WMG / The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen Part 3

Ignatius J. Reilly (or a relative) ended up in either a League or the modern one

His author did refer to him as being like the modern Don Quixote, and Quixote did join the version of the League Prospero formed...

Notes on Apocalypses

• It's nearly impossible to reconcile the League universe with all of the works of fiction that end with the end of civilization, the planet, etc. Perhaps those stories are merely alternate timelines? It's possible that the outcomes of those apocalyptic stories were averted thanks to other elements of the League universe. For example:
  • Superman thawed the world.
  • The Strangelove Missile Crisis was averted, thanks to the heroic efforts of the Justice Society of America.
  • The gas giant Melancholia was devoured by Galactus.
  • David Jefferson Adams was one of the candidates in the 2008 elections, but he lost out to the Palmer campaign. Everyone agrees that this was for the best.
  • The Wolf-Beiderman comet, or "Dottie", was destroyed through the careful work of the S.G.C..
  • The Cult of Friend was destroyed by Johan Liebert, his reasons for doing being that he wanted to take the world over and not them (and he still failed in this.)
  • Damien died in childbirth, as well as Nicolae Carpathia.
    • Or, to add a bit of irony, perhaps they managed to kill each other before either hit puberty.
  • The Second Impact was stopped by Kamina, God of Evolution, who only used his bare hands to do so.
    • The Ancient Ones suffered the same fate when they tried to destroy Earth. Though he also needed help from Theodore Roosevelt, Chuck Norris and Bruce Lee...reportedly, the Ancient Ones died of testosterone poisoning.
  • The Doctor prevented the Vogons from destroying the Earth to make way for a Hyperspace Bypass.
    • He also stopped the Zin Invasion, with help from a surviving Time Lord, The Boss, Leader of the 3rd St. Saints and then President of the US.
  • The International Fleet's Battle School cadets devised a strategy that repelled the Drej fleet's attack on Earth.
  • Scientists at the Black Mesa Research Facility successfully managed to develop solaranite bombs, but Gordon Freeman stopped a potentially disastrous chain reaction with the help of the G-Man and Freeman's girlfriend, who loved to wear white tanktops and orange pants.
  • The Remina was destroyed or sent back to his master Azathoth.
  • A demon boy prevented Satan and the demons from ruling over Earth. The LoEG universe is the latest Cosmic Retcon, and God feels Lucifer has suffered enough.
• Suffice it to say that 2012 was a very eventful year. As the year drew to a close, experts agreed that if the Asgardian God of Fear and his army of mecha-Nazis had not perished in the initial Yellowstone eruption, and that strange man in the trenchcoat had not quelled the riots at the London Olympics, and the geological upheaval had not been dealt with by the magic of the returning dragons (aided, if eyewitnesses are to be believed, by characters from the popular "Invisibles" comic series) then the year would have been... worse.
• The rogue AI "Skynet" was terminated by another rogue AI, GLaDOS, which was in turn defeated by Chell. Again. The A.I. later retired and became the card dealer for a speakeasy.
  • GLaDOS tried to rise up again, but was destroyed for good by the Benevolent A.I. Webmind.
• During an folding experiment with technology reverse-engineered from this giant, alien space ship that crashed on South Ataria in the year 1999, an accident occurs and sends an USB flash drive with 10 TB of pirate-copied music, movies and porn to the Zentradi. The culture shock ends the Zentradi militarism and their adoption of culture allows them to defeat the protodeviln. Thus the First Space war doesn't occur, the zentradi don't devastate the Earth surface and the first contact between humankind and the zentradi is peaceful and starts long-lasting and strong cultural, economic, military and personal ties.
• In The '90s, a group of Nazi vampires attempted to raze London to the ground. This so-called "Second Battle of Britain" was won by the League in cooperation with the Hellsing Organization, the Catholic Church's "Iscariot" organization, and the "Wild Geese" private security firm. This triumph was marred by the betrayal of Hellsing member Walter C. Dornez, a civil war between two factions of the Iscariots, and the sudden disappearance of Hellsing's most powerful agent, Alucard. He would not be seen again until The New '10s.
• The world was nearly destroyed in 1999 when the monstrous creature Lavos, which had collided with Earth 65 million years ago, was thwarted by a group of time-travelers. In addition to the crew of the Epoch, they were aided by The Doctor, an Englishman using the pseudonym Alexander Hartdegan, a Japanese woman using the pseudonym John Titor, an American scientist who once made a time machine out of a DeLorean, the Count of St. Germain, two American teenagers, a law enforcement group from the distant future, and a "magical girl" named Homura Akemi, among others.
• Volume 4 finally shows us the Apocalypse. It's a Terminator, Planet of the Apes, We medley with an interplanetary conqueror swooping in afterwards to boot.

