Cyberarachno? Spider-robots? Do spiders have robots? — Dib

Invader Zim Episode
Battle-Dib
Chronology
Previous:	Career Day
Next:	Planet Jackers
Information
Episode No:	Episode 06b
Production No:	06b
Airdate:	May 4, 2001
Credits
Writer(s):	Jhonen Vasquez Eric Trueheart

Contents 1 Plot Summary 2 Facts of Doom 2.1 Trivia of Doom 2.2 Animation Errors 3 See also

Plot SummaryEdit

When Dib

finally manages to be permitted to present his findings on Zim to The Swollen Eyeball Network, he believes he will be able to put an end to Zim’s schemes, once and for all. However, he needs his father to sign his permission slip, and, since his father is busy working on his television show, Dib must venture into the studio where his father is to get him to sign it; though he soon discovers that speaking to his father isn’t going to be as easy as it should be. There, he is subjected to two tests: one written, and one where he must face off in battle against a brutish opponent named Shunk.

Initially, Dib and Shunk agree to a tie (and manage to do so within the first two rounds), so they can both see Professor Membrane, but Gaztricks Shunk into thinking Dib was making fun of his head. Enraged, Shunk beats Dib in the final round, and he's dragged outside. Before he can be cast out of the building, however, he runs into the professor, who doesn't even recognize him as his son, but as another fan. Membrane does in fact sign the permission slip (thinking it's an autograph), allowing Dib to go to the meeting. Unfortunately for Dib, however, he leaves the presentation behind.

Facts of Doom Edit

Trivia of DoomEdit

• This is one of the three episodes that Zim does not appear in. This is repeated in Game Slave 2 and The Sad, Sad Tale of Chickenfoot. Though, a hologram of an Irken, possibly Zim is seen and Dib mentions Zim at the beginning.
  • Also, it is the third time GIR nor the base appears.
  • All three mentioned episodes disliked by Zim's voice actor, Richard Horvitz, mostly due to that fact Zim is not in these episodes.
• This is the only episode with a Swollen Eyeball agent seen with human eyes, instead of the normal glowing red eye disguise.
• Third time Skool doesn't appear.

Animation Errors Edit

• When Dib loses the battle and is dragged out of the arena, the name of the arena was Stage B, but the door that Dib is thrown outside has the words Stage 2 on it.
• When Dib is arguing with the security guard (in the beginning of the episode), the guard's gloves repeatedly appear and disappear.

See alsoEdit

• Battle-Dib (Transcript)
• Battle-Dib Screenshots

Episodes of Invader Zim
Season One
The Nightmare Begins • Bestest Friend • NanoZIM • Parent Teacher Night • Walk of Doom • Germs • Dark Harvest • Attack of the Saucer Morons • The Wettening • Career Day • Battle-Dib • Planet Jackers • Rise of the Zitboy • Invasion of the Idiot Dog Brain • Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy • A Room with a Moose • Hamstergeddon • Plague of Babies • Bloaty's Pizza Hog • Door to Door • FBI Warning of Doom • Bolognius Maximus • Game Slave 2 • Battle of the Planets • Halloween Spectacular of Spooky Doom • Mysterious Mysteries • Future Dib • Hobo 13 • Walk for Your Lives • Megadoomer • Lice • Abducted • The Sad, Sad Tale of Chickenfoot • GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff • Dib's Wonderful Life of Doom • Tak: The Hideous New Girl
Season Two
Backseat Drivers From Beyond the Stars • The Girl Who Cried Gnome • Dibship Rising • Vindicated! • The Voting of the Doomed • Mortos der Soulstealer • Zim Eats Waffles • Gaz, Taster of Pork • The Frycook What Came from All that Space • The Most Horrible X-mas Ever
Canceled/Unfinished
Simon Says "Doom" • Invader Poonchy• Return of Keef• GIR's Big Day• When Pants Ruled! • Mopiness of Doom • Nubs of Doom• The Trial• Top of the Line • Ten Minutes to Doom • Roboparents Gone Wild • Squishy: Hugger of Worlds • It Feeds on Noodles • Day of da Spookies • Those! • Invader Dib