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

[Darth Shoju]

All of your recommendations are good, but this one wins -- especially because I just re-read my Preacher comics from start to finish.

Heh how can you *not* like a 90 year-old, alcoholic, heroin-addicted, semi-eyeless Irish Vampire with shaky morals?

 

[Nellisir]

Insane-But-Maybe-Useful Type: Tyler Durden or Leonard Shelby

I haven't seen either movie, but are they really "extraordinary"? Or just crazy?

I'm not familiar with everything LoXG, but I did read some. My sensibility is that the League is "grounded" on "our" Earth; ie no Yoda, no Discworld, no BSG, no Firefly. Also (and these are just my tastes) no superheros (Batman, Spiderman, Wolverine, etc), though LoXG members should be exemplary in some way.

That said, here's my revised list:
Charlene McGee, Firestarter
Jason Bourne, The Bourne Identity
Susie Salmon, The Lovely Bones (yes, I'm sticking with her)
Mina Murry, Dracula
Willow Rosenberg, Buffy
Indiana Jones, Indiana Jones
John McClain, Die Hard
McGyver, McGyver

Alternates:
"Doc" Brown
Q
Proinsias Cassidy
Richard Rich (or the money guy behind Jurassic Park)
Austin James, Probe http://www.tv.com/probe/show/1962/summary.html

Villains:
Hannibal Lector
Nazis!
US Goverment

If I had to cut one, I'd probably pick McGyver. He's already had his own tv show.
Buffy is too "superhero" for my tastes; Sarah Connor isn't extraordinary; the psycho roles is nicely filled by Anthony Hop-- I mean, Hannibal Lector; Michael Knight isn't extraordinary (though KITT might be).

Streethawk was the motorcycle; I think the helicopter was Blue Thunder (also a movie).

 

[Nyeshet]

Charlie McGee (Firestarter) is an interesting and highly plausible addition, although I cannot see her as an analogue to any of the Extraordinary Gentlemen in the movie or comics. She'd be a nice original character add-on.

McGyver is also interesting, although I am not quite certain as to his 'fit' in the group, except as a possible addition to / replacement of Dr Brown or M.

 

[Darth Shoju]

A couple other suggestions: Seth Gecko (From Dusk Till Dawn) as the resident tough guy and Detective Elisa Maza as the sleuth/hard-boiled detective.

 

[Tarek]

Blue Thunder and Airwolf were both helicopters. Blue Thunder was a movie, while Airwolf was a TV series.

The premise of Airwolf was that this was a helicoptor that could somehow go supersonic...

 

[Nellisir]

Blue Thunder and Airwolf were both helicopters. Blue Thunder was a movie, while Airwolf was a TV series.

Blue Thunder was spun off into a tv series in 1984. It lasted 11 episodes.
(We didn't have cable, and only got ABC. I never saw Airwolf.)

 

[Nellisir]

D'oh. Iconic '80s tough guy.

John T. Rambo, First Blood

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

That guy from a show called "The Wizard" would be cool. He was an inventor, don't remember much else about the show.

The Wizard guy. He was a genius at inventions and made mostly high tech toys but also gizmos for the gov't.

How about Axel Foley instead of Ferris Bueller? Not that Ferris is a bad choice either.

There's also one of the ninjas (Lee Van Cleef) from the tv show The Master and wasn't Fox's Werewolf (no relation to WoD) show back in the 80's? There's a supernatural critter for the team.

One of Jackie Chan's characters like from the Police Story series or even the Indiana Jones-ish one from Armor of God. It's highly tempting to put the Three Brothers (Jackie, Sammo Hung and Yuen Biao) together.

Hrm. It's equally tempting to do a HK LXG with the Three Brothers, Tequila (from Hard Boiled), Black Mask or better yet a very old Wong Fei Hong (both by Jet Li), Joey Wong's character in A Chinese Ghost Story, um...

 

[Kafkonia]

Hrm. It's equally tempting to do a HK LXG with the Three Brothers, Tequila (from Hard Boiled), Black Mask or better yet a very old Wong Fei Hong (both by Jet Li), Joey Wong's character in A Chinese Ghost Story, um...

Don't forget the Heroic Trio -- Maggie Cheung, Michelle Yeoh, and Anita Mui! And since there were LXG analogues from other countries in the original, there's nothing wrong with having a Hong Kong bunch.

And we've all forgotten Rocky Balboa -- or at the very least Dolph Lundgren's cyborg Russian character as a villain.

The original LXG were all either past their prime (Quatermain) or had good reason to fade from sight, so if you're setting a similar group in the early 90s you should focus on people who peaked in the mid-to-late 80s or before. Also, while the original series draws on literature, the majority of characters with similar iconic status for this time period will be film and tv figures.

 

[lobsterGun]

If you're looking for 80s characters trying to lie low you might consider Veronica Quaife. She was Geena Davis' character in the 1986 version of "The Fly" She...mingled... DNA with the Brendel-Fly and may have picked up some "fly" powers.

The original LXG were all either past their prime (Quatermain) or had good reason to fade from sight, so if you're setting a similar group in the early 90s you should focus on people who peaked in the mid-to-late 80s or before. Also, while the original series draws on literature, the majority of characters with similar iconic status for this time period will be film and tv figures.