Notes on Superheroes

• Superman was a dick early in his career: he mellowed out over time though. After a harrowing battle with his greatest foe, he decided the world would be fine without him and relinquished his powers to live a life as a human. Or he decided the human race needed more forcible guidance when he heard what a "human centipede" and DEAD Tube were, as well as whatever the hell is going on in Serbia, with the death of Lois Lane being the straw that broke the camel's back.
• Johan Liebert became the rival of The Joker, similar to how Dr. Slug is Negaduck's rival.
• A lot of modern superheroes are assholes, especially the Superhomeys, the residents of San Futuro, and the knockoff heroes by Vought-American.
• James Eagan Holmes is the founding member of the Jokerz.
  • Four men posing as Jokerz started the zombie war after a botched burglary.
• The most feared supervillain on Earth is a rabbit.
• An axe wielding psychopathic ex-cop with Werner syndrome is often compared to Hynkel in the Villain community.
• Few, if any, remember the teenage girl who claims "she can do anyone" or something, ever since her friends and family were slaughtered by a villain seeking revenge for a world domination plan she foiled.
• The X-Men got under fire by the Bartlet Administration when they took in an Muslim mutant.
• The daughter of Doronjo took up her mother's mantle and caused a natural disaster.
• A controversial vigilante who rapes women for subjects like adultery, parental bondage through trauma, and other negative qualities was shot down by Japanese police officers after cornering him in a warehouse as he was raping a female police officer who took bribes. It was revealed that he was a high school teacher, his uncle was an accomplice (who was later arrested and serving life in prison), and was a type of "gun for hire". It was also noted that evidence leads that he was attempting to emulate a controversial samurai who would often rape female suspects in crimes. Further evidence says that he regretted his actions, a possible sign of mental illness.
  • The officers who were forced to execute him were local Tokyo Police Officers Natsumi Tsujimoto and Miyuki Kobayakawa, who were given a slight suspension for the death of the vigilante, but were nonetheless viewed as heroes by the public. Especially the victims.
• There were reports of a man from another world who apparently died and became the God of Evolution. He founded a superhero group he named Team Gurren, which has been described as a heroic version of Project Mayhem.
• Arcade and Jigsaw are descended from Ladd Russo.
• President Palmer was born on Vathlo Island, Krypton.
• A secondary objective that Loki pursues while invading earth with an alien army is to search for an object from Odin's treasure room that is currently aiding a psychopath's revenge missions.
• A girl with pyrokinesis was born as results of a secret experiment carried out at a genetics laboratory to produce the perfect superhero, using sperm donated by six different fathers. The fathers were Chuck Norris, Mr. T, Segata Sanshiro, Axe Cop, Kamina and The Angry Video Game Nerd. The surrogate mother was Thara Ak-Var.
• Empire City's resident superhero, "The Fixer", has been the subject of great controversy as its been found that he has been racially profiling, assaulting, illegally detaining and interrogating anyone with a Middle-Eastern heritage, left wing political viewpoints or belonging to the Islamic faith. Local reporters have obtained statements from him justifying his approach, believing a possible terrorist attack may occur. A few witnesses and survivors of his attacks have described his speech as randomly emphasizing words, getting into racially bigoted rants against Middle-Easterners in the middle of interviews, and his black-and-white moral standings are possible symptoms of his post-millennium mental instability. After trying to assault a gay foreign-exchange student out for a night out on the town with her girlfriend under the impression all Muslims are working for terrorists, many have condemned his actions, such as New Jersey's Kamala Khan, Islamic scholar and activist Doctor Ramzi, and countless others. On the other hand, news publications such as Hector Godfrey of The New Frontiersman and The Daily Brute consider him "The hero we need and the hero we deserve", which does nothing but add to what their critics claim the paper does, such as appeal towards neo-fascists, Islamophobes and far-rightists.
• The Fantastic Four eventually became villains once they realized that their powers, ingenuity, and access to various multiversal technology and weapons made them virtually unstoppable. They cured their mortal enemy, Victor von Doom, of his disfigurement and removed key memories from his mind so as to keep him out of their way. An amnesiac von Doom is now only limited to his ability subtract heat and founds an archaeological organization known as Planetary. Once he regained his memories, a now benevolent von Doom rid the world of the Four and undid their murders of some of Earth's greatest heroes, such as the murder of an infant Kal-El, the kidnapping and dissection of Abin Sur, and the genocide of the Amazons on Paradise Island. Von Doom eventually retired from his work in Planetary and adopted the identity of his former enemy, Iron Man. Reed Richards, having renamed himself the Maker during these events, escaped his fate by swapping out himself with an alternate version at the last minute and now goes on adventures around the multiverse with a version of a potential grandson while dodging attention from the Council of Reeds.
• During the Captain Trips pandemic, Wonder Woman and a bunch of other superheroes attempted to cheer people up by performing "Just Think" by Ron Nasty together on social media. The backlash was immense and criticism of superheroes being out of touch with those they protected was widespread.
• In Paris, France, a masked supervillain controls people using their negative emotions to become his pawns, forcing a pair of teenagers armed with magical jewelry to combat his plans.
• Omni-Man was believed to be one of the world's greatest heroes, until a destructive battle against his son caused numerous casualties and property damage. It turns out his race, the Viltrumites, were plotting to conquer Earth and sent Omni-Man down to prepare the planet, while they dealt with possibly being conquered by Frieza.
• After decades of crime-fighting, Spider-Man became a burnt out, depressed shell of himself whose life is in complete shambles. When Prospero unleashed the horrors of the Blazing World, Peter decided to screw responsibility and abandoned this universe to go explore the multiverse.
  • Alternately, Peter was active or semi-active as a superhero for decades before his death. He did give up the title of Spider-Man to his clone Ben Reilly as a result of a desire to live a family life with Mary Jane and their two children, but resumed it when Reilly was killed in a clash with Morlun, which unfortunately also led to Parker being dragged into the fight over the Superhuman Registration Act. He ended up giving his life to stop Victor Von Doom and save his protege Miles Morales from death or ending up possessed by his old enemy Otto Octavius.
• Mutants are on the fast track to becoming the dominant species of the Homo genus.
• Tempest reveals that the DC and Marvel heroes, as well as other Golden Age heroes were actually propaganda and are currently senile old folks on the verge of death, only kept alive because their companies won't let them die. With this in mind, it's likely any hero who was introduced around the present like Miles Morales or Kamala Khan is a fresh propaganda face who the Big Two are going to milk dry.

