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A Robot Like No Other - G.I.R In-Depth GIR is a popular character in the Nicktoon Invader Zim. While the gender of GIR is never clearly stated in the cartoon, the male pronoun is used throughout this article for simplicity.GIR is essentially a psychotic, stupid robot slave belonging to Zim. He is easily influenced and impossible to fully control. He is a modified SIR (Standard Issued Information Retrieval) unit, although not even he is aware of what the "G" in GIR stands for (several fans think GIR stands for Garbage Idiot Robot, but Jhonen Vasquez has said that the G doesn't stand for anything). Occasionally he reverts to behaviour expected of a normal SIR unit (during which time his cyan components change color to red), but this is normally short-lived. Gir is incapable of focusing his attention on important things for long periods of time and often speaks with no relevant coherent thought in mind. He is often the reason Zim fails in his attempts. His normal disguise is a very shoddy green dog suit. He is infatuated with Earth culture. GIR's personality is essentially like that of a dog/little brother whose main interests in life are sleeping, dancing, watching TV (in particular, the Scary Monkey show) and eating. He cooks on occasion, making goodies like mashed potatoes or waffles (sometimes made with peanuts, bacon and soap). He usually cooks only for himself, as Zim finds human food to be disgusting. However, by the time "Zim Eats Waffles" was shown, it was known that Zim had developed an immunity to human food, as he himself is shown eating the waffles GIR concocts throughout the episode (though the waffles made from the ingredients noted above are not traditionally edible to humans). He appears to eat for the sheer pleasure of doing so, as he is a robot and likely does not need food. GIR gets along well with others, and his best friend is a pig who is seen on occasion "visiting" with GIR at Zim's house. In the episode "GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff", Zim tries to lock GIR in red-eyed "Duty Mode" to make him a more efficient (not to mention obedient) servant, but finds that extended lucid periods clue GIR into Zim's overall incompetence. Duty-Mode GIR subsequently goes about trying to eliminate Zim as a threat to the mission. In the end, Zim realises that a super-intelligent robot that hates him is a larger burden than a stupid robot that loves him, so he reverts GIR back to his former, normal self. GIR is a "custom" SIR only in that he was haphazardly put together out of trash by the Tallest—to prevent the waste of a good, working unit on Zim. His CPU apparently is held together with bubble gum, pennies and a paper clip. To everyone's surprise, GIR actually boots, and is technically functional. Ironically, as seen in the episode discussed above, it is possible that a normal SIR unit would have become as rebellious as "Duty Mode GIR" and, likely, would have killed Zim. The Gameboy Advance game Nicktoons: Freeze Frame Frenzy refers to GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff: Zim (who is the main villain in the game and can be unlocked by getting 100% in the album) mentions that "using GIR's code was a really bad idea" when confronting his Helga robot (who, just like all of his other robotic dopplegangers in the game, rebelled in the same way as Duty Mode GIR) in the Danny Phantom stage. This implies that non-SIR robots could rebel with GIR's programming. |
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