Clone Theory

== "The Clone Theory" (or "The Puppet Theory") by SweetZ1997 ==
Before I begin, I want to make it abundantly clear that this is not one of those theories where a certain cartoon character is based off of a dead child, or a specific story being nothing else more than a coma-related fever dream. A no point will you hear me say that any animated show was inspired by real events such as the Holocaust or Nine-Eleven (despite the many YouTube videos claiming that they are). But what you are going to hear me say is that this isn't just about one cartoon, but two. Yeah, I'm actually attempting to kill two birds with one stone, but I'm not sure that the evidence I've gathered so far is legit or not.
What I'm talking about is Invader Zim and Kid vs Kat, both of whom are similar in every way. The plot, the characters, the flow, one hundred percent identical. But that's where the similarities end. Both shows are from two different companies: Invader Zim is from Nickelodeon, and Kid vs Kat is from Disney. Aside from that, the two shows are way, way different from each other in terms of personality. Kid vs Kat may have been an underrated show, but as someone who frequently watched it, I thought it was great. I even have a pet cat myself, and when the show was on, I would inform my cat that his favorite show was on. My only complaint is the ending. The finale, "The Kat Went Back", was the culminating arc of the series, and those are meant to have closure, so that the arc finishes, and the show comes to an end on a comfortable note, like Gravity Falls or H2O: Just Add Water. In my opinion, Kid vs Kat should have ended with Kat and Coop finally getting over their differences, Burt and Millie apologizing to him for not believing Kat was an alien, and Coop accepting Kat as a part of their family for real and them all being friends now instead of enemies, because Coop and Kat are undeniably a better team than they are rivals. That would have shown growth, development, closure and satisfaction and made a really nice ending. Instead it just pointlessly reverts back to the default and doesn't even have a proper ending. That really sucked. I also would have toned down the constant levels of injustice on Coop, and gotten rid of a few bits of immature humor. If those three things had been fixed, I definitely would have given it five stars. The rest of the show definitely deserves it.
Invader Zim, on the other hand, was about as creepy as it was quotable. I feel like the art style is incredibly unique and amazing, with the way they use very dark, washed-up colors with sharp lines and unique character designs. I absolutely love how dark and gross it is as well, with episodes such as Lice, where the school kids all get head lice (which is portrayed in a rather disgusting manner) and, of course, "Dark Harvest". Dark Harvest is known to be one of the most dark and disturbing episodes Nick has ever aired, and everybody loves it. There's quite a bit of gross-out humor, dark jokes, and disturbing tidbits that can really captivate an audience. Zim harvesting organs, ripping out Keef's eyes and replacing them with mechanical ones, and having a giant zit that can control the minds of people, as well as having tons of alien-babies merge into a giant mass. Very awesome show overall, not to mention that "Enter the Florpus" is an awesome way to have Zim return to the small screen. I just wish Kid vs Kat had a TV movie of its own, maybe one with a new villain to boot. But that's just me.
Now what does all of this have to do with what I'm about to tell you? The answer is quite simple. It's because of the fan base.
Fans have dreamed of a cross-over between these two shows, but that never happened because, like I said before, they're from two different companies. Besides, from the heavy amount of backlash Disney's recently getting nowadays, I wouldn't think Nickelodeon would be collaborating with them anytime soon. However, that doesn't mean that they're not connected in any way. You see, Kid vs Kat might have been set in the Invader Zim universe. They're both about children fighting against an unstoppable alien race, despite the setting being different. Kid vs Kat is set in a normal, suburban town, and Invader Zim is set in a dystopian hellscape. I believe that it's because these shows took place in two different timelines: Kid vs Kat was set in the present while Invader Zim was set in the future. Something might have happened during those years before the events of Invader Zim, something that shook the very core of our human society. But what was it? What happened?
