Nyx settles into life on Earth, while everyone else adjusts to having her around.
- Batman Gambit: Team Save Earth carry one out to beat Zim's group. Steve and Viera keep Ying distracted, getting him so angry he focuses on them, while Dib eventually goads Nyx into shooting at him with her plasma minigun, the energy from which he absorbs into his gauntlets. The twins then lead Ying back towards the others, with Dib then blasting all that energy into Ying, turning him into a projectile that destroys Zim's mech.
- Birds of a Feather: Gaz and Nyx turn out to have a shared love of video games, which serves as the basis for a friendship.
- Blackmail Backfire: Zim tries to coerce Gaz into serving him by threatening to expose how she betrayed Dib last season. She responds by pointing out that 1) she doesn't care what Dib thinks of her, 2) even if she did, she's sure Dib wouldn't believe Zim anyway, and 3) she takes threats personally. She then proceeds to beat Zim up, with a promise of worse if he pulls this stunt again.
- "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: When Gaz asks him if he's really daring to try and blackmail her, Zim replies that it's a "nasty" word, but confirms that he is doing so.
- Early-Bird Cameo: Agent Spider Monkey briefly appears near the beginning of the chapter. He’ll be more important later on in the season.
- Eye Scream: One of Ying's eyes gets blasted out by Steve. Nyx replaces it afterwards.
- For the Evulz: Zim decides, at some prodding from Nyx, to go on a rampage and destroy stuff in the city as a means of letting off some steam.
- Humongous Mecha: Zim rampages in one as a means of having some fun.
- Hypocrite:
- Spider Monkey mocks Dib and the twins for their lack of evidence for their paranormal encounters, but as Darkbootie points out, he hasn't had much success in that department either.
- Tak calls out Tenn for becoming as obsessed with Nyx as she accuses Tak of being with Zim.
- Jerkass Has a Point: The Swollen Eyeball members are rather condescending about it, but they're still correct that Team Save Earth have zero credible evidence of the Irkens being aliens, despite months of fighting them.
- Kindness Button: Gaz's love of video games allows her to bond with Nyx, who feels likewise about them.
- Konami Code: Nyx provides Gaz with a variant in their first meeting, noting that it's pretty much universal among games on every planet.
- Mythology Gag: Nyx mentions the video game planet Arcadikon, from Issue 16 of the comic series.
- Odd Friendship: To everyone's surprise, Gaz and Nyx strike up a friendship.
- O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Played for laughs, as the other students' reactions to Gaz actually acting friendly towards someone is to treat it like a sign of the apocalypse.
- Shout-Out: The cover story Zim sets up for Nyx is that she's returning from an exchange program in Tibecuador.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Gaz is disgusted with her classmates for not seeing through Nyx's disguise, and even Dib is starting to wonder why he even bothers when his classmates easily fall for Nyx's disguise and cover story.
- This Is Reality: When Spider Monkey condescends Team Save Earth for failing to get any photographic evidence of their fights with Zim and Tak, Viera counters by pointing out that the kind of fights they get into aren't like "a bad kung-fu movie" where the bad guys take their turns attacking the heroes; they're free-for-all brawls, which leave no time for taking pictures.
