GIR (Invader Zim)
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| GIR | |
| Gender | Genderless, but referred to as male[1] |
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| Race | Robot |
| Relatives | N/A |
| First appearance | Pilot |
| Voice actor | Rosearik Rikki Simons |
GIR is one of the main characters from the animated television series Invader ZIM. He is Zim's robotic slave, constructed from scrap parts and given to Zim by the Almighty Tallest instead of a regular SIR (Standard-issue Information Retrieval) unit. GIR is voiced by Rosearik Rikki Simons. The character GIR has featured in the main storyline in two episodes, Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain, and GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff
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[edit] Origin
GIR's creation takes place in the series' first episode. When Zim requests a SIR Unit, the Almighty Tallest, not wanting to give Zim a fully-functioning unit, offers him a new "Secret model just for him" of a SIR. They then assembled a robot with parts from a garbage can, and put whatever they had in their pockets ('monies', paperclips, a screw, and bubble gum) into its head, making a supposed brain. The robot introduced himself as "GIR." When Zim asked what the "G" stood for, GIR replied, "I don't know."[2]
[edit] Personality
GIR is Zim's robot servant, easily influenced yet impossible to fully control. He is incapable of focusing attention on important things for long periods of time, unless they involve pigs, and often speaks with no relevant coherent thought in mind, making him almost completely useless at best and often disastrous and hazardous, although GIR normally does what Zim commands. And there are many times when GIR speaks coherently and shows understanding in Zim's plans, as in the episode "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy" when he finds the paradoxical problem in Zim's plan to destroy Dib. GIR usually finds the problems in Zim's ideas and often warns Zim, even though Zim never listens. He loves watching "The Scary Monkey Show", though its name isn't discovered until "Walk of Doom". Every now and then he reverts to normal S.I.R. behavior (referred to as Duty Mode), during which time either all his cyan colored components or sometimes only his eyes become red and voice becomes much deeper, but these periods are normally short-lived, usually lasting only long enough for him to say a sentence. During the episode GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff, Zim manages to permanently set GIR to duty mode, normal S.I.R. behavior, but the result is that he is smart and responsible enough to realize that Zim is incompetent as an Invader, and attempts to overthrow him.
When GIR shuts down, all of his cyan parts turn gray and he reverts to lifelessness. As a robot, GIR technically has no gender, but he is usually referred to as being male,[1] mostly by Zim. In public on earth, GIR's most common disguise is a green dog suit that squeaks, with a visible zipper down the front. Another disguise is one that looks like a human child, and another that looks like a government agent by the name of "Government Man". Unlike Zim, he doesn't mind getting involved with typical Earth culture; in fact in some episodes he admits to loving Earth. GIR has a strong love of Earth snacks, such as tacos, taquitos, candy, chocolate bubblegum, waffles, cupcakes, tuna, chicken with mayo, pizza, slush-style drinks(named in the scripts to be Suckmonkeys), mashed potatoes, and corn. He can eat them, even though he/it is a robot. He is also shown becoming fat in "Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom" after stealing all of the Halloween candy from trick-or-treating kids. Despite his subpar disguises, GIR is actually quite good at blending in with the humans due to his behavior being similar with theirs.
[edit] Bloody GIR
Bloody GIR is an Easter Egg visible in several episodes of the television series Invader ZIM. Bloody GIR was born when Nickelodeon refused to allow a scene involving GIR covered with blood. The crew inserted the forbidden image into single frames in a few episodes. Post production supervisor Jason Stiff has confirmed that the image appears in Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy.[3] The existence of bloody GIR has been confirmed by director Steve Ressel in interviews. The frames were reportedly scattered throughout the episodes following Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy by Ressel and Chris Graham. Bloody GIR can be seen the most clearly during the opening in Mortos Der Soulstealer, when the mechanical claw gets very close to your TV screen. In fact, it is almost in plain sight.
"The bloody GIR was the single frame drawing that Chris Grahams drew and I was putting it into the show at random points hidden within things. It is very hard to make out....and I am not telling where or when those frames are (you have to be a master to see Bloody GIR, even with a frame-by-frame VCR). If anyone finds it...let me know. He is in several places through the last 14 shows. We tried to get him put into GIR's Rubber Piggy when the last pig goes through the portal: that was the first one and I don't think it stayed..you have to check...if it is there it is faint." -Steve Ressel[4]
According to Ressel, Nickelodeon never discovered a Bloody GIR before the episode aired.[5]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ a b Zim(referring to GIR's endless enthusiasm): "I can outlast him" - In Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain
- ^ Zim: "What does the 'G' stand for?" GIR: "I don't know" - In The Nightmare Begins
- ^ Ask Jason section on Buzzyworld "There is one in the portal in Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy" (HTML) (2 July 2006). Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
- ^ Information about Bloody GIR with input from Steve Ressel (HTML). Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
- ^ Ask Steve section on Buzzyworld (HTML) (11 November 2003). Retrieved on 2007-05-08.
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