[OT] Who is Dorian Gray?

Kai Lord · Jul 4, 2003

The ads for the LXG film are advertising a character named Dorian Gray. I'm sure I've heard that name before. Where's he from?

Hardhead · Jul 4, 2003

http://www.upword.com/wilde/dorgray.html

tarchon · Jul 4, 2003

From a novel by Oscar Wilde, the Picture of Dorian Gray. From the previews, it doesn't look like they lifted much from the book besides the name and something resembling the basic idea.
It's well regarded, if you want to read it, http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/dorgray/preface.htm

demiurge1138 · Jul 4, 2003

He's from The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde. Basically, he's a sophisticated urbanite who gets painted for him a portrait that ages instead of him. So he's effectivly immortal and can run about London committing all sorts of immoral acts, and only the portrait looks the worse for wear.
It's somewhat odd that he's a good guy in LXG. I don't think he was in the original comic.

Demiurge out.

DerianCypher · Jul 4, 2003

Well.. it's not too odd considering the movie.. I mean, I'm pretty sure that the Bride of Dracula wasn't good either...

DC

demiurge1138 · Jul 4, 2003

Ah yes, but at the end of Dracula (and the League comic, er, graphic novel), Mina Harker is de-vampirized. Her original asset was merely her knowledge of the supernatural, not her actually being supernatural herself (anymore).

Demiurge out.

NiTessine · Jul 4, 2003

Ah, well, he isn't a good guy. He's a bad guy who just happens to be on the good side. Edward Hyde and the Invisible Man aren't very nice people, either, and they are also on the good side...

Ranger REG · Jul 4, 2003

So the only good guys in the team are Allen Quartermaine and Captain Nemo. Tom Sawyer is a wildcard, being forcefully recruited by the US Secret Service and sent overseas.

Lord Pendragon · Jul 4, 2003

Ranger REG said:
So the only good guys in the team are Allen Quartermaine and Captain Nemo. Tom Sawyer is a wildcard, being forcefully recruited by the US Secret Service and sent overseas.

Um, Alan Quartermain was a washed up drug-addict in the comic, and I think later on in the actual novels as well. And Tom Sawyer wasn't even in the original graphic novel...

Hand of Evil · Jul 4, 2003

Ranger REG said:
So the only good guys in the team are Allen Quartermaine and Captain Nemo. Tom Sawyer is a wildcard, being forcefully recruited by the US Secret Service and sent overseas.

Captain Nemo while not a 'bad guy' was also not a 'good guy'. He followed his own way of things and took life if was against him. The League was not about good guys.