To answer that question, we need to look at where Kid vs Kat ended, The Kat Went Back Part Two. The episode ends with Kat and everyone else going back to Earth from the planet of Kat Nebula, but everyone's memories get erased except for Coop and Dennis'. But since Kat is no longer trying to take over Earth, the series ends peacefully (Coop and Kat fighting each other as always). Okay, nothing out of the ordinary, but let's go back to what I just said: Kat is no longer trying to take over Earth. Sounds suspicious, doesn't it, considering Kat quite literally erased the other characters' memories? Why did he do that in the first place? He's no longer a threat, so what's with the ray gun? If we go back before Kat returns to Earth, he's rewarded by his commander for his efforts in getting rid of Coop and Dennis. Kat was expecting boat-loads of money, but his commander instead gave him a mission back to Earth with, you guessed it, the very same ray gun he used to wipe the kids' memories of what they just experienced.
When I first saw this as a kid, I questioned the commander's motives. But now as I look back on it, I began to delve deeper into the show's lore (if it had any to start with). Kat, according to the Kid vs Kat Wiki, is an alien Sphinx cat from Kat Nebula. Kat was sent to Earth to take over the planet for his kind, but since he was adopted by Millie, his mission was temporarily changed to getting Fishy Frisky Bits for his race, awaiting the title of "the Hero". He succeeded in this mission in "Beware The Were-Coop" while he managed to send food via teleportation before Coop foiled his plan. It was finally revealed in "The Kat Went Back Part One" that Kat's first mission was to help to take over the earth so his people could live on it. Somehow he sent reports of human languages (English, with a Russian accent) to his home planet so they could learn that.
In the very first episode, "Let The Games Begin", Kat's adoption happened when Millie asked her father if they could adopt a 'strange-looking cat-like creature'. Burt turned her down, stating that whatever 'he, she or it' was, it had a collar on and therefore probably had an owner. He was forced to compromise though, when his daughter threw her "Ultra Charged Eardrum-Rupturing Temper Tantrum Attack" (the fans or the show's writers rightfully called it that), deciding that she could keep Kat if and only if they couldn't find its owner. Satisfied, Millie dubbed her new friend "Mr. Kat" and wasted no time dressing up and feeding the animal. Coop immediately made dozens of posters for Kat's owner. His efforts were ultimately in vain though, as both Millie and Kat banded together to ensure that the feline would become a permanent part of the family, by tearing down Coop's posters right after he put them up. Even though Kat tore down many of Coop's posters, a lot of people saw some of them and came to the door. Coop thought they all owned Kat, but when they saw him, they shrieked due to his hairless appearance. Burt had no choice but to let Millie keep Kat.
Kat was then revealed that he was sent from an alien planet to Earth by the commander. Kat's primary mission, according to the show, was to take over the world by helping in the preparation for the invasion. But Coop was always at the same place Kat was to foil his plan. However, he was paying the price for it, with Kat in his life. Although, Kat succeed in his goal in an alternate future.
According to the show's creator, Rob Boutilier, during an interview, he created the characters in 2003. After eight years of marriage, he and his wife bought a hairless cat, and he was always amazed by people’s reaction to it. 'These cats are very alien-like,' he said, and he had the idea that if this cat was truly evil he’d probably try to do him in at some point, and that’s what the cat was doing to the boy. They still own the Sphinx cat, and Boutilier notes, 'there has never been an attempt on my life to date, but perhaps she's biding her time.'
I'm starting to see a pattern here. TV Tropes noted that there can be something uncanny about an animal that probably should be hairy but isn't. Mammals are generally supposed to have fur, but for whatever reason a specific animal does not. Some species of mammals, such as cetaceans, pangolins, walruses, elephants (except for the extinct wooly mammoths), rhinos, hippopotamuses, manatees, armadillos, swine, and us humans are bald by default. Hell, I'm bald. I'm so bald, people nickname me 'Dr. Evil'. Although people tend to have a lot of hair on their heads (unless they're wearing wigs). Mammoths had more fur. Also, some swine have more fur. In real life, many domestic animals are bred not to have fur. This is usually either for aesthetic value or because the animal lives in a warm-weather environment. When it comes to pets (except pet pigs), hairless breeds tend to cost more and are usually more expensive to maintain due to their special needs. Some wild mammals, like foxes and coyotes can be hairless due to having mange. Chimps can also sometimes be hairless. Featherless birds are often played to be creepy as well, in fact, more so than hairless mammals. We typically think that vultures and turkeys appear creepy because their heads and necks are featherless. This trope's prevalence is why songbird chicks and parrot chicks are usually portrayed as (inaccurately) having downy feathers like chicken chicks, penguin chicks, and ducklings.