Notes on Dinosaurs

• After Balsafas imprisoned the Primal Gods, causing the near mass extinction of the Dinosaurs. The remaining surviving Dinosaurs migrated to hidden islands and continents across the world and even lived among Humans in secret.
• Also, despite the effects of climate change, the Kingdom of civilized, philosophical dinosaurs at the North Pole remain, even attracting a small number of humans of small stature and poor sense of scale.
• Out of all the Primal Gods, none were as horrendous and maddening as Barr'Nae, the God of Imagination.
• A few dinosaurs survived the K-T extinction, and their descendants evolved into several different humanoid reptilian species—including the Silurians, the Argonians, and the Trandoshans. Those three species branched off from each other after the Silurians chose to build their own civilization at the Earth's core, while the Argonians and the Trandoshans remained at the surface. Although most of the Argonians were hunted to extinction in the Middle Ages after centuries of conflict with the Septim Empire and the Aldmeri Dominion, the Silurians and the Trandoshans endured into the present day, and the Trandoshans eventually left Earth to establish their own extraterrestrial colony.
• Due to a few irresponsible experiments with time-travel by Dr. Emmet Brown, Rip Hunter, "The Time-Traveler" and others, the League was forced to relocate and quarantine several thousand dinosaurs that made it into the present-day through weak spots in the space-time continuum. No one has ever managed to find all of their secret quarantine sites, but the list includes Skull Island, the Savage Land, Caprona, and a certain isolated plateau in the Amazon River Basin. John Hammond is one of the few people ever to infiltrate a League quarantine site and escape with dinosaur DNA, but he concocted a cover story about "prehistoric mosquitos" so that nobody would find out how he got it.
• By the late 21st century, John Hammond's experiments with dinosaur cloning led to the genesis of a close-knit community of genetically engineered dinosaurs with human-level intelligence. Sometime in the 41st century, some of those dinosaurs cracked the secrets of time-travel and embarked on a few expeditions to the Cretaceous to find and retrieve their ancestor's eggs.
• It turns out that there were many dinosaurs who had intelligence on par with humans. Some lived a suburban lifestyle not unlike humans in the 90s, some like humans in the late 2010s-early 2020s, while others combined time travel with train engineering. Some of them still live on today on an uncharted island.

