The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' (''LoEG'') is a comic book series (inspired by the 1960 British film ''The League of Gentlemen'') co-created by writer Alan Moore and artist Kevin O'Neill which began in 1999. The series spans four volu ...
'', a comic book series created by
Alan Moore
Alan Moore (born 18 November 1953) is an English author known primarily for his work in comic books including ''Watchmen'', '' V for Vendetta'', ''The Ballad of Halo Jones'', ''Swamp Thing'', ''Batman:'' ''The Killing Joke'', and ''From Hell ...
Character's name
*Original source/author
*Appearances or mention in the League universe
*Brief biography/overview
*Notes
Abbreviations:
*ASV: '' Allan and the Sundered Veil''
*NTA: '' The New Traveller's Almanac''
*BD: '' The Black Dossier''
*MIM: ''Minions of the Moon''
*NHI: ''Nemo: Heart of Ice''
*NRB: ''Nemo: The Roses of Berlin''
*NRG: ''Nemo: River of Ghosts''
*T: '' Tales of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen''
An italicised appearance is either a graphic novel or film appearance where the character is only mentioned in dialogue or otherwise referenced but not shown or a text story appearance where the character is mentioned either briefly or indirectly.
A
Alice
Alice may refer to:
* Alice (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname
Literature
* Alice (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''), a character in books by Lewis Carroll
* ''Alice'' series, children's and teen books by ...
* ''
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (commonly ''Alice in Wonderland'') is an 1865 English novel by Lewis Carroll. It details the story of a young girl named Alice who falls through a rabbit hole into a fantasy world of anthropomorphic creatur ...
'' and ''
Through the Looking-Glass
''Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There'' (also known as ''Alice Through the Looking-Glass'' or simply ''Through the Looking-Glass'') is a novel published on 27 December 1871 (though indicated as 1872) by Lewis Carroll and the ...
'',
Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (; 27 January 1832 – 14 January 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, poet and mathematician. His most notable works are ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'' (1865) and its sequel ...
* NTA
* Mentioned in '' The New Traveller's Almanac'', which suggests that Wonderland is somewhere underneath England and/or in a parallel universe. She is mentioned to have died following her second adventure, which had the effect of 'reversing' her body chemistry's
chirality
Chirality is a property of asymmetry important in several branches of science. The word ''chirality'' is derived from the Greek (''kheir''), "hand", a familiar chiral object.
An object or a system is ''chiral'' if it is distinguishable from i ...
, making her incapable of digesting anything and causing her to starve.
* She is called 'A. L.', presumably for
Alice Liddell
Alice Pleasance Hargreaves (''née'' Liddell, ; 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934), was an English woman who, in her childhood, was an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll. One of the stories he told her during a boating trip bec ...
* Arthurian Legend
* BD
* The King of England who had Sir Roland (Orlando) serve under him in the Knights of the Round Table. His sword
Excalibur
Excalibur () is the legendary sword of King Arthur, sometimes also attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty of Britain. It was associated with the Arthurian legend very early on. Excalibur and the Sword in t ...
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wide ...
* Volume 1 cover
* An immortal
mummy
A mummy is a dead human or an animal whose soft tissues and organs have been preserved by either intentional or accidental exposure to chemicals, extreme cold, very low humidity, or lack of air, so that the recovered body does not decay fu ...
and proposed member of a mid-19th century League.
* He is shown sleeping on the cover of Volume 1, and his name and portrait displayed.
Ariel
Ariel may refer to:
Film and television
*Ariel Award, a Mexican Academy of Film award
* ''Ariel'' (film), a 1988 Finnish film by Aki Kaurismäki
* ''ARIEL Visual'' and ''ARIEL Deluxe'', 1989 and 1991 anime video series based on the novel series ...
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
* NTA, BD
*
Faerie
Fairyland (''Faerie'', Scottish ''Elfame'', c.f. Old Norse ''Álfheimr'') in English and Scottish folklore is the fabulous land or abode of fairies or ''fays''. Old French (Early Modern English ) referred to an illusion or enchantment, the land ...
familiar of Prospero's and a member of Prospero's Men (the 17th century League).
Artful Dodger
Jack Dawkins, better known as the Artful Dodger, is a character in Charles Dickens's 1838 novel ''Oliver Twist''. The Dodger is a pickpocket, so called for his skill and cunning in that occupation. He is the leader of the gang of child criminals ...
* ''
Oliver Twist
''Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy's Progress'', Charles Dickens's second novel, was published as a serial from 1837 to 1839, and as a three-volume book in 1838. Born in a workhouse, the orphan Oliver Twist is bound into apprenticeship with ...
'',
Charles Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...
* Volume 1 Issue 6 (p. 3)
* Dodger leads his gang of children into London's sewers for protection against the air war between Professor Moriarty and Fu Manchu.
Ayesha
* ''
She
She most commonly refers to:
*She (pronoun), the third person singular, feminine, nominative case pronoun in modern English.
She or S.H.E. may also refer to:
Literature and films
*'' She: A History of Adventure'', an 1887 novel by H. Rider Hagga ...
'', H. Rider Haggard
* BD, NHI, NRB
* Immortal, brutal, deposed ruler of the African kingdom of Kor, she is robbed of her most priceless treasures by Janni Nemo while in asylum in the United States in 1925. Ayesha joins forces with Adenoid Hynkel in 1941.
B
Babar the Elephant
Babar the Elephant (, ; ) is an elephant character who first appeared in 1931 in the French children's book ''Histoire de Babar'' by Jean de Brunhoff.
The book is based on a tale that Brunhoff's wife, Cécile, had invented for their children. ...
* ''Histoire de Babar'' (''The Story of Babar''), Jean de Brunhoff
* NTA
* King of the
Elephant
Elephants are the largest existing land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant, the African forest elephant, and the Asian elephant. They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae ...
s. Not mentioned by name, Babar and his elephants escort Mina Murray and
Allan Quatermain
Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel '' King Solomon's Mines'', its one sequel '' Allan Quatermain'' (1887), twelve prequel novels and four prequel short stories, totalling eighteen works. An English professional ...
through the African jungle in The New Traveller's Almanac. Mina considers them very polite, but Allan denies that their leader is really wearing a crown.
Blackadder Goes Forth
''Blackadder Goes Forth'' is the fourth series of the BBC sitcom ''Blackadder'', written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, which aired from 28 September to 2 November 1989 on BBC1. The series placed the recurring characters of Blackadder, Bald ...
