Film Theory: Dib Is An ALIEN! (Invader Zim)
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I've been wanting to cover more classic cartoons lately and Invader Zim was the perfect choice. The lore and science of that show fascinates me. There is so much we can dive into that it was hard to limit myself to one thing, but for you, Theorists, I will do my best. Today we are going to uncover the SECRET ALIEN hiding in plain sight. No, I don't mean Zim. I am talking about DIB!
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I think if the show wasn't canceled, this would actually be the big twist during a season finale of some sort
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@@taralamlam1287 shutup
Why was it cancelled to begin with?
I didn't watch the show in a while so I don't actually keep up with its news
@@pierreemad2220 It all started with the episode "Dark Harvest" i think.
@@pierreemad2220 Parents lol
I misread the title as “Zim is an alien” and questioned MatPat’s intelligence for a few seconds until I read the title again.
I would totally watch that episode. He could make the reasoning just as far-fetched and presuppositional as his regular episodes.
@hands indeed, I did. I still am.
It's a skin condition
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I laughed way too hard at this
Jhonen Vazquez mentioned that the world of the show takes place on Earth after years of pollution and junk slowly deteriorated everyone’s brains and bodies. That’s why nearly every character is either insane, kind of dumb, or both; they are all literally suffering from brain damage. It’s no wonder everyone thinks Dib is crazy; ironically, he’s probably one of the least crazy people on the planet.
“Does thinking you’re the last sane man on earth make you crazy? Because if it does, then I think I am.” - Del Spooner
Except for dr membrane
Sounds like he predicted 2023.
Oh great just like our world! -_-
If you guys didn't know humans are becoming less fertile, also everyone now have microplastics in the body, have fun.
Maybe Membrane is also going insane due to decades on Earth and his own experiments. Dib and Jazz just aren't feeling the effects yet because their Dad is also doing everything in his power to protect them. Like when Jazz had the Pig Curse, he did everything scientifically possible, and is unwilling to spiral into more insanity that comes with paranormal science
I like how prof membrane says he doesn't believe in the paranormal, but aliens aren't really paranormal. If anything they're more science than anything
Especially given how demons, which are paranormal, are shown to be real.
But they aren't normal and I need to find stuff for the definition
Know this is an old comment, but aliens fall into the science fiction category…unless they’re proven to be real, then I guess it would be Science non fiction? Or just Science maybe? 😅
@@TisGrym No.Aliens as phenomenon is not science fiction.But what we usually mean under aliens - yes.
We and all life at earth is proof that life can exist in our universe.Universe according to scientists(all this and other you can google) have diameter in 93 billion light years and visible is 28 billion ly .Approximate number of galaxies in visible universe is from 170 bilion to 2 trillion.If we do calculations of volumes by 4/3 x pi x r^3 we get that visible universe have 36.641 times smaller volume than observable.
So approximate number of galxies in Universe from 6.229 trillion to 73.283 trillion.Wiki says galaxies have in average 100 mil galaxies, yes, not best source but other options - we don't know for sure.So i will pick 50 million, plus some of strs definitely haven't habitable planets like A-O types, this don't change result by much.Each star system have in average 10 planets but this number based on incomplete information and contains gas giants so i take 5, not including rogue planets by obvious reasons.
As result with raw calculations we get that Universe might have from 1.55x10^21 to 1.83x10^22 planets and this is HUGE number.
Is pretty unlikely that there is no other alien life besides us.
But what we are considering "alien life"?Answer is any not terrestial life from simpliest microbes to more advanced organisms like plants , animals and finally sentient beings.All this have different odds , mircobes have highest and sentient beings - lowest.
All of this we certainly know is possible having Earth and us as example, so no restrictions from universe laws of physics.
Finally reached main point.We know that nothing can travel faster the light besides space-time.We know it for sure because all objects further 14 billion ly is moving faster than light relatively to us.But we and them moving at least half of ftl because space-time expanding in both directions, of course not entirely half this can be like 0.7 +0.3 too.But on 28billion ly distance both objects for sure moving at ftl relatively to each other.
This concept exploited by warp drive.Exist many doubts in his possibility because requiremnts to make space-time distortion around certain area to travel at ftl.So warp drive is sci-fi for now.And ftl travel between stars too.
So alien civilisation that can reach ftl speed is science fiction.But aliens as phenomenon, even sentient ones rather not a fiction, they just extremely rare.
@@TisGrym Well... Statistically, aliens kind of have to be real, in an infinite universe it's ridiculous to assume that no life-bearing planets exist. Even if it's just some bacteria.
