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Invader ZIM (2001)

การ์ตูนแอนิเมชันซีรี่ย์ 2001แอนิเมชันตลกไซไฟแฟนตาซีครอบครัว

ชื่อภาษาอังกฤษ
Invader ZIM
ประเทศ
สหรัฐอเมริกา
ออกอากาศครั้งแรก
30 มีนาคม 2544
จำนวนตอน
46 ตอน (2 ซีซัน)
ความยาวต่อตอน
ประมาณ 11 นาที
สถานะ
ยกเลิกการสร้าง
ตอนล่าสุด
EP10/10 (19 สิงหาคม 2549)
ช่อง/แพลตฟอร์มต้นทาง
Nickelodeon, Nicktoons
ผู้สร้าง
Jhonen Vasquez
เรตผู้ชม
TV-Y7
คะแนน TMDB
8.5/10 (479 โหวต)

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Invader ZIM เป็นการ์ตูนแอนิเมชัน ปี 2001 มีทั้งหมด 46 ตอน สถานะยกเลิกการสร้าง

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Zim dreams of greatness. Unfortunately, though, he's hopelessly inept as a space invader. Desperate to be rid of the annoying Zim, his planet's leaders send him on a mission to infiltrate Earth, providing him with leftover, cobbled-together equipment. To their consternation, Zim succeeds in setting up a base on Earth and infiltrating human culture, posing as a human child as he plots the planet's downfall. Only Zim's archnemesis, Dib, recognizes that Zim is an alien, and of course, nobody believes Dib's claims.

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นักแสดง Invader ZIM

  • Richard Steven HorvitzRichard Steven Horvitzรับบท Zim (voice)
  • Andy BermanAndy Bermanรับบท Dib (voice)
  • Rosearik Rikki SimonsRosearik Rikki Simonsรับบท GIR (voice)
  • Melissa FahnMelissa Fahnรับบท Gaz (voice)
  • Lucille BlissLucille Blissรับบท Ms. Bitters (voice)
  • Rodger BumpassRodger Bumpassรับบท Professor Membrane (voice)
  • Kevin McDonaldKevin McDonaldรับบท Almighty Tallest Purple (voice)
  • Wally WingertWally Wingertรับบท Red / SIR (voice)
  • Mo CollinsMo Collinsรับบท RoboMom / Zita (voice)
  • Danny CookseyDanny Cooksey
  • Olivia D'AboOlivia D'Abo
  • Candi MiloCandi Miloรับบท Girl (voice)

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เจาะลึก Invader ZIM: เนื้อเรื่อง การสร้าง และเสียงวิจารณ์

Invader Zim is an American animated television series created by comic book writer and cartoonist Jhonen Vasquez for Nickelodeon. The series centers on the titular character (voiced by Richard Horvitz), an extraterrestrial from the planet Irk. His mission is to conquer Earth and enslave the human race along with his malfunctioning robot servant GIR (Rosearik Rikki Simons). However, Zim is antagonized by Dib Membrane (Andy Berman), a young paranormal investigator who is determined to stop Zim from succeeding.

Nickelodeon contacted Vasquez about pitching ideas for an animated series for their older demographic, and Invader Zim was the first thing he pitched. In Vasquez's words, "it went from pitch to series without hardly any waiting". As the series went on, ratings declined and budgetary issues became more frequent. Before the second season was completed, Nickelodeon canceled the series, leaving several episodes unfinished. The series originally aired on Nickelodeon from 2001 to 2002, with six of the completed second-season episodes initially going unreleased. These episodes were first released on DVD in 2004 and later debuted on the Nicktoons Network in 2006.

Invader Zim received positive reviews from critics and audiences, with praise primarily directed at its humor, writing, animation, art style, and the way it pushed the boundaries of what was considered acceptable on children's television. In the years since its cancellation, Invader Zim has often been listed among Nickelodeon's best shows. The series won an Annie Award, an Emmy Award and a World Animation Celebration Award, as well as receiving nominations for seven additional Annie Awards and a pair of Golden Reel Awards. Invader Zim has spawned its own fan convention called InvaderCON and a plethora of official merchandise, including video games, toys, clothing and accessories, among many other products. Despite its early cancelation and short run, due to increasing popularity and above-average merchandise sales it has been widely regarded as a cult classic.