''
* BD
* The stupid soldier serving under Captain Blackadder in World War I. Not mentioned by name, he appears as visual cameo in Orlando's Trump Biography.
Josiah Bartlet
Josiah Edward "Jed" Bartlet is a fictional character from the American television serial drama '' The West Wing'' created by Aaron Sorkin and portrayed by actor Martin Sheen. The role earned Sheen a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Tel ...
*
The West Wing
''The West Wing'' is an American serial (radio and television), serial political drama television series created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 22, 1999, to May 14, 2006. The series is set primarily in the ...
* Volume 3 III
* Mentioned as having been president of the United States, leaving office by 2009. His policies were criticized by his successor, David Palmer.
Lew Wallace
Lewis Wallace (April 10, 1827February 15, 1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, governor of the New Mexico Territory, politician, diplomat, and author from Indiana. Among his novels and biographies, Wallace is ...
* BD
* Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem. Not mentioned by name, his name is written in a bust in the house of Billy Bunter.
Beowulf
''Beowulf'' (; ang, Bēowulf ) is an Old English Epic poetry, epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 Alliterative verse, alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and List of translations of Beo ...
* ''
Beowulf
''Beowulf'' (; ang, Bēowulf ) is an Old English Epic poetry, epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 Alliterative verse, alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and List of translations of Beo ...
''
* BD
* A hero who aides King Hrothgar in killing the demon
Grendel
Grendel is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem ''Beowulf'' (700–1000). He is one of the poem's three antagonists (along with his mother and the dragon), all aligned in opposition against the protagonist Beowulf. Grendel is feared by al ...
.
Bill and Ben
* ''
Flower Pot Men
''Flower Pot Men'' is a British programme for young children produced by BBC Television. It was first transmitted in 1952, and repeated regularly for more than twenty years. A reboot of the show called ''Bill and Ben'' was produced in 2001.
...
'', BBC
* BD
* A pair of creatures made up of flowerpots. Their skeletons are seen in Greyfriars School.
Sir Percy Blakeney
* ''
The Scarlet Pimpernel
''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' is the first novel in a series of historical fiction by Baroness Orczy, published in 1905. It was written after her stage play of the same title (co-authored with Montague Barstow) enjoyed a long run in London, having ...
'',
Emma Orczy
Baroness Emma Orczy (full name: Emma Magdolna Rozália Mária Jozefa Borbála Orczy de Orci) (; 23 September 1865 – 12 November 1947), usually known as Baroness Orczy (the name under which she was published) or to her family and friends as Em ...
* Volume 1 Issue 2 (p. 23, pnl.2), Volume 1 cover, NTA, BD, F
* The masked do-gooder, the Scarlet Pimpernel, Percy saves members of the French aristocracy from the guillotine during the French Revolution. He is a member of the 18th century League under Lemuel Gulliver.
* In Volume 1 Sir Percy is shown in the Montegu House portrait of Gulliver's Fellowship (the 18th century League), and his name appears in the caption. In the film, he only appears in a painting on the wall.
* The works of David Low
* Volume 2 Issue 2, Volume 2 Issue 3 BDS
* An overconfident major in the British army who leads the initial strike against the Martians. He is seen again in "What Ho, Gods of the Abyss!"
Rafael Sabatini
Rafael Sabatini (29 April 1875 – 13 February 1950) was an Italian-born British writer of romance and adventure novels.
He is best known for his worldwide bestsellers: '' The Sea Hawk'' (1915), ''Scaramouche'' (1921), ''Captain Blood'' (a.k ...
* NTA
* Member of the
Pirates
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, v ...
' Conference.
Boadicea
* a.k.a.
Boudica
Boudica or Boudicca (, known in Latin chronicles as Boadicea or Boudicea, and in Welsh as ()), was a queen of the ancient British Iceni tribe, who led a failed uprising against the conquering forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61. Sh ...
, warrior queen of the Iceni in Roman times.
* Volume 3, 1910
* Seen by Andrew Norton. He also mentions the urban legend that her bones are buried beneath King's Cross Platform 10.
Sir Basildon Bond
* Character developed by
Russ Abbot
Russ Abbot (born Russell Allan Roberts; 18 September 1947) is an English musician, comedian and actor. Born in Chester, he first came to public notice during the 1970s as the singer and drummer with British comedy showband the Black Abbots, la ...
as a parody of James Bond, playing on the name of a well-known brand of notepaper.
* BD
* Associate of Sir Jack Wilton.
MI5
The Security Service, also known as MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Go ...
and
handler
Handler or The Handler may refer to:
People Occupations
* Handler, offensive player in Ultimate (sport)
* Animal handler, person who conducts animal training or is a wrangler
* Handler, a sport coach, agent or promoter
* Agent handling, person ...
of the first Murray Group (the late 19th century League).
* Grandfather of
James Bond
The ''James Bond'' series focuses on a fictional Secret Intelligence Service, British Secret Service agent created in 1953 by writer Ian Fleming, who featured him in twelve novels and two short-story collections. Since Fleming's death in 19 ...
* '' Casino Royale'', Ian Fleming
* BD, ''Volume 3I2'', Volume 3I3
* Successor and grandson of Campion, he is portrayed as an incompetent bungler, a cowardly liar, and a sadistic rapist who betrayed his country and worked for the American government as a
double agent
In the field of counterintelligence, a double agent is an employee of a secret intelligence service for one country, whose primary purpose is to spy on a target organization of another country, but who is now spying on their own country's organ ...
. By 2009, he is said by Emma Night to be in constant physical pain from a combination of cirrhosis, emphysema, and syphilis. Having become a national treasure, he has been replaced by a succession of namesakes shown staffing MI5 headquarters and resembling the various
Bond
Bond or bonds may refer to:
Common meanings
* Bond (finance), a type of debt security
* Bail bond, a commercial third-party guarantor of surety bonds in the United States
* Chemical bond, the attraction of atoms, ions or molecules to form chemica ...
film portrayers
Sean Connery
Sir Sean Connery (born Thomas Connery; 25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020) was a Scottish actor. He was the first actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond on film, starring in seven Bond films between 1962 and 1983. Origina ...
,
George Lazenby
George Robert Lazenby (; born 5 September 1939) is an Australian actor. He was the second actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in ''On Her Majesty's Secret Service' ...
