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* ChristmasEpisode: Chapter 42 (actually published Christmas Eve, 2020) sees Dib and Lor spending Christmas with the former's family. Aside from the Membranes taking their family gaming [[SeriousBusiness way too seriously]], things are pretty normal... until Membrane mistakes Tak's ship for Santa's sleigh and shoots it down as part of his canonical vendetta.
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** Chapter 42 (actually published Christmas Eve, 2020) sees Dib and Lor spending Christmas with the former's family. Aside from the Membranes taking their family gaming [[SeriousBusiness way too seriously]], things are pretty normal... until Membrane mistakes Tak's ship for Santa's sleigh and shoots it down as part of his canonicalvendetta.vendetta.
** Chapter 72 (published Christmas Eve, 2023) sees Zim gathering his loved ones for the Irken holiday Mothmas, which is incredibly similar to Christmas and happens to coincide this year. Xia refuses to be involved and stomps off, only to get dragged into a YetAnotherChristmasCarol plot.
** Chapter 42 (actually published Christmas Eve, 2020) sees Dib and Lor spending Christmas with the former's family. Aside from the Membranes taking their family gaming [[SeriousBusiness way too seriously]], things are pretty normal... until Membrane mistakes Tak's ship for Santa's sleigh and shoots it down as part of his canonical
** Chapter 72 (published Christmas Eve, 2023) sees Zim gathering his loved ones for the Irken holiday Mothmas, which is incredibly similar to Christmas and happens to coincide this year. Xia refuses to be involved and stomps off, only to get dragged into a YetAnotherChristmasCarol plot.
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** Dib apparently has a restraining order against him from the Easter Bunny.
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* YetAnotherChristmasCarol: In Chapter 72, Xia refuses to partake in Mothmas celebrations with the rest of Zim's expanded family unit, and ends up having visions from supposed spirits (GIR in the Marley role, M as Mothmas Past, Sym as Mothmas Present, and IX as Mothmas Future), who try to teach her the error of her ways. All she gathers from it is that she can't [[spoiler: kill Zim in a rebellion]], as that will just lead to [[spoiler: her execution by Vero]] as she saw in the final vision, and it turns out that the whole thing was caused by a malfunctioning sleep machine of Professor Membrane's; realizing this causes Xia to start a brawl with everyone else.
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* HasTwoMommies: Lor and Carrius are HappilyAdopted by a lesbian couple.
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Nine years after landing on Earth and things are not going well for Zim. Trapped on this wretched planet and isolated from his people, the feisty Irken Invader had just about gone crazy trying to entertain himself. However things start to change when an old companion from Irk shows back up.
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Nine years after landing on Earth and things are not going well for Zim. Trapped on this wretched planet and isolated from his people, the feisty Irken Invader had just about gone crazy trying to entertain himself. However However, things start to change when an old companion from Irk shows back up.
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* BigWhat: Dib's reaction when he finds out that the Syndicate — which he’d come to believe were evil and intending to TakeOverTheWorld — are actually the good guys.
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* IWantGrandkids: Lor's mother, the Syndicate Chairman, loves children and is thus quite pushy towards him and Dib either cloning or adopting offspring.
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* {{Doorstopper}}: The story ultimately ends up being 371,911 words long.
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* {{Doorstopper}}: The Including the bonus chapters, the story ultimately ends up being 371,911 447,975 words long.
* MythologyGag: When Minimoose shows up during one of the Mothra Festival chapters, Zim tries to claim he's been around the whole time, which no one else remembers. This references how in Minimoose's first (and only) appearance on the TV show, Zim likewise claimed Minimoose had been around since the beginning.
* PostClimaxConfrontation: During the Mothra Festival, [[spoiler: a remnant of the defeated IX is reactivated by Irkens disgruntled by Zim's new regime and attempts to stage a comeback before being blown up by the Membranes at CB's instruction.]]
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* RashomonStyle: The recounting of the Mothra Festival is a downplayed example, as everyone does remember the same events. It's just that Zim's ego means that he was oblivious to the more serious situations happening behind the scenes and bought into the BlatantLies that everyone else was using to cover them up for PR reasons. As such, he ultimately tells a slightly different story from the others.
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* RashomonStyle: The recounting of the Mothra Festival is a downplayed example, as everyone does remember the same events. It's just that Zim's ego means that he was oblivious to the more serious situations happening behind the scenes and bought into the BlatantLies that everyone else was using to cover them up for PR reasons. As such, he ultimately tells a slightly different story from the others. Also, most of the others were in the dark about the situations they were each in, so retelling the full story is a bit of a revelation to the whole group.
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* ArousedByTheirVoice: The translator that the Syndicate give Q so that the Irkens can understand him projects a voice that has a suave, sexy baritone. The Irkens are all disturbed by [[UncannyValley how alluring it is]].
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* ArousedByTheirVoice: The translator that the Syndicate give Q so that the Irkens can understand him projects a voice that has a suave, sexy baritone. The Irkens are all disturbed by [[UncannyValley how alluring it is]].is.
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* RashomanStyle: The recounting of the Mothra Festival is a downplayed example, as everyone does remember the same events. It's just that Zim's ego means that he was oblivious to the more serious situations happening behind the scenes and bought into the BlatantLies that everyone else was using to cover them up for PR reasons. As such, he ultimately tells a slightly different story from the others.
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* RashomanStyle: RashomonStyle: The recounting of the Mothra Festival is a downplayed example, as everyone does remember the same events. It's just that Zim's ego means that he was oblivious to the more serious situations happening behind the scenes and bought into the BlatantLies that everyone else was using to cover them up for PR reasons. As such, he ultimately tells a slightly different story from the others.
