#undisguised zim

[mast3r-rainb0w]

[C] 'Jackie Chan Adventures' Style: Invader Zim by Mast3r-Rainb0w

A commission I made for a client via DeviantArt, featuring the titular character Invader Zim (in his UNDISGUISED form) drawn in the artstyle of the 2000 animated TV series "Jackie Chan Adventures". Enjoy!

[whumporpass]

Invader Zim

[neolxzr]

hey you get it its an alien stage alien au—wait a minute... this is just invader zim !!!

some more random info abt this au under the read more ^_^ open at your own risk its a lot of yapping

till makes it his mission to expose the aliens (mostly ivan. he has personal beef with him) to the rest of humanity, but he's the boy who cried wolf. no one believes him because he's been talking about aliens and bigfoot and mothman and whatever nonstop all his life.

till loves the supernatural but also fears it. it consumes most of his waking thoughts. he doesn't like how quickly the aliens grow close to mizi out of a desire to protect her from the (presumed) threat. he's kinda like if dib invader zim was some gay art kid instead of like a supergenius

this threatening feeling comes from till assuming that ivan and sua are on earth for some kind of conquest and or abduction reasons. are they actually? who knows...

mizi is a bit of a hopeless romantic and finding out that sua was an alien only served to make her fall for her more. she could think of nothing more romantic than this scenario, actually. even till screaming danger at her cannot deter her from her love

ivan fights with till and riles him up because he finds how expressive he is utterly fascinating. he says its to "learn more about humans" but mostly he just wants till's attention. he himself doesn't know why he wants this attention, though.

sua and ivan experience a range of emotions in a similar way to humans, yet their species is discouraged from acting emotionally and isnt taught about what any of their feelings mean. all they know, at the start, is that these humans draw some kind of strange feelings out of them that they've never felt before.

(it sticks with the overall theming of alnst being about trying to understand exactly what love means.)

ivan and sua's earpieces are multipurpose tools. they're connected directly to the brain and can't be taken off. they can be used to generate their disguises (its a hologram type of thing), works as a translator so they can communicate with other alien species, etc.

what looks kind of like a nose on the aliens' faces is not a nose. their antennas are used as their olfactory system (they are also quite sensitive)

till is no longer crushing on mizi at this point in his life. sometime during middle school mizi came out to him as a lesbian and so he told her he liked her and it was a whole thing and they both cried. it ended up serving to strengthen their friendship. its been about 4 years-ish since then and theyre still inseparable

till works some kind of shitty service job part time, at which he met hyuna. she's like his cool older college friend and sort of older sister. he plays with her band sometimes

this takes place in who the fuck knows where midwest united states, and the humans are korean-american. till is first generation and usually speaks korean with his mom at home

it takes a while for till to first get a glimpse of ivan and sua's undisguised forms, though when he finally does something about them seems oddly familiar to him.

mizi sees sua's undisguised form long before till does. she does not tell him this

luka is an alien too. wonder what he's up to...

ok thats all love you bye ^_^

[emeraldspiral]

Thinking about how everyone on the show thinks Zim and Dib are/should be friends, especially GIR.

In Planet Jackers, GIR doesn't understand Zim's reluctance to go to Dib for help and tells him "he seems nice" and is cheerfully encouraging as Zim works up the courage to ring the doorbell.

In Plague of Babies, GIR doesn't think it's a big deal if the baby next door has seen them undisguised because Dib has seen them too.

GIR repeatedly lets Dib as well as Gaz into the base and actually does what they want more often than he does with Zim.

GIR literally begged Dib to hunt Zim again because he knew Zim needed him in his life in Mopiness of Doom.

Gaz thinks Dib and Zim are playing an online game together in Nanozim.

Membrane calls Zim Dib's "little foreign friend" in Tak.

Keef thinks they're BFFs in Return of Keef and desperately wants in on what they have together.

Clembrane thinks Dib loves Zim.

The monsters in the Halloween episode, which need I remind you are products of Dib's own imagination, hold Zim hostage believing that they're friends.

Zim himself apparently thinks Dib secretly wishes they could be brothers (projection much?).

[spaceboibrainrot]

Here's some notes from episode 1

Episode 1:

-irkens wiggle their antennae in salute

-18~ Irken soldiers are picked for operation impending doom 2 (not including Zim)

-an invader's job is to stay under cover to gather info until the armada comes, rather than conquer it themself

-zim was banished to foodcourtia after attacking his own planet and killing all the other invaders

-on the tallest's map Irk (presumably, could also be conventionia) is depicted as blue with pink rings, though most planets on the map are shown as the same blue

-skoodge is called out for being short and Zim is smaller and it's stated that "no invader has ever been so small"

-earth is just a footnote on the map and the tallests don't even know if there actually was a planet there

-Dib is able to hear the tallest's all the way from earth

-Dib says he doesn't know who is coming which implies that they were speaking Irken and Dib couldn't understand them