,
Roger Moore
Sir Roger George Moore (14 October 192723 May 2017) was an English actor. He was the third actor to portray fictional British secret agent James Bond in the Eon Productions film series, playing the character in seven feature films between 1 ...
,
Timothy Dalton
Timothy Leonard Dalton Leggett (; born 21 March 1946) is a British actor. Beginning his career on stage, he made his film debut as Philip II of France in the 1968 historical drama ''The Lion in Winter''. He gained international prominence as ...
,
Pierce Brosnan
Pierce Brendan Brosnan (; born 16 May 1953) is an Irish actor and film producer. He is best known as the fifth actor to play secret agent James Bond in the Bond film series, starring in four films from 1995 to 2002 ('' GoldenEye'', '' Tomorrow ...
and
Daniel Craig
Daniel Wroughton Craig (born 2 March 1968) is an English-American actor who gained international fame playing the secret agent James Bond in the film series, beginning with '' Casino Royale'' (2006) and in four further instalments, up to ' ...
.
* Identified only as "Jimmy" or as "Sir James" as the James Bond character is not in the public domain.
The Invisible Man
''The Invisible Man'' is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in '' Pearson's Weekly'' in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientist who has devo ...
'' (1958 television series)
* BD
* Successor to Hawley Griffin in the 1946-1947 league that was led by Joan Warralson. Bradey achieved invisibility by duplicating Griffin's experiments from discovered notebooks. He is noted as being a "distinctly second rate" Invisible Man, largely due to his compulsive chain smoking and coughing fits which gave him away on several occasions.
Nautilus
The nautilus (, ) is a pelagic marine mollusc of the cephalopod family Nautilidae. The nautilus is the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal suborder, Nautilina.
It comprises six living species ...
''.
* Married and fathered the child of Janni Nemo between 1925 and 1941.
Natty Bumppo
Nathaniel "Natty" Bumppo is a fictional character and the protagonist of James Fenimore Cooper's pentalogy of novels known as the ''Leatherstocking Tales''.
Fictional biography
Natty Bumppo, the child of white parents, grew up among Delaware I ...
* ''
The Deerslayer
''The Deerslayer, or The First War-Path'' (1841) was James Fenimore Cooper's last novel in his '' Leatherstocking Tales''. Its 1740–1745 time period makes it the first installment chronologically and in the lifetime of the hero of the Leather ...
'',
James Fenimore Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper (September 15, 1789 – September 14, 1851) was an American writer of the first half of the 19th century, whose historical romances depicting colonist and Indigenous characters from the 17th to the 19th centuries brought h ...
* Volume 1 Issue 2 (p. 23, pnl.2), Volume 1 cover, NTA, BD, F
* American colonial raised by Native Americans and a member of the 18th century League under Lemuel Gulliver.
* In Volume 1 Natty is shown in the Montegu House portrait of Gulliver's Fellowship (the 18th century League), and his name appears in the caption.
The Magnet
''The Magnet'' was a British weekly boys' story paper published by Amalgamated Press. It ran from 1908 to 1940, publishing a total of 1,683 issues.
Each issue cost a halfpenny and contained a long school story about the boys of Greyfriars S ...
'', Frank Richards
* BD
* The former student and current caretaker of
Greyfriars School
Greyfriars School is a fictional English public school used as a setting in the long-running series of stories by the writer Charles Hamilton, who wrote under the pen-name of Frank Richards. Although the stories are focused on the Remove (or lo ...
. He reveals that his sister Bessie Bunter had been married to the late General Sir Harold " Big Brother" Wharton and that he was a schoolmate of both Wharton and Robert Kim Cherry.
* The picture Bunter is holding in his hand (BD p. 94, pnl.3) before he calls Harry Lime, aka "
Mother
]
A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by supplying her ovum for fertilisation in the case of ge ...
", aka Bob Cherry is not that of his late sister Bessie, who was an unpleasant nagging bully on top of being a female copy of her brother Billy, but that of his doting and adoring late mother.
* He is only referred to as "William" as the character is not in the public domain.
C
Caliban
Caliban ( ), son of the witch Sycorax, is an important character in William Shakespeare's play '' The Tempest''.
His character is one of the few Shakespearean figures to take on a life of its own "outside" Shakespeare's own work: as Russell ...
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
* NTA, BD
* Brutish servant of Prospero and member of the 1680s League, Prospero's Men.
Robert Wiene
Robert Wiene (; 27 April 1873 – 17 July 1938) was a film director of the silent era of German cinema. He is particularly known for directing the German silent film ''The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' and a succession of other expressionist films. ...
* BD, NRB
* Member of ''Die Zwielichthelden'' (
German
German(s) may refer to:
* Germany (of or related to)
**Germania (historical use)
* Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language
** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law
**Ger ...
William Hope Hodgson
William Hope Hodgson (15 November 1877 – 19 April 1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction, and sci ...
* BD, Volume 3I1
*
Ghost
A ghost is the soul (spirit), soul or spirit of a dead Human, person or animal that is believed to be able to appear to the living. In ghostlore, descriptions of ghosts vary widely from an invisible presence to translucent or barely visibl ...
finder and paranormal detective. Member of second Murray Group (the early 20th century League), in 1910 he received threatening premonitions of a black cabal led by Oliver Haddo who plans on bringing the end of the world. However, Carnacki and his team discover that after confronting Haddo's cabal they found that the threat hasn't happened yet, and only inadvertently gives the magicians a crucial piece of information that they need to create the Moonchild.
Katy Carr
* ''
What Katy Did
''What Katy Did'' is an 1872 children's book written by Sarah Chauncey Woolsey under her pen name "Susan Coolidge". It follows the adventures of a twelve-year-old American girl, Katy Carr, and her family who live in the fictional lakeside Ohio to ...
'',
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (January 29, 1835 – April 9, 1905) was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge.
Background
Woolsey was born on January 29, 1835 into the wealthy, influential New England Dwight famil ...
* Volume 1 Issue 2 (p. 13, pnl.2)
* One of Miss Coote's teachers.
Get Carter
''Get Carter'' is a 1971 British crime film written and directed by Mike Hodges in his directorial debut and starring Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, John Osborne, Britt Ekland and Bryan Mosley. Based on Ted Lewis's 1970 novel '' Jack's Retur ...
* Volume 3I2
* Hired by Vince Dakin to investigate the murder of Basil Thomas. He later kills Kosmo Gallion the vessel of Oliver Haddo.