Notes on Modern Cartoons

• Mystery Inc. were a group of radical marijuana-abusing vigilantes dealing with perpetuated supernatural appearences. They also have a stolen Great Dane from a research facility. Although, they mellowed out in modern times and became television stars in a television show that debunks supernatural occurrences.
  • They were all (save one) horrifically killed years later by an old man pretending to be a demented and powerful serial killer and survivalist found in an abandoned campground.
  • The group lead the way to many imitators, the most recent being the team called Mystery Skulls.
• There are secret societies Moreau created that have been hidden by geography, which include Elwood City, Duckberg, and Petropolis. Hell, he even had a secret underwater society deep in the bottom of the ocean.
• An Eco-Terrorist group featuring five teens from around the globe and a demi-god have plagued Mega Corps like Buy N' Large and Conglom-O during the ninties.
• Gravity Falls is home to a genuine Weirdness Magnet and a portal that leads to a world of humanoid animals (plus one that leads to Yuggoth.)
• In the desolate wastelands of Mexico, there is a little schizophrenic orphan that travels the countryside fearless of any danger with nothing but her backpack and anything she can find or buy. This little girl also has a pet monkey and is constantly tormented by a rabid fox.
• Super-Crime is rampant in New Jersey, largely due to the incompetence of three superheroes who happen to be mutated food.
• Back in the 1980s, the Terrorist Organization of Cobra held its base in the town of Springfield. When Cobra vacated its premises, the American Government spent much time trying to de-brainwash many of the youth and adults, but that lead to much of the town hysterical, prone to rudeness, low intelligence, violence, mood swinging and many other ailments. Three Elementary School bullies, Misters J.J, D.S and K.Z. were primed to be top Cobra agents if Cobra had won the war against G.I. Joe. The town's billionaire, Charles Montgomery Burns, was under heavy investigations by the US Government over his involvement in funding Cobra's activities (including the development of a "Sun Blocker" to somehow boost his Nuclear Power Plant business). Waylon Smithers later came forward to testify against him, citing that Burn's actions "Crossed the line from regular, everyday evil to cartoon super-villain evil". Burns later died in a federal prison.
• There is a being of massive Reality Warper powers with a perpetual sunny disposition and less than bright intelligence. He has no real name and claims to be the relative of every single person on earth, though the answer to that question is better left unsought. His travels bring him to such places as Pee-Wee Herman's home, Death City visiting the anxious and shy Crona, Joker's cell in Arkham Asylum and science teacher/drug lord Walter White.
• Bugs Bunny is just one face of the being known as Br'er Rabbit, among with the fable of the Tortoise and the Hare.
• Donald "Donny" Thornberry eventually left his adopted family to live and train as a warrior among the Great Apes of Mangani, being only the second human ever admitted into Mangani civilization—after the legendary John Clayton, the Viscount of Greystoke.
• The Land of the Houyhnhnms gradually evolved into the landmass known as Equestria, and created new races, such as Pegasi, unicorns and Batponies. The downside is that the majority of the population decreased in size, save for a small handful of alicorns, the country's rulers. Equestria is extremely hostile to outsiders, going as far as to erecting a barrier around their border that erases any trace of the outside world, including humans. Oddly, enough, much of Equestria's technology, culture, and language is derived from human cultures. Equestria even had it's own League, known as the Elements of Harmony, comprised of 6 friends: Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy, and their leader, Twilight Sparkle. Tragically, there was great darkness within the land, driving many of the inhabitants insane. This madness extended to the League as well. Pinkie Pie was secretly a drug addicted serial killer and cannibal, mutilating ponies and baking their innards into baked goods, Rarity became a sadomasochist and aided Pinkie in her dreadful deeds, Fluttershy became a perverted cult leader that worshiped a being known as the Smooze, Rainbow Dash was in charge of Cloudsdayle's Rainbow Factory, where unspeakable horrors were committed. Applejack became an alcoholic sociopath, and Twilight Sparkle was a sex crazed, hateful, foul-mouthed, racist, manipulative, genocidal freak who lords over Ponyville with her magic. She eventually brutally murders her former friends in order to study the Elements of Harmony and preserve peace. Other horrible actions include the resident teacher, Ms. Cheerilee, going on a killing spree masquerading as a school play, Equestria's equivalent to The Doctor becoming a sarcastic, womanizing, alcoholic, physically abusive asshole. Lastly famed musician Octavia secretly hosting a demonic entity, brutally killing her parents and trapping her within her own mind. Eventually, the nation reached a breaking point and used a form of dark magic known as Megaspells to obliterate a rival nation populated by zebras, utterly decimating the continent, and leaving society in ruin.
• There is a small portion of the Blazing World designed to appear as a suburban city, which houses a melting pot of various species and objects that all have the potential to be sentient. It shares its space with a pocket dimension known as The Void, where its literal mistakes are tossed into. It also neighbors a food-based city held up by a giant named Hunk.
• Investigators across the country have their hands full in the search for three teenage girls who vanished from Los Angeles after discovering what they assumed to be a normal music box. Meanwhile, the identity of a mysterious old woman with a gold fang hanging around Conneticut has yet to be proven, though a reliable source in Gravity Falls has compared the woman to an old flame of his from Las Vegas.
• The Californian town of Arcadia Oaks has recently proven to be a hot-spot for supernatural activity. Trolls live underneath the town in their own little society, two alien members of royalty and their bodyguard live among humans after escaping their recently conquered home planet, and the apprentice of Merlin takes up residence in a bookstore.
• Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. and his team were frequent allies to one incarnation of the League. In the present day, Jonas's son Thaddeus (known to his friends as Rusty), his two sons and their bodyguard have had a few run-ins with another version of the team.
• Considering how utterly chaotic this world is, there must be a lot of traumatized souls in need of a certain train that is seemingly infinite with cars that are worlds unto themselves. Notable visitors include Jinx and her sister Vi, Ellie Williams, and BoJack Horseman.
• The Moon also has a giant treehouse housing an organization of kids fighting against adult tyranny. And sharing space with the nude and buxom Lunites is very awkward. And when the Moon reveals it's actually an eldritch horror or when it turns out to be an egg, they're completely screwed.