A monthly comic book series of the same name was released on July 8, 2015, as a continuation of the television series and published by Oni Press until August 4, 2021. A film based on the television and comic series, titled Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus, premiered on Netflix on August 16, 2019.

Premise

The series centers on Zim (voiced by Billy West in the pilot; Richard Steven Horvitz in the series) a member of the extraterrestrial Irken species and the Irken Empire from the planet Irk. The empire's goal is universal conquest, and its social hierarchy is based solely on physical height. An overzealous, absent-minded Zim nearly destroyed Irk and the Irkens during the empire's first galaxy-conquering plan, Operation Impending Doom I, prior to the beginning of the series. As punishment he was exiled to food court planet Foodcourtia, but unilaterally "quit being banished" after receiving word of Operation Impending Doom II.

Zim attends the Great Assigning on the convention center planet Conventia, where he meets Almighty Tallests Red (Wally Wingert) and Purple (Kevin McDonald). At the Great Assigning, the Tallest appoint Irkens as Invaders, advance scouts tasked with infiltrating and preparing target planets for conquest by the Irken Armada. In an attempt to get rid of Zim, the Tallest assign him to a presumably non-existent "mystery planet" on the outskirts of the known universe. He is issued GIR (Rosearik Rikki Simons), an ineffective, malfunctioning, and erratic Standard Issue Information Retrieval (SIR) unit hastily made from spare parts found in a trash can.

After a six-month journey across the universe, Zim arrives at the "mystery planet", which turns out to be a dystopian, futuristic, and satirical version of Earth with a mindless populace. A delighted Zim quickly goes to work and sets up his base in a city neighborhood; the Tallest are dismayed by his success. The short-statured Zim disguises himself as a human child with a green complexion (which he claims is caused by a "skin condition"), conducting espionage by attending a local school (spelled "Skool") while planning at home to conquer and enslave the world. Opposing Zim is his classmate Dib Membrane (Andy Berman), a paranoid paranormal investigator who is obsessed with the paranormal and supernatural and the only human (besides his sister) who sees through Zim's disguise. Dib is determined to expose and thwart Zim, despite the hostility and mockery he receives from his oblivious peers for doing so.

Supporting characters include Dib's cynical and apathetic sister, Gazelene "Gaz" Membrane (Melissa Fahn); Zim and Dib's demonic teacher, Ms. Bitters (Lucille Bliss); and Dib and Gaz's caring, but neglectful scientist father, Professor Membrane (Rodger Bumpass). Later in the series, other alien characters begin to appear, including Tak (Olivia d'Abo), a fellow Irken seeking revenge against Zim; Lard Nar (Fred Tatasciore), the leader of a resistance group called The Resisty who wants to overthrow the Irken Empire; and Sizz-Lorr (Jim Wise), Zim's former employer from Foodcourtia who attempts to recapture him.

Conception and early development

Prior to the creation of Invader Zim, Nickelodeon sought a series to suit its 11- to 15-year-old demographic. Nickelodeon producer Mary Harrington was searching for something that had a similar "edge" to The Ren & Stimpy Show, when she came across a comic book called Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and was impressed with the art-style and character designs in the series. Harrington contacted the creator of JtHM, then-22-year-old Jhonen Vasquez, who had no animation experience at the time, and asked him to pitch an animated series to Nickelodeon. Vasquez accepted the offer.

Vasquez knew from the start that his previous works were not suitable for Nickelodeon, so instead of adapting something he had already done, he decided to make something new. Since he was creating a show for a children's network, Vasquez compiled together many things he loved during his own childhood, including robots, monsters, horror films, science fiction films, paranormal investigators, Monty Python, the works of Douglas Adams, and aliens. Before settling on the darker concept of an alien invader, Vasquez briefly considered doing a more light-hearted show along the lines of Mork & Mindy, with a zany alien misunderstanding Earth customs and ultimately, learning a lesson at the end. Vasquez said that while this idea probably would have found more success on Nickelodeon, he quickly dropped it, believing it would not fit his writing style. Vasquez came up with the entire premise for Invader Zim in about an hour, while sitting in bed when he could not sleep. He was inspired by the idea of an alien from an incredibly advanced race, with access to such powerful technology that he could easily take over or destroy the Earth single-handedly, but instead, he decides to stay in school all day, never thinking to sneak out.