A Princess of Mars
''A Princess of Mars'' is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series. It was first serialized in the pulp magazine ''All-Story Magazine'' from February–July, 1912. Full of swordplay and dar ...
Confederate States Army
The Confederate States Army, also called the Confederate Army or the Southern Army, was the military land force of the Confederate States of America (commonly referred to as the Confederacy) during the American Civil War (1861–1865), fighting ...
officer who is transported to
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmos ...
and leads the native resistance against the
mollusk
Mollusca is the second-largest phylum of invertebrate animals after the Arthropoda, the members of which are known as molluscs or mollusks (). Around 85,000 extant species of molluscs are recognized. The number of fossil species is es ...
invaders. John Carter is said to be the great uncle of Randolph Carter.
* He is only referred to by his first name, as the character is not in the public domain in Europe.
The Statement of Randolph Carter
"The Statement of Randolph Carter" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in December 1919, it was first published in ''The Vagrant'', May 1920. It tells of a traumatic event in the life of Randolph Carter, a student of t ...
Miskatonic University
Miskatonic University is a fictional university located in Arkham, a fictional town in Essex County, Massachusetts. It is named after the Miskatonic River (also fictional). After first appearing in H. P. Lovecraft's 1922 story "Herbert West–Rea ...
occultist and grand-nephew of John. Randolph met his grand-uncle and Allan Quatermain after he was lost during his dream quest and were equally brought together because of the Time Traveler who needs their help in preventing the Great Old Ones (entities which Randolph was very familiar with) from invading creation. Randolph later returns to his dream quest after seeing his vision of his future. He is later reunited with Quatermain, who was accompanied by Mina Murray while investigating
Arkham
Arkham () is a fictional city situated in Massachusetts. An integral part of the Lovecraft Country setting created by H. P. Lovecraft, Arkham is featured in many of his stories and those of other Cthulhu Mythos writers.
Arkham House, a publish ...
's peculiars. The two vaguely remember each other, but couldn't recall their adventures in ''Allan and the Sundered Veil''.
Ira Levin
Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter. His works include the novels '' A Kiss Before Dying'' (1953), '' Rosemary's Baby'' (1967), ''The Stepford Wives'' (1972), ''This Perfec ...
* Volume 3, 1969
* Mentioned in name as the son of Adrian Marcato an alias of Oliver Haddo. Castevet attempted to use Rosemary Woodhouse to give birth to an antichrist but the child died days after its birth.
Selwyn Cavor
* ''
The First Men in the Moon
''The First Men in the Moon'' is a scientific romance by the English author H. G. Wells, originally serialised in ''The Strand Magazine'' from December 1900 to August 1901 and published in hardcover in 1901, who called it one of his "fantasti ...
'', H.G. Wells
* Volume 1 Issue 2 back cover, Volume 1 Issue 2 (p. 22-23), BD, MIM
* A scientist who developed the Cavorite substance used for the prospective British turn-of-the-century mission to, and annexation of, the Moon in 1901. There is a memorial to him constructed in St. James Park after his death in 1901.
* '' The Lost World'', Arthur Conan Doyle
* NTA, Volume 3I1
* Explorer and scientist, consultant to the second Murray Group.
* He is only briefly mentioned in dialogue, never shown in the series thus far.
Henry James
Henry James ( – ) was an American-British author. He is regarded as a key transitional figure between literary realism and literary modernism, and is considered by many to be among the greatest novelists in the English language. He was th ...
* Volume 1 Issue 2 (p. 13, pnl.2)
* One of Miss Coote's students.
Robert Kim Cherry (aka "Harry Lime")
* ''
The Magnet
''The Magnet'' was a British weekly boys' story paper published by Amalgamated Press. It ran from 1908 to 1940, publishing a total of 1,683 issues.
Each issue cost a halfpenny and contained a long school story about the boys of Greyfriars S ...
The Third Man
''The Third Man'' is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Set in postwar Vienna, the film centres on American Holly Martins (Cotten), ...
MI5
The Security Service, also known as MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Go ...
.
* "Bob Cherry" was the name of one of Billy Bunter's classmates at
Greyfriars School
Greyfriars School is a fictional English public school used as a setting in the long-running series of stories by the writer Charles Hamilton, who wrote under the pen-name of Frank Richards. Although the stories are focused on the Remove (or lo ...
and a member of the Famous Five. His appearance resembles that of actor
Michael Caine
Sir Michael Caine (born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite; 14 March 1933) is an English actor. Known for his distinctive Cockney accent, he has appeared in more than 160 films in a career spanning seven decades, and is considered a British film ico ...
, perhaps referring to Caine's film portrayals of
Len Deighton
Leonard Cyril Deighton (; born 18 February 1929) is a British author. His publications have included cookery books, history and military history, but he is best known for his spy novels.
After completing his national service in the Royal Air F ...
's anti-hero working-class spy character Harry Palmer. He is revealed in ''Black Dossier'' to be also the amoral smuggler Harry Lime created by
Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading English novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquir ...
and played by
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, known for his innovative work in film, radio and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential f ...
in the film ''
The Third Man
''The Third Man'' is a 1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Set in postwar Vienna, the film centres on American Holly Martins (Cotten), ...
''. His codename of "Mother" refers to the code name of John Steed's portly
paraplegic
Paraplegia, or paraparesis, is an impairment in motor or sensory function of the lower extremities. The word comes from Ionic Greek ()
"half-stricken". It is usually caused by spinal cord injury or a congenital condition that affects the neur ...
Caractacus Potts
Caractacus Pott (Caractacus Potts in the film adaptation) is one of the main characters in Ian Fleming's novel ''Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang'' and its film adaptation. The film version of the story makes several changes to his character.
Caractacus ...
.
* Has ability to fly, float and has other hidden traits.
* The car is seen in the
Ministry of Love
The Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Love, and the Ministry of Plenty are the four ministries of the government of Oceania in the 1949 dystopian novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', by George Orwell.
The use of contradictory ...
being dismantled, with the famous license plate "GEN 1" visible.
* The car is implied to be the first in the line of James Bond cars based on the common author.
The Pilgrim's Progress
''The Pilgrim's Progress from This World, to That Which Is to Come'' is a 1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan. It is regarded as one of the most significant works of theological fiction in English literature and a progenitor of the ...
