Alignment Chart Alignment Chart
Alignment Chart Alignment Chart
[A 3×3 grid of squares. Each square contains a label at the top and a drawing of a chart, and each square has a caption below it. From left to right, a row at a time:]
Soil Chart
[describe this chart here]
Lawful Good
Punnett Square
[describe this chart here]
Neutral Good
IPA Vowel Chart
[describe this chart here]
Chaotic Good
Phase Diagram
[describe this chart here]
Lawful Neutral
Alignment Chart
[A 3×3 grid of nine empty squares, each with an unreadable label below it.]
True Neutral
CIE Chromaticity Diagram
[describe this chart here]
Chaotic Neutral
Political Compass
[describe this chart here]
Lawful Evil
QAPF Rock Diagram
[The diagram is a rhombus with each corner labeled: ‘Q’ at the top, ‘A’ at the left, ‘P’ at the right, and ‘F’ at the bottom. The diagram is divided into trapezoids and triangles, each with labels. The writing in most subdivisions are unreadable. The readable subdivisions:]
Neutral Evil
Omnispace Classifier
Chaotic Evil
[describe this chart here]


"Alignment" and "alignment charts" come from tabletop roleplaying games, most prominently Dungeons & Dragons . Every character has an alignment , which very roughly identifies their tendencies. The most widely used alignment system was introduced in the Dungeons & Dragons Basic Set in 1977 and has been reused in many (but not all) subsequent editions of the game. This system uses two perpendicular axes, each divided into three levels (for a total of nine categories). The two axes are:
In this system, the "lawful" attribute is independent from the "good" attribute.  Lawful alignment means that a character is committed to a set of rules, which can refer to actual established laws, or to something like a rigid personal code, a set of traditions, or a chain of command, while a chaotic alignment means that a character has no interest in those, and may actively oppose them. The good vs evil scale is generally based on a character's concern for the lives and well-being of others; a good character will actively seek to help others and prevent harm, while an evil character will have no such concern and may actively harm others. Being 'good' is assumed to be independent of being 'lawful'. For example, a character who actively breaks laws to help those who are unjustly imprisoned or oppressed would be be considered to be "chaotic good".  In both cases, a neutral alignment can indicate a character's indifference to a concept, or that their commitment is conditional, or that they consciously seek to balance both sides. A character with the "neutral neutral" alignment is called a true neutral.
An alignment chart is a grid that divides the alignments, usually for the purpose of putting descriptions or particular characters on it. Alignment charts are frequently used as a meme template , where humorous or absurdist things are organized into different alignments. In addition to the "classic" Dungeons and Dragons alignment chart, there are a number of variant alignment charts in use as meme templates. Many keep the three-by-three grid structure but replace the lawful-neutral-chaotic and good-neutral-evil axes with descriptions.
This comic claims to be a meta-alignment chart, where nine "alignment charts" are themselves sorted into the nine Dungeons and Dragons alignments, following the use of alignment charts to humorously classify abstract concepts. However, these "alignment charts" are mostly diagrams used in academic classifications, which are being treated as if they were blank meme templates. There are two levels of absurdity here: first, the idea of using these diagrams to classify things they were never intended for, and second, the conflation of chaos as a physics concept and an assigned moral weight as it applies to each of these classification systems.
The title text describes Randall's alignment as "lawful heterozygous silty liquid" which references the true neutral, neutral good, lawful good, and lawful neutral charts in the Alignment Chart Alignment Chart. Lawful is the left side of an alignment chart, heterozygous is the top right or bottom left of a Punnet Square, silty is the bottom right of a soil chart, and liquid is the top right of a phase diagram. As such, the title text describes Randall's alignment as between Lawful Neutral and Neutral Good on this chart.
An alignment chart was also featured in 2408: Egg Strategies , which was published exactly one year later.
[A 3×3 grid of squares. Each square contains a label at the top and a drawing of a chart, and each square has a caption below it. From left to right, a row at a time:]
Soil Chart
[describe this chart here]
Lawful Good
Punnett Square
[describe this chart here]
Neutral Good
IPA Vowel Chart
[describe this chart here]
Chaotic Good
Phase Diagram
[describe this chart here]
Lawful Neutral
Alignment Chart
[A 3×3 grid of nine empty squares, each with an unreadable label below it.]
True Neutral
CIE Chromaticity Diagram
[describe this chart here]
Chaotic Neutral
Political Compass
[describe this chart here]
Lawful Evil
QAPF Rock Diagram
[The diagram is a rhombus with each corner labeled: ‘Q’ at the top, ‘A’ at the left, ‘P’ at the right, and ‘F’ at the bottom. The diagram is divided into trapezoids and triangles, each with labels. The writing in most subdivisions are unreadable. The readable subdivisions:]
Neutral Evil
Omnispace Classifier
Chaotic Evil
[describe this chart here]

