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* DependingOnTheArtist: Poonchy's hair is usually purple, but in the comics and ''Enter the Florpus'', it's orange.
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* HiddenDepths: Poochy is apparently a child actor. He appears in an in-universe commercial for the restaurant Bloaty's Pizza Hog.
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* CreepyChild: Despite being genuinely harmless to everybody except for Zim, even though the only threat he poses is potentially accidentally exposing his mission, he can be ''surprisingly'' creepy, as he essentially stalks Zim ''Bestest Friend'' after the Irken dismisses him, and does all sorts of unsettling things like breaking into his house and even repeatedly cycling by it in a ''very'' disturbing fashion straight out of a horror film.
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* CreepyChild: Despite being genuinely harmless to everybody except for Zim, even though the only threat he poses is potentially accidentally exposing his mission, he can be ''surprisingly'' creepy, as he essentially stalks Zim in ''Bestest Friend'' after the Irken dismisses him, and does all sorts of unsettling things like breaking into his house and even repeatedly cycling by it in a ''very'' disturbing fashion straight out of a horror film.
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* MultipleChoicePast: She was supposedly a fairy princess once and went into space as a kid, [[UnexplainedRecovery until the rocket imploded]]. Meanwhile, [[AllThereInTheManual tie-in materials]] claim that she's always been where she is now, and the skool was built around her. The 15th issue of the ''ComicBook/InvaderZim'' comic book has the Skoolchildren theorize more backstories for her, such as being a golem created centuries ago to enact revenge on behalf of her creator and being part of a race of bug people planning to invade Earth.
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* MultipleChoicePast: She was supposedly a fairy princess once and went into space as a kid, [[UnexplainedRecovery until the rocket imploded]]. Meanwhile, [[AllThereInTheManual tie-in materials]] claim that she's always been where she is now, and the skool was built around her. The 15th issue of the ''ComicBook/InvaderZim'' comic book ''ComicBook/InvaderZimOni'' has the Skoolchildren theorize more backstories for her, such as being a golem created centuries ago to enact revenge on behalf of her creator and being part of a race of bug people planning to invade Earth.
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* WeirdnessCensor: No matter how obvious it is that Zim is an alien, they are too dumb or oblivious to see it. "The Frycook What Came From All That Space" has Sizz-Lorr kidnap Zim in front of the whole class and they act like nothing happened.
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* WeirdnessCensor: No matter how obvious it is that Zim is an alien, they are too dumb or oblivious to see it. "The Frycook What Came From All That Space" has Sizz-Lorr burst in, kidnap Zim in front of the whole class class, loudly announce he's returning to outer space, and blast off with a jetpack, and they act like nothing happened.
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* CreepyChild: Despite being genuinely harmless to everybody except for Zim, even though the only threat he poses is potentially accidentally exposing his mission, he can be ''surprisingly'' creepy, as his interactions with Zim in ''Bestest Friend'' border on stalker behavior after Zim dismisses him.
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* [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]]: She's completely aware of just how god-awful a place that Earth is in the show, and this translates into her being relentlessly bitter, cynical, nihilistic, and misanthropic because of it. She even is outraged by the fact that Valentine's Day is allowed to be celebrated after a particularly horrible, yet completely mysterious incident involving it and chocolates which resulted in them being replaced with meat products instead.
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* PetTheDog: A minor one, but in part 1 of "Tak, the Hideous New Girl", she tells Dib that he doesn't want to know why they replaced giving candy to other people with giving meats to other people in Valentine's Day, and is even outraged that it was allowed to be celebrated.
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* PetTheDog: A minor one, but in part 1 of "Tak, the Hideous New Girl", she tells Dib she's outraged and appalled that he doesn't want to know why they replaced giving candy to other people with giving meats to other people in Valentine's Day, and Day is even outraged that it was allowed to be celebrated.celebrated, and when Dib asks her ''why'' they've replaced the tradition of giving candy with giving out meat instead, she refuses to tell him and instead says that he does ''not'' want to know, in a genuinely cautionary tone, which marks the only time in the series that she's genuinely interested in protecting the (already gone, in Dib's case) innocence of her students, rather than her being a bitter, nihilistic, old crone.
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* MajorInjuryUnderreaction: While he reacts to having his eyes ripped out [[TheScream like any reasonable person would]], his response to falling off a rooftop and being caught in an explosion (which is implied to be his cybernetic eyes exploding) is simply to ask the squirrel he thinks is Zim if he doesn't like waffles.
