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Name: RYO
Age: 29
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Current Character(s): Drift, Knock Out
Character Information
Character Name: ZIM
Fandom: Invader Zim
Character History: Totally reused from an old app hoho
A good portion of the history is taken from unfinished episodes. Nickelodeon canceled the series before it was finished, and some of those episodes just so HAPPEN to have covered a lot of back story. I figure they count as canon since there were scripts released for them and all that good shit and they actually EXPLAIN stuff that previous episodes never covered so here we go.
It all started when Zim was hatched from his incubator as a smeet. The fuck is a smeet, you ask? Why, it's a baby irken! The fuck is an IRKEN? Well sit your selves down and prepare your eyes for some AMAZING KNOWLEDGE as I slap you with some HORRIBLE KEY TERMS that may or may not be grammatically pleasing to read.
IRKEN: These are horrible, buggy looking green aliens, the race Zim belongs to. Irkens hail from the planet Irk. They are best known for trying to conquer the entire universe with their AMAZING ARMADA and re-purposing planets to fit their own needs (such as fast food planets, parking structure planets, military training planets, etc). Irkens tend to be militaristic no matter what tasks they're assigned, be it fast food, janitorial service, invading planets for conquest, etc. Irkens don't fuck around.
Irken physiology is kind of stupid. In place of a BUNCH OF ORGANS, they have one SUPER ORGAN. This one organ is called a squeedlyspooch. It's neat. As stated above, Irkens have evolved to rely on their PAKs as a means of life support. It promotes rapid healing and makes irkens more durable in general, the obvious flaw being the fact that they'll DIE without the PAKs. Zim's own PAK is actually a piece of shit, as it contains "40 shmillion" coding mistakes, making Zim a "Defective", and is basically the reason for his insane behavior and ridiculous thought processes.
It's stated that irkens don't require sleep, likely due to the PAK, but they are capable of it I guess if they FEEL LIKE SLEEPING. Also most Earth food appears to make them violently ill (with the rare exception such as WAFFLES or things full of carbs and sugar). No ACTUAL science went into creating their race. ALSO Zim is allergic to water, but according to the creator it's not JUST the water that burns the fuck out of him, but all the horrible Earth pollutants in it.
While they do have males and females, Irkens don't reproduce through conventional means. For whatever reason they've taken to growing their young (known as smeets) in idk SMEET FACTORIES? Upon "birth", a smeet has a PAK drilled into it's spine, which more or less activates the smeet. It is then plugged in to a computer which fills the smeet with ALL IRKEN KNOWLEDGE, and the smeet is given a name. It then reports for duty pretty much immediately.
The Irken hierarchy system is based on height, with their leaders being the tallest current living Irkens, and are thus called the Almighty Tallest. There are currently two of those guys running shit. The Tallest report only to the Control Brains, which are brains. That control everything. The Tallest (cleverly named Red and Purple because hey lets name them after THEIR EYE COLORS) are responsible for orchestrating invasions and overseeing the armada in general. They also absolutely despise Zim, and sent him to Earth to get him out of the way. In fact pretty much the entire race hates Zim. Everything hates Zim. I hate Zim.
DEFECTIVE: Zim. More specifically, an Irken Defective is someone who has been fitted with a faulty PAK. In Zim's case, it makes him a blithering idiot who still manages to be the most dangerous Irken in the entire Armada. But pretty much ONLY to other Irkens. Hence the banishment to Earth thing. A Defective can't be controlled or brainwashed by the Control Brains and are usually destroyed when discovered. Their PAK data is deleted so it can't contaminate all the NOT fucked up data, and so it can't be reused on a new smeet.
GIR: GIR Is Zim's useless robot slave. When an invader is assigned a planet to conquer, they are given a SIR unit (SIR standing for Standard Issue Information Retrieval) to assist them. GIR was constructed by the Tallest on the spot when they didn't feel like giving Zim an actually GOOD SIR unit. GIR consists of trashed SIR parts, his "brain" consists of lint, a paperclip, two coins, a screw and a gumball. When asked by Zim what the 'G' stands for, GIR admits that he doesn't know. Zim, believing the Tallest's story that GIR is actually an advanced special SIR model, takes the robot to Earth. GIR then proceeds to be completely and utterly useless; breaking out into song at random, making waffles, rolling in filth, shrieking, watching TV, befriending pigs, destroying equipment, all kinds of horrible shit.
