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* Issue #44, Dib shows that he's truly his father's son (something he oddly ever showcases) by using REAL SCIENCE!!! Making up for his lack of skiing skills by building himself a super suit that allows him to pass the various obstacle courses of Meat Mountain.
** Then at the end, with rather odd BeYourself moment, Dib sheds his super suit and leans into his ButtMonkey status to completely sabotage Zim's device- saving everyone and still having time to enjoy his family vacation (albeit, he'll likely be spending that time waiting in line due to saving the entire crowd).
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* In Issue 42, Dib manages to pull an EngineeredPublicConfession on Zim, getting him to admit that he doesn't care about the Plim and is just using them. [[NegatedMomentOfAwesome Sadly, their short attention spans mean that Zim immediately gets their support back.]]
* In Issue 43, Dib briefly retakes the lead among the Plim by determining all the things they like and incorporating them into his campaign. Then, [[WhatYouAreInTheDark he realizes he's acting no differently from Zim and stops lying to the Plim]]; this costs him his lead, but at least shows he's of good character.
** Later, Dib actually manages to beat Zim by determining how to shut down the anti-technology and does so... [[YankTheDogsChain and then the Irkens invade, the field no longer keeping them away]]. And then in a twisted, ironic way, he gets another moment as thanks to his PaperThinDisguise he ends up going down in history as one of the greatest Irken Invaders ever for finding the planet for them.

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* Issues 1–2 show that Zim can be frighteningly clever when he needs, if only for petty needs. He turns Dib's ChronicHeroSyndrome against him, by going into hiding and counting on Dib doing nothing but obsessively waiting for him to come back. This leads to Dib being practically immobilized by obesity. Zim then tracks down the Gargantis Array and [[spoiler: broadcasts footage both of Dib's disgusting form and his subsequent comeback workout, humiliating him across the universe.]]
** Dib gets his moments during this as well. First, there's his epic comeback workout montage, and then the dogfight between Tak's ship (which he's piloting) and Zim's Voot, which he [[CurbStompBattle utterly owns]], blowing the Invader out of the sky and destroying the voot cruiser as a result.
** Dib gets a point in the end [[spoiler: simply for denying Zim a ride back to Earth. After what Zim did, he had being trapped of the array for who knows how long coming.]]

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* Issues 1–2 show that Zim can be frighteningly clever when he needs, if only for petty needs. He turns Dib's ChronicHeroSyndrome against him, by going into hiding and counting on Dib doing nothing but obsessively waiting for him to come back. This leads to Dib being practically immobilized by obesity. Zim then tracks down the Gargantis Array and [[spoiler: broadcasts footage both of Dib's disgusting form and his subsequent comeback workout, humiliating him across the universe.]]
]] Bonus points for his BreakingSpeech once his plan unfolds:
-->'''Zim''': Do you ''hear'' that, Dib? ''That''...is the sound of [[spoiler:all sentient life in the universe ''laughing.'' Laughing at ''you'']]! Muahahahahahahah! You may have followed me into ''space,'' human, but you won't [[spoiler:find respect here, not now that everyone and every''thing'' has seen this]].
** Despite the above, Dib gets his moments during this their confrontation as well. First, there's his epic comeback workout montage, and then burning off his obesity in a matter of ''days.''
** Following that, there's
the dogfight between Tak's ship (which he's Dib's piloting) and Zim's Voot, which he Voot. Dib [[CurbStompBattle utterly owns]], owns Zim]], blowing the Invader out of the sky stars and destroying forcing him to crash-land the voot cruiser as a result.
now-wrecked Voot Cruiser on the array.
** Finally, Dib gets a point in the end by [[spoiler: simply for denying Zim a ride back to Earth. After what Zim did, the humiliation he inflicted on Dib, the sadistic Irken had that coming - [[PyrrhicVictory he might have embarrassed Dib, but he ended up being trapped of the array for who knows how long coming.long]] .]]
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** Zim nonchalantly telling the Tallest that he quit being banished when they asked why he was at the great assigning instead of Foodcourtia. That's right he QUIT being BANISHED.