This is largely why the Sphynx and other hairless cat breeds are stereotyped as villainous and evil in fiction, as we saw in Kid vs Kat. Because they're so expensive to buy, they also get hit with a bunch of negative "rich people" stereotypes. I'm not rich by any means, but I do love my cat as much as I love my wife. The reason she was able to buy a hairless cat was because she had more money than I do. I guess you can say that I'm just the luckiest man on Earth.
I know I'm going on a random tangent, but I just wanted to point that out. Now, onto Invader Zim.
In the first episode, "The Nightmare Begins", the Irkens' leaders, Almighty Tallest Red and Purple, have just begun assigning the Invaders their missions for Operation Impending Doom II in the Convention Hall planet, Conventia. However, the most dreaded and infamous Irken ever to live, Zim, arrives in hopes of getting an assignment of his own. Zim was banished from the Irken Empire and sent to work on Foodcourtia when he blew up the other Invaders during Operation Impending Doom I. 'Quitting' his banishment once he hears about the new Operation, Zim begs for an assignment and the Tallest reluctantly send him to a planet outside the reaches of the Empire of no real interest to the Irkens, which turns out to be Earth. After receiving a poorly-constructed SIR Unit made out of garbage named Gir, Zim begins his long journey to his 'mission'. Little does he know, however, that an Earth child, Dib Membrane, has tuned into the meeting on Conventia, and is now alerted for an alien invasion.
Six months later, Zim finally arrives on a planet called Earth. He lands and creates a human disguise for himself, and a dog costume for GIR. Zim then sketches a picture of a 'normal' human house into a capsule with a drill, which bores into the Earth and creates a huge underground base, waking up the entire neighborhood in the process. Zim then enters his new base and searches for a place to learn about the weaknesses of the planet. Ultimately, he decides to join the local school. His disguise fools all of the students, except Dib, who tries to prove to his classmates that Zim is an alien. However, they don't believe him, so Dib attempts to capture Zim himself with Alien Sleep Cuffs. After a lengthy chase, Zim calls GIR and has him take him back to the base. However, GIR leaves a trail of smoke behind that Dib follows. Zim hides inside his house, while Dib stands outside and vows to expose Zim for the alien menace that he is. However, the robotic gnomes in Zim's front yard destroy Dib's cuffs in the middle of his rant. Slightly discouraged, Dib decides to return home, but says that he will be back, Zim, unconcerned about the human, dusts himself off. Later, he contacts the Almighty Tallest (who are shocked that he is still alive), informing them that he is working hard on his mission and would take care of the humans before the Irken Armada even reached the planet. As the transmission ends, the two Tallest look at each other with dread in their eyes.
Now, if you go back and read the synopsis for both shows, you would see that they provided two different episodes, but they're both written in the same fashion. I did some research and discovered that Invader Zim's air date was around August 19th, 2006, and Kid vs Kat was first aired on YTV around October 25th, 2008. Yeah, you heard me right. Kid vs Kat is a blatant ripoff of Invader Zim. If you think Johnny Test's similarities to Dexter's Laboratory were huge, oh boy, let me tell you about the similarities between these two. Kid vs Kat has so many parallels to Invader Zim, it's down-right insane. You can literally make a drinking game out of it. But hear me out when I say that this is the reason why I'm telling you this. Besides, I'm not really here to flame Studio B for stealing from Nickelodeon.
I can hear you all exclaim, 'Will you please tell us already?! The suspense is killing me!' Or I might be boring you with all the unnecessary details. To that I say: Alright, I'll tell you. What I'm about to reveal to you is borderline outlandish but it's nothing out of the ordinary in a world where anything goes, and you can get flattened by a steamroller and pop back into shape.
My theory is... Zim and Kat, two evil alien masterminds that are thought to be two separate entities, are actually one and the same.