He is, however, capable of brief flashes of clarity, known as "duty mode", in which he actually comprehends things and follows orders. GIR being locked in this duty mode for extended periods is actually not a good thing for Zim. At all. The one time Zim succeeded in repairing GIR resulted in GIR realizing that Zim is a complete fuck up and danger to his own mission, and thus tried to destroy his Irken master. For Zim's own safety, he has no choice but to keep the robot in blithering idiot mode.
Though often enraged with GIR, Zim has been shown to actually not hate the little bastard, commenting at one point on how he was concerned for GIR's safety when the alien was trapped inside a nightmare world inside of Dib's enormous head (it makes sense just don't question it).
DIB: The enormous headed Dib is a kid in Zim's skool class (school is spelled skool in this dumbass show SO WHATEVER), and also happens to be a paranormal investigator that knows Zim is an alien. He could actually be considered the main protagonist since Zim is technically the bad guy of the series. But whatever.
From Zim's first day in Skool, Dib has sworn that he's going to stop Zim's plans for world conquest and reveal his secret to the world, but he has yet to get anyone to take him seriously on the matter. Despite everyone thinking he's completely insane, he has managed to stop Zim's evil plans, and even plant bugs in Zim's base to monitor his HORRIBLE PROGRESS. Because of this, Zim sees him as a rival and often tries to get rid of him. He fails every time, of course, but it's a hobby. In a canceled episode it would have been revealed that Dib's meddling plays a major role in Zim's motivation. Dib would have decided to give up pursuing Zim, which caused Zim to stop giving a fuck about taking the planet over.
Dib has a younger, video game obsessed, terrifying demon sister named Gaz that also knows that Zim is an alien, but she doesn't give a fuck.
OPERATION IMPENDING DOOM: The cleverly named plan for complete Irken galactic conquest, devised by the Almighty Tallest and/or the control brains. BECAUSE WHY NOT? Before the first Operation Impending Doom even officially began, Zim went on a rampage in a giant, horrible robot battle mech on the Irken home world, believing he was already on an alien planet for some stupid reason. He managed to kill all of the other invaders and almost managed to wipe out the entire Irken race in the process. Needless to say, Operation Impending Doom I was abandoned for a time. Outraged by Zim's ZIMNESS, The Tallest had Zim's PAK re-encoded from Invader Class to Food Service Drone, and the Tallest banished him to the planet Foodcourtia, where he was to spend the remainder of his life serving in a fast food restaurant.
While on Foodcourtia, Zim eventually heard about Operation Impending Doom II, and "quit" being banished. He escaped Foodcourtia and made it back in time for the Great Assigning, a ceremony where Invaders are assigned a planet to conquer. The Tallest assigned him to an unknown planet (DA ERF) in an effort to get rid of him, placing him as far away from the actual Operation Impending Doom II as possible. Zim, being a moron, believed them and off he went.
END KEYWORDS
Zim's entire life is a hideous montage of death and destruction. From the very day he was "born" he's caused black outs, explosions, horrible deaths, and all around chaos for the Irken Empire. He caused two devastating black outs on the Irken home-world while still a smeet, is directly responsible for the deaths of two previous Almighty Tallests (he created an infinite energy absorbing monster that turned into a space Cthulhu aaand it ate them ANYWAY), and managed to destroy every other Invader during Operation Impending Doom I. In an effort to be rid of the horrible ZIM, he was banished to a fast food planet, which he later "quit" after hearing about Operation Impending Doom II. Simply wishing to be rid of Zim once and for all, the Tallest sent him on a "secret mission" to a previously unheard of planet, which just so happened to be Earth. Zim set up a base on Earth, disguised himself as a human, and decided to infiltrate human society by attending a local elementary school. It was here he met his rival DIB, who managed to foil pretty much all of Zim's world domination plans one way or another from that point on.
