An IZ Rant

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So, some folks in OHP (Operation Head Pigeons) on Facebook are having this HUGE debate about whether Zim and Dib are friends deep down. And then someone in the comments said, 'I'm really proud of you guys. No one has stepped forward and said OMG their realllly secreytly loverz OMGHGOGMG.'
I didn't comment but, it makes me want to have a minor rant cause I can't get it out of my head, so here goes a scientific rant about our fave enemies.

So, could they secretly be friends or enemies? No. Not at all. Nothing is ever secret between the two of them. When they hate each other...it's very out in the open. But, take into account that when they hate each other it's the first year or so of them knowing one and other.

Cliches of IZ are that Dib is emo and lonley and all 'blahgh no one likes me'. Well, there is some truth to this. His father (who probably does love him) neglects him. But, this is probably because he shows the same kind of one-mindedness that his 'clone'/son does. Just like how one-mindeded Gaz is towards her video games. They all have goals and they all go for them with everything they got.
Dib might not care so much about what everyone else thinks now (but in the Fry-Cook That Came from All That Space, he does cry for about a second before the frame switches), but as the series/time ran on it would become more difficult to presevere in the face of such cruelty. Plus, those teenage angst years don't help.

As for Zim, well the little moron's cliche is that his Tallest hate him and eventually tell him so. well, we've seen the Tallest before. We see how easily they are distracted. We can tell from the very begining that they very clearly do NOT like Zim. At all. Prehaps they are afraid of him or even tolerate him for some reason. The fear seems more likley considering he has killed two other Tallest (Myuki/Spork). They do use his incompetence to their advantage; using Zim as entertainment and broadcasting it for all the universe to see.
We would see in The Trial, that they have finally had enough with him and attempt to have him executed. When that doesn't work, maybe they finally get sick and tired and disconnect him from calling, banish him ect ect.

Poor Zim adores his leaders, but he wouldn't pity himself that much. At least hopfully. He might still see Earth as a way of making it all up. He might consider Earth his way of offically proving himself. So, his motivation will have switched but remain altoghter the same.

When Dib eventually realizes that the human's could care less he would either fall into a pit of despair, change to REAL SCIENCE (Unlikley) or call a truce with his worst enemy. It would require a lot of pride swallowing but, if Dib really was finished it wouldn't matter.
Zim would be thrilled. Whether because he has nothing more standing in his way or because Dib is also ready to give in. Either/or and the truce would happen. Prehaps, friendship could blossem.
It would be uneasy and painful. But, after all they are the only things left in the universe for each other.  They have shown numerous times that they are birds of a feather; they matched intellectually (most the time), are both very,very determined, seem to think that everyone else is morons and they even have the same facial expressions for crying out loud!!!!

Once the inital social hell passed, it would fit easily. They have spent years together and like it was so easy to be enemies it would probably be just as easy to be friends.

Now in order to get to romance...well, that requires more of a bit of a jump.
If we want to continue from this scenerio we could begin to imagine that Dib has reached puberty by now and if we look at 'Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy' we see that he has always had an obsession with aliens. But, as a bitty, baby he had  blocks that read 'I <3 Aliens'. Maybe Dib has always wanted an alien friend. It's not that far of a jump to think that maybe he would want an alien lover.
Has Dib always had a thing for aliens? Is he gay? Well, you could argue that he liked Tak. Tak was an alien. But, Dib didn't know this at first. The thing is that Dib liked Tak because she was nice to him and hated Zim. NICE TO HIM. No one was EVER nice to him.

Hell, I would like her too. Plus, she hated Zim who at the time was Dib's most loathed object of his obsession.  And once she was reveiled as an alien, all that like went away. He realized she was another invader who wanted to take over the planet and he had little use for her any more.

Even when her ship crash landed on his front lawn, he didn't care it was hers. He was just excited because it was an ALIEN ship. ALIEN.  o.O

So if our little pubescent Dib begins having 'dreams' about his new alien friend. It could begin to affect him, affect his daily life and the truce. He might begin to avoid the irken or maybe he would even begin to go into head first like he does everything else.

Zim is trickier, considering he is Irken (No emotions), and finds humans gross. Is he gay? What is he anyways?
Well, the best argument is that he's defective. This causes him to have more overwhelming emotions of anger/ narriscism. When we see other irkens, they are almost always in control and calm. Zim however is rarely so. This could make it easier for him to 'like' or feel 'lust' towards Dib.
Plus, Dib has never been much of a human to Zim. He is superior in his opinion. Enough so to make Zim actually give up in 'Mopiness of Doom'. He had no more motivation. No more enemy.
Maybe he would become curious and use Dib's new feelings to his advantage. Maybe Zim would end up developing some of his own in the process. They would not be as powerful as Dib's but, if they are as strong as his anger is they would be pretty volitile.

So yes. They COULD be friends. jhonen actually said that this might be a plan for them also in the little comic he created Zim asked Dib to come up with him into space to 'ride space bunnies and drink space sodas'. Dib goes with him. ZaDf is supported by the creator.
So, could their 'romance' be equally as likely. I believe it could. Zim and Dib are very passionate. In their hatred. In their possible friendship and in the very unlikley romance.
It would never be a secret. It would be out in the open for everyone to see and ignore as they always do. And whether it all ended up with one or both of tehm dead or the earth destroyed or a happily ever after, would depend on many variables that can't be determined. Yet.

*cough* So...yep. That's my LOOOONG, scientific-y opinion. :nod:

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