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** Not only does Keef suffer no lasting injuries from ''having his eyes torn out'' and possibly having them explode shortly after, he would have survived getting doused with a liquid that explodes when in contact with happy energy had "Return of Keef" been produced.
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* PetTheDog: A minor one, but in part 1 of "Tak, the Hideous New Girl", she tells Dib that he doesn't want to know why they replaced giving candy to other people with giving meats to other people in Valentine's Day, and is even outraged that it was allowed to be celebrated.
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* AnimalMotifs: Bugs and Snakes. She's primarily associated with insects, such as her nightmare counterpart being a gigantic insectoid creature, her {{Leitmotif}} being the sound of cicadas, and even seemingly being part of a race of bug people in the comics. She also is snake-like in that she's capable of slithering around like a serpent, coiling around people, and even makes the noise of a rattlesnake sometimes when she speaks or is annoyed.
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* TheCameo: She appears in the ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' episode "Linc Or Swim".
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* FreakyIsCool: Dirge evidently has this opinion of his webbed fish toes, even though he compares himself to "some kind of horrrible fish boy", offering to show Zim them, which surprisingly unsettles and repulses him.
* {{Irony}}: They call Dib crazy, but some of them act (and are) even weirder than they accuse him of being.
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* UnexplainedRecovery: Despite having his eyes ripped out and replaced with robotic ones and subsequently being blown up in "Bestest Friend", Keef is back to normal in subsequent appearances.
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* CreepyChild: Despite being genuinely harmless to everybody except for Zim, even though the only threat he poses is potentially accidentally exposing his mission, he can be ''surprisingly'' creepy, as his interactions with Zim in ''Bestest Friend'' border on stalker behavior after Zim dismisses him.
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* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Zita and Gretchen have purple hair, Peyoopi has green hair, and Sara has blue hair.
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->'''Voiced by:''' Lucille Bliss
->''"The universe is doomed. Doomed! DOOOOOOOMED!... Go home now."''
Zim and Dib's pessimistic old crank teacher of an unclear species.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: She's almost definitely not human, even if we assume she ''was'' one at some point in the now-distant past, but we're not quite sure ''what'', exactly, she is. Sunlight [[WeakenedByTheLight burns her]]. The only possibility she's been willing to extend is her claim that she was a fairy princess when she was younger.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Due to Lucille Bliss's death, Miss Bitters just made a non-speaking cameo at the beginning of ''Enter the Florpus''.
* DevilInPlainSight: She does little to nothing to hide how inhuman she is, but no one seems to be even remotely aware of her monstrous nature. Even ''[[AgentMulder Dib]]'' is convinced she's just a very creepy but otherwise normal old woman.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite the obvious hatred she has for her students, she thinks Dib is [[YouDontWantToKnow happier not knowing]] how meat replaced candy for Valentine's Day and even expressed "moral outrage" to the principal allowing the kids to celebrate the holiday.
* TheFairFolk: If what she said about formerly being a fairy princess is true, she is most certainly this rather than [[FairyCompanion the friendlier type]]. [[UsedToBeASweetKid Well, she is now.]]
* [[GrumpyOldMan Grumpy Old Woman]]: Cantankerous as all hell and lives up to her name.
* HatesEveryoneEqually: She hates her students, she hates their parents (who ''used'' to be her students), she hates the world she inhabits, and she hates the entire universe.
* HiddenDepths: For someone as perpetually angry, nihilistic and mean-spirited as Miss Bitters, she occasionally comments on how she used to have hopes and dreams, and that the world wasn't always such a hellhole in her time. She even apparently used to love someone.
* HumanoidAbomination: According to one source, Miss Bitters didn't come to teach, as she's always existed on that land... ''the Skool was simply built around her.''
* {{Leitmotif}}: Her presence often comes with the sound of cicadas.
* LivingShadow: She sometimes sneaks up on people by becoming their shadow. Literally.
* MeaningfulName: Her name reflects her '''bitter''', nihilistic attitude.
* MultipleChoicePast: She was supposedly a fairy princess once and went into space as a kid, [[UnexplainedRecovery until the rocket imploded]]. Meanwhile, [[AllThereInTheManual tie-in materials]] claim that she's always been where she is now, and the skool was built around her. The 15th issue of the ''ComicBook/InvaderZim'' comic book has the Skoolchildren theorize more backstories for her, such as being a golem created centuries ago to enact revenge on behalf of her creator and being part of a race of bug people planning to invade Earth.