While clearly still plotting to take over the world, Zim has actually saved it on more occasions than he's doomed it, usually with the reasoning that it's his planet to destroy and nobody gets to destroy it but HIM. He's saved it from being thrown into a sun, hollowed out and filled with snacks, from a giant hamster, all sorts of shit. When he does come up with amazing plans for world conquest, they're either stopped by Dib, ruined by GIR, or brought to a grinding halt by his own stupidity and inattention. Despite his shortcomings (of which there are many), Zim remains convinced that he is AMAZING and unstoppable, and goes to great lengths to please the Tallest, completely unaware that they just want him to explode somewhere and never bother them again.
Character Personality: man I am all about recycling heres more app recycling
To quote the wiki, Zim possesses "megalomaniac, sadistic, emotionally unstable, sociopathic, paranoid, and narcissistic personality traits". Zim thinks he's pretty much the best invader ever, even though everything he touches turns to shit (or explodes). He's run horrible tests on humans and other creatures with no regard to their safety or well being, becomes enraged at the drop of a hat, is often in a screaming panic and insists everyone is lying to him at one point or another. He's a total egomaniac, refusing to see anything horrible about himself, instead focusing on how amazing he thinks he is and how awesome the explosions he causes are. It's most likely a cover for a massive inferiority complex, especially given his standing in the Irken social structure.
Despite all of his shortcomings (pun completely intended), he is actually quite brilliant given the fact that he originally had been promoted to Invader status before being re-encoded as a Food Service Drone. Maybe he just tests well, or maybe it's just because he's really good at destroying things (with the exception of Earth, of course). He probably would be a successful Invader if he didn't have a habit of becoming hyper-focused on little things that don't really matter to his over all mission, such as attending "Skool" regularly or running insane tests on chickens. Dib has also proven to be an enormous distraction from Zim's over all mission. On more than one occasion, Zim has made horrible, elaborate plans just to destroy his large headed nemesis. Zim has failed every time of course, but it's a testament to his incredible persistence. Y'know, when it comes to pursuing things that don't matter.
Though deliberately trying to come off as a completely heartless monster hell bent on the destruction of humanity, Zim actually has been shown to have a tiny sliver of a soft side, once in relation to a memory he had about being hatched from his "incubation capsule" by a robot arm as a smeet. His first words were "I love you, cold, unfeeling robot arm". The arm didn't care. He also has a bit of a soft spot for GIR. He promised to give the robot the moon once he took over Earth, and has expressed concern for GIR's safety once or twice. D'awwww.
Powers and Abilities: you guessed it more recycling
Despite his COMPLETE ineptitude and idiocy, Zim is somehow brilliant enough to create all manner of horrible weapons or machines. He built a "space-time object transfer device" at one point and it totally worked (even if he kind of ruined the time stream by tossing rubber piggies into it). The fact that he can create all this crazy AMAZING shit is offset by the fact that he's a complete and total moron, and thus said creations are often underutilized. He's capable of piloting different space craft, from his Voot Cruiser to space taxis, but most of the time he's pretty horrible at it.
TL;DR if someone needs him to fix or drive a truck or something he could probably do it, but there's a like 35% chance it would explode somehow.
Zim is also equipped with a standard issue Irken PAK, which houses a set of mechanical spider legs, lasers, a shield of some sort, communicators, and whatever else he feels like storing inside of it. The PAK also acts as a sort of life support system and is basically his brain. Irkens have developed such a dependance on their PAKS that being forcefully separated from it for ten minutes results in HORRIBLE DEATH (Yes this goes under Powers and Abilities I have decided). In one episode Zim had his pak off and was preforming maintenance on it or something and didn't seem to have any problems, so it's assumed that an irken only starts dying horribly if the pak is forcefully removed. SHRUG.
Samples
Network: [VOICE]
GREETINGS, my Tallest! Eh, assuming I can transmit an encrypted message from my current location. Hmmmmmmmmm... Oh well, I guess I'm about to find out!
ANYWAY! This new assignment was indeed an unexpected turn of events, but nothing the amazing ZIM cannot handle! As I know you are well aware, I am a master at adapting, so obviously you were wise to choose ME for this crucial mission! Rest assured, my Tallest! The future of the Irken Armada lies in the capable Zim hands of ZIM!
