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* [[Enemy Mine]]: "Bolognius Maximus", "Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom", "Tak: The Hideous New Girl", “The Terror of the Pies”...which leads into [[Foe Yay]], actually.
* [[Energy Beings]]: The Meekrob, who are also ruled by a [[Knight Templar]].
* [[Even Evil Has Standards]]: The reason for most of the [[Heel Face Turn|Heel Face Turns]]s in the story.
* [[Expanded Universe]]
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Zim and Dib’s constant stream of failures in trying to defeat each other is actually lampshaded a few times. In fact, Nick, the Narrator has a bet with Gaz that Zim’s plans could fail in less than three minutes. The shortest time it took for one of Zim’s plans to fail? One minute, eighteen seconds.
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** Also the method of {{spoiler|White and Nick's seemingly final deaths.}} Ironically, the fact that they ''were'' Heroic Sacrifices is what allows {{spoiler|them to come back to life afterwards}}.
* [[Human Aliens]]: Erin the Aroesian
* [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]]: Zim thinks this of most humans even though their only real crime is standing in the way of conquering THEIR home planet, something Nick keeps trying to-unsuccessfuly-draw attention to. The misanthropic Gaz is a good example of this trope as well.
* [[Humans Are Morons]]: Most of the Universe could be categorized as this. Almost every alien and human is an idiot, except for the main characters, and even THEY have their moments.
* [[Insectoid Aliens]]: The Irkens, though the opening narration of the story points out that they have some aspects of the [[Lizard Folk]] about them.
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* [[Psychic Powers]]: Darth has telekinetic and telepathic powers, and it’s implied that many other Irkens and humans have hidden powers of their own lurking deep within, waiting to be unlocked, Dib and Zim included.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Sizz-Lorr is killed helping Nick, Tak, and several others escape from [[Legion of Doom|Spork's group]]}}
* [[Red Herring]]: Early on, Darth announces his plans to go after Zim on Earth, then sort of disappears from the plot. Later, we meet a new student at the Skool named DL, who has mysterious powers and is blind, just like Darth. Of course, even later on, we eventually see the two of them in the same room at the same time, so we know they're actually different people after all.<ref> and as it turns out, they're unknown half-brothers</ref>. This may actually be an [[Aborted Arc]], as some of the author's early IZ work on Deviant Art suggests that they really ''were'' planned to the same person originally.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: This is a commonly-used tack in ngrey651’s work. The biggest example is when his girlfriend breaks up with him in a “Dear John” note in the middle of school.
* [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]]: Usually, perpetrated by Gaz. To great effect.