* NoodleIncident: See MultipleChoicePast. There were apparently supposed to be [[RunningGag even more of them]], but they got cut for one reason or another.
* PerpetualFrowner: She has only two expressions and moods to go with them: irritated and infuriated.
* SadistTeacher: She's a teacher and isn't very nice to her students.
* SnakePeople: She's tall and thin and swirls through the air and curls around people like a boa constrictor. Rattlesnake sounds show up when she speaks or gets annoyed.
* StrawNihilist: PlayedForLaughs. She often gives lectures to her students on how there's no hope for anyone and that doom is the only thing to come in the end.
* {{Transplant}}: She was ComicBook/{{Squee}}'s teacher before becoming a character in this show.
* WeakenedByTheLight: She has to wear heavy, hooded robes on the one occasion we see her leave the building.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Implied at times by her [[MultipleChoicePast numerous backstories.]]
* WasOnceAMan: One of her backstories implies that she used to be human before she became whatever she is now.
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[[folder:Skool Children]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PhilLamarr (The Letter M), Jim Wise (Willy), Paul Greenberg (Poonchy), Creator/JaniceKawaye (Sara), Antoinette Spolar (Aki, Gretchen, Jessica, Mary, Peyoopi, and Spoo), Rosearik Rikki Simons (Chunk and Pigboy), Mo Collins (Zita), Creator/JasonMarsden (Zootch and Torque Smacky), Jhonen Vasquez (Brian, Carl and Old Kid)
->''"We think Dib's even crazier than normal today! Can we use one of our Crazy Cards to send him to the Crazy House for Boys?"''
-->--'''Zita'''
The other kids in the Skool which Zim and Dib attend, which includes Miss Bitters' class. They mostly act like normal kids and have absolutely no idea that Zim's an alien.
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* AerithAndBob: From Gretchen, Rob, and Carl, to Peyoopi, Keef, and Chunk.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Gretchen seems to have a crush on Dib, though he's more interested in chasing after Zim. In "Tak, the Hideous New Girl", she gives him a plate full of heart-shaped meat, and is later seen crying when she sees him talking to Tak.
* AlphaBitch: Jessica appears to be one. She gossips about Zim snobbily in "Bestest Friend", and subsequently refers to a group of unpopular kids sitting together at a table as "rejects". She's also snobby in the comics.
* AmusingInjuries:
-->'''Zootch:''' Argh! My organs!
* AnimeHair: [[http://zim.wikia.com/wiki/File:Peyoopi.png Peyoopi]]
* ButtMonkey: Due to having [[OmnicidalManiac Zim]] as a classmate, and [[SadistTeacher Miss Bitters]] as a teacher.
* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill: Gretchen has huge braces that visibly stick out from her mouth, so much so that she looks as though she has no lower jaw.
* DemotedToExtra: In ''Enter The Florpus'' almost all of them aren't given speaking roles except for Poonchy during a gag in the earlier part of the movie, and none of them are referred to by name. The most they do is unwittingly help Zim's plan to transport Earth into the path of the Irken Armada along with every other child on the planet.
* TheDitz: Willy doesn't even seem to be smart enough to speak.
* EveryoneHasStandards: While they won't hesitate to pick on students, they seem to mark the line at discrimination against people for how they look. Some of the children call Dib out for calling Zim an alien just for how he looks in "The Nightmare Begins" and Zita calls Dib out for hurting Pigboy's feelings in "The Frycook What Came from All That Space" when he says that they aren't pigs.
* EvilRedhead: Chunk and Rob both have red hair and aren't very nice.
* {{Irony}}: They call Dib crazy, but some of them act even weirder than they accuse him of being.
* JerkJock: Downplayed by Torque Smacky, who is a burly kid that is always shown doing curls with a weight. While he's hardly a LovableJock, and shoves Zim to the ground just for looking at him funny, he tends to be fairly hands off compared to the other kids in terms of bullying and is the only one among them shown to actually be capable of having a civil ([[OneDialogueTwoConversations albeit one-sided]]) conversation with Dib.