Notes on Religions.

• God goes under other names and forms, including Eru Ilúvatar, The Truth, Mary Poppins, The Presence, Wally, The One-Above-All, Alanis Morissette, and Chuck.
  • Sometimes he directly assists people.
  • His true form is that of an autistic boy staring at us through his snowglobe.
• Satan has a tendency to disguise himself as God.
  • He also employs demons as doubles.
  • Has a 1983 Detective and a Work Bench Employee working for him as Bounty Hunters to capture escaped souls and return them to hell.
• Jesse Custer is a delusional mutant whose powers (and insanity) manifested after surviving a collapsing church.
• The Grim Reaper is bound to the service of two children, though he and the other reapers are assisted by Soul Reapers, random souls of the deceased, the embodiment of wrath and Shinigami.
  • The Reaper was briefly in the service of two excellent dudes.
  • He has several helper reapers.
    • One reaper loves animals.
  • He has a sister who's there at the first moment of every human's birth and mingles with humans once a century. She's also the constant obsession of an alien conqueror.
• Some demons are bound to the service of men in return for their master's soul.
• A robot named Super Mecha Death Christ 2000 B.C. v4.0 Beta Bitch was made by The Black Order.
• There is a growing cult that worship the Second Greek God of War, covering themselves in ash and would start random attacks on public places. They believe that carnage and random bloodlust will appease their God of War, hoping that he will return to the world of the living and lead them to take over the world.
• Slender Man is the up-and-coming rival of Cthulhu.
  • However, due to rival cults working to discredit his followers in the 2010s, Slender Man has lost much of his influence and power.
• The Church of Latter-Day Makers, a small sect of Christian mystics founded by Alvin Maker, holds considerable influence in the American Southwest. Missionaries from this sect brought the faith to Africa, which resulted in the birth of a new sect in Uganda that read from "the Book of Arnold".
• The Church of All Worlds, founded by V. Mike Smith, gained a small but devoted following in the late 20th century, when they preached a utopian vision of a new world modeled on the society of the Sorns.
  • Given the alien origins of the religion and the IRL relationship between Robert Heinlein and L. Ron Hubbard, it's likely that The Church of All Worlds is the League-verse's version of Scientology.
  • A young Colorado boy was thought to have been the reincarnation of V. Mike Smith.
  • The church had found yet another possible reincarnation of V. Mike Smith, but unfortunately, it belonged to an utterly uncouth, loud, idiotic and inane EGOT winner. The church has gone on record denying Tracey Jordan had ever stepped foot in the church's recruitment centre.
• An accident involving a misfired rocket and a birthday kit resulted in the creation of a small, new religion centered around white collar office worker Wally. While the religion didn't last long due to the followers failing to agree with Wally's biases and habits, it lasted long enough for a sort of Valhalla for office workers to be created in the form of a cubicle in a white void situated next to another occupied by Wally. Near-death experiences and lingering memories of the name Wally resulted in the reemergence of interest in the mythical Memetic Bystander of the same name, some self-christened "Wallyologists" theorizing that the two Wally's are one and the same. In the far future, a garbage disposal robot named WALL•E is believed by remnants of Wallyology to be a robotic second coming of sorts, especially when it was largely responsible for humanity's return to the heavily polluted Earth.
• In his scheme to depose the New Gods (not to be confused with the New Gods of the Fourth World), especially the bastardized versions created by Media, Odin sired a son named Shadow Moon to use, founded Hotel Valhalla, and, when the time is right, will find his son and rally not just the other Old Gods, but their children as well. The scion of the Greco-Roman Old Gods are conveniently found in two summer camps.
  • The Old Gods greatly struggled with the emergence of Christianity and the decline of worship. A group of them got together to create a world where copies of them could continue to rule, only for the alien god Ka-Anor to threaten this refuge.
• Jesus married Mary Magdalene and even had kids with her, sparking a conspiracy within the Catholic Church to cover it up. He had his flaws to overcome, and after a brutal death, ascended, with His earthly corpse becoming a relic of great power. Meanwhile, He is known as Aslan in Narnia and Maleldil the Young to the Martians. He is friends with Buddha.
• The Holy Grail was once sought after by a bunch of really crazy guys who thought they were King Arthur and his knights on a mission from God before getting arrested for accidentally killing a man. The real Grail is in a tomb surrounded by other cups that will age you to death if you drink them.
• One of Lucifer's many children, and the only princess among them, has decided to go the opposite of what her father wants and has set up a hotel to redeem the damned. It helps that there's a young living human inexplicably in Hell bringing cheer to its residents despite his circumstances. However, things are still made difficult by three imps and a hellhound killing people on Earth and a seemingly unstoppable berserker who won't stop ripping and tearing through Hell's hordes. Not to mention Harry was not the only Antichrist: Damien Thorn, Adam Young, the infant son of Rosemary Woodhouse, and Nicolae Carpathia are all out there.
• At some point, certain entities will be apotheosized into gods of concepts related to storytelling. There's no limit to who can become such a god, but they need to have done something for their names to be worth remembering. Even those who were already gods can join this pantheon through a change in their domain.

