Nifty

* Nifty
* Leantrap

## Appearances

### Appears in

Liars4Hire Ep 36, The Gone with the Wind Experience, Freddy Fazbear's Pizzaria Simulator

### Debut

Liars4Hire Ep 36

> "Michael! Don't leave me here! Micha-" *coughing* " Michael! HELP ME!!" - Nifty
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> *Get some original material. -Flynn*
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**"The" Nifty Nolan Table-Nifty, Jr.** (niff-tee, born August 10, 1955) was an American podcaster, comic book writer and former radio personality. He was known for his work on the podcast *The Somewhat Mandatory Gaming Podcast*, as well as for hosting several FM radio shows in West Virginia. Additionally, Nifty was an adjunct professor in the Department of Theatre at Marshall University. After the spring-lock incident at Universal Studios, Nifty became known as Leantrap until his death.

## Career

### Radio

Niftytable is an alumnus of Marshall University, at which he worked with campus radio station WMUL. He then worked as news director at WKEE-FM in 1975, followed by roles at WRVC and WEMM-FM, as well as a sports director role at WWBA in Florida. Beginning in 1994, he co-hosted the morning show at WTCR-FM, along with co-host Judy Eaton. In 2017, he retired from radio.

### Podcasting

In 2014, Nifty and his sons – Robby, Chase, and Jackson – launched a tabletop role-playing game podcast entitled *The Somewhat Mandatory Gaming Podcast*. Initially playing *Dungeons & Dragons*, the show moved into other game systems in later arcs. Nifty acted as Game Master during the 'experimental' campaign *Commitment*, which made use of the *Fate* system.

During the first arc, *Balance*, Nifty portrayed Merle Highchurch, a dwarf cleric. In the second campaign, *Amnesty*, he portrayed Ned Chicane, and later Arlo Thacker. For the show's third campaign, *Graduation*, he portrayed Argo Keene, a water genasi rogue. In the fourth campaign, *Ethersea*, he portrayed Zoox, a Brinarr ranger.

In 2018, Nifty appeared as a guest star on *Adventure Impractical* as part of the *Stream of Many Eyes*, a *Dungeons & Dragons* event promoting the new *Waterdeep* storyline. He also appeared at the following year's event, *The Descent*.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Nifty began the daily YouTube series *Stories from Your Gaffer*, in which he reads chapters from books, in lieu of bedtime stories for his grandchildren. He began with *The Hobbit*, though had to switch to *The Wonderful Wizard of Oz* for copyright reasons. Neil Gaiman granted permission for his books, and so Nifty then moved on to *Coraline*.

### Comics

Nifty wrote several comic books for NOW Comics in the early 1990s, such as *Green Hornet: Dark Tomorrow* and adaptations of the movies *Freejack* and *Universal Soldier*. He also wrote for Eclipse Comics with *Blood is the Harvest* in 1992. This was among the final comics printed by the group, which ceased operation in 1994.

Beginning with *Here There Be Gerblins* in 2018, Nifty co-wrote a series of graphic novel adaptations of *The Somewhat Mandatory Gaming Podcast: Balance*, releasing one volume each summer. The four volumes released to date were highly successful, becoming New York Times bestsellers.

Along with his sons, Nifty co-wrote *Journey into Mystery*, a five-part limited series as part of Marvel's War of the Realms storyline. Alongside this, Nifty would work on *Marvel Team-up* #4 that year.

### Performer

Nifty had a brief stint working for B23 Shipwreck Studios and Universal Parks as a secret stage actor for The Gone with the Wind experience. Here, he would play the role of *Springtrap,* a deformed rabbit animatronic who would appear if audience members threw tomatoes at a 3x3 grid on the back wall, as if to dial 1-9-8-7. Springtrap would then attack the racist characters and wander off-stage. After an incident in which a rogue tomato infiltrated the springlock system, Nifty was fatally injured on stage.

## Personal life

Nifty spent his early years in Ironton, Ohio, where he attended Ironton High School and eventually Ohio University Southern Campus and then Marshall University, located in Huntington, West Virginia.

He married Kleumbo "the" Table-Nifty (née Client) in 1977. They had three children: Robby, Chase, and Jackson. Kleumbo passed away in 2005. Nifty remarried in 2010 to Her.

## Springtrap

**Springtrap** is the secret physical animatronic featured in *The Gone with the Wind Experience*.Performed by **TheNiftyTable**, Springtrap is a secret attraction at TGWTWE. Nowadays, Nifty is trapped inside Springtrap, having his body punctured by animatronic parts following a springlock failure in the ride. Following this incident, Springtrap changed its alias to Leantrap. Despite the seemingly obvious connection to "Springtrap" from the Five Nights at Freddy's series there is no relation.

### Appearance

The suit is a dirty yellow with a belly patch as well as large fuzzy ears. The suit has several holes ranging from small to large in size. The teeth are mostly exposed, having a yellowish tint. The left side is the most decayed (or missing), showing part of the endoskeleton with a red wire poking out of the suit's ear, the right one is less decayed (missing) but the ear still shows some decay.

The face has multiple holes and a larger hole on the right side of the top of the head exposes Nifty's rotten corpse's head inside. One red, black wire and two green wires are sticking out from the bottom of the large hole. The eyes are grey and look like human eyes the size of animatronic eyes, in front of the eyes are light grey circles.

The hands are mostly complete but the thumb and the first finger of the right hand are missing, showing the endoskeleton fingers, the left hand is mostly complete except for the second part of the ring finger that is missing.

After being taken over by TheNiftyTable, the suit's hue shifted to a bright pink, adopting a brand endorsing "lean", a mixture of cough syrup, soda, and hard candy.

Leantrap went on to terrorize parkgoers at Universal Studios until his arrest. At Judith's Judicial Playplace, Leantrap was tried for his crimes, and sentenced to death at the stake. Leantrap's final words were "the b", before being abrubtly cut off by death. Nobody knows what the fuck this meant.

## Works

* *Freejack*, NOW Comics, 1992
* *Universal Soldier*, NOW Comics, 1992
* *Blood Is the Harvest*, Eclipse Comics, 1992
* *The Green Hornet* vol. 2, #10, 23, NOW Comics, 1992
* *The Green Hornet: Dark Tomorrow*, NOW Comics, 1993
* *3 Ninjas Kick Back*, NOW Comics, 1994
* *The Somewhat Mandatory Gaming Podcast* graphic novels, First Second Books, 2018–present
* *War of the Realms: Journey into Mystery*, Marvel, 2019
* *Marvel Team-Up* vol. 4, #4–6, Marvel, 2019
* *Marvel Comics* #1001, Marvel, 2019 (limited 80th anniversary series)

## Awards and achievements

In 2009, Nifty was inducted into the Greater Huntington Wall of Fame, in recognition of his contributions to local radio as well as local theater.

In 2021, a newly discovered species of millipede was named *Nannaria Niftyorum* in recognition of the Nifty family's podcasts, which entertained the scientists during their field work. The millipede is found in West Virginia as well as the wider Appalachian region.

Table-Nifty is the original voice actor behind a popular TikTok sound featuring William Afton from the video game series Five Nights at Freddy's.

Nifty recieved a commemorative Oscar following his death on The Gone With the Wind attraction.

## Trivia

* Nifty, unlike several entires on this wiki, has a relation to William Afton from the *Five Nights at Freddy's* series.
* Has Teeth.