-S.I.R. unit stands for "standard information retrieval" unit

-the trip to earth takes 6 months

-zim has saliva

-zim's antennae perk up and face forward when curious

-zim refers to Earth's native inhabitants as "urthaniods"

-zim knows what a dog is

-it takes 1:13 seconds to design and build zim's base using the Irken drill thing he used

-zim's house uses the neighbor's electricity

-the robo parents use a track from 2 closets to the front door to move

-zim nervously taps his fingers together

-zim asks a lot of questions and is actively participating in class

-all the school kids think Dib is a racist fuck who bullies the foreign sickly kid on his first day

-zim was prepared to self destruct if he was exposed as an alien

-zim sweats when nervous and is genuinely scared of humans

-Dib draws Zim undisguised even though that's something he hasn't seen yet

-Dib can draw semi realistic and depicts Zim with 3 fingers and a thumb, as well as a slightly rounder and softer head

-Dib assume (correctly) that Zim is here to conquer even though Zim has only acted kind from what Dib had seen

[irkendogma]

What do you think an Irken would look like in real life if you saw one undisguised? I always took them as insectoids but I think Jhonen intended them to just be stereotypical Little Green Men with atypically bug-like antennae (and fussing over the attach point they'd have to a soft, fleshy body is one of the reasons I don't like that direction for them). An exoskeleton is also ruled out by Zim's many unpleasant skin reactions, unfortunately, but I still think they should have them. It's also fairly strange for me to picture them outside of Jhonen's distinct art styles, but they're definitely supposed to be roughly human shaped, and it's just that everything he draws for the series is incredibly angular and almost polygonal looking. We of course know what humans look like IRL, so it's not too jarring to try imagining a "real" Dib or anything (though his hair would certainly be interesting to approach from that angle), but since Irkens are native to that art style, it always takes a bit of focus.

i get what you mean with the insectoid thing - i do like taking an insectoid slant for irkens, but by and large i generally think of them as their own thing separate from human or earth categorizations of organisms? to be completely upfront with it, i hate tailed irkens and have a dislike for interpretations that lean more on the "recognizable vertebrate" side of things, whether that be furry or scalie, but i can recognize that's my own personal thing and people are free to interpret as they like

for me, personally, i really like going into the implications of irkens as a hyperindustrialized species that can only live ten minutes without a cybernetic central nervous system and according to word of god lacks reproductive organs, relying entirely on factory-scale levels of cloning to grow its population, separated almost wholly from their natural origins - while i acknowledge that their faces could be a number of shapes when "destylized", since as you said every species jhonen draws looks fairly angular, i like playing into the "polygonal heads" angle within the context of irkens looking artificial and doll-like, uncanny valley and near inorganic-seeming: hairless, unblemished skin too smooth from their pak healing shut any imperfections long before it could scar, a weird pallor to them that comes from not having needed natural sunlight in hundreds of generations

kind of a commentary on the unnatural fusion of irken societal function with their physical form, with the polygonal heads and faces in particular i think of them as blank of the small complexities and deviations in form that would be present in a human face, you can't quite see what the whole of that shape is until you see them in motion because it's like a living early playstation model - undifferentiated and interchangeable factory products rather than individuals whose history and personality could be indicated solely through minute changes to their face

[verm1c1de]

Do you want to get into why you dislike P//M//A//Z//R? I dislike it too, and I'm curious if you dislike it for the same reason like me. It's okay if you're not, because I have another question instead: Do you have headcanons about the formation of the Resisty?

simply put: no matter zims Actual age proffy m THINKS of him as a kid dibs age. unless mew did some alternate identity,,, thing,,,, or mew mewsed undisguised zim,,,,,,,, in any case, i dont see the chemistry. proffy is as delusional as zim but in a way zim would find Stupid and that makes proffy just an unequal moron. also makes zim/dib dynamic weird in efurry pawssible way

resisty,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

purrobably a really stupid obvious way. like nar putting out fliers. like "hey secret meeting fur anti-irken resistance [here]" and it is so not secret. something like that

[short-and-ugly]

he runs out undisguised again..... admittedly, he was in a rush to see what was happening, but, still...........

maybe zim is also, slowly, sorta learning, that the humans are too stupid to care that hes an alien?

but hes. still. super freaked out by the possibility of getting caught. so maybe not.

[ghostlytuxedo]

ID: Keef, Recap Kid, & Chammy Wamboo play in a bedroom. Drawings & glow-in-the-dark stars adorn the walls. Chammy, sitting on a pink pig cushion, & Keef, sitting on the floor beside a cup & a plate of pizza, happily hold up dolls resembling Dib & Zim to face each other. Recap Kid watches with sparkling eyes from a green cushion, a doll resembling undisguised Gir sitting beside them. A lava lamp sits on the floor between the cushions. In the background, a TV shows a video paused on the silhouettes of tallests Purple & Red as they appear in the show's intro.

