History of the Looniverse

The Looniverse has a long and storied history. Since the day Doctor Killfile attacked the LNH, a number of Writers have filled in the gaps. Retcons, however, often make the task of history scribing very difficult in an ever-changing Looniverse. The more popular ideas tend to remain and the lesser ones tend to disappear.

Look, now, on these landmark events...

(See also the History of Earth-20 and the Classic LNH Timeline.)

Beginning of the Universe

• Everything explodes.
• Including the DHenry Force.
• The Net.Gods and Net.Trolls are born.

Hypertextian Age

• Sword-and-sorcery adventures happen, with monsters and cursed swords and heroes and heroines who don't wear very much clothing. Due to mages experimenting with retcotheric energy (to disastrous effect), this era is erased from history; however, some things linger, its curses, entities and artifacts surviving into the present day even though they blatantly don't fit into the archaeological record.

Early Middle Ages

• The Cosmic Plot Device is found and the Cult of the Cosmic Plot Device is formed.

1872

• Robber-barons sponsor teams of engineers to build Steel Leviathans – steampunk giant robots – to tear apart each other's railroads. By luck and skill, the Load Ranger manages to take down two of these in passing.

1898

• Probably some version of War of the Worlds happens (unless it's in 1938). (See Mars)

1920s

• During a battle of the Second Sino-Japanese War, a mysterious magical explosion takes place and Manga Man Gold is created.

1930s

• Boy Lad

1937

• The Cosmic Plot Device is stolen from the Cult by the Nazis, but disappears before Hitler can get his hands on it.

1938

• Probably some version of War of the Worlds happens (unless it's in 1898).

1956

• The Classics Squad faces their final case, and the Book of Deus Ex Machinas is sealed away.

1959

• The Challengers of the Abominable defeat Y.E.T.I., seemingly for good; Golden Lord is quantum-fused with Sasquatch Prime and is lost.

1973

• The Netromancer finds a door into the Universal Office of Looniverse-A.

1979

• The career of the original Macroman begins.

1980

• Macroman apparently dies at the hands of the Post-Time Shifter.

1984

• The League of New-Wave Heroes is transformed into radio energy, not to be reconstituted for fifteen years. (Presumably, time-travel brings them back to about the same period.)

1985

• The Legion of Net.Heroes is formed! (LNH: The Early Years date)

Late '80s

• Dr. Plot discovers the Cosmic Plot Device, believing it to be extraterrestrial, and sends it to the Net.ional Museum of History, where it is put on display.

1991

• The Legion of Net.Heroes is formed! (Retcon Year date)

1992

• The Cosmic Plot Device Caper begins!