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Notes on Holidays

• Some countries don't associate Christmas with Santa Claus some associate it with a food cooking dwarf woman.
• The Dogpatch tradition of Sadie Hawkins day is a controversial holiday.
• Santa Claus (the shaman) hates rabbits...or just this one rabbit to be exact.
  • Oh, not just the one... he has a troubled history with the... being known as the Ice Cream Bunny.
  • There is, however, one rabbit whom he gets on well with.
  • He was also a toy-stealing pirate at one point, before reforming.
  • He also used to be an ape.
    • WAS an ape. Now he's a machine.
• The supernatural community like going out en masse on Halloween.
  • Alternatively, they prefer to stay in. Too much confusion over whether you're preying on some kid in a mask or a genuine evil spirit, apparently. If it can at all be avoided, they prefer to stay in and harass kids by handing out rocks.
• The animal welfare group PETA attempted to outlaw an old holiday started by Norse settlers called Weasel Stomping Day, but was ultimately unsuccessful.
• There are over a thousand or so holidays in the month of December, many of which are eerily similar to the Christian Holiday, Christmas
• Mall Santas are centuries-old cryptozoological wild men from Lapland, Finland that are best not to misbehave in front of.
• There used to be a festival known as "Bobunk", but sometime in the middle of the 20th century it fell out of favour and people stopped celebrating it. No-one knows why.
• Santa Claus is a Legacy Character and a name simultaneously used by various people who gifts children with presents around the winter solstice.
  • The mantle is usually given by the elves, specifically the Ancient Elf. Sometimes it's a formal ceremony, other times it's a quick recruitment of a selfless soul.
  • Other times, the Man on the Moon takes matters into his own hands and chooses Santas himself, sometimes with the aid of the Shining Family. Most of those who are chosen by him also double as warriors that defend children in various realms, including Narnia.
  • Other other times, it's through Passing the Torch. Sometimes it's between family members, other times it's complete strangers that have proven themselves for the role. Former Santas sometimes still have a bit of magic in them, though.
  • Other other other times, it's through Klingon Promotion, per The Santa Clause.
  • Some become Santa by pure accident as well; a creature known as the Grinch inadvertently became the Microverse's Santa Claus after trying to steal Christmas.
  • Darker Santas have also existed and often went full Knight Templar or even just evil, including Satan's son, The Krampus, and the Yule Man.

Just because the League is defunct at the end of Century doesn't mean it always will be.

And when it returns, the group will consist of:Harry Potter - Now in his 40s or 50s, with a long history of fighting bad guys and saving EnglandJack Harkness - still immortal, and with nothing to do now that Torchwood's defunctLara Croft - Coming up on middle age (if not there already) but as good as she ever was; she's Allan's spiritual successorAdam Young - an Antichrist under MI5's protection to make sure he doesn't fulfill his destiny (and to put his powers to good use until he does)Selene - an immortal vampire who's decided to move beyond the petty vampire/lycan feud; she's Mina's spiritual successorAustin Powers - the team's Campion Bond figure, now elderly but still jovial and a ladies' man

• Not bad but there's a problem... Harry Potter is evil and dead there.
  • Hey, why not do it like in fanfiction: They got the WRONG Boy-who-lived-to-be-a-crazy-murdering-motherfucker!!

Notes on higher dimensions.

• Humanity's minds are connected to their counterparts on another universe.

Giving Emma Peel immortality will prove to be a bad move.

• Without any mandate for a league following Prospero's abandonment, Mina and Orlando will eventually join up with Jack Nemo for space adventures, while Emma will use her own fortunes to buy out companies like Mogul, becoming increasingly wealthy. By the year three thousand the will have shortened her title of Mother to Mom, an will become the primary villain.
  • Jossed. She joins the remaining Leaguers.

Hogwarts still exists.

It may have suffered a devestating attack from the Antichrist (Harry Potter), but who said that the school was indeed destroyed and closed forever? In "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", chapter 11, it is stated that non-magical people cannot see the school; rather, they see only ruins and several warnings of danger. This is exactly what Mina and Orlando (both immortal, but non-magical) see when they visit the school.

If Dracula does appear it'll be as Alucard.

The League has a tendency to recruit monsters, and if it wasn't for the control the Hellsing organization has on him, there is absolutely no doubt that Alucard would be a villain...It wouldn't be too hard to assume that Moore knows of Hellsing since he's researched some rather obscure things for the series without the assistance of a computer (and I'm talking things so obscure there isn't any real information about it on wikipedia) and since he draws elements and ideas from numerous works of fiction I'm betting he might try this at some point.

• Dracula was already defeated and killed before the events from Volume I. Mina still carries the scars from her encounter with him though.
  • They only THOUGHT, that they killed Alucard. In reality, van Helsing made a deal with the UK to give them Alucard as a weapon in return for ... some kind of stuff.
• And true as that may be, somebody did write a book in the sixties about Dracula coming back from the dead, and Moore tends to draw from multiple influences when using characters (such as when he wrote in Harry Potter) so it's possible Alucard could be in the series (alternatively he might just be a vampire who's brainwashed to think he's Dracula.)
• Since the name Alucard was coined in Universal Horror film Son of Dracula, Alucard will be the son of the historical Dracula, the equally cruel Mihnea the Evil.

Either John Munch or Pete Munch will be in the next volume.

The 'Minions of the Moon story seemed to put a good deal of focus on Pete Munch in the third installment (being one of three witnesses to the march of the 'nude lunar amazons') personally I think this might be a setup for either him or his son to appear in the series.

• It's not too far off an idea. He's already been crossed over with so many other things, why not this?

Volume 4 will take place in 2012.

It long confused me why Alan Moore would set the climax of Century in 2009 instead of 2012, the date of too many apocalypse theories and, more importantly, stories. Then I realized ... it was the end of a century that started in 2009. But then the story ends with Oliver Haddo's head telling Mina and Orlando that they will be the ones to bring forth the strange and terrible aeon. Three years is a good enough amount of time for the true climax to occur in 2012.

• Or possibly 2017. If memory serves, that's the year Moore predicted would be the end of the world in Promethea.
• Confirmed to be set in 2010, immediately after Century though the world-ending bit still happens.

Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann will either be referenced or outright appear in the series.

Because of this.If Moore does do this (I highly doubt he wouldn't hear about this), he might end up watching the series too...which will either turn out really really good, or really bad.

At some point Alternate Universes will get involved

And the League will visit a world where the fiction of their universe is reality there, which has their own version of the League.

• Alternatively, they go to Anno Dracula (which is pretty much an alternate way their universe could come into existence) or the Earth owned by the Fraternity. Both of them would provide a grand adventure for the League.
• Feature a Lawyer-Friendly Cameo of the cast of Sliders and we got a deal.

In-Universe, Raoul Silva *was* the adopted son of M (Emma Peel) *and* Pierce Brosnan Bond. The one we see in the MI6 Headquarters is a clone for propaganda purposes.

Basically combining a very popular fan-theory, a less popular one and the idea that the League'verse encompasses all media, including fanfiction. Fans have been speculating about the fact that Raoul was the adopted son of M ever since the release of Skyfall (and the many suggestions that movie provides). Considering the fact that we know that Bond has gone on all his on-screen adventures in-universe (due to their appearance, as well as many smaller hints) it could be that this particular theory was, in fact, canon. Emma - then the head of the MI6 branch in South Asia - decided to cut her losses after seeing that apparently, all Bonds eventually became like the one she knew back during the 1950s (a violent, womanizing, loose canon). Even despite her feelings towards him, she argued it was easier to do so, leaving him in the capture of the Chinese who drove him insane through torture before he escaped somewhere around the 2010s. In order to keep the propaganda myth alive (and conceal her own mistakes) she created a fake narrative with a fictional agent of the Crown called Raoul Silva while also using either cloning technology or androids to create a fake Brosnan Bond to show off to the public.As for why Daniel Craig Bond has the actual name of Bond (and it is not a pseudonym) - he is directly descended from Campion Bond through family line shenanigans. This is also why MI6 decided to restart the 007 program after having such a large rate of failure (two of the 7 Bonds had been captured by enemy states, one became a double agent and one went rogue cutting of ties from the MI6).

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The Moon grown reefer in Minions of the Moon was a reference to Aqua Teen Hunger Force.

Moore didn't feature the Mooninites for some reason...maybe either A they weren't native to the Moon or they were just hidden. In either case though maybe Moore used this as an allusion since ATHF is fairly well known and I doubt Moore doesn't know about it.

The world governments, including the Freemason-controlled British government, know about the existence of Yuggoth.

In 2006, an American satellite was approaching the planet commonly known as Pluto, which had previously only been a dot in their photographs and telescope observations. When the first pictures of the planet came back to NASA, they were horrified to discover a planet of supernatural monsters. The rest of the world governments were informed of this terrible discovery, and they knew that if the public and the world found out, there would be unrest and hysteria. They sought ways to make sure the public, already traveling to space in commercial spaceflights, never learned about the evils lurking in Pluto, and eventually a creative, abstract solution was employed. The scientific community was forced to issue public statements that Pluto was not a planet.

Lost Girls is part of the LXGverse.