They’re roleplaying the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet

[invaderzim2001]

C&D Visionary Inc. Liscened Invader Zim Nokia phone covers, ft. a disguised Gir and an undisguised Zim. These were reportedly sold on Nick.com for awhile.

Date: 2002

Source: [x]

[phasmidcore]

I love it when people draw what realistically Lil Hal would look like, but have y’all explored the shitpostability of ‘Hal but in the form of other robots from pop-culture?’

Please don’t take this seriously, I was hit by the shitpost bug and scrawled this out in like 20 minutes.

[Image ID: Mediocre drawings of Lil Hal from Homestuck drawn as BMO from Adventure Time, R2-D2 from Star Wars, Bender from Futurama, and Undisguised GIR from Invader Zim. End ID]

[emeraldspiral]

Gotta love Zim's logic in Day of the Spookies.

"Dib says the reason he can see that I'm an alien is because his mind is open to the paranormal, therefore if I disillusion him enough to stop believing in the paranormal, he'll stop believing I'm an alien". As if finding out bigfoot and ghosts don't exist would automatically make him think completely separate paranormal phenomena must also not exist, especially when he's seen Zim undisguised zillions of times and has mountains of other firsthand experiences and evidence, including Tak's ship. Like, the only way this could possibly work is if he did something like the brother simulation where he just gaslights Dib super hard into thinking that he imagined basically the entire time they've known each other.

[diloph]

I love it to death and it's my favourite episode, if only the second best episode in the entire series, but after my annual rewatch of Tak: The Hideous New Girl, I have to say, it's the one episode I can't help but notice a lot of animation errors in.

[violintrees]

Zadr for "do you trust me? “ “ yes. “ c:

Sure Dib had been flying in Tak's ship and even flying with Zim before while disguised, but this put all his safety directly into Zim’s hands.

"Come on Dib-thing. Do you trust me?"

Zim had his gloved claw stretched out to Dib as he leaned over the control panel of the Voot. The ship hovered a foot off the ground and hummed softly. Zim was undisguised, but bundled up in earthen sweaters and scarves on this frosty evening. It made Dib's heart soft against all the obsolete alarm bells from their rivalry days.

This answer was new and it scared Dib , but it was true. He reached out to grab the hand.

"yes. I trust you zIM!-"

Cold air whipped past Dib's face as he was suddenly yoinked inside the ship by a strong arm and two pak legs. The windshield slammed shut behind him and they shot up into the night sky. He yelped and hid his face into Zim. Two arms wrapped around him and maniacally laughed.

"ZIM!"

"What Earth boy! Unused to Zim's amazing piloting. Just watch."

"Watch what? you!.."

Suddenly Dib realized they were upside down. Or at least sitting together in the single pilot seat while looking up out the windshield to look down at the Earth. Below them, the Earth is calm and glittering like a dense universe of stars and lights. Dense cities interconnected like massive star clusters in a stellar view that takes Dib's breathe away.

Dib also realized he was still desperately holding onto Zim when the alien brushes past him to reach for the steering.

"Your trust in Zim was well founded, but I like that I can still make you fear for your life."

"I was not afraid.. simply, on guard."

"Well that's also good, a worthy opponent is never off guard. NOW!!" Zim's tone changes suddenly into something more crafty. "Shall we continue? As you humans say, I can show you the wor-"

Dib slaps a hand over Zim's face and looks away in embarrassment.

"That's NOT a saying THAT'S a SONG AND HORRIBLY CORNY TO SAY."

"ZIM IS NOT CORN."

"But erm.. yes I would love that."

Zim smiles and Dib actually thinks Zim has already succeeded in his statement.

[sillymuses]

The undisguised irken just flat out ignores this strange creature as he makes his way towards the nearby phone. He's already in a bad mood without a disguise, without his voot cruiser, and having to rely upon a phone just to reach Gir.

It takes a while for him to finally answer and even then Zim's attempts to bribe his servant into coming to him fail due to the robot's short attention span. It ultimately ends with Zim slamming the phone down and huffing.

"Don't touch me! Unfortunately for ME, I am stuck here for the moment! Do not even THINK about turning me over to your Earthly governments or else I'll...I'll liquidate your eyeballs and turn your brain into cotton candy with my mind! I can totally do that!" That should scare him enough to stay quiet for now.

"Ya'know usually I'd be all, 'I'm on breeeeak, who the H are you, don't bother me,' but I'm in a good mood. Come on in. I'm banned from using the phone right now, but YOU'RE not. You gotta name, stranger?"

Rigby watches as Zim walks, that frown plastered on his face, those magenta eyes bugging out, those antennae...yep, definitely an alien. Rigby has seen plenty of movies about those, which he probably shouldn't have watched, considering they kept him awake all night. But this little guy looked harmless.

"AlsocanIpokeyourantennas?"

[short-and-ugly]

gir answering the door undisguised and unbothered because he knows the human giving him his pizza wont care so long as they get paid. man.

zim saying "hey repeatedly in the background" like. hey. hey. come on. i was literally just defending the security of my home security. what is this.