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* [[I Reject Your Reality]]: Zim's [[Small Name, Big Ego|remarkable ego]] is a great example of this.
* [[It's All About Me]]
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Jerk]]: In "FBI Warning of Doom" and "Planet Jackers".
* [[Karma Houdini]]: [[Zig -Zagging Trope|Sometimes, sometimes not.]]
* [[Kill All Humans]]: That or enslave them -- he changes it from enslaving, ruling, killing, poisoning their food supply and cutting their legs off depending on the episode. The bottom line is that the Earth needs to be ready for the other Irkens to conquer, so the humans need to be gone or easy to enslave.
* [[Large Ham]]: So large it has its own gravitational pull.
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* [[Pet the Dog]]: Rather literally, Zim has had a few moments of genuine-seeming kindness directed at GIR.
{{quote| "Well, me being mad will get us no closer to home..."}}
* [[Pick Onon Someone Your Own Size]]: His rivalry with Dib... [[Non-Indicative Name|although, technically,]] [[Completely Missing the Point|they ARE the same size...]]
* [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]]
* [[Psychopathic Manchild]]
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{{quote| ''"My ''problem'' is that the human race seems to ''want'' to be destroyed!"''}}
 
An eleven-year-old (or [http://www.revolutionsf.com/article.php?id=552&page=5 thereabouts]) self-styled "paranormal investigator", and one of only two people on Earth (the other being his sister Gaz) to realize Zim's extraterrestrial origin. Dib's goal is to expose paranormal phenomena to the rest of the world, but is regarded as a loon by pretty much everyone, and essentially treated like crap by the very people whose lives he's trying to save. Nonetheless, while he means well, he's fairly ruthless (at times bordering on sadistic) when it comes to dealing with Zim, making him not very highly regarded by viewers who like to [[Rooting for Thethe Empire|cheer Zim on]], but the other half of the fanbase staunchly defends his status as [[The Woobie]].
 
* [[Adorkable]]: His little dance with GIR near the end of "The Frycook What Came From All That Space" comes to mind.
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{{quote| '''Zim:''' Despite his large head, the Dib-monkey is quite stupid.<br />
'''Dib:''' MY HEAD'S NOT BIG! }}
* [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: Becomes more and more like this as the series continues.
* [[The Klutz]]: He tends to trip over and bump into things a lot.
* [[Leitmotif]]: A violin, which goes with Gaz's harpsichord.
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{{quote| '''Dib:''' ''([[It Makes Sense in Context|talking to a spaceship clone of himself]])'' Remember our fifth birthday when we fought off that swarm of alien... ghost... bee babies?}}
** Don't forget whatever gave the Mysterious Mysteries host his scar. Honestly, it's probably safe to say that Dib's entire life is one big [[Noodle Incident]].
** [[Oh, No, Not Again]]: Also from "Dibship Rising":
{{quote| '''Random kid:''' Hey, Dib's being all weird and giant again!}}
* [["No Respect" Guy]]
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* [[Speech Impediment]]: Temporarily as a result of Zim screwing with his past in "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy".
* [[Straight Man]]: He seems to be the only one on the show who realizes how insane and horrible it can be.
* [[Surrounded Byby Idiots]]
* [[Sympathetic Inspector Antagonist]]
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]: [[Self Fanservice|In fanart.]] Especially if said fanart involves ZADR.
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* [[Abuse Is Okay When It Is Female On Male]]: Her treatment of Dib is downright psychotic in some episodes, but [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[Actually Pretty Funny]]: She's laughed at some of the stunts Zim's pulled on her older brother. Oddly, her saying this line near-verbatim after one of ''Dib'''s stunts proved unexpectedly hilarious was one of the closest things she's had to a [[Pet the Dog]] moment with him.
* [[A Day in Thethe Limelight]]: "Bloaty's Pizza Hog", "Game Slave 2", and "Gaz, Taster of Pork"
* [[All There in the Manual]]: According to [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_QtriJtpXiAg/R_FO2HzRfdI/AAAAAAAAAQI/XxvKFK5ahVw/s1600-h/Nick+Mag+Nicktoons+2007+page+2.JPG this] issue of the Nickelodeon magazine, her full name is Gazlene.
* [[Aloof Older Brother|Aloof Younger Sister]]
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* [[Improbable Weapon User]]: She used cans of Poop soda against Zim, Dib, Tak, and MiMi in "Tak, the Hideous New Girl".
* [[Jerkass]]
** [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Gold]]: On VERY rare occasions, she can be this, as seen in "Tak, the Hideous New Girl".
** [[Jerk Withwith a Heart of Jerk]]: ''Also'' this trope. She does save her brother, but only because she wants to go to Bloaty's Pizza Hog.
* [[Karma Houdini]]: On occasion, though other times (like in "Battle Dib"), she gets her comeuppance.
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: Taken to the highest possible extreme.
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* [[Offscreen Teleportation]]: When stalking Iggins in "Game Slave 2".
* [[Only Sane Man|Only Sane Girl]]: She is one of the few people who know perfectly well that Zim is a alien who wants to conquer/destroy the Earth. She's also largely uninterested in the conflict, quipping rather correctly that Zim isn't very good at what he does.
* [[A Plague Onon Both Your Houses]]: She delivers these more than a person probably should.
* [[Pet the Dog]]: Her moments of this are so noticeable because they're so damn rare; it almost seems out-of-character when it happens!
* [[Pink Means Feminine]]: Her stockings/tights.
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* [[Affably Evil]]
* [[All There in Thethe Script]]: Their real names are Red and Purple.
* [[Bare Your Midriff]]: The design of their "Tallest" outfits.
* [[Big Bad Duumvirate]]
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* [[Meaningful Name]]: Red is the [[Law of Chromatic Superiority|first color in the rainbow]] and purple is the color associated with royalty.
* [[Moral Myopia]]: Averted. While the Irkens treat all other races as nonentities, the Tallests still have no qualms about shooting ''their own people'' out of cannons or airlocks.
* [[Orcus Onon His Throne|Orcuses On Their Thrones]]
* [[Red Eyes, Take Warning]]: Red, of course.
* [[Smug Snake]]
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* [[For Science!]]!
* [[Goggles Do Nothing]]: That we know of.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: He also voices [[SpongebobSpongeBob SquarePants|Squidward Tentacles]].
* [[Hot Scientist]]: He has fangirls who will defend this trope.
* [[Large Ham]]: Possibly the biggest one in the series. Considering [[World of Ham|the kind of world he inhabits,]] it's ''quite'' an accomplishment.
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* [[Ambiguously Human]]: She's almost definitely ''not,'' but we're not quite sure what she ''is.''
** Sunlight [[Weakened Byby the Light|burns her]]. Although, in the Halloween special she says she was a Fairy Princess once.
** [[The Fair Folk]] maybe?
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: Despite the obvious hatred she has for her students and all the horrible stuff she's told them before, she refused to divulge just what happened that led people to start giving out meat on Valentine's Day. Her response to Dib's question was "[[You Don't Want to Know|you don't want to know]]". She even expressed "moral outrage" to the principal allowing the kids to celebrate the holiday.
* [[Evil Old Folks]]: She's half human, part demon, Twisted & Evil.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: She's [[The Smurfs|Smurfette!]].
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* [[Scary Shiny Glasses]]
* [[Snake People]]: She's tall and thin and swirls through the air and curls around people like a boa constrictor. Rattlesnake sounds show up when she speaks or gets annoyed.
* [[Transplant]]: She was [[Squee (Comic Bookcomics)|Squee]]'s teacher.
* [[Weakened Byby the Light]]: Sunlight hurts her.
 