I don't blame you for calling B.S. on my claim, it sounds downright hilarious for both ends of the spectrum. I'm not gonna try and convince you to believe my story like most people, but what I am going to try and do is my very best to describe what I believe is, what I consider to be, the unbelievable.
The only way I can best describe this is through the Star Wars franchise, specifically a character by the name of Supreme Leader Snoke. According to the Wookiepedia, "Strand-Casts" were genetically engineered life forms, a type of hybrid clone specimen that was an "artificial genetic construct." They were created through a version of the cloning process called Strand-Casting. By adding the genes of other specimens to a base template, the original host's genetic code was significantly altered to produce "not-quite-identical" modified clones, otherwise known as Strand-Casts. Despite their origins, Strand-Casts were still capable of exercising free will. Possibly unaware of his true nature, Supreme Leader Snoke is a Strand-Cast created on the planet Exegol by the Dark Lord of the Sith and Galactic Emperor Darth Sidious.
Don't ask me why Zim would do what Emperor Palpatine did, not even I know the answer to that question. However, at some point prior to the events of Enter the Florpus, Zim attempted to create a clone of Professor Membrane who could then take his place and ground Dib forever. However, Zim considered the clone a failure not because he barely looks like the professor and doesn't act like him, but because he failed to teach him how to make pudding the way that Zim believes Dib loves. Because of this, he locked the clone away in a pod, only letting him out while searching through his experiments for something to use in Phase Two of his newest plan.
So Zim does in fact create clones, but how does this contribute to Kat being a clone? For a long period of time, this question stumped me when I thought about it, but then after an entire week of brain-storming I snapped my fingers. The Strand-Casts. They needed the genes of other specimens; the hosts' genetic codes needed to be altered to produce clones. Zim must've been infatuated with the Kat Nebulans and had this idea of creating an alternate incarnation of himself and switching bodies with that specific being, similar to Supreme Kai Zamasu during the creation of Goku Black.
Speaking of gods, John 1:14 says: "The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth." A critical facet of the gospel is the fact that Jesus was truly, fully, and physically human. The first eighteen verses of John's gospel not only introduce Jesus, they also counter false spiritual beliefs. One of these errors is the idea that Jesus was only a mirage, or an illusion. This is not true: Christ was a one hundred percent authentic human being. John makes this explicitly clear using the name of "the Word," while saying very directly that He "became flesh," living among human beings. This means Jesus was not a hologram, or a ghost disguised as a person. He was a real, living, breathing person. As a result, He could claim to have experienced everything we do as mortal people (Hebrews 4:15). But as we go further in the Bible, it goes on to describe Jesus being cornered in the temple, in an overtly threatening way, by His religious critics (John 10:22–24). They have challenged Him—dared Him, in effect—to repeat His former claims about being the Messiah. Several months prior, Jesus had given analogies about Himself using shepherding as a theme. Through those statements, Jesus claimed to be the only source of salvation, and that His salvation was eternal, permanent, and irrevocable. When challenged by these men, Jesus repeated those claims, and even expounded on them. In the prior verses, Jesus explicitly said that He offered eternal life, which could never be lost. He first referred to His people as being held in His hand, then referred to the same people as being held in God's hand. He said, quote: "I and the Father are one."
The Bible speaks of the Father as God, Jesus as God, and the Holy Spirit as God. Are these just three different ways of looking at God, or simply ways of referring to three different roles that God plays? The answer must be no, because the Bible also indicates that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are distinct Persons. For example, since the Father sent the Son into the world, He cannot be the same person as the Son. Likewise, after the Son returned to the Father, the Father and the Son sent the Holy Spirit into the world. Therefore, the Holy Spirit must be distinct from the Father and the Son. In the baptism of Jesus, we see the Father speaking from heaven and the Spirit descending from heaven in the form of a dove as Jesus comes out of the water. In John 1:1 it is affirmed that Jesus is God and, at the same time, that He was “with God”- thereby indicating that Jesus is a distinct Person from God the Father. And in John 16:13-15 we see that although there is a close unity between them all, the Holy Spirit is also distinct from the Father and the Son. The fact that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are distinct Persons means, in other words, that the Father is not the Son, the Son is not the Holy Spirit, and the Holy Spirit is not the Father. Jesus is God, but He is not the Father or the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is God, but He is not the Son or the Father. They are different Persons, not three different ways of looking at God.
