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--->'''Gaz:''' (Angrily) That one is rightfully mine! I'll buy it from you but there's no way you're keeping it, not without invoking my ''wrath'' anyhow!
--->'''Iggins:''' (Oblivious) You know, you need help.

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--->'''Gaz:''' (Angrily) (''Angrily'') That one is rightfully mine! I'll buy it from you but there's no way you're keeping it, not without invoking my ''wrath'' anyhow!
--->'''Iggins:''' (Oblivious)
anyhow!\\
'''Iggins:''' (''Oblivious'')
You know, you need help.help.
** When the elevator Iggins is in plummets after the cord snaps, Gaz shudders at this before walking off, showing that this clearly wasn't her doing and she didn't want Iggins dead, at least after getting the Game Slave 2 from him.
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* SkewedPriorities: Both Iggins and Gaz. Iggins is willing to let some creepy girl stalk and torture him if it means holding onto his video game and Gaz is willing to ''let both of them die'' if he doesn't.

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* SkewedPriorities: Both Iggins and Gaz. Iggins is willing to let some creepy girl stalk and torture him if it means holding onto his video game and Gaz is willing to ''let both of them die'' if he doesn't.doesn't.
** A smaller case with Dib when he encounters the rat people, immediately going from expressing shock to simply asking if they know where the exit is.
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-->'''Dib:''' But, you're a woman.
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* AbsenteeActor: Zim. He isn't even mentioned.
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--->'''Gaz: (Angrily)''' That one is rightfully mine! I'll buy it from you but there's no way you're keeping it, not without invoking my ''wrath'' anyhow!
--->'''Iggins: (Oblivious)''' You know, you need help.

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--->'''Gaz: (Angrily)''' --->'''Gaz:''' (Angrily) That one is rightfully mine! I'll buy it from you but there's no way you're keeping it, not without invoking my ''wrath'' anyhow!
--->'''Iggins: (Oblivious)''' --->'''Iggins:''' (Oblivious) You know, you need help.
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* EverybodyHasStandards: Despite having [[SkewedPriorities skewed priorities]], Gaz
** While Gaz is understandably furious that she arrived late to buy a Game Slave 2 because Dib wanted to finish watching ''Mysterious Mysteries''[[note]]As their father had said that he didn't want her to be going out on her own at night.[[/note]], instead of taking it out him, she merely distracts him by telling him that there's a Chupacabra in the nearby parking lot. The worst he gets out of it is getting lost, bumping into some harmless “rat people,” and wanders off in the street in confusion at the end of the episode.

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* EverybodyHasStandards: Despite having [[SkewedPriorities skewed priorities]], Gaz
Gaz doesn't go too far in some aspects.
** While Gaz is understandably furious that she arrived late to buy a Game Slave 2 because Dib wanted to finish watching ''Mysterious Mysteries''[[note]]As their father had said that he didn't want her to be going out on her own at night.[[/note]], instead of taking it out on him, she merely distracts him by telling him that there's a Chupacabra in the nearby parking lot. The worst he gets out of it is getting lost, bumping into some harmless “rat people,” and wanders off in the street in confusion at the end of the episode.

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By the time Gaz's turn comes, the game has already sold out and won't get another shipment for a month. Iggins, however, manages to snag a reserved copy by claiming to be the person it was reserved for. Enraged by having what's rightfully her's snatched out from under her nose, Gaz stalks Iggins and psychologically tortures him until he gives the game up. Meanwhile, Dib gets lost in the mall's parking garage.

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By the time Gaz's turn comes, the game has already sold out and won't get another shipment for a month. Iggins, however, manages to snag a reserved copy by claiming to be the person it was reserved for. Enraged by having what's rightfully her's hers snatched out from under her nose, Gaz stalks Iggins and psychologically tortures him until he gives the game up. Meanwhile, Dib gets lost in the mall's parking garage.


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* EverybodyHasStandards: Despite having [[SkewedPriorities skewed priorities]], Gaz
** While Gaz is understandably furious that she arrived late to buy a Game Slave 2 because Dib wanted to finish watching ''Mysterious Mysteries''[[note]]As their father had said that he didn't want her to be going out on her own at night.[[/note]], instead of taking it out him, she merely distracts him by telling him that there's a Chupacabra in the nearby parking lot. The worst he gets out of it is getting lost, bumping into some harmless “rat people,” and wanders off in the street in confusion at the end of the episode.
** Despite how abrasive her strategies were towards getting her Game Slave 2 from Iggins, it should be noted that [[RewatchBonus she didn't outright steal it from him]]. Before he left the mall, she offers to pay him back for the game before he blows her off. And while they're both in the battery store elevator, she warns him once more to give her the game while having the money in her hand to pay him.
--->'''Gaz: (Angrily)''' That one is rightfully mine! I'll buy it from you but there's no way you're keeping it, not without invoking my ''wrath'' anyhow!
--->'''Iggins: (Oblivious)''' You know, you need help.
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* ShoutOut: One of the rat people tells Dib, [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie "I was oonnnncccee a mannnnnnnn..."]]

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* ShoutOut: One of the rat people tells Dib, [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie "I was oonnnncccee once a mannnnnnnn..."]]man!"]]
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* ShoutOut: One of the rat people tells Dib, [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie “I was once a man!”]]

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* ShoutOut: One of the rat people tells Dib, [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie “I "I was once oonnnncccee a man!”]]mannnnnnnn..."]]
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** For that matter, the rat people themselves for claiming there’s “no way out” despite the exit being right in front of them. You can’t even explain this as them having gone mad form being trapped down there for so long, as that STILL would’ve required them to not see the exit long enough for them to deteriorate into rat people in the first place.