=== Invader Skoodge ===
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{{quote| ''"'''I''' should have been an Invader! '''I''' should have been part of The Great Assigning! I shouldn't '''have''' to be stealing '''this''' planet from '''you'''!"''}}
 
A female Irken out to seek Zim's mission and prove herself as a worthy Invader to the Tallests. Fifty years ago, Zim caused a blackout that caused her to miss her test to become an Irken-Elite. Not to be confused with [[Name's the Same|the main character]] of another [[Nickelodeon|Nick]] franchise, ''[[Tak and Thethe Power of Juju]].''
 
* [[Beauty Mark]]
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* [[The Rival]]
* [[Sliding Scale of Villain Effectiveness]]: She's essentially a competent, intelligent version of Zim.
* [[Spell My Name Withwith an "S"]]: Is her SIR unit named Mimi or MiMi?
* [[Strange Girl]]
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Her human disguise.
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{{quote| ''"You haven't seen the last...of the RESISTY! (That's right, that's still our name!)"''}}
 
Latecomers to the series, the Resisty are a [[Ragtag Bunch of Misfits]] from different planets who banded together to... well, [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|resist]] the [[Evil Empire|Evil Irken Empire]]. Led by Lard Nar, a Vortian.
 
* [[All There in Thethe Script]]: The character's names.
* [[Character Development]]: It's only in one episode, but you can still kinda see Lard Nar come into his own over the course of "Backseat Drivers" -- from a guy who completely freaks out over the slightest setback, to a leader undaunted at even the loss of his entire ship.
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Shloonktapooxis.
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* [[The Ditz]]: Willy.
* [[Evil Redhead]]: Chunk and Rob.
* [[Hey, It's That Voice!]]: Sara is [[My Life Asas a Teenage Robot|XJ-9, otherwise known as Jenny!]]
* [[Kids Are Cruel]]: Miss Bitters' class could give Gaz a run for her money in this department. The only ones to be exempt from this are Gretchen, Keef and a handful of recurring kids who don't pick on Dib.
* [[Nice Hat]]: Carl, who wears a red stocking cap.
* [[No Name Given]]: The [[One-Scene Wonder]] student president in "The Voting of the Doomed".
* [[Recurring Extra]]
* [[TeachersTeacher's Pet]]: Zita is the only student who Miss Bitters seems to like.
* [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair]]: Zita and Gretchen have purple hair, Peyoopi has green hair, and Sara has blue hair.
* [[Younger Than They Look]]: Old Kid.
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