History Characters / TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen

* ExpyCoexistence: [[Literature/GulliverOfMars Gulliver]] is generally thought to be the inspiration for [[Literature/JohnCarterOfMars John Carter]]. The two appear together here.

* OutsideOfContextProblem: Thanks to the purges of King James, modern Britain often lacked the knowledge and resources to deal with supernatural or otherdimensional threats, forcing them to rely on extraordinary individuals such as the various Leagues.

* FaceHeelTurn: From the point of view of Nemo, [[spoiler:their casual acceptance of civilian casualties when they used biological weapons against the Martians]] was this. Later, the rest of the team, who didn't have any inkling about that plan, cut off all ties with MI5 after its leader, Harry Lime, orchestrated Big Brother's coup.

* OmniscientCouncilOfVagueness: We don't know who runs MI5, but the various Ms tend to have their own plans and schemes. For some reason, 'M' is also usually [[spoiler:a criminal, like Moriarty and Harry Lime]].

Daughter of an industrialist and an MI5 agent, [[spoiler:ultimately becoming M in the 2000s.]]

* SkewedPriorities: At the beginning of the last issue of ''The Tempest'', she is quite delighted to learn that the MI5 building has been destroyed, as it means the end of "sixties espionage" ... [[spoiler:right as they're about to leave Earth to escape the apocalypse.]]

** [[DoubleSubversion However,]] [[spoiler:the teaser for Volume 4 shows him becoming the new "M" of MI5 who is implicitly in charge of hunting down Orlando, Mina and Emma (the previous M).]] [[OverlyLongGag However]], [[spoiler:Night finally kills him in a particularly embarrassing way by the end of that volume]].
* LegacyCharacter: He's such an institution that MI5 use his name and identity for different agents (all the Bond actors from Creator/SeanConnery to Creator/DanielCraig).

* VillainWithGoodPublicity: [[spoiler:He's a traitor to England and a rapist but is also considered a honored establishment figure, so MI5 keeps younger stand-ins like [[Creator/RogerMoore J3]] and [[Creator/DanielCraig J6]] to do field work, while the original is tended to by a buxom blonde nurse.]]

* NeverSuicide: For helping Emma, all three are interrogated and tortured by MI5 and later made to look like

* ArcWelding: Her two adventures and Snark Island from ''Literature/TheHuntingOfTheSnark'' are combined into unsettling inter-dimensional events that are investigated by MI5. There's little they can do about it, as whatever dimension "Wonderland" is part of is very difficult to reach and any hapless travellers are pretty much on their own.

The infamous Ripper of Whitecastle, who returns from his exile in 1910 to resume his grissly work as London prepares for the corronation of King George V. [[spoiler:Jack The Ripper is in reality working-class anti-hero Mack The Knife, and a namesake descendant of highwayman Jack Macheath.]]