Maybe I'm alone here but I hated Gaz as a kid. I don't see why everyone on /co/ says they had a crush on her. She was generic and one-dimensional, and only cared about herself. Other goth characters from cartoons had nicer traits or were at least tsundere, but Gaz was just full-on jerkiness.
Tak is the patrician's choice.
>>92803961
>Tak is the patrician's choice.
I agree with all your points but this one especially.
Tak was best grrl.
you're abolutely right
Tak is indeed best girl
>>92803961
I just watched the first three episodes, and pretty much everybody is not only strange or dumb, but just generally immoral and unlikable. Even Dib really seems to care more about being right, acts completely crazy, and stroking his ego than actually protecting humanity. I know it's supposed to be a comedy, but it's weird that there really isn't a straight man or moral center to contrast the rest of the characters.
>>92804496
Stop watching after episode 13, with the exception of Tak: the hideous new girl. After episode 13, the show goes rather downhill.
>>92803961
The comic does wonders for Gaz's personality, in that it actually gives her one.
>>92805623
Yeah I like how her and Dib act like actual brother and sister in the comic
Professor Membrane being more of an actual dad who spends time with his kids may seem like an odd choice to some, but according to Jhonen, it makes it all the funnier when Membrane does something heinous to his son
Some people want a gaming dom.
>>92803961
>I hate this girl because she's mean so I'll like the girl who wants to destroy the world instead
>>92803961
This. Gaz was such a boring character. I hate overpowered, mean girls because they're written by men who think they're being "progressive" by writing the most one-dimensional OP bullshit while giving actual personalities to the male leads.
Tak was fun. She was competent, but also crazy and deluded by hate. She was delusional, but still prone to the Irken wackiness that made her trip up and freak out like she did in the OP scene.
I'm fairly certain Jhonen himself admitted that Gaz was really boring in the show, and in the comics she's a bit more level. She's mostly a video games obsessed kid, not some weird supernatural force to be reckoned with.
>>92804496
>it's weird
That's the point. It's absurdist. Everyone sucks and no one is good.
>>92806947
>strawmanning
OP hates her because she's boring.
>>92808859
>overly progressive liberal
>Jhonen Vazquez
>>92809273
I never said that Jhonen was, only that these sorts of female characters are usually written by those types.
>he thinks that there is only one writer for a television series and there is no meddling or collaboration
>>92804319
Both are great for different reason.But Tak is best.
Bump.
>>92809781
>boys
Jokes aside, and at risk of having some label me /co/umblr, I am really curious about how gender and stuff works for alien civilizations, including planet Irk.
I mean, besides the gender of the alter egos that Zim and Tak adopt, does planet Irk REALLY have human (or fuck, mammalian) concepts of sex?
>Tak refers to the control brain with female pronouns
Is this a requirement for leadership?
>Zim refers to Tak as a "she", and Zim is referred to as a "he"
>the Tallest are not limited by gender (ex. Miyuki, Red, and Purple)
Does this mean that Irkens are not sexually dimorphic in terms of size? Or is it just that a rare tall female is possible? There seemed to be invaders of various sizes throughout the series. The only real difference between male and female was the presence of eyelashes.
Did Irkens have anything resembling human monogamy/marriage before the advent of those breeding tubes? Are modern Irkens sterilised? How did that go over?
>are you obsessed with alien junk
L-leave me and my love for xenobiology alone.
>>92810186
Literally all we know from the original series is that Irkens have two sexes, that's it. How they used to reproduce or any other cultural norms present in their society is all fan-cannon.
As for Tak referring to the control brains as she, it could be simply Tak applying her own gender to a sexless being, or that the brain had a female sounding voice, (thereby making it female).
More than likely there is no cultural benefit to be one gender over the other in present Irken society, based upon their decently even splitting of roles to each as there were other female invaders as seen in Episode 1, such as invader Ten.
>>92803961
Go home Dib.
>>92810186
Genders in the irken civilization are probably nothing more than a mere aesthetic aspect, then again I Wonder if we'll get to see something about it on the movie.