And don't worry, I haven't forgotten my primary objective! As soon as I'm done here, I'll return to that FILTHY dirtball of a planet EARTH and annihilate the humans once and for all, leaving the planet ripe for conquest!! I can't waitto see the look on that horrible Dib-beast's FILTHY FACE when I return with the very power of the COSMOS to doom him with!
I've said enough, my Tallest, my mission awaits! I'll keep you updated on my progress. Invader ZIM, signing off!
Third Person:
At first, Zim was disoriented. Suddenly finding yourself in front of a giant, horrible gate in some place you've never seen before would throw anyone off, even someone as incredibly amazing as him. How odd, hadn't he just been at Skool, doing pointless Earth child things? Not that he really even wanted to anyway, but they were part of his INCREDIBLE PLAN to conquer Earth! How was he supposed to take over the planet if he couldn't finish his book report!? How was he supposed to SMASH mankind if he was stuck here!? Where was here, anyway!?
Hounding the natives turned up some information. He'd only listened to some of it, apparently this was some other... mystery dimension.
Ah well. He'd stopped paying attention. It was boring.
Either way, it was weird. He would have remembered if he'd invented some kind of trans-dimensional teleportation device and used it on himself or. Something. Well, however he managed to get here, he'd have to find a way back to Earth. He couldn't exactly complete his mission if he was stuck in some crazy dimension, now could he?
Unless... Had he been reassigned? Had the Tallest been so impressed with the AMAZING progress he'd been making on Earth that they sent him to an entirely different universe to conquer it, too? Well of COURSE, it all made sense now! What better way to take over the universe than by taking over the place that tied it and every other universe together? The Irken Armada would be UNSTOPPABLE! Er, well. Even more unstoppable than it already was, and it would all be thanks to the amazing contributions of ZIM!
He would have to thank the Tallest for allowing him this amazing opportunity to completely impress them with his delicious evil, but first, he was going to have to cackle like a deranged hyena and monologue like a super villain for a while.
"AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAA! Enjoy your peace now, Nautilus, for it won't last. Soon you will face the horrible wrath of ZIM! COWER BEFORE MY MIGHTY IRKEN FEET!!"
The monologing was going to last a while.
Name: RYO
Age: 29
Personal Journal: N/A
Email / AIM / MSN / Plurk: mummifiedsalarian@plurk
Current Character(s): Drift, Knock Out
Character Information
Character Name: ZIM
Fandom: Invader Zim
Character History: Totally reused from an old app hoho
A good portion of the history is taken from unfinished episodes. Nickelodeon canceled the series before it was finished, and some of those episodes just so HAPPEN to have covered a lot of back story. I figure they count as canon since there were scripts released for them and all that good shit and they actually EXPLAIN stuff that previous episodes never covered so here we go.
It all started when Zim was hatched from his incubator as a smeet. The fuck is a smeet, you ask? Why, it's a baby irken! The fuck is an IRKEN? Well sit your selves down and prepare your eyes for some AMAZING KNOWLEDGE as I slap you with some HORRIBLE KEY TERMS that may or may not be grammatically pleasing to read.
IRKEN: These are horrible, buggy looking green aliens, the race Zim belongs to. Irkens hail from the planet Irk. They are best known for trying to conquer the entire universe with their AMAZING ARMADA and re-purposing planets to fit their own needs (such as fast food planets, parking structure planets, military training planets, etc). Irkens tend to be militaristic no matter what tasks they're assigned, be it fast food, janitorial service, invading planets for conquest, etc. Irkens don't fuck around.
Irken physiology is kind of stupid. In place of a BUNCH OF ORGANS, they have one SUPER ORGAN. This one organ is called a squeedlyspooch. It's neat. As stated above, Irkens have evolved to rely on their PAKs as a means of life support. It promotes rapid healing and makes irkens more durable in general, the obvious flaw being the fact that they'll DIE without the PAKs. Zim's own PAK is actually a piece of shit, as it contains "40 shmillion" coding mistakes, making Zim a "Defective", and is basically the reason for his insane behavior and ridiculous thought processes.
It's stated that irkens don't require sleep, likely due to the PAK, but they are capable of it I guess if they FEEL LIKE SLEEPING. Also most Earth food appears to make them violently ill (with the rare exception such as WAFFLES or things full of carbs and sugar). No ACTUAL science went into creating their race. ALSO Zim is allergic to water, but according to the creator it's not JUST the water that burns the fuck out of him, but all the horrible Earth pollutants in it.
