League of Intergalactic Cosmic Champions

Template:Quote boxThe 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 Nitcentral.

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.
AI Is a Crapshoot: Colanator's malfunction, Tacoputer
All Encompassing Mantle: Soyburger Patricia wore one.
All There in the Manual
Alliterative Name: Rocket Ranger, Crimson Crossbow, Tammy Tembar...
Alpha Bitch: Parodied with Tammy Tembar.
Alternative Calendar: The year 3000 was the Year 0 of the New Calendar.
Amusement Park of Doom: Dinsey World
Animal Superheroes: The Insector
The Atoner: The Masked Enigma
Back From 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
Cool Ship: The Spidership, Seeker, Snow Crane, Thunder Wolf, Adon's battlesuit
Cross Player: Several authors
Dark Is Not Evil: Sailor Evil
Dark Magical Girl: Soyburger Patrica
Demonic Possession: Mr. Obvious by Asmodeus Beelzebub.
Drop the Cow: Ze French Knight
Earth Is the Center of The Universe: Got to the point where the authors noticed and complained.
Edible Theme Naming: Tacoman, Hamburger Pattie, Taquito Boy, Frangelica, Commander Milkshake, & Soyburger Patricia
Embarrassing First Name: Sailor Evil's full name is Griselda Ethylene Evil.
Embarrassing Middle Name: Sailor Evil's full name is Griselda Ethylene Evil.
Enemy Within: Adon/Darth Terror, Observer/Sorcerer
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)
Fan Service: Supermodels invade the ship, 12 of 10
The Federation: Earth System Government, though one or two arcs had it acting more like The Empire. Also, the Galactic Order.
The 47 Society
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
Half Human Hybrid: Fran and Logan
Hard Light: The Spidermobile's doctor
Heel Face Turn: Colanator, Silver Maiden, reversing her Face Heel Turn
The Hero: As a rule of premise, most of the cast.
Hero With Bad Publicity: Happened from time to time.
Heroic Sacrifice: Adon, Quantum Man
Heroic Sociopath: The Furbies could go there, Enesku to an extent, Donna
Heroic Wannabe: Enesku, Insane somewhat
Hilarious Outtakes: The Blooper special
Homage
Jerkass: Kiehart (well, his author anyway, by his own admission), Cyber-9
Jumped At the Call: Insane, Enesku, Shadow Senshi, Klassikos, Artsy-Fartsy
Kid Hero: Ansh, Enesku, Shadow Senshi, Quito Power
Killed Off for Real: Quantum Man, Super Bob, The Masked Enigma, Colanator
Lampshading
The Lancer: Milkshake, Rikard; also Number Two
Leotard of Power: Some heroes
Light Is Not Good: Sailor Good, GROSS
Loads and Loads of Characters
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.
Mr. Alt Disney: Walt Wonderful
Multiple Choice Past: Tacoman had several different backstories, Mr. Absurd had two.
The Multiverse
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.
Person of Mass Destruction: Adon, The Observer's Sorcerer, Donna
Posthumous Character: Qunicy Rnager
Powered Armor
Punny Name: Scott Free, Quito Power
Put On a Bus: {{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).
Redemption Equals Death: The Masked Enigma
Red Shirt: killed by the thousands. ;-) Subverted with Scott Free, Jason Kiehart, and Robot Redshirt.
Robot Buddy: Colanator, Robot Redshirt.
Sdrawkcab Name: Counterparts Hamburger Pattie & Soyburger Patricia had the real names of Suzy Wood & Yzus Doow.
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
State Sec: Terran Security
Sufficiently Advanced Alien: The Q Continuum, The Queue, Dnar'af
Superhero: It was a spaceship full of them.
Superheroes Wear Capes: Some of them
Superpower Lottery: The Queue (omnipotent power when they stand in a straight line), Soyburger Patricia (sorceress nicknamed Dues Ex Patricia after one such incident), q (a junior member of Star Trek's Q continuum), although Adon & the Observer tended toward the overpowered side as well.
Super Team
Sword and Gun: Kiehart
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 In 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 Hole: 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?"
What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart Anyway: Mr. Obvious
Who's On First?
Xanatos Roulette: The Man In Black's plans.
You Mean Xmas: Kwistanakahdon