Lard Nar | |
Biographical information | |
Homeworld | |
Assignment(s) |
Feed the Resisty, Overthrow the Irken Empire |
Rank |
Captain of the Resisty, Vortian Scientist |
Physical description | |
Gender |
Male |
Eye Color |
Yellow-Green |
Additional information | |
Affiliation |
The Resisty |
Notable Facts |
He escaped from his homeworld after it was conquered by the Irken Empire. |
First Appearance | |
Voice Actor(s) | |
[Source] |
Hear me, Irken scum!! You have not seen the last...OF THE RESISTY!!! — Lard Nar |
Lard Nar is the leader of the resistance against the Irken Empire, known as The Resisty. His only major appearance was in the season two premiere, "Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars." He was going to make another appearance in the canceled episode "The Trial".
Appearance[]
Lard Nar is a light-grey Vortian with long, highly flexible, segmented antennae-like silver appendages on his head that curve over the back and move with his movements, as well as twitching when he is nervous.
As a Vortian, he has digitigrade legs and stands on the tips of his feet. Like most aliens in the show, he has no visible ears. Like other Vortians, he is shown to have sharp carnivorous teeth.
He wears a deep bluish, grey, and green tunic-like outfit, with two bright neon-green belts over his stomach, two upright green cuff-like features around each of his shoulders, and green-lensed goggles. Underneath his goggles, like other Vortians, his eyes are circular and quite small, but become triangular in shape when he is angered.
Personality[]
Although an intelligent leader and a scientist, Captain Lard Nar is the nervous type and shown to have moments of intense panic. Due to his impulsiveness during panicked situations, he is sometimes prone to taking bad advice from his crew member Spleenk.
Nevertheless, Lard Nar is usually able to regain his composure quickly. He was able to take advantage of The Massive's weapons being offline, ordering his crew to pursue the Irken starship while firing lasers at it.
Lard Nar also seems to be incapable of retreating once he has taken a certain course of action, such as deciding to confront the Tallest onboard The Massive instead of going for a tactical retreat when they were unintentionally spared and was just as adamant to go after the snacks the Irkens had when they could just strategically used whatever weapon they had on the Vortian Ship to give the Massive any kind of damage, Lard Nar also unilaterally decided on keeping the name "The Resisty" even though he at first believed it to be a “stupid name” but the fact that he choose to keep it for the Resistance seems to suggest that he grew to like it.
Biography[]
Captain Lard Nar’s primary concern is to keep The Resisty alive and fed before attempting a coup on the Irken Empire.
He is a Vortian scientist and engineer, as well as the captain of a Vortian ship until it was forced to enter "Shrinky Self-Destruct" mode, ejecting all crew members and detonating a then-significantly smaller ship.
He seems to frequently take the advice of the rather goofy alien named Spleenk, even though he is always full of bad ideas.
In Lard Nar’s debut, after overhearing an Irken crew member exclaim that the Massive's weapons were deactivated, providing an opportunity to destroy the ship by breaking open the side snack pods, Lard Nar commands The Resisty to pursue the ship, which was drifting away under Zim's control. Lard Nar and The Resisty nearly succeeded in their plan, heavily damaging the Massive as Zim and Dib remotely fought for control over it.
However, when Almighty Tallest Red beamed the Massive’s hacked power core into the Resisty’s ship, Lard Nar and his crew were forced to evacuate their ship and initiate Shrinky Self-Destruct on the empty vessel to avoid colliding with Earth as Zim dragged it toward the planet (and to protect the secrets of their Vortian technology).
Lard Nar and the rest of The Resisty crew make cameo appearances in "The Frycook What Came from All That Space". Although they are scattered and only shown for a few brief seconds, Lard Nar could be seen briefly just as Eric the Blob walked out of Shloogorgh's Flavor Monster but before Zim jumped out of the blob's guts.
In the canceled episode "The Trial", Lard Nar would have been revealed to be one of the original designers of the Massive (as he confirmed himself before), and that he worked for the Irken Empire prior to Operation Impending Doom.
Appearances[]
Invader Zim (TV series)[]
- Backseat Drivers from Beyond the Stars
- The Frycook What Came from All That Space (Cameo)
- The Trial (Unfinished)
Invader Zim (comic series)[]
- The Dookie Loop Horror (Cameo)
Facts of Doom[]
- Like Tak, Lard Nar speaks with a distinct British accent.
- In a similar case to the Meekrob and Larb, Lard Nar's name is taken from a Thai dish, in this case, a stir-fried wide rice noodle dish with meat and vegetables.
- For unknown reasons, Jhonen Vasquez gave him the same name as Invader Lardnar, though it is written differently.
- This fact led to a popular fan theory that Lard Nar and Invader Lardnar were the same character, with one being a disguise of the other and having disguises for other races. This was however disproved by Jhonen Vasquez.
- Lard Nar seems the most intelligent member of the Resisty (which isn’t saying much).
- He and Dib seem to be the smartest enemies of the Irken Empire.
- Coincidentally both Dib and Lard Nar had some experience handling Irken technology.
- Lard Nar makes his only appearance in the comic series when he and Shloonktapooxis appear in the final issue as part of the montage of people being caught up in the time loop.
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See Also[]
Characters of Invader Zim |
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Main Characters |
Zim • GIR • Dib Membrane • Gaz Membrane |
Supporting Characters |
Almighty Tallest Purple • Almighty Tallest Red • Ms. Bitters • Professor Membrane |
Minor Characters |
Invader Skoodge • Keef • Minimoose • Tak • President Man • Roboparents • Lard Nar • Skool Principal |
Background Characters |
Adult Dib • Old Kid • Hobo • Alan • Meef • Skoolchildren |
Temporary Characters |
Mortos der Soulstealer • Sergeant Slab Rankle • Sergeant Hobo 678 • Shadow Hog • Chickenfoot • Sizz-Lorr • Gashloog • Willy • Iggins • Walton Chunky • Pigboy |
Canceled Characters |
Louie • Digestor • Almighty Tallest Spork • Almighty Tallest Miyuki • Bloody GIR • Cthulu • Cybernetic Kitten • Dinky • Little Timmy |