In episode 7 in the first 4 minutes, Zim walks into Dibs house to borrow his telescope, Dib screams “Gaz there’s an alien in the house!” And she responds “besides you?” I thought that was another cool example for the case!!
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@@sekoseko2165 why
This isn't evidence of anything. That's just Gaz being Gaz.
I literally thought of that theory a long time ago
@@sekoseko2165 dude this has nothing to do whit this
i love how zim just pulled a napoleon and decided to “quit being banished”
lmao "pulled a napoleon"
Ok, but grammar?
Mind to 'edit'?
@@loturzelrestaurant Not everyones native language is English
@Loturzel Restaurant
Mind to not be a asshole when someone is joking around? It’s not like their typing a fuckin essay.
@@Vivosity I am chill, buddy.
The tragic irony of Dib being an alien is heartbreaking, really.
He could also be a human baby that was taken and experimented on and just adopted and raised afterwards.
He might be a human/Irken hybrid experiment, which could also explain why his head is so different than either species.
Seems like Professor Membrane is the Bulma of that planet. Inventing everything and owning everything and basically being the richest being on the planet.
Strange that they don't seem to live like rich people. Though his father probably uses most of his money for his experiments.
Maybe Prof Membrane, as the alien he is theorized to be, kidnapped Dib when he was a baby.
what about roach boy?
And because Dib and Gaz are hybrids, probably their mother died after giving birth to them
I also like to think that Zim KNOWS that Membrane is irken. In one of the episodes, Dib comes home to the two of them having tea or something while Zim waited for Dib. Zim would also absolutely recognize the irken technology Membrane uses. I think they have an understanding of some sort, maybe even a competition or bet. I just like the idea of the two of them having a mutual understanding and respect thing going on.
I like your idea
I think during the movie Zim and professor membrane were working together to take over the world and get into the path of the irkin armada and that membrane going to space prison was to make it more convincing for everyone else that Zim has taken over peace day and was not working with membrane
This is a very good theory
I feel like Zim not only isn't smart enough for that he a) wouldn't be able to resist gloating about it to Dib and b) wouldn't be able to handle the knowledge of a competitor without completely freaking out. Zim at his core is childish, overzealous, and highly reactive. He's had his clever moments, but they're far and in between
*He made a fricking Invader Zim Theory, I can die happy now.*
I second that
I third it
Exactly
@Zkyball YT I was hoping for this theory since I first watched his channel.
What's next? Danny phantom? 😂
I remember how in "Planet Jackers", Zim enters Dib's house, and when he says "Gaz, there's an alien in the house!" she actually says "You mean besides you?"
where can I watch invader zim anyway?
@@shadowshifter3177 I'm afraid dailymotion did not have full episodes, is there anywhere else? sorry for the trouble
@@zeya_thaya hulu
Granted that could just be sibling banter. My brother and I call each other things like that all the time
@@dylan.bissendmylife yeah it could just be a witty comment, but imagine how interesting it would be if she said that on the basis that they’re both genetically altered in some way shape or form
7:00 The scene afterwards was my favorite of the series, he steps into a stall and screams "LEAVE NO EVIDENCE!" Then a kid runs out and watches the bathroom stall explode into fire, and stands there in shock.
Pretty normal situation
I think Dib saying "I just hope the Irkens use the same operating system as I do" was more of a reference to Independence Day.
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That... Doesn't really make sense
that just don't make sense at all, please can you explain?
@@justsomebody9990 Wait, doesn't it?
In independence day, (never actually saw the movie, so apologies if I'm wrong) didn't they win by infecting the alien ship with a virus built on a human operating system, which doesn't make sense because there's almost no way they'd be compatible. Hence him saying that line as a cheeky remark towards Independence Day.
Or am I missing something?
That said, I prefer the explanation in the video :P
@@techyon9401 You're correct.
This childhood show built me into the paranoid person I am today
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JAJAJAJA x2
@SniperX NO
@SniperX work hard for it buddy
This show is my childhood
And there is a theory on it...
Im happy :)
"He doesn't have any ears!"
"That is ALSO a skin condition."
Ya don't say?
Legit doe, people can be born with no ear shell, aka, just a hole where there ears should be
@@cindyanimation1765 I believe Stephen Colbert is mising part of his ear, so I can believe it.
“Hmmmmm, pretty sus Zim”
don't forget super toast
Backing the theory that the tallest thought membrane just died when he didn’t contact them: when sim first contacted them they sounded surprised and said “your not dead!?”
I’m surprised he didn’t talk about Gaz’s strange reality bending powers or the fact that she’s a skilled fighter pilot at the age of, what, 10? They say it’s because she’s a gamer, but video games don’t translate to real world pilot skills.