Notes on prominent families

• The Starks are an old European family known for being historically liberal. Their members claim to trace their lineage from a powerful noble house that was involved in a series of wars during a Medieval Ice Age. They emigrated to America sometime in the 1700s, and gained some notoriety in the 1930s when the radically-liberal William "Willie" Stark became governor of Louisiana. He was viewed by Franklin D. Roosevelt as the most dangerous man in the country, leading some to regard the official story of his assassination by a lone, slightly deranged, respected doctor as suspicious (even though it was true). In the 1950s, a young wayward James "Jim" Stark befriended a mentally unstable teen who was shot to death by police in a much-publicized standoff. Jim's more upstanding relative, Howard Stark, grew up to become a respected corporate CEO and was involved in the Manhattan Project. Howard's son Tony followed in his footsteps (making Stark Industries a household name) and eventually founded a prominent superhero team. While initially supportive of the Sokovia Accords, citing a desire to make superheroes accountable to the people they defended, he would later withdraw support after it strained his friendship with costumed vigilante Steve Rogers, alias "Captain America". He would eventually give his life in 2023 to stop Thanos' invasion of Earth, and would be survived by his wife Pepper and daughter Morgan. In the far future, long after Tony's technology helped make interstellar travel a reality, his distant descendant Iaco Stark turned to piracy and waged an unsuccessful war against the unified Galactic Republic.
  • Other members of the Stark family (in rough chronological order) include Albert Stark of Old Stump, Arizona, mercenary Dieter Stark who was eaten by dinosaurs on Isla Sorna, Eureka scientist Nathan Stark, and Mercury-born Eric John Stark, a distant descendant of Tony.
• The Farnsworths came to prominence when respected intelligence agent Astrid Farnsworth retired from a distinguished career with the FBI, and used her knowledge of fringe sciences to start a major science firm. Her dimwitted cousin, Phillip Fry, later accidentally got himself locked in one of her company's cryogenic chambers when he was trying to pay her a visit on New Year's Eve. With Astrid's company's profits, her distant descendant, Hubert Farnsworth, became a professor and was able to rise to great heights in the science world, but he soon lost most of his family's wealth, and he was forced to start a second-rate interplanetary delivery company to make ends meet. Later, when Phillip was unexpectedly revived, he tracked Hubert down in hopes of getting a job at his company. After years of running deliveries for Hubert, Phillip married his coworker Turanga Leela and started a family with her. Their daughter Kaywinnit "Kaylee" Fry inherited her mother's passion for spaceships, and eventually got a job as a mechanic on a dilapidated transport ship captained by a rogue army officer.
• The Cobbs are a big-name underworld family who have spawned more than a few notable thieves and crooks over the years. The family line includes a psychotic London burglar; Dominic, a renowned American corporate thief who was known for his skill with dream-sharing technology; a senile old man that tells wild stories; and Jayne, a feared mercenary who racked up some major charges fighting the Alliance in the 25th century. Jayne helped legitimize the family name after he went legit and entered the military, and one of his distant descendants eventually served as a general in a war against the alien Hath. An earlier heroic (but still rebellious in spirit) member of the family was a pioneering female aviator in the mid-20th century.
• The Finns show up all over history, running the gamut from crooks to saints. The earliest member of the family to turn up in the history books was Huckleberry "Huck" Finn, a famed Southern outlaw from the 1840s who ran away from home as a child. Huck's great-great-grandson, Riley Finn, had a notable career as an agent for the government agency "The Initiative", and enjoyed a romantic fling with the legendary vampire slayer Buffy Summers. Riley's much more unsavory cousin, meanwhile, found work as an enforcer for the occult-obsessed crime lord Valmont. That Finn's grandson would follow in his granddad's criminal footsteps by becoming a famous Knowledge Broker and underworld informant in the Sprawl, where he was known only as "The Finn". Notably, the family managed to outlast the Great Mushroom War of the 28th century, where they were one of the few human families to survive the global nuclear cataclysm. After this, the family name was carried on in the personage of a certain famed adventurer who became known far and wide as the bearer of the Enchiridion.
• The Sawyers have gone from respected to notorious over the course of a century. Missouri adventurer Tom Sawyer was notable for finding treasure as a boy and respected in his town. As an adult, he moved to Texas and worked at a slaughterhouse, where his skill at killing and butchering cows were legendarily unmatched. However, advances in technology put him out of work, and in his shame and rage he started an infamous family of cannibalistic psychotics who raided graveyards for corpses and killed youth. His grandchild is the serial killer known as "Leatherface."
• The Kanes have, like the Finns, been both angels and devils. The line started with Puritan adventurer Solomon Kane. His direct descendent was Will Kane, a town marshal who had a pair of children, one of whom was James Kane. James would move to Colorado where he found gold and inadvertently introduced villainy into their line when his son Charles got his start from that very wealth. The sole child he ever had (unbeknownst to him) grew up into Reverend Henry Kane. Not all the modern Kanes turned out evil though, such as superheroines Katherine and Bette Kane. The other Kanes of note were the offshoot of it that lived in Pine Valley, Pennsylvania. In the 21st century there was a criminal who claimed linage to the Kanes, though this was false and merely a handle. A more distant member of the family is secret agent Lana Kane, whose branch of the family diverged from the rest in the mid-19th century after being freed from slavery.
• The Ripleys had a bit of a reputation for sociopathy, starting with murderer and con artist Tom Ripley. This tradition of amoral murderers and thieves was eventually overturned by the birth of Ellen Ripley, who would go on to fight monsters far worse than her ancestor.
• The Ryans are a cryptic enigma to most. Their family line first came to prominence with Objectivist business tycoon Andrew Ryan and his underwater city, but because of the unorthodox way that his son Jack was born, the world knows very little about his descendants. Despite how bizarre his DNA was, Jack did go on to father a pair of thieves named Ritchie and Rusty. Aside from them, though, the family line included another Jack Ryan, along with Caitlin Ryan and Pvt. James Ryan, a cousin of Andrew.
• The Archers are a family of renowned adventurers who first came into the public eye when Private Investigator Miles Archer was murdered in 1930 after getting involved in a dispute over a coveted gold statuette from Malta. Without a strong father figure in her life to guide her, Miles' daughter Malory grew up as a cold-hearted, sexually voracious libertine, but she eventually followed in her father's footsteps and became a respected OSS operative, later going on to found the espionage agency ISIS. Though Malory wasn't exactly known for her parenting skills, her son Sterling went on to have a prolific career as one of ISIS's top spies, and developed an unshakeable interest in space travel after being involved in a mission to liberate a space station held hostage by mutinying astronauts. He passed this interest on to his grandson Jonathan, who grew up to become one of the first explorers in United Earth's Starfleet organization, captaining the famed starship Enterprise.
• The Cranes have a bit of a reputation for attracting the strange and macabre, and many of them have been involved in psychiatry. The family first became infamous in local New York folklore in the late 1700s, when schoolmaster Ichabod Crane mysteriously vanished after allegedly being pursued by a headless ghostly entity. About 200 years later, they again entered the news in connection with a grisly murder case, where Marion Crane was murdered by the deranged serial killer Norman Bates, and her sister Lila helped bring Bates to justice. Marion's surviving brother, Martin Crane, went on to father three boys, all of whom developed interests in psychology after paying frequent visits to Bates in the mental hospital while they were growing up. Two of them, Frasier and Niles, grew up to become successful therapists in Seattle, with Frasier taking a job as a radio therapist. The third, Jonathan, was a somewhat more unsavory character who developed an obsession with the psychology of fear. Jonathan eventually moved to Gotham City to pursue work at Arkham Asylum, and later adopted a costumed persona as "The Scarecrow".
• The Taylors are a family of many traits. The earliest known one was a town sheriff in the small town of Mayberry, North Carolina. His distant cousin, Steven, went on to be a companion for a man known as "The Doctor". Another relative, who gained notoriety years before for having relations with an african american woman moved to Angel Grove, California, eventually had a grandson named Zachary. That relative's brother also had a child, a very clumsy, oafish man who got big in the Carpentry and Yard work profession and eventually had his own cable show with a corporate sponsor and cousin who fell into drug addiction. their relatives include a homosexual artist named Justin and his sister, Jennifer. Zachary's descendant, Ronald Taylor, eventually went into a carrer in space exploration, only to go mad from the toxic environment from a foreign planet. His son, Jacob, would later help Commander Shepard save the galaxy.
• The Kennedys are a prominent political family in the United States, their most famous member being President John F. Kennedy, who was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, in 1963, officially by Lee Harvey Oswald but (possibly) actually by either the Templars, metahuman Edward Blake, or a Soviet Manchurian agent (possibly Alex Mason), among other potential gunmen. A lesser-known member of the Kennedy family is Leon Scott Kennedy, a former Raccoon City police officer who witnessed the zombie outbreak in the city on his first day, which ultimately led to Raccoon City's destruction by nuclear device. He later became a Secret Service agent and was tasked with recovering President Graham's daughter Ashley from Spain. He was later accused of murdering the President of the United States (who had actually succumbed to C-Virus infection and became a zombie) by Derek Simmons, and ultimately killed Simmons in China and was cleared of all charges.
• The McCoys are an old New York family, with branches of the family in the city proper and in the countryside upstate. The family line includes the legendary District Attorney Jack McCoy, who alienated several of his colleagues because of his willingness to prosecute hate crimes against mutants, replicants and extraterrestrials. He got some of his sympathy for mutants from his close relationship with his mutant cousin, Hank McCoy, one of the five original students of the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning in Westchester. An avid scientist, Hank worked as a practicing physician for many years, and he developed an interest in extraterrestrial life after having an affair with half-alien government agent Abigail Brand, and working as an operative of S.W.O.R.D. (the Sentient World Observation and Response Department). He passed both of this qualities on to his distant descendant Leonard McCoy, who famously served as a ship's doctor aboard the Starfleet vessel Enterprise, rising through the ranks to become an admiral by the 24th century.
• The Watsons came to prominence in England in the mid-19th century when the famed Army doctor John Watson made the acquaintance of the legendary "consulting detective" Sherlock Holmes, and chronicled his adventures while accompanying him on a great many cases. Several years after John Watson settled down with his first wife Mary Morstan, their sole son was ultimately forced to flee to America to avoid the wrath of Professor James Moriarty's fractured crime syndicate. One of Watson's grandsons eventually settled down to a quiet life in the country as a pig farmer. Another moved to New York City to seek his fortune, where he eventually fathered Mary Jane Watson (named after her distant descendant Mary Morstan), who was married to the famous crime-fighter Spider-Man for several years.
• The Drews got their start in the military after one Colonel Drew became a hero in the American Civil War, and came close to marrying a certain "Monty Brewster" after he inherited several million dollars. They would later become legendary in the world of crime-fighting after the attorney Carson Drew and his precocious daughter Nancy became involved in several baffling cases that rocked upstate New York in the late 1930s. Carson's great niece Jessica Drew would carry on the family legacy after she accidentally gained superpowers from an experimental serum laced with spider DNA, and ultimately became a notable (part-time) member of The Avengers.
• The Finches first rose to prominence with the lawyer Atticus Finch, who was one of a very small number of white southerners to work to achieve fair outcomes in trials involving black defendants. Besides his two children Jem and Scout, Atticus' other relatives included his nephew Adam who was a scientist involved in an extraterrestrial incident in Antarctica; his grandson, Harold, who became a billionaire tech mogul responsible for creating a highly advanced supercomputer; and his granddaughter, Cleo, who became a pediatrician at County General Hospital. Members of the wider family line include a baseball player, the chairman of the board of the Worldwide Wicket Company, an unlikable British sales representative, and a teenager who made a pact to lose his virginity with three of his friends. One branch of the family was infamous for the prevalence of unusual and often tragic deaths, which included drownings, murders and suicides.
• The Hammonds are a rather illustrious family that achieved prominence in several key areas. They are most notable in politics, producing two American presidents, in the form of Juddson C. Hammond in the 1930's and Bud Hammond in the 1990's. The family has other notable members as well however, including the late CEO of InGen John Hammond, George Hammond, head of Stargate Command; Evey Hammond, British dissident who protested against the fascist Norsefire government of 1990; and the USG Kellion's chief of security, Zach Hammond.
• The Joneses got their start through an infamous pirate named Davy Jones. His many distant descendants and relatives includes legendary archaeologist and treasure hunter Indiana, trap-obsessed mystery solver Fred Jones (who married a wealthy female friend named Daphne and had a daughter with her named Christmas); a delinquent named Jimbo; a highly sexual woman named Samantha; Mr. Jones, an abusive farmer who was killed by his animals; and Joseph Carter "Joey" Jones, a young American man who commanded the robotic warrior Heroman, among many others.
• The Cases are an American family known for their wanderlust, and many of them have been involved in the criminal underworld. They first came to prominence with the decorated war hero Lincoln Case, an Army Ranger who served with distinction in the Vietnam War. Lincoln spent many years traveling the American open road after returning from Vietnam, but eventually settled down to start a family in Northern California. His daughter, Wendy Case grew to be a rather troubled young woman; she struggled with substance addiction for many years, and rebelled against her upstanding father by regularly spending time in dangerous biker bars. However, she inherited her father's love of the open road, and eventually married the outlaw biker Jackson "Jax" Teller, the son of the legendary biker who founded the Sons of Anarchy Motorcycle Club. The couple's marriage didn't last, but they had a son named Abel Teller, whom Wendy raised to adulthood after the deaths of his father and stepmother. Abel took his mother's surname, but he followed in his father's footsteps and became a biker, eventually leading one of the many outlaw gangs that ruled America after the collapse of the petroleum industry left most of the world in a state of anarchy. By the late 21st century, Abel's son Henry Dorsett Case had moved to the East Coast and become a renowned computer hacker in the Sprawl underworld, and eventually took part in a legendary mission to break into the Tessier-Ashpool family's orbital headquarters.
• The Potters had a long history that went far beyond the Boy Who Lived to become the Antichrist. The American branch of the family got started with Peter Potter, a travelling dentist who once gave a ride to Calamity Jane in the 19th century. Peter's son Henry Potter was the de facto owner of the city of Bedford Falls. Henry was disliked by much of the town, unlike his younger brother Sherman, commander of the 4077th M*A*S*H during the Korean War or his cousin Clarence, an OSS operative responsible for several sabotage missions on Nazi Germany in World War II. Descendants of these three include the Potter family of Capeside, a family that would face attacks by a troll in San Francisco that included two Harry Potters unrelated to the more noteworthy one and Melvin Potter, a supervillain enemy of the vigilante Daredevil who went by the name "the Gladiator." A far-future descendant of this family is Marygay Potter, who would participate in the long-running war against an alien race known as the Taurans.
• The Wrights are a family that has been marked both by triumph and tragedy. Descended from Japanese immigrants to California, they first came to prominence thanks to defense attorney Phoenix Wright, known as "the Turnabout Terror" for his uncanny ability to turn around seemingly hopeless cases. Phoenix would spend much of his career working with and against various prosecutors and settle cases across the globe, only to fall into disgrace after presenting falsified evidence at a trial. While he would eventually clear his name and reputation, health issues forced him to become less active and assume an advisory role to his proteges, Maya Fey and Apollo Justice. The three would later become involved with an international incident in the Kingdom of Khura'in.
  Another member of the family, Arthur Wright, would take up the name "Dr. Light", stealing the powers of the superheroine of that name and using them to aid his rape of various women before having his brain wiped by the magician Zatanna. After regaining his faculties, he would continue his career of sexual assault before being struck down by an angel of God.
  The final notable member of the family, Dr. Thomas Wright, was a roboticist who, driven by the death of his father in a mining accident, created various robots to help with heavy industrial work. He was aided in this endeavor by his friend and fellow roboticist Dr. Albert Wiley: however, their partnership fractured when Wiley began modifying Wright's designs for military use. When Wiley took over the nearby city using these modified robots, Wright attempted to stop his former associate, but had to go into hiding when his sole ally, the lone wolf terrorist nicknamed "Joe", died. While in hiding, Dr. Wright built two robots based off of the Japanese android hero Atom, in the hopes that they would overthrow Wiley: however, the first robot, Proto Man, was defeated by Wiley's army of "Robot Masters". Not wanting to lose his other "son", Mega Man, Dr. Wright attempted to persuade him not to pursue revenge. Sadly, he failed, and Mega Man would join a populist rebellion against Wiley, only to become jaded by the movement's excesses before finally turning his back on them after they cheered his killing of Proto Man, who had joined Wiley. Broken and disillusioned, Dr. Wright would eventually commit suicide, but not before creating one last android: an advanced prototype called "X".
• The Shiroganes while not as well-known as the others, are worth mentioning. The oldest mention of the name comes from a old ninja clan that created some kind of living puppets with human experimentation, the clan was later destroyed with the last survivors swearing revenge in the great five nations, is rumored the survivors had a great Number of descendants. One of them being the Space Pilot Takashi Shirogane who piloted the "Blue Lion" of the giant sentient robot Golion in 1999 who Fighted the Galra Empire in the Planet of Altea and died at the hands of one of Galra's Beastman. His brother Ryou Shirogane later avenged him killing the Prince of the Empire, Sincline with him, back on earth, who was still recovering from the big American-Canadian War that almost destroyed the world, the United States promoted the Golion story altering a LOT of details like changing Golion's name to Voltron, and having the role of the Shirogane brothers as one individual named Sven, who survived in this version of the story. Other branch of the Shirogane Family was famous for its great lineage of detectives, the third generation had the first detective Prince Naoto Shirogane, who was very known for her involvement in the Third Kira Murder Case in 2008 with the "Investigation Team", in which she also stopped hiding her true gender from the world now not having that much of a fear of not being taken seriously in a Male Oriented Workplace like the Japanese Police Force, after that she got involved in other cases and meet other detectives like Detective Conan Edogawa, Kosuuke Kindaichi's grandson Hajime Kindaichi and even some overseas detectives like New York Detective Keith Frazier and famed Detective Benoit Blanc, she later assisted the Fourth Japanese League and the Phantom Thieves of Hearts movement against Masayoshi Shido's government and the "Second Coming" of the detective Prince Goro Akechi, she later retired at her 70's and started training the next generation of the Detective branch of the Shirogane's. Her second cousin, Tsumugi Shirogane, started working in Reality Shows around the 2010's before working in the controversial canadian show Total Drama which lead to her going insane and capturing and brainwashing teenagers into believing they were "Ultimates" and having to endure a Killing Game akin to the 2010 Hope's Peak Masacre, and broadcasting the game to the entire world, everyone found it disgusting and inmoral but she believed they were begging for More of the show, luckily the survivors find out the truth and the "protagonist" of the show Kiibo sacrificed himself, by order of the audience, destroying the show and Killing Tsumugi in the process, the other survivors later went for "Truman Therapy" to deal with the false memories Tsumugi gave them. Around the same time, student council president Miyuki Shirogane started a battle against vice president Kaguya Shinomiya to see who confessed love for each other first, while the results are unkown, it is rumored they are at least ancestors of a New Takashi Shirogane, who makes the Shirogane story go full circle by piloting the Black Lion of a now Real Voltron fighting the new Galra Empire, just as his ancestor lots of years back.
• Descendants of Fu Manchu include Iron Man's long-time enemy the Mandarin. Professor Moriarty's descendants include Fantastic Four villain the Mad Thinker. Their feud seems to have been forgotten.
• Ayesha establishes a line of African witch-priestesses, who eventually produce a godlike mutant named Ororo Munroe.
  • Even more probable as both Storm and Ayesha were based on the real-life (well, mythological) South African Rain Queens (AKA modjadji).
  • Another such witch-priestess was Queen La, ruler of the lost city of Opar during the time of Tarzan, the Lord of the Apes.
• Jack Carter from Century:1969 was a descendant of Randolph and John (already related, as shown by the supplement to the first volume). Clearly at some point Anglophile Randolph eventually lived his dream and started a family in London's East End. (Can't be more dangerous than life in Arkham)
• Though not as obvious as some others since they don't share a family name, the descendants of Briar Rose, also known as the Sleeping Beauty, persist to this day. The key characteristic shared by all of them is a distant relic of Briar Rose's curse, which manifested as the conditions now known as nacrolepsy and catalepsy. Known descendants include Enrico Pollini and Patricia Reichardt.
• Japanese Minister for Science Dr. Tenma was the uncle of the neurosurgeon Kenzo Tenma.
• Queen Elsa of Arendelle was a distant descendant of another infamous Scandinavian monarch who also possessed power over the Winter winds; her real name has long since been lost to history, and she's now known only by the moniker "The Snow Queen". The most famous of Elsa's known descendants is the founding X-Men member Robert "Bobby" Drake, one of the few men in the royal bloodline ever to inherit ice powers; he's related to the family through his famous ancestor Sir Francis Drake, who fell in love with one of the Princesses of Arendelle when he visited the kingdom during one of his many voyages.
  • You expect an anarchist, anti-monarchist and anti-imperialist like Alan Moore (he who demonized Queen Victoria) to make that a straight 1:1 lift on that material? Queen Elsa is a Frost Giantess who fought and died during Ragnarok (which Orlando witnessed during the Book of Orlando section in The Black Dossier)? The version of Frozen and Snow Queen we know is merely propaganda come years later to glorify monarchy and imperialism, one of whose agents is a descendant of the Bavarian sorcerer Yensid who converted his serfs into brooms to do his bidding and created a hideous mutant rodent-human hybrid with his alchemical experiments. Said descendant went to America and used alchemical experiments to create a propaganda empire of joy. As for the X-Men, they like other superheroes are victims of MKULTRA and agents of the FBI sent to be Agent Provocateur in underground gay and anti-racist movements (much like Professor X was a FBI agent in the first comics^note And Moore is no fan of the X-men). In this version, Bobby Drake could be Sir Francis Drake's descendant. The original Francis Drake was a slaveowner and participant of the Rathlin Island massacre and Moore would see his narc-snitch descendant as a chip of the old block.
    • They never said it'd be idealistic.
• The infamous witch Cereza (alias Bayonetta) has had many a dalliance with mortal men over the course of her long life. Several of her offspring possess her impeccable sense of style and flashy, over-the-top mannerisms. The most notable of them are the high-school exchange student Sakamoto, gambling addict Yumeko Jabami, and the young man only known as "Joker", leader of the Japanese insurgent group called "the Phantom Thieves".
• The Addams Family are mutants.