* JerkassHasAPoint: [[KidsAreCruel While they're all generally shown to be mean-spirited little assholes no matter the context]], their ostracization of Dib isn't without some legitimate ground. From what we see of his social interactions, Dib [[ItsAllAboutMe often aggressively forces his obsession with the paranormal onto others and ignores or dismisses their own interests as being unimportant]]. Flashbacks to his early childhood in "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy" show him ruining another kid's birthday party because he mistook an alien-shaped punching bag for the real thing and harassing a child [[AmbiguouslyHuman who may or may not have been a bigfoot]] simply for looking like a monster, [[KnightTemplar despite him seemingly having been just minding his own business]].
* KarmaHoudini: Usually get away with how they treat Dib and sometimes Zim, totally scott-free.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: That said, some episodes have them hurt or traumatized by Zim's plans which they ignore Dib's warnings of.
* KidsAreCruel: Dib's class makes no effort to hide how much they hate him. The only ones to be exempt from this are Gretchen, Keef and a handful of recurring kids who don't pick on Dib. Even Gretchen is seen laughing at Dib in "Room With a Moose" and "Frycook What Come From All That Space."
* NiceHat: Carl, who wears a red stocking cap.
* NoIndoorVoice: [[MeaningfulName Screamy]], who appears in the unfinished episode "Ten Minutes to Doom."
* NoNameGiven: The OneSceneWonder student president in "The Voting of the Doomed."
* ThePigPen: Willy is disgustingly filthy.
* RecurringExtra: They're essentially minor characters who frequently appear in scenes taking place at Skool.
* TheStoic: Torque Smacky seems indifferent to anything that doesn't involve sports or excercising, and even those don't elicit much of a reaction from him.
* TeachersPet: Zita is the only student who Miss Bitters seems to like.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In the earlier episodes, while they never liked Dib or Zim, they hardly did anything worse than make minor insults to them or talk badly about them behind their backs. Later episodes have several of them cruelly mocking and physically humiliating them, to the point where Zim attempts to trap them in an alternate dimension and Dib questions if they're even worth saving in ''A Room with a Moose''. Everyone outright refuses to sit on the ''side of the bus as him'', because it could damage some unexplained credibility they have.
-->'''Rob:''' If we go over [to the other side of the bus], then we'd be ''near'' you.\\
'''Jessica:''' That doesn't sound cool.\\
'''Morla:''' Do you see our dilemma?
* VocalDissonance: In "Tak, the Hideous New Girl", a female student yells "WIENERS ROCK!" in an adult man's voice.
* WeirdnessCensor: UpToEleven. No matter how obvious it is that Zim is an alien, they are too dumb or oblivious to see it. "The Frycook What Came From All That Space" has Sizz-Lorr kidnap Zim in front of the whole class and they act like nothing happened.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Zita and Gretchen have purple hair, Peyoopi has green hair, and Sara has blue hair.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Old Kid, as his name implies, is a child that somehow looks like an elderly man.
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[[folder:Keef]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Danny Cooksey
An overly optimistic schoolboy with an abnormal resistance to injury, Keef is the first (and likely only) human Zim attempts to make friends with.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Not only incredibly durable, absorbent, and unnaturally optimistic, but he also has only three fingers, the same as Irkens.
* BirdsOfAFeather: The unproduced "Return of Keef" reveals that he and GIR naturally get along perfectly.
* CheerfulChild: Nothing that hasn't been stated before.
* {{Determinator}}: Keef never seems to lose his cheery demeanor and hopeless optimism, brushing off the most gruesome injuries with a cheeky smile.
* DumbassHasAPoint: In the unreleased episode "Return of Keef", he redecorates Dib's room and gets rid of his paranormal stuff, because it was "making him sad." Considering how ninety percent of Dib's suffering comes from his obsession with hunting monsters, it's hard to argue with that.
* EyeScream: Zim's "friendship" present. Don't worry, he was fine by the next episode.
* FieryRedhead: To the point where he literally ''explodes'' from enthusiasm at one point.
* GenreBlind: Considering the CrapsackWorld he lives in, you probably wouldn't be so perpetually cheerful if you were in his place.
* HiddenDepths: In his proper debut, he paints a recreation of ''Madonna and Child'' by Giovanni Bellini (with him and Zim substituting), suggesting he's quite a skilled artist for his age. And in Issue 15 of the comics, he shows himself to be a very creative storyteller.
* {{Keet}}: A very cheery and energetic boy. His name even sounds like the word!
* KiddieKid: Wears a shirt with rainbows on it, uses words like "bestest" and prefers skipping over walking. While all of the Skool children are idiots, Keef is one in a very distinctly childish way.