>>92810555
No.Post more of best ship.
>>92810630
Filthy disgusting Earth swineYou have good taste.
>>92810486
>limited info, two sexes
Agree.
>female voice
Isn't there two control brains? One male, one female, perhaps?
>equal society
Which makes sense, economics is a great incentive to dismantle prejudice. Nothing creates a need for a very large workplace (and thus, no gender discrimination) like an intergalactic colonial regime.
Of course, if Irkens are similar to arthropods, one could argue that they had a society which resembles social spiders or eusocial insects. That could be fun.
>i hate reptile-like irkens
Go to bed Dib, also
>>92808859
Vasquez wasn't writing some "rpogressive" or "liberal" show, the universe is a shithole in IZ and everyone is an idiot and/or total assholes and Gaz is just another asshole. Everyone is an asshole to Dib probably in that "hurr it's funny if everyone treats this character like shit" way.
Gaz is not a fucking role model, she's a jackass and NEET-to-be who only cares about her fucking video games and nothing else, not someone to admire.
Gaz is smarter than a lot of the characters in some ways, but that's not hard. Everyone on the show is stupid and nothing any of the characters do including Gaz matters.
>>92810556
>aesthetic
Probably. I mean, I'm guessing they wanted to show the kids at home that Evil Space Imperialism is an Equal Opportunity Employer, but the "girls have eyelashes" thing is so lame.
>>92810729
>NOT SHIPPING GRETCHEN X DIB
>>92810630
>>92810729
>>92810869
(You)
>>92810877
>>92810955
>>92810738
I never said he was. I'm just saying why the trend of super-powered, one dimensional chick characters pisses me off in general.
>another asshole
What about the pork curse episode, where Gaz communes with the Pig demon or whatever? She was always OP'd in the show.
> a lot smarter
She was established as being the smartest character of them all, and capable of beating Zim if she took him seriously as a threat. That's pretty OP'd.
>>92810913
I'm getting the mods.
>>92811004
>>92811060
>>92809273
Jhonen isn't nearly as bad as most liberal comic book artists, but he did reblog that dumb comic about how being gay is "normal."
>>92811139
>>92808859
>>92809210
>rollerdog
holy shit I have a lot of her old Kaiji fanart saved, what a trip.
>>92810955
>>92810913
>>92810877
>>92810729
All great taste.I need to finish a DaTr fan-fic I'm working on based on pic related.
>>92811196
>>92811256
>>92811204Will you post it when it's finished? Can't wait to see it, there's not nearly enough Dib/Tak in this day and age.
>>92811147
But Anon it is normal.
>>92811360
Superior ship
>>92811358
>>92803961
NGL I read that as you hating Tak. kek
Gaz was fun to watch but I never was obsessed with her. Characters that only have a few traits can be entertaining in a comedic way.
It's just that, as one anon put it when I asked a similar question regarding waifus on this very board,
'the more bland a (girl) character is, the more likely people will pick them up as their waifu'
They are a blank slate that you can warp to your own perceptions and imagination in a similar vein to a Twilight character.
But also [/spoiler]Tak and DaTr are the best[/spoiler]
>>92811358No.Of course I will post it at a good place. Don't want to shill too hard, but it won't be done for a while so no more blogging.
>>92811487
>>92803961
Childhood is when you like Gaz. Adulthood is when you realize loving Tak makes more sense.
>>92811525
>>92811520
>>92811539
Not really, Tak's pretty crazy and would probably have tons of baggage.
>>92811147
/pol/, you know where you need to go.
Although, to move away from this anon, I reread JTHM recently, and there's this whole subplot where Tess escapes with some dude. The dude thinks that Johnny was a white supremacist by his fashion choices, despite the fact that Jhonen established most of his main characters are pasty Hispanics like himself. In the text, there's some part where Nny rants about how the dude attributes his frustration to racism when it obviously isn't true.
