Known as “the man with the plan”, Lincoln Loud serves as the main character of the
popular Nicktoon, “The Loud House”. Being the show’s protagonist, Lincoln can be pretty kind,
determined and selfless. But given his age, it’s no surprise that Lincoln can have his
moments of being manipulative, sneaky, and pretty dishonest. Across over 100 episodes,
which have been Lincoln’s brightest moments and which have been his not-so-great moments?
I’m Caled with WickedBinge, and this is Lincoln Loud Deeds: Best to Worst.
Just a heads up, we’re only going to be looking at the main series and the Netflix movie,
and are excluding the recent live-action Christmas movie.
For this list, we’re going to be starting with Lincoln’s best deeds before working
our way down to the worst. Beginning with Lincoln’s best moment, we have:
Giving the title of Duke to Angus. It really shouldn’t be a surprise that this deed ended up
being Lincoln’s best one. Feeling overshadowed by his sisters, Lincoln spends a good chunk of “The
Loud House Movie” chasing after what he believes will not only bring him admiration and praise,
but also make him feel special. This ends up being the title of the Duke of Loch Loud,
and with a motivation as strong as his, Lincoln naturally becomes pretty obsessed with the idea
of becoming Duke. Throughout the film, however, Lincoln grows to learn that being a Duke isn’t
just about wearing a crown and having your way. Along with acknowledging his mistakes,
Lincoln also acknowledges that there was someone much more deserving of the title than
he was - that being their castle’s groundskeeper, Angus. By declaring a new Duke and insisting that
Angus take the title, Lincoln assured Loch Loud’s safety and prosperity, while at the
same time rewarding Angus for all the hard work that he did. It takes a lot of thoughtfulness,
selflessness and humility to recognize when someone deserves something more than you,
and this one act showed just how much Lincoln grew to care about the town,
not just seeing it as a means to get fame and glory. For these reasons,
we had to call it Lincoln’s best deed. We should also mention that this moment comes right after
he saved the lives of his entire family so, yeah, he gets some bonus good points for that.
Up next, we have Lincoln’s Ace Savvy saves. It’s no secret that Lincoln is a huge fan
of the superhero character, Ace Savvy. As such, he often dresses up as the character.
However, some of these instances go beyond just simple cosplaying,
and instead venture into actual heroic deeds. In the episode, “Crimes of Fashion”,
Lincoln makes the effort to help Leni clear her name after she’s accused of stealing from her job.
Lincoln takes the case without hesitation and spends the rest of the episode searching
for clues. While they are a bit clumsy and amateurish in their attempts to crack the mystery,
they still manage to save Leni’s job in the end. A similar instance happens in “Recipe for Disaster”,
when Lincoln discovers that a frozen food company has been using recipes from his father’s missing
cookbook. Not only do the boys eventually solve the case, but they also reunite Lynn Sr. with his
middle school home ec. teacher, allowing the two to cook together once again. We also see
Lincoln take the fall for Lucy in order to save her reputation in “Sleuth of Consequences” after
solving that episode’s mystery, showing that he cares about being a good guy (and a good brother)
just as much as he cares about being a successful hero. While he isn’t a perfect detective,
these efforts are still really admirable and have helped out at least three members of his family.
From comic book heroes to spies, we have stopping the Miller Family. In the episode “Family
Bonding”, a new family moves in next door to the Loud Family. With how friendly the Millers seem,
it doesn’t take long for everyone in the Loud Family to warm up to them. Everyone except
Lincoln, that is. Normally, being suspicious of strangers for no good reason would be considered
a bad thing. In this situation, however, it ended up saving an entire species of fruit! Huh,
go figure! Due to Lincoln’s efforts, the Millers’ true identity as well as their motives are
eventually revealed. Turns out, the Millers were sent by an organization called S.U.S.P.E.N.S.E.
(Secret Underground Society of Peach Entrepreneurs Nixing Sour Exports) to begin a plot to dispose of
the world's cherries, starting with Royal Woods. While he couldn’t stop them from
escaping in the end, Lincoln was still able to beat the Millers and deactivate their machine
before it could go off, saving the local cherry population. Not bad for a 12 year old.
Following that, we have being a supportive brother. It can’t be easy being the brother of ten
sisters, but even with all the chaos and stress Lincoln does more than take it all in stride.
He actually has instances where he goes above and beyond in his sibling duties in order to help his
sisters out. This has included giving his sisters advice on how to ask for money from his parents,
teaching Leni how to drive, giving up his friendship with Bobby so that Bobby can go
back to focusing on Lori, helping Lola improve her reading skills, and much more. Heck, even in their
day-to-day lives, Lincoln puts forth the effort to help his siblings stay organized and on-schedule
so that they don’t miss out on their activities, as we see at the start of “The Loud House Movie”.