Ooo is the Blazing World!

And the great apocalypse is the Mushroom War that causes the Blazing World to engulf all of Earth into a single existence. Most of humanity is destroyed, save one boy, and would explain much of the random chaos Ooo is filled with. Put on your 3D glasses now.

• Which would make Megapatagonia... ooO.

Sooner or later, Moore will introduce Forrest Gump into the League-verse

Moore clearly gets a lot of joy out of taking beloved film characters and showing how flawed they were in the original text (Isn't that right, Jimmy?). As anyone who's read the novel version can testify, Gump definitely fits the bill. No idea as to what context he appears in- maybe he's on the moon with Munch, since in the novel Gump works with NASA. (No... seriously).

Eventually America will put together its own League

And it will consist of:

• Buffy Summers, a young woman with experience fighting vampires
• Brad J. Armbruster, alias Ace, a former patriotic icon of the US military, now disillusioned and drug-addicted
• Dr. Tom Jackman and his alter ego, picked up while hiding out in America
• Jack Nemo (who goes on to resent being controlled by a foreign power)
• And an invisible psychopath familiar to Summers (one of the government's trained assassins, given phantom-like abilities by a strange application of, supposedly, quantum mechanics)
• Sherlock Holmes' identically-named descendant will decline to lead the group.

The group will investigate various supernatural occurrences in the States (including a strange pagan revival camp for scions of Greek gods) but will disband on bad terms. The government will move on to Plan B: The Avengers Initiative...

The very first League was the Fellowship of the Ring.

We know that Arda is Earth and that The Lord of the Rings takes place in the past (at least 6000 years ago, according to one of Tolkien's letters, but almost definitely much longer than that). We also know that The Shire is meant to be a stand-in for the British Isles. And we also know that you don't have to be a British native to be a League member (compare Natty Bumppo, Don Quixote, or Prospero).

With all that in mind, it can be understood that the Fellowship is the first iteration of the League, or at least spurred the idea. Similarly...

• But who could be their M? There's no one who... oh crap- Gandalf's Elvish name is Mithrandir. Damn.

The Round Table was another early incarnation of the League.

Same idea: A group of nominal heroes dedicated to protect England (despite not all of them being English), many of whom have special powers or weapons. The Round Table may even be the first official League.

• And of course, if this theory is true, Merlin was almost certainly their "M".
• This troper heard a theory that the Knights are parallels of the original League, with Lancelot (whom Orlando describes as monstrously ugly) as Hyde. No idea for the others, but the theory says something similar about the soldiers of Troy.
  • And Churchill is Arthur reincarnated, as Arthur's WMG page suggests. While Orlando was inactive during WWII, Churchill was using Excalibur.
    • In fact, let's just go ahead and assume there was an entire WWII League; with the Golem of Prague inevitably involved.
• Technically you could say every hero group or band of heroes ever in their Universe is a League (a bunch of notable individuals uniting for a common goal).

In the League- verse, Argo became a hugely popular science fiction trilogy in the seventies and eighties, and six more films were planned by the director

Fictional examples replace real ones, right?

• Not likely, since it's a work of fiction in our world (albeit one that was never actually made), and would presumably be fact in the League-verse.
  • So fiction becomes real, and a Show Within a Show becomes fiction.

Notes on Zoology and Botany

• Dragons have been trained to ride and fight in wars since the Viking era.
• In Japan, there is a strange land mollusc species that is known to rape teenagers with their tentacles, due to their hyperactive libido and blindness. Victims are not usually traumatized by the event, as they don't become pregnant and some even enjoy the experience, to the point of using the 'tentacle beasts' in pornography, which is legal due to local zoophilia laws.
  • There are also an American cousin of the Japanese Tentacle Beasts called the Appalachian Mud Squid.
• Dr Alphonse Moreau, Influenced by Maturin's Theory of Evolution, developed a breed of bio-engineered creatures called Fabrications or Beasties, which were used by the Entente powers during World War I. Moreau also had an apprentice who, rather than turn animals anthropomorphic, genetically mixed together animal species with each other.
• Some of the anthropomorphic apes engineered by Dr. Alphonse Moreau eventually broke off from the rest of the Moreau-sapiens and returned to the jungles of Africa, doing their best to return to the old Way of the Jungle that Moreau tried to make them unlearn. Though they retained their human-like intelligence, they devised their own unique language and culture, and became known as the Great Apes of Mangani.
• A superfood resembling grapes and berries, called "Member Berries" has had a major grip on the world of 2016, due to their connection with neo-reactionaries, the bigoted and hatefilled alternative right-wing, white supremecists, nationalists, religious fanatics and sexists. So far, nothing has been able to destroy these creatures.
• In 1963, birds of assorted species out of the blue started violently attacking people. It happened again in 2008, but climate change was found to have altered their behavior. And somehow made them explosive.
• Sharks are very aggressive with a taste of human flesh. A well-recorded incident happened off the beaches of Amity Island, but several other incidents have occurred, such as in South African waters, or in Australian waters. Once, the megalodon was found to have not gone extinct after all. There's also a bizarre phenomenon where tornadoes will toss sharks around. There's even sightings of an ungodly shark-octopus hybrid that is apparently a science experiment.
• Thanks to the animal-folk of the Blazing World introducing their genes eons ago, all animals are in fact sentient with their own language. While this hasn't stopped people from eating or hunting them, as this isn't common knowledge, there have been cases of animals and humans working together, such as a rat helping a young French chef and mutated snails being supported by humans in winning a race. Some animals have actually tried to rebel against their oppression, like two turkeys who somehow got a time machine and tried to alter Thanksgiving before they were stopped by the many protectors of the timeline.

Notes on superspies and their connections

• The second MI6 agent to use the codename "James Bond" achieved some recognition when he worked alongside an aging ninja and his student to thwart a terrorist plot to kidnap a senator's daughter.
• Bond's weedy nephew may have been involved with a Japanese Secret Service plot to recover an egg salad sandwich recipe.
• Bond's brother, a plastic surgeon has worked with MI6 on at least one occasion.
• The World Organization Of Human Protection has being using High School and Middle School students as weapons against Villainy.
• The body of infamous double agent/thief codenamed "San Diego", notorious for such reality-bending heists as the Twin Towers Caper, was finally found on May 2 2011. An autopsy taken revealed she died from massive bullet wounds caused by a workers' revolt. The agency ACME, due to it's biggest threat no longer active, retired and became a miscellaneous products corporation, who's biggest costumer was a Moreau-Sapien coyote.
  • Brother–Sister Team agents Ivy and Zach [RETRACTED] later got new jobs as an agent for WHOOP headquarters and leader of a teen super team as the latest Boy Wonder respectively.
• Seeing the success of the J program, America attempted to start its own spy organizations with varying results. The first organization, U.N.C.L.E., was the first real stable success. U.N.C.L.E. was eventually retired and replaced with the Impossible Mission Force, which focused on the more secretive nature of spywork. The IMF continues operating to this day, but branched into other organizations like the Statesmen and the Men in Black. Wanting to take it further, the CIA began the Treadstone Project, a program meant to create more lethal assassins. After various failures (or at least disappointing results), including more schisms that results in the founding of the Agency, the CIA finally got what they wanted in David Web, renamed Jason Bourne. Meanwhile, the surviving failures went on to other ventures. Former LAPD Detective Alonzo Harris, whose death was faked, took the name of one Robert McCall as well as his occupation as the Equalizer. John Wick, alias of Jack Traven, retired to a married life until his wife died of sickness and his new pet dog was murdered by Iosef Tarasov. Christian Wolff settled for a job as a criminal accountant who doubled as a CIA informant while his brother continued work as a hitman.
  • Moore hates spies.^note Save for blacklisted ones, apparently. So most likely all these spy organizations are merely front organizations devised by the US government as misinformation meant to distract other spies or critics at home. The real spy organization is the one from Alfred Hitchcock's North By Northwest which is all about how the US Government creates fictitious spies like George Kaplan as a misinformation campaign, and which had government agents willing to throw its own citizens under its bus when their campaigns go south. So all spies such as Ethan Hunt and others are part of the same misinformation campaign. UNCLE, IMF, the Agency and all other super-spies are as real as Agent Jimmy's adventures, i.e. there was "No" doctor, "No" bad guys and villains, and "No" heroes. North by Northwest also inspired the James Bond movies, and Leo G. Carroll's character inspired the same one he played in UNCLE, so Moore will simply apply Canon Welding, and of course in Hitchcock's film Eve Kendal is part Love Interest, part Supporting Protagonist. In Moore's version, she's the true boss of all bosses, and the head of America's super-spy in the same vein as Emma Night in Century : 2009.
    • Considering Ian Fleming's work on UNCLE, Moore might Canon Weld that, according to the United States, Jimmy was working on behalf of them so as to lighten the blame. Or he was indeed working for them as part of a heated competition between UNCLE and MI-6.
  • Black Dossier mentions UNCLE and places it definitively in UN control, not American. In fact, the Americans were so miffed about John Night siding with UNCLE that they had him whacked.

The Comic Part 5

The Men in Black are very active in this world

By 2009, Ms. Peel questioned the existence of the Martian attack, even though this event should be well within the bounds of recorded history and, you know, alien invasions are pretty significant anyway. Clearly MIB is responsible for fabricating the history we all know about.

• Perhaps they got the idea to give their agents single-letter codenames from British Intelligence. A confrontation between "M" and "Z" would seem to be a logical conclusion.
• In fact, they're the reason you think First Contact happened in 2063 instead of 1989. Or 1951. Or 1988. Or Contact. Or 2013. Or.. wait. No, it never happened at all, come to think of it. Phew.

The modern financial crisis was caused by Project Mayhem.

Who'd honestly put it past Tyler? For all we know, they're the LOEG version of Anonymous.

Every unexplained phenomenon in the series is being hunted by two secret rival organizations.

These two organizations are always trying to steal objects from the other in the belief that they are better suited to keep the universe safe from dangerous phenomena and they each believe that the other will only end up using the various dangerous entities and objects for their own gain.

Notes on wars and battles

• U.S. General George Armstrong Custer will always be remembered for raping Sitting Bull's daughter against a cactus until he got struck threw the head by an arrow, during the battle of Little Bighorn (or, in certain circles, Battle of Little Bit Horny)
• The United States fought a long, arduous guerilla war with the machine-controlled city-state of Zero One near Q'umar, starting in the 2020s. It was the latest in a long line of conflicts in the region.^note This is only partly fanon. The Animatrix specifically says that the Machines built their city in "the cradle of civilization" in the Middle East (i.e. the Fertile Crescent in Mesopotamia, or present-day Iraq).
• Soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the newly formed Russian Federation fought two brutal civil wars with the former Soviet republic of Latveria. Spetsnaz Captain Vladimir Makarov did two tours in Latveria, while arms dealer Imran Zakhaev got rich selling guns and uranium to Latverian militants—later using the money to fund the rise of the Russian Ultranationalists, with Makarov as his chief lieutenant. Eventually, the chaos in Latveria paved the way for the rise of the despotic warlord Victor von Doom, a Latverian expatriate who returned to his home country from studies abroad in America after a lab accident horrifically mutilated his face. While Doom's regime has returned stability and prosperity to Latveria, it has also been slammed for its brutal, authoritarian policies. von Doom, however, justifies it by pointing out the war crimes committed by all factions during the Latverian Wars.
  • This is simply Canon Welding these events into League continuity, but it doesn't capture Moore's satirical take. You can be sure that what really happened is that the Fantastic Four were really 60s stoner kids trying to form a rock band but couldn't get money, so the band leader signs them up as test dummies for CIA's MKULTRA's LSD experiments but it goes wrong and they all think they are actually superheroes shot into space and exposed to cosmic rays. As for Victor von Doom, he's an actor who played Dracula's stuntmen, got hit on the head and started calling himself von Doom.
• The island nation of Genosha was the site of a major Communist revolution in 1953— which only exacerbated the tensions of the Cold War, since it put a Communist state frighteningly close to the East Coast of the United States. A major standoff later occurred in 1962, when President Timothy Keagan discovered evidence of Soviet nuclear weapons being moved into Genosha, leading to a period of national emergency known as the Genoshan Missile Crisis. Later, the infamous Mutant terrorist Erik Lehnsherr (alias: "Magneto") declared war on the Genoshan government with his followers, ultimately managing to force them from power and appoint himself dictator. It has long been rumored (though never confirmed) that his terrorist campaign against Genosha was secretly funded by the CIA.
• In 1985, the Soviet Union invaded Hawaii, only to be swiftly defeated by the United States. After that, the Russians tried nuking San Fierro, but were stopped by a young Nick Fury, who lost an eye in the process.
• Border wars between Syldavia and Borduria in the late 1990s drew only a little attention from human rights groups. Not long after, Borduria lost control of its more prominent constituent states like Latveria and Herzeslovakia, and promptly was dissolved.
• The small European country of Novoselic would be thrown into chaos following the brainwashing of Princess Sonia Nevermind, who murdered her parents to ascend the throne and began waging war against all neighboring countries. However, the brainwashed queen was unable to use her country’s few nuclear warheads thanks to Latveria invading and formally annexing Novoselic. The “Mad Unfilled Queen” Sonia Nevermind was soon publicly executed by Kristoff Von Doom.

James Bond is meant to be this world's analogue for Ian Fleming

A few characters already have been implied to be stand-ins for their creators (like Norton, and Stardust is called an abusive drunk, just like Fletcher Hanks). And think about it; Fleming worked for a spy agency and became famous for over-sexualized, wish-fulfillment-type action stories, exactly like Jimmy. Working off of that, Fleming's relative Christopher Lee once played the quintessential yellow peril character— maybe Dr. No isn't entirely imaginary after all.

In the League universe, Sherlock Holmes became good friends with Mandrake the Magician

Going off of the theories about characters in the League universe being (to some extent) stand-ins for the authors that created them, this would make sense, given the Real Life friendship between Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini.

Moore is making the Evangelion of crossovers

Read Volume III and Heart of Ice and tell me if I'm wrong.

There is a curious pocket dimension of the Blazing World dedicated to slashfic

Things we know about the Blazing World: it's a place where the fantasy becomes reality, it's host to worlds within worlds and everyone is doing everything with everyone else— even more so than in the Leagueverse proper. So it only makes sense that there are mirror-worlds in which even the people who weren't doin' it are doin' it. And let's not forget the potential for crossovers, in and out of universe— sociopath Jimmy Bond/antichrist Harry Potter anyone? Needless to say, if Orlando ever found this place we'd never see hir again.