While they do have males and females, Irkens don't reproduce through conventional means. For whatever reason they've taken to growing their young (known as smeets) in idk SMEET FACTORIES? Upon "birth", a smeet has a PAK drilled into it's spine, which more or less activates the smeet. It is then plugged in to a computer which fills the smeet with ALL IRKEN KNOWLEDGE, and the smeet is given a name. It then reports for duty pretty much immediately.
The Irken hierarchy system is based on height, with their leaders being the tallest current living Irkens, and are thus called the Almighty Tallest. There are currently two of those guys running shit. The Tallest report only to the Control Brains, which are brains. That control everything. The Tallest (cleverly named Red and Purple because hey lets name them after THEIR EYE COLORS) are responsible for orchestrating invasions and overseeing the armada in general. They also absolutely despise Zim, and sent him to Earth to get him out of the way. In fact pretty much the entire race hates Zim. Everything hates Zim. I hate Zim.
DEFECTIVE: Zim. More specifically, an Irken Defective is someone who has been fitted with a faulty PAK. In Zim's case, it makes him a blithering idiot who still manages to be the most dangerous Irken in the entire Armada. But pretty much ONLY to other Irkens. Hence the banishment to Earth thing. A Defective can't be controlled or brainwashed by the Control Brains and are usually destroyed when discovered. Their PAK data is deleted so it can't contaminate all the NOT fucked up data, and so it can't be reused on a new smeet.
GIR: GIR Is Zim's useless robot slave. When an invader is assigned a planet to conquer, they are given a SIR unit (SIR standing for Standard Issue Information Retrieval) to assist them. GIR was constructed by the Tallest on the spot when they didn't feel like giving Zim an actually GOOD SIR unit. GIR consists of trashed SIR parts, his "brain" consists of lint, a paperclip, two coins, a screw and a gumball. When asked by Zim what the 'G' stands for, GIR admits that he doesn't know. Zim, believing the Tallest's story that GIR is actually an advanced special SIR model, takes the robot to Earth. GIR then proceeds to be completely and utterly useless; breaking out into song at random, making waffles, rolling in filth, shrieking, watching TV, befriending pigs, destroying equipment, all kinds of horrible shit.
He is, however, capable of brief flashes of clarity, known as "duty mode", in which he actually comprehends things and follows orders. GIR being locked in this duty mode for extended periods is actually not a good thing for Zim. At all. The one time Zim succeeded in repairing GIR resulted in GIR realizing that Zim is a complete fuck up and danger to his own mission, and thus tried to destroy his Irken master. For Zim's own safety, he has no choice but to keep the robot in blithering idiot mode.
Though often enraged with GIR, Zim has been shown to actually not hate the little bastard, commenting at one point on how he was concerned for GIR's safety when the alien was trapped inside a nightmare world inside of Dib's enormous head (it makes sense just don't question it).
DIB: The enormous headed Dib is a kid in Zim's skool class (school is spelled skool in this dumbass show SO WHATEVER), and also happens to be a paranormal investigator that knows Zim is an alien. He could actually be considered the main protagonist since Zim is technically the bad guy of the series. But whatever.
From Zim's first day in Skool, Dib has sworn that he's going to stop Zim's plans for world conquest and reveal his secret to the world, but he has yet to get anyone to take him seriously on the matter. Despite everyone thinking he's completely insane, he has managed to stop Zim's evil plans, and even plant bugs in Zim's base to monitor his HORRIBLE PROGRESS. Because of this, Zim sees him as a rival and often tries to get rid of him. He fails every time, of course, but it's a hobby. In a canceled episode it would have been revealed that Dib's meddling plays a major role in Zim's motivation. Dib would have decided to give up pursuing Zim, which caused Zim to stop giving a fuck about taking the planet over.
Dib has a younger, video game obsessed, terrifying demon sister named Gaz that also knows that Zim is an alien, but she doesn't give a fuck.