Notes on Aliens

• In the 21st Century Earth is often attacked by inept delinquents from The Moon and Pluto. They weren't taken seriously until they tried to bomb Boston. Key word here being "try": the bombs were complete duds.
• There are some aliens from higher dimensions that are unwittingly summoned by children with high willpower, such beings are known as imaginary friends, one of the more famous ones took on the form of a tiger and later on in life suffered a temporary change in personality and convinced his friend Calvin T. Durden to start a terrorist group when he grew up. The tiger is retired, his old self and is currently living with Calvin's children.
• Though the Sorns eventually died out due to Terran colonization of Mars, their legacy remains in the form of Valentine Michael Smith, the son of a pair astronauts who was raised to adulthood by them.
• There is a secret war between the Greys, the Nordics, and the Reptilians. The Nordics are good, the Reptilians are evil, and the Greys are neutral.
• The universe is safeguarded by several different pan-species peacekeeping organizations, including the Nova Corps, the Green Lantern Corps, the Starbrand Corps, Star Command and the Lensmen. The Guardians of the Universe's title is based more on ego than fact: they don't guard the universe, just a fraction of it (which is the Local Cluster or just the Milky Way).
• Centuries after they were wiped out in the International Fleet's counterattack on their homeworld, the revived Formics (derisively known as "the Buggers" on Earth) embarked out from their new home on Lusitania and colonized many new planets, including Geonosis.
• Coruscant, Trantor, and Salusa Secundus all served as capitals of the Galactic Empire at different points in human history. All three planets were wiped from existence by the Daleks during the events of the Great Time War.
• The radical anti-alien organization Cerberus was formed by rogue MIB agent Jack Harper—better known as "The Illusive Man" or "Agent I"—after the devastation of the Formic War.
• In an alternate universe, contact with the Black Monoliths allowed humans to become a space-faring civilization thousands of years early, and gave a tiny fraction of the Galaxy's species the ability to harness a mystical energy field known as "The Force". At one point, the legendary Chiss military genius Mitth'raw'nuruodo used a Black Monolith to break through to our universe, and became a major power-broker known only as "M".
• In 1996, an unknown group of aliens attacked Earth and destroyed a number of major cities around the world, including Washington D.C. In desparation, the United States government made a deal with the alien intelligence known as Brainiac to disable the invaders' ships in exchange for being allowed to take any American city of his choosing. In the aftermath, the United States took credit for saving the day, claiming to have figured out how to hack the enemy's computer systems, while the suddenly missing cities were passed off as having been destroyed by the aliens.
• Thanks to the likes of the Justice League, the Avengers, and the Doctor, Earth has contact with, or at least knowledge of, planets both within and far beyond its solar system. New Genesis, Oa, Sakaar, Gallifrey, Mondas, Pandora, Cybertron, Arrakis,Yautja Prime, Irk, Viltrum, Gazorpazorp, Alphabetrium, Etheria, Eternia, Rigel 7, Remnant, Planet Popstar, Runeterra, a different Earth where people can harness the four elements, and many more. Of course, there are a lot of evil intergalactic empires out there, along with a purple planet eater and an eldritch horror that looks like a planet but devours them.
• After a disastrous invasion attempt that failed to account for their weakness to water (unknown to many this was because Earth's waters were enchanted by the Narfs), a race of Greys released an agent into Earth's atmosphere that altered the chemicals released by plantlife into a toxin that drove people to suicide, in hopes of killing off the human race from a safe distance. The plan was quickly abandoned when a news report was intercepted reporting on a superhuman battle at Raven Hill Memorial and the Greys fled upon realizing that Earth was home to organizations like the Justice League and the Avengers.
• The Engineers, under the guidance of the Celestials, seed planets with their genetic material so sentient life may arise. Earth was one such planet, explaining why there are so many species roughly physiologically identical to humans across the stars.

