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

el-remmen said:
I think using characters from TV/Movies or from total fantasy milieus even if they are literary (like Harry Potter) is veering way too far from the basic premise of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

At the very least, they should be ostensibly be able to exist as real people with their "stories" having some context in a realish world.

For example, Hyde and the invisible man may be way out there - but their characters are from a context where they are exceptions - they are not from setting with lots of monster-men and invisible people.
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You might make that case if you're focusing only on the movie. But the final issue of the first LoeG comic series features Professor Moriarty firebombing half of London aboard a flying metal castle, and the first issue of the second series takes place entirely on mars.

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Also, to those who disqualify people because they're dead at the end of their book, keep in mind the original league. Quatermain, Jekyll, Nemo, and Griffin were all dead at the end of their books. The same is true of Moriarity, and Dorian Grey from the movie version of the league.
 
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Warren Okuma said:
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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Pretty convincing argument that the villain needs a corporation in the 90s. Hadn't thought of that before, even though OCP and Weyland-Utani are amongst my favorite movie villains. Great idea! :D
 


green slime said:
Elvis and the 6 Million Dollar man are the best two suggestions I've heard so far.
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Someone mentioned that the 6 million dollar man wasn't gray enough. Well Quatermain, isn't either in the original books. The comic book starts him off as addicted to Opium from what someone mentioned. Something similar could have happened to Steve Austin.

Say he was replaced by newer Tech: (Jake 2.0 for example). I could see an Alcoholic Steve Austin forced to retire from the CIA (post OSS). Bu of course, nothing compares to the original, and he has to be brought back.

The american werewolf in London would work (as mentioned prevoiusly, a lot of the other Leaguers were killed in their own stories).


And Elvis: has to be Evil... :D that would be awesome.
 


JohnSnow said:
- Kolchak, the Night Stalker
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...especially seeing as how that was done as an "up-to-date" show as well as a 70's show.
JohnSnow said:
- Some the characters from the "Friday the 13th" tv series.
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I certainly was thinking of these characters, too. Sadly, the show was so god-awful I can't remember the characters' names.....nor do I think I want to...
JohnSnow said:
- Grandchildren of various pulp era (1930s-40s) characters such as:
* Rick and Evie O'Connell (The Mummy)
* Jake Cutter (Tales of the Gold Monkey)
- Thomas Veil (of Nowhere Man fame)
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Surely there's room in that list for Brisco County Jr, Jr, Jr.
 
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Forget James Bond. We have Campion already, so let's not rehash. But, since we're speaking of Campion (who servers as a mentor or administrator for our League)...

We have the ambiguous Number Six, former secret agent of the British government during the Cold War (and quite possibly Danger Man John Drake himself), running his own anti-establishment covert ops against the corrupt and fascist Royal Family.

Or you could grab nearly any of the original 60's Mission Impossible agents.

Emma Peel, while ill-fitting in a leather cat suit at her age, could still present a compelling argument to our League for coming to the aid of Crown & Country.
 



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