OPERATION IMPENDING DOOM: The cleverly named plan for complete Irken galactic conquest, devised by the Almighty Tallest and/or the control brains. BECAUSE WHY NOT? Before the first Operation Impending Doom even officially began, Zim went on a rampage in a giant, horrible robot battle mech on the Irken home world, believing he was already on an alien planet for some stupid reason. He managed to kill all of the other invaders and almost managed to wipe out the entire Irken race in the process. Needless to say, Operation Impending Doom I was abandoned for a time. Outraged by Zim's ZIMNESS, The Tallest had Zim's PAK re-encoded from Invader Class to Food Service Drone, and the Tallest banished him to the planet Foodcourtia, where he was to spend the remainder of his life serving in a fast food restaurant.
While on Foodcourtia, Zim eventually heard about Operation Impending Doom II, and "quit" being banished. He escaped Foodcourtia and made it back in time for the Great Assigning, a ceremony where Invaders are assigned a planet to conquer. The Tallest assigned him to an unknown planet (DA ERF) in an effort to get rid of him, placing him as far away from the actual Operation Impending Doom II as possible. Zim, being a moron, believed them and off he went.
END KEYWORDS
Zim's entire life is a hideous montage of death and destruction. From the very day he was "born" he's caused black outs, explosions, horrible deaths, and all around chaos for the Irken Empire. He caused two devastating black outs on the Irken home-world while still a smeet, is directly responsible for the deaths of two previous Almighty Tallests (he created an infinite energy absorbing monster that turned into a space Cthulhu aaand it ate them ANYWAY), and managed to destroy every other Invader during Operation Impending Doom I. In an effort to be rid of the horrible ZIM, he was banished to a fast food planet, which he later "quit" after hearing about Operation Impending Doom II. Simply wishing to be rid of Zim once and for all, the Tallest sent him on a "secret mission" to a previously unheard of planet, which just so happened to be Earth. Zim set up a base on Earth, disguised himself as a human, and decided to infiltrate human society by attending a local elementary school. It was here he met his rival DIB, who managed to foil pretty much all of Zim's world domination plans one way or another from that point on.
While clearly still plotting to take over the world, Zim has actually saved it on more occasions than he's doomed it, usually with the reasoning that it's his planet to destroy and nobody gets to destroy it but HIM. He's saved it from being thrown into a sun, hollowed out and filled with snacks, from a giant hamster, all sorts of shit. When he does come up with amazing plans for world conquest, they're either stopped by Dib, ruined by GIR, or brought to a grinding halt by his own stupidity and inattention. Despite his shortcomings (of which there are many), Zim remains convinced that he is AMAZING and unstoppable, and goes to great lengths to please the Tallest, completely unaware that they just want him to explode somewhere and never bother them again.
Character Personality: man I am all about recycling heres more app recycling
To quote the wiki, Zim possesses "megalomaniac, sadistic, emotionally unstable, sociopathic, paranoid, and narcissistic personality traits". Zim thinks he's pretty much the best invader ever, even though everything he touches turns to shit (or explodes). He's run horrible tests on humans and other creatures with no regard to their safety or well being, becomes enraged at the drop of a hat, is often in a screaming panic and insists everyone is lying to him at one point or another. He's a total egomaniac, refusing to see anything horrible about himself, instead focusing on how amazing he thinks he is and how awesome the explosions he causes are. It's most likely a cover for a massive inferiority complex, especially given his standing in the Irken social structure.
Despite all of his shortcomings (pun completely intended), he is actually quite brilliant given the fact that he originally had been promoted to Invader status before being re-encoded as a Food Service Drone. Maybe he just tests well, or maybe it's just because he's really good at destroying things (with the exception of Earth, of course). He probably would be a successful Invader if he didn't have a habit of becoming hyper-focused on little things that don't really matter to his over all mission, such as attending "Skool" regularly or running insane tests on chickens. Dib has also proven to be an enormous distraction from Zim's over all mission. On more than one occasion, Zim has made horrible, elaborate plans just to destroy his large headed nemesis. Zim has failed every time of course, but it's a testament to his incredible persistence. Y'know, when it comes to pursuing things that don't matter.
