This episode's plot would have centered around Zim's Existence Evaluation, wherein the Irken Control Brains would have decided if he would be put into Irken history, erased and deactivated, or declared 'defective' and continuing his life like he never existed. The Trial would have revealed some backstory for Zim and the Tallest. It would have turned out that Zim's stunt with Operation Impending Doom I was only the latest bit of the damage he did to Irk; among other things, he killed off the two Tallests to reign before Red and Purple. Zim's Existence Evaluation would have ended with him being declared defective, but his PAK contained so much bad data that trying to delete it would have driven the Control Brains insane, and they would have declared Zim the greatest Irken ever and given him ten minutes at the helm of the Massive.
Tropes:
- Crazy-Prepared: Zim almost escapes from the trial by use of an inflatable copy of Tallest Spork equipped with an audio recording that exonerates Zim (and also praises him repeatedly). Purple demands to know why Zim just happened to have this on standby.
- Creator Cameo: Tallest Miyuki is named after storyboard artist Miyuki Hoshikawa.
- Infectious Insanity: The Control Brain connects to Zim's PAK to erase it and starts going insane, even declaring Zim the Most Incredible Irken Ever.
- Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds: Most of the damage caused by Zim was due to sheer stupidity, or accidents, as opposed to malice.
- The Millstone: This episode would have revealed the full extent of Zim's millstoning of the Irken empire. He would have been revealed to have plunged Irk into darkness twice, killed off Tallest Miyuki and her successor Tallest Spork, and destroyed a substantial amount of Irk's surface.
- Near-Villain Victory: The Tallest almost get their long-standing wish when Zim is declared defective, and the Control Brains try to erase his PAK's data. Zim only survives because his data is so corrupted that it overloads the Control Brains as they try to delete it.
- Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: The Control Brains' attempt to erase Zim's PAK data gets derailed by the sheer amount of corruption of said data. The Brains end up being corrupted themselves, and end up exonerating Zim in the midst of not being in their right minds.
- Walking Disaster Area: Zim. His very birth ended up causing disaster for Planet Irk.
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What Could Have Been: Due to Invader Zim being cancelled, this episode was never produced.