'',
John Bunyan
John Bunyan (; baptised 30 November 162831 August 1688) was an English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory ''The Pilgrim's Progress,'' which also became an influential literary model. In additio ...
* NTA, BD
* An etheric traveler and member of Prospero's Men (the 17th century League).
* He wandered into 1670s London after becoming wayward on his journey during his visit in Vanity Fair and was unable to return to his homeland. He was then committed to a madhouse before being rescued by Prospero. Christian later successfully returns to his world by traveling into the Blazing World.
Santa Claus
Santa Claus, also known as Father Christmas, Saint Nicholas, Saint Nick, Kris Kringle, or simply Santa, is a legendary figure originating in Western Christian culture who is said to bring children gifts during the late evening and overnigh ...
* NTA
* A Mystic Shaman of the North Pole who wears the inside out skin of a
reindeer
Reindeer (in North American English, known as caribou if wild and ''reindeer'' if domesticated) are deer in the genus ''Rangifer''. For the last few decades, reindeer were assigned to one species, ''Rangifer tarandus'', with about 10 subsp ...
and on the Winter Solstice must send his spirit across the world guided by reindeer and dispense gifts.
The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant
''The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant'' is a 19th-century work of sado-masochistic pornography, written under the pseudonym Rosa Coote and published by William Dugdale in London in 1876. Henry Spencer Ashbee catalo ...
'', by
William Dugdale
Sir William Dugdale (12 September 1605 – 10 February 1686) was an English antiquary and herald. As a scholar he was influential in the development of medieval history as an academic subject.
Life
Dugdale was born at Shustoke, near Cole ...
* Volume 1 Issue 2, Volume 2S
*
Dominatrix
A dominatrix (; ) or femdom is a woman who takes the dominant role in BDSM activities. A dominatrix can be of any sexual orientation, but this does not necessarily limit the genders of her submissive partners. Dominatrices are known for inflic ...
headmistress of an
Edmonton
Edmonton ( ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Edmonton is situated on the North Saskatchewan River and is the centre of the Edmonton Metropolitan Region, which is surrounded by Alberta's central region. The city anc ...
girls' school.
Mrs. Cornelius (aka "Mrs. C")
* First appeared in '' The Condition of Muzak'' by Michael Moorcock.
* BD
* Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain Jr.'s foul-mouthed
landlady
A landlord is the owner of a house, apartment, condominium, land, or real estate which is rented or leased to an individual or business, who is called a tenant (also a ''lessee'' or ''renter''). When a juristic person is in this position ...
The Final Programme
''The Final Programme'' is a novel by British science fiction and fantasy writer Michael Moorcock. Written in 1965 as the underground culture was beginning to emerge, it was not published for several years. Moorcock has stated that publishers ...
'',
Michael Moorcock
Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English people, English writer, best-known for science fiction and fantasy fiction, fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic nov ...
.
* BD, Volume 3I2
* Jerry is seen with his sister/lover Catherine Cornelius and his brother/rival Frank Cornelius as young children in ''The Black Dossier'' and as a young man in ''Volume III: Century''. In ''The Black Dossier'', he and Catherine are trying to dispose of Frank's rapidly revivifying corpse.
Émile Zola
Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola (, also , ; 2 April 184029 September 1902) was a French novelist, journalist, playwright, the best-known practitioner of the literary school of naturalism, and an important contributor to the development of ...
* Volume 1 Issue 1
* One of the prostitutes killed by Hyde.
The
Crimson Avenger
The Crimson Avenger is the name of three separate fictional characters, superheroes and supervillains who exist in the DC Comics Universe. The character debuted in 1938 and is notable as the first masked hero in DC Comics.
The first Crimson Aven ...
* ''
Detective Comics
''Detective Comics'' is an American comic book series published by Detective Comics, later shortened to DC Comics. The first volume, published from 1937 to 2011 (and later continued in 2016), is best known for introducing the superhero Batman ...
'', Jim Chambers
* BD
* An American superhero that Mina and Allan meet during their exile from Britain.
Villain
A villain (also known as a "black hat" or "bad guy"; the feminine form is villainess) is a stock character, whether based on a historical narrative or one of literary fiction. ''Random House Unabridged Dictionary'' defines such a character a ...
''
* Volume 3I2
* A gangster of London who is homosexual. Dakin hires Jack Carter to investigate the murder of Basil Thomas.
Janni Dakkar (Captain Nemo II)
* Jenny Diver and Pirate Jenny from
The Threepenny Opera
''The Threepenny Opera'' ( ) is a " play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, ''The Beggar's Opera'', and four ballads by François Villon, with music ...
*
Captain Nemo
Captain Nemo (; later identified as an Indian, Prince Dakkar) is a fictional character created by the French novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's science-fiction classics, '' Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' ...
Dan Dare
Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories. Dare appeared in the ''Eagle'' comic story ''Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future'' from 1950 to 1967 (and subsequently in rep ...
* ''
Dan Dare
Dan Dare is a British science fiction comic hero, created by illustrator Frank Hampson who also wrote the first stories. Dare appeared in the ''Eagle'' comic story ''Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future'' from 1950 to 1967 (and subsequently in rep ...
'',
Frank Hampson
Frank Hampson (21 December 1918 – 8 July 1985) was a British illustrator. He is best known as the creator and artist of Dan Dare and other characters in the boys' comic, the ''Eagle'', to which he contributed from 1950 to 1961.
Biograp ...
* ''BD''
* Newly appointed as the head of Britain's resumed space program along with Jet-Ace Logan and Captain Morgan. Dare is seen on the front page of a newspaper in the Malibu pub.
Dejah Thoris
Dejah Thoris is a fictional character and princess of the Martian city-state/empire of Helium in Edgar Rice Burroughs' series of Martian novels. She is the daughter of Mors Kajak, Jed (chieftain) of Lesser Helium, and the granddaughter of Tard ...
* ''
A Princess of Mars
''A Princess of Mars'' is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series. It was first serialized in the pulp magazine ''All-Story Magazine'' from February–July, 1912. Full of swordplay and dar ...
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmos ...
and John Carter's lover. Possibly captured or killed by the mollusk invaders, or Volume 2 takes place in the year-long interval she was held captive in the Temple of the Sun following the events of ''
The Gods of Mars
''The Gods of Mars'' is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and the second of Burroughs' Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carter's wife Dejah Thoris. It was first published in '' The All ...