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** For that matter, the rat people themselves for claiming there’s “no way out” despite despite the exit being right in front of them. You can’t even explain this as them having gone mad form from being trapped down there for so long, as that STILL would’ve required them to not see the exit long enough for them to deteriorate into rat people in the first place.
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** For that matter, the rat people themselves for claiming there’s “no way out” despite the exit being right in front of them. You can’t even explain this as them having gone mad form being trapped down there for so long, as that STILL would’ve required them to not see the exit long enough for them to deteriorate into rat people in the first place.


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* ShoutOut: One of the rat people tells Dib, [[WesternAnimation/GIJoeTheMovie “I was once a man!”]]
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* ADayInTheLimelight: For Gaz.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: For Gaz.Gaz, despite she gets limited screen time and most of the attention falls on Iggins.
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* FailedASpotCheck: In his haste to get away from the rat people, Dib somehow misses the exit door that was right behind him.
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* HoistByHisOwnPetard: After surrendering the game to Gaz, Iggins very well could have just stepped out of the elevator before the rope snapped and it plummeted downward. Instead, he spent all of this precious time to rant about how no matter what Gaz does, she will ''never'' be a better gamer than him. Gaz may have defeated him, but his own ego finished him off.

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* AbsenteeActor: The second episode where Zim doesn't appear and the first where he isn't even mentioned.

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* AbsenteeActor: The second episode where Zim doesn't appear and the first where he Zim. He isn't even mentioned.


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* MotorMouth: Iggins talks a lot. Mostly about [[ItsAllAboutMe himself and what a great gamer he is]].
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* AbsenteeActor: Zim doesn't appear in this episode at all.

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* AbsenteeActor: The second episode where Zim doesn't appear in this episode at all.and the first where he isn't even mentioned.

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* AbsenteeActor: Zim doesn't appear in this episode at all.



* AuthorAppeal: Jhonen Vasques has said that this episode and others involving video games are his own love letter to the medium.

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* AuthorAppeal: Jhonen Vasques Vasquez has said that this episode and others involving video games are his own love letter to the medium.
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The sequel to Gaz's favorite video game goes on sale tonight at midnight and she ''has'' to get a copy of it. Unfortunately, her father forces her to be accompanied by Dib, who won't leave until tonight's episode of ''Mysterious Mysteries'' is over, and by the time they get there, the line wraps around the mall. Gaz manages to shake off Dib, but then spends the next several hours in line listening to an obnoxious gamer named Iggins go on about what an amazing gamer he is.

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The sequel to Gaz's favorite video game goes on sale tonight at midnight and she ''has'' to get a copy of it. Unfortunately, her father forces her to be accompanied by Dib, who won't leave until tonight's episode of ''Mysterious Mysteries'' is over, and by the time they get there, the line for the video game store wraps around the mall. Gaz manages to shake off Dib, but then spends the next several hours in line listening to an obnoxious gamer named Iggins go on about what an amazing gamer he is.
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* OutOfFocus: The second episode not to feature Zim and the first in which he isn't even mentioned.
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* SkeweredPriorities: Both Iggins and Gaz. Iggins is willing to let some creepy girl stalk and torture him if it means holding onto his video game and Gaz is willing to ''let both of them die'' if he doesn't.

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* SkeweredPriorities: SkewedPriorities: Both Iggins and Gaz. Iggins is willing to let some creepy girl stalk and torture him if it means holding onto his video game and Gaz is willing to ''let both of them die'' if he doesn't.
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The sequel to Gaz's favorite video game goes on sale tonight at midnight and she ''has'' to get a copy of it. Unfortunately, her father forces her to be accompanied by Dib, who won't leave until tonight's episode of ''Mysterious Mysteries'' is over, and by the time they get there, the line wraps around the mall. Gaz manages to shake off Dib, but then spends the next several hours in line listening to an obnoxious gamer named Iggins go on about what an amazing gamer he is.

By the time Gaz's turn comes, the game has already sold out and won't get another shipment for a month. Iggins, however, manages to snag a reserved copy by claiming to be the person it was reserved for. Enraged by having what's rightfully her's snatched out from under her nose, Gaz stalks Iggins and psychologically tortures him until he gives the game up. Meanwhile, Dib gets lost in the mall's parking garage.

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* ADayInTheLimelight: For Gaz.
* AuthorAppeal: Jhonen Vasques has said that this episode and others involving video games are his own love letter to the medium.
* BerserkButton: Do not keep Gaz from her video games and ''definitely'' don't deny her the opportunity to get the last copy of a new game.
* {{Determinator}}: The last copy of ''Game Slave 2'' belongs to Gaz. It doesn't matter if it technically doesn't even belong to the person who has it (he falsely claimed to be the person it was reserved for), or that it's just a video game. She ''will'' force Iggins to give his copy up because it's '''her's'''. It just is.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Gaz systematically stalks and terrorizes Iggins into giving up his copy of ''Game Slave 2''.
* IfICantHaveYou: Gaz is willing to let both her and Iggins die in a hundred-story elevator drop if he doesn't give over his video game.
* KilledOffForReal: Averted. Iggins ''was'' meant to die when the elevator crash at the end, but ExecutiveMeddling said no, so the crew tacked on a silly ending where he bursts out of the wreckage and strikes a victorious pose.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Iggins ''will'' take any and every opportunity to gush about how he's the best gamer there is.
* SkeweredPriorities: Both Iggins and Gaz. Iggins is willing to let some creepy girl stalk and torture him if it means holding onto his video game and Gaz is willing to ''let both of them die'' if he doesn't.

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