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    The Modern League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

    For those of you Phillistines out there, LXG is a comic series Super Hero "Period" piece, where Victorian supertypes (Adventurer Allan Quartermain, The Invisible Man, Captain Nemo, Dr. Jekell, Mina Murry) save the British Empire.

    These are "Extraordinary" people indeed, if not out and out super heros. Who, then, should be in the Modern LXG for the guv'ment?

    (Keep comic heros to a minimum, please)

    First Draft:

    John Clark

    Emmet Brown,Egan Spangler (Tech Types)

    Lara Croft.

    Darien Fawkes(Insivible Man)

    Blade.

    Other ideas?
    Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.
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  • #2
    "Now then now then, what's all this shouting? We'll have no trouble here."

    If I was to pick one of Ghostbuster's I'd rather have Ray than Egon. He'd be useless, but good comic relief.
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    • #3
      James Bond
      Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
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      • #4
        Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
        James Bond
        Sorry. The "period" version of the team we're forming already has a Bond on the team IIRC.
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        • #5
          Bond wasn't a Victorian superhero. That's nonsense. He clearly can't appear in any LXG before 1945.
          Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
          "I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs." - Mike Breitkreutz, Firaxis

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
            Bond wasn't a Victorian superhero. That's nonsense. He clearly can't appear in any LXG before 1945.
            It's one of his ancestors.
            I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
            For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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            • #7
              Is this an American invention, this LXG? Sounds particularly ridiculous. Bond's ancestors weren't special. Only Bond himself is special.
              Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
              "I don't believe in giving scripting languages because the only additional power they give users is the power to create bugs." - Mike Breitkreutz, Firaxis

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
                Is this an American invention, this LXG?
                Alan Moore was a Brit the last time I checked.

                After checking my sources, it looks like it was wrong. Here's what the author said about the character in question:

                Moore has said that he needed a character to play that particular role in the story, but there was none available who fit the bill, so he made one up. He created that name specifically to give a sense of familiarity to the character where none otherwise existed.

                I apologize for misleading you.
                Last edited by DinoDoc; June 11, 2003, 20:12.
                I make no bones about my moral support for [terrorist] organizations. - chegitz guevara
                For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for. –Senator Rubio

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                • #9
                  Ah. It always seems that superheroes are much more an American thing, anyway. Maybe the period setting is our attempt at Britticising it. Such things usually turn out crap.

                  So if this is a fictional Bond, can we have ourselves a real James Bond in the new one?
                  Concrete, Abstract, or Squoingy?
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                  • #10
                    Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
                    James Bond
                    Nah....the American LXG's first mission is to bring in Rogue British Agent James Bond.
                    Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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                    • #11
                      No Inspecter Duprey, and Mina Murray (Harker) was NOT a vampire!
                      Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by chegitz guevara
                        No Inspecter Duprey, and Mina Murray (Harker) was NOT a vampire!
                        I know, I know....I got the TPB.
                        Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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                        • #13
                          Man, I remember picking up the comic book and just going nuts. I thought this was the cleverist ****. Sure, they had to mess with stuff for the movie, but hey, now Moore has more money to make great comic books. At least they don't appear to have butchered it as badly as From Hell.
                          Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...

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                          • #14
                            actually, to "Americanize" LXG, the producers/writers added grown-up Tom Sawyer as "Secret Service Agent Sawyer"...

                            he was never in the actual LXG comic
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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by chegitz guevara
                              Man, I remember picking up the comic book and just going nuts. I thought this was the cleverist ****. Sure, they had to mess with stuff for the movie, but hey, now Moore has more money to make great comic books. At least they don't appear to have butchered it as badly as From Hell.
                              You reading "Volume two"? It has Dorien Gray and the Martians from War of the Worlds
                              Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.

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