GIR Page
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GIR is one of the main characters from the animated television series Invader ZIM. He is Zim’s robotic slave, constructed from scrap parts and given to Zim by the Almighty Tallest instead of a regular SIR (Standard-issue Information Retrieval) unit. GIR is voiced by Rosearik Rikki Simons. The character GIR has featured in the main storyline in 2 episodes, Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain, and GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff.GIR’s creation takes place in the series’ first episode. When Zim requests a SIR Unit, the Almighty Tallest, not wanting to give Zim a fully-functioning unit, offers him a new “prototype” of a SIR. They then assemble a robot with parts from a garbage can, and put whatever they had in their pockets (pennies, paperclips, and bubble gum) into its/”his” head, making a supposed brain. (Also, the robot introduced himself as “GIR.” When Zim asked what the “G” stood for, the robot replied, “I don’t know.”[2]).
GIR is Zim’s robot slave, easily influenced yet impossible to fully control. He is incapable of focusing attention on important things for long periods of time and often speaks with no relevant coherent thought in mind, making him almost completely useless at best and often disastrous and hazardous. Occasionally he reverts to normal S.I.R. behavior (referred to as Duty Mode), during which time either all his cyan colored components or sometimes only his eyes become red and voice becomes much deeper, but these periods are normally short-lived. During the episode GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff, Zim manages to permanently set GIR to duty mode, normal S.I.R. behavior, but the result is that he is smart and responsible enough to realize that Zim is incompetent as an Invader, and attempts to overthrow him.
When GIR shuts down, all of his cyan parts turn gray and he reverts to lifelessness. As a robot, GIR technically has no gender, but he is usually referred to as being male,[1] mostly by Zim. In public on earth, GIR’s most common disguise is a green dog suit that squeaks, with a visible zipper down the front. Another disguise is one that looks like a human child, and another that looks like a government agent by the name of “Government Man”. Unlike Zim, he doesn’t mind getting involved with typical Earth culture, in fact in some episodes he admits to loving Earth, and has a strong love of Earth snacks, such as tacos, taquitos, candy, waffles, chocolate bubblegum, cupcakes, tuna, chicken with mayo, pizza, slush-style drinks, mashed potatoes and corn. he is also shown becoming fat in “Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom” after stealing all of the Halloween candy from trick-or-treating kids.
In one episode, Zim and GIR get lost in the city. GIR replaces his guidance chip with a cupcake and replaces his rocket fuel with tuna.
-Chao