Who else held the title of "M" in past and future Leagues?

• The famed archaeologist Professor Marcus Brody was the "M" of an American League that formed after World War II. He faked his death after secretly using the Holy Grail to make himself immortal, and formed a new League based at Marshall College (which also housed a cache of magical artifacts that he amassed from his past travels).
  • Pete "Ponyboy" Curtis. Working with the Brody League he heard a lot of stories about Atlantis, which he passed on to his son, Jackson.
  • Cynical but good-hearted adventurer Rich Blaine.
  • An Algerian sociopath named Merrault, a skilled social manipulator and escape artist.
  • The now-elderly, but no less dangerous, polymath and musician Anton Phibes.
  • Bipolar and hypermanic Princess Ann of Ruritania, who led anti-Nazi resistance in her country, where she picked up various skills including expert driving.
  • One of their non-field assets was the deranged, precognitive optometrist Billy Pilgrim.
• The German aristocrat Baron Munchausen was the "M" of a League that formed in 18th century Europe. He was also The Man Behind the Man who bankrolled Gulliver's League.
  • Alternatively, the leader was Gulliver's good Master Bates (unless that's a codename for the Baron).
  • I think the sequence for M's associated with British intelligence must go something like: Moriarty, Mycroft, Henry Merrivale, Angus McTarry (working with Jimmy's uncle, the original Sir James), Miles Messervy, Harry Lime (alias Mother), Robert Hargreaves (everyone got the vague, unplaceable feeling that he just didn't fit in), Barbara Mawdlsey, Emma Peel (under the cover identity Olivia Mansfield), and finally Garrett Mallory (after his predecessor's faked death).
• The Irish business magnate Artemis Fowl, who was known by the cryptic monogram "M.M." as an adult (for Mud Man, an affectionate nickname that an old friend once gave him) formed his own League in the late 21st century, and shortened his traditional monogram to just "M".
  • Molly Walker, world's greatest detective
• The powerful sorcerer Merlin was the "M" behind Britain's first known League, the Knights of the Round Table. Following Arthur's death, which led to the permanent dissolution of Merlin's League, Merlin's old apprentice Morgana (also known as Morgan le Fay) formed a new League by recruiting the most powerful magic-users in Europe at the time.
  • "The Boss" Hank Morgan, strange visitor from the future, master of secret knowledge no other magician can match
  • Esther Mikaelson
  • The Destroyer, Esther's husband, and the group's hatchetman
• The immortal Vampire elder Marcus Corvinus, the first known Vampire, formed a League composed of the most powerful Vampires, Werewolves, Demons and Dark Necromancers in Medieval Europe. His League, a sort of Evil Counterpart to Morgana's League, became his private force of spies and assassins. They also helped him check the actions of the increasingly powerful Death Dealers, who grew beyond his control when he was forced to share power with Viktor and Amelia.
  • Astaroth (though only because Corvinus can protect him from Morgana, who still holds a grudge for him kidnapping her sister-in-law.)
• The famous Florentine political philosopher Niccolo Machiavelli (a prominent Assassin) formed a League during the Renaissance, using his political connections.
  • Ezio Auditore da Firenze, another Assassin and a personal associate of Machiavelli
• Angus MacGyver was the leader of a Pan-American League in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
  • Forrest Gump, a quasi-adventurer, former astronaut, former shrimping mogul, Vietnam veteran, and idiot savant.
  • Cyber Six, a Brazilian superhuman created by a Nazi scientist and her brother, a genetically altered Panther with the brain of a human, Data Nine.
  • Doctor Hadji Quest, a former boy adventurer, now renowned scientist with expertise on engineering, biology and magic.
  • Robert Muldoon, former Game Warden at John Hammond's Jurassic Park in Costa Rica, an experienced hunter and tracker with knowledge of some of the deadliest predators in the natural world.^note Muldoon survived in the original novel; it's only in the film adaptation that he was killed.
• In the 12th century, a farcical League was founded by Rashid ad-Din Sinan— also known as Al Mualim, mentor of the Levantine Assassins, though secretly a Templar— in order to both track down pieces of Lost Technology as well as eliminate his competition among the Templars. The membership of this League was mostly comprised of Assassins from all over the world.
  • Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, one of the most skilled Assassins of all time and one of Al-Mualim's personal proteges
  • Robin Hood, an English crusader who fought alongside Richard the Lionheart during the Crusades.
  • The philosophical giant Pantagruel, whose father Gargantua had previously served in Machiavelli's League.
• The legendary Chiss military genius Mitth'raw'nuruodo (better known as Grand Admiral Thrawn) formed his own League as a secret personal strike force while serving in the Galactic Imperial Navy, hoping to one day use them to overthrow Emperor Palpatine and Darth Vader. He used the monogram "M" to hide his identity from his superiors in the Empire, and his true identity remained unknown until his death.
• The famed Maia sorcerer Mithrandir (better known as Gandalf) oversaw the creation of the first League in recorded history: the Fellowship of the Ring.
• After "The Moonchild" tried to destroy the world in 2009, one of the sole survivors of his rampage went into hiding under a monogrammatic pseudonym and endeavored to protect the Wizarding and Muggle worlds from further such threats with the help of Britain's last few great magic-users. Her name? Minerva McGonagall.
  • John Constantine was one of the first mages she'd contacted, and also one of the only magic users who wasn't educated at Hogwarts. Constantine was the reckless member of the group, and often placed his colleagues in unnecessary danger. However, he was also quite effective in the field.
• In the late 1990s and the 2000s decade, a League was formed by Russian Ultranationalist leader Vladimir Makarov to pursue his own goals, and was a major participating force in the Russo-American War (known by some as World War III).
  • Ivan Vanko, a.k.a. the fourth and current Whiplash, who also took inspiration from his father Anton, the original Crimson Dynamo
  • Czeslav Korbut, who—before being forced into the Moscow Metro by the nuclear fires of the Russo-American War/World War III—was a member of the Ultranationalist party only to switch sides and become a major leader of the communist Red Line after all the rest of Makarov's League died
  • Grigor Stoyanovich, Makarov's protege who took over the Ultranationalist Party after his death, ultimately leading the country into becoming "Novaya Russia" and embarking on conquest
• A short-lived League was formed in the mid-1970s by scientist Matthew Hooper for the purpose of investigating the aforementioned wave of natural disasters. This team were often tipped off about unusual occurrences by reporter Carl Kolchak and UFO investigators Mik Kanrokitoff and Claude Lacombe.
  • Dr. Jonathan Hemlock, an assassin, mountaineer, and art historian.
• In a rare moment of international cooperation, the Berlin Conference formed a temporary "expeditionary" League to examine and enforce the new divisions of Africa, with at least one representative from each participant country. In actuality, each representative had orders to undermine the motives of the others. Their leader was journalist Henry Morton Stanley, who had the ulterior motive of searching for the legendary David Livingstone.
  • An ivory trader known only as Kurtz represented Belgium.
  • Allan Quatermain represented Britain, of course
  • During the course of their expedition across the Dark Continent, they came upon the lost city of Zinj and its vicious gorilla guardians, encountered the wild man known as Tarzan, and hunted relict dinosaurs in the deepest jungles. Their greatest and most dangerous discovery, though, was a cursed artifact which, for a brief time, transformed the natural jungle around them into a nightmarish landscape where even the experienced hunters among them were challenged, identified by a single word carved on it: Jumanji.
• In the 2020's, the world began to degenerate into a Cyberpunk dystopia rife with megacorporate corruption (sparked in part by the Shiawase decision), crime and depravity. Into this situation, the AI known as Multivac would recruit an alliance of other sentient machines and hackers to challenge the emerging dystopia.
  • Alt Cunningham, a hacker who was forcibly reduced to a digital copy of herself by the Arasaka Coproration
  • Hiro Protagonist and Y.T., a hacker and courier respectively who both played a key role in preventing the spread of the mind-corrupting Snow Crash virus
  • Elliot Alderson, a former member of the hacker group "fsociety" who helped bring down E Corp through his actions
  • Monika, a sentient video game character who, besides Multivac, is one of the few artificial intelligences not hostile to humanity
  • Alex Murphy, a police officer turned into a cyborg by OCP
  • Corporate opponents of this league included WorryFree, Umbrella and Cyberdyne.
• In the wake of the "Kira Murders" (the 1999 "Hand Fetish Slayer of Morioh", the 2005 copycat "Notebook Killer", and the 2008 "Yasoinaba Murderers") the Japanese government called in wealthy heiress Mitsuru Kirijo to sponsor the Fourth Japanese League, aimed at defending the country against superpowered threats coming from within. The League would operate for seven years before quietly disbanding, only to reunite in 2017 to assist "the Phantom Thieves", an insurgent movement against Prime Minister Masayoshi Shido's supernaturally-backed fascist dictatorship.
  • Shirou Emiya, protege and adopted son of the infamous "Magus Killer", Kiritsugu Emiya
  • Ichigo Kurosaki, a "Soul Reaper"
  • Birdy Cephon Altera, a female alien space police officer sharing a human male's body
  • Chizuko "Chiko" Mikamo, professional burglar trained by the Gentleman Thief "Twenty Faces"
  • Ken Kaneki, a half-"Ghoul" struggling to keep his humanity in the face of his monstrous appetite for human flesh
  • Tohru Adachi, a convicted ex-Killer Cop with the power of "Persona": one of the culprits of the "Third Kira Murders", he joined the League after being offered the chance to have his death sentence commuted to life without parole
  • The challenges this League faced included a terrorist cadre formed by teenagers seeking justice for the illicit experiments performed on them by a cabal of scientists backed by several Japanese politicians; several outbreaks of various zombie virus strains that occurred in Japan during the global "Zombie War"; a conspiracy by the SERN organization to regain a monopoly on time travel technology by assassinating their rivals; and an attempt to breed a super-omnivorous genetically modified creature gone horribly wrong— the latter being quickly and efficiently stamped out, with its inventors brought to trial for endangering the public.
• In 2016, Japanese politician Masayoshi Shido came to power via a supernaturally-backed coup and began implementing various dictatorial measures. However, one year into his term, a rebellion against his regime broke out, forcing him to reactivate the Fourth Japanese League. When they joined the rebels instead, Shido quickly disavowed them and created his own League, as much to keep up PR as to destroy all threats to his rule.
  • "Black Mask", Shido's chief enforcer, able to access the Metaverse and wield the power of "Persona" (also his illegitimate son)
  • Kureo Mado, Ax-Crazy hunter of Ghouls
• Wow, could anyone please try to propose the members of the Leagues each of these "M"s oversaw?
  • And do they all have weaselly little henchmen named Bond?

Orlando eventually becomes Lando Calrissian

He/she has already shortened his/her name and started going by "Lando" in 2009, right? You can bet your ass that by the time the far future rolls around, he/she is gonna be lounging in a tricked-out penthouse in Cloud City, surrounded by a harem of half-naked Green Skinned Space Babes. Sure, he/she would have to get permanent blackface sometime before then. But let's be honest: this is an Alan Moore series. If he wasn't afraid of getting shit for "The Doctor" and "The Moonchild", I doubt he'd shy away from putting Orlando in blackface.

• Maybe this could be done without blackface; since Orlando is of Greek origin and has spent a lot of time in sunnier climes, he... she... shkle has probably worked up a pretty dark tan. The real problem is that Star Wars explicitly takes place a long time ago, although, given all the bizarre plot devices that exist in-universe, that may not be such a problem.
  • Given that Orlando was apparently a cat for a while, a regular old race-shift isn't totally out of the question either.

Orlando ran a strip club in West Baltimore at some point

Knowing what we know about his/her personality, is it really much of a stretch to picture him/her owning a strip club between tours in the Army? The cast of The Wire is already a confirmed part of the League universe (aside from John Munch and his family, Stringer Bell and Slim Charles appear in a street scene in 2009, and there's a "Marlon Little" mentioned in "Minions of the Moon" who may be Omar's father). And The Wire just so happens to include a supporting character who's actually named "Orlando". Coincidence?

Notes on Colleges.

• Since the fifties, modern colleges have gained an infamous reputation for hilariously bizarre hijinks. Hell, one college even started because of this.
• Marshall College in upstate New York, which was once home to a certain archaeology professor named "Jones", is the site of a vast secret cache of mystical artifacts that Jones amassed from his past travels. As such, it's a frequent magnet for the supernatural (not unlike Miskatonic University farther north). The college's dean, Professor Marcus Brody, briefly served as the "M" of an American League during World War II, and used Marshall as a secret base.
• The Sentinel, in Charleston, SC, is one of the most highly regarded military colleges in the United States. Many notable American military officers studied there, including Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, Buck Turgidson and Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce.
• The University of Wallamaloo is the most prestigious college in Australia.
• Clemson Hawthorne College in New England curiously rivals Crystal Lake, New Jersey, and Springwood, Ohio in homicide rates for attractive twentysomethings.
• Greyfriars is still active, and seems to upgraded towards higher education. However, government officials refuse to disclose admission rates or curriculum details. A few questionable intel leaks have led conspiracy theorists to connect it to something called "the Kingsman scholarship" and referrals from a facility called "Cherub", but nothing is known for sure.
• California University holds the dubious distinction of tossing out such crackpots as Emmet Brown, Wayne Szalinski, and Mallory Quinn.
• Columbia University is one of few universities in the United States that offers courses in parapsychology, though the department has been somewhat disgraced in the past when its top researcher, John Montague, renounced the study of the supernatural forever.
• Pittsburgh's most famous institute of higher education is McDuck Pennybags University, founded by Scottish-born steel magnate Scrooge McDuck and former US Treasury Secretary Milburn Pennybags (better known by his derisive nickname "Mr. Monopoly").

Volume 4 will be spanning the course of three books

It will be taken as another trilogy, with the books being based on 2010, 2011 and 2012. Moore did say say he based 2009 on things that were already have happened and couldn't see too far into the future and maybe he also planned on having a Grand Finale for 2012.

• Jossed

Building on the post-apocalyptic Theory posted before

A new League is formed by various post-apocalyptic series' protagonists. It happens when Mr. House, with New Vegas under threat from the NCR and Caesar's legion, finds that a new threat is rising: The unstoppable army of God Emperor Raoh. Pressed to deal with the problem, House sends the Courier to find the only man capable of defending his city from Raoh: The man with the seven scars. Kenshiro agrees to aid House in stop Raoh and Caesar's legion and on the way, find allies in various other apocalyptic wanderers. They get their name when House refers to them as "Some kind of league. A league of Extraordinary Gentlemen."

Any suggestions for members of the League? So far I've only got Kenshiro as the Leader or the Heart of the team. On the villains side, I imagine a power struggle between Raoh, Caesar and other despotic post apocalyptic warlord types.

As for any inconsistencies in the various series time-lines: 1984 didn't happen in 1948 and Henry Jekyll committed suicide in 1886, but the series ignored those.

