- "Because it's cool!"
- ―A Martian hologram explaining why the people of Mars decided to turn their planet into a giant spaceship
The Martians (or Marzoids, as Zim calls them) are a long extinct civilization that once inhabited the planet of Mars.
History[]
They built pyramids, similar to those built by Earth's ancient Mesoamerican cultures. Before going extinct, the Martians managed to convert their whole planet into a huge spaceship, apparently just "because it's cool!". The mysterious structure known as the Face of Mars is where the ship's controls are located. Before turning their homeworld into a spaceship, the Martians tested the same technology on a small nearby planet which turned out to be Mercury.
Notes[]
- What they had in advanced technology they seem to have lacked in common sense. As the reason for their extinction was working themselves to death in converting their planet into a spaceship, simply because it's cool.