Though deliberately trying to come off as a completely heartless monster hell bent on the destruction of humanity, Zim actually has been shown to have a tiny sliver of a soft side, once in relation to a memory he had about being hatched from his "incubation capsule" by a robot arm as a smeet. His first words were "I love you, cold, unfeeling robot arm". The arm didn't care. He also has a bit of a soft spot for GIR. He promised to give the robot the moon once he took over Earth, and has expressed concern for GIR's safety once or twice. D'awwww.
Powers and Abilities: you guessed it more recycling
Despite his COMPLETE ineptitude and idiocy, Zim is somehow brilliant enough to create all manner of horrible weapons or machines. He built a "space-time object transfer device" at one point and it totally worked (even if he kind of ruined the time stream by tossing rubber piggies into it). The fact that he can create all this crazy AMAZING shit is offset by the fact that he's a complete and total moron, and thus said creations are often underutilized. He's capable of piloting different space craft, from his Voot Cruiser to space taxis, but most of the time he's pretty horrible at it.
TL;DR if someone needs him to fix or drive a truck or something he could probably do it, but there's a like 35% chance it would explode somehow.
Zim is also equipped with a standard issue Irken PAK, which houses a set of mechanical spider legs, lasers, a shield of some sort, communicators, and whatever else he feels like storing inside of it. The PAK also acts as a sort of life support system and is basically his brain. Irkens have developed such a dependance on their PAKS that being forcefully separated from it for ten minutes results in HORRIBLE DEATH (Yes this goes under Powers and Abilities I have decided). In one episode Zim had his pak off and was preforming maintenance on it or something and didn't seem to have any problems, so it's assumed that an irken only starts dying horribly if the pak is forcefully removed. SHRUG.
Samples
Network: [VOICE]
GREETINGS, my Tallest! Eh, assuming I can transmit an encrypted message from my current location. Hmmmmmmmmm... Oh well, I guess I'm about to find out!
ANYWAY! This new assignment was indeed an unexpected turn of events, but nothing the amazing ZIM cannot handle! As I know you are well aware, I am a master at adapting, so obviously you were wise to choose ME for this crucial mission! Rest assured, my Tallest! The future of the Irken Armada lies in the capable Zim hands of ZIM!
And don't worry, I haven't forgotten my primary objective! As soon as I'm done here, I'll return to that FILTHY dirtball of a planet EARTH and annihilate the humans once and for all, leaving the planet ripe for conquest!! I can't waitto see the look on that horrible Dib-beast's FILTHY FACE when I return with the very power of the COSMOS to doom him with!
I've said enough, my Tallest, my mission awaits! I'll keep you updated on my progress. Invader ZIM, signing off!
Third Person:
At first, Zim was disoriented. Suddenly finding yourself in front of a giant, horrible gate in some place you've never seen before would throw anyone off, even someone as incredibly amazing as him. How odd, hadn't he just been at Skool, doing pointless Earth child things? Not that he really even wanted to anyway, but they were part of his INCREDIBLE PLAN to conquer Earth! How was he supposed to take over the planet if he couldn't finish his book report!? How was he supposed to SMASH mankind if he was stuck here!? Where was here, anyway!?
Hounding the natives turned up some information. He'd only listened to some of it, apparently this was some other... mystery dimension.
Ah well. He'd stopped paying attention. It was boring.
Either way, it was weird. He would have remembered if he'd invented some kind of trans-dimensional teleportation device and used it on himself or. Something. Well, however he managed to get here, he'd have to find a way back to Earth. He couldn't exactly complete his mission if he was stuck in some crazy dimension, now could he?
Unless... Had he been reassigned? Had the Tallest been so impressed with the AMAZING progress he'd been making on Earth that they sent him to an entirely different universe to conquer it, too? Well of COURSE, it all made sense now! What better way to take over the universe than by taking over the place that tied it and every other universe together? The Irken Armada would be UNSTOPPABLE! Er, well. Even more unstoppable than it already was, and it would all be thanks to the amazing contributions of ZIM!
He would have to thank the Tallest for allowing him this amazing opportunity to completely impress them with his delicious evil, but first, he was going to have to cackle like a deranged hyena and monologue like a super villain for a while.
"AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAAA! Enjoy your peace now, Nautilus, for it won't last. Soon you will face the horrible wrath of ZIM! COWER BEFORE MY MIGHTY IRKEN FEET!!"
The monologing was going to last a while.