Cast

Among the shortest in a species where height determines social status, ZIM makes up for his lack of height with overwhelming displays of confidence, dedication, and energy. Unfortunately, most of the intelligence he’s getting is either from his defective information-retrieval robot GIR or from fellow schoolchildren, who aren’t on the same agenda as ZIM (that is, taking over the world). ZIM frequently makes baseless assumptions about Earth and its strange inhabitants, most of which are untrue, but all of which he accepts as absolute fact. ZIM frequently reports to the ALMIGHTY TALLEST, and craves their acceptance, or even their acknowledgement, to feel a sense of unimaginable INVADER’S pride. He lives to impress his leaders and peers, who meet his reports with indifference, mock interest, or disgust.

ZIM in Human Disguise In order to hide amongst Earth society, ZIM disguises himself as a perfectly normal human worm baby. However, ZIM’s presence on Earth is not limited to his impersonation of a schoolchild. He also has a variety of different earth disguises. Wearing only a giant beard, he can seamlessly blend in as an old man. A disturbingly tiny old man. A disturbingly tiny, vomit-green old man.

GirNo one knows what the “G” in “GIR” stands for, but the rest is “INFORMATION RETRIEVAL,” and that is what GIR does (or is supposed to do). He’s ZIM’s intelligence gathering robot, standard issue for every INVADER. Except, instead of the highly efficient, top of the line model issued to invaders in good standing, ZIM was given a quickly-cobbled-together-from-spare-parts robot, whose attention span is…well, a little deficient. GIR has 2 basic modes of behavior: when he’s addressed in a military manner by his master, his blue eyes become red and for a brief moment, he’s a loyal servant. Within moments, however, he’s back to his normal, blue-eyed, destructive self. Just don’t take his pig!

GIR In His Dog Suit If GIR always looked like a robot, he’d give ZIM and the rest of the invaders away pretty quickly…so, he’s usually in a green "mongoose-dog" suit. Granted, you can still see the zipper, and the head is a pretty obvious hood, but hey, it’s a disguise! Plus, the tail wags to throw would-be accusers like Dib off the scent.

Dib is intensely focused on all things paranormal and has little time for anything else. Dib is the son of the one and only Professor Membrane, host of the enormously popular kids’ show “Poking the Membrane of Science.” Unfortunately, Dib’s dad is often too busy to pay much attention to his kids no matter how much they chatter about space aliens and yetis. The rest of the world just thinks Dib’s a quirky kid. He lives for the day his father - and the world - see him for the truthsayer that he is. While mostly content with his passion for delving into the spooky world of the unexplained, Dib’s lack of credibility in others’ eyes is a huge problem as he tries to convince the world about ZIM (or any other paranormal phenomenon for that matter). ZIM’s presence in Dib’s life gives him a focused mission: undermine ZIM’s efforts by exposing him as the galactic scourge that he is. The Benefits: Dib gets to save the planet and be acknowledged for the amazing genius that he is.

An extreme pessimist, Gaz is by far the darkest of the earthlings ZIM encounters. She doesn’t deny the existence of the things Dib believes in; she just doesn’t care enough to do anything about it. Gaz is not nearly as bothered by her father’s constant working as Dib is. While Dib is off trying to unveil mind-shattering conspiracies to impress Dad, Gaz might make him a creepy-looking clay monkey. Her dark nature shows itself in her artwork and in the disturbing stories she reads to her class. She spends a great deal of her time avoiding unnecessary conversation with the rest of the world, which seems to be populated only by annoying freaks. She is never amazed by the supernatural or fantastic, she just accepts it as another thing to be angry with.

The world’s most powerful, renowned and prolific scientific mind, host of the wildly popular TV show, “Poking the Membrane of Science”... and the father of Dib and Gaz. To everyone else, he’s everywhere at once - on billboards, on TV, etc. But to Dib and Gaz, he’s unattainable - appearing in their lives only as a hunched-over figure in a lab coat, or as a projected face on one of the floating monitors stationed around the house. He does, after all, bear the burden of being the most amazing man in existence!

ZIM and Dib’s bleak elementary school teacher. She delights in the crushing of anything resembling childhood joy. She knows in her bones tat she could have been somebody special but tragically, she landed in a job she really has no passion for. The ancient and timeless Bitters seems to not follow the same laws of nature and physics as anybody else. Slithering around corners, causing carefully rendered child’s artwork to burst into flames, or walking, spider-like, across the ceiling are some of the many manifestations of her mysterious, never-explained but often pondered abilities.

RED is one of two co-rulers of the IRKEN empire. Normally there is only one ruler, but they are exactly the same height, thus rulership must be shared. Their superior height entitles them to the grandest position in all of IRK, that of unquestioned leadership - but that doesn’t stop both RED and PURPLE from being more than a little concerned that someone will eventually outgrow them and usurp their power. RED is a little brighter than PURPLE, but no less a jerk.

PURPLE is of two co-rulers of the IRKEN empire. Normally there is only one ruler, but they are exactly the same height, thus rulership must be shared. Their superior height entitles them to the grandest position in all of IRK, that of unquestioned leadership - but that doesn’t stop both RED and PURPLE from being more than a little concerned that someone will eventually outgrow them and usurp their power. PURPLE is slightly more dim than REDD, but no less a jerk.