Who's got the right stuff for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1990s?

Enemies? Well...

Sky Net
Umbrella Corporation (Resident Evil)
Tyrell Corporation (Blade Runner)
OCP (Omni Consumer Products... Robocop)
Genom (Bubblegum Crisis)
Weyland-Yutani Corporation (Alien)
Cyberdyne (The Terminator movies)
Rekall (Total Recall)
Water and Power (Tank Girl)
Hereti Corp
Delos Corporation (Westworld)
ACME Corporation (Warner Bros. cartoons...look at what they do to that poor Coyote!)
Gattaca Corporation (Gattaca)
Zorg Industries in The Fifth Element.
Manchurian Global,
ConSec from SCANNERS
Yo-Yo-Dyne (Buckaroo Banzai)
Wolfram and Hart (Angel)
Morley Tobacco (x-files) later showing up in V:tR
Kronos Corp. is the evil company from The Guyver.
Trade Federation (Star Wars)
Men-Tel Corporation (Fortress)
Wing Kung Trading Company
King Oil Industries (The World is Not Enough),
Carter Media Group (Tomorrow Never Dies),
Zorin Industries (A View to a Kill),
Drax Industries (Moonraker).
ENCOM (from Tron)
Aegis Oil from On Deadly Ground

How's that?
 

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Celebrim said:
Yes. Quite. Which is one of the at least three reasons why a suggestion like 'Buffy' misses the point even were she to gain such stature that 90 years from now people were writting books and making movies about her.
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The problem with that criteria is that it nearly invalidates this exercise. It is very difficult to predict what will still be remembered in 90 years. Certainly the staying power in some things is easier to spot than others, but I feel that we shouldn't be too concerned with it in this discussion.

Celebrim said:
1) Buffy exists in a world where monsters are far from being the exception.
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I mostly agree with you here, which is why I think that superheroes don't make a lot of sense in this context. If you are going to put Batman on the team, why not Superman? Or Martian Manhunter? Pretty soon you've just got the JLA and that kind of misses the point.

Celebrim said:
2) The mileau of 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' is comedy.
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I'm not certain why this is a problem. The LoEG already mixes characters from horror, adventure, erotica and comedy. And I'd say Buffy had a fair amount of drama, pathos, action and horror in addition to comedy.

Celebrim said:
3) Buffy is a purely (or almost purely) heroic figure, whereas the original figures were generally in thier original conception villains.
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I somewhat agree here too. Part of the draw of the first two volumes was the villainous characters in the league, but Mina and Quartermain were fairly heroic. Many of the members of the suspected other Leagues were heroic as well. As long as the team is cast more in shades of grey than black and white I'd say it fits.


Celebrim said:
I think to that we can add a metapoint #4, 'The character in question is assumed to be the most extraordinary thing in the setting of the original story.' This also kicks out Buffy, and is why Bruce Wayne is most certainly out.
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I don't buy this one. It is hard to argue that Mina was the most extraordinary character in Dracula, or Gulliver in Gulliver's Travels. I'd say as long as the character is interesting and is from a unique story they meet the criteria.
 
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Celebrim said:
But if we wish to answer the question, we must answer it as best as we can, and that means that Carrie and Hannibal Lector aren't the villains in the story, but rather among the better suggestions for members of the Team.
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Carrie would be interesting. She's so emotionally stunted and damaged by her mother and experiences in high school that just motivating her to work with the team would make for a compelling story element.

Lector presents a bit more of a problem. IMO, he'd be more dangerous to the team than he would be worth having, unless you left him locked in his cell and just consulted him. The villains in the Victorian-era league had super-powers but were still controllable in their own way: Griffin was a sociopath but was more canny than intelligent; Hyde was very controllable as Jekyll and even as Hyde seemed to have somewhat understandable motives; Nemo is presented as much as an anti-hero as a villain and conforms to a personal code of honour. Lector, on the other hand is both a psychopath and a genius. Even though he has no powers, I wouldn't see him as truly controllable unless you had someone as intelligent on the team to counter him-even then you run the risk of missions being compromised as the two engage in a battle of wits. This is why I felt Lector was better in an advisory capacity rather than as an actual member of the team.

But he is definitely too important and interesting to ignore.
 

I thought about the American Werewolf in London for the team, but he is very dead at the end of the movie. The 6 Million Dollar Man is an awesome suggestion, though, although he dolesn't have the seedy/dangerous/evil thing going for him.
 

What about Homer Simpson? He did cross over to the real world in that CGI episode back in season 7. And I think he will definitely be an iconic fictional character for years to come. :)
 

Anyone ever play Nicktoons Unite

Jimmy Neutron
Danny Phantom
Timmy Turner
Spongebob Square Pants

I couldn't help but be reminded
 

Wormwood said:
From My New Wave League game notes (circa 2002)

President Banzai has summoned last generation's greatest Heroes:

Egan Spengler - Currently committed in an Arkham insane aslyum (Ghostbusters)
B.A. Barracus - Currently incarcerated at a military prison
Angus MacGyver - The Inventor
Scott Howard - The Man Wolf (Teen Wolf)
Lydia Dietz - Witch and Medium (Beetlejuice)
Daniel LaRusso - The Crane (Karate Kid)
David Lightman - The Hacker (WarGHames)

Villains
John Rambo - Jihadi Terrorist
Doctor Emmett Brown - Time Traveling thief
Raymond Babbit - The Brain (Rain Man)
Seth Brundle Jr. - Brundlefly

and finally, The Invaders: All the villains are being manipulated by a shadowy cabal of wizened aliens with potent psionic abilities and a bizarre predilection for Reese's Pieces) ,

Alas, I've never had a chance to run it.
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Sheer brilliance. I especially loved Lydia Dietz. (No, I mean I actually LOVED her. Back when I was 14 in the theaters. My first "goth" heartbreak.)
 

Darth Shoju said:
Carrie would be interesting. She's so emotionally stunted and damaged by her mother and experiences in high school that just motivating her to work with the team would make for a compelling story element.
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The real problem is that Carietta White is....uhh...dead.
 

I agree that super heroes and high tech futuristic characters are right out. So too are characters like Buffy only because they come from a world a bit too "super natural" in general premise than ours.

My potential candidates would be:

James Bond
6 Million Dollar Man
Jet Li (pick any of his characters from modern movies)
Jason Bourne
Macguyver
Rambo
Indiana Jones
Lara Croft
Jake 2.0 (but a bit older and more experienced than in the show)
McCloud (either Highlander will do)
Maybe the Crow
Maybe Blade (but he is a comic character)
If you want a magic element, toss in one of the sisters from Charmed.
Riddick would be great, but comes from a future setting and not from earth.
Lu Kane or Jonny Cage from Mortal Combat

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Jack Burton
Buckaroo Bonzai
Ezekiel "Zeke" Stone (who could only be killed by having both eyes removed)
Chance Harper (from "Strange Luck")
Sydney Bristow (CIA agent from "Alias")
Nick Knight (from "Forever Knight", token vampire)
G. Gordon Liddy

and of course...
Elvis (secretive patron, or mastermind villian?)
 

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