While he may still have his moments of selfishness or brattiness (which we’ll be talking about in
just a little bit), Lincoln for the most part is a great brother. He makes it clear that no
matter how often they fight or frustrate each other, he’s always in his sisters’ corners.
The next good deed on our list is saving Mr. Grouse’s holiday. This good deed gets put a bit
lower down due to all that happened before it, but the deed itself is still really noteworthy.
During most of the first Loud House Christmas special, Lincoln is only focused on getting
his sled back after it accidentally goes into his crabby neighbor’s yard.
This includes actually sneaking into Grouse’s house which, yeahhhh, that isn’t great… However,
after learning that Mr. Grouse comes from a big family like his and is unable to spend
Christmas with them, Lincoln shares this discovery with his siblings. Thanks to some quick work,
the Louds as well as the McBrides are able to bring some Christmas cheer to Mr. Grouse’s place.
They bring him decorations, gifts and food, promising to spend Christmas Eve with him.
The family also puts their funds together to buy Grouse a bus ticket home so that he can visit his
family on Christmas Day. Although these things were a group effort and wouldn’t have happened
without both families being on board, it was still Lincoln who brought Mr. Grouse’s loneliness
to their attention and led their efforts. Considering how poorly Grouse had treated
Lincoln up to this point, this moment showed just how kind, sympathetic and mature Lincoln could be.
Finishing off our good deeds, we have to point out how he always makes up for his mistakes. As
we’ll soon see in the second-half of our list, Lincoln is more than capable of making quite a
few mistakes. Sometimes his ego will get the better of him, and other times he’ll just be
plain selfish or let his frustrations drive his actions. But regardless of the motive,
the one thing Lincoln ISN’T stubborn about is admitting when he’s wrong and acknowledging
when he’s hurt his family’s feelings. Every time that Lincoln’s caused a major conflict,
he’s gone above and beyond to fix things. We’ll get to see a few examples of this as we go into
the “bad deeds” section of our list, but to sum it all up - Lincoln’s a good kid at heart,
and shows this time and time again in his actions whenever he truly feels guilty about something.
Now that we’ve seen how good of a kid Lincoln can be, let’s look at the areas where he could
use some improvement. These are Lincoln’s worst deeds. Starting with the least bad, we have:
Starting with His moments of manipulation. Being “the man with the plan”, Lincoln has a
wide arsenal of strategies that he’ll use in order to either get what he wants or help someone out.
These strategies sometimes include manipulation, which is generally seen as somewhat shady, if
not a bit immoral. Sometimes it’s as simple as putting together a powerpoint to try and make a
point to his family and get them to his side. This was seen in the movie when Lincoln was trying to
get the family to move to Scotland, as well as in the episode where he was trying to get money for
Smooch tickets. Other times, however, Lincoln can go beyond this and be truly manipulative. In “The
Waiting Game”, he essentially guilt tripped Lori into using her job to get him free favors, which
ended up costing Lori her job. “No Such Luck” saw Lincoln going out of his way to portray himself as
‘bad luck’, just so he could get a couple days off from going to his sisters’ activities.
We saw how far Lincoln would go to give himself the perfect seat during a family road trip in
“The Sweet Spot”, where he went beyond just negotiating to actually manipulating them
into taking certain spots, all while hiding his secret goal. Lincoln’s manipulation even
once went as far as him trying to turn Lily into a mini clone of himself in the episode,
“Changing the Baby”. Now, none of these moments were enough to make Lincoln come off as some ‘evil
mastermind’ or anything like that, but like we said, they do make him seem pretty shady at times.
After all, there’s a pretty fine line between persuasive and outright manipulative.
Following that, we have: embarrassing his sisters online. This moment comes from the episode
“Making the Case”. Determined to win a trophy of his own for his family’s trophy case, Lincoln
sets his eyes on a video contest at school. When he’s unable to make a great video on his own, he
then decides to secretly record his sisters' most embarrassing moments for content. This leads to
his sisters feeling pretty humiliated. Honestly, the fact that they were willing to briefly disown
Lincoln for his actions show just how angry and hurt his sisters truly were by the videos. Even if
Luan didn’t tell him about the one rule of video making, that being to never upload a recording of
someone without their permission, Lincoln isn’t a little kid. He’s 12, and he really should have
known better. We’re cutting Lincoln just a bit of slack though, as we don’t think he realized just
how humiliated his sisters would be by the videos. Him humiliating himself in order to make it up to
them also helps this moment feel like more of a true mistake than him acting maliciously.
