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Present Era League of Extraordinary Gentleman

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My suggestions:

John Doe (from "John Doe")- Apart from the details of his own past, "John Doe", as he calls himself, seems to have access to the sum total of all publicly available human knowledge.

Darrien Fawkes (from the 90s TV Series "The Invisible Man")- The new Invisible Man.

Chuck Norris - Um, hello? Frikkin' Chuck Norris. Nuff said.

Jim Ellison (from "The Sentinel")- A U.S. Army Ranger who spent 18 months in the Peruvian jungle after his unit was killed. During this time, he developed hyperactive sense, and later discovered he was The Sentinel.

Chuck Bartowski (from "Chuck")- His mind contains The Intersect, a database of all top secret U.S. government information. Additionally, has been trained in I.T. and secret agent skills.

Johnny Smith (from "The Dead Zone")- Possesses amazing psychic powers which allow him to see into the lives of anyone he touches.

Michael Knight (from "Knight Rider")- Owner of the Knight Foundation, which provides him with a number of resources, including a variety of vehicles with artificial intelligences.

Suggest your own list, or suggest candidates to replace the ones on mine, and give me you arguments why yours are better. :)

(If this has been done before on this board, my apologies for being redundant.)
 
USS Triumphant, you've got enough there for two Leagues!

I had a bit of trouble coming up with a modern version of Mina Murray, but I think Helen Magnus could be a good, yet different, fit.

Darien Fawkes
Michael Knight
Jim Ellison
Angus MacGyver
Helen Magnus (Sanctuary)
 
Like Moore, I'm going to base this list on the characters' initial incarnations, so sadly, Johnny Smith and others are right out.

Dr. Helen Magnus (Sanctuary)
Bobby Singer (Supernatural)
Sarah Connor (I'm sure Moore would only bother with Terminator and T2, so we'll stick with her, cancer nowhere in sight)
Richard Alpert (Lost)
Sgt. Nicholas Angel (Hot Fuzz)
Mayor Mitchell Hundred (Ex Machina)
Michael Scofield (Prison Break)
Robert Hawkins (Jericho)
 
I would put Captain Robau, Batman (only with enough time to prepare), and Chuch Norris, but the world would destroy itself from their awesomeness.
 
Skywalker said:
Your inclusion of Darien Fawkes makes this list an automatic WIN! :techman:
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I'd have to agree. I so miss that show.

Chuck Norris can only be included on this list if you call him 'Walker: Texas Ranger" (I don't know why, but anything else just makes my brain dismiss everything else about the topic outright.)

I've thought about pulling together something like this for years, but more than likely, it would be a number of teams spanning the ages and therefore require lots of research.

I like where this list is heading though.


One thing I'll point out though is that, not unlike the B.P.R.D, a modern League of Extraordinary Gentlemen would more than likely have grown to accommodate multiple rosters for any particular field op.
 
Harry Dresden (The Dresden Files)
Darien Fawkes (The Invisible Man)
Mitchell Hundred (Ex Machina)
Connor MacLeod (Highlander)
Helen Magnus (Sanctuary)
Bigby Wolf (Fables)

There are a ton of different characters I thought of, but I settled on this one based on the variety of skillsets. A wizard/private investigator, an immortal weapons expert, a doctor/scientist and an expert on the supernatural (and another immortal, barring injury), a technopath, a werewolf (well, sort of) and a sheriff/soldier/spy, and a thief/con man who can become invisible.

The only type I couldn't think of was a Nemo-like genius. Any ideas? Preferably a woman, right now poor Helen's the only one I have. :p
 
I think the key here has to be pop fiction icons, not just people out of random comic books and tv shows that most people would never recognize(Helen Magnus, Mitchell Hundred). They also need to be set in our world in our time period or fairly recently. (Thusly, Batman doesn't qualify)

Assuming we're going with this new League being America based(since I don't know much fiction from elsewhere, I hope so) I propose:

Sarah Connor: Works well if we give her some terminator tech or something to make her more than just an ass-kicking waitress/mental patient. Perhaps rather than her, we could have "Uncle Bob" and John. . .

Connor MacLeod: Recognizable and has a mythos that works within our own world.

Michael Knight: Has the car and other gadgets, so he could be useful.

Jack Bauer/007/Jason Bourne: All of them would work, but you probably just want the one who would work best with the rest of the team, hard to say which one of them would be the best team player since none of them really are.

Lestat: Probably the most famous modern-fiction Vampire. Gives our team some more of the supernatural edge it needs.

I'd love to include Neo of The Matrix, but it is hard to make his story fit in with us being in the real world.

Harry Potter is a natural addition, now in his early 20s. Arguably the most famous literary character of the last 25 years. Potentially overpowered in comparison with the rest of the group though, and he is Brittish.

Mulder and Scully might fit as a way for all these characters to end up together. They don't have any distinctive abilities though which hurts their chances.

How about lingering myths like Bigfoot? Not necessarily a literary character but it would add an inhuman member to the team.