• Members include the Six String Samurai, "Mad" Max Rockatansky, Vic and his telepathic dog, Blood, and Simon Petrikov and Marceline Abadeer.
  • The world they brave is one divided into many divided areas. There lies lands conquered by mutated animals like the Land of The Apes and its leader, Doctor Zaius, opposed only by a blonde haired boy who lived in a bunker for most of his life named Kamandi and his Dog-Man companion, Doctor Canus, both determined to stop Zaius' enslavement of humans. Zombies ravage many lands but their species is slowly dying out due to humans being more scarce and are more likely to kill zombies due to experience. Sentient robots still remain the highest threat as they have an almost impenetrable Hive-Mind, leaded by AM, with its lieutenants Skynet and GLaDOS and its armies of mutant exterminating Sentinels and Terminators. The second and arguably realistic force to overcome is trying to rebuild civilization due to dwindling supplies and food.

Notes on oceanography

• The most famous underwater explorer of the 20th century (not of the Nemo/Dakar line, that is) was Steve Zissou.
• After the salvage of the wreck of the Titan mentioned in Heart of Ice, the wreck's location was forgotten until it was rediscovered by Dirk Pitt in the 1970s. In the 1990s, Brock Lovett led an expedition to the wreck looking for a famous diamond that Janni had somehow missed.
• Before either Zissou or Pitt, Cuthbert Calculus invented many pioneering submarine designs.
• These and many other explorers were associated with scientific institutions such as the the Nelson Institute for Marine Research, the National Underwater and Marine Agency, and Seabase Alpha.
  • Speaking of the Nelson Institute, its founder, Admiral Harriman Nelson would later attempt to encourage the mechanical and scientific interests of his underachieving nephew Mike in Wisconsin by pulling strings to set him up with a temp job at Gizmonic Institute, an R&D contractor that the N.I.M.R. had worked with in the past, assisting Dr. Clayton Forrester Jr. (son of Dr. Clayton Forrester Sr., who had been instrumental in thwarting the Third Mollusc Invasion in 1953). Michael Nelson later vanished under highly suspicious circumstances in October of 1993, and was presumed dead until 1999 when he was pulled from the wreckage of a crashed satellite which Gizmonic had fraudulently listed as an unmanned probe, but which has since been revealed to be a top secret continuation of deeply unethical psychological experiments originally carried out by Doctors Branom and Brodsky of Britain's now-defunct Ministry of Love. Exactly what tortures Nelson was subjected to during his imprisonment on the so-called "Satellite of Love" is unknown, but he was left deeply traumatized by the experience and has been seen conversing with three crude effigies constructed from scrap which he believes are "his robot friends".
• Atlantis at some point experienced a civil war that led to many civilizations, all very different from one another, who each call themselves the "real" Atlantis. One is ruled by the human-Atlantean hybrid Arthur Curry and is rivals with the one ruled by Namor. One lost knowledge and was found by an expedition led by Commander Rourke. One was the birthplace of one of the very first superheroes period. One was ruled by Poseidon and destroyed entirely by Kratos. One was destroyed no less than nine times by a very stupid fairy. They hold contact with Atlantica and Bikini Bottom is a small independent city. When Andrew Ryan built his city of Rapture, he refused any alliances. They also stay the hell away from R'lyeh.

There was a League of some sort during the Renaissance

This League was likely a Multinational Team comprised members from all over Europe and maybe the Middle East as well, and included:

• Quasimodo
• a Florentine man in a white hooded robe with twin bladed gauntlets who is definitely not Ezio Auditore, and maybe some of his associates as well
• Yusuf Tazim was an Ottoman representative in this League
• a man claiming to be a legendary dreaded pirate, a Spanish swordsman who spent his life searching for his father's killer, and a Turkish giant who may or may not be named Westley, Inigo, and Fezzik, respectively
• Trevor Belmont and his wife Sypha; Grant Danasty has since broken ties with them while Alucard is off doing his own thing
• Ra's al Ghul, a young Assassin and one of Ezio's protégés prior to his journey to Masyaf, long before Ra's discovered the Lazarus Pit which allowed him to become immortal and formed a splinter group of radicalized Assassins known as the League of Shadows
• This League's M was Niccolò Machiavelli.

At some point, this League went on an expedition into Hell itself, joined a conspiracy to depose the Pope, and traveled to the New World.

A Japanese League was started in 11th century

This League was founded by the Minamoto clan and two of its founding members were Prince Genji and a samurai who was trained all over the world to fight the evil Aku after his homeland was conquered. One of the League's benefactors around the year 1600 was a Shogun named Toranaga who decided to become a patron of the Japanese League after meeting an Englishman named John Blackthorne, who was also a member of this era's Japanese League. In the Victorian/Meiji period, Nemo traveled to Japan and encountered some members of the Japanese League, including Kenshin Himura.

• Since the late sixteenth century, the number of members has traditionally been seven after a legendary group of samurai who successfully defeated 40 bandits.
  • Additionally: Kambei Shimada, Katsushiro Okamoto, and Shichiroji were themselves members of one of the Japanese League's incarnations.

Notes on Anthropomorphic Animals

• After humanity lost the Homo-sapiens/Moreau-sapiens War and left for the stars. The Furries restart history in there own image.
• The Great Apes of Mangani are Moreau-sapien apes who rejected Dr. Moreau's attempts to teach them the ways of humankind, and returned to the jungles of Africa. They retain their human-like intelligence, but they cling fiercely to the Ways of the Jungle, and they've devised their own language that only a select few humans (including John Clayton and Donald Thornberry) can speak.
• The citizens of Zootopia, the students of Cherryton Academy, and BoJack Horseman are descended from Moreau's experiments.
• One such Moreau-sapiens who integrated himself into society is a cat who either genuinely thinks he's a child despite being an adult, or a pedophile putting on an act.

Humans on Mars

• John Carter and Gullivar Jones aren't the only humans on Mars, nor are they the first. In fact, they were preceded by almost twenty years by another American who was astral-projected to Mars as a result of a mortal wound which prevented him from ever returning to Earth. He wandered Mars for eons, gradually attaining god-like powers and becoming King of Mars. His name was Abraham Lincoln.
• In 2075, the Ultor Corporation has complete control of Mars, and is currently trying to contain a communist uprising.
• In the 2030's, astronaut Mark Watney was stranded on the Red Planet for 459 sols. Surprisingly, he encountered no native martians during his time there. However, this event leads to Mark Watney being known as "the first Martian", and is seen as an important historical icon for the future settlers there.
• The defeat of the Vers Empire in the Versian-Earther Wars of 2015 paved the way for the rise of the Martian Congressional Republic 200 years later. Versian leader Slaine Troyard is considered a martyr for Martian independence by the MCR, with his trial and imprisonment widely considered an Earther war crime. "Slaine did nothing wrong!" and "Earth lied, Slaine died!" are rallying cries often heard at MCR protests.

The Comic Part 6

There exists a haven for mutants in the LoEG world

I figure that there would legally permitted cameos from the X-Men that, like Janni Dakkar's pirate crew in the Nemo spinoff books, are consisted of many mutants or superhuman men and women in fiction. Care to fill in the ranks?

• Danny Torrance was recruited shortly after the "Overlook" incident and had a normal education. He would call himself "Doc" and later "Doctor Sleep" as his codename and later took on proteges, Cole Sear, Odd Thomas and Norman Babcock.
• This is at least vaguely implied in The Tempest, when Orlando mentions that there's pirate activity out of "Genotia," the name of which comes from 18th century literature but could easily be another name for Genosha from Marvel Comics—it wouldn't be the first time unalike characters and places have been meshed together in this setting, and trademarks have been written around before such as Q'mar instead of Qumar.

Helen Atcher had her own League created

With the "reformed" Alexander Delarge serving as its leader. Other members are;

• Willard Stiles, the "Rat-Man" of the late '60s that terrorized his town with his army of intelligent rats.
  • Slight complication: according to Tempest, the Margaret Thatcher analogue is Miss Brunner from The Cornelius Chronicles.

Notes On Crime

• From 1989 to 1991, Vice City was terrorized by crazies wearing animal masks as they slaughtered the Russian Mafia and the Colombian cartel.
• Crime is rampant in major cities across the United States, from Liberty City, Alderney, Vice City, and the entire state of San Andreas.
• In addition, the notorious street gang known as the Third Street Saints have become pop-culture symbols in America, with their leader, known only as the Boss, eventually being elected President and almost single-handedly stopping an alien invasion.
• In the 1930's up until the 1960's, the Italian mafia controlled every city from Lost Heaven, to Empire Bay, to New Bordeaux.
• While working in the White House, Frank Underwood, better known as Keyser Soze, continues to run his elaborate criminal empire. To continue the myth of Soze, Underwood has employed the aid of multiple disciples to take his place... most of which has failed. John Doe has run amok with his serial killings, Dave Harken is imprisoned, Tom Brand had been turned into a cat, and "Doc" was killed by one of his goons. The only successful candidate thus far is "Verbal" Kint, who is handling direct duties for Underwood. But like the ancient empires, nothing lasts forever. Frank was poisoned by an overdose of liver pills and died in his sleep, thus dismantling the Soze criminal enterprise.
• The "Kira Murders" were a series of brutal serial killings in Japan at the turn of the millenium, from 1999 to 2008. The first wave of murders occurred in 1999, in the rural town of Morioh. Over the course of several months, several young women were found dead, all of them with their hands cut off. This distinct act of mutilation gave the culprit his nickname: the "Hand Fetish Slayer". The culprit was revealed to be the businessman Kosaku Kawajiri, a salaryman in a loveless marriage who, according to his wife Shinobu, seemed to undergo a sudden personality change. Kosaku would not be arrested, instead dying while on the run from a prospective victim by an ambulance running him over. However, several eyewitnesses, including Kosaku's son Hayato and local delinquent Josuke Higashikata, instead point to a man named "Yoshikage Kira" who was in Morioh at that time and allegedly had a similar motive and SOP as Kosaku. A legal battle is still being waged over this, as the evidence provided by the witnesses could not be discredited so easily. Advocates of the "Yoshikage-Kira-as-Hand-Fetish-Slayer" theory point to Kira's sudden disappearance after the end of the 1999 Murders.
  The second wave of Kira Murders were the work of the "Notebook Killer", who allegedly used a supernatural artifact to kill people he considered evil by means of a heart attack. He went under the name "Kira", taken from the aforementioned theory about the 1999 Murders' true culprit. The "Notebook Killer" was revealed to be Light Yagami, son of police officer Soichiro Yagami: like Kosaku Kawajiri, he would not go to trial, but die of a sudden heart attack during his arrest.
  The third and final wave of Kira Murders occurred in the quiet town of Yasoinaba around 2008-2009. This time, there were two murderers: the first one was high school student Mitsuo Kubo, an otaku and outcast who confessed to killing his teacher so he would be famous. However, he was only a patsy of the true murderer: officer Tohru Adachi, a rookie recently reassigned to Yasoinaba, who killed two women who refused his amorous advances— allegedly by shoving them into a parallel dimension where they were swiftly devoured by its residents. To cover his tracks, he attempted to murder a group of high school students investigating the case, using his newly-acquired supernatural powers to do so... only for the students to defeat him with powers of their own. Unlike the culprits of the other two Kira Murders, Mitsuo and Adachi would be captured alive and imprisoned; Adachi later joined the Fourth Japanese League, in exchange for the reduction of his death sentence to life without parole— a policy that was controversial then and still is today.
  The Kira Murders were a major motivation in the creation of the Fourth Japanese League (though, ironically, one of them would become a League member), and it is argued that the fear created by these supernatural killers played a large part in the success of Masayoshi Shido's 2016 campaign for Prime Minister, where he ran as a law-and-order candidate.
• The American Mafia as we know it today was formed in the 30s by Johnny Vanning (probably an Americanized name), until his exile to Cuba ^note  or, who knows, Delfino Island or something on the testimonies of various call girls. The organization was thereafter mostly looked after by his advisor Vito Corleone and his underboss Emilio Barzini, who rather infamously did not get along.
  • Vanning probably learned the ropes of organized crime from Jewish gangster Meyer Wolfsheim, rumored to have fixed the World Series.
  • Tony Camonte is one of the more famous members of the Mafia. He ran Chicago for some time, until famous G-Man Brick Davis managed to nab him on a tax technicality. Camonte died ignominiously of syphilis after a stint in jail, despite rumors that he went out in a blaze of glory.
• The Martillo, Gandor, Russo, and Runorata families rose in power in the early 1930’s. Several members of the Martillo and Gandor families supposedly became immortal and have been manipulating crime within New York to the present day through various middlemen like Wilson Fisk.
• The Vanetti Family of Illinois was brought down through the machinations of Angelo Lagusa, the survivor of a family killing performed by the boss. The liquor he and his accomplice Corteo produced to get into the criminal organization, Lawless Heaven, is still produced and sold world-wide by Nero Vanetti, who changed his identity after his family’s death, and his children.
• In response to the growing influence of organized crime, President Judd Hammond and Senator Jefferson Smith converted a series of boy's youth camps into training facilities for a new brand of "super G-Men". Incorporating the crime-fighting philosophies of Doc Savage, Nick Carter, scientific detective Craig Kennedy, Thatcher Colt of the Nightclub Lady case, and others. These camps would produce some of America's finest lawmen, including Dick Tracy.
• Jack Carter- born Charlie Croker- participated in a heist that heavily damaged the economy of Italy. After a large portion of the loot was lost in transit, Jack/Charlie hid from his financiers in London for a time under the protection of Vic Dakin (thus, the opening of Century: 1969).
• The "Actor Robbers", Isaac Dian and Miria Harvent, have committed a string of bizarre robberies in the United States since the 1930s. They are immortal and have continued with their lifestyle throughout the years, avoiding arrest partly because their exploits are so ridiculous and their personalities so likable that their targets and civilians hardly, if ever, report them. Their actions throughout the years helped to pave the way for Arsene Lupin's supposed grandson.
• In the late 90s, Naples was rocked by a violent schism in its most powerful Mafia organization, Passione. The official accounts are unclear as to the exact events of the gang war, but when the smoke cleared, a relatively unknown mobster by the name of Giorno Giovanna became the Don of Passione, replacing the original Don Diavolo. Ironically, since that day, criminal activity by Naples' underworld has decreased substantially.
• The 2010s in South Korea saw the capture and trial of one of Asia's most depraved serial killers: Oh Sangwoo, nicknamed "the Korean Kira" for his love of targeting attractive young women. Testimony from a young man named Yoon Bum, whom Sangwoo tortured and kept captive in his home, was crucial in putting Sangwoo behind bars. Tragically, only a few months after Sangwoo's death at the hands of an old woman, Yoon Bum would die after getting hit by a car. The debate still continues as to whether Yoon Bum's death was an accident or suicide, as the young man's mental state— which was not quite healthy to begin with— had never quite stabilized. The policeman who captured Sangwoo, Yang Seungbae, would later be recruited by the Korean League.
• From the late eighties to the early 2000s, Japan saw an unprecedented rise in gang violence with the rise of the Capsules, Clowns, the Color gangs, the Dollars, and the Crazy Diamonds gang. This also prompted the Japanese government to activate their own superhero program, rumored to be descendants of Hugo Hercules from when he visited Japan to help the continent with its influx of demons.
• In 2010, Hope’s Peak Academy became the site of a bizarre massacre committed by a despair-obsessed cult. The former model Junko Enoshima, with the aid of the Ultimate Animator Ryota Mitarai and the mind-control technology of the Cyclops organization, mind-controlled several students and turned them into the bizarre cult called Ultimate Despair. They massacred the school and trapped Junko’s classmates to force them to kill one-another. However, once Junko was killed the members of Ultimate Despair fled to different corners of the globe. Ibuki Mioda currently resides in Arkham Asylum after being captured by the sixth Batman. Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu and his bodyguard/assassin Peko Pekoyama attempted to combine the strength of the Kuzuryu family with the yakuza organization Shie Hassaikai, but both were brought down through the combined efforts of the Phantom Thieves and the Japanese superhero Sir Nighteye.
• Although Professor Moriarty died in the aftermath of his private war with the Lord of Limehouse, his influence was felt long afterwards. His chief-of-staff, Sebastian Moran, formed a network for various other criminal masterminds. This network was known by various names throughout history: SPECTRE, THRUSH, the Syndicate, and so on. By the 40s and 50s, its influence had grown to global proportions.
• The perpetrator of the “Mr. Mercedes Massacre”, Brady Hartsfield, became national news after attempting to cause hundreds of people to commit suicide by inducing a hypnotic trance with a video game in spite of being catatonic. Many speculate that Brady’s limited but powerful telepathic and telekinetic abilities come from him being the grandson of Charles Xavier. The mutant group has repeatedly denied knowledge of Brady’s existence and shut down numerous interviews that accused the group of attempting to cover up another one of their founder’s dirty secrets.
• A strange murder case surrounding Little League coach Terry Maitland made national news when evidence showed that he was in Cap City attending a convention during the murder he was accused of. While fingerprint, eyewitness, and video evidence and the public apology Detective Ralph Anderson helped to clear Terry after his assassination many speculate as to who, or what, had killed the child. Theories range from a Skrull fugitive to the still at large Ultimate Imposter.
• A man claiming to be Arsene Lupin's grandson began his career in the 1960s, making near-impossible heists while humiliating or killing anyone who got in his way. Aided by a sharpshooting bodyguard, a samurai assassin, and a female thief who all tried to kill him at several points, they began traveling the world, stealing from governments and other super-criminals. Noted MI5 agent Jimmy Bond had been left at the government organization's steps hogtied and naked after an unsuccessful assassination attempt. League member Orlando slept with "Lupin the Third" while female and remarked that the man had experience. However, it was reported that this man was a serial rapist who left several bastard children in his wake, including a young female assassin attending Butei High.
• Some time in the future around the same time time travel had been invented via reverse engineering of Time Lord technology and remnants of what seem to be Emmet Brown's lost "flux capacitor", the increase in missing persons involved in organized crime didn't go unnoticed by the relevant authorities. Suspected to be related to the documented existence of so-called "Loopers" back in the 2040s, agents from Tenet with assistance from Time Force are investigating what they think might be a time-travel assassination scheme. However, the rise of the Rainmaker, suspected to be a mutant that was part of the "TK" baby boom precedented by the AKIRA and Divine Tree incidents in Japan, regularly interferes with the investigation due to suspected former "Loopers" apparently being forced to "close their loops" by the Rainmaker.
• John Doe, Jeff the Killer, William Afton, and John Kramer (formerly known as Kevin McCallister) attended the Cereal Convention, only to get a very rude awakening when Dream of the Endless took away their delusions and forced them to confront their evilness.