''.
* Dejah Thoris is only mentioned in ASV as "almost naked ruby-clad princess". In Volume 2 Issue 1 she is only once referred to and then only as "the princess". While she may be depicted in the supplementary material to Volume 2, it may also be Kane's Princess Shizala, Gulliver's Princess Heru.
Dick Donovan
* ''The Man-Hunter: Stories from the Note-Book of a Detective'', J. E. Preston Muddock
* Volume 1 Issue 2
*
Detective
A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. They often collect information to solve crimes by talking to witnesses and informants, collecting physical evidence, or searching records in databases. This leads t ...
and
MI5
The Security Service, also known as MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Go ...
agent who handles the recruitment of Hyde and Griffin.
The Doctor
* '' Doctor Who''
* BD, Volume 3III
* A human-looking alien who is capable of traveling through time.
* His ship, the
TARDIS
The TARDIS (; acronym for "Time And Relative Dimension In Space") is a fictional hybrid of the time machine and spacecraft that appears in the British science fiction television series '' Doctor Who'' and its various spin-offs. Its exterior ...
, can be seen on a map of The Blazing World.
* The
Second Doctor
The Second Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series '' Doctor Who''. He was portrayed by actor Patrick Troughton. While the Troughton era of ''Doctor Who'' is well-remembered by fans ...
appears briefly during a scene featuring Lemuel Gulliver. The
First
First or 1st is the ordinal form of the number one (#1).
First or 1st may also refer to:
*World record, specifically the first instance of a particular achievement
Arts and media Music
* 1$T, American rapper, singer-songwriter, DJ, and reco ...
and
Eleventh
In music or music theory, an eleventh is the note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord and also the interval between the root and the eleventh. The interval can be also described as a compound fourth, spanning an octave plus a f ...
Doctors appear together in another cameo in ''Century'' Volume 3.
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
''The Story of Doctor Dolittle, Being the History of His Peculiar Life at Home and Astonishing Adventures in Foreign Parts'' (1920), written and illustrated by the British author Hugh Lofting, is the first of his Doctor Dolittle books, a series ...
'' and its sequels, Hugh Lofting
* NTA
* English
doctor
Doctor or The Doctor may refer to:
Personal titles
* Doctor (title), the holder of an accredited academic degree
* A medical practitioner, including:
** Physician
** Surgeon
** Dentist
** Veterinary physician
** Optometrist
*Other roles
* ...
who can speak the languages of animals. He is never mentioned by name, but the postal service he founded in the African nation of Fantippo is mentioned in '' The New Traveller's Almanac''. Mina Murray also states a disgust of a Spanish island's 'sport' of bullfighting in the section devoted to Europe and wishes for some 'animal lover' to put an end to this, implying the story is set before ''
The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle
''The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle'' is the second of Hugh Lofting's Doctor Dolittle books. Published in 1922, the writing style is aimed at a more mature audience and features more sophisticated illustrations than its predecessor. The novel's sc ...
'', where Dolittle does just that. There is mention that he stopped warring tribes on Spider-Monkey island.
Count Dracula
Count Dracula () is the title character of Bram Stoker's 1897 gothic horror novel ''Dracula''. He is considered to be both the prototypical and the archetypal vampire in subsequent works of fiction. Aspects of the character are believed by some ...
* ''
Dracula
''Dracula'' is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taki ...
'',
Bram Stoker
Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is celebrated for his 1897 Gothic horror novel ''Dracula''. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and busin ...
* Volume 3, 2
* The
Vampire
A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the Vitalism, vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead, undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mi ...
Lord appears to Mina in a drug-related hallucination from seeing a bat that drives her to insanity.
DriveShaft
A drive shaft, driveshaft, driving shaft, tailshaft ( Australian English), propeller shaft (prop shaft), or Cardan shaft (after Girolamo Cardano) is a component for transmitting mechanical power and torque and rotation, usually used to conne ...
* '' Lost''
* Volume 3, 2009
* Rock band previously led by singer
Charlie Pace
Charlie Pace is a fictional character on ABC's '' Lost'', a television series chronicling the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island. Played by Dominic Monaghan, Charlie was a regular character in the first three seasons, ...
.
* DriveShaft appears on a poster advertising their upcoming album ''Oh, Who Cares?''
Bulldog Drummond
Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is a fictional character, created by H. C. McNeile and published under his pen name "Sapper". Following McNeile's death in 1937, the novels were continued by Gerard Fairlie. Drummond is a First World War veteran who, ...
'', H.C. McNeile
* BD
* A racist, jingoistic government agent who hunts down Murray and Quatermain. He learns from Murray that Jimmy Bond has been betraying his country and was responsible for, Drummond's friend, John Night's death. Drummond is killed by Bond.
The Murders in the Rue Morgue
"The Murders in the Rue Morgue" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe published in ''Graham's Magazine'' in 1841. It has been described as the first modern detective story; Poe referred to it as one of his "tales of ratiocination".
C. Auguste D ...
'',
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe (; Edgar Poe; January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849) was an American writer, poet, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. He is wide ...
* Volume 1 Issue 1-2
* A Parisian
detective
A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. They often collect information to solve crimes by talking to witnesses and informants, collecting physical evidence, or searching records in databases. This leads t ...
who is assigned to investigate the recent murders of prostitutes in the Rue Morgue.
E
Thomas Edison
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. These invent ...
* Real individual
* Volume 1 Issue 1
*
Inventor
An invention is a unique or novel device, method, composition, idea or process. An invention may be an improvement upon a machine, product, or process for increasing efficiency or lowering cost. It may also be an entirely new concept. If an id ...
of some of the
steampunk
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era ...
technology of the ''League'' universe. Though the name "Thomas Edison" is never mentioned or shown in the world of ''League'', a circuit-breaker on the final page of Volume 1 Issue 1 bears the logo "Edison Teslaton".
Marcel Allain
Marcel Allain (15 September 1885 – 25 August 1969) was a French writer mostly remembered today for his co-creation with Pierre Souvestre of the fictional arch-villain and master criminal Fantômas.
Career
The son of a bourgeois family, A ...
& Pierre Souvestre
* NTA, BD
* Criminal mastermind and member of ''Les Hommes Mystérieux'' (French > "The Mysterious Men").
Samuel Ferguson
* ''
Five Weeks in a Balloon
''Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa'' (french: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863. It is the first novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his ...
'',
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraord ...