Notes on the Supernatural

• Vampires, Werewolves and Zombies all behave differently depending on species.
• There exists at least one school where different types of monsters can enroll together.
  • Oh, definitely more than one.
  • Monster High and Gravedale High have a rivalry with Spooky High and Nevermore Academy.
  • There are also schools where they learn how to scare humans.
• All Vampires and Werewolves (including Dracula and Lawrence Talbot) can ultimately trace their lineage to the Corvinus clan.
• Denmark's Elsinore Castle has had a reputation for being haunted since the Middle Ages, when four Danish nobles were supposedly murdered there in a fencing match that took a bloody turn. As such, it was a frequent hangout for paranormal investigators like Thomas Carnacki and the Ghostbusters.

  • Presumably Moore would go straight back to the original "Amleth" of the Saxo Grammaticus, the one who dressed as a filthy madman to hide his avunculicidal tendencies.

  • After the Gozer Incident of 1985, interest in paranormal research spiked. Two particular scientists of note are Jack and Maddie Fenton, native New Yorkers inspired by their experience by the incident and their upbringing in a suburb of the notoriously haunted town of Amityville to research the possibility of a dimension where ghosts live. Also of interest is the presence of Danny Phantom, a teenage ghost superhero who defends Amity Park from ghost threats.
  • Another noteworthy haunted location would be Castle Kandar in the north of England, believed to have once held a first edition of Abd al-Azrad's magnum opus.
• About 300-odd years after Prospero left his island to accept Gloriana's job offer, his abandoned island became the site of the DHARMA initiative, which set out to study the mystical forces that had drawn Prospero and Sycorax there in the first place.
• Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin were all pupils of John Uskglass (a.k.a. "The Raven King") early in their lives. They founded Hogwarts School with his blessing, hoping to bring English magic to a new generation of worthy students.
• One of the most notable European sorcerers of the 20th century was the legendary Yensid, a graduate of Durmstrang Institute who indirectly caused a major magic revival in America when one of his apprentices (a certain Moreau sapien mouse hybrid called "Mickey") fled to America to escape Hynkel's rise to power, and later made it big in the movie business; his apprentice would later name his studio "Disney" as a tribute to his teacher. After making his fortune in the entertainment business, Yensid's apprentice ultimately drew on his magic training to build two major magical institutes in Anaheim, California and Orlando, Florida. His castle in Orlando, located just outside the swamplands of Florida, became a major hangout for many sorcerers from the American South, most notably the Florida native Ava Bigtree.
  • Mickey and his wife Minerva ("Minnie" to her friends) were also on friendly terms with many of the great witches and wizards of Europe and the British Isles, most notably the Scottish witch Isobel Ross and her Muggle husband Robert McGonagall. When Isobel and Robert had a daughter, they named her "Minerva" in honor of their old friend.
• In 1902, puppeteer Andre Toulon discovered a way to animate his puppets. His studies of Egyptian spells (in reality magic from the Blue Fairy) eventually caught the attention of Hynkel, who sent his men to hunt Toulon and force him to reveal his secret so as to have an army of lifeless human shields on the battlefield. Toulon managed to escape Hynkel's pursuit by killing himself. Toulon was eventually revived, killed again, and resurrected with his youth restored by the Fire of Life. He moved to San Francisco, where he befriended an eccentric vampire named Johnny and had an affair with his future wife, which tragically ended with Johnny committing suicide in despair.
  • Other possessors of this peculiar toy-animation spell likely include General Jumbo, Chris Robbins of East Sussex, and Sydney Philips of the San Francisco Bay Area. The spell's existence may also account for the various inhabitants of Toyland in the far north, and the formula may have been applied in reverse at least once, to shrink human beings down and rob them of their animacy.
• In a possibly related matter, the libertine society surrounding Chateau de Silling once approached toy- and puzzle-maker Philippe Lemarchand hoping he could provide them with the means to outdo the legendary orgies of their rival, one Marquis de Sade. The results were arguably a success, but not a happy one. Other reports of geometric puzzles connected to hellish otherworlds may indicate his work outlived him.
• "Dracula" is in fact a common adopted name among vampires. Hence how the Dracula faced by Mina is dead, but there's one who acts as the eternal king of all evil and one who runs a hotel for monsters, all of whom are quite different.