A pilot for Invader Zim was pitched to Nickelodeon in 1999, which led to the series being green-lit. Vasquez indicated that very little of his writing style was changed over the course of Invader Zim, other than restricting certain language and visuals that may not be suitable for children. Vasquez cited that the biggest change for himself was going from working alone on a comic to working with thousands of people at Nickelodeon, saying "it's an absolute misery". However, he said the experience of working on Invader Zim was "incredibly gratifying", but also "fiendishly frustrating".

Animation

Invader Zim was produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank, California with Nick Digital providing the CGI animation services and Sunwoo Entertainment in South Korea providing the 2D animation services. Salami Studios provided post-production and sound services for most episodes of the series, while Encore and Hollywood Digital provided post-production services for a few episodes in season one. In season two, the animation style became slightly more stylized and pronounced in motion than in season one. Invader Zim's art style is stylized with sharp edges, thick black outlines, big heads, small or elongated bodies, and big eyes for the characters. Invader Zim's art style was initially difficult for the animators to learn. Director Steve Ressel even admitted that it was the hardest style he had ever worked on, citing the characters' heads as the most complicated aspect of their designs.

Invader Zim was one of the first animated television shows to merge 2D animation with CGI animation. During early development, Invader Zim director Steve Ressel consulted the Futurama crew to learn how to seamlessly integrate 2D and CGI animation. When the Futurama crew saw the show, they were very impressed by how seamlessly the Invader Zim crew integrated both mediums, specifically in the episode "The Wettening".

Unlike standard eleven-minute animated series, which typically average 80–120 storyboard pages per episode, Invader Zim utilized 250–350 pages to document precise character movement and performance—a level of detail that garnered significant praise from Nickelodeon.

The episode "Zim Eats Waffles" was originally supposed to be one long shot, panning between Dib's reaction and his computer screen. This was because the animators wanted to attempt the longest single shot in animation history. However, this idea was scrapped due to its limiting the episode's storytelling and its difficulty to animate. Despite this decision, the majority of "Zim Eats Waffles" still ended up as a single continuous scene.

Voice acting

When casting voice actors for Invader Zim, Vasquez did not want actors who were just capable of doing zany voices because it sounded less natural to him. He made a point to cast people with speaking voices that were naturally distinct and out of the ordinary so that the cast did not have to do unnatural voices, but could instead just speak naturally.

Mark Hamill was originally hired to do the voice of Zim for the pilot episode, but was replaced before the pilot was shown to Nickelodeon executives because Vasquez felt his voice did not feel right for the character. Hamill was replaced by voice acting professional Billy West, who remained the voice of Zim for the pilot. After the show was picked up for a full series, Vasquez decided to replace West with Richard Steven Horvitz (who was already voicing the character of Daggett on fellow Nickelodeon series, The Angry Beavers), saying that West was "too well known" and that he wanted all of the voices for the main characters to be unique and not voices people had heard before. Also, because Futurama was still on the air at the time, Vasquez did not want the same voice actor to be the lead in two concurrent sci-fi comedies.

Vasquez wanted someone with no experience in voice acting to play the part of GIR, as a reflection of how broken and messed up GIR really is. Vasquez wanted someone who sounded unprofessional, but all of the actors who auditioned for GIR were "good actors" who just did a "stock crazy robot voice", which he found dissatisfying. Vasquez then asked his friend, Rosearik Rikki Simons, who was working with him on his comic called I Feel Sick at the time, to try to audition for GIR, saying he "couldn't screw it up anymore than anyone else". Simons did a few different voices for his audition for GIR, including one where he was trying to imitate his mother-in-law, but decided it was too "shrieky". He then remembered when he used to play with hand puppets with his father as a kid, and tried to do one of those voices. Simons was also a colorist on Invader Zim, and in November 1998, the same month he auditioned for GIR, he also helped color the pilot episode. Vasquez said he gave Simons the part of GIR because he was "bad at it" and that fit the character. When voicing GIR, Simons' voice was edited to make it sound higher-pitched and metallic. While Simons eventually learned to perform the voice without the high-pitched editing, the metallic quality still had to be added. Unedited versions of Simons' voice-overs can be heard in voice recordings for the unfinished episodes.

