Sig.Lad - Revision history

Ununnilium at 15:59, 6 October 2025

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‎Appearances

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‎Appearances

Ununnilium at 00:22, 26 January 2024

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Ununnilium at 04:06, 30 December 2023

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Ununnilium at 03:51, 25 September 2023

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Ununnilium: /* GIF.clones */

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‎GIF.clones

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 == History ==
-'''Sig.Lad''' first popped into existence during the ''[[Cosmic Plot Device Caper]]'' to help the [[LNH (Classic Team)|LNH]] stop his time-displaced future twin [[Acton Lord]]. His past has undergone massive and frequent [[retcon]]ning since then. His ''current'' origin is that he was the son of [[Mister Thingy]], leader of the [[Net.astic Nine]], who was given the [[Super Molder Serum]] to save his life<ref name = df43/>.
+'''Sig.Lad''' first popped into existence during the ''[[Cosmic Plot Device Caper]]'' to help the [[LNH (Classic Team)|LNH]] stop his time-displaced future twin [[Acton Lord]]. His past has undergone massive and frequent [[retcon]]ning since then. His ''current'' origin is that he was the son of [[Mister Thingy]], leader of the [[Net.astic Nine]], who was given the Super Molder Serum to save his life<ref name = df43/>.
 For a while he was [[Sig.File Man]]'s sidekick. At some later point, he was joined with the [[Sig.Force]] and entered the LNH. After a number of incoherent adventures, he sacrificed his life to prevent his archnemesis [[Acton Lord]] from flooding the net with corrupted Sig.Lad [[GIF.clone|GIF.clones]]. Most of the GIF.clones succumbed to the corruption and faded away, leaving behind two &ndash; Sig.Lad and Acton Lord, actually his own corrupted GIF.clone counterpart!

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 * [[Bellerophon Gambit]]
 * [[Paper Tigers]]
 * [[The Three Day Lull]] #4, 7, 11, 14
 * [[Flame Wars II]]

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 * [[The Three Day Lull]] #4, 7, 11, 14
 * [[Flame Wars II]]
 * [[LNH Comics Presents]] #13, 15, 17, 19 ([[Looniverse Adrift!]] Parts 1, 3, 5 and 7)
 * [[Constellation (series)|Constellation]] #6-36

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 [[Skysabre|Eagle]] and the Net.astic Nine traveled back in time to prevent the tyrant's birth from taking place. But when DeFacto V was about to close the loop by force, [[Squidman]] prevented it&mdash; by killing Sig.Lad.<ref name = df48/></spoiler>
-Sig.Lad has done a good job of staying dead, but still hangs out in the [[RACCCafe]]. His ghost once appeared to [[Mighty Muddy Power Grangers|Wayne the Invid]] to keep him company during [[Christmas]]. (Assuming Wayne wasn't just hallucinating due to crossovers/bad weed.)
+Sig.Lad has done a good job of staying dead, but still hangs out in the [[RACCCafe]]. His ghost once appeared to [[Mighty Muddy Power Grangers|Wayne the Invid]] to keep him company during [[Christmas]]. (Assuming Wayne wasn't just hallucinating due to [[Grand Tour|crossovers]]/bad weed.)
 During the ''[[Infinite Leadership Crisis]]'', [[Occultism Kid]] attempted to summon Sig.Lad's ghost to find out what was causing the problem of the disappearing leaders, but instead, summoned a shade composed of the astral remains of all the most unstable and short-lived Sig.Lad copies.

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 As Sig.Lad was one of the first LNHers to have an illustration of him which was uploaded to FTP archives, he became susceptible to [[GIF.clone|GIF.cloning]], where different copies of the GIF he was in would become literal copies of him &ndash; and become corrupted, thanks to the power of [[Acton Lord]]. (In real life, the file on the FTP did get corrupted.) This led to the recursive creation of Acton Lord as his evil "son," which in turn led to a substantial number of other temporal counterparts.
-The post-GIF.cloning Sig.Lad didn't always consider himself to be the same person as the original. During his confrontation with his [[Oddball LNH]] counterpart Cig.Lad (''Constellation'' #18), he determined that the dangerous effect which would come from an LNHer touching their Oddball counterpart wouldn't affect him &ndash; because Cig.Lad, not having a corresponding Acton Lord, was not truly his counterpart<ref name= oddball />. He matter-of-factly explained to [[Lurking Girl]] that the original Sig.Lad was dead.
+The post-GIF.cloning Sig.Lad didn't always consider himself to be the same person as the original. During his confrontation with his [[Oddball LNH]] counterpart Cig.Lad<ref name = consty18 />, he determined that the dangerous effect which would come from an LNHer touching their Oddball counterpart wouldn't affect him &ndash; because Cig.Lad, not having a corresponding Acton Lord, was not truly his counterpart<ref name= oddball />. He matter-of-factly explained to [[Lurking Girl]] that the original Sig.Lad was dead.
 The GIF.clones were thrown in as a possible way of explaining all the LNHers who turned up with no origins in the post-[[Cosmic Plot Device Caper]] period. Only one LNHer, [[Limp-Asparagus Lad]], is known to be an ex-GIF.clone<ref name = clone />.
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 <ref name = df48>''Dvandom Force'' #46-48: [[X-Post Facto]] &ndash; [[Footnote Girl]]</ref>
 <ref name = oddball>Of course, given the reason ''[[Another LNH Title? Really?]]'' #8 established for the warning about the Oddball LNH, he might have been wrong. Who knows?</ref>
 <ref name = clone>By the way, most of this played out before the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clone_Saga Spider-Man clone saga]. Yes, the LNH handled these themes in a way that made ''more'' sense.</ref>
 </references>

