Game Slave 2

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Gaz on the hunt (riding a scooter).
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Gaz on the hunt (riding a scooter).

Game Slave 2 is an Invader Zim episode originally produced as episode 12B but aired as episode 11B on September 21, 2001. It was written by Jhonen Vasquez, and directed by Steve Ressel, and guest starring Paul Greenberg.

[edit] Plot

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Gaz and Dib are sitting on the couch when a commercial for the Game Slave 2, a new handheld game console, comes on. Gaz has been obsessively playing the original Game Slave, and wants to go to the mall immediately, but Dib insists on waiting until after "Mysterious Mysteries" is over. When they finally arrive at the mall, they find thousands waiting in line ahead of them. Gaz sends Dib into the large parking lot for revenge, where he is quickly lost and encounters a tribe of hideously devolved Rat People. Meanwhile, Gaz must stand near a shrill, chatty boy named Iggins, who constantly brags about his "superior" gaming abilities.

When Gaz finally gets to the cashier, all of the Game Slave 2 consoles have been sold, except for one: a pre-order for a Clarence Wong (an online gamer and friend/rival of Jhonen Vasquez, according to the DVD commentary). Iggins claims he is Clarence Wong in order to claim the last GS2, and Gaz, angered by his trickery, vows revenge. Iggins does not take her seriously, however.

Soon, Gaz starts stalking Iggins for the game console. When the GS2's batteries run low at a critical point in the game, Iggins finds that Gaz has collected all the batteries in his house and is holding them for ransom. He refuses to trade the console for the batteries, and she flushes them down the toilet. A panicked Iggins runs back to the mall in search of batteries, taking an elevator to the 50th floor, where he is again confronted by Gaz. In desperation, Iggins gives Gaz the GS2; the violent storm outside immediately dissipates, as Gaz states that "the rightful order has been restored."

Iggins spitefully screams at her that he'll always be the better gamer, always... and that is when his elevator's cable snaps, sending him plummeting down 50 stories. 'The End' flashes on screen, but it is then revealed that Iggins survived the fall and flies away from the wreckage.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Production

The ending was quickly tacked onto the episode because Vasquez says that Nickelodeon protested against killing Iggins. It took several meetings before this ending became a reality. Vasquez claims that Nickelodeon protested claiming that Vasquez was mocking them with the 'flying away' concept. [1]


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Season One Episodes Pilot • The Nightmare Begins • Parent Teacher Night • Walk of Doom • Bestest Friend • NanoZIM • Germs • Dark Harvest • Attack of the Saucer Morons • The Wettening • Career Day • Battle-Dib • A Room with a Moose • Hamstergeddon • Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain • Planet Jackers • Rise of the Zitboy • Plague of Babies • Bloaty's Pizza Hog • Bolognius Maximus • Game Slave 2 • Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom • Mysterious Mysteries • Future Dib • Door to Door • FBI Warning of Doom • Battle of the Planets • Abducted • The Sad, Sad Tale of Chickenfoot • Megadoomer • Lice • Tak: The Hideous New Girl • GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff • Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom • Hobo 13 •

Walk for Your Lives
Season Two Episodes The Most Horrible X-mas Ever • Backseat Drivers From Beyond the Stars • Mortos Der Soulstealer • Zim Eats Waffles • The Girl Who Cried Gnome • Dibship Rising • Vindicated • The Voting of the Doomed • Gaz, Taster of Pork • The Frycook What Came from All That Space • unfinished episodes
Main Characters Zim • GIR • Dib • Gaz • Almighty Tallest
Planets Callnowia • Conventia • Foodcourtia • Irk • Meekrob
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