That's not entirely true, alot of Air force guys use games like ace combat to train when they can
She's the equivalent of a working Gir.
It’s supposed to be kinda funny
But don’t pilots have a joystick somewhere in there?
Of course you can't use video games to train. For that you need a "simulator"; in other words you need the most realistic, often expensive, video game possible.
Fun joke theory: Zim is an alien. I mean, how should he ever, he's just a kid with a skin condition
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Lol that's a funny theory xD god imagine if that was real lol
@@krispyquacker3050 I disagr-*NOT SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE*
Yeah what next his dog gur is a robot.
So,I’m good friends with a kid named dib and he thinks zim is a alien,and i kinda believe him.
Also quick correction, the tallest are the tallest not because they offed the current ones, but because zim, as a smeet (child). Created an infinity energy absorbing blob that ate not one, but two of the current leaders back to back. Making the whole race sort of go into a panic on who would be leader. They basically picked two of the tallest irkens at the time. Who are in canon the same age as zim, making them teen rulers..basically (jhonen vasquez plays around with they're ages, saying zim is an adult, 16. Whatever but they are basically young rulers).
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@@taralamlam1773 stopppppp
RIP Tallest Miyuki
jhonen did change tha design of the tallest to show that they didnt grow to be the tallest, but became the tallest. Their suits are part of what make them the tallest. He wanted the views to know there was a difference. And it has been alluded to them "becoming" the tallest by doing something to the old tallest. Which i believe was a singular leader, but i may be misremembering that
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I’m so upset the show had gotten canceled, the plot twist would have been CRAZY- I wonder what the other episodes would have been
From what I remember, Dib and maybe Gaz were confirmed as clones of Membrane, but I think there's good evidence that Membrane is a potentially banished Irken. In which case, yes I guess that means that Dib would be an alien clone. And it makes sense that Membrane would be so into trying to convince Dib that aliens aren't real, both to keep his cover best he can, and potentially because he isn't ready to let the kids know about their clone status. It would be crazy enough to hear that you're a clone, much less an alien clone.
Alternate Theory: Membrane found irken technology, and denys aliens so no one finds out he stole the tech from an irken crash.
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Makes sense
Lol that would be funny tho...
@@taralamlam1122 already know how to convert pdf to word ya poser
@@grey_xoid yeah like a con man
“NOT SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE!”
that line has a LOT of power behind it.
So that's where the meme came from.
ya ya get the it
I'm Going to destroy matpat Once and for all
@@Avery-gn8gz no
@@sonjapotter474 nope, like most of Matpad videos is a pretty old theory from the internet
There are Irkens in the middle ground heightwise. The soldiers on the Irken Mothership are medium height. The ones that work for the Tallest are between the tallest and normal Irken height.
I feel like this isn't a theory. You just proved it. Dib is an alien. I used to wonder that every time they made such a huge deal out of his big head.
An episode that was planned before the show was cancelled called “the trial” actually would have given us some interesting new backstory on the tallest. Firstly, the tallest are from the same generation/batch as Zim, and second, Zim is actually the reason that the current tallest, known only as Red and Pink, are in power, and that they only became the tallest Irkens because a monster Zim created ate the two Irkens taller than them, Tallest Miyuki and her successor, Tallest Spork.
Fascinating! So much lost potential. It is VERY PAINFUL to discover new details like this about the show. Such a tragedy we will never see it!
One of the most interesting episodes that explained so much new lore, I’m still mad they never aired it.
Zero idea where you have the infos from but it would make sense IF this is true. At the moment as long as you don't have proof of where you have this info from I will have to take this at face value or potential fanfiction material or something like that. Because it sure sounds like it. It sure would be interesting if it is true though. Emphasize on the IF.
@@sazuna4024 Why would he lie about this?
Also, how does it sound like fanfiction? It sounds exactly like something that could've happened in the original series.
The Trial is a real thing, not fanfiction. It was an uncompleted episode, but the script was finished. You can actually find a script reading of the Trial(and other unfinished episodes)from the voice actors of the show on youtube.
Fun fact: The tallest AREN'T actually that tall. In one of the Invader Zim commentaries, it was said that a plot point for an episode that wasn't released would be showing how the tallest are put in robot bodies to make themselves taller once they are deemed worth. Extra bit of trivia, Zim and the current tallests were in the same classes together.
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I always thought that was just a known fact haha
It's also pretty clear throughout the show that The Tallest very much so want to remain in power and would probably do anything to stay in power, so killing actually taller peeps seems plausible
I also remember reading something about how when they become one of the Tallest, they have to cut off their thumbs?