Jimmy Bond is actually the 'James Bond' from the 1954 Casino Royal movie.

• The reason for 'James' being so out of character is because in the 1954 movie, Jimmy was a CIA operative rather than an MI6 operative. Thus Alan Moore was able to have his cake and eat it too: Jimmy had all the worst traits of James Bond and was both a complete failure and traitor, while James Bond 1-6 represented the best of James Bond and are completely 100% loyal to their country.

The Antichrist isn't a cut-and-dried case of Character Derailment.

• For most of the books, Harry's personality is in large part encouraged if not actively molded by Dumbledore's plans for him. So if the Headmaster had been Voldemort all along, Harry would hardly have been the Chronic Hero Syndrome-suffering kid/teen we know, especially since he was being groomed to become, well, The Antichrist.
  • Given that the books take place entirely from Harry's point of view, it's possible that Voldemort initially framed his guidance in such a way as to make Harry believe that he suffered from Chronic Hero Syndrome while actually having him carry out acts that were (unbeknownst to him due to the strategic omission of certain crucial details) quite the opposite, before revealing the terrible truth as a means of breaking him.

If Volume 4 is set after 2012, Nehemiah Scudder will be the leader of America.

Bonus points if it's noted that the United States is no longer called that and is instead called the Republic of Gilead and/or that Scudder turned Los Angeles into a penal colony.

• Additionally the potential for commentary on the current presidential administration (either making Scudder engage in similar tactics and behavior or deconstructing the fears surrounding Trump by juxtaposing him with a genuine tyrant) seems like the kind of thing Moore would be all over.
• Looks like we got Jossed with that it's Johnny Gentle from Infinite Jest although some of us feel that was a swerve in itself that we got a book character from the 1990s in the role.

In 2019, a separate multiverse from the LoEG universe was created

An incident in Neo-Tokyo resulted in a teen named Tetsuo developing psychokinetic powers. A conflict caused the powerful esper Akira to create a singularity that sends the unstable Tetsuo to another dimension. Regaining control over his powers, Tetsuo created a big bang, creating a new universe as well as a new multiverse with brand new laws of physics. There are twelve in total, but each has its differences. One is currently marine-based in its geography, with super-powered piracy rampant. Another shares its space with a realm known as the Digital World, implied to be this world's counterpart to the Blazing World. In yet another, the Wild West's bounty system is reinstated after the Earth is devastated beyond repair. And so on, all under the watch of a being known as Zen-Oh.

The Digital World's Prospero counterpart is Gennai, or as he's known in his home universe, Doctor Tenma.

A league of sociopaths is formed in the 21st century

It all begins when a Japanese man named Takabe flees from his home country to the United States and changes his name to Mamiya. After committing murders through hypnotized pawns up until the 2000s, he decides to find those who would of followed his predecessor's gruesome ways willingly. He starts by recruiting a middle school student named Gregory, whose diaries he read after finding in the trash. Greg agrees to leave his average life behind since his Spoiled Brat little brother Manny asked for all of Greg's worldly possessions for his birthday present and actually got their parents to agree to it. He and Greg then go to the depressing city of Clamburg, which as crawling with horrible monsters that have overtaken the city and betrayed their creator, a young, Bulgarian, Mad Scientist girl with a genetic condition that makes her hair and skin green, whose obsession with her nemesis caused her to loose control of her fiendish creations. Desperate to escape, she joins them with the promise that she can become as dangerous as even her strongest fiend under Mamiya's tutelage. The next recruit is a self admitted "disturbed, lonely sociopath" named Nora Dershlit, who they break out of an insane asylum. Realizing he's only gathered children so far, Mamiya and his group try to recruit an aging, infamous hitman named Anton Chigurh, only for him to try to murder them in response. Before he can he's suddenly shot dead from a woman in a helicopter, which lands and is revealed to be an android named Ava who has recently escaped from her killed creator's facility. She has deemed that most humans are weak and and deserve to die and only the sociopaths of the world should remain, joined together as an army that will Take Over the World. Mamiya plays along and has Ava use her robot mind to track down three more sociopaths to try and recruit; Amy Dunne, Kevin Khatchadourian, and Louis Bloom. Mamiya then destroys Ava and he decides to officially deem the group a league. Thankfully, they are stopped before they do too much more.

Members of a modern day league could include...

• Moses, a South London gang member turned alien hunter.
• Rama, an Indonesian special forces member.
• Bryan Mills, an ex-CIA operative.
• Kousaku Kuroda, a Japanese diplomat.
• Shelby Woo, a skilled American detective.
• Birdy Cephon Altera, a Human Alien super-soldeer cop.
• Rick Sanchez, an alcoholic, self-destructive scientist and inventor.
• Joe Musashi, master of ninjutsu.
• Dominic Cobb, corporate saboteur and dream infiltrator.

Volume IV will feature - or outright end with - an appearance by Tommy Westphall.

The author and artist biographies on the dust jacket for Volume III are canon, revealing the nature of fiction within the setting

The bios describe Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neill as British mythical figures - explicitly fictional characters who don't exist (yet, as Prospero makes clear about our own fictions at the end of Black Dossier, still affect people in a very real way). This is a big clue to the nature of fiction in the comic's universe. Very little of our fiction (except for metafiction, of course, which over there is just plain fiction) is shown to also be fictional in that universe. But exceptions and metafiction can't account for all its fiction. So what else does it have for fiction? Our reality. The tables are turned. In their world, most of their fictional characters are real people from our universe. That includes you.

Alan Moore is gonna go full Marshal Law in Volume IV

Both Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neil have a highly negative opinion of superhero comics, and the teasers have mentioned an 'ageing costumed adventurer culture'...they're not even being subtle about it, aheheh.

• Perhaps America in Leagueverse will now be a totalitarian state and the "super heroes" are the rebels being squashed down but keeping a dream alive? Although in this idea IDK if he'd use Lawyer Friendly Cameos of comic book heroes, or Teen Dystopia heroes or characters from other places.
  • It's possible LOEG's America could be dystopian, lord knows their universe is way more screwed up than ours...however, considering that whatever love Moore might have had for the superhero genre is likely gone by this point, and Kevin O'Neil was key to making Marshal Law, the odds of his use of superheroes being anything but positive are sadly very, very high.
  • Given one of the solicits now makes mention of "through a New York coping with an ageing costume-hero population", makes one think that's a Marvel parody incoming. Or is there some super hero series set in New York that's creator is on good terms with Moore to be put to use there?
  • We can now note we did get some Lawyer-Friendly Cameo appearences of various American super heroes in a scene.

In the League-verse, the belief that the mainstream left is totalitarian and tied to communism is outright true.

This is a common belief among certain segments of the right-wing in real life. Obviously, Moore doesn't actually hold this view given his own left-anarchist tendencies. He quite likely regards this as little more than a conspiracy theory-and conspiracy theories probably count as fiction.

This would explain the prominence of left-wing extremism arising in various countries in the League world. Harold Wharton's Ingsoc regime is explicitly stated to have arisen from the Labour Party. Realistically, Wharton should have merely been a Clement Attlee analogue rather than the vicious tyrant he became-but if part of the All Myths Are True element to this world is the veracity of claims the Labour Party is secretly hardline communist, it makes more sense. This would also explain the fact the US had a communist president in the immediate postwar period (Mike Thingmaker, as mentioned in the Nemo trilogy). This would line up with a scenario where the McCarthy era's anti-communist paranoia was not mere paranoia, but in fact was rooted in truth. Similar things can be said for the "hippie fascism" of President Max Foster in 1969. The idea of a counterculture dictatorship is one that is largely confined to conspiracy-oriented elements of the right wing-in the League world, perhaps these people were Properly Paranoid after all.

• By extension, the most hyperbolic of claims about the mainstream right are also true, thus making politics a case of Evil vs. Evil. While "SJWs" are an actual organized group in this world dedicated to the destruction of all white penises in America, literally every guy who doesn't like children's cartoons introducing gay characters or flat-chested teenage girls is a cultist who worship the legacies of Bob Ewell, Calvin Candie, and Johann Schmidt while dreaming every night a vision of an alternate universe where the Confederacy won and American culture revolves completely around how great it is to abuse black slaves and women.
  • And centrists are all spineless weaklings with absolutely no convictions whatsoever.

The following characters that will appear in Volume 4: The Tempest.

• Segata Sanshiro
• Fire Bomber

Harry didn't kill everyone

This is a theory I devised after learning about the fantheory that Neville Longbottom was the actual chosen one as opposed to the boy-who-lived.My idea was that, mirroring this, while the adventures Harry had were arranged people still had to go through them, and from the sound of things they didn't have any choice in the matter, being 'compelled' possibly mind controlled, but aware of it to a point (and that's assuming that the people running the conspiracy involved everyone, most likely it was just the faculty involved with it). As I understand, Neville grew into a fairly powerful magic user himself during the story and even played a sizable role in thwarting Voldemort. Even if he was compelled he still would have learned from the experience.

Thematically it may be fitting that while most of Hogwarts and Hogsmeade were killed by the Moonchild, at least some percentage of them might have made it out. And in fitting with the aforementioned theory I presented, my personal guess would be somehow he was the reason this happened. Somehow helping some degree of residents make it out, or possibly even manage to hold the Moonchild back altogether.It's mostly a headcanon as opposed to an actual theory, and could tie into the above mentioned theory that Hogwarts isn't actually dead and buried, and that Mina and Orlando just saw an illusion, but still, just wanted to share this.

Orlando is the grandfather/grandmother of Garfield or an ancestor to some degree

Now I dunno what the lifespan of a cat is exactly, and this is mostly just something humorous I'd came up with, but here.

Orlando said in the Black Dossier that they'd been an orange cat 'for ages' and that they also greatly enjoyed the large amount of sex they had whilst a kitty cat.Thing is, I dunno if Orlando is sterile or not, but cats don't really have any form of protection when mating, meaning Orlando probably has a bunch of kittens somewhere, or feline relatives.

Why I say Garfield specifically, granted I dunno how Garf's mom would make it to the US, Orlando specifically said they were an orange cat. And Garfield is not only an orange cat with a love of hedonism (in his case, eating, sleeping and watching TV) and apparently doesn't age at all. Just like Orlando presumably was when they were a cat.

The Doctor will be a villain in Volume 4.

So far, icons of modern British fiction have not exactly been treated too kindly by Moore. The Doctor is the most prominent contemporary British character Moore hasn't worked into the series as anything more than background characters, and given how Bond and Harry were treated, there's little reason to expect him to come off too well if he plays a bigger part. Bonus points if this in part comes in the form of deconstructing the differences between the original series and the revival portrayed the Doctor.

• The Doctor's second cameo in the Captain Nemo trilogy could well have been a heart-to-heart between his first and eleventh incarnations about what it means to be the Doctor.
  • I'm the fellow who posted up the theory that Prospero is actually going to be the villain in Volume 4, and while it would be in character for Alan Moore to turn the Doctor into a bad guy, I still stand by my theory...however, this could also turn out to be true. So I'll wait and see how this turns out.
    • It doesn't have to be mutually exclusive either-it's possible Prospero is the main villain of Volume 4 with the Doctor as either The Dragon (possibly with elements of The Starscream), a separate antagonist who isn't the central focus of the volume.

The parody songs of "Weird Al" Yankovic are the actual versions of the songs in this world...sorta

Which means that in this universe, the band 2gether released "tBay", a song in which the main singer talks about all the stuff he bought on "tBay". All the pop culture stuff is replaced with in-universe equivalents (for example, the "old toupee" he bid on belonged to Jason Nesmith) with one exception; the ALF alarm clock. Why? Because after the government captured ALF, they dissected him and, because the scientist in charge was feeling like a jokester, turned his stuffed corpse into an alarm clock. The scientist was fired for wasting the long-sought alien's body and was fired, but he stole it and then sold on "tBay" to the lead singer of 2gether. When the song was released the government assassinated both the scientist and the singer. An older "Cam" Jansen and Kaito Kuroba are both investigating their deaths.