* MadeOfIron: He's inexplicably highly resistant to pain. In fact, the main reason Zim chose him to be his best friend is because he endured the greatest amount of physical torture out of the candidates for the position.
* NiceGuy: Probably the nicest kid in Skool. Unfortunately, since he's in a SadistShow, it does not end well for him.
* ThePollyanna: Keef is always friendly and cheerful, despite the CrapsackWorld he lives in.
* StepfordSmiler: Implied a few times. Before he meets Zim at the Rejects' lunch table, he looks unusually downtrodden like the rest of his friends. Later, he frowns briefly when his invitations to Zim's "Party" are rejected.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Zim has to ''rip out his eyes'' to get him to leave him alone once they become friends. Even then, the only reason that he does is because his robotic replacements trick him into thinking that a squirrel is Zim.
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[[folder:Groyna]]
A schoolgirl who temporarily teams up with Dib in issue 8 of the comics to investigate the infestation of alien pants Zim has brought to earth.
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* ActionGirl: Only a year higher than Dib, and yet a hardened fighter against [[ItMakesSenseInContext a pants invasion.]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: Despite calling Sheather her "best friend", the way she's openly emotional about reuniting,coupled with the fact that Sheather wears a single earring, suggests there's something closer going on between them.
** Eventually confirmed as such by Eric Trueheart.
* BadassNormal: She's a human skool-kid whose able to hold her own against alien parasites and is the only one sans Dib to escape infestation.
* ButchLesbian: Implied to be this, and displays quite a few mannerisms.
* {{Determinator}}: She survived the pants invasion long enough to reunite and embrace her friend after the Ubertrouser was destroyed.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: In an unusual turn for this universe, Groyna actually reunites with Sheather after the pants invasion is over, and the two are last seen embracing with tears of joy.
* EmotionalBruiser: Groyna is clearly weeping as she fights her pants controlled friend.
* GodCreatedCanonForeigner: Groyna was supposed to appear in the cancelled episode "Pants!". When the show was eventually given a comic continuation, she made her proper debut.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Groyna is the last survivor of Zim's alien pants invasion plan. She's wise to the pants' habits of finding prey and has even killed a few over the last several days. Of course, since this is following Dib, we don't actually get much of her side of the story.
* HugeSchoolGirl: Groyna is built like a bodybuilder and unusually athletic for a kid from this universe.
* TheLadette: She states she's a year ahead of Dib and captain of the School Vooleyball team.
* OneShotCharacter: Thus far, she's only ever appeared in one issue, although Eric Trueheart has expressed interest in her returning.
* OnlySaneMan: In contrast to the usually brainless masses who line up for whatever insidious fad Zim's promoting, Groyna resists all the way and even calls the alien pants for what they are.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She is a female jock with a [[BrawnHilda Brawn Hilda-ish]] appearance and an openly emotional personality, as seen by how she cries under stress and lovingly embraces her best friend [[spoiler: once the two of them are reunited]].
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->'''Voiced by:''' Lucille Bliss
->''"The universe is doomed. Doomed! DOOOOOOOMED!... Go home now."''
Zim and Dib's pessimistic old crank teacher of an unclear species.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: She's almost definitely not human, even if we assume she ''was'' one at some point in the now-distant past, but we're not quite sure ''what'', exactly, she is. Sunlight [[WeakenedByTheLight burns her]]. The only possibility she's been willing to extend is her claim that she was a fairy princess when she was younger.
* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Due to Lucille Bliss's death, Miss Bitters just made a non-speaking cameo at the beginning of ''Enter the Florpus''.
* DevilInPlainSight: She does little to nothing to hide how inhuman she is, but no one seems to be even remotely aware of her monstrous nature. Even ''[[AgentMulder Dib]]'' is convinced she's just a very creepy but otherwise normal old woman.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Despite the obvious hatred she has for her students, she thinks Dib is [[YouDontWantToKnow happier not knowing]] how meat replaced candy for Valentine's Day and even expressed "moral outrage" to the principal allowing the kids to celebrate the holiday.
* TheFairFolk: If what she said about formerly being a fairy princess is true, she is most certainly this rather than [[FairyCompanion the friendlier type]]. [[UsedToBeASweetKid Well, she is now.]]
* [[GrumpyOldMan Grumpy Old Woman]]: Cantankerous as all hell and lives up to her name.