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 == Relationships ==
-Son of [[Mister Thingy]] and the [[!Visible Woman]].
+Sig.Lad is the son of [[Mister Thingy]] and the [[!Visible Woman]]. Everyone in [[:Category:Richard Franklins]] is, in some way, a version of him.
-See also [[:Category:Richard Franklins]].
+His [[Omnilooniverse|alternate-universe]] counterparts include Cig.Lad of the [[Oddball Legion]] (tho see below).
 == GIF.clones ==

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 == History ==
 '''Sig.Lad''' first popped into existence during the ''[[Cosmic Plot Device Caper]]'' to help the [[LNH (Classic Team)|LNH]] stop his time-displaced future twin [[Acton Lord]]. His past has undergone massive and frequent [[retcon]]ning since then. His ''current'' origin is that he was the son of [[Mister Thingy]], leader of the [[Net.astic Nine]], who was given the [[Super Molder Serum]] to save his life<ref name = df43 />.
 For a while he was [[Sig.File Man]]'s sidekick. At some later point, he was joined with the [[Sig.Force]] and entered the LNH. After a number of incoherent adventures, he sacrificed his life to prevent his archnemesis [[Acton Lord]] from flooding the net with corrupted Sig.Lad [[GIF.clone|GIF.clones]]. Most of the GIF.clones succumbed to the corruption and faded away, leaving behind two &ndash; Sig.Lad and Acton Lord, actually his own corrupted GIF.clone counterpart!
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 After all this, he went on a leave of absence to find himself and ended up finding [[Constellation]] instead. They formed the [[Secret Dvanders]] along with [[Particle Man]] and fought side by side for many months, during which Sig.Lad discovered he and Acton Lord were incarnations of King Arthur and Modred. He spent a lot of time working with Constellation, being a sounding board for the cosmic hero's emotional struggles and a force to push him towards resolving them.
-When Constellation left the [[Looniverse]], the Secret Dvanders became [[Dvandom Force]], and Sig.Lad became leader. Unfortunately, it was not long after this that the Super Molder Serum became unstable again. Seeking a cure and becoming increasingly desperate as he failed over and over, a [[Shane Boxer|time traveler]]'s scrambled memories lead him to merge with [[Kopikat]] &ndash; becoming the tyrannical [[DeFacto V]]!
+When Constellation left the [[Looniverse]], the Secret Dvanders became [[Dvandom Force]], and Sig.Lad became leader. <spoiler text="Unfortunately...">It was not long after this that the Super Molder Serum became unstable again. Seeking a cure and becoming increasingly desperate as he failed over and over, a [[Shane Boxer|time traveler]]'s scrambled memories lead him to merge with [[Kopikat]] &ndash; becoming the tyrannical [[DeFacto V]]!
 Sig.Lad has done a good job of staying dead, but still hangs out in the [[RACCCafe]]. His ghost once appeared to [[Mighty Muddy Power Grangers|Wayne the Invid]] to keep him company during [[Christmas]]. (Assuming Wayne wasn't just hallucinating due to crossovers/bad weed.)

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 == Gallery ==
-[[File:Domosiglad.JPG|frame|left|From [[Dave Van Domelen|Dave]]'s [http://www.dvandom.com/drawings/lnhgallery.html art site]: Over 20 years later, I took the above costume and painted it onto an Aquaman Domo-kun figure. June 2014.]]
+[[File:Domosiglad.JPG|frame|left|From [[Dave Van Domelen|Dave]]'s [http://www.dvandom.com/drawings/lnhgallery.html art site]: Over 20 years later, I took the above costume [top of page] and painted it onto an Aquaman Domo-kun figure. June 2014.]]
 [[Category:Deceased LNHers]]

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 [[File:acton.GIF|frame|The original GIF in question &ndash; wait, did this just make another clone?]]
-As Sig.Lad was one of the first LNHers to have an illustration of him which was uploaded to FTP archives, he became susceptible to GIF.cloning, where different copies of the GIF he was in would become literal copies of him &ndash; and become corrupted, thanks to the power of [[Acton Lord]]. (In real life, the file on the FTP did get corrupted.) This led to the recursive creation of Acton Lord as his evil "son," which in turn led to a substantial number of other temporal counterparts.
+As Sig.Lad was one of the first LNHers to have an illustration of him which was uploaded to FTP archives, he became susceptible to [[GIF.clone|GIF.cloning]], where different copies of the GIF he was in would become literal copies of him &ndash; and become corrupted, thanks to the power of [[Acton Lord]]. (In real life, the file on the FTP did get corrupted.) This led to the recursive creation of Acton Lord as his evil "son," which in turn led to a substantial number of other temporal counterparts.
 The post-GIF.cloning Sig.Lad didn't always consider himself to be the same person as the original. During his confrontation with his [[Oddball LNH]] counterpart Cig.Lad (''Constellation'' #18), he determined that the dangerous effect which would come from an LNHer touching their Oddball counterpart wouldn't affect him &ndash; because Cig.Lad, not having a corresponding Acton Lord, was not truly his counterpart<ref name= oddball />. He matter-of-factly explained to [[Lurking Girl]] that the original Sig.Lad was dead.