Music

Vasquez asked his friend Mark Tortorici to come up with the theme music for Invader Zim. Vasquez said all he really wanted for the theme music was military music representing Zim, mixed with futuristic, electric orchestral music. Once the direction for the music was settled, Tortorici produced the theme music on an Alesis QS8 very quickly. It did not go through many changes, but they did reorchestrate it for the TV series and stuck with it from that point on.

Vasquez's team selected Michael Tavera, who was known for composing the music for The Land Before Time and An American Tail, to compose the music for the pilot episode of Invader Zim. Vasquez said he asked for several of Tavera's tracks to be discarded, and ultimately, the team had fewer than half the tracks they had planned to submit. According to Vasquez, he and Tavera were not "a great fit" for one another creatively. Vasquez described the pilot music as having a "more 'children's television' sound," with a "much more traditional and not as surprising" theme as he wanted, but added that the music "worked for the pilot." Tavera's cover version of Tortorici's theme music did not appear in the pilot as there was no opening credits sequence. Vasquez said that members of the Invader Zim crew laughed at Tavera's version of the theme because it was "cheesy," adding that the reaction was not mean-spirited and that Tavera had received little information about the series before submitting the music.

Tavera did not become a part of the regular Invader Zim crew, and was replaced with Kevin Manthei, who was known for composing additional music for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Scream 2, Scary Movie 2, and Resident Evil,, to compose the series' music. Manthei's music for the series is industrial and techno in nature. According to Jhonen Vasquez, Manthei's music "wasn't just an addition to the show, it was crucial for the show to be what it was." Vasquez went on to say that "Without his intense sounds lending a sense of urgency and seriousness to the ridiculous proceedings within Zim, I could never have given the good little children of the Earth as many nightmares as I did."

In 2002, the anime Internet radio station Anime Stuff R produced a radio broadcast special titled "The Kevin Manthei Invader Zim-phony Special", which featured a majority of the music Kevin Manthei composed for Invader Zim. The broadcast was extremely popular, so Anime Stuff R (temporarily renamed "Anime Stuff Z" for the special) decided to release a limited-run CD of the broadcast, with 100 copies made.

Challenges and censorship

Invader Zim would frequently come into conflict with network censorship. In The Medium-Sized Book of Zim Scripts Vol. 1, series writer Eric Trueheart would characterize the relationship between the Zim staff and the executives at Nickelodeon as "a little dysfunctional", and that "the executive assigned by Nickelodeon to oversee our show – who was, and still is, a decent guy, by the way – probably felt like he had to keep a lid on an inexperienced show creator, and as a result clamped down harder than he should have." Trueheart also speculated that the channel's other programming also had an effect on how the executives treated the show, stating that "Nickelodeon probably looked to Rugrats as the model of what a cartoon should be ... Invader Zim was none of these things." Ultimately, "There was a just a conflict in personalities, intentions, and modus operandi ... The reality was just not a great fit, and yes, it was a problem."

In some episodes, it was originally intended for certain characters (such as Keef and Iggins) to be killed off at the end of an episode, but Nickelodeon would not allow any characters to be killed off and demanded the crew add certain details suggesting that they survived or, in some cases, rewrite the episodes so that they would not die. They complied but did so in an intentionally forced and sarcastic way to purposely convey their disagreement and reluctance toward the decision, such as the sarcastic "No animated characters were harmed in the filming of this production" end-card message at the end of the episode "Hamstergeddon", where many background characters "died" onscreen.

In the DVD commentary for the episode "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy", Jhonen Vasquez reveals that the original idea for the episode was for Zim to kill Dib off permanently, and for Dib to be replaced with a new kid named Louie. But once again, Nickelodeon would not allow any characters to be killed off permanently, so this did not happen. However, the episode's writer, Eric Trueheart, has stated that this was only meant to be taken as a joke, and that "Jhonen at no point thought he would actually kill off one of the lead characters in the series."