The personhood of each member of the Trinity means that each Person has a distinct center of consciousness. Thus, they relate to each other personally — the Father regards Himself as “I,” while He regards the Son and Holy Spirit as “You.” Likewise the Son regards Himself as “I,” but the Father and the Holy Spirit as “You.”
Often it is objected that “If Jesus is God, then he must have prayed to himself while he was on earth.” But the answer to this objection lies in simply applying what we have already seen. While Jesus and the Father are both God, they are different Persons. Thus, Jesus prayed to God the Father without praying to Himself. In fact, it is precisely the continuing dialogue between the Father and the Son which furnishes the best evidence that they are distinct Persons with distinct centers of consciousness.
So, if Zim is able to create life, then he doesn't need to conquer Earth because he's already a god. This is why Invader Zim and Kid vs Kat are so much alike, they are two separate entities, yet they are the same being: the Father and the Son - the Trinity of Evil, as I came to call it. Each character may have its own name, history, and characteristics, and may have different memories, body language, and outlook on life. But they would be so strikingly similar to each other that we come up with many different theories such as the Mandela Effect or alternate dimensions.
This is where the similarities stop, however. Kat and Zim's personalities are different from each other. 
Kat enjoys music and dancing. In "You Scream, I Scream", he imagines Coop and Dennis calling him "clever" and "handsome" and snickers about it. He uses his powers selfishly in "Bend It Like Burtonburger", where he is inspired to make several more robot slaves after Millie buys herself a pampering robot. He appears to have extreme anger issues and will do almost anything for revenge. Kat has much in common with Earth cats. When he's not trying to further his plans, Kat enjoys sleeping, eating and tearing up the furniture, sometimes he even prefers to keep having free time instead of helping his boss, which results in Kat being threatened by him and lead to confrontation, like in "The Bottyguard" or "Tickled Pink". He has a strong dislike for baths, however, he will swim if he needs to. He also displays a fondness for yarn and Fishy Frisky Bits and is easily distracted by any of them, and has a very positive reaction when exposed to catnip.
Zim, meanwhile, is prideful and, quite literally, out of his freaking mind, causing destruction yet is faithfully loyal to the Control Brains and the Almighty Tallest. Knowing how dangerous Zim can turn about for their plans of galactic conquest - as he had single-handedly foiled the previous attempt due to blissful ignorance, they randomly choose a planet far as possibly known to send him to get rid of him, which happened to be Earth. Although Zim sees it as a genuine invading mission and does his best to conquer the planet to please the Tallest in spite they have no real interest to annex it to their vast empire, being too arrogant to realize it or not wanting to admit it. Nevertheless, due to the constant interventions of Dib, Zim often fails on his attempts to take over the Earth.
Due to Zim's arrogance, obliviousness, and/or blind loyalty, he remains unaware of the contempt that the Tallests have for him; even though they voice they don't want him to communicate with them, he fails to register the complaint. Depending on the mood of the Tallests, they either consider him a laughingstock or an immense annoyance, yet Zim never detects their disdain. When Zim's plans fail, his fear of disapproval from the Tallests make him lie about accomplishments or most often changing the parameters of the scheme to argue that he actually succeeded - such as when he tried to pilot Mars to kill humanity, but it was knocked out of the solar system by Dib piloting Mercury, therefore Zim claimed he always planned to destroy Mars. The Tallests never believe him, yet Zim stammers out excuses that he believes is convincing, but they're evidently not. We never see Kat lie about his schemes like Zim does on a daily basis, except in the episode "The Treasure Of Sierra Munson", where he molded a statue of the commander out of butter instead of gold and used a photograph of Bootsville as a background shot. If Zim and Kat would've ever met each other, the feline would've seen Zim as a mental escapee rather than an equal. GIR, of course, would've asked him to make him a sandwich, which Kat would do because let's be honest, what would you do if you're stuck in home with two of the most psychotic cripples and maniacs you would ever see? You'd do anything to satisfy them without having your corpse stuffed inside a garbage bag, and being found near the dumpster of a local gas station by the end of the week.