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** Zim nonchalantly telling the Tallest that he quit being banished when they asked why he was at the great assigning instead of Foodcourtia. That's right he right. He QUIT being BANISHED.
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* In Issue 38, Gaz very easily acts as a SpannerInTheWorks for Zim's latest plan -- when GIR starts impersonating Dib, causing the real one to be mistaken for a clone and driven into the woods by an angry mob, Gaz decides to indirectly help him by telling GIR that if he really wants to play the part, he has to try and expose Zim as an alien. This sends GIR on a rampage against Zim, ultimately ruining his plan.
** And to GIR's credit, he ends up doing a better job of convincing people that Zim's an alien than Dib ever has.
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** This troper would also give another point to Dib at the end [[spoiler: simply for denying Zim a ride back to Earth. After what Zim did, he had being trapped of the array for who knows how long coming.]]

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** This troper would also give another Dib gets a point to Dib at in the end [[spoiler: simply for denying Zim a ride back to Earth. After what Zim did, he had being trapped of the array for who knows how long coming.]]
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* GIR gets a Moment in "GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff", delivering the following ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Zim just before he almost kills him, showing the SIR programming lying behind his slipshod CloudCuckooLander programming and why you should BewareTheNiceOnes:

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* GIR gets a Moment in "GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff", delivering the following ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Zim just before he almost kills him, showing the SIR programming lying behind his slipshod CloudCuckooLander programming and why you Zim should BewareTheNiceOnes:[[BewareTheNiceOnes be glad the Tallest gave him a unit literally built from garbage instead of a fully functional SIR]]:
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* GIR gets a Moment in "GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff", delivering the following ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Zim just before he almost kills him, showing what is lying behind the CloudCuckooLander facade and why you should BewareTheNiceOnes:

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* GIR gets a Moment in "GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff", delivering the following ReasonYouSuckSpeech to Zim just before he almost kills him, showing what is the SIR programming lying behind the his slipshod CloudCuckooLander facade programming and why you should BewareTheNiceOnes:
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* In Issue 35, as part of the escape from Moo-Ping 10, Zim kicks Zorphic ''across the length of the station'', and upon realizing his aim was off, adjusts it to kick ''himself'' across.
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* Skoodge gets an offscreen MomentOfAwesome when he conquers an entire planet of voracious alien rodents.

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* Skoodge gets an offscreen MomentOfAwesome SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome when he conquers an entire planet of voracious alien rodents.
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* In Issue 32, Dib and Zim's sit-up competition gets so intense, with neither willing to back down, that [[spoiler: they transcend out of TheMultiverse]]. [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Somehow]].
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* The oft-ignored fight in the first episode, is ridiculously awesome. From Dib revealing his anti-alien handcuffs to the actual fight, which goes across the city, and features the two jumping from car to car. Doubles as a ton of FunnyMoments.

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* The oft-ignored fight in the first episode, is ridiculously awesome. From Dib revealing his anti-alien handcuffs to the actual fight, which goes across the city, and features the two jumping from car to car. Doubles as a ton of FunnyMoments.SugarWiki/FunnyMoments.
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** [[CrowningMomentOfFunny By dancing!]]

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** [[CrowningMomentOfFunny [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments By dancing!]]
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* Issue 31 has Dib fighting the mutant Super Bear in the carnival. He doesn't do much damage, but keeps going until [[spoiler: the grackle shoots him out of a cannon at the bear, knocking it out]].
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* Zim escaping from Foodcourtia in the "The Fry Cook What Came From all that Space"
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* Even though Dib is only in middle school, he somehow has the ability to create machines to stop Zim.
** And by extension to the above, over the course of several episodes, Gaz has been show to possess multiple abilities such as demonic powers, the ability to fly an irken ship, and stop an elevator in just ONE PUNCH.

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* Even though Dib is only in middle school, he somehow has been shown to possess the ability to create complex machines to put a stop Zim.
to Zim's plans.
** And by extension to the above, over the course of several episodes, Gaz has been show to possess multiple abilities such as demonic powers, the ability to fly an irken ship, ship despite no experience, and stop stopping an elevator in just ONE PUNCH.PUNCH. She is strong as hell for a kid.
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* Even though Dib is only in middle school, he somehow has the ability to create machines to stop Zim.
** And by extension to the above, over the course of several episodes, Gaz has been show to possess multiple abilities such as demonic powers, the ability to fly an irken ship, and stop an elevator in just ONE PUNCH.
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* Issue 25 has Zim's showdown with Virooz. Which is made even more impressive by the fact that Virooz had just pulled a GrandTheftMe on Zim, leaving Zim's mind stuck in Virooz's hover chair. To repeat, Zim wins their fight ''as a chair''.
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* At the end of Issue 24, Zim manages -- entirely by accident and while trying to BS his way out of being shot by gangsters -- to deduce Virooz's true identity.
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* The oft-ignored fight in the first episode, which was before the {{Flanderization}} that rendered Zim and Dib TooDumbToLive, is ridiculously awesome. From Dib revealing his anti-alien handcuffs to the actual fight, which goes across the city, and features the two jumping from car to car. Doubles as a ton of FunnyMoments.