Obviously Jhonen's views have probably moved about since the 90s, but I felt that was interesting. I wonder if something like that happened to him in life.
>>92811198
She's amazing. I love her John K-esque vibes.
>>92811317
>tall Tak
I'm surprised that Zim and Tak didn't use their disguises as a chance to play tall, considering the cultural significance of height.
Maybe it's offensive in their culture to "appropriate" the height of the Tallest, sort of like how medieval humans would never raise their heads above the head of the King? But surely a few added inches wouldn't hurt?
>also do you think Irkens, like insects, respond to different levels of oxygen in the atmosphere
>like in the Carboniferous
>do you think they could grow taller or would that take millions of years of evolution due to increased oxygen exposure
>>92811360
>Zim being able to tolerate human saliva
>>92811592
>>92811568
>>92811635
>I love her John K-esque vibes.
She used to draw pretty different, at least in the fanart I've got saved. I'd look for it but my Kaiji folder is huge and I'm pretty sure it's nsfw anyway.
Is there anyway to follow her now? It looks like everything she used to have up has been deleted.
>>92811641
>>92811635
>Zim being able to tolerate human saliva
Jhonen stated that it's not the H2O that harms Irkens, but the loads of pollution in Earth's water, so Humans can probably filter it out maybe? At the very least humans in this odd future have a tolerance to the pollution
>>92811721
No clue, man.
Coconutmilkyway is another artist I really like.
>>92811773
>pollution
No shit? That makes more sense - considering how Zim has spit, and I don't think that's methane.
>human pollution tolerance
Could be the case of the boiling frog. Or that it could explain how stupid and grotesque all the humans are.
>>92811773
Membrane probably has a private filtration system built into his house. That would explain why Dib and Gaz aren't drooling morons compared to the majority of the population; shit's killing braincells.
>>92811635
>/pol/, you know where you need to go.
It's not /pol/ to understand how statistics work. If a group comprises less than 10% of the population, then it is, by definition, abnormal. Furthermore, when you use the word "normal" to defend homosexuality, you're implying that if something ISN'T normal, it's okay to discriminate against people who practice it.
I have nothing against gays. I have something against people who say that being gay is normal. Because it's not normal. And it doesn't fucking MATTER whether or not it's normal. For God's sake, there is nothing wrong with doing something that isn't normal. Something doesn't have to be normal for it to be okay.
t. guy who's been bullied for his harmless quirks in the past
>>92811360
Hot damn that's a good gif. It got the art style down really well, especially for something that appears to have been drawn in MS Paint for a similar pixely program.
>>92811883
>>92811929
1.) Did the comic you were bitching about argue that being gay was statistically common? Or are you just backpedaling?
2.) Redheads are ten times rarer than gays, but no one calls them abnormal.
3.) Because "abnormal" is colloquially used as a pejorative.
4.) Therefore me calling you out on the use of the work abnormal is legitimate. Your attempt to redirect that onto me by implying I'm the one with the issue with "abnormal" people is laughable and facetious.
>been bullied
I'd bully you, too.
>>92811883
Would not be surprised.
>although, how is Membrane THAT smart and oblivious to Zim?
>unconcerned with his son's life?
>unconcerned about the common folk?
>knows that Zim is an alien, doesn't care?
>is only of average intelligence in a world of morons?
>was it autism?
>>92812506
>>92804612
No.
I had a crush on a goth girl who bullied me in elementary school.
>>92812565
>>92812506
A lotta people call pasty, freckled covered gingers abnormal, and often in a pretty negative way. Generally the only time they don't is if they're Irish/Scottish, but that's a different kind of redhead and they come from a demographic where they're actually pretty standard.
Garbage comparison.
>>92812875
>garbage comparison
People bully gingers. They don't call them abnormal. Abnormal is used as a colloquially as an insult and often used in conjunction with naturalistic fallacies launched towards gays.
You used it that way, I called you out. If you want to hate faggots, that's fine. Don't backpedal like a little bitch when you get laughed at.
