Fanfic Challenge: Create a Modern League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Here's the challenge, make a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen using characters from modern fiction, any medium is allowed. You have to create seven League members and an Arch-Villain.

Here's the members of my League....

• 1. James Bond (leader of the League)
• 2. Lara Croft
• 3. Batman
• 4. Harry Potter (as an adult)
• 5. Sailor Moon (as an adult)
• 6. Solid Snake
• 7. Lupin III

I also made seven villains.

• 1. Randall Flagg (The Arch-Villain)
• 2. Doctor Horrible
• 3. Venom
• 4. Niko Bellic
• 5. Sephiroth (The Dragon to Randall Flagg)
• 6. Albert Wesker
• 7. Sasuke Uchiha

edited 8th Jul '12 8:25:59 AM by PaulieRomanov

Heroes:

1. Soldat-J (Leader of the League)
2. Negi Springfield (mid-Magical World arc)
3. Samus Aran (with all upgrades and without the Bag of Spilling problem)
4. The Amazing Spider-Man
5. Sora
6. Magna Defender (somewhere between Aloof Ally and Token Evil Teammate; also something of a Badass Normal compared to the others)
7. Johan Faust VIII

Admittedly, the scale of Super Weight here is something more like a Justice League than an LXG, but oh well...

Villains:

1. Maleficent (Arch-Villain)
2. Garland
3. Psycho Blue
4. David Xanatos
5. Hazama
6. Gilgamesh (The Dragon)
7. Shadow Moon

edited 8th Jul '12 9:33:58 PM by EvaUnit01

I don't see this idea working. A bunch of comic books have already used this idea in the forms of the Avengers, the Justice league, and even those groups have their subdivisions.

You'd have to set a standard for where you get your heroes from. Are they fantastical? Sci-fi? videogames? Novels? Without that, you're quickly going to run into a situation where somebody triggers Godwin's law by picking anybody from the Dragonball universe.

Technically, the League is an English creation. Therefore the members should be modern English characters. James Bond coud work, even though he's technically already canon, if you go with the theory that James Bond is a codename. Harry Potter would be an obvious one, though he's around 32 now. The Doctor is also obvious, and this is where I draw a blank. Possibly Shaun or Sergeant Nicholas Angel? We must fill our Simon Pegg quota. Since Captain Britain is a Marvel creation, does he count or not?

The Doctor is obvious, but he's also be a humongous Game-Breaker.

Not really. The TARDIS is always bringing him to the wrong place, anything Magical has flat-out immunity to him and let's not forget his screwdriver's one weakness: Wood.

All in all, up against Voldemort he'd be screwed.

I would be inclined to trust people not to incinerate their own premise like that. I don't think many people would pick a character from something like Dragonball without realizing what they're doing.

Limiting it to just British works is far too boring and restrictive. In Victorian times, it made sense as Britain was the world's superpower and there was no real international community, but in the modern times, America and China are the world's superpowers and there is a well-defined international community thanks to NATO and the United Nations.

But the League itself is British. The League may only contain British members. What you're thinking of is a League analogue created by the UN or NATO. Which due to international politics would contain way to many Americans and token efforts from the rest in NATO's case, or many Americans, Russians and Chinese, with the Russians and Chinese opposing the American's every move in the case of the UN.

A strictly British League is too restrictive and boring

The League has been strictly British since it's creation, and seeing how it is quite popular, I do not believe it is restrictive and boring.

My list has three extraterrestrials (Soldat-J and Magna Defender are something of Human Aliens, while Samus is a human but was born on a space colony somewhere), one Englishman (Negi was born in Whales and spent the first ten years of his life there), one American (Spider-Man), one Japanese kid (Sora), and one German (Faust).

Also, I would say that Captain Britain is absolutely eligible. Restricting it to British works versus restricting it to characters associated with Britain (or, in the case of Negi, come from Britain), for instance. I mean, The Doctor isn't even British technically, he's from Gallifrey.