That does make sense in the theory's context, since membrain is very obviously a cyborg
I used to wonder why Dib was so obsessed with Zim, he must be an alien too and can recognize Zim as a counterpart. But then I saw the Halloween episode and decided the teacher was the only true alien there.
The first thing i can instantly call out: we've seen the baby membrane, which means he's been short at some point, but got higher
Can u imagine a guy who made comics about a literal homicidal maniac got a show on NICK
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NICK: wants a show for kids.
Also NICK: hires a guy who makes pg-13 comics where the protag kidnaps, tortures and brutally murders a stranger.
which show?
Warcriment
Invader Zim
Jhonen is an enigma
Everyone: but what if this theory is wrong
Matpat: NOT SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE!!!!!!!
Lol
Hahaha lol
I can hear it in my head XD
Should've been : NOT THEOROLICLEY POSSIBLE
HE SOUNDS LIKE ENGLISH ALL MIGHT
So Professor Membrane doesn’t want Dib exposing the truth about aliens because Dib would be exposing himself? 🤯
It makes sense for gaz because she keeps her eyes closed mostly
Membrane says he’s the most excited for peace day, proceeds to punch a man in the face
@@kyestar88 bruh a tooth came out of this mans face
@@jaydentorres254 Just a scare tactic, mate. What's a punch but getting so close to someone so fast that they lose a tooth in fear?
@@dylanconfer1116 I don’t understand what you just said
@@dylanconfer1116 actually a tooth didn’t fall out, but his face folded in
I mean, it wasn’t peace day YET.
Don't forget the never explained question from Zim to Gaz: How do you know how to use Irken technology?
ya thats more proof
no that's just because she's a gamer
@@brine_909 or the irken were gamers
@@andrewaftontheandroidhedge2780 Originally in the pilot of IZ, Zim was shown to actually have and play video games
@@cindypicadomolina7814 so the irken can be alien gamers and thats why gamers know how to use irken tech
I always liked to think that the humans around Dib were stylized to represent how he felt about them. So to me his father looked "alien" because to Dib it feels like he is. Like he can't connect to him because he acts so distant to him almost speaking another language while they talk. But your theory is amazing. Zim looked clearly alien to Dib because that is what he saw and felt. But clearly anyone else was not able to see it. To them Dib was the more weird and alien than Zim. It's an amazing show no matter how freaky it sometimes got.
My first film theory video I ever watched and now he’s quitting. I will miss you.
Sad
"Not scientifically possible!"
- Professor Membrane
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Omg that had me dying
I loved that
More like "Professor _Memebrane!"_
Eh? _Eeeh?!_
...I'll show myself out...
“I a-
N O T. S C I E N T I F I C A L L Y. P O S S I B L E.
Even if Membrane was a irken, in the movie finally it's shown both his legs and arms are robotic. So I doubt he was a 'tallest'. More likely he was really short so no one paid attention to him and his genius. So he went to earth, made a mech suit to fit in. And his peace day stunt was to show up the tallest for ignoring him.
Tallest aren’t actually tall they are in Robert armored exoskeleton
Dib is a clone
the tallest are clearly also short inside mechanical bodies. this just lines up with what we know.
Membrane's legs aren't robotic. He's wearing rocket boots and in Florpus, it's shown that he has bones in his legs but not his arms.
but...the Tallest (red and purple, anyway) are obviously in some kind of robotic suits that make them taller themselves. Lol
If his father is indeed an alien taking over the world, it may actually be out of kindness that he doesn't tell dip since it would completely destroy him
Rewatching this again and I really am thinking Membrane is Zim but a future version of him, hence why he is trying to convince others that aliens don't exist. That way his (Membrane's) present plays out the way that currently exists.
Aside from fitting in really nicely to this theory, the bit about the Aliens running the same operating system as Dib was probably a dig at movies like Independence Day where the humans hack advanced alien tech with a mid 90s laptop
But thats because in the universe of the movie our tecnology was develop using Reverse engineering of the alien ships that crash on earth
@@hasturthekinginyellow5003 huh, I seem to have forgotten that plot point. I know that's the basic idea in the first Transformers movie, but again I assumed it was done to make sure that people didn't say "that's the same plot hole/ convenience from ID4" when the Autobots and Decpticons spoke english and used human tech.
shhhhhh lets not talk about that
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Professor Membrane: Runs at the speed of light to yell in someone’s face*
Everyone: "Eh, seems normal"
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bro everyone got bodied
i mean, it is a cartoon world. Breaking physics isn't that common
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To be honest I think it was said that Dib is actually his father clone. But him being an alien could be interesting.
Yes!! It was going to be an episode I believe but the show got canceled or the episode was just scrap I’m unsure
Yeah, Matpat mentions that around 13:50
Maybe he spliced the clone with human dna.
