History ComicBook / InvaderZimOni

** Issue 15 takes a swipe at the infamous "guns turned into walkie talkies" cut of ''Film/{{ET}}'' by having all of the soldiers' guns be digitally replaced with hot dogs. Then, just to piss off the censors, a blurb mentions that the decision was made by the president and CEO of ''Now That's What I Call Doggin' Inc''.

As for Nickelodeon wanting another animated ''Invader Zim'' project, Vasquez did eventually agree to do a television movie. The film, ''[[WesternAnimation/InvaderZimEnterTheFlorpus Enter the Florpus]]'', was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on August 16, 2019. The movie would go on to adapt the comic's first issue... well, at least the beginning of it, [[AlternateContinuity before quickly veering off into its own thing]] by means of ForWantOfANail.

** Membrane, after he TookALevelInKindness, sold out Dib in issue 5 so that the gamer robots wouldn't take his dinner robot.

* FriendlyEnemy: Occasionally [[{{Subverted}} subverted]] with a heavy dose of TakeThatAudience to fans who read Zim and Dib's relationship in this way. In Issue 13, a couple of aliens believe that Dib is Zim's best friend due to the excessive amounts of time they spend together and [[IHaveYourWife kidnap him to use as a bargaining chip]]; taking Zim's insistence that they're actually bitter enemies for a bluff, they proceed to torture Dib in various ways to Zim's [[PassThePopcorn totally unconflicted enjoyment]]. Issue 50 has LoveFreak [[StrawFan Chammy Wamboo]] insisting on the friendship potential in Zim and Dib's relationship with the two pointing out all the flaws in her reasoning.

** In issue 28, Zim effectively tricks the Irken research time to do his bidding and menial, selfish tasks for ''several decades'' that due to YearInsideHourOutside rules, only last a few hours of Zim while all the other Irkens have aged into senile beings. By the end of the issue, a mishap caused by the chronal dampener turns ''Zim'' into a senile old man who doesn't even recognize Dib.

* LaserGuidedKarma:

* FriendlyEnemy: Occasionally [[{{Subverted}} subverted]] with a heavy dose of TakeThatAudience to fans who [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation read Zim and Dib's relationship in this way]]. In Issue 13, a couple of aliens believe that Dib is Zim's best friend due to the excessive amounts of time they spend together and [[IHaveYourWife kidnap him to use as a bargaining chip]]; taking Zim's insistence that they're actually bitter enemies for a bluff, they proceed to torture Dib in various ways to Zim's [[PassThePopcorn totally unconflicted enjoyment]]. Issue 50 has LoveFreak [[StrawFan Chammy Wamboo]] insisting on the friendship potential in Zim and Dib's relationship with the two pointing out all the flaws in her reasoning.

* RantInducingSlight: Gaz to Dib after he unplugged her game.

** Issue 18 has a character gain control over beans, while repeatedly denying the title of beanbender. The last page is a poster of the movie adaptation of his story, which depicts an entirely caucasian cast when the character himself is AmbiguouslyBrown, mocking the infamous live action adaptation of The Last Airbender.

** Issue 15 takes a swipe at the infamous "guns turned into walkie talkies" cut of ''Film/{{ET}}'' by having all of the soldiers' guns be digitally replaced with hot dogs. Then, just to piss off the censors, a blurb mentions that the decision was made by the president and CEO of ''Now That's What I Call Doggin' Inc.''

* BrickJoke: Issue 14 opens with Zim falling into a hole randomly dug into his front yard, breaking his legs in the process. [[BookEnd At the end of the issue]], it's shown that he's still stuck in there, and trying throw his legs over his shoulders so that he can climb out.

* TookALevelInKindness: Professor Membrane seems to have become a more attentative parent in the comics as he is seen making dinner (or at least operating the robot who does it) and even playing video games with Gaz.

* MemoryGambit: In the fourth quarterly, Zim spends weeks in a sensory deprivation tank attempting to come up with a new plan. He emerges at the end of the set time to find that he ''already'' emerged at the halfway point, put his plan into motion, and went back in to deliberately forget the rest of it, leaving himself a series of [[NoteToSelf videotaped instructions]] to help him finish the job. [[OtherMeAnnoysMe Despite his own best efforts]], his inability to comprehend where the plan is going prevents his usual interference and causes it to go off without a hitch. [[spoiler:It also prevents him from changing the nonsensical and pointless objective his addled brain came up with after weeks of sensory deprivation.]]

* MemoryGambit: In the fourth quarterly, Zim spends several weeks in a sensory deprivation tank attempting to come up with a new plan. He emerges at the end of the set time to find that he ''already'' emerged at the halfway point, put his plan into motion, and went back in to deliberately forget the rest of it, leaving himself a series of [[NoteToSelf videotaped instructions]] to help him finish the job.

* IKnowYouKnowIKnow: Zim does this with ''himself'' in the fourth quarterly. [[spoiler: He's annoyed at having to follow his own prerecorded instructions, but can't tell whether he anticipated his reactions to work around that.]]

* CerebusRetcon: The first issue reveals that Prisoner 777 is only supplying Zim with information because Zim is holding his children hostage.

** Sitting in sensory deprivation for an extended period of time is not good for your mental health, as Zim learns in the fourth quarterly. [[spoiler: After a three weeks, he goes into a manic delusional state and puts in motion an overly complex plan to ''destroy every balloon in the world'', then after another three weeks completely forgets that he did this.]] It's even specifically stated that he's getting some brain damage from this.