Who's got the right stuff for League of Extraordinary Gentlemen 1990s?
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coriolis
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Add another vote for the 6 Million Dollar Man. Make it so that he can't upgrade his bionic parts easily (maybe they're bonded to his DNA or something similar) and that they're becoming increasingly unreliable...
And a suggestion that hasn't been made yet: The Equalizer.
For British flavor: a now retired but still scheming Francis Urquhart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Urquhart) from the House of Cards series.
And a suggestion that hasn't been made yet: The Equalizer.
For British flavor: a now retired but still scheming Francis Urquhart (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Urquhart) from the House of Cards series.
Nellisir
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I just skimmed through Series I & II, and am reading the gazetteer in the back. Suffice to say, if that is accurate, NOTHING is too far-fetched. The conceit isn't that quasi-normal "earth" characters are OK; it's that pretty much -all- fiction is real. Elric the Melnibonean as part of a pre-Bronze Age civilization in France establishes that. And the castles of Sleeping Beauty, Puss n' Boots, and Bluebeard in northern France. And Alice in Wonderland, Prospero, and "Christian", the Pilgrim from "Pilgrim's Progress" (interrupted mid-travel, it seemed).
The Gazetteer actually reads like (and almost certainly must be) an abbreviated, travelogue version of the Dictionary of Imaginary Places .
The Gazetteer actually reads like (and almost certainly must be) an abbreviated, travelogue version of the Dictionary of Imaginary Places .
Blood Jester
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On the Elvis front, might I suggest the Elvis from Bubba HoTep?
Now that is an Elvis meant to fight things in the shadows.
Now that is an Elvis meant to fight things in the shadows.
Zaruthustran
The tingling means it’s working!
Gotta go with big names, known in pop culture, but not (technically) superheroes. No Spidermen or other costumed types.
So:
Lestat (at the time of Interview with the Vampire, so he's not a god)
Lara Croft
Ron or Hermione
John McClane
Ash (hardly anyone knows his name, but everyone knows "that guy from Evil Dead")
Carl Sagan
The Crocodile Hunter
Chuck Norris
If you can dip into the 80s a bit, I'd add Macguyver and Drs. Egon Spengler and Henry "Indiana" Jones to the list.
EDIT: and the 6 million dollar man. Perfect choice!
So:
Lestat (at the time of Interview with the Vampire, so he's not a god)
Lara Croft
Ron or Hermione
John McClane
Ash (hardly anyone knows his name, but everyone knows "that guy from Evil Dead")
Carl Sagan
The Crocodile Hunter
Chuck Norris
If you can dip into the 80s a bit, I'd add Macguyver and Drs. Egon Spengler and Henry "Indiana" Jones to the list.
EDIT: and the 6 million dollar man. Perfect choice!
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pawsplay
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Wraith Form said:
... Or is she?
I think Carrie is in.
Michael Knight and KITT as the Quartemain
Carrie
Charlene
Steve Austin, older and meaner with a dirty conscience
the American Werewolf (from London), or in LXG tradition, one of his victims
Hannibal Lecter
either the Fly, his son, or Bartok
Contrarian
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All the TV and movie characters bother me. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is a tribute to the literature of a given era. I would stick to characters from print.
That said, Jack Ryan could always take the "government liason" role. After that, I'd go after characters from modern pulps and adventure series, like Remo Williams or Dirk Pitt, but those are bad examples because they're really 1970s characters.
Damn, who are the adventure novel heroes of the 1990s, anyway?
That said, Jack Ryan could always take the "government liason" role. After that, I'd go after characters from modern pulps and adventure series, like Remo Williams or Dirk Pitt, but those are bad examples because they're really 1970s characters.
Damn, who are the adventure novel heroes of the 1990s, anyway?
Nuclear Platypus
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Cheesy yes but what if the $6 Million Man Steve Austin had another accident and they rebuilt him (including plastic surgery) to switch him out with the another Steve Austin, recent recepient of a broken neck from a botched piledriver? At least that's how the official WWF / WWE records go. Maybe ol' JR's reference to Stone Cold as a bionic redneck was quite accurate.
90's characters?
Hellboy and / or Harry D'Amour (from various Clive Barker books) for the magic muscle tho Hellboy's got the advantage there.
At least one of the Brothers Majere or someone else from Dragonlance
Johnny Smith from The Dead Zone unless someone can think of a better Stephen King character
90's characters?
Hellboy and / or Harry D'Amour (from various Clive Barker books) for the magic muscle tho Hellboy's got the advantage there.
At least one of the Brothers Majere or someone else from Dragonlance
Johnny Smith from The Dead Zone unless someone can think of a better Stephen King character
Wraith Form
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Contrarian said:
Nuclear Platypus said:
I think Contrarian is trying to say "literature" novel here, as a few of us have been trying to encourage everyone to consider in this thread.
Sadly, literature from the 80's - 90's hasn't had the chance to stand the test of time that lit from 1890 has....so we don't know who the iconic pre-millennial characters are.
Based solely on the fact that we're not able to remember any iconic lit characters from that time, I suspect there are none....
Stephen King characters are absolutely in the running. Who else wrote memorable novels in the 80's and 90's?
(And, breaking my own suggestion, Frank Black would be another cool character to include in the 90's League.
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