Ever since I saw Enter the Florpus on Netflix you can bet I was thinking "theory, theory, theory!" I have been wanting more theories and IZ is a great start to new ones that branch off from each other!
There's this line in one of the comics, when GIR mentions another Irken that came to Earth once. It's heavily implied that this Irken died somehow while on Earth, Zim himself even seems to mourn him. Now, this could be a throwaway joke about Zim's selective memory, but after seeing this video it makes more sense. It's a stretch, I know, but I think this could've been Membrane. It doesn't look like him, but that could easily be his true form, and the Membrane we see is in disguise.
Another I'd like to mention, is that if I remember correctly, Tak's disguise had ears and a nose. Zim's doesn't since it's part of the plot for him to have a terrible disguise. If Membrane's technology is so advanced, why couldn't he get rid of some of the only good evidence that he's an alien? It's clear he left Irk long before Zim and Tak did, so maybe Irken technology wasn't as advanced back then. It really depends on when he left, and the history of Irk. Both of those aren't talked about much in the series, movie, or comics.
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Omg ya. MatPat didn't even consider the whole Tak thing.
wow.
@@taralamlam1773 stop spamming all these comments
How about having that Irken being Dib's grandfather or great grandfather? Just so Dib would be part human and actually have had a mother and relatives.
"The Tallest are faking thier height"
REPORTED FOR TREASON.
Take him and, uh... throw him out the airlock!
You should talk bout if baby yoda died by kylo ren or what happens to him when he’s with Luke when kylo attacks
They cybernetically made their selfs tall
Apparently they also faked cutting off their thumbs by hiding them in their gauntlets
It seems in enter the florpus that the tallest finally got gauntlets that expose their thumbs, and apparently no other irken cares
I actually agree with this theory- as well as the fact that, from what I’ve seen, nearly EVERY alien does the thing where their voice raises- when tallest red says : “You- SAVE THE DONUTTSSSS” To Tallest purple- his voice does randomly raise, so it seems like a natural speech pattern for aliens.
I always had a theory about the Tallest that they arent actually tall. They're always hovering, and Idk about you but their limbs and bodies look to me like they've been augmented. Like they used levitation devices and cybernetics to make themselves seem taller.
That or being that tall for Irkens causes physical disabilities, their leg muscles too weak to support that much mass.
There writers did actually plan to explore this idea
Theory: MatPat is an alien is trying to solve human beings so that’s why he creates these theories.
@SniperX no one asked
@SniperX my mom told me if you shut up humanity will be saved
I knew it
@SniperX subscribers*
@@CarlStevenson21 moms always knows better
Literally controls the world , but can’t give himself a nose
Why does dib have a nose and ears if ge is a clone of his "father"
@@treeeyed8578 Because he dad made him look more human. If you're going to give your entire Kingdom to your child and you are an alien to them, better make yourself look like the population so they don't get suspicious.
Voldemort
@@theemmisaryfrombeyond2322 he still had a nose, well at least, breath hole there, omg, THATS WHY, every villain that has lost had a nose! Success really does come at the loss of a nose.
Ergo: Krillin is actually the God of the DBZverse.
Kind of like when Zim in the NanoZim episode where he was controlling Dibs arms with the arm control nerve in his belly. Zim also seemed to know where to go like he knew the entire anatomy, but didn’t think twice about it.
that would be interesting but dib has canonical grandparents in the comics and their was a flashback to a much younger prof in the show
Something I’m surprised that wasn’t mentioned is the “Arm control nerve” in Dib’s stomach as seen in “NanoZim”. Even Dib points out how that doesn’t exist in humans. This would also explain how Zim, an alien creature who doesn’t understand much of Earth, would know exactly where to find it.
Yeah, he probably just assumed humans would have one too, not realising Dib was an Irkan.
Tell this to matpat so he goes like HOW DID YOU NOT FIND THIS RESEARCH CREW THINGY!
@@katiekhabbazi6849 But Dib can survive in rain water unless if that was cloned out of him.
@@wehtawnikrap Maybe that's also weird to Irkens and he actually does have a skin condition.
@@wehtawnikrap I mean, Zim, an idiot, was capable of creating methods of protecting himself from rain water (albeit idiotic and flawed means that didn't go anywhere), and he hadn't been on Earth for even a year, yet Membrane has been there significantly longer, and is intelligent and capable, despite having access to more primitive tech than Zim's. It'd stand to reason that he'd likely find a way to protect his clones (and hopefully himself) from something as common and devastating to Irkans as rain water.
I saw invader zim and immediately stopped everything I was doing and clicked on this as fast as I could
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SAME
I was watching a video and the moment I saw this i clicked
I was in the middle of saving a kid from drowning, but I couldn't not watch this.