Now, we could always fudge the time line and have characters from the mid 20th century show up too, but that might make a more interesting group by themselves.

Honestly this is a tough call. The reason LoEG works is because only a few handfulls of memorable characters have remained in our collective pop culture memories from that era. These days there is so much material that far fewer characters, especially with extraordinary abilities, make that big of an impression on the masses.
 
I would like to point out that while many people had heard of Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde, the Invisible Man, and Captain Nemo; I'd wager that not nearly as many had heard of Mina Murray or Allan Quartermain.
 
Mina is a supporting character, but she is fairly key in the novel and similarly important characters from comparable fiction would be acceptable IMO. I honestly can't remember many of the supporting characters from The Picture of Dorian Gray or 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but I surely remember Wilhelmina Murray/Harker from Dracula.

Thought of another: Rambo.

It occurs to me that very few of these characters would really qualify as "gentlemen" though. Perhaps "The League of Extraordinary Badasses" would be more apt?
 
Aren't league of extraordinary Gentleman characters those out of literature?

I can think of a couple of examples (well one actually) of some of the background characters being from TV but that's it.

So that gives us em... er... Harry Potter, the kids out of the "his dark materials books", Jason Bourne (Alan Moore could really play up the headcase elements of the character...) em....er...
 
Personally, I was always fond of the idea of the "League of Extraordinarily Cheesy Gentlemen"--a collection of 1980s B movie heroes. Ash from Evil Dead, Roddy Piper from They Live, 3 or 4 of Kurt Russel's characters (Jack Burton is a must), maybe Peter Weller's Buckaroo Banzai, if Buckaroo wasn't already milking this kind of idea. I think characters like Rambo and Connor MacLeod would work better in an 80s league, myself
 
Restricting this solely to literature, as in the original, here's my picks:
Harry Potter
Detective Alex Cross
Lyra Belacqua
Jason Bourne
Ender
Norma Cenva
 
Venardhi said:
These days there is so much material that far fewer characters, especially with extraordinary abilities, make that big of an impression on the masses.
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Actually, that was almost the reverse of one of my criteria. Here's what I was going for:

1. Does the character have a power, or at least a schtick (Like Indy's whip)? If not, they're out.

2. Would that power overwhelm the rest of the team? If so, they're out.

3. Are they very popular already? If so, they're out. (I see the idea as being the use of good characters that interesting things can be done with, but not the ones that interesting things are already being done with.)

4. Is the character from a universe that contains large numbers of "lead characters"? If so, they're out. (The idea here is to exclude Marvel and DC characters and similar - these people are supposed to be extraordinary, and if they're from whole worlds of supers, that's lessened.)

And then, ideally, the character is one that people will go "oh, yeah, I remember that" with a little prodding, but otherwise they aren't thought of much except by a small, devoted fanbase. I broke that guideline, myself, with the Chucks. I'm thinking of switching out Chuck Bartowski for Harry Dresden. But I'm leaving Chuck Norris, for obvious reasons. ;)

JoeZhang said:
Aren't league of extraordinary Gentleman characters those out of literature?
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I see them more as being out of popular fiction. People read back then. Now, not so much.
FALCONX0N said:
Personally, I was always fond of the idea of the "League of Extraordinarily Cheesy Gentlemen"--a collection of 1980s B movie heroes. Ash from Evil Dead, Roddy Piper from They Live, 3 or 4 of Kurt Russel's characters (Jack Burton is a must), maybe Peter Weller's Buckaroo Banzai, if Buckaroo wasn't already milking this kind of idea. I think characters like Rambo and Connor MacLeod would work better in an 80s league, myself
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That's an awesome concept, but not quite what I was going for. Maybe they could be the 'B' Squad of the League - the main League goes for subtlety and tactics, and if that fails, the 'B' Squad just goes in and blows the crap out of everything. :techman:

Needs B.A. Baracus, though, and Dutch from Predator. :D
 
To respond to a couple of recent posts:

Turbo, Allan Quartermain may no longer be as well known as some of the other players but he is definitely an iconic literary figure.

JoeZhang, I think if we're going to play this game we would have to allow television characters because the only reason the original league had exclusively literary figures was because there was no other medium (aside from theatre perhaps) at the time.

Venhardi has the key criteria I think. The League needs to consist of iconic character who supposedly exist in our world, thus eliminating nearly all comic book supers.

I would also argue that Sarah Connor should not be allowed because the world of Judgment Day is different than our own and her character is tied exclusively to that world of the Rise of the Machines.

I would also suggest that people remember that each of the characters needs to have some special talent that makes them unique.

Lestat was a good choice. I think that Steve Austin or Jamie Summers should also be included. MacGyver, as somebody mentioned earlier, is also a definite choice. Harry Potter also works quite well, although I would suggest a supporting character from that series such as Ron, Hermione, or Neville as Harry is very powerful by the end of the series.

Dresden works, although I am not sure if he can be considered iconic.

This is a pretty fun idea. I think that someone should clarify the criteria then take nominations for a poll thread.
 
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