* Volume 1 Issue 5 (p. 22, pnl.5)
* An acquaintance of Captain Nemo, who gave him his balloon, the ''Victoria''. Samuel's name appears on a tag attached to the balloon, marking it as the property of his famed expedition. He is not shown or expressly mentioned in the series thus far.
Angela Carter
Angela Olive Pearce (formerly Carter, Stalker; 7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992), who published under the name Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and pic ...
* BD
* Winged acrobat whose name appears on a poster in Mina and Allan's rented lodgings.
Barney Fife
Bernard "Barney" Fife is a fictional character in the American television program '' The Andy Griffith Show'', portrayed by comic actor Don Knotts. Barney Fife is a deputy sheriff in the slow-paced, sleepy southern community of Mayberry, North C ...
* ''
The Andy Griffith Show
''The Andy Griffith Show '' is an American situation comedy television series that aired on CBS from October 3, 1960, to April 1, 1968, with a total of 249 half-hour episodes spanning eight seasons—159 in black and white and 90 in color.
Th ...
''
* BD
* Sheriff's deputy in the fictional town of Mayberry, North Carolina (spelled "Maybury" in the ''Black Dossier''.)
* Briefly mentioned in a written portion of the ''Dossier'', he encountered the League during their stay in America in the 1950s.
Phileas Fogg
Phileas Fogg () is the protagonist in the 1872 Jules Verne novel '' Around the World in Eighty Days''. Inspirations for the character were the American entrepreneur George Francis Train and American writer and adventurer William Perry Fogg.
...
* ''
Around the World in Eighty Days
''Around the World in Eighty Days'' (french: link=no, Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours) is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employe ...
'',
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraord ...
* Volume 1 cover, F
* Gentleman explorer and proposed member of a mid-19th century League.
* Briefly mentioned by Quatermain in the film, noting his rapid journey from Africa to Britain is nothing compared to Fogg's world tour.
President Max Foster
* ''
Wild in the Streets
''Wild in the Streets'' is a 1968 American comedy-drama film directed by Barry Shear and starring Christopher Jones, Hal Holbrook, and Shelley Winters. Based on the short story "The Day It All Happened, Baby!" by Robert Thom, it was distri ...
''
* Volume 3, 2
* A
hippie
A hippie, also spelled hippy, especially in British English, is someone associated with the counterculture of the 1960s, originally a youth movement that began in the United States during the mid-1960s and spread to different countries around ...
fascist
Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist political ideology and movement,: "extreme militaristic nationalism, contempt for electoral democracy and political and cultural liberalism, a belief in natural social hierarchy and the ...
President of the United States, mentioned by Mina. His policies lead to internment camps for those older than 30, who are then forced to drink LSD.
Frankenstein's monster
Frankenstein's monster or Frankenstein's creature, often referred to as simply "Frankenstein", is a fictional character who first appeared in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel '' Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus''. Shelley's title thus compare ...
* ''
Frankenstein
''Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley. ''Frankenstein'' tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific exp ...
'',
Mary Shelley
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (; ; 30 August 1797 – 1 February 1851) was an English novelist who wrote the Gothic novel '' Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus'' (1818), which is considered an early example of science fiction. She also ...
* NTA, BD, III
* Frankenstein's monster is mentioned in the sixth chapter of ''The New Traveller's Almanac'', which covers discoveries in the Arctic and Antarctic. After the events of ''Frankenstein'', the monster wandered the Arctic for several years before discovering Toyland, a settlement inhabited by sentient mechanical toys and ruled by the female automaton Olympia. He falls in love with Olympia, seeing her as the bride he always wanted, and becomes the Prince of Toyland. Some comments from Mina Murray suggest the monster's creator (
Victor Frankenstein
Victor Frankenstein is a fictional character and the main protagonist and title character in Mary Shelley's 1818 novel, '' Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus''.. He is an Italian-Swiss scientist (born in Naples, Italy) who, after studying ...
) may have been inspired by Coppelius, who originally built Olympia.
Fu Manchu
Dr. Fu Manchu () is a supervillain who was introduced in a series of novels by the English author Sax Rohmer beginning shortly before World War I and continuing for another forty years. The character featured in cinema, television, radio, comi ...
Sax Rohmer
Arthur Henry "Sarsfield" Ward (15 February 1883 – 1 June 1959), better known as Sax Rohmer, was an English novelist. He is best remembered for his series of novels featuring the master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu."Rohmer, Sax" by Jack Adrian in Da ...
* Volume 1 Issue 3, Volume 1 Issue 4, Volume 1 Issue 6, Volume 2S, BD
* Leader of the Chinese organized crime in
Limehouse
Limehouse is a district in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets in East London. It is east of Charing Cross, on the northern bank of the River Thames. Its proximity to the river has given it a strong maritime character, which it retains throug ...
, and personal and professional rival of Moriarty.
* In 1948, Limehouse having been purged by the
INGSOC
In George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', the world is divided into three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, who are all fighting each other in a perpetual war in a disputed area called the Equatorial Front. Al ...
Party, he relocates to New York City. He is also a relative of Dr. Sachs and (according to the C.I.A.) Dr. No.
* He is never referred to by name as the character Fu Manchu is not public domain in Europe.
G
Kosmo Gallion
* '' The Avengers'' episode ''Warlock''
* Volume 3I2
* Member of Oliver Haddo's cult who becomes the host of Haddo's spirit in 1948 following a body swap. Prior to this transformation Kosmo is described as having been "so straight" by his former fiancée Julia. As Charles Felton he is killed by Jack Carter in 1969 during a failed attempt to transfer Haddo's spirit to the body of Terner.
* ''The Adventures of Two Dutch Dolls and a Golliwog'',
Florence Kate Upton
Florence Kate Upton (22 February 1873 – 16 October 1922) was an American-born English cartoonist and author most famous for creating the Golliwog character, featured in a series of children's books.
Early life
Upton was born in Flushing, Ne ...
* BD, MIM
* Rescues Mina and Allan at the end of Black Dossier and takes them to The Blazing World. He is described as being made of
dark matter
Dark matter is a hypothetical form of matter thought to account for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe. Dark matter is called "dark" because it does not appear to interact with the electromagnetic field, which means it does not ab ...
. In ''Minions of the Moon'', he, his dolls, and Mina are sent on a mission to the Moon by Prospero. The Galley-Wag is captain of the ''Rose of Nowhere'', a balloon-type craft that uses pataphysical rose-propulsion which allows it to cross dimensions and the void of space.