* HatesEveryoneEqually: She hates her students, she hates their parents (who ''used'' to be her students), she hates the world she inhabits, and she hates the entire universe.
* HiddenDepths: For someone as perpetually angry, nihilistic and mean-spirited as Miss Bitters, she occasionally comments on how she used to have hopes and dreams, and that the world wasn't always such a hellhole in her time. She even apparently used to love someone.
* HumanoidAbomination: According to one source, Miss Bitters didn't come to teach, as she's always existed on that land... ''the Skool was simply built around her.''
* {{Leitmotif}}: Her presence often comes with the sound of cicadas.
* LivingShadow: She sometimes sneaks up on people by becoming their shadow. Literally.
* MeaningfulName: Her name reflects her '''bitter''', nihilistic attitude.
* MultipleChoicePast: She was supposedly a fairy princess once and went into space as a kid, [[UnexplainedRecovery until the rocket imploded]]. Meanwhile, [[AllThereInTheManual tie-in materials]] claim that she's always been where she is now, and the skool was built around her. The 15th issue of the ''ComicBook/InvaderZim'' comic book has the Skoolchildren theorize more backstories for her, such as being a golem created centuries ago to enact revenge on behalf of her creator and being part of a race of bug people planning to invade Earth.
* NoodleIncident: See MultipleChoicePast. There were apparently supposed to be [[RunningGag even more of them]], but they got cut for one reason or another.
* PerpetualFrowner: She has only two expressions and moods to go with them: irritated and infuriated.
* SadistTeacher: She's a teacher and isn't very nice to her students.
* SnakePeople: She's tall and thin and swirls through the air and curls around people like a boa constrictor. Rattlesnake sounds show up when she speaks or gets annoyed.
* StrawNihilist: PlayedForLaughs. She often gives lectures to her students on how there's no hope for anyone and that doom is the only thing to come in the end.
* {{Transplant}}: She was ComicBook/{{Squee}}'s teacher before becoming a character in this show.
* WeakenedByTheLight: She has to wear heavy, hooded robes on the one occasion we see her leave the building.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Implied at times by her [[MultipleChoicePast numerous backstories.]]
* WasOnceAMan: One of her backstories implies that she used to be human before she became whatever she is now.
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[[folder:Skool Children]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/PhilLamarr (The Letter M), Jim Wise (Willy), Paul Greenberg (Poonchy), Creator/JaniceKawaye (Sara), Antoinette Spolar (Aki, Gretchen, Jessica, Mary, Peyoopi, and Spoo), Rosearik Rikki Simons (Chunk and Pigboy), Mo Collins (Zita), Creator/JasonMarsden (Zootch and Torque Smacky), Jhonen Vasquez (Brian, Carl and Old Kid)
->''"We think Dib's even crazier than normal today! Can we use one of our Crazy Cards to send him to the Crazy House for Boys?"''
-->--'''Zita'''
The other kids in the Skool which Zim and Dib attend, which includes Miss Bitters' class. They mostly act like normal kids and have absolutely no idea that Zim's an alien.
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* AerithAndBob: From Gretchen, Rob, and Carl, to Peyoopi, Keef, and Chunk.
* AllLoveIsUnrequited: Gretchen seems to have a crush on Dib, though he's more interested in chasing after Zim. In "Tak, the Hideous New Girl", she gives him a plate full of heart-shaped meat, and is later seen crying when she sees him talking to Tak.
* AlphaBitch: Jessica appears to be one. She gossips about Zim snobbily in "Bestest Friend", and subsequently refers to a group of unpopular kids sitting together at a table as "rejects". She's also snobby in the comics.
* AmusingInjuries:
-->'''Zootch:''' Argh! My organs!
* AnimeHair: [[http://zim.wikia.com/wiki/File:Peyoopi.png Peyoopi]]
* ButtMonkey: Due to having [[OmnicidalManiac Zim]] as a classmate, and [[SadistTeacher Miss Bitters]] as a teacher.
* BracesOfOrthodonticOverkill: Gretchen has huge braces that visibly stick out from her mouth, so much so that she looks as though she has no lower jaw.
* DemotedToExtra: In ''Enter The Florpus'' almost all of them aren't given speaking roles except for Poonchy during a gag in the earlier part of the movie, and none of them are referred to by name. The most they do is unwittingly help Zim's plan to transport Earth into the path of the Irken Armada along with every other child on the planet.