1. Adam Savage.
2. Bill Nye.
3. The Demoman.
4. Coop.
5. John Rambo.
6. Guile.
7. Captain Falcon

Their arch enemy are the Various Hitlers from All Media. Same man, but he has clones.

edited 17th Jul '12 1:07:30 AM by Steventheman

• 1 Miles Vorkosigan

• 2 Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres

• 3 Sparhawk

• 4 Littlepip

• 5 Fox Mulder

Enemies - whoever was stupid enough to take them on.

edited 17th Jul '12 3:32:25 PM by TamH70

Would Rationalist Harry get to ride the pony? If so, you may just have a premise here.

Since I love comedy, I decided to do the Comedy variation on this. The Extraordinary League of Comedy Ladies and Gentlemen!

1. Jon Stewart (league leader)

2. Eliza Bennett (second-in-command)

3. Abed Nadir

4. Chiri Kitsu (Token Evil Teammate)

5. Jonathan Gabriel/The Cardboard Tube Samurai

6. Rolf

7. Max Fischer

And their adversaries:

1. "Stephen Colbert" (league leader)

2. Yzma(second-in-command)

3. The Butterfly Net

4. Eric Cartman

5. Aldous Snow

6. Kyouya Ootori

7. IsabellaThorpe

edited 26th Jul '12 4:01:25 PM by LargoQuagmire

"You haff zested an orange in thee face of Rolf!"

I started a similar thread on the comics tab here.

Redirected from that page:

The Core Team:

• Ann Darrow (going by the alias Mrs. Driscoll) as the Mina Murray-esque leader of the team. She's a beautiful, aging film idol with a mysterious past. All the others know about her is that she was once involved in some kind of bizarre island expedition, and that she once survived a horrific attack on New York City by a giant monster...
• Detective Harry Callahan as the washed-up former Cowboy Cop (a loose Quatermain analogue). He was expelled from the San Francisco police department and moved to the East Coast a few years before, and he agrees to join the League after a brush with New Jersey mobster 'Johnny Boy' Soprano ends with a contract being put out on him.
• Dr. Daisuke Serizawa as the resident badass scientist. He faked his death back in the 1950s after using the Oxygen Destroyer to kill the first Godzilla, and has since been on the run from government agents who want to use the Oxygen Destroyer as a military weapon. With the League, he attempts to uncover the truth behind the interdimensional disturbances behind the recent rash of monster attacks in his native Japan...
• Marty McFly as the plucky, optimistic kid on a road trip through time. He gets dragged into the League after he's nabbed by government agents who find photographic evidence of him existing in the 1950s and the 1880s, and want to use the Flux Capacitor for their own purposes. With the League, he ends up using Doc Brown's lost notes to help them travel between dimensions with the Flux Capacitor and repair the space-time disturbances behind the Kaiju attacks in Japan (which may also have led to the creation of that mysterious island filled with prehistoric creatures...).
• Agent Felix Leiter as the detached leader who brings everyone together.

A few supporting characters:

• Dorothy Gale: Early on, she appears as an elderly woman living in a boardinghouse in rural Kansas run by her great-granddaughter Glinda Kent (in the spot where her family's farm once stood). The team finds out that the disturbances in space-time are linked to a certain interdimensional trip that she made as a child. When they start time-traveling, they'll meet her as a teenager and try to get to the bottom of everything with her help. We'll also learn that her habit of attracting weirdness runs in the family—she's directly related to another Kansas farmgirl named Martha Kent
• Hogarth Hughes: At the time of the series, he's a G-Man working for the government agency that secretly runs Area 51 (which contains, among other things, the reassembled remains of a certain giant robot and a golden box recovered from Egypt). As a child, the Agency took him in as a novice to keep him from divulging his knowledge of the Giant to the public, and he has since worked to stop similar alien weapons from threatening Earth. (A far cry from his optimistic teenage self, he's now a cynical adult who believes all extraterrestrial life is evil) He's involved with the military expeditions being sent to Ground X (the area formerly known as Tokyo) to destroy the mutated creatures there.
• Rick Blaine: He's worked as an international smuggler and anti-Fascist rebel since the end of the war, and is now one of Dr. Serizawa's contacts (he helped him escape Japan after his supposed death). He is also wanted by British Intelligence for running guns to anti-Big Brother forces during the Airstrip One period. He will help the team travel to the ruins of Tokyo, but they'll end up pursued by agents of M along the way.