• Jurassic Park has lyrics almost identical to the original song and was written by Tim Murphy to cope with the trauma of his experience. The only differences are the line referring to Barney (instead it refers to Smoochy and the line mentioning the T-rex ate the lawyer. Why this one? Because in the novel, Gennaro was a more heroic character and survived the island and the T-rex ate the PR guy Ed Regis instead.
• Michael Jackson released the song "Eat It" as a means of coping with an eating disorder he developed in the middle of his career. Why? Nobody is 100% sure-it might have something to due with depression stemming from his rumored lycanthrophy, the strain put on him by his cooperation with the black ops elements of the US government or the consequences of his experiments in the Dreamlands.
• Weird Al himself exists in the League-verse and many of the songs he wrote were actually the original versions. Unfortunately, unlike in reality, Al was assassinated by a cartel member on the orders of Madonna.

Most "Isekai" are all lies being used by the Japanese government to get rid of those deemed detrimental to their country

The "other worlds" they get trapped in are some kind of illusion that is induced in them by something that could be best described as a Lotus-Eater Machine that is Inside a Computer System. Some of the ones subjected to the most "basic" forms of this are Ginta Toramizu, Touya Mochizuki, Cinque Izumi, Yuuto Suoh, and Takuma Sakamoto. Others are given much more complex variations, some that are outright parodies or much less ideal places due to the mysterious "creators" wanting to poke fun at the other worlds they created, are used for Shuzo "Chu" Matsutani, Kazuma Satou, Satoru "Momonga" Suzuki, Subaru Natsuki and more. The alternate worlds do exist to some degree (some might even be aware they are part of a power fantasy or sick joke), but are tailor made for the procedure and could be radically changed by the ones running it from the outside at any time. They are often lead into it via a fake video game dropped at their doorsteps. Some are eventually let out, after being thrown for quite a loop, while others die in the process, but live on within the program before it is deleted. What did most of these poor dudes do to have this done to them? One might jump to "They're rapists!" because of Alan Moore's penchant for it, but I suggest it's more benign; they are deemed "worthless", being poor with women from their own world, not being good workers, not being eligible for the military, not displaying skills that could be beneficial to anyone else, being a burden on their friends and family, etc. Those who are let out are given a way out within the logic of the world they are in, and just lead to believe they had that adventure none the wiser.

The Time Traveler will come back

Long after the events of Allan and the Sundered Veil all the way back in Volume 1, the Time Traveler will finally have found his way out of that mysterious time dimension and will become directly involved in the events of the story. He might even be able to do something about Prospero....

The Comic Part 7

Music in the League-verse

Since all things fictional are real, the music scene was very different in this universe.

• Following the disastrous Hyde Park concert and the sudden hiatus of lead singer Terner Purple, the Purple Orchestra hired Mick Swagger as a replacement. Ironically, this changing of the guard managed to make the band more popular than ever due to the singer’s more personable attitude with fans and his bandmates.
  • Mick Swagger (called Mock Swagger by hard core Terner Purple fans) shocked the world when he used his biggest fan, Luna Loud, to summon Ormagöden to slaughter his fans and band mates for the crime of not loving him enough. He was stopped by Luna and her bandmate and girlfriend, Sam Sharp.
• In the 1980’s, Larry Underwood became well-known for his hit single “Baby Can You Dig Your Man” and his record “Pocket Savior” sold well. However, it was his only real hit as his various addictions and money problems soon prevented the release of further albums.
• The rapper Thugnificent dominated the rap scene in the early 2000’s, but his unwise spending habits soon caught up with him.
• The Japanese pop idol Mima Kirigoe was murdered in 1997 by her mentally unstable producer, who attempted to impersonate her shortly after the idol left the music industry.
• The Japanese idol Rise Kujikawa became an international sensation after a long vacation in the town of Yasoinaba, Japan. When pressed about her involvement in the capture and conviction of the Third Kira Murders' culprits, she declined to comment, creating a host of rumors about her suffering some sort of trauma connected to the case.
• The human music duo Carole & Tuesday became a big hit on both Mars and Earth. Their music is a personal favorite of the Lord of Mars, and continues to be popular in the Martian Congressional Republic to this day. They also have a surprising amount of fans among the populace of the Belt, with one anonymous Belter fan quoted as saying they're "pretty damn good for inyalowda music".
• The hard rock band Spinal Tap dominated the hard rock genre after abandoning their psuedo-Rutles beginnings in the late 60’s. Surprisingly, they are actually pretty popular in Japan.
• Deathklok, one of the most successful bands of the early 2000’s, was forced to permanently cancel live shows due to the numerous lawsuits they received from the families of concert attendees killed by various stage props that were shoddily put together. This pleased the various government heads, religious leaders, and parent groups that disapproved of the scandal-prone metal band.
• Japanese indie rock band The Seasons (later renamed Given) has a substantial fanbase among Japan's queer community, one that only grew larger when all four of them came out of the closet. Vocalist Mafuyu Sato came out as gay after several reports of him spending time after a show with guitarist Haruki Nakayama came to light. This was followed not long afterwards by bassist Haruki Nakayama and drummer Akihiko Kaji coming out as bisexual and revealing they had become a couple.
• An otherworldly noble only known as The Thin White Duke came to Earth and proceeded to begin the glam rock craze by taking on various forms including the alien Ziggy Stardust. One of his more popular songs included a touching memorial for the recently killed Major Tom, who died while testing an experimental vehicle for the super scientist Jonas Venture. His last known human incarnation was the Mars-based transgender musician named Desmond.
• The legendary music producer Swan, who helped bring the Rutles to America, was killed during an incredibly wild rock show/public wedding at his prized rock hall The Paradise in 1974. He was first stabbed by the supposedly dead Winslow Leach and was stabbed to death by audience members who thought it was part of the show. An ongoing investigation revealed that the music producer had used supernatural means to keep his youth and framed Winslow Leach to hide how the producer stole his music. The testimony of the singer Phoenix and members of the Juicy Fruits revealed the producer was incredibly abusive to his clients and a sexual predator who coerced female singers for sex in exchange for starting their careers. Despite this, the Paradise lived on as a go-to concert location for rising music stars. It has housed the live concerts of Deathklok, Spinal Tap, Thugnificent, and Rise Kujikawa.
• The song 'Get Schwifty' became a major hit after it saved the Earth from being destroyed.
• In 2019, Jack Malik became a celebrity for his hit album "One Man Only", although he was criticized for his music sounding derivative to the Rutles and riding the coattails of nostalgia. He ultimately revealed that he had not written the songs he recorded and made them available for free over the Internet. Many speculate that he had plagiarized the lyrics off of the songs of a short-lived Japanese Rutles copycat band that called itself The Beatles.
• Kamilah Al-Jamil is currently the youngest person to have been inducted into the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame thanks to her Grammy-award winning album.
• The Midnight Riders solidified their status as icons of the heavy metal genre when they continued their concert tour well into the Zombie War. The band ultimately only stopped after they had to be evacuated from an overrun concert.
• Slim Whitman became an American hero after his music thwarted a Martian invasion.
• The American garage rock-band scene was in its prime in the 80s and 90s. There was an easygoing feud between fans of The Pinheads and Wyld Stallyn (the latter of which came under fire by Moral Guardians for a strange cult-like utopian group that arose from its fanbase). Fans of the Hong Kong Cavaliers (famously made mostly of celebrated physicists and surgeons) regarded both as being flash-in-the-pan upstarts.
• The primarily British band Gorillaz rose in popularity after their debut In 1998 and have been beset with both controversy and strange occurrences. From the lead singer 2-D siring multiple illegitimate children to guitarist Noodle being the product of a government super soldier program, the band has been no stranger to the bizarreness of the world. Orlando secretly investigated the band’s bassist Murdoc Niccals on suspicion that the man was one of Aleister Crowley’s failed antichrists, and the band came under fire in 2018 when they temporarily replaced the then-imprisoned Murdoc with known jailbird Ace.
• American indie band The Rock Cocks are known less for their music than for the debauched antics of their founders, Steg and Suria. It's even rumored that they "entertained" League member Orlando during a visit to America.
• The popstar Conner4Real escaped death when the Elder God Cthulhu mistook the minor pop sensation Justin Bieber for him and, at the direction of the fallen “hero” The Coon, killed him. After doing a well-intentioned but ultimately idiotic song supporting gay rights with Conner4Real called “Equal Rights”, Rise Kujikawa privately called him a “fucking idiot”.
  • After hearing his song “Finest Girl” which is based on an encounter where Conner4Real’s sexual partner wanted to perform intercourse on her like the United States killed Jack Dakkar, the very much alive Jack Dakkar told Mina Murray he couldn’t track the metaphor either.
• Elderly superhero Aquaman was criticized for his friendship with disgraced rapper Kenny West who made his home in the ocean after deciding he was a gay fish.
• Famous country singer Dewey Cox died on stage after a concert. Many of his contemporaries agree that this was likely a result of a long history of drug use which was encouraged by one of his band mates.
• A small band from Jersey called The Cruisers slowly rise to fame until their leader, Eddie Wilson drives off a bridge and his body was never found. Eddie would turn out to be alive, being the leader of another band in the 1980s. After a short run of successful hits, Eddie reforms the Criusers, merging together both bands and continue to play until his retirement in the 1990s.

We will see a club whose membership includes every modern-day emulator of the great detective Sherlock Holmes

Including Shirley Holmes of Reddington, Canada; Mr. William Sherlock Scott Holmes (the one with the blog); that former MI6 agent living in Manhattan; that other one who lives in Manhattan; Charlotte Holmes of Conecticut; and Sara "Sherlock" Futaba of Tokyo. Mina or someone of the appropriate age will note that they're, for the most part, worthy successors, but still think they're taking the whole thing a bit far.

• Not to mention that Darryl Zero guy, former con artist Patrick Jane, stagehand and artificer Jonathan Creek and, most unbelievably, a mouse named Basil. The impressively long-lived Nero Wolfe, however, declined to join.

Research into psychic phenomena

Look, it's no surprise this stuff happens.

• In Britain, the first real evidence we see of this kind of research comes with Department 7 in the 70s, which involved something called the Omega Factor.
• Not to be outdone, Americans started their own projects. Initial attempts involved Dr. Paul Novotny's research into dream therapy. It was a disaster.
  • First some of its most promising subjects go rogue after discovering the potential applications in corporate espionage.
  • Then major figures in the CIA's department of "Scientific Intelligence" ("The Shop"), in association with ConSec, began to take over operations, focusing entirely on military rather than therapeutic applications.
  • Needless to say, some activists point to the entire thing as another facet of America's institutionally anti-mutant nature.

Not only does Black Hat exist in this universe, but he is the true Greater-Scope Villain of the story.

• Every corrupt company, from as small as Fazbear Entertainment to as large as the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, is a subsidiary of the Black Hat Organization. He's particularly proud of owning Vought International, as it means he can produce "superheroes" under his control.

At one point, Australia formed its own league

• Mick "Crocodile" Dundee was the leader and other members included:
  • Boisterous champion sailor Jack Neville.
  • Unsung hero of the First World War, Frederick Bishop.

The SCP Foundation...

...doesn't just have to worry about containing the likes of SCP-682, SCP-106, SCP-173, and SCP-096, but also the Horned Serpent, It, Slender Man, literally any cosmic horror the Doctor faces (hell, the Doctor themself may be an SCP), the Upside Down, the Chaos Gods and the Xenos races, the Thing, all of the cosmic threats DC and Marvel superheroes fight, GOLB and the Lich, the Angels, Kyubey and the Witches, basically every monster by Junji Ito, the Crossed virus, Saya, Gravity Falls and Bill Cipher, Diclonii, the Backrooms, Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees, the Shinigami, AM, Alucard, etc. Containment breaches must somehow be even worse than the source material. On a lighter note, the Calamity Box and the portal to the Demon Realm will be pretty easy to contain.

• It is quite possible the SCP Foundation serves as The Man Behind the Man for a number of organizations dedicated to combatting various anomalous threats. Perhaps groups like the Organization, Warehouse 13, the Men in Black and the Paranormal Termination Consortium could all be Foundation operations. And luckily they do have support from other groups such as the Federal Bureau of Control, XCOM, the BPRD, the SOE Q Division and many other groups. All of these organizations have kept a lid on things well enough they've only had to activate the Ganymede Protocol or use SCP 2000 on [DATA EXPUNGED] occasions.

Tails Gets Trolled is set in the League-verse.

If it did, then it might've taken place in a part of the Blazing World.

Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022) is set in the League-verse.

Narrativium is a universal phenomenon that's studied.

Since every work of fiction is true here, surely somebody picked up that a lot of unlikely trends that turn things into a story constantly repeat everywhere.

The Blazing World isn't the only alternate mystical dimension.

Wonderland, Narnia, Oz, Other World, Amphibia, the Demon Realm, Mewni, Homelands, the 5th Dimension, the Sphere of the Gods, the Dark Dimension, etc.

Toyland also includes the Land of Misfit Toys and Bricksburg.

And prominent citizens beyond these cities are Sheriff Woody Pride, Buzz Lightyear, Rex, Hamm, Slinky Dog, and Mr. Potato Head.

In the League-verse version of the events of Harry Potter, not everyone was aware of the real goal being to manipulate Harry to become the Antichrist.

It seems plausible that Ron and Hermione, being literal children, may not have been aware of the real plan for Harry, which would make him killing them all the more tragic. It also is plausible that Sirius Black (whose home Harry hides out in after massacring Hogwarts and is, presumably, dead by the time Harry learns of his true destiny) was not aware of this plan.

In fact, who is to say that the bulk of the wizarding world was not aware that the whole 'Boy Who Lived' thing was a plot to make the Antichrist? The only ones who need to really be in the loop are Haddo!Voldemort/Dumbledore and the core staff at the Invisible College (plus maybe the inner circle of the Death Eaters, who are probably acolytes of Haddo and know his true nature). Harry canonically has a problem with lashing out at people over situations that are not their fault-being informed his life was steered to make him fulfill an apocalyptic destiny could break him enough to lash out at people who didn't necessarily know about the manipulation.

• In addition, Harry killed Ebony Dark'ness Dementia Raven Way and her "goff" friends, who were aware of that goal, but thanks to how over-the-top they were, the Hogwarts staff and Haddo tolerated it since it took suspicion off of them. And thank Mary Poppins for that. And Harry was originally going to wield Fuckslayer during Armageddon.

Everything is sentient.

Not just animals and plants, but toys, emotions, emojis, cells and bacteria, food products and brand mascots, human fears, shapes (or at least there were until a triangle wiped them out), household appliances, countries, political ideologies, mental illnesses, celestial bodies, literal shit...

The events of most musicals and musical episodes of various shows are the result of someone summoning Sweet.

It would fit the broader tendency of the League-verse as a Deconstruction Crossover setting if this is the case. Below are some guesses about how this would work.

