use the titular Megadoomer to destroy him. He also ignores good sense again, choosing to find human power outlets instead of getting a battery. Also also his patience with GIR in the beginning ("yess..chicken legs" "that means it TURNS INVISIBLE") is excellent!

- Dib! This ep is an important step on his "learning to care less" character development arc. He went from "you can't hide forever! and if you can, then I'll wait forever!" in The Nightmare Begins to "I guess this is a victory for me..or something. I'm going back to bed." in this ep to "NOOOOOO whatever" in Zim Eats Waffles. Lookit him :D

Speaking of Dib, I estimate he goes through at LEAST 5-10 cameras a month :p

Secondly/thirdly/whateverly, this ep has a TON of behind-the-scenes lore:

- The malfunctioning SIR units themselves have a lot of clues! Their EXISTENCE alone indicates that either the existing SIR units keep needing to be replaced, there are more invaders than there were at the Great Assigning, or SIR units aren't just for invaders. Also, Red and Purple's reaction to them implies malfunctioning tech is fairly common in the empire

- Zim has a throwaway line about how the titular Megadoomer was "engineered by conquered Vort scientists." This tells us a LOT. For one, Vort has apparently been conquered by Invader Larb sometime between now and Battle of the Planets (since in that ep Skoodge is said to be the first one to have conquered his assigned planet). For two, as expanded on in Backseat Drivers, Vort was turned into a military research base. And for three, the Vortians are (rather understandably) bitter about all this, as they introduced a glaring flaw into the Megadoomer's cloaking technology!

- Tenn shows us a decent amount on the other Invaders and on the Meekrob themselves!

- Smikka Smikka Smoodoo and the rest of the screwheads show how the irkens treat conquered species!

IZ Memes I made with no context, 3 of ???

Chicken Legs of DOOOOOOOOOM!!!!

Eric: What?

Jhonen: I've got an issue here. ZIM is lit from the inside of that cockpit-

Eric: Yeah?

Jhonen: -All red? But when you see him through the robot, he's not lit red.

Eric: Because the red light goes invisible.

Jhonen: *long silence*

Jhonen: You thought this down to the very last detail!