Same here XD
I *live for the fact that zim casually unbanishes himself, it is always very humorous everytime I go on an invader zim marathon once a year.
at the end of the movie, professed membrane says the reason why he was trying so hard to make dib think aliens don’t exist, was to protect him.
he does not say this
* Invader Zim pitch meeting *
Nickelodeon producer: Im not really liking the cartoon idea. What other work have you done Mr. Vasquez?
Vasquez: Well... I made a small comic book series a few years ago.
Nickelodeon producer: Is that so? What was it about?
Vasquez: Nothing major, it was about a homicidal maniac, and how overly depressed he was.
Nickelodeon producer: You're hired!
Johnny the homicidal maniac was a good comic
Producer: Don't you think it'll be difficult to get kids to watch a show with such horrifying scenes and ideas?
Screenwriter: Actually it'll be super easy. Barely an inconvenience
Funny enough, it was because of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac that Jhonen Vazquez got the job to begin with lol
Omg I never actually watched invader Zim but whenever I saw pics from it I would think "that reminds me so much of Johnny the homicidal maniac a lot" and now my mind is blown
JTHM is my absolute fave. I have every copy of the comic I could get my hands on and the directors cut. Also, Happy Noodle Boy is iconic.
"I am TESTICLESE God of rash covered scotums!".
Shouldn't be funny, is.
Dib: "Zim's an alien!"
Dr. Membrane: "NOT SCIENTIFICLY POSSIBLE!"
MatPat: "Dr. Membrane's an alien!"
No, he's Ironman.
No, he’s Patrick
No he’s Justin bible.
@@mashynua1751 let me stop you right there
the other can keep going
Bieber*
1:11 all those theories sounds so interesting to talk about them!! Hey you should make another video about Zim!
I got giggling at 14:33
"NOT SCIENTIFICALLY POSSIBLE " is the best quote
it’s even a meme template
@@meowdasia has very high meme potential
I know it’s amazing
Yep.
He sounds like lemongrab
This was unexpected since the last I heard of the words invader zim was in a saberspark video for a long time ago.
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Same
TLDR dr membrane was basically broke from dbz
Me too it's sad when a show with so much potential gets dumped for going through a rough patch, same with My life as a teenage robot.
Same here
I love your Theory! It’s interesting and makes sense! Great job!
Thank you for making this, I would have never thought about it but this makes too much sense
This is one of matpats most solid theories I think he’s ever made
Ikr!?
Minus the part about the tallest culling out other tall irkens, the tallest are in machine bodies that make them taller
@@chainsawz1312 well in a unmade episode the trial there was another tallest who zim killed some theorize the tallest where made to look tall to hide the fact that the tallest where all dying as they where the first ones to clone but as they continued to clone the irkins got shorter it's just a theory thou
What about sans is ness?!
i've also heard this theory long before matpat covered it
Dibs always accusing Zim of being an alien, but what about their teacher Mrs. Bitters? She slithers and moves around in ways impossible for a human, makes cicada noises, has to wear a cloak in the sunlight, among some other inhuman things I’m probably forgetting.
I figured she was a vampire since those exist in the world of the show
The show writers actually said Miss bitters isn’t human but They won’t tell us what she actually is at least this is what I’ve heard
@@27mylobay90 lizard person?
@@27mylobay90 She also was where the school was built, they just built it around her.
Wake up Dib! The Matrix has you! It has us all!
If we act like this show has strong continuity and characters don't just die every episode, then I have an alternative to this theory that doesn't rely on believing that Dib is an alien.
Dib says that he has "I have vague memories of being taken on board an alien ship as a baby." But if he's a clone of membrane with the intelligence to boot, then what's to say that he doesn't have similar memories?
Membrane picks up alien mannerisms, is hyper intelligent, and refuses to believe in the supernatural even when it's right in front of him because of a single thing called trauma.
In Enter The Florpus, he says, "How could anything this horrifying, plausible be real?"
At the end of the episode, Mopiness Of Doom Membrane asks himself where he went wrong.
He appears to be an alien because he was experimented on rather than being one. His actions, like embarrassing Dib on live TV and trying to get him to give up on paranormal investigations, are partly out of not wanting to remember his painful past and wanting to keep his kids safe from events like Enter The Florpus and Dark Harvest.
Or we're just overthinking kids shows as always.
