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[[File:liccpic.jpg|frame|Here they come to save the day!]]''The League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions'', or LICC for short, was a round-robin, chaotic, zany superhero sci-fi spoof that ran for several years on the discussion boards of [http://nitcentral.philfarrand.com/cgi-bin/discus/discus.cgi Nitcentral].
 
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LICC has examples of the following:
 
* [[The Adjectival Superhero]]: The Amazing Quantum Man
* [[Ace Pilot]]: Rikard, Kiehart, Kent
* [[Action Girl]]: Pretty much every main female character short of Tammy Tembar
* [[Action Mom]]: Buttrfli, Artsy-Fartsy.
* [[AIA.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: Colanator's malfunction, Tacoputer
* [[All-Encompassing Mantle]]: Soyburger Patricia wore one.
* [[All There in the Manual]]
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* [[Animal Superheroes]]: The Insector
* [[The Atoner]]: The Masked Enigma
* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: Tacoman, Adon
* [[Backup Twin]]: Alex Tacoman (sort of)
* [[Badass Normal]]: Enesku, Ansh Tembar, Inspector Mystery, Crimson Crossbow, Le Femme Superbe, Lopez
* [[Big Bad]]: Taconator
* [[Boring Invincible Hero]]: Several could be accused of this, though Ojanon comes to mind.
* [[Brainwashed]]: Soyburger Patricia
* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]
* [[Brought Down to Normal]]: The Observer when he becomes Keiran Alec Morgan, Artsy once or twice, Adon during the Whyte Kastles storyline
* [[But Now I Must Go]]: Hamburger Pattie
* [[The Captain]]: (may also be [[The Hero]]) Frangelica, Tacoman, Milkshake
* [[Captain Patriotic]]: The Great Emancipator
* [[The Chosen One]]: Both Milkshake and Kiehart had shades of this.
* [[Color Character]]: Crimson Crossbow, Robot Redshirt, Silver Maiden, The Man In Black
* [[Comedic Hero]]
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* [[Evil Twin]]: Quite a few, handled in a variety of ways. (Straight, Inverted, Parodied, etc.)
* [[Executive Meddling]]: Spoofed with the Evil K-NIT TV-47 Executive.
* [[Extraordinarily Empowered Girl]]: Frangelica, Soyburger Patricia, Donna
* [[Face Heel Turn]]: Silver Maiden, GROSS, Colanator, Rogat
* [[Fan of the Past]]: Kiehart, Quantum Man, Tacoman, Milkshake, and The Observer (though all but Kiehart lived there at one point)
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* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: LICC, KILL, GROSS, TRASH, SASI
* [[The Future]]: Where the series was set... although it wasn't realized at first... then no one was sure when exactly in the future it was... but finally it was decided to be the 30th/31st Century.
* [[Genre Savvy]]
* [[Government Agency of Fiction]]: The Department of Superheroics, Terran Security
* [[The Gunslinger]]: Kiehart
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* [[Loveable Rogue]]: The Furbies
* [[Mad Scientist]]: Professor Negative
* [[Mauve Shirt]]: Lt. Liza, Lts. Who, What, and Idontknow, Ensign First, Lt. First, Cid, Plevyak
* [[The Medic]]: Holodoc, Butrfli
* [[Mind Screw]]: It's both a story of superheroes in the future & a TV show about superheroes in the future.
* [[Mirror Universe]]: The KILL universe, also JARD was the mirror of Jarso (another related cybersoap), as well as the Bizarro universe.
* [[Missing Episode]]: The earliest version was erased without warning & it's unknown how many posts were lost. Copies of most of the early version were later put up on a [[Geocities]] site, but since that shut down, those versions are once again missing from the web.
* [[Most Common Superpower]]: Hamburger Pattie. Inverted with Frangelica.
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* [[Mysterious Waif]]: Quito
* [[Nanomachines]]
* [[Oh Crap]]: Rikard sees Terran Security's [[Giant Robot]]; Enesku and Rikard face to face with hundreds of vicious, charging aliens
* [[Older Than They Look]]: Adon is old, so is the Observer. Tacoman is immortal so give him time. Donna
* [[Parental Substitute]]: Artsy-Fartsy to Quito Power.
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* [[Powered Armor]]
* [[Punny Name]]: Scott Free, Quito Power
* [[Put on a Bus]]: {{[[User|KAM]] KAM}} tended to do this with his characters whenever he threw a hissy fit & quit.
* [["Previously On..."]]
* [[The Psycho Rangers]]: KILL (King's Interstellar Lethal Legionnaires).
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* [[Shout-Out]]: The Frank Conspiracy is a double [[Shout-Out]] to the Dave Conspiracy from ''[[Narbonic]]'' mixed with a forum running gag about every minor character in ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' being called Frank.
* [[Single-Minded Twins]]: Hamburger Pattie.
* [[The Smart Guy]]: The Observer, Quantum Man, and Ansh Tembar, though most of the crew was pretty intelligent.
* [[Something Person]]: The Amazing Quantum Man, Tacoman, Comet Lad, The Answer Man, Ubermensch, Jadlad Superguy among others.
* [[Spirit Advisor]]: Bill, the slightly crazed shoulder
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* [[Teen Genius]]: Ansh
* [[Time Travel]]: Many times. LICC (Legion of ICC), The Rose Parade, Old Jadlad, LICC kids vs. Negative, K-NIT storyline
* [[Took a Level Inin Badass]]: Sailor Evil, Kiehart, Rikard, Rocket Ranger, Insane, Donna
* [[Touched by Vorlons]]: Adon, The Observer, Kiehart, arguably Milkshake and Rikard, Shadow Senshi
* [[Twist Ending]]: Dnar'af's storyline
* [[Unobtainium]]: Plotonium as a generic whatever-the-plot-required supermetal. A building block of the universe that allowed people to have superpowers was Nevesytrof (much more stable then the Sub-Reality or Super-Reality of other universes.)
* [[Unrealistic Black HoleHoles Suck]]: Where the first Spidermobile ended up & later revealed to be the home of the X-[[Cw X]]
* [[Vain Sorceress]]: Hamburger Pattie.
* [[Wagon Train to the Stars]]
* [[Waif Fu]]: Enesku
* [[Weirdness Magnet]]: [[Lampshaded]] with Milkshake's "How do these ships ''find'' us in top secret locations?"
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