Zim’s parents (you decide which is which regarding gender):
In my headcanon, Zim was meant to be an experiment in creating an elite soldier from "defective" Irkens. They intended to combine unquestioning obedience with unbridled cruelty—but as the saying goes, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree, so Zim actually turned out to be the most successful outcome of the lot. Still, there had been hopes; after all, they didn't start out that way.












