History Film / TheLeagueofExtraordinaryGentlemen

** Or, you know, when he drops the "You killed Huckleberry Finn" line.

* EnemyRisingBehind: Mina during her fight with Dorian.

* [[{{GroinAttack/Film}} Groin Attack]]: Mina to Dorian during their fight.

* [[GroinAttack/Film Groin Attack]]: Mina to Dorian during their fight.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Roger Moore was offered a cameo as Campion Bond, a part that was ultimately a cut from the script, and would've been the first time two actors to have played James Bond shared the screen.

In 2003, Fox Studios released a film version of the graphic novel...er, sort of. It had the same basic premise and about half of the same characters, but was otherwise rather a departure from Moore's original. Joining the League in the film are Dorian Gray (as in ''[[ThePictureOfDorianGray The Picture of]]'') and TomSawyer, who is all grown up and a member of the American Secret Service. Due to the film character of the invisible man not being public domain, the screenwriters invented Rodney Skinner, who stole the invisibility formula and turned himself transparent in order to become a criminal mastermind. Quatermain is recruited out of retirement in Africa, where he relocated after the death of his son, to lead the current generation of the League; Mina, Jekyll, Nemo, Skinner and Gray are likewise recruited, while Sawyer joins voluntarily. Jekyll and Hyde are a little different; Jekyll gets more screentime than Hyde and he has to ingest a secret formula to release the monster. Oh, and Mina is now a widowed vampire instead of a divorced BadassNormal. The League believes themselves to be in a race against time to stop terrorists from destroying a peace conference, but the reality is a little different.

!!In addition to many of the above, the film version includes examples of:

* ChuckCunninghamSyndrome: Campion Bond does not appear or even get mentioned.

* GoodGunsBadGuns: You know [[spoiler:Grey]] is a rotter when he shoots Ishmael...using a Luger! Also the villains' automatic rifles resemble SteamPunk [=AK47s=] while those carried by Nemo's men look like Sten guns.

* [[HeyItsThatGuy Hey, It's That Guy!]]: SeanConnery is acting as a ParentalSubstitute to [[AWalkToRemember Landon Carter]], as they join forces with [[TheCuriousCaseOfBenjaminButton Thomas Button]], [[LaFemmeNikita Nikita]], [[QueenOfTheDamned Lestat de Lioncourt]], [[ThePillarsOfTheEarth King Stephen]], and [[{{Bollywood}} Naseeruddin Shah]]. Oh, and the guy who hired them is [[VanHelsing Count Dracula]].

-->'''Moriarty:''' "Now some of you will pause to ask; why I'm letting you know all this? What fool reveals his strategem before the game is over? [[spoiler:It is over -- for you. Because my voice isn't the only sound being made. While I've rambled on, a secondary layer of inaudible sound higher than humans can heard -- audible only to dogs, lower animals -- is being heard by crystal sensors dotted around your vessel."]]
-->[[spoiler:'''Grey:''' "Sensors attached to bombs. Bomb voyage!"]]

* TakeTheWheel: While the protagonists are driving in Nemo's car in Venice, Sawyer does this to Quartermaine--who promptly tells Sawyer he has no idea how to drive the bloody car.

* TakeTheWheel: While the protagonists are driving in Nemo's car in Venice, Sawyer and Quartermaine do this.

* AFatherToHisMen: Nemo and his crew.

---> '''Quatermain:''' The Fantom? Very operatic.

* QuicklyDemotedWoman: Mina's position as leader of the League in the comics is handed off to Quatermain instead. A possible subversion, however; she becomes the most powerful member of the cast, an immortal elder vampire.
** "Elder" may be something of a misnomer because Mina ''should'' be one of the more recently empowered characters (''Dracula'' being contemporaneously set and published in 1897; the movie takes place in 1899). Her use of her powers and general [[ImmortalityImmorality complete disregard]] for helpless enemy [[WhatMeasureIsAMook mooks]] don't fit anyone who still identifies as human, though.