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* RashomanStyle: The recounting of the Mothra Festival is a downplayed example, as everyone does remember the same events. It's just that Zim's ego means that he was oblivious to the more serious situations happening behind the scenes and bought into the BlatantLies that everyone else was using to cover them up for PR reasons. As such, he ultimately tells a slightly different story from the others.
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** When recounting the first Mothra Festival he was in charge of, Zim repeatedly states that everything went without a hitch, even as the flashbacks show numerous problems that he remained oblivious to, despite the BlatantLies everyone was using to cover them up.
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* HalloweenEpisode: Chapter 34 takes place on Halloween. Most of the aliens are confused by the concept, with Lor in particular constantly getting it mixed up with other holidays.
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** Chapter 34 takes place on Halloween. Most of the aliens are confused by the concept, with Lor in particular constantly getting it mixed up with otherholidays.holidays.
** Chapter 68 is this, as well as a WeddingEpisode, as Dib and Lor wanted a Halloween theme for their wedding.
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** Happens again with Q when he's caught trying to crash Dib and Lor's wedding right after the wedding party has realized that the rings have vanished. Q admits that if the idea had occurred to him, he would have taken the rings to cause chaos, but that he's just trying to attend the wedding. It turns out that actually, Xia took the rings to spite everyone, Therron took them from her for safe keeping, and finally [[spoiler: GIR ate them]].
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* PsychologicalProjection: During the lead up to his and Lor's wedding, Dib deflects his nervousness by claiming that he's just worried for Lor, who is ''definitely'' extremely worried about how important the wedding is for Earth/Syndicate relations. Needless to say, no one believes this, and Lor himself is very casual through the whole thing.
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* WeddingFinale: Chapter 68, which is for now intended to be the final chapter, is built around Dib and Lor's wedding.
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* NotSoDifferent: PlayedForLaughs, as Zim feels this way about himself and the Membrane parents due to their MadScientist antics and habit of InsaneTrollLogic. CB also falls into category, due to having a personality similar to Zim's because of his creation.
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* ArousedByTheirVoice: The translator that the Syndicate give Q so that the Irkens can understand him projects a voice that has a suave, sexy baritone. The Irkens are all disturbed by [[UncannyValley how alluring it is]].
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* ChristmasInJuly: Texas apparently has its own version of Christmas during the summer (called "Tex-Mas") involving Santa wearing a cowboy hat, riding bison, and fighting robots.
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** When Dib and Lor's parents first had dinner together, the Professor somehow set half the rooms of Lor's parents' house on fire.
** According to a Q&A post, Professor Membrane once cloned a dinosaur in his sleep which then ate a sofa.
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* StagParty: Zim insists on throwing one of these for Dib and Lor, despite the fact that his grasp on the concept is flimsy at best and derived from movies. Perhaps fortunately, this never happens, as the group is distracted with [[ItMakesSenseInContext infiltrating a Texmas parade to retrieve a stolen water filtration device]].
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* BrickJoke: A couple of chapters have a RunningGag about GIR having brought a random baby into the base and no one knowing where he got it from. After this not being brought up for a while, the epilogue reveals that Zim ultimate decided to just adopt and raise the baby himself.
* FateWorseThanDeath: PlayedForLaughs with Xia's final fate, which she treats as a living hell: [[spoiler: having to be part of the family unit that Zim sets up]].
** According to Dib, when Membrane and Moira got married, Zim crashed the party, stole the top tier of the wedding cake, and then fled out the air vents.
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* BirthdayEpisode: Chapter 24 features Dib's [=21st=] birthday. His stepmother insists on throwing him a party, with him inviting all the other main characters to it. HilarityEnsues from the chaos of putting them all in the same place, which Dib finds himself surprisingly enjoying.
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** Chapter 24 features Dib's [=21st=] birthday. His stepmother insists on throwing him a party, with him inviting all the other main characters to it. HilarityEnsues from the chaos of putting them all in the same place, which Dib finds himself surprisinglyenjoying.enjoying.
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* KnowWhenToFoldEm: [[spoiler: With IX destroyed and the Syndicate arriving to back up the Irken Resistance, the remaining Control Brains surrender.]]
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* ChekhovsGag: The story opens with Zim showing off to Dib a device that turns things into toast. This eventually comes back in a big way, when he uses it [[spoiler: to defeat IX]].
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* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Vero is a lazy hedonist who doesn't appear all that bright. But he can be dangerous when he gets serious [[spoiler: as shown when he matches Xia in a one-on-one duel during the FinalBattle]].
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* VillainOverride: During the FinalBattle, [[spoiler: IX plugs himself into Xia, turning her into a [[PeoplePuppets living marionette]] so he can control her fighting]].
* VillainOverride: During the FinalBattle, [[spoiler: IX plugs himself into Xia, turning her into a [[PeoplePuppets living marionette]] so he can control her fighting]].
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** Chapter 62 does something similar, revisiting the previous two chapters from CB's POV as he [[spoiler: sets up and carries out his FakeDefector gambit]].
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* FakeDefector: [[spoiler: CB pretends to revert to the evil AI he was based on in order to get close to the Control Brains.]]
* HeKnowsTooMuch: [[spoiler: Tallest Miyuki was killed because she'd learned about the Control Brains plans.]]
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* MindRape: [[spoiler: Dib allows the Outposts Control Brain to download a copy of his mind, allowing his obsessive conspiracy theory mindset to overwhelm it.]]
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** [[spoiler: Dib allows Control Brain X to download a copy of his mind, allowing his obsessive conspiracy theory mindset to overwhelm it.]]
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