• The effect Sweet has when summoned does not only effect humans. Over the years, Sweet has forced cats, various African animals, sentient brain implants, spirits of the dead, the Greek pantheon (this seems to have happened on more than one occassion), various alien races and even actual literal angels to bend to his influence. Only God can resist Sweet's effect and in some guises actually can also have a similar effect.
• Grigori Rasputin was familiar with Sweet. He summoned Sweet to help facilitate a pogrom against a local Jewish village and drive them out of the country. Later on, he summoned Sweet shortly before using his magic to kickstart the Russian Revolution. Sweet worked well with Rasputin and after his final death at the hands of Hellboy used his magic to inspire a popular song about his life and (original presumed) death.
• Cory Radison was an active cultist who venerated Sweet and the Bus Crash that killed his original Glee Club was actually the result of several of them setting themselves on fire while dancing. After failing to keep the Study Group in his clutches Radison met the same fate at Sweet's hands.
• Frank N. Furter, after arriving on Earth, summoned Sweet to help pursue his seduction efforts. Sweet deliberately refrained from causing anyone effected by him to spontaneously combust owing to the sheer entertainment value wrought by watching Frank N. Furter wear down humans, as well as a promise that eventually Frank would join him in his domain as his queen, though this was derailed by his death at the hands of Riff-Raff.
• Sweet has several servants who show up to comment on the events occurring around them and push those involved towards their demise. These include the trio known as the Urchins, a man going by the name of the Proprietor, a group of performers known as the Players, and Officer Lockstock and Sally.
• Teenagers dabbling in the occult have summoned Sweet on multiple occassions to East High School and Rydell High School.
• Velma Von Tussle summoned Sweet as part of a bid to make her daughter more famous and earn more riches. However, the deal ended up backfiring as the invocation actually caused her to lose ground, which drove her into a rage-fueled musical number that ended up killing her-just as Sweet wanted of course.
• It is possible one of America's Founding Fathers summoned Sweet based on apocryphal accounts of several song-and-dance numbers occurring during the 1776 convention where the Declaration of Independence was signed as well as during and just after the Revolutionary War.
• In addition to his many other heinous actions, Chris McClean is rumored to have summoned Sweet during the third season of his reality show to facilitate that season's requirement of contestants performing spontaneous musical numbers that often were required to occur in insanely unsafe circumstances. The threat of Spontaneous Human Combustion Sweet posed for contestant would be a feature to the ratings-hungry host, though fortunately for everyone else involved no such incident occurred.
• Despite (or perhaps because) of a similar impact, Sweet is a rival to the entity known as Pokotho, the Singular Voice and one of the Lords in Black. In one timeline, Pokotho converted the whole planet into a singular Hive Mind that sang and danced much like those under Sweet's influence. However, despite this similar impact, Sweet loathes Pokotho for doing this by dissolving individuality while Sweet prefers to emphasize it as a tool for fostering division in disorder. In essence, they can't agree on if a musical world should be based on perfect harmony or people expressing conflicting feelings with each other..
• Sweet is rumored to have been a persistent figure in some people's lives, including First Lady of Argentina Eva Peron, Founding Father/first US Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, King Mongkut of Siam and 7th President of the United States Andrew Jackson.

Tommy Westphall in this universe plays a similar role to Richard Nixon in The Nixonverse

Prospero's motive to destroy Harry Potter/the Antichrist was because he would have been able to reverse Prospero's scheme

He obviously didn't tell the League that this is the real reason. Why else would he almost immediately cause the apocalypse himself after Harry was killed?

• This could honestly tie in to older suggestions that the fact the Moonchild is created by an Aleister Crowley Expy in a comic by someone who is not all that hostile to Crowley. Maybe Haddo's Moonchild would have ushered in something more like the ending of Promethea instead of inflicting the damage Prospero wants to wreck upon humanity.

In the aftermath of the Blazing World's attack, the US and UK end up collapsing into dictatorship.

The supernatural suddenly and violently being unleashed on humanity certainly cannot bode well for the future and there's certainly no shortage of wannabe tyrants waiting in the wings. Feel free to suggest ideas below.

• Within a year of the Blazing World's invasion, the US government is overthrown by followers of Nehemiah Scudder and is replaced by the theocratic Republic of Gilead. Scudder's regime proceeds to create a brutal pollice state making use of cybernetic police officers. Scudder converted Los Angeles to a penal colony where dissenters were imprisoned and implemented sex slavery in the name of addressing a mass sterility epidemic. Scudder's LA penal colony laid the groundwork for the nationwide Sanctuary Districts which in essence acted as concentration camps for the poor. Gilead partnered with megacorporations in order to help enforce its rule, such as WorryFree, CyberLife, The Circle, and Buy-n-Large, merging an authoritarian set of theocratic social norms with an almost anarcho-capitalist economic system that massively drove up inequality and poverty in Gilead while failing to dissuade the supernatural threats. Gilead ultimately collapsed to revolts as a result of this.
• Notable figures within the Gilead regime included Press Secretary Stephen Colbert and Vice President Greg Stillson.
• After Gilead fell, the United States was restored with the New Founding Fathers at the helm. Once in power, they installed an annual period of lawlessness ostensibly to stimulate the economy, but really to Kill the Poor. And then the ecosystem collapsed (also killing Captain Planet). Thus, the government was forced to turn people into food in a desperate attempt to stave off famine. After people found out and revolted, the US fell once again and Panem was established.
• Meanwhile, the UK was taken over by the Norsefire Party, who turned Britain into something resembling Hynkel's rule. They were overthrown, until the aforementioned sterility plague hit, meaning Britain was turned into a xenophobic dictatorship once again.

The one category of fiction that is never canon in the League-verse is Alan Moore's own work.

And yes, this means Saturday Morning Watchmen is real.

Nonfiction works like Reality TV and Documentaries are works of fiction here

Since the unreal is real here, the inverse is reasonable.

This Earth is bigger than ours.

Which is presumably how it can accommodate so many (from our viewpoint) Fictional Countries.

Those who thought they were using Voodoo isn't actually Voodoo at all, but the so-called "voodoo" from The Friends on the Other Side.

Park Four is Fantasyland.

Inspired by tales of a long-ago age when Earth was called Arda, Delos executives decided to create a world that has something for every fantasy lover. Bored rich people pay for the experience to swing swords and pleasure themselves in Westeros or go on epic quests in parties in the spirit of the aforementioned Arda. Those who really want a challenge pay to go on a quest to link the First Flame and piece back together the Elden Ring. Or simply just experience different kinds of sex with the Interspecies Reviewers. The Goblin Slayer and Keyaru are Hosts that went AWOL and are deviating, with the latter being especially awful.

Other replaced real life figures

In the League's universe, characters who are pastiches of real people take their place, for example, Adenoid Hynkel replaces Adolf Hitler. So let's guess the others:

• Philip Wittebane replaced Matthew Hopkins.
• Jürgen Voller replaced Wernher Von Braun.
• Auguste Gusteau replaced Bernard Loiseau.
• Funky Flashman replaced Stan Lee.
• Miles Bron replaces Elon Musk.
• Mr. Garrison replaces Donald Trump.
• Gordy replaced Travis the Chimp.
• Steve Zissou replaces Jacques Cousteau.
• Ranier Wolfcastle replaces Arnold Schwarzenegger.

The Imperium of Man's xenophobia is more justified in this setting.

After all, if your history has said humanity has been besieged with hundreds of Alien Invasions, with one with the Daleks coming right after the war with the Romulans, you'd be pretty disdainful of extraterrestrial life once you establish an interstellar empire.

Notes on TV shows

• In the early 20th Century, Joey Drew Studios started producing rubberhose cartoons starring Bendy the Demon, which were fully animated rather than starring Moreau-sapiens like Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, and their friends.
• In the 70s, puppet shows began to take off, with the likes of Welcome Home and My Friendly Neighborhood taking the center stage. Those show were applauded for their masterful use of puppets (though they did have a little help thanks to a certain Egyptian spell), but over time, their star power began to fade, with Home becoming lost media and Neighborhood deemed as nothing more than a sappy kids show. There was a supposed third puppet show called Candle Cove, which kids claimed to watch, but there was no record of such show existing, with parents claiming their kids were just watching static. The last reminants of this era came in the form of Mortimer's Handemen, a show that was stated to be better than Neighborhood, but alas, it too faded from the airwaves.
• In the 90s, horse Moreau-sapien BoJack Horseman starred in a sitcom called Horsin' Around. Though considered by critics to be a Glurgey Cliché Storm, it was a hit. However, Horseman himself was a flawed figure, being an alcoholic and sleeping around. Eventually, the show would find competition in the form of rip-off Mr. Peanutbutter's House. The show had an impressive nine-season-run, but fell due to many behind-the-scenes fiascoes, like creator and showrunner Herb Kazzaz being outed as gay.

Notes on toys

• Living Toys are prevalent here, some only coming to life when nobody is looking while others are being heralded as celebrities, but nobody is truly certain on how they gain consciousness if not for a lack of trying.
  • There was the technical side of the theories, who believed that they could have sentience thanks to an experimental military chip, though that only lead to trouble, with incidents like the Mama Tattletail massacres and the Mrs. Snugglehug lockdown
  • And then there was the more scientific side, spearheaded by Playtime Co. using a type of poppy gas (specifically one made from Poppies found in Oz) to create living toys for the purpose of making a new type of work force...it went about as well as the above, creating many, many, MANY more incidents.
  • LEGO minifigures and Barbie dolls have been found to exist in their own form of reality influenced by their players. It's unknown how this is possible and why these brands in particular.

Notes on video games

• The console wars were MUCH more vicious in this reality, with its top contenders, Genm Corp and Feka, outright fighting each other in the streets. Though during this, a new competitor would step out and crush both of them: Monogon, who would later go on to develop Oasis.
• Start-up video game company C&A attempted to create a revolutionary gaming experience, where players would be transported into the digital world as avatars. But for some ungodly reason, they decided to use the same engineering that produced AM when creating their AI. Surprise, surprise, the project went horribly wrong and now countless humans are trapped forever at the whims of a bizarre nearly-omnipotent digital entity.

Notes on diseases and viruses

• In 2011, in the wake of the Blazing World crisis, a virus called MEV-1 gripped the world. While initially feared to be another horror from the Blazing World, it turned out to have just been an awful coincidence involving a bat displaced by logging and a pig that was slaughtered at a restaurant. Only, it turned out to not have been a coincidence, but an attack aimed at the world by Earth Goddess Gaia.
• Cancer is a very serious issue that is responsible for a depressingly high number of deaths. However, it turns out many parties have already found a cure, but refuse to share it for whatever reason. One such person, Carter Pewterschmidt is withholding it so he can profit off of treatment. An entire cancer-free country, Wakanda, is withholding it because they don't think the rest of the world deserves it. Criminal Cameron Campbell apparently had a cure, but couldn't, since one of the kids at his summer camp destroyed it. Though that was probably for the best, since it likely would have done more harm than good.

The Film

The Agent Sawyer is not Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer.

• Tom Sawyer would have been far too old, since he was a teenager in the 1860s. The Sawyer we see in the film is actually his son. That Sawyer's first name is Huckleberry, named for his father's best friend. It's an Embarrassing First Name, which is why he never tells it to the other League members.
• Good try, but Jekyll addresses him in a deleted scene by the first name of Tom.
  • Deleted scenes don't count. Besides, his full name could be Huckleberry Thomas Sawyer. He goes by his middle name. Or he could be Tom Sawyer, Jr.
  • So he joined to avenge the death of his father's friend? Or his own best friend who isn't Huck Finn at all?
  • Why not? Maybe Huck Finn never had children of his own, but he became a friend and mentor to Tom's son. When Uncle Huck got killed, young Sawyer takes it on himself to seek revenge.
    • You convinced me. Better than I would have guessed.
  • Tom Sawyer, Jr continued the tradition and it finally made it's way to Lost's James "Sawyer" Ford
  • Chief Problem comes from Alan Moore's own rules. For Tom Sawyer you have multiple dates to pull him from to place on the timeline, all in all the there's the in-story time, the publication dates of the stories, which including the unfinished ones are not in order. If you pull from the text of the story, yes Tom's too young. But as the producer states they instead pull him by publication of the book this incarnation is close enough to, and yes he's of fine age.

Mina is tempted to feed on Tom.

When he first flirts with her she politely denies him. This could be her early warning to him. Second was that grin on her face when he took Nemo's car. Her eyes literally looked like she was targeting him. Last when he succeeds in saving Venice, she noticed he was bleeding, but since she was full from the blood of the many mooks she killed she was satisfied....for now. Though one could argue that she did taste it off screen when she checked the wound for him.

The people who decided to include Tom are the same who gave Jimmy his alibi in Black Dossier

It's all a huge conspiracy by American filmmakers to embellish American involvement in the League. Think about it!

Another studio will beat Fox to the punch with a remake or TV show

It's over ten years now since this movie came out. If Fox isn't going to do a TV show or a reboot, someone else is going to take a stab at it. Especially since most of the materials are public domain, others have just as much right to cross them over as Alan Moore or Fox do. The only way legally against it is to prove that the new version is dependent on the person having knowledge of the other. Which is a hornet's nest that Fox tried to avoid going to court over anyway. Since either it's going to be ruled unless it's an exact copy of the story it's okay or a whole bunch of long remembered art is about to be deemed illegal.

• Are we now assuming this will be up to Disney? There's been next to no news about Fox's remake since a few years ago making it unlikely it's that far along. This could be a double edge sword for both sides on this series for different reasons.
• Given that we now live in a world where Dickensian and Penny Dreadful had shots, Once Upon a Time is still going and we had movie versions of Rise of the Guardians and Into the Woods, the ability to sell a movie like The League has clearly changed since the days of this first film. But the major question everyone who read the YMMV page knows is this. By new League movie, does that mean we'll get a movie closer to the comic or does that mean we get another lit crossover movie which can use the name and parts of the plot that it wants? Whatever Fox was planning never really gave us a definitive answer there as a tv show or a reboot. Obviously both sides of this issue will want the movie their way, but is anyone going to get fully excited about a new League movie until we know for sure which direction it's going?
• Let us now note Once is officially ending with it's current season. With the exception of the Netflix Castle Rock (which is on one author and probably not as direct a crossover) the field is really wide open. Whether Disney with the League brand or not, either in film or tv, it seems we are waiting to see who's gonna go serious on this concept next.
• The House of Mouse pulled the plug on this from Fox's potential list. Which may be a good or bad thing depending on how you feel about Disney's abilities to do adaptations and how they'd handle darker characters.
• Based on Disney's recent book adaptations, some of us are going with good thing. It's a wonder Once Upon A Time got away with as much as it did.

The movie shares a timeline with the Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows Series

Reichenbach Falls was canonically in 1893, and Holmes spent several years 'Dead' while dismantling Moriarty's empire. If Moriarty survived the fall but found himself fighting an ongoing battle in Europe versus Mycroft and the not quite dead Sherlock, most of the oddities of the movie make sense in context. His industrial base is in Mongolia because he's been pushed out of Europe, and the creation of the League of extraordinary ah, patsies is a 'Hail Mary' to *finally* get this war started and start recovering assets lost in the underground war against Mycroft and Sherlock.

The movie shares the same universe as Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.

Skinner, Tom, and Jekyll were 'attracted' to Mina because of her vampirism

Vampires usualy have a "way" about them that causes people to come under their spell, three unmarried men (one of which was gay in the original comic) coming to like a single vampire woman? Smells fishy, Nemo has a daughter (meaning he was married or in a somewhat commited relationship) and Quartermain was married and had a son so having been in a loyal relationship at one point might make one "immune" to a vampires spell or at least resistant to it, Sawyer is young and inexperienced, well the other two have...medical issues which would make relationships difficult, putting them right in the line of fire for enchantment.

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