In "Door to Door", the virtual reality world that Zim shows people was originally going to feature a demolished city resembling New York, but Nickelodeon demanded that this be changed due to its similarities to 9/11. On reflection, Vasquez said that he prefers the new virtual reality world to the old one, since he does not like the idea of a real-life city existing in Invader Zim. The original version of this scene can be found online. Additionally, the episode "Hamstergeddon" had only aired once prior to the attacks on the World Trade Center, and would shortly thereafter be temporarily withheld from rotation as "[executives] thought the sight of falling buildings would not go over well with sensitive viewers".

One of the biggest problems Nickelodeon had with the show before it premiered was with Dib's design. Vasquez wanted Dib to wear a trench coat, but Nickelodeon opted against this because they feared Dib's clothing would remind people of the Columbine High School massacre, in which the two teenagers responsible for the shootings both wore trench coats during the attack. Nickelodeon ultimately lost this fight, and Dib ended up wearing a trench coat in the show.

Later, Nickelodeon wanted to cut Dib from the show outright because they did not think he was funny or interesting enough. Vasquez countered Nickelodeon's potential removal of Dib with "God Save the Dib", altering the character to be more engaging. One notable change from "God Save the Dib" was making Dib's head larger than his body, which became a recurring joke throughout the series.

The original name for Gaz's handheld game console was "Game Slave Advanced", a spoof of Nintendo's handheld game console, the Game Boy Advance. However, Nintendo did not like the parody and threatened to sue Nickelodeon if the name was used. So the name was changed to "Game Slave 2" instead.

Vasquez wanted to add red blood splatter to certain violent scenes in the episode "Bestest Friend", but Nickelodeon forbade it. Also, at the end of "Bestest Friend", Keef was originally going to fall off a building and onto a power line, which would have electrocuted him, but Nickelodeon was worried that kids might try to imitate this behavior and demanded that it be changed. Nickelodeon also rejected the idea of Keef being run over and spun on a car tire, citing excessive violence. In the final version, Keef gets attacked by a squirrel and falls off of a building, which Nickelodeon was fine with.

In the episode "Hobo 13", Skoodge was going to be shown eating his own skin to survive, but Nickelodeon denied this scene and the Invader Zim crew also said that they thought it was "too much".

In the original ending of the episode "Walk of Doom", Zim and GIR were dropped off in a ghetto with Mexican music playing in the background and a banner reading "Welcome to Mexico". Feeling that it would come off as racist, Nickelodeon denied this and the scenery was changed to a vaguely Mexican-looking, but still filthy town, the music was changed to disco music and the banner was changed to say "CARNE", which translates into "MEAT".

Originally, the episodes "Dark Harvest" and "Bestest Friend" were supposed to air together, but Nickelodeon would not allow it, saying that the two episodes were "too twisted" to air together. So instead, "Dark Harvest" aired with "Germs" and "Bestest Friend" aired with "NanoZIM". Additionally, "Dark Harvest" was originally supposed to be called "The Hearts and Lungs of Zim's Darkness", but Nickelodeon denied this title.

In response to these censorship and restrictions, the writers of Invader Zim slipped in ways to poke fun at Nickelodeon or simply go against their wishes. This includes the character Nick, who is a boy who is always happy, and a not-so-subtle reference to Nickelodeon's frequent demands that Vasquez make the show "happier" and more appealing to certain viewers, which Vasquez always detested.

Bloody GIR

"Bloody GIR" was created when Jhonen Vasquez drew GIR covered in blood and wanted to insert a scene with said drawing into an episode of Invader Zim. Illustrator Chris Graham snuck the picture into a single frame of the episode "Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy", as confirmed by post-production supervisor Jason Stiff and Steve Ressel. "Bloody GIR" was reportedly scattered throughout the last fourteen episodes and can be seen the most clearly during the intro to the episode "Mortos der Soulstealer".

Jhonen Vasquez has stated that Nickelodeon did not learn of the image's inclusion until after the show's cancellation, and that when the executives learned, they were not offended, as younger viewers would not notice anyway.

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