L.C. Clench

L.C. Clench is a character, who appeared in the Tomorrowland attraction ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter and has been referenced since.
== History ==
=== Background ===
L.C. Clench is an alien being, who is the chairman of the sinister X-S Tech conglomerate which has a corporate influence throughout the galaxy. The X-S corporation is however known for its shady business dealings and greed. Despite this, though, Clench claims to have altruistic intentions, believing X-S has a duty to uplift less-advanced species, profit being a side-effect they have learned to live with.
When an X-S research-probe discovered planet Earth, Clench began making connections with Earth's government to try and establish a corporate influence on the planet. When holding a demonstration of X-S Series 1000 teleportation devices in the Tomorrowland Convention Centre, L.C. Clench intervened with the tech demonstration.
Originally it was planned by the scientists of X-S to transport one of the humans of Tomorrowland to their alien planet, but Clench insisted that they teleport him to Earth instead. This change of plans caused an accident where Clench's molecular route was warped through an alien planet causing a giant carnivorous monster to be transported to Earth in his place.
The fate of Chairman Clench remains unknown. It is possible that he was teleported to the alien planet where the monster was picked up, alive and intact. It is also possible that his body never truly materialized, being suspended in molecular animation similarly to Skippy in the ride's pre-show. The original 1994 ending had Clench being found and teleported to the theater, but left stuck in the shielded tube as guests left the theater, while another ending, shot for the attraction's video screens, had Clench being teleported back to X-S in rough shape and furious at Femus and Spinlock. The two, looking for an excuse to get rid of him and not get fired, decide that they could have picked up a shapeshifter disguised as Clench and send him away.https://youtu.be/oT7cMNaqqEM?t=280
=== Development ===
X-S tech was originally conceived as the Weyland-Yutani Corporation from Ridley Scott's Alien horror movie franchise. This would likely place Clench's inspiration with characters like Paul Reiser's portrayal of executive Carter J. Burke from Aliens (1986). Burke being an executive of Weyland-Yutani who manipulated subordinate freighters into obtaining the dangerous alien Xenomorph and attempted to reclaim assets from the space colony of Hadley's Hope which became infested with the aliens, before being killed by them.
In the original scripts for ExtraTERRORestrial before the ride was toned down for younger audiences, it was planned for Clench to have lured the humans into the convention centre as a means of teleporting the alien monster in the chamber with them. He would have done this to study the potential the alien held as a living weapon for X-S on the distant planet of Earth, similarly to Weyland-Yutani's plans for the xenomorph. Technically it is still possible that this was Clench's plan in the final attraction but there is no real implication of this within the attraction itself and relies on Clench (and possibly his subordinates) having been putting on performances.
== Appearances ==
=== ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter ===
L.C. Clench appears on screens throughout this attraction. He first appears in the pre-show of the attraction, introducing the humans to X-S's background and technology. Later in the theatre area, he appears on screens from the alien planet which holds X-S headquarters, interfering with the teleportation process.
=== Invasion! An ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter (DisneyQuest) ===
Jeffrey Jones reprised his role as Chairman Clench in the pre-show of this video-game attraction in DisneyQuest arcades. In the pre-show of the attraction, he appears in Earth's white-house at a press meeting about an off-world human colony of Space Outpost 64 being attacked by aliens.
Clench took the attacks as an opportunity to sell the U.S. government the X-S 5000, a specialized terrain vehicle which is used by players in the game to fight aliens on the planet and rescue civilians from the space-colony.
=== Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd Skipper Canteen ===
An easter egg reference to Clench and Alien Encounter can be found in the library area of this Adventureland restaurant. There is a book in the library called Creatures from Space! which is written by an author named Clench.
=== Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT! ===
In the Collector's office in this attraction, there is an invoice sent to the Collector's Tivan Collection from X-S Tech. Said invoice is signed by chairman Clench himself. If Mission: BREAKOUT! is intended to be set after Alien Encounter, this could be an indication that Clench survived his teleportation accident and found his way back to X-S.
==Reference==
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