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* The oft-ignored fight in the first episode, which was before the {{Flanderization}} that rendered Zim and Dib TooDumbToLive, is ridiculously awesome. From Dib revealing his anti-alien handcuffs to the actual fight, which goes across the city, and features the two jumping from car to car. Doubles as a ton of FunnyMoments.
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* In Issue 23, Zim's exploits inside GIR's mind have a few highlights, such as his arena fight with the other programs. Despite being at an initial disadvantage due to not understanding how the weapon of choice works, once he figures it out he easily wins.
** There's also him destroying the Virooz virus, freeing GIR from its control.
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* Everything that happens after Gaz gets cursed with pork tongue in "Gaz, Taster Of Pork." After seeing this evil bitch threaten to ''feed her brother to flesh eating dolls'', her long, well-deserved HumiliationConga is immensely cathartic.
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* Crosses over with heartwarming, the end of Issue 14 sees Gaz [[spoiler: threatening Agent Batflaps into giving Dib's latest video a positive review]] in order to keep Dib happy so he won't explode.

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* Crosses over with heartwarming, the end of Issue 14 sees Gaz [[spoiler: threatening Agent Batflaps into giving Dib's latest video a positive review]] in order to keep Dib happy [[ItMakesSenseInContext so he won't explode.]]
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* In Issue 22, a virus causes GIR to try and kill Zim. Zim ultimately stops his rampage by using GIR as a shield against one of his own thrown projectiles, which was bouncing off several walls.
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* In Issue 21, a FreakyFridayFlip leaves Gaz in Zim's body. Within three days of having access to all his resources, she's set herself up as a VillainWithGoodPublicity whom the world ''invites'' to take over.
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* Issue 20 has Zim unleash the Conquer-Blob to take over Earth... and ''it works''. While it's [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome all offscreen]], the blob destroys human civilization, and prepares the planet for Zim to take control of. Unfortunately for him, he's too engrossed with ''[[ShowWithinAShow Floopsy Bloops Shmoopsy]]'' to notice. [[spoiler: This gives the blob time to think things over, and it has a HeelFaceTurn, singlehandedly restoring human civilization to what it was, before flying off into space to fight evil.]]
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* Issue 18 has Burrito Royale, as the "last [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender beanbender]]", returning to reclaim his restaurant from Zim. He has his followers destroy Zim's robot suit, the Mecha-Rito, with a boobytrap he had lying around, and then sends Zim and GIR flying away on a sea of beans.
** For a villainous example, the Mecha-Rito looks pretty awesome, as does the full spread panel where we first see Zim in his "Burrito King" outfit.
* Issue 19 has another Dib victory, as he successfully exposes Zim Zoo as a fraud. [[spoiler: Downplayed, somewhat, as to his disappointment, this just leads to the Robo-Parents being arrested.]]
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* The oft-ignored fight in the pilot, which was before the {{Flanderization}} that rendered Zim and Dib TooDumbToLive, is ridiculously awesome. From Dib revealing his anti-alien handcuffs to the actual fight, which goes across the city, and features the two jumping from car to car. Doubles as a ton of FunnyMoments.

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* The oft-ignored fight in the pilot, first episode, which was before the {{Flanderization}} that rendered Zim and Dib TooDumbToLive, is ridiculously awesome. From Dib revealing his anti-alien handcuffs to the actual fight, which goes across the city, and features the two jumping from car to car. Doubles as a ton of FunnyMoments.
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*** But that's not the end.... ladies and invaders? [[spoiler:AN INVADER ZIM MOVIE.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgX2cu9N6_8]]

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*** But that's not the end.... ladies ladies, gentleman and invaders? [[spoiler:AN INVADER ZIM MOVIE.https://www.[[spoiler: '''''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgX2cu9N6_8]]com/watch?v=wMnV_eL-D7w AN INVADER ZIM TV MOVIE]] IS GETTING MADE'''''.]]
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*** But that's not the end.... ladies and invaders? [[spoiler:AN INVADER ZIM MOVIE.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgX2cu9N6_8]]

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