Make your own LXG

[Temple Fugate]

I've had this thread idea for a while and havent posted it due to my own laziness.

Making you own League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

The concept is simple, take your favorite characters from classic literature and combine them into a team. Use whoever you want.




MY LXG

1. Beowulf from the the epic poem Beowulf

Beowulf is the legendary King of the Geats who saved the danes from the Monster Grendel and Grendel's mother. He also saved his people from a Dragon who was destroying his lands for the loss of a cup that was stolen from his hoard.

Beowulf is basically the muscleman/aquaman of this team

2. Oddyseus form the epic poem The Oddysey

Oddyseus is the King of Ithaca who, after fighting in the battle at Troy, goes through perilous adventures on his way home to his wife and son. He has fought or outsmarted several creatures and gods, such as Polyphemus the cyclops, or the sea monsters scylla and charybdis.

Oddyseus would make a marvelous tactician.

3. Perseus from I have no idea where

All I know of Perseus is that he saves his girlfriend, Andromeda, from the Kraken by way the boots of Mercury which allowed him flight and a mystic sword. Just as well he outsmarted the gorgon sisters and killed Medusa. Hes a grade-a badass.

4. Achilles of Greece

Achilles is a legendary Warrior who was bathed in a mystical river by his mother. These waters made him invincible in all but his heel which wasnt dipped in the water because thats where his mother held him whilst he was being dunked like an oreo. Achilles has never lost a fight and most likely never will.




This teams enemy:

Satan from the epic poem Paradise Lost

Satan is the leader of the third of heaven that was thrown out of Heaven during a great war for power. Satan and his first liutenant Beezelbub had used a great weapon in heaven that was decimating God's forces. God then pulled back his forces and sent only his son Jesus to combat Satan's armies. Jesus picked up a mountain and crushed Satan's weapons and threw him and his armies down to Hell, the land of black flame. Satan is a charismatic, loyal, and determined leader who has sworn to hurt God in any way possible. He achieves this through hurting God's most loved creation, man. Beowulf, Achilles, Oddyseus, and Perseus are what stands in Satan's way.

 

[CharmCityComics]

Thor
Jack Bauer
Da Vinci
Medusa
Sydney Bristow

 

[hippie_hunter]

Aquaman
Robocop
the Green Ranger
Power Girl drawn by Amanda Conner
Blas Villalonga
Chuck Norris as Walker, Texas Ranger

 

[Manic]

take your favorite characters from classic literature

Thor
Jack Bauer
Da Vinci
Medusa
Sydney Bristow

Aquaman
Robocop
the Green Ranger
Power Girl drawn by Amanda Conner
Blas Villalonga
Chuck Norris as Walker, Texas Ranger

Wow.

 

[Jochimus]

Stuck to characters from 1890s, 1900s and 1910s literature, to provide a nice 20-year cushion to work with:

* Prof. George Edward Challenger - the self-proclaimed leader of the group. A brilliant, determined scientific researcher and explorer, a veritable MacGyver. Also an arrogant, self-righteous jerk. (Arthur Conan Doyle, "The Lost World" and subsequent books)

* Dorothy Gale - Socially withdrawn, having spent much of her teenage years in a mental hospital after a tornado leveled her family's Kansas farm. Has the telepathic ability to manipulate time and space, able to summon creatures from an alternate dimension known as Oz. (L. Frank Baum, "The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz" and subsequent books)

* Mowgli - raised by wolves in the Indian Jungle. Doesn't think too highly of the civilized world and is constantly butting heads with Challenger. (Rudyard Kipling, "The Jungle Book")

* White Fang - a clever, relentless wolf-dog, incredibly intuitive and also incredibly deadly. (Jack London, "White Fang")

* George Wells - A somewhat-nebbishy inventor, constantly berated by Challenger for his 'supposed' scientific prowess, yet Wells' inventions almost always bail their butts out of a jam even though Challenger doesn't care to admit it. Somewhat haunted by his experiences as a former time-traveller, specifically over the loss of a woman he met in the future. (H.G. Wells, "The Time Machine" - the name "George Wells" deriving from several adaptations of the story in which the unnamed Time Traveller is portrayed as Wells himself)

* Gregor Samsa - traveling salesman and veritable BS artist who transforms into an insect-thing when the moon is nigh. His smart-aleck demeanor even as a human bug belies the personal trauma of having been abandoned and left for dead by his loved ones. (Franz Kafka, "The Metamorphosis" with a touch of Peter Parker and Seth Brundle mixed in)

* Erik - an otherwise-nameless Frenchman, abandoned as an infant due to his hideous deformity, adopted by Gypsies, Erik is not only a wicked musician but also a surprisingly brilliant architect and engineer, able to turn any space into living and working quarters, something which works to the group's advantage in their globe-trotting. (Gaston Leroux, "The Phantom Of The Opera")

I was tempted to throw in Tarzan and even reach back a bit for Frankenstein's Monster (seeing as the latter would have been considered immortal), but every comic publisher's tackled the Monster and Tarzan's already teamed up with Superman and Batman within the last decade or so (and plus Mowgli already gives me a 'jungle' character).