>>92813118
>>92813150
>>92813277
>>92813515
>>92813700
>>92813869
>>92803961
Because she couldve easily have liked someone as cold and depressed as anyone who liked the show. She got nicer in the comic anyways
>>92814117
>>92803961
>or were at least tsundere
/a/ get out. Cartoon crushes don't have to be 30 year love ballads. Some dudes like crazy and fun. Deal with it.
have some japanese/south korean fan art
>>92803961
i liked her as a foil for zim and also i liked how much better she was than zim and zim not even aknowledging her as an enemy or anything
They have a great dynamic, i can see her returning and ziims reaction is he just forgot about her completely
>>92803961
>and only cared about herself.
Blatantly false. She cared about time with her father. She probably could have gone to Bloaty's without any of them.
>>92815431
>>92815534
>>92815642
>>92815731
>>92815776
btw i can't read it so i don't know if that's ZAGR sex or what but it looks fucked up
Who would win, Diz' Dad or Zim?
>>92815843
>>92815926
>>92815954
some creepy au where zim is tallest and he brainwashes dib and dresses dib up like a little girl i guess
>>92815995
ZaDR ruined everything tbqhZaDF > ZaDR
>>92816025
>>92815860
professor membrane i think
>>92816055
>>92816070
>>92804319
Indeed!
>>92816088
evil morty vs. zim
>>92816109
this art is all new by the way
>>92816125
membrane makes new dibs by growing them on a farm
>>92816141
>>92816170
lots of kawaii skoodge (?) fan art
>>92816195
well there's way more on twitter including a whole lot of weird invader zim pornography i wish i hadn't seen. thanks westaboos.
and that's way too much alien genitalia run across tonight so i'm out. night.
I still love Tak
>>92812755
Details nigga.
Guess, I'll keep the zim train going with some more pics.
>>92818235
>>92818257
>>92818273
>>92818296
>>92818311
>>92818333
>>92818357
>>92803961
Are you guys looking forward to the new Invader Zim movie? What do you hope is in it?
>>92818370
>>92818379
Definitely. I just hope it's gonna be good. Also some interaction with Zim and Gaz
>>92818404
>>92818424
>>92818404
>Also some interaction with Zim and Gaz
That would be nice, definitely (doesn't need to be this kind of interaction >>92815776).
>>92818442
>>92818445
It's doesn't. But I'm saving that semi-lewd pic anyways.
>>92818483
>>92818515
Irkens love sweets.
>>92818532
>>92818539
>>92818555
>>92818550
>>92818568
>>92818585
>>92818606
>>92818630
>>92818585
All this art is cool. I like that one.
Since Zim's brain is really in his PAK if his head got shot off like that, could he operate and maybe just regrow his head or get a new one? Couldn't his whole meaty body be destroyed but he'd still be okay as long as the backpack is okay?
>>92818641
>>92818650
Pretty much, judging by one of the unfinished episodes, the Pak would just need to attach itself to a new life form
>>92818714
>>92818725
>>92818741
>>92818775
Last one for the night. ZAGR is best ship.
>>92803961
jhonen himself said that gaz was a shit character
shes better in the comic, tho
>>92803961
Gaz is good
Tak is GreatIrken Tak is GOAT
>>92818650
Pretty much. He seemed to be okay when his organic brain was replaced with a rubber piggy, albeit seriously impaired.My longstanding headcanon is PAKs were originally designed for early Irken space exploration. Its primary function as a life support device allowed them to survive extended periods on otherwise inhospitable environments, while an uplink with the host's brain and nervous system was used to preserve their consciousness should something happen to their body. When the Irkens spread out and their interstellar empire took root, PAKs were becoming common and gradually began replacing many facets of their race's natural biology.
>>92816025
>>92815995
>Zim turns Dib into qt trap fuckboy
Zim has patrician taste
>>92815473
D'awww
>All this cute fan art
>half of it's in Moonrunes
>>92811360
FUCKING DELETE DIS FUCKI GAY SHIT OFFMGGGGG REAAAARRREAAAAAAA