* OffstageVillainy: Nemo and Hyde. The movie doesn't have KickTheDog moments for either of them like the comics. They come across as relatively decent people with no qualms about killing their enemies and, in the case of Hyde, a lust for violence that still doesn't stop him from doing the right thing - in fact, he's the one suggesting plans to save everyone - despite characters often talking about how detestable they are.
** Mina, as essentially Countess Dracula, also can be presumed to qualify.

** Mina also can be presumed to qualify. For being the one member of the cast who can kill arbitrarily, she doesn't seem very restrained about it.

* QuicklyDemotedWoman: Mina's position as leader of the League in the comics is handed off to Quatermain instead.

** Which makes no sense; Tom Sawyer was a twelve-year old in the pre-civil-war era. If anything, he should be ''older'' than Quatermain.

** Sean Connery's line "All the time in the world." May not be intentional, as he wasn't actually in OHMSS.

* SequelHook: The MeaningfulFuneral ends with [[spoiler:a native wiseman doing...something that makes the ground shake, lighting crash across the sky, and the clouds to turn dark. This was probably meant to be Quatermain coming back from the dead.]]

* FinalSpeech: Ishmael manages to live long enough after being shot to reveal [[spoiler:Dorian]] as the traitor.* FunPersonified: Skinner gives the impression of being this.

* CanonForeigner: Skinner is the only member of the League who is not directly imported from a Victorian-era novel.

* FinalSpeech: Ishmael manages to live long enough after being shot to reveal [[spoiler:Dorian]] as the traitor.
* FridgeLogic: Possibly the most glaring example is the massive ''Nautilus'' being able to cruise down a canal in Venice.
** Don't forget the [[WallBanger car chase in Venice]].
** Or the fight scene in a cemetery in Venice--it's been illegal to bury corpses in the city since 1807 and all the corpses are buried off shore on San Michele.
*** Possibly {{Justified}} (or at least HandWaved), since WordOfGod says the movie takes place in an alternate reality.
** How about this one? Right after Mina is revealed to be a vampire, she ''fixes her appearance using a compact mirror''.
*** OurVampiresAreDifferent. She's not shown not-appearing in any other reflective surface, after all.
** If Dorian's portrait will age him to death just by looking at it, ''why'' is there a blank space for it in his home? Only possible explanation is if the painting doesn't work its magic while hanging (which may be justified in the dustiness surrounding the empty space), but even then it's a ''major'' WallBanger.
*** [[IncrediblyLamePun A Wall Hanger]] WallBanger, no less.
*** Unless the picture was kept veiled.
* FunPersonified: Skinner gives the impression of being this.

* TooDumbToLive: In light of the above, Sawyer, who is a very normal human, has an oddly suicidal fascination with Mina. Even after having a ringside seat for multiple people getting splattered all over her.
** Well a [[EvilIsSexy dark attraction]] to vampires is hardly unusual...

* WallBanger: As ridiculous as the movie is, it's still fun and has its fans. The novelization (of a film based on a comic book) may qualify for this, however. The ending [[spoiler:not only implies that Sawyer and Mina end up together, but reveals that Skinner has been "on Her Majesty's Secret Service" the entire time]].

-->'''Moriarty:''' "Now some of you will pause to ask; why I'm letting you know all this? What fool reveals his strategem before the game is over? [[spoiler:It is over -- for you. Because my voice isn't the only sound being made. While I've rambled on, a secondary layer of inaudible sound higher than humans can heard, audible only to dogs, lower animals, is being heard by crystal sensors dotted around your vessel."]]

* GoodGunsBadGuns: You know [[spoiler:Grey]] is a rotter when he shoots Ishmael...using a Luger! Also the villains' automatic rifles resemble SteamPunk AK47s while those carried by Nemo's men look like Sten guns.

-->'''Moriarty:''' "Now some of you will pause to ask; why I'm letting you know all this? What fool reveals his strategem before the game is over? It is over -- for you. [[spoiler:Because my voice isn't the only sound being made. While I've rambled on, a secondary layer of inaudible sound higher than humans can heard, audible only to dogs, lower animals, is being heard by crystal sensors dotted around your vessel."]]