#Smikka Smikka Smoodoo

[inbarfink]

I am always thinking about This Guy… so much.

His ‘petty’ act of resistance is played as a joke but, it seems like he did manage to throw a major wrench into Invader Ten’s conquest of Meekrob.

And, like, if the Defective SIR Units really had a chance to kill Zim or significantly hurt his mission in any way if they were actually delivered to him, that’s a double victory for Smikka Smikka Smoodoo. After all, every moment that Zim is alive is a hindrance to the Irken Empire.

Especially if you take ‘Enter the Florpus’ as the canon ending of the show.

Just goes to show, every little bit of resistance can make a difference. 

(Also, someone probably will bring up ‘Invader Dib’, so I am going to point out right now that it’s nothing but a fan-made rumor that has been debunked

But also, the fact that the fan-made made-up fake 'real planned finale' all the fans loved and believed in for so long also heavily featured the consequences of this one poor little dude’s attempt at doing Something…

That’s also kinda heartwarming on its own. All along we all wanted him to Make a Difference.)

[fall-out-boytoy]

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!

Speaking of Smikka Smikka Smoodoo, I hc that he ends up joining the resisty :D

[zim-commentaryquotes]

Jhonen: “Aaron turned in this character design, these really cool little alien guys, and the only thing I did to them was add a giant screw into their head. Aaron got so used to me asking to put a giant screw in characters. Giant screws or giant hats shaped like heads.”

[dionysuscrysis]

Intergalactic adventurers Dib and Zim find themselves in over their heads after stumbling upon a gladiatorial space station that pits ex-invaders against each other for the entertainment of formerly conquered societies...

With Skoodge and GIR en route to handle their part of the plan, Dib coaches Zim through a battle with an Irken who’s made some unique modifications to her own PAK. Zim’s sulking, Dib’s sweating, and here on Smikka Smikka Smoodoo’s Screw You Battle Zoo, it’s HAMMER TIME.