Gir overrated?

Is gir overrated? Seriously a lot of invader zim fans like him more than zim himself.

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Pretty much, the fandom along with the internet itself back in the 2000's were pretty LOLrandom just like GIR, so the fandom loved him.

He's mostly why the show got its LOL SO RANDOM Xp fan base and reputation

I know that there's a lot of girls that have GIR merchandise.

I'm not really concerned if people like him too much. He entertained me and that's enough.

Do they still make merch of him?

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This is depressing.

Maybe for hot topic, only place I could think of that would still sell invader zim stuff

Yes. Show would be much better without him imo.

Gir is hilarious. Everything popular can be considered overrated. Who cares?

>sixty fucking dollars for that hoodie
I have always hated that hellhole but what kind of kike runs that place?

I remember watching this show when I was 6, which was around the time it also got canned. So when I people wearing Gir shirts in middle school, I was honestly confused because I thought everyone forgot this show ever existed.

Not over rated.

But he is over merched.

I WAS THE TURKEY ALL ALONG

idk but Zim was the cuter one

Damn straight. I'd take Zim merch over Gir merch any day.

I wouldn't call anything in invader zim cute, but zim was easily the best character and halarious

He's fantastic in the comic.

As a GIR fan, I begrudgingly agree with this.

If you ever get a chance to listen to the commentary track for the show it's hilarious how much salt Jhonen carries for Gir...well and for the show in general to be honest.

He's not the one I like

he tweets about it all the time tho

Having been into the show back in the day I can tell you how pissed Jhonen was that the general audience for Zim loved GIR and didn't like Dib (Dib being his favorite character). He would talked in the DVD commentary tracks about wanting to see GIR dead and drew him dead in a Fillerbunny comic, he also comments that GIR is now a washed up crack whore or something sometimes.

The funny thing is the "Invader Zim fandom" didn't care about GIRL because you couldn't easily make GIR shipping fanfic and porn. The "fandom" was all ZimxDib slash sometimes with things like ZimXGaz and DibxTak, so it was the opposite of the general audience that only cared about GIR.

I find a lot of kids who have and wear GIR merchandise today don't know who he is, they think he's just a clothing label mascot like Hello Kitty that appears on clothes and don't know he was once on a show.

>well and for the show in general to be honest.
His attitude about that probably changed, considering how he's the cowriter for the comic.

Requesting t3h PENGUIN 0f DOOM

Yeah, "Jhonen hates his fans/the show" is just an overblown meme at this point. He gotten over that shit years ago even interacts with fans and answers lore questions on his tumblr so long as you don't act like a "those" fans.

Gazleen is an adorable name.

I like GIR both when he's being cute or psychopathic.But Zim is my number one. Followed by Dib.

Come on, which those giant empty eyeballs, his tiny deformed body and that obnoxiously fluent voice, how could you not find him cute?
Seriously though, this show has everything going against it in the cuteness department, but by god, Zim is fucking adorable when he shouldn't be.

Gaz in general is perfect.

cute and perfect.

CUTE AND PERFECT!!!

Actually, that's just her being cool and shredding on a guitar.
Here another cute pic.

Shhh, Gaz is sleeping.

>That Zim plushy hiding in the left pile.

was IZ the first randumb cartoon or no?

Not even close.

>IZ fans

GIR is just a funny robot, he's totally innocuous in the show itself. But a loads of kids sperged out hard about the character. That's all there is to it.

What was the latest comic about? I haven't watched this series nor do I plan to since I was like age 5, 15 years ago, but I've seen comic panels of it before and I think it's kind of interesting

>there's people out there who like GIR and buy merchandise of him, but have never seen or heard of Invader Zim before

The comic is pretty much the same as the show. Mostly stand alone, episodic stories with some light sprinkling of lore and continuity here and there. The latest issue is written and drawn by the lead character designer of the show and is about Zim trying to scare Dib back after he frightens Zim with a clown mask. The issue has plenty of interaction between Zim and Gaz, which is great. (pic related)

You think that's bad? There are people who never seen of heard of Invader Zim before and thinks Gaz is Bigdad's OC.

I saw a 7/10 chick with a Gir hoodie walking into the hospital last week

she looked like shit, but it still brought a smile to my face

Gaz a best, but a Tak is fine too

This is correct

The Tallest were always the best characters.

>Because I hate you Zim. I hate you so so much
>I hate you more, you know

That's a funny way to spell "love"

It's codetalk

I seriously hope for more interactions between those two in future issues.

Cant wait for him to find out that the new fans are just as terrible
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Jhonen has had a Tumblr account for years already. I'm sure he's aware of "tumblr-folk"

Gaz looks perfectly thicc here.

It's too bad Gir's "random" jokes became such a big deal, because Gir actually had some great character traits, but the "tacos/cheese/whatever" jokes are all most people remember.

I loved the early gags about Gir going out & making friends in town. It felt like he understood Earth culture a lot better than Zim did, and that idea could've gone to some interesting places. I also liked the moments where Gir acted like a little kid and seemed to actually care about Zim (like that scene at the end of "Future Dib" when he puts a hand on Zim's shoulder & consoles him).

But that stuff really got overshadowed by the random jokes. Even in the comics, it feels like the show's creators have forgotten about the actually-interesting sides of Gir's character, and they only remember him as "the wacky guy who does crazy stuff."

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Not even gaz in her pajamas?

It would be cute and funny if Gaz continued to wear girly nightware even as an adult.