We actually have another sister-related moment next, with: acting like a spoiled,
rich brat. Oh boy, a lot of people know about this moment. In the episode “Out on a Limo”,
Lincoln wins limo service for a day and promises to take his sisters on a ride
to the Burpin Burger. However, after meeting a fellow limo owner named Tetherby, Lincoln decides
to “be his own man” and begins acting like a jerk. He breaks his promise to his sisters,
and even starts treating the limo driver, Kirby, terribly. To no surprise, this doesn’t end well,
and Lincoln not only loses his limo but also his invite to Tetherby’s party. Again, we’re going to
cut Lincoln a bit of slack with this one as, to be fair, kids can be pretty easily influenced,
and he did try to make it up to his sisters in the end. However, this doesn’t excuse his incredibly
rude and dismissive attitude within the episode. Even if he was influenced into being that way,
Lincoln really should have known better. After all, limos don’t make the man - or, boy.
Next up, we have: insulting Ronnie Anne. This was another pretty infamous moment from Lincoln,
and even if you could argue that it was somewhat justified considering Lincoln and Ronnie Anne’s
history, it was still incredibly harsh. While being teased by some of his classmates about
his relationship with Ronnie Anne, Lincoln goes above and beyond to show that he doesn’t like her.
This includes calling her gross and totally annoying, and saying that he'd rather lick
the bathroom floor than “kiss that weirdo”. This would have already been awful to say, and the fact
that he says it not just in front of her but their whole class just makes it worse. Lori then forces
Lincoln to go on a double date with her, Bobby and Ronnie Anne so that he can apologize properly,
which he does. Unfortunately, the boys from before show up at the restaurant and end up teasing him
again. To save face, Lincoln asserts that he's not on a date and insults her using the exact same
words as before, despite knowing how much they hurt Ronnie Anne. It could also be argued that
saying these things in front of a whole restaurant full of people, as well as Ronnie Anne’s brother,
is even worse than saying it in the cafeteria. Again, Ronnie Anne overhears and starts to cry.
Of course, Lincoln fixes things by publicly retracting his words and kissing Ronnie Anne,
but while it was a nice gesture, it never should have gotten to that point in the first place,
as Lincoln should have learned his lesson after the first time.
Getting the title of second-worst Lincoln Loud deed, it’s: endangering the town of Loch Loud.
While the movie may have had Lincoln’s best deed, it also had one of his worst. It comes after
he sees the town start to focus his attention on his sisters, causing him to feel like he’s
once again getting pushed to the sidelines. In order to get the spotlight back on him,
Lincoln follows Morag’s advice and puts on a truly spectacular show. He does this by riding Lela,
performing various tricks and stunts in the sky. This moment was already pretty selfish,
as Lincoln had already gotten plenty of attention at that point and still had the title of Duke.
There was really no need for him to take the attention away from them, other than his own
feelings of insecurities. This moment gets worse, however, when you take into account how reckless
Lincoln is being. Sure, Lela going rogue and destroying a good chunk of the town is because
of Morag’s gemstone, but Morag was only able to do that because of Lincoln’s willingness to take
a dangerous risk in the hopes of getting more fame and admiration. Even if it wasn’t completely his
fault, Lincoln still destroyed several buildings and structures, and nearly hurt a lot of people.
Honestly, this deed showed just how immature and reckless Lincoln could be,
and how willing he can sometimes be to think about the possible consequences to his actions.
Finishing off our list, we have what’s easily Lincoln’s worst deed: kidnapping a famous cat.
As we saw with our last bad deed, Lincoln’s desire to step out of the shadows of his
sisters can sometimes push him into making some pretty bad and destructive decisions. But unlike
our previous moment where Lincoln was partially pushed into it, this bad deed was all his own. In
the episode “Kings of the Con”, Lincoln, Clyde and the Loud Sisters go to a convention in the hopes
of winning a role in the upcoming Ace Savvy movie. When the sisters start getting more attention from
the judges, causing Lincoln to feel overshadowed by them, he comes up with a plan to get the
spotlight back on him - a plan that’s, frankly, pretty messed up. The boys end up deciding to
kidnap Kitty - or rather, the cat that plays the Ace Savvy character, Kitty - to cause a commotion
at the convention so they can "rescue it" and be heroes and win the Kings of the Con. It should
be noted that, along with essentially cheating in order to win a role in the film, Lincoln and Clyde
also put Kitty (and all the other con-goers, as it turns out) in possible danger by stealing it
from its trailer. Thankfully, karma strikes the boys pretty quickly, as Kitty not only escapes
but also turns out to be too aggressive for them to handle. Thus, Lincoln is forced to ask his
sisters to help. Really, the only thing that keeps this moment from painting Lincoln in too bad of a
light is the fact that he confesses to his actions so that his sisters can still be in the movie.
But while he may have learned his lesson, we still had to call this his worst deed.
Alright, that’s our list! But were there any Lincoln Loud deeds that we missed?
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