League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

[Stormborn]

How about this lineup:

-Hannibal Lector
-T-800 series Terminator (That's the Arnold Schwartzennegar version)
-Wolverine
-Draco Malfoy (HP cannonically took place in the 90s, so he'd be in his late twenties)
-M (Judi Dench version)

That's a nice combination that ranges from "morally grey" to "violently insane" and from "normal human" to "indestructable superpowered killing machine"

That sounds good, but I would replace Wolverine with a time and space lost Riddik. That keeps the super hero out of it but keeps the power level and role. Jack Bauer could also fit into such a line up.

 

[wolfen fenrison]

wizard magazine did an article about a modern american version of the league.

007 goes rogue, an octogenarian henry jones jr. puts together a group consisting of combat veteran john rambo, urban guerilla sarah connor, information analyst jack ryan, and to get into bond's head psychiatrist hannibal lecter.

 

[Angellis_ater]

I think that Draco Malfoy is indeed one of the newest additions to the morally grey/villainous individuals into our current "antiheroes" and "villains" of the modern media.

 

[jaerdaph]

I always thought the Frog brothers, Edgar and Alan, from The Lost Boys would be good additions to a modern day LoXG.

 

[malladin]

Firstly, I'm not convinced Alan Quartermain and Captain Nemo are monsters, Quatermain is definately a hero. You should check out LoEG: The Black Dossier which is set in an Orwellian eighties and has Bulldog Drummond and James Bond as league members, though the organisation has become corrupted to a tool of the regime.

 

[Voadam]

I always thought the Frog brothers, Edgar and Alan, from The Lost Boys would be good additions to a modern day LoXG.

Particularly next to Jack Bauer.

 

[Voadam]

Firstly, I'm not convinced Alan Quartermain and Captain Nemo are monsters, Quatermain is definately a hero. You should check out LoEG: The Black Dossier which is set in an Orwellian eighties and has Bulldog Drummond and James Bond as league members, though the organisation has become corrupted to a tool of the regime.

Heh, I had checked that out from the library this weekend and was going to mention the bond connection. I don't recognize Drummond though, who is he?

Past members were not necessarily monsters either. Lemuel Gulliver for example.

 

[Hella_Tellah]

Firstly, I'm not convinced Alan Quartermain and Captain Nemo are monsters, Quatermain is definately a hero.

Quatermain is a vicious opium addict whose bloodlust was tempered by his decrepit old age, leaving him a saddened shell of his former self. This softens considerably in volume 2, with his relationship to Mina, but in the first book he was willing to betray his comrades for a fix. Nemo is a monster by Victorian standards: a pirate and disloyal subject of the crown.

 

[Volsung]

The most important thing to remember is that LoeG wasn't a collection of heroes from the 1890s.

It was a collection of Monsters from the 1890s.

While this is true, that the League members were portrayed as monsters in the comics, it's also important to note that they were often the heroes, or at least protagonists, of their reference literature.

 

[jaerdaph]

Particularly next to Jack Bauer.

LOL! "You look... familiar..."