#dark harvest invader zim

[terrestrialextraterrestrial]

Me resisting the urge to rewatch the Dark Harvest episode again (I will get burned out on it and will likely lose interest in Invader Zim as a whole)

[emeraldspiral]

[ms-scarletwings]

[lambygoat]

From 'Dark Harvest' EP4S1, second segment.

[hermajestytak]

I've seen many fan interpretations of how Dark Harvest actually ends (beyond the sudden newspaper ending)

Now note that this isn't canon. The CANON answer is "negative continuity." If you ask the crew what happens after any sudden, non-conclusive ending, that's the answer you're going to get. Negative continuity is how everyone got their organs back

But that's not satisfying enough for me and many others, so continuity weirdness aside, how the hell did everyone get their organs back?

I've seen a couple of fan interpretations, most involving Dib confronting Zim for a true final showdown and others where Zim has to undo his xenotransplantations because his base doesn't recognize him as irken.

Both of these are valid, but I like to believe he just went around passing them back around once he was done with the nurse. Zim never treats his biological warcrimes with any sort of gravity, he doesn't even mind having human parts within his irken body. He treats the whole horror show like he's just sneakily borrowing everyone's pencils for a test.

So I like to imagine Zim, back to his normal self, just went around with a wagon full of gore like "Heyy thanks for the spleen, here ya go."

Everyone gets theirs back...except Dib. Dib HAD to get taken away after the press got him. He probably went through the same stuff Gaz went through in Enter the Florpus...for like a minute until his dad just gave him new lungs. Boom, easy fix!

Somewhere in Zim's base I like to imagine he just...still has Dib's original lungs somewhere. I'd call it a trophy, but they're not important enough for Zim to remember

[s1lly-gh02tz]

GORE WARNING!! (Not super bad. Just some light blood and organs)

Dark Harvest is probably my favorite episode it’s so AINFJCJDNSNDNNFNRMAK

[inbarfink]

I know that ‘Germs’ and ‘Dark Harvest’ are only paired together because the original pairing of ‘Bestest Friend’ + ‘Dark Harvest’ was considered just Too Fucked Up but… they really do make an Interesting Pair.

Because these two episodes both kinda follow the same plot hook of ‘Zim gets irrationally obsessively paranoid about something that might blow his mission’ but then go to the total opposite ends of the scale of, like Zim Likeability. Because in ‘Germs’ Zim just kinda comes off mostly as pathetic and pitiful and worthy of sympathy. It really is kinda adorable to see how scared he is of Germs.

And his obsession mostly just hurts himself and his mission (and, like, mildly annoyed GIR), which makes him feel more sympathetic.

And then, there’s ‘Dark Harvest’, which - again - starts from a very similar point of Zim’s paranoia about jeopardizing his mission.

But this time, when he goes too far with his obsession and starts misinterpreting things in a cartoony way (“more organs means more human”) he does so in a way that hurts a lot of people and basically makes him into a Horror Movie Monster.

…actually ‘Bestest Friends’ also kinda has a place here. Since this one is also about Zim’s Anxieties Going Too Far. But it’s, like, the exact midpoint on the scale between these two episodes.

Swinging between moments of extreme sympathetic pitifulness from Zim

And moments of extreme cruelty.

And finally ending on a real culmination of both, a comedic misunderstanding that really showcases the height of paranoia and anxiety that is constantly plaguing Zim, while also alienating him from who is actually the First Person to Genuinely Care About Him

And THEN he does something that's just really fucked up!

And that’s just the Duality of Zim, isn’t it?

[invaderrrrart]

FAT ZIIM (Damn it. I forgot the pigeon:|) I dunno why but I keep thinking about this goddamn irken!! But only when he is in dark harvest!! Ahh- (*≧∀≦*)

Og pic

Credit to: @invaderrrrart, 1st account:, @zimisalien , And invader Zim!

[creative-clawmarks]

Dark Harvest

[organicjacket]

dib would survive five nights at freddy's

w/o border under the cut

[toontown-resident]

I watched dark harvest twice yesterday

[piggiebonez]

dark harvest dark tribute

z*adrs dni. QUICK BABE YOU GOTTA DRILL A HOLE IN YOUR SKULL!!!!THERES SOMESORTA "HEART BEAT"........IN YOUR BRAIN!!!!

[spaceboibrainrot]

Dark harvest in a nutshell

Dib: I'm going to look inside zim's guts and I wish I could move in with him, wear his clothes and **** him lol :P

30 minutes later

Dib: oh dear God he's in the fucking walls...

[ms-scarletwings]

“TORQUE SMACKEEEEEY!”

“Dark Harvest Chase” - Keven Manthei

[lincolnlogsnfrogs]

y'all what if the Dark Harvest head pigeon was just evil ratatouille

like it grabs zim by the antennae and makes him do shit

[hermajestytak]

Another big thing I learned from both Dark Harvest and NanoZim: Zim KNOWS human anatomy

Zim may struggle with human social science (who doesn't?), but I and many others tend to underestimate his human anatomy knowledge. In order for Dark Harvest to have happened, Zim needed to both identify human organs just by looking at them AND immediately know where on a human's body body he needs to extract them from.

AND ZIM WASN'T WRONG ABOUT DIB'S ARM CONTROL NERVE, never forget that either!