 

[fifthfiend]

I've had this thread idea for a while and havent posted it due to my own laziness.

Making you own League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

The concept is simple, take your favorite characters from classic literature and combine them into a team. Use whoever you want.




MY LXG

1. Beowulf from the the epic poem Beowulf

Beowulf is the legendary King of the Geats who saved the danes from the Monster Grendel and Grendel's mother. He also saved his people from a Dragon who was destroying his lands for the loss of a cup that was stolen from his hoard.

Beowulf is basically the muscleman/aquaman of this team

2. Oddyseus form the epic poem The Oddysey

Oddyseus is the King of Ithaca who, after fighting in the battle at Troy, goes through perilous adventures on his way home to his wife and son. He has fought or outsmarted several creatures and gods, such as Polyphemus the cyclops, or the sea monsters scylla and charybdis.

Oddyseus would make a marvelous tactician.

3. Perseus from I have no idea where

All I know of Perseus is that he saves his girlfriend, Andromeda, from the Kraken by way the boots of Mercury which allowed him flight and a mystic sword. Just as well he outsmarted the gorgon sisters and killed Medusa. Hes a grade-a badass.

4. Achilles of Greece

Achilles is a legendary Warrior who was bathed in a mystical river by his mother. These waters made him invincible in all but his heel which wasnt dipped in the water because thats where his mother held him whilst he was being dunked like an oreo. Achilles has never lost a fight and most likely never will.

Achilles could be the Captain America, Odysseus would be Nick Fury.

 

[Sawyer]

This one I just threw together. With some extra time, I could probably come up with a better team. Most of them are from books, but a few are from film to fill in gaps.

1970s Horror LXG:
Ben Mears (Salem's Lot)
George Lutz (The Amityville Horror)
Samuel Loomis (Halloween)
Dr. and Mrs. Collingwood (The Last House on the Left)

Enemy: Pazuzu (The Excorcist) and Damien Thorne (The Omen)

 

[RamsesIII]

Snowball- Leader of the group. Kicked out of his motherland, Snowball wants revenge! He's an anthropomorphic pig that fought against his human oppressor and took over the farm. But he was unfortunately forced to flee by Napoleon, a corrupt revolutionary. He wants to take down the tyrrany that is Napoleon and spread the precepts of Animalism throughout the world. However, in order to accomplish his goals, he has to learn to work with- and even lead- humans *que dramatic music* He in particular has problems with Santiago, a guy who kills animals to live. He's a lot like Professor Xavier, because he's so idealistic. (George Orwell's Animal Farm)

Santiago- A really old fisherman, he took down a bunch of fish really late one night- you need endurance? He's your man. He's almost like the team's Anti-Aquaman, because he kills fish. (Ernest Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea)

The Spider- Pulp fiction is classic. But yeah, The Spider adds a lot of panache to the team, y'know? He can take down a bunch of men, play the violin like a madman, and still have time for his love- Nita Van Sloan. (RTM Scott's The Spider Strikes)

Sal Paradise- A fictional fill-in for Jack Kerouac. He's a hedonistic, insane writer with a penchant for road trips, booz, and women. There's obviously a little tension with Santiago. He's almost like the team's Fanny Hill, in that he's not very useful as a fighter, but he adds that fun-loving, sinful dynamic to the team. (Jack Kerouac's On the Road)

Dean Moriarty- If you're gonna have Sal, you have to have Dean. Dean is a fictional fill-in for Neal Cassady. He's basically the same as Sal, except that he's not much of an author. (Jack Kerouac's On the Road)

As a side note, just because Sal and Dean are on the team, does not mean any writer can try imitating the style of the Beat Generation. Moore tried and failed in LOEG: Black Dossier.

This team's archenemy?
Walker, Texas Ranger (I kid, I kid)

 

[Temple Fugate]

walker texas ranger being on a team with anyone but himself and his action jeans is an insult to the character.