The Arch-Villain:

• Kenji Yutani: A semi-original character. He's the new military dictator of Japan who seized power in the chaos following Tokyo's destruction in the 1950s. He has held the country in the grip of martial law ever since, ruling from the new capital of Osaka. He is also a hugely powerful industrialist who dreams of controlling all of the world's commerce and using it to expand mankind's reach beyond the solar system and create a New World Order (in the future, one of his descendants will partner with industrialist Peter Weyland to form the Weyland-Yutani Corporation, which will make that dream a reality).
  \To this end, he has secretly developed an entire army of giant mechanized soldiers that he plans to use as the backbone of his new order's military force, and he has also contracted a multinational team of astronauts to build a glorious orbiting city that he dubs 'Zeon'. While the League tries to fix the rips in space-time to stop them from releasing armageddon on Earth, he tries to ensure it, believing that this is the only thing that can galvanize mankind into leaving Earth and taking its place among the stars.

edited 27th Jul '12 9:26:24 PM by TheMightyHeptagon

I'd like to add to Geek Code Red that the League isn't specifically British, the French and German Leagues are proof enough that other countries can get in on the action.

Here's one I thought up that's owned by the US Government.

• 1.Duke, when he signed on he though he was getting a cushy job...boy was he ever wrong.
• 2.Thugboy, recruited for his past as a capekiller.
• 3.The Minotaur, the son of a apple fond Shinigami and a human, he joined purely to kill.
• 4.Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad, Not the original but one of the many historical figures cloned in a supersoldier project, while he escaped getting frozen with the others he got employment with the government in exchange for rights as a human being.
• 5.Izzy Moriarty, the insane descendent of counterculture hero Dean Moriarty, was the washout of a Canadian supersoldier project (that inspired a doctor to make a project where he turned rich people into supervillains) but still good enough in combat to join the League.
• 6.Angry VideoGame Nerd, recruited for having (among other things) successfully killed Jason Voorhees, Freddy Kreuger, and a demon.
• 7.Dr.Horrible, his turning evil made him more competant than he was before, the government took notice...and Horrible was rather pleased about being able to make some easy money.
• 8.Orleg Kirrlov, a hulking result of a botched supersolider project from Russia, Orleg was brought on by the lure of a pardon for past crimes.
• 9.Sander Cohen, he was brought on after he was found alive in the remains of an underwater city, the ADAM having kept his body from aging. Despite his insanity he was brought onboard the League for the superpowers he possessed, regardless of his morality.

Threats they face include a society of supercriminals from another universe, a Sikh terrorist, a cult from the Blazing World, a family of corrupt authority figures, several mad psychiatrists and their leader, Bio-terrorism, a monster's rampage in New York, preventing the release of two mutated strains of mad cow disease, preventing the possession of an advanced computer system by a psychotic AI, and a villainous triplet with an army of cash powered machines.

edited 6th Sep '12 7:03:41 AM by DoctorCrocodile

Working with the Britain-only conceit? In the modern world?

Well, you need a Harry Potter character, duh, but why not go for the least obvious choice apart from Justin Finch-Fletchley and pick Luna Lovegood? If anyone can survive a Moore barrage somewhat intact it's her.

Let's see... someone from the original Office, just for a laugh? I don't really care for either version, but people seem to really be into that show.

I really really really want to include John Constantine, but he'd totally cancel out anyone Potter-related by nature of the magic he uses.