* TheDitz: Willy doesn't even seem to be smart enough to speak.
* EveryoneHasStandards: While they won't hesitate to pick on students, they seem to mark the line at discrimination against people for how they look. Some of the children call Dib out for calling Zim an alien just for how he looks in "The Nightmare Begins" and Zita calls Dib out for hurting Pigboy's feelings in "The Frycook What Came from All That Space" when he says that they aren't pigs.
* EvilRedhead: Chunk and Rob both have red hair and aren't very nice.
* {{Irony}}: They call Dib crazy, but some of them act even weirder than they accuse him of being.
* JerkJock: Downplayed by Torque Smacky, who is a burly kid that is always shown doing curls with a weight. While he's hardly a LovableJock, and shoves Zim to the ground just for looking at him funny, he tends to be fairly hands off compared to the other kids in terms of bullying and is the only one among them shown to actually be capable of having a civil ([[OneDialogueTwoConversations albeit one-sided]]) conversation with Dib.
* JerkassHasAPoint: [[KidsAreCruel While they're all generally shown to be mean-spirited little assholes no matter the context]], their ostracization of Dib isn't without some legitimate ground. From what we see of his social interactions, Dib [[ItsAllAboutMe often aggressively forces his obsession with the paranormal onto others and ignores or dismisses their own interests as being unimportant]]. Flashbacks to his early childhood in "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy" show him ruining another kid's birthday party because he mistook an alien-shaped punching bag for the real thing and harassing a child [[AmbiguouslyHuman who may or may not have been a bigfoot]] simply for looking like a monster, [[KnightTemplar despite him seemingly having been just minding his own business]].
* KarmaHoudini: Usually get away with how they treat Dib and sometimes Zim, totally scott-free.
* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: That said, some episodes have them hurt or traumatized by Zim's plans which they ignore Dib's warnings of.
* KidsAreCruel: Dib's class makes no effort to hide how much they hate him. The only ones to be exempt from this are Gretchen, Keef and a handful of recurring kids who don't pick on Dib. Even Gretchen is seen laughing at Dib in "Room With a Moose" and "Frycook What Come From All That Space."
* NiceHat: Carl, who wears a red stocking cap.
* NoIndoorVoice: [[MeaningfulName Screamy]], who appears in the unfinished episode "Ten Minutes to Doom."
* NoNameGiven: The OneSceneWonder student president in "The Voting of the Doomed."
* ThePigPen: Willy is disgustingly filthy.
* RecurringExtra: They're essentially minor characters who frequently appear in scenes taking place at Skool.
* TheStoic: Torque Smacky seems indifferent to anything that doesn't involve sports or excercising, and even those don't elicit much of a reaction from him.
* TeachersPet: Zita is the only student who Miss Bitters seems to like.
* TookALevelInJerkass: In the earlier episodes, while they never liked Dib or Zim, they hardly did anything worse than make minor insults to them or talk badly about them behind their backs. Later episodes have several of them cruelly mocking and physically humiliating them, to the point where Zim attempts to trap them in an alternate dimension and Dib questions if they're even worth saving in ''A Room with a Moose''. Everyone outright refuses to sit on the ''side of the bus as him'', because it could damage some unexplained credibility they have.
-->'''Rob:''' If we go over [to the other side of the bus], then we'd be ''near'' you.\\
'''Jessica:''' That doesn't sound cool.\\
'''Morla:''' Do you see our dilemma?
* VocalDissonance: In "Tak, the Hideous New Girl", a female student yells "WIENERS ROCK!" in an adult man's voice.
* WeirdnessCensor: UpToEleven. No matter how obvious it is that Zim is an alien, they are too dumb or oblivious to see it. "The Frycook What Came From All That Space" has Sizz-Lorr kidnap Zim in front of the whole class and they act like nothing happened.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Zita and Gretchen have purple hair, Peyoopi has green hair, and Sara has blue hair.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: Old Kid, as his name implies, is a child that somehow looks like an elderly man.
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[[folder:Keef]]
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->'''Voiced by:''' Danny Cooksey
An overly optimistic schoolboy with an abnormal resistance to injury, Keef is the first (and likely only) human Zim attempts to make friends with.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: Not only incredibly durable, absorbent, and unnaturally optimistic, but he also has only three fingers, the same as Irkens.
* BirdsOfAFeather: The unproduced "Return of Keef" reveals that he and GIR naturally get along perfectly.