He has done exactly what an invader should do, he perfectly blended in with the planets native inhabitants, even to the point they think he has children. It makes perfect sense for him to clone himself if there are no other Irken on Earth for him to reproduce, yet Dib and Gaz will still be biologically related to him. While simultaneously throwing Dib under the bus, he was going to show them off to society before he started the Perpetual Energy Generator, saying "I'd like to introduce you all to my children" at the very start of his speech. I feel I should mention in the comics, there's a poem that details how Zim conquers the Earth and reveals that Dib has been "one of us all along" before he rips his skin off and shows that he's Irken underneath. Maybe just a nightmare, but possibly foreshadowing?
I like how this show is still relevant after about 20 years
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What about that episode where Zim controls Dib's arm nerve? Dib says he doesn't have one, but Zim knows about it, almost like he knows more about Dib's anatomy than Dib himself does...
YEAH!!!!
How
He even says humans don’t have an arm nerve
What episode was that? I wasn't able to finish the show before it was removed from hulu
You must spend so much time making these videos, bro thanks
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1:02 Fire your editor for not using "I am Kaos" right here.
Foolish Editor! You will experience my Firing of Dooooom!!!!!
(But don't actually fire the guy pls, it's just a little reference with the same voice actor)
Gaz also knows about aliens and knows Zim is an alien. She mentions it in the Gaz, taster of pork episode, “Yeah, Zims an alien, why should I care?” She doesn’t care because Zim is to dumb to actually take over earth
Honestly, I do think membrane and Dib are aliens, but not Gaz. She’s an android! Think about it:
She Dosent obey anyone but membrane.
When she got wet when Dib splashed water on her and Zim, she looked like it hurt her. Robots are affected by water.
Why do you think he wanted Dib to go with her to the mall? He didn’t want her to get broken.
She protects herself, all the time.
There was one episode where she was on the elevator, and was trying to get the GS2 from Iggins, and SMASHED AND GLITCHED THE ELEVATOR FROM ONE PUNCH.
BUT HEY, THATS JUST A THEORY
A FILM THEORY
SOMEONE GET MATPAT ON THIS ONE
Doesn’t the show reveal her fleshy innards on one of the X ray scenes in Dark Harvest?
I didn’t think about that 🤔 it would make a lot of sense though
But she has organic organs
Edit: grammar
There's something that makes this wrong if she is a robot the pig mouth wouldn't have worked but kn the show it did
Water also hurts Irkens
Like how he didn’t bring up that one time Dib was literally turned inside out and his father moved at a impossible speed while saying “not scientifically possible”, like it’s kinda clear there not human.
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I remember this show as a kid was one of my favorites was sad they shut it down for years happy they made a few movies for it, HOWEVER I wish Cartoon Network would of picked it up years ago and wish they continued the episodes I would of loved to see at least 10 seasons.
I'm really this isn't only a theory but is a true fact that couldn't be revealed because of the show's cancelation
There’s two kinds of canon
Actual canon
Unfinished canon
This can be considered unfinished canon but I still think membrane is a normal person
@@LucyWest370 Support for this is that, if Dib is a clone of Membrane, why does he have ears and a nose?
@@tedtubegaming exactly. Or maybe Membrane was a clone of a human who ended up being totally different from a human - intelligent and having no ears. So Dib could be a clone of a clone 0_0
Or you know Professor Membrane could have simply mixed his DNA with human DNA to have different and more normal looking children since that's literally how reproduction works
@@janeoathdragon5793 or... he’s just normal
“Mrs Bitters I have a MIGHTY NEED to use the restroom once again”
-Zim
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Zim isn't Zim if he doesn't scream a word or two XD
@@VeloxFox JAJAAAJ THATS RIGHT
“Okay, but that's your last restroom break for the rest of the skool year.”
@@CrispyPrism333 XD
I wonder if Membrane is actually tall, Enter the Florpus had the "I Never Hired Any of You" scene where we see Membrane has robotic arms, arms that he got when earlier he explains he was friends with sharks before he "knew better". I want to jokingly think that Membrane uses a robotic skeleton to hide that he's an alien that's as short as Zim.
That was a good one man, some are kind of a stretch, but this one was solid and something i never really thought of as a long time jhonen vasquez fan
Professor Membrane being Irken is one of my favorite long-standing theories of childhood shows
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I always thought Gaz saying "I've got a squiddly spooch" was a kid-friendly euphemism XD
me too
Gaz assuming that if Dib knew anything about female anatomy, he'd have better things to do than chase conspiracy therories XD XD
@@CRanunculus chill he's 12
I always figured it was just a response designed to bug her brother. Kinda like when your sibling sees something of yours and says "eww, you like that? Thats gross!" And then you respond, Oh yeah? Well youre gross!"
Always thought Gaz was a little sus
Dib: I'll expose you, everyone will know you're an alien!
Zim: *uno reverse card*
Dib: WHAT?!
