Friday, July 28, 2006

The Modern League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

I was discussing Alan Moore's excellent League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with a friend. We were trying to come up with a modern incarnation of the league when we realized that limiting ourselves to the printed word was ignoring the fact that popular literature has been taken over by popular television.

The rules we used to populate this list were that each character must both be created (written) and live (set) in the last 50 years or so.

This is our group.

Gary Seven - Agent of Peace.
Mr. Seven was recruited and trained by alien beings and returned to Earth to protect us from ourselves, he has brought together the new league and gives them their assignments.





John Steed - Gentleman Spy.
The quintessentially British secret agent. He can accomplish more with a bowler, a bumbershoot, and a quick wit than others can with a Walther, a submarine car, and a licence to kill.






Willow Rosenberg - Powerful Wicca.
Familiar with the strange and horrific world most of us choose to ignore. Willow has been helping save the world since she was fifteen.






Colonel Steve Austin - Former Astronaut.
Barely alive after his experimental aircraft crashed, Steve was rebuilt at a cost of six million dollars.







Special Agent Dana Scully - Level headed seeker of truth.
Originally assigned to debunk the wild theories of Fox Mulder, Dana came to see the truth and fight the future planned for us by unseen conspirators.





Carl Kolchak - Investigator of the Macabre.
Never satisfied with official explanations doled out by PR cronies, Carl will get to the bottom of a story no matter who, or what, gets in his way.

3 comments:

Grim Richard said...

I love the idea of coming with a new league, but I think your line up needs work. It's too effete.

How about Shaft? You need an ass-kicker to protect this league. Steve McQueen? Karate choppin' and muscle car driving. Good stuff. You may counter that he's a real guy, but why hold that against him.

No Bruce Lee? That's a travesty.

Den, of Earth said...

Shaft can be on the team, if you need Steve McQueen we'll just let Bullitt on.

Anonymous said...

League of Extraodinary Gentlemen indeed --

Bill "The Butcher" Poole -- Gangs of New York;

Indiana Jones -- Raiders of the Lost Arc;

The Terminator -- The Terminator;

Billy Flynn -- Chicago;

Max Headroom -- Max Headroom;

Johnathan Quale Higgins III -- Magnum PI;

Jack Horner -- Boogie Nights;

John Elder -- The Sons of Katie Elder;

Denny Crane & Allan Shore -- Boston Legal;

Adrian Monk -- Monk;

Chris Angel -- Mind Freak;

Jack Bower -- 24;

Paris -- Mission Impossible (TV Cast)

Captain Merrill Stubing -- The Love Boat;

Arthur Fonzie Fonzarelli -- Happy Days;

and of course no League of Extraordinary Gentlement would be complete without

Sy Liebergot - Apollo 13