* CheerfulChild: Nothing that hasn't been stated before.
* {{Determinator}}: Keef never seems to lose his cheery demeanor and hopeless optimism, brushing off the most gruesome injuries with a cheeky smile.
* DumbassHasAPoint: In the unreleased episode "Return of Keef", he redecorates Dib's room and gets rid of his paranormal stuff, because it was "making him sad." Considering how ninety percent of Dib's suffering comes from his obsession with hunting monsters, it's hard to argue with that.
* EyeScream: Zim's "friendship" present. Don't worry, he was fine by the next episode.
* FieryRedhead: To the point where he literally ''explodes'' from enthusiasm at one point.
* GenreBlind: Considering the CrapsackWorld he lives in, you probably wouldn't be so perpetually cheerful if you were in his place.
* HiddenDepths: In his proper debut, he paints a recreation of ''Madonna and Child'' by Giovanni Bellini (with him and Zim substituting), suggesting he's quite a skilled artist for his age. And in Issue 15 of the comics, he shows himself to be a very creative storyteller.
* {{Keet}}: A very cheery and energetic boy. His name even sounds like the word!
* KiddieKid: Wears a shirt with rainbows on it, uses words like "bestest" and prefers skipping over walking. While all of the Skool children are idiots, Keef is one in a very distinctly childish way.
* MadeOfIron: He's inexplicably highly resistant to pain. In fact, the main reason Zim chose him to be his best friend is because he endured the greatest amount of physical torture out of the candidates for the position.
* NiceGuy: Probably the nicest kid in Skool. Unfortunately, since he's in a SadistShow, it does not end well for him.
* ThePollyanna: Keef is always friendly and cheerful, despite the CrapsackWorld he lives in.
* StepfordSmiler: Implied a few times. Before he meets Zim at the Rejects' lunch table, he looks unusually downtrodden like the rest of his friends. Later, he frowns briefly when his invitations to Zim's "Party" are rejected.
* TheThingThatWouldNotLeave: Zim has to ''rip out his eyes'' to get him to leave him alone once they become friends. Even then, the only reason that he does is because his robotic replacements trick him into thinking that a squirrel is Zim.
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[[folder:Groyna]]
A schoolgirl who temporarily teams up with Dib in issue 8 of the comics to investigate the infestation of alien pants Zim has brought to earth.
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* ActionGirl: Only a year higher than Dib, and yet a hardened fighter against [[ItMakesSenseInContext a pants invasion.]]
* AmbiguouslyGay: Despite calling Sheather her "best friend", the way she's openly emotional about reuniting,coupled with the fact that Sheather wears a single earring, suggests there's something closer going on between them.
** Eventually confirmed as such by Eric Trueheart.
* BadassNormal: She's a human skool-kid whose able to hold her own against alien parasites and is the only one sans Dib to escape infestation.
* ButchLesbian: Implied to be this, and displays quite a few mannerisms.
* {{Determinator}}: She survived the pants invasion long enough to reunite and embrace her friend after the Ubertrouser was destroyed.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: In an unusual turn for this universe, Groyna actually reunites with Sheather after the pants invasion is over, and the two are last seen embracing with tears of joy.
* EmotionalBruiser: Groyna is clearly weeping as she fights her pants controlled friend.
* GodCreatedCanonForeigner: Groyna was supposed to appear in the cancelled episode "Pants!". When the show was eventually given a comic continuation, she made her proper debut.
* HeroOfAnotherStory: Groyna is the last survivor of Zim's alien pants invasion plan. She's wise to the pants' habits of finding prey and has even killed a few over the last several days. Of course, since this is following Dib, we don't actually get much of her side of the story.
* HugeSchoolGirl: Groyna is built like a bodybuilder and unusually athletic for a kid from this universe.
* TheLadette: She states she's a year ahead of Dib and captain of the School Vooleyball team.
* OneShotCharacter: Thus far, she's only ever appeared in one issue, although Eric Trueheart has expressed interest in her returning.
* OnlySaneMan: In contrast to the usually brainless masses who line up for whatever insidious fad Zim's promoting, Groyna resists all the way and even calls the alien pants for what they are.
* TomboyWithAGirlyStreak: She is a female jock with a [[BrawnHilda Brawn Hilda-ish]] appearance and an openly emotional personality, as seen by how she cries under stress and lovingly embraces her best friend [[spoiler: once the two of them are reunited]].
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