Zim

* Current
* Alien Form
* Human Disguise

Zim is an egocentric alien from the planet Irk who came to earth with the intention to destroy it and claim it for the Irken Empire. After meeting The Tide Turners, Zim had a major redemption from villain to hero.

## Role In Cartoonland

Zim is a protagonist in Cartoonland: Resurrection, being in most adventures and playing an important role. Zim is a character that has greatly affected the series, with several arcs surrounding him and others from his original source.

## Appearance

Zim looks basically the same as he did in the original series.

He has green skin, big bug-like pinkish-ruby eyes, and two black antennae. He wears a hot pink tunic with a light pink collar and shoulder pads. He has light pink sleeves, black pants and boots. On his back he has his Irken PAK.

After the events of the Foolish Trepidation arc, Zim now has an Antenna Implant where his right Antenna used to be after it got sliced off during his encounter with Ziggy in Falling Out and Off.

## Personality

In the beginning, Zim is a self-absorbed megalomaniac bent on the destruction of earth. Over the course of multiple adventures, Zim becomes more empathetic to others, but would never admit it.

## Abilities

Zim's PAK has optional spider legs referred to as PAK Legs. His PAK legs have an assortment of tools and weapons such as laser guns and wires.

Zim can grow two extra arms from his sides.

## Relationships

### Dib

Dib is Zim's mortal enemy. They come from the same dimension and hate each other's guts. Zim doesn't like Dib, but sometimes, he's not horrible to talk to. They sort of understand each other in a strange way. Zim would never admit it, but he appreciates Dib helping him with attempting to gain the Tallest's respect. Over time, the two have stopped fighting with each other as much and have reverted to mostly senseless bickering. Sometimes the two get along and joke with each other, but it's a rare occurrence.

### The Tallest

When first introduced, Zim had nothing but complete and total admiration and loyalty to the Tallest, still believing the poorly fabricated lie about his mission. It wasn't until "The First Problem" that he showed any sort of doubt about what he was doing. Zim was given a vision of his worst fear: His Tallest disowning him. In the vision, Zim saw the Tallest laughing at the prospect of Zim dying and being stupid enough to believe their fake mission. After "The First Problem" Zim and Dib come to a temporary truce so Zim can try to prove his vision wrong. After several calls and stupid failed attempts, Zim decides that a rare space creature will surely appease his mighty Irken leaders. Zim and Dib get the creature and bring it to The Massive. But instead of praise and admiration, Zim is met with the harsh truth. The Tallest tell him the mission is fake and that they really hate him. Zim is hurt and tries to tell himself it's not true. The Tallest banish Zim from The Massive and order him to go back to earth and stay there until he dies. Dib stands up for Zim, telling The Tallest that what they're doing is wrong. Zim is shocked by this act of affirmation, especially from his worst enemy.

Unable to come to terms with his banishment, Zim makes several attempts to call The Tallest, but they don't pick up. After 50,697 call attempts Zim breaks down and thinks he's come to the realization of why the Tallest don't like him. He believes it is all because he is defective and not the perfect Irken soldier. Zim decides there is one last thing he needs to do before cutting ties with The Tallest. Zim makes one final trip to the Massive, with GIR and Emily in tow. Zim tells the Tallest that he's realized the truth and is resigning from being an Invader. He also decided that since he's not an Invader any more, he won't be needing his SIR Unit. He leaves GIR at the Massive, telling The Tallest to take care of him and as his final request to them, that they find him "a better Invader to serve". Zim leaves the Massive with Emily, leaving GIR behind.

After several days of GIR's absence, some of our heroes decide to see what happened and recruit a new member, Razputin, to go into Zim's mind and find out what happened to him. After finding out what Zim did, our heroes decide to operate a rescue mission to get him back. They go to The Massive incognito and discover that The Tallest just threw GIR into the garbage. Zim is extremely displeased and aggravated by this discovery. Zim goes to The Tallest and explodes at them, telling them "how could you?!" and realizing how messed up their methods of ruling are. Zim expresses that he wouldn't be against killing Them on the spot, but his friends tell him they aren't worth his time. Zim begrudgingly begins to leave, but then overhears an Irken working in the Smeetery that there are two possibly defective Irken Smeets and is asking The Tallest what they should do with them. The Tallest tell the Irken to throw them out the airlock since they won't be able to work the way they're intended to. This is Zim's breaking point. Zim mindlessly shoots The Tallest with his PAK legs, killing them and ending their reign of terror.

### GIR

GIR is Zim's broken SIR Unit that was given to him before being sent off on his mission. As much as GIR annoys him, Zim can't imagine what it would be like without his little robot buddy. Zim feels a strange connection to GIR, given that they're both broken in some ways. Zim left GIR with the Tallest because he thought GIR deserved to be with a better invader, implying that Zim thinks GIR is more high end than he actually is. Once Zim found out that The Tallest had thrown GIR into the garbage, he snapped. GIR is in a way Zim's closest friend and confidante.

### Frisk

Zim doesn't quite understand Frisk. He is confused as to how they can be so nice and forgiving of everyone and everything. He is surprised that they forgave him after he injured them, and he still feels bad about it. The two work on learning sign language together so Frisk has a way to communicate with the others after the "incident" on the Massive.

### Emily

Zim is slightly vigilant towards Emily. He feels like she is a safe space for him to manifest his emotions when he feels the need to. Emily accompanied him when he stood up to The Tallest in "Confrontation Station" and was there to comfort him after the events of "Terms Of Disownment". Zim finds her odd but enduring.

### Chi

Zim finds Chi comforting in a weird sense. He knows not to get too close to her due to her brother's concerns about her safety around him, though.

### Terry

Terry and Zim are not on great terms. Terry thinks Zim is dangerous and doesn't want him near him or his sisters. Zim wishes he could go near Ann and Chi more, but doesn't want to upset Terry.

## Trivia

* Zim was originally portrayed by the co-creator Flickerbug22, but he later was switched over to being portrayed by Space Pajamas, who is the other creator.
* He canonically is voiced by Richard Horvitz, who also voices Razputin Aquato and Billy.
* Despite the cast of Invader Zim stating constantly that Zim isn't exactly capable of caring for anything or anyone but himself, the creators of Cartoonland decided to go against this and play into a more feeling and caring side of the character.
* Zim's character arc is one of the favorite arcs co-creator Space Pajamas in Cartoonland: Resurrection.