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During a battle between Team Save Earth and the two Irken factions, all three groups are accidentally sent into a MirrorUniverse. Now they have to deal with their counterparts in order to get back home.

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*AllForNothing: The events of this chapter occur because both Dib and Tak's teams are trying to stop Zim from harvesting cosmic energy… but at the end, it turns out that GIR nabbed a crystal shard containing some of it during the big fight in the MirrorUniverse, so after all that Zim still succeeded.
*BigEater: Anti-Ying is constantly eating, and quite messily for that matter.
*BrickJoke: Upon meeting Gaz's sickeningly sweet MirrorUniverse counterpart, Viera remarks that she should take a picture before they return to their own universe, which she does so at the end of the chapter.
*EnemyMine: The three teams call a truce after being accidentally transported to the MirrorUniverse. Later, they outright team up to defeat Dib and the twins' evil counterparts, who are planning to destroy both universes and StartMyOwn.
*ExpendableClone: Anti-Nyx has numerous clones of herself as backups in case anything happens to her. As they all have the same personality of "interchangeable corporate drones", the prime universe Nyx has a FreakOut.
*FreakOut: Nyx has one when her frustrations with her counterpart reaches a peak.
*AGodAmI: Anti-Dib and Anti-Viera intend to collapse both universes and channel the leftover cosmic energies to make themselves gods of the new reality that emerges afterwards.
*KillItWithFire: Nyx's initial reaction to meeting her counterpart, a bland corporate drone. She does eventually vaporize her, only for it to turn out she has backup clones.
*LetUsNeverSpeakOfThisAgain: After returning to their own universe, Dib and Viera both make it clear to Steve that they never want to discuss how their counterparts were a couple.
*MirrorUniverse: The entire plot of this chapter. Among other things, Doomsville is called Hopesville, Zim and Tak are heroic agents of the Irken Federation trying to peacefully uplift humanity, Dib and the twins are supervillains trying to TakeOverTheWorld, Professor Membrane is a hillbilly farmer, and Gaz is an ''extremely'' nice girly-girl.
*MythologyGag: Tenn notes that the interdimensional Smarkle Rift is a smaller version of a [[WesternAnimation/InvaderZimEnterTheFlorpus Florpus Hole]].
*NegativeSpaceWedgie: An explosion of compressed cosmic energy tears open a hole in reality called a Smarkle Rift, which acts as a one-way portal between universes.
*OtherMeAnnoysMe: No one is impressed with their MirrorUniverse counterparts.
*ReverseThePolarity: The TropeNamer is referenced by means of Anti-Zim's contribution to getting everyone back to their own universe, which is a "neutron flow polarity reverser".
*SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: Both Dib and Viera react this way when their counterparts, who are a couple, ask if they are too.
*ShipTease: Dib and Viera's flustered reactions to learning their counterparts are a couple.
*ShoutOut: Ying uses "[[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer I'd like to test that theory]]" as a PreAsskickingOneLiner while going up against Anti-Steve.
*ShutUpHannibal: When his counterpart starts giving an AboveGoodAndEvil speech, Dib cuts him off, saying that it makes him sound like a douche.
*TooMuchInformation: Ying's reaction to Nyx commenting that she's had dreams involving multiple Zims.
*WakingNonSequitur: Zim kicks Skoodge awake after everyone is accidentally transported to the MirrorUniverse, causing him to blurt out "Goat cheese omelettes!"
*WhenThePlanetsAlign: The chapter's plot is kicked off by the Stellar Shower, a cosmic energy storm that passes by Earth every 857.3 years. When Viera comments on the oddly specific number, Steve counters that while magical events seem to always round to the nearest hundred years, scientific ones bound by physics aren't quite so even.

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