* The Galley-Wag's appearance in this series caused some commotion among readers as the original name given to the character by Upton, "Golliwogg", mutated into a racial slur and his appearance into a racial stereotype (both to Upton's distain) after unauthorized use of this originally kind and heroic character by other authors (such as
Enid Blyton
Enid Mary Blyton (11 August 1897 – 28 November 1968) was an English children's writer, whose books have been worldwide bestsellers since the 1930s, selling more than 600 million copies. Her books are still enormously popular and have be ...
) depicted him as someone with naughty behavior. Alan Moore defended his use of the character during an interview with Pádraig Ó Méalóid on several points, noting the history of the character (which was mostly forgotten in the modern day), that he changed the name of the character to avoid the racial slur which was the only public domain character whose name was changed (for all other name changes, it was to disguise copyrighted characters to avoid lawsuits), that he made the Galley-Wag into an alien to explain away his stereotypical appearance, that only the Upton stories were canon for his Galley-Wag, that he (Moore) had already used famous offensive characters in the series without incident (such as the Chinese villain
Fu Manchu
Dr. Fu Manchu () is a supervillain who was introduced in a series of novels by the English author Sax Rohmer beginning shortly before World War I and continuing for another forty years. The character featured in cinema, television, radio, comi ...
), that Upton's original version was one of the few positively depicted black characters at the time Upton wrote her books (the Victorian era) and noted that Upton's original version "was a dignified and respectable figure. His courage and strength of character were ably demonstrated in his picaresque adventures, as was his intellectual acumen."
Godzilla
is a fictional monster, or '' kaiju'', originating from a series of Japanese films. The character first appeared in the 1954 film '' Godzilla'' and became a worldwide pop culture icon, appearing in various media, including 32 films produ ...
*''
Godzilla
is a fictional monster, or '' kaiju'', originating from a series of Japanese films. The character first appeared in the 1954 film '' Godzilla'' and became a worldwide pop culture icon, appearing in various media, including 32 films produ ...
''
* NRB
* A radioactive monster that attacked Japan until it was slain by Janni Nemo.
Auric Goldfinger
Auric Goldfinger is a fictional character and the main antagonist in Ian Fleming's 1959 seventh ''James Bond'' novel, '' Goldfinger'', and the 1964 film it inspired (the third in the ''James Bond'' series). His first name, Auric, is an adjectiv ...
El Dorado
El Dorado (, ; Spanish for "the golden"), originally ''El Hombre Dorado'' ("The Golden Man") or ''El Rey Dorado'' ("The Golden King"), was the term used by the Spanish in the 16th century to describe a mythical tribal chief (''zipa'') or kin ...
.
Heinz Goldfoot
* '' Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine''
* NRG
* A "Swiss-German" scientist who takes over Rotwang's engineering projects and is "very partial to ladies’ bosoms".
The Picture of Dorian Gray
''The Picture of Dorian Gray'' is a philosophical fiction, philosophical novel by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. A shorter novella-length version was published in the July 1890 issue of the American periodical ''Lippincott's Monthly Magazine''.''Th ...
'',
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is ...
* Volume 1 cover, Volume 1 supplemental material, Volume 2 Issue 3, F, N
* His portrait hangs in the Secret Annex; possible member of a mid-19th century League.
Grendel
Grendel is a character in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem ''Beowulf'' (700–1000). He is one of the poem's three antagonists (along with his mother and the dragon), all aligned in opposition against the protagonist Beowulf. Grendel is feared by al ...
* ''
Beowulf
''Beowulf'' (; ang, Bēowulf ) is an Old English Epic poetry, epic poem in the tradition of Germanic heroic legend consisting of 3,182 Alliterative verse, alliterative lines. It is one of the most important and List of translations of Beo ...
''
* BD
* The scourge of Heorot who is slain by Beowulf.
Jimmy Grey
* ''The Iron Fish''
* Volume 2 Issue 4, BD
* Saved by Captain Nemo after the death of his parents by a
Martian
Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. It became the most popular celestial object in fiction in the late 1800s as the Moon was evidently lifeless. At the time, the pre ...
tripod. Later in life, as Professor James Grey and creator of the ''Iron Fish'' series of submersibles, he is a member of the Warralson Team, a surrogate League in the 1940s. A newspaper clipping on p. 14, pnl.1, of ''The Black Dossier'' suggests he was lost at sea in 1949.
The Invisible Man
''The Invisible Man'' is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in '' Pearson's Weekly'' in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientist who has devo ...
'', H.G. Wells
* Volume 1 Issue 2-Volume 2 Issue 5, NTA, BD, Volume 3I1
* Member of the Victorian League (the first Murray Group), perverted sociopath, and traitor to mankind.
* Moore derived the character's last name from the book ''
The Invisible Man
''The Invisible Man'' is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells. Originally serialized in '' Pearson's Weekly'' in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year. The Invisible Man to whom the title refers is Griffin, a scientist who has devo ...
'', in which he is referred to only as "Griffin", a student and scientist. Moore has said that he derived Griffin's first name from that of Dr. Hawley Crippen, the infamous Edwardian murderer. He was mentioned in the film to be already dead and his legacy lived on when Rodney Skinner stole his invisibility formula.
* Griffin only appears in paintings in BD and Volume 3I1. In BD M references him to Jimmy once (BD p. 78, pnl.3).
Lemuel Gulliver
Lemuel Gulliver () is the fictional protagonist and narrator of ''Gulliver's Travels'', a novel written by Jonathan Swift, first published in 1726.
In ''Gulliver's Travels''
According to Swift's novel, Gulliver was born in Nottinghamshire c. ...
* ''
Gulliver's Travels
''Gulliver's Travels'', or ''Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships'' is a 1726 prose satire by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan ...
'',
Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (30 November 1667 – 19 October 1745) was an Anglo-Irish satirist, author, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Anglican cleric who became Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, ...
* Volume 1 Issue 2 (p. 23, pnl.2), Volume 1 cover, NTA, BD, F
* The leader of the 18th century League.
* In Volume 1 Gulliver is shown in the Montegu House portrait of Gulliver's Fellowship (the 18th century League), and his name appears in the caption. In the film, he only appears in a painting on the wall. The Montegu House also features the skull of an "adult male
Yahoo
Yahoo