History YMMV / TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen

* HilariousInHindsight: The movie's EvilPlan involves a mysterious bad guy (who's eventually revealed to be [[spoiler: Professor Moriarty]]) trying to start WorldWarI a few decades early. ''[[Film/SherlockHolmes SherlockHolmes: A Game of Shadows]]'', which came out almost a decade later, was about the same thing.

* NightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Dorian Gray, as he turned into a hideous, rotting corpse when exposed to his own picture.]]

** ''{{Fantomas}}:'' who Mina describes as more inhuman and frightening than Dracula.

** The Black Dossier in general gives us brief, often sterile summaries of what sound like really fantastic adventures, but instead of giving us the dose of pure adventure they could've been, we're given {{George Lucas Throwback}}s to various novels and literary styles. The emphasis is skewed annoyingly to style over substance, and very dull style at that.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Shane West (Sawyer) currently plays Michael in ''Series/{{Nikita}}''.

* The Antichrist is definitely this...look at the first thing he was doing in the story.

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Dorian Gray, as he turned into a hideous, rotting corpse when exposed to his own picture.]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: [[spoiler: Dorian Gray, as he turned into a hideous, rotting corpse when exposed to his own picture.]]

*** On that note, Dracula himself. Apparantly bad enough to make Mina feel fine about Hyde.

** ''Fantomas:'' who Mina describes as more inhuman and frightening than Dracula.

** ''[[FuManchu The "Chinese Doctor]]"'': who makes Quatermain weak-kneed with just a look, as he glimpses him calmly torturing a man.

** ''The "Chinese Doctor"'': who makes Quatermain weak-kneed with just a look, as he glimpses him calmly torturing a man.

** ''"[[JamesBond Jimmy'']]" is a serial rapist and a sexual sadist [[spoiler:and also a [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder backstabbing]] double-agent]].

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Skinner takes advantage of his invisibility to sneak up on the League and pinch Mina's butt. Once she realizes who did it and where he's standing, she slaps his unseen face.
--> '''Skinner:''' Ooooh...''Mina''.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: we never get to see the full exploits of the Second League of the Extraordinary Gentlemen, and their very much indeed awesome sounding encounter with Les Hommes Mysterieux is only described in text on the Black Dossier. Also sideway referenced in text are the missions of Prospero's Men, The Third League of the Extraordinary Gentlemen, Der Zwielicht-helden and Les Hommes Mysterieux themselves.

* AuthorAppeal / PlayingToTheFetishes: Later volumes of the series seem to focus just as much, if not more, on the sex lives of the characters than their adventures. ''Black Dossier'' in particular devotes a lot of space to the unrecorded sexual exploits of Fanny Hill.

** We also see far too little of the League of the 1780s, featuring Lemuel Gulliver, the Scarlet Pimpernel and wife, the Scarecrow, Fanny Hill, and Natty Bumpo.

*** Come the that, Dracula himself. Apparantly bad enough to make Mina feel fine about Hyde.

* ValuesDissonance: The comic deliberately fakes this trope to create aesops such as "ORIENTALS, while BRILLIANT, are EVIL".

* AdaptationDecay: TheMovie. Also the ArtisticLiscense of JamesBond being a serial rapist qualifies.