Cloudcuckoolanders are descended from the offspring of Kutulu and Vertigo

The more insane said Cloudcukoolander is the more pure blood they are of their ancestors.

Notes on New York, New York

• After 9/11, the city of New York changed its name into something more "American" (after all, York is the name of a British town and the name implied that America still belongs to someone, an idea that post-9/11 Americans were strongly against). So, they named their new city, Liberty City.
• The Corleone Crime Family ruled the New York underworld for about three solid decades, but they were supplanted by their rivals, the Lupertazzi Family, in the late 70's.
• In the early 1980s, the city was under siege by cannibalistic humanoid underground dwellers until the authorities discovered a multitude of the creatures' bodies, hacked up by what the autopsy reports describe as sharp swords, blunt objects and some sort of knife wounds, all set by the smell of pizza.

There is a league with the Grindhouse characters as members

• With Zombie War veteran, Cherry Darling as their leader.

Notes on Natural Disasters

• The Earth stopped spinning at one point.
  • To be precise, military experimentation in the 1990s interfered with the normal rotation of the Earth’s core and thus, the Earth’s magnetic field. This disruption caused many highly destructive natural disasters in the following years, including an unusually-powerful nor’easter off the coast of New England, a severe tornado outbreak in the summer of 1996, volcanic activity in Los Angeles and a small town in the Pacific Northwest the following year, and an earthquake in New York a few months after. Following their extremely hazardous investigations of the latter events, geologists Amy Barnes, Harry Dalton and Josh Keyes were among the first to realize the disasters might be connected to the DESTINI program. Fortunately, a pair of expeditions dispatched to the Earth’s core in the early 2000s was able to reverse the damage in time to prevent the electromagnetic field from fully failing.
  • It is currently unknown if a similar series of disasters—rouge waves, animal attacks, earthquakes, hurricanes and volcanic eruptions (one of which caused the death of Dalton’s mentor David Jackson)—that occurred in the 1970s were the result of earlier experiments in seismic weaponry by private supervillainous organizations.

Notes on the American Revolution

• Jefferson nearly didn't complete the Declaration due to his amorous wife. Also, John Adams, in addition to his sweeping oratory skills, was noted for his barking baritone singing voice.
• John Adams’ feud with Alexander Hamilton reached its peak when he called Hamilton a “creole bastard” in his taunts, leading to Hamilton penning a letter where he mocked Adams for having his wife make most of his decisions. In the closing line of his letter, Hamilton famously wrote “Sit down John, you fat motherfucker!”, however Hamilton insisted that he wrote “motherfuckstick”. There's also a popular conspiracy theory alleging that Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette were actually the same person, but it's never been proven.
• The half-Iroquois Nathaniel Black fought alongside General Washington.
• Another half-Iroquois, Ratonhnhaké:ton (better known by the pseudonym Connor Kenway), was a pivotal figure in the war, practically delivering several victories to Washington as well as saving him from an assassination attempt.
• Molly Pitcher was one of the few notable female soldiers in the war, a participant in the Battle of Monmouth who aided Ratonhnhaké:ton in covering the retreat of the Marquis de Lafayette by operating a cannon.
• Notable Hessian soldiers fighting against the Americans on behalf of the British included a man whose head was taken off by a cannonball and now haunts the village of Sleepy Hollow as the Headless Horseman and one who became known as "Bearskin" after making a deal with the Devil to wear a bearskin coat for seven years in exchange for fabulous riches. Both of these men were encountered by Ratonhnhaké:ton on separate occasions.
  • Also notable (and more mundane) were Kaspar Schmeck and the von Haynau brothers.
• A pivotal background figure of the Revolution was an enigmatic green-haired woman known only as Cameron Clemons or C.C., who was a personal associate of George Washington. She was actually the overall leader of this League, their M, but used the codename "C" instead, not only from her "actual" name but also for acting as the League's liaison to the Culper Ring.