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GIR is Zim's robot slave, easily influenced yet impossible to fully control. He is incapable of focusing attention on important things for long periods of time and often speaks with no relevant coherent thought in mind, making him almost completely useless, or even disastrous. Occasionally he reverts to normal S.I.R. behavior, during which time either all his cyan coloured components or sometimes only his eyes become red and voice becomes much deeper, but these periods are normally short-lived. During the episode GIR Goes Crazy and Stuff, Zim manages to set GIR to duty mode, normal S.I.R. behavior, but the result is that he is smart and responsible enough to realize that Zim is incompetent as an Invader, and attempts to overthrow him.

When GIR shuts down, all of his cyan parts turn gray and he reverts to lifelessness. As a robot, GIR technically has no gender, but he is usually referred to as being male,[1] mostly by Zim. In public on earth, Zim and GIR must wear disguises, GIR's most common disguise is a green dog suit that squeaks, with a visible zipper down the front. Another disguise is one that looks like a human child, and another that looks like a government agent by the name of "government man". Unlike Zim, he doesn't mind getting involved with typical Earth culture, and has a strong love of Earth snacks, such as tacos, taquitos, candy, waffles, cupcakes, tuna, chicken with mayo, pizza, and slush-style drinks.