2:28 pull some levers...PULL SOME LEVERS HAHAHAH
The fact that Dib at the 0:06 looked like that and said that he's 12 years old, *IS BASICALLY EVERY KID IN ANIME LMAO*
*I’m 12 years old* 🧔🏻
That's the joke
That was the point
What about 1000 year old demon females looking like 4 year old girls
My name is GioGio Giovanna and I'm 15 years old...
The last thing that fits just fine into this puzzle is found on the comics. On issue #12, at the end there’s a poem titled invasion, in which Dib wanders around the streets, apparently after the alien invasion arrived. Then, he finds Gaz, but when he gets close to her he realized she is an alien, and more irkens start to crawl out of the shadows, and surround him, and then Zim appears and reveals that Dib was an alien all along. Dib touches his face and realizes it was actually a mask, takes it of and confirms what Zim said.
are the comics cannon?
@@benmcauley8872 I don’t know, but I suppose they are. Some stuff that happens in the comics was referenced in Enter the Florpus, in fact most of the plot of that movie was from a comic
wut
holy i just realized my face doesn't actually feel. i thought i was going numb for 12 years
@@pelon6951 it was the beginning of the first issue that's what the opening of the film was based off of but the rest of the film is original
I dont even watch this channel anymore but yeah, you hooked me at the "Membrane OS" bit. Im on board.
This will always be my favorite theory
"You've become the very thing you've sworn to destroy."
No Dib... you've always BEEN! DUN DUN DUN!
just like eren
they become what they hate
idubbz
@@Jcob_C like a what I can
@@mopbucket4307 whats that mean
Honestly, this being a plot twist wouldn't even mess with the comedic tone of the show, it would be a good joke about conspiracies about how every powerful person on earth is an alien, in the invader Zim universe, it would be true
I cannot tell you just how much this changes me.
Holy CRAP! I love when conspiracy theories are this good. Definitely going to rewatch the series w this in mind. Almost 20 years later w this info! What about Dib's nose and ears?! Would be awesome if Netflix picked up a reboot of the series!
Can we all agree we need this show to come back asap?
@puppylover why did you link a video about converting a pdf to word
No! They'll PowerPuff him! We need to leave old shows alone instead of ruining them all with crappy reboots.
@@chunkystains8950 I don't want a re boot I just want them to continue the show where they left off
@@chunkystains8950 it is possible to do a continuation with out going reboot mode its what the movie did. but yeah i hear you its hard to trust the people in charge of that stuff.
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Zim: "You never learned the truth about your father!"
Dib: "I learned enough, I know I am a clone!"
Zim: "No, Dib, I am YOUR FATHER!"
Dib: "Well that's just wrong."
Zim: "DON'T INTERRUPT ME! I was going to say I am your father's species. He's an Irken, just like me!"
this needs to happen in the future show
wAIT thats hilarious
Perfect.
wait............. what if........ Zim fixed his "skin condition" traveled back in time conquered earth, his son is Dib(which explained the similarities of their names) Dib goes to school with zims young self, Dib figures it all out, Zim denies everything Dib is saying to keep the world under his control
@@satoukazuma4837 zim is not that calm and probably won't ever be and why would he clone dib instead of just not having the clone so he can take over the world
I remember watching this back when it came out, before I had watched the show. I was like: "Cool, Wish I could watch the show." AND NOW THAT I HAVE, I CAME BACK TO THIS VIDEO TWO YEARS LATER BECAUSE I STILL REMEMBERED IT.
I just saw a film theory ad. Matthew, you madman.
Another interesting "coincidence" that I'm surprised Mat didn't mention: Zim is a three letter name. Who else do we know with three letter names? Gaz and Dib.
yeah, seriously. he must be sneezing with all the straw hes been grasping.
this is on the same level as sens
So bob over there is an alien then.
Technically not - Dib fits, but "Gaz" is short for "Gazlene" - a play on Gasoline to reference her volatile nature.
That said, it's not like Irkens all have three-letter names (see Tallests Miyuki and Spork from the unproduced "The Trial"; or invaders like Skoodge, Skutch, and Larb).
Also Gir
Invader Zim needs to be renewed for a new season.
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It got cancelled bro, sadly aint gonna happen
Vasquez hated working on the series.
Very much agreed
A final season, like Samurai Jack
Interesting take, but my thought was more along the line of; everyone else in Zim's school is an alien exiled to conquer the planet and like Zim himself were just sent to be rid of them. To hear that Dib and Gaz are aliens themselves changes the entire dynamic (only saw a handful of episodes) between them
Wow, I specifically remember that operating system scene and just thought "that's weird" but this makes far more sense