History Recap / InvaderZimS1E15BadBadRubberPiggy

* BrickJoke: One of Professor Membrane's examples against making a Spacetime Object Replacement Device is a [[SpaceWhaleAesop rampaging giant fish in a bear suit]]. Illogical as it may sound, when Zim first discovers how he can use the piggies to kill Dib, it then cuts to the news, reporting that giant fish people are attacking Tokyo, with one wearing a bear suit and holding a picket sign saying, "HiMom"

* BrainTheft: Zim accidentally does this to ''himself'' by replacing his past self's brain with the rubber piggy he intended to warn him not to time travel.

-> "ZIM! Don't use the time machine! Love, ZIIIIIIIIIM!"

During an episode of his TV show, Professor Membrane explains the dangerous ramifications of TimeTravel and how anyone who would build a time machine would be a "complete moron." Cut to Zim doing just that.

Zim has a new invention- a time portal that will allow him to send objects into the past. He hopes to use this to send a robot back in time to kill Dib in the past. Unfortunately, the robot isn't compatible with the portal, and gets ejected. Zim is furious, grabs a rubber pig that GIR had been playing with, and lobs it into the portal. It ''is'' compatible, much to Zim's surprise. The pig replaces Dib's tricycle in the past, causing it to crash. In the present, Dib gets purple spots on his face and a metal claw for a hand.

Zim gets a soda and leaves his base. Because he's not there, he doesn't notice Dib's history, heartbeat, and lifeline restart. The screen in the past shows Professor Membrane at a press conference, announcing the Mega Boy 3000 titanium exoskeleton he created for Dib. In the present, Zim emerges from his base to find the house shaking, with Dib yelling that he will pay for ruining Dib's life. Dib breaks through the wall of Zim's house, with the laser defenses having absolutely no effect.

Zim gets a soda and leaves his base. Because he's not there, he doesn't notice Dib's history, heartbeat, and lifeline restart. The screen in the past shows Professor Membrane at a press conference, announcing the Mega Boy 3000 titanium exoskeleton he created for Dib. In the present, Zim emerges from his base to find the house shaking, with Dib yelling that he will pay for ruining Dib's childhood. Dib breaks through the wall of Zim's house, with the laser defenses having absolutely no effect.

* BaitAndSwitch: When Zim throws the final piggy, it looks as though Dib is about to punch him dead, saying, "Enjoy your last moments...", only to cut to Dib holding a camera, saying, "...of privacy!", making it seem as though Dib was just trying to get evidence of Zim's existence once again despite piloting a HumongousMecha and wrecking his base.

** It's too bad that Zim didn't see this, as his plan in this episode invokes the ButterflyOfDoom all over the place. His attacks on Dib lead to Dib's death, but then to Dib being put in the Mega Boy and being ''utterly furious'' with Zim for ruining his childhood. A later attack ends up giving the Mega Boy ''missiles''.
* {{Cyborg}}: Dib is turned into one.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Zim gets his brain replaced by a rubber piggy, rendering him a drooling mess.

* MakeWrongWhatOnceWentRight: Zim's plan is to kill Dib in the past. He first tries a giant robot, then the rubber pigs, which end up causing accidents to happen to Dib. It works and does end up killing Dib- until Professor Membrane gets involved.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Once Dib realizes that Zim has been responsible for the rubber piggies that have ruined his childhood, he attacks Zim with his new suit with the intent to outright kill him and GIR.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: How the plot is eventually solved- Zim sends a note to his past self warning him not to use the time machine.

* SpaceWhaleAesop: According to Professor Membrane, don't build a Spacetime Object Replacement Device, or else a giant fish in a bear suit will destroy the city.

* YouCanRunButYouCantHide: Inverted, by way of Dib screwing up the order of the sentence (as by this point, he's probably suffered a ''lot'' of brain damage).

* YourHeadAsplode: Happens to GIR as a result of his LogicBomb.

* ButterflyOfDoom: Discussed by Prof. Membrane; He explains (Using the creation of a breakfast cereal for example) that preventing or altering an event would cause more problems than doing so would solve.

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Zim creates a robot that will hunt down and kill Dib in the past, and calls it...a Hunter Destroyer Machine.

-->'''GIR''': Wait... if you destroy Dib in the past, then he won't ever be your enemy. Then you won't have to send a robot back to destroy him, and then he... ''will'' be your enemy, so you ''will'' have to send a robot back... *kaboom*

* WhoWouldBeStupidEnough: Indirectly, but Membrane, during his show, declares that anyone who would build a time-space object replacement device would have to be an absolute moron. Just such a device is Zim's Dib-murder tool of the episode. Zim's escapades with his portal basically prove Membrane right, as the ButterflyOfDoom causes Zim to nearly die.

-> "ZIM! Don't use the time machine! Love, ZIM!"

Zim decides to use the rubber pigs to screw with Dib's life some more. His next chance comes when Dib borrowed his dad's hover helmet. When he's in the sky, Zim replaces the helmet with a pig, causing Dib to fall. In the present, Dib gains tubes in his neck, connecting to a strange device on his back, as well as visions of pigs in his head.

The third pig accident causes Dib to fall off a tower while investigating a bigfoot baby. In the present, he ends up in even worse shape. He goes over to Zim's house, and when he sees a rubber pig that GIR drops, he bangs on the door, accusing Zim of being behind the accident. Another accident replaces defibrillator panels with rubber pigs, and, on a screen in Zim's base, Dib's vitals flatline.

* BrainTheft: Zim accidentally does this to ''himself'' by replacing his past self's brain with the rubber piggy he intended to warn him not to time travel/

** It's too bad that Zim didn't see this, as his plan in this episode invokes the ButterflyOfDoom all over the place. His attacks on Dib lead Dib's death, but then to Dib being put in the Mega Boy and being ''utterly furious'' with Zim for ruining his childhood. A later attack ends up giving the Mega Boy ''missiles''.

* HollywoodCyborg: Dib is turned into one.

-->"YOU CAN HIDE, ZIM, BUT YOU CANT'T..."\\

* GoneHorriblyWrong: Zim's plan ends up rendering Dib ten thousand times as strong, immune to all Zim's defenses, and bent on revenge against Zim, with ny further attempts just making him stronger. Zim has to erase the plan from history in order to survive.