 

[fifthfiend]

My team is now Walker Texas Ranger on a team with a half dozen 12 year olds all of which are tougher, more competent, and a million times more interesting than him.

 

[The BatDude]

My League would be Don Quixote de la Mancha and Sancho Panza decided to start up a League with Quixote acting as the leader of the group.
The Team:
Ali Baba - uses his newly found fortune to invest in incredible weaponry. He'll be the Captain Nemo of the group.
The Ghost of Akaky Akakievich Bashmachkin from Nikolai Gogol's The Overcoat
Gregor Samsa from Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis
Alice from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - Alice is going to be like Mina Harker but with the power of precognitive dreaming.
Bilbo Baggins from J. R. R. Tolkien's The Hobbit - needed a Hobbit in the team.
As for the villains, Dracula and Rumpelstiltskin can invade London with an army of vampire zombies like the ones from I Am Legend. Rumpelstiltskin can go around eating all the poor Irish kids like in A Modest Proposal. Other villains include Moby Dick, Gargantua and Pantagruel, the unnamed narrator from Notes from the Underground and others

My acid version of the League
Raoul Duke - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Sal Paradise - On the Road
Horselover Fat - VALIS
Sissy Hankshaw - Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
The story is Raoul, Sal and Horselover go in a cross country trip to discover the secrets of VALIS and on the way pick up Sissy (a hitchhiker with enormous thumbs) she joins them in their adventure to uncover VALIS. On their adventure they meet William Lee from Naked Lunch, Hagbard Celine from the Illuminatus! Trilogy, the fictional version Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and of course the acid king himself... Timothy Leary.
Turn on, tune in, drop out

 

[Manic]

My team is now Walker Texas Ranger on a team with a half dozen 12 year olds all of which are tougher, more competent, and a million times more interesting than him.

Ugh, that's a terrible team.




Get rid of Walker.

 

[hippie_hunter]

Wow.

Are you trying to say that Jack Bower and the Green Ranger aren't classic literature

 

[bored]

Dr McNinja
Zeke, the living X-Box360
Hannelore Ellicot Chatham
Axe Cop

 

[bored]

Bumping this thread because of this: http://drmcninja.com/comics/2010-07-26-19p1.jpg

 

[gn6196]

Mother Teresa
Martin Luthor King Jr
Don Rickles
Sting
Bono
Angelina Jollie

 

[Kevin Roegele]

Time's Champions

Leader: Winston Churchill
Field leader: King Arthur
Robin Hood
The Big Bad Wolf
The Three Musketeers
Doc Holiday

 

[The Question]

Not classics of literature in the conventional sense, but:

Tom Strong
V
Promethia
Doctor Manhattan
Marvel Man
Swamp Thing
Supreme

Not sure who they'd fight, though.

 

[MisterY1020]

LXG Alternate Dimension Unit

Doctor Who(1st)
Man Thing and Howard T Duck
CPS Protector Kiera Cameron
Rumplestiltskin
Sora

Villain(s)
Marvel Zombies(ones that consume the Silver Surfer
and inherited his cosmic powers)
and the Heartless

 

[Airwings]

A "misc comic book" team:

Hellboy
Abe Sapien
Popeye
Tintin
Lucky Luke
Zorro
Tarzan

Tom Sawyer was a hero in the film adaption (2003), so I've decided to make Huckleberry Finn to be a bad guy here. In fact, I want the comic heroes to fight the villains from classic litterature:

Huck Finn (spy who knows everything about the wilderness)
Artful Dodger (urban spy)
Quasimodo (the muscles)
Fagin (leader, organizer)
Ebenezer Scrooge (investor, main boss)
The Time Traveller (high tech guy, inventor)
Frankenstein (mad scientist)

Or we could just have a wild west set of real and fictional characters to be either villains and heroes, not having anything to do with the first suggestion:
Trinity
Buffalo Bill
Sitting Bull
Billy The Kid
Calamity Jane
Jesse James
Dalton Brothers
etc etc etc

 

[sideburnking]

When my mother and I first saw the 'LXG' movie (Don't shoot me, but we both actually LIKED it), we came up with our own literary League. I think here's who we included in it (Note: There is nothing in common with them, they are from different genres and time periods, we just thought they'd go together well):
Aragorn from 'Lord of the Rings.'

Phileas Fogg from 'Around the World in 80 Days.'

D'Artagnan from 'The 3 Musketeers.'

Hermione Granger from the 'Harry Potter' series.

Tarzan.

As for a villain for them to fight, perhaps Randall Flagg, a powerful demon who's a semi- recurring villain in Stephen King's novels.