Sonika. Just for sheer i'm a western comics reader and what is this?! D:<

Blackadder, from that one modern Christmas special they did that time.

I'll think of more later.

edited 3rd Sep '12 1:19:39 PM by FurikoMaru

Now here's a sort of 'Rogue League' the members of this group are anti-government and desire to fight evil and weed out corruption, the organization that made it is a reformed V.F.D. under the command of an elderly Dan Dreiberg and the Baudilaire Orphans, the roster they assembled is as follows.

• Faith Connors, an escapee from a totalitarian city-state created by the government as a 'social experiment', recruited for her ability to overcome obstacles, her fighting skills, and her knowledge of parkour.
• Jules Winnfeld, a former assassin who quit his job after nearly getting shot, came to V.F.D because he believed God had pointed him towards it, is an expert fighter and gunmen, though he has the odd quirk of qouting the Bible prior to engaging in killing.
• Babydoll, a mysterious, seemingly ageless girl from an insane asylum, when V.F.D. removed her to investigate her case she suddenly woke up and began attacking the inspectors, after restraining her it was then discovered she'd mutated into something at the peak of human perfection and possessed a level of fighting skill she hadn't shown prior to this, looking for answers about this, she joined the League.
• Huey Freeman, a former domestic terrorist and child prodigy, Huey was brought on as the group's leader, while the youngest member of this group, is far from being harmless, knowing a vast wealth of martial arts and planning skills.
• Zig Zag, a humanoid skunk/tiger hybrid from a parallel Earth that's populated by humanoid animals, wound up here after getting shipwrecked, brought in for her skill in seduction, though she wishes to find a way back to her home.
• Riff, the resident scientist, brought in for both his vast genius and the experience he's had with the paranormal.
• Kenzo Tenma, the team's medical specialist, brought in because of his experiences in tracking down a criminal named Johan Liebert.

One of the main threats this League faces is a war against the Friendship and Democracy Party, a war that started with their investigation in 2009 and ended in 2013 when they exposed the group with the help of a detective who was supposed to be dead, another notable assignment of theirs was that of an investigation into the Illuminati, which exposed an even more dangourous secret society along with a two year war against a Evil knockoff of them formed by the Arsonist faction of V.F.D.

edited 3rd Sep '12 7:40:36 PM by DoctorCrocodile

Now here's something that's fairly underused in ideas, an evil version of the League, the members are as follows.

• Dogbert, a humanoid dog from another planet, a criminal mastermind of great skill and prestige, he formed this League to keep his empire in his possession.
• Tony Montanna, a former mob boss who faked his death after an attempt on his life, falling in with Dogbert he became very much loyal to the dog after he helped him get his revenge.
• Oasis, a Nigh-Invulnerable supersoldier with more loose screws than a hardware store, Dogbert lured her in with the promise of revenge against a woman named Zoe.
• Rastapopoulos, an elderly criminal mastermind Dogbert brought on as the team's planner, was once abducted by aliens but got back to Earth by befriending a group of oxygen depreived conquerors.
• Micheal Myers, a mass murder and implacable man, Myers was brought in under heavy mind control, not that this hampered his natural ability for killing nor his durability.
• Megavolt, a mutant with electricity based superpowers from another universe, brought in for the purpose of raw muscle.
• Captain Hook, a centuries old pirate from a side dimension, brought in for his fighting and planning skills.
• Sweet Tooth, serial killer with a gang of followers, recruited by Dogbert for transportation and manpower.

While this group serves as Dogbert's enforcers, three notable threats were Dogbert's rival and fellow crimelord Bun-Bun, demonically powered mobster Calypso, and a Canadian spymaster who posed as a reality TV show host.

edited 4th Sep '12 9:56:24 AM by DoctorCrocodile

Say, what about a League assembled of people who were originally everymen (or women) but turned into adventurers prior to joining their League (though being normal people in their original works.)

You mean consisting entirely of Action Survivor?