Considering that Zim has been raised since he was born to be solely loyal to the Irken Empire, however, his actions can be rather understandable from a certain point of view, as it could be simply be said that he has grown up to believe that the Irkens are the absolute dominant race and that they are destined to rule over the galaxy, thus just doing what he believes it will benefit his people and seeing no wrong on it. Even Jhonen Vasquez, the show's creator, has said that Zim is a good guy just like Dib, but from a different side. Yet rarely seen, Zim has some good in his heart, as shown when he expresses concern over GIR's safety or when he feels pity upon seeing all members of his robot army getting destroyed by Dib and Professor Membrane, desperately calling them by their names in spite of their identical appearances.
Coop and Kat have been bitter enemies throughout the entire series, though they've teamed up during extreme situations. They work pretty well with each other and appear to enjoy some conflicts. Kat has rescued Coop multiple times, like in "The Bottyguard" when he attacked the Spybot before it destroyed Coop. He also saved Coop in "Just Me and Glue" while he pushed him away from the trajectory of a laser. He has hugged Coop, though usually when addled, as in "Turn The Other Cheek" when he cuddled and purred to the boy for saving him. However, this was after being hit by a golf bag.
The similarities are endless.
Let's go back to Star Wars. Strand-Casting was known to cause various genetic flaws, producing defective and unhealthy specimens; consequently, it had a high mortality rate, with nearly all of Darth Sidious' modified clones failing to survive the cloning process. A significant flaw in the genetic technology was that using the base template of a Force-sensitive did not necessarily or automatically ensure that the resulting Strand-Cast would inherit its progenitor's connection to the Force. Nevertheless, it was possible to deliberately create a Strand-Cast who possessed strong Force powers. A Strand-Cast could also be replicated to create multiple genetic copies.
In addition to Snoke, there were three genetic copies—clone "brothers"—that the cultists kept in a hibernated state, housed in the laboratory of the Sith Citadel, resting in vats of nutrient fluid with technological umbilicals pumping medicinal fluid into their frail bodies. Although Snoke was naturally sensitive to the Force, and particularly strong with the dark side, Sidious rejected his body as an "unworthy" form for containing his spirit. Nevertheless, Sidious found the usefulness Snoke's force-sensitivity could prove to have as a powerful servant and a way for spreading his influence across the galaxy through less direct means as he already was, so instead, utilized him as a puppet in his sinister plans.
Even if that's the case, the cloning techniques employed by Zim would've been inadequate. He could not create a vessel capable of containing his unfathomable power. So after he decided to take a different approach to create a body for him, he used some of his own genetic material. Although he created a being that was not an exact clone, it was his intended purpose to one day house a vessel for the Irken Invader himself, so that Zim could be made anew. Kat is a complete and utter puppet to Zim, a little bit more than a servant and a little bit less than an apprentice. He used the creature to achieve his goals, invading Earth as well as using Kat as a figurehead to cause chaos and destruction.
Though I believe Kat is just a puppet, he's not some brutish alien, he's not something more than an operative of the Kat Commander - the Kat Nebulans and the Irkens are two separate beings aside from both Zim and Kat, he's an extent of Zim's will. A puppet, a figurehead, and nothing more. He's not an agent of the Kat Empire like the show made him out to be, Kat is Kat. He's created from a bunch of different vats and test tubes, a sort of Frankenstein monster. So with him being cloned so many times, it just seems like Zim had created a perfect vessel for himself to transfer his essence into.
When I put two and two together, that scared the shit out of me. But I may be wrong. I just think that it's something to think about whenever the time comes. But then I saw IMDB make an official Kid vs Kat movie, the premise being that Coop and Kat are fighting other aliens to save Earth. I began to think... could this be the cross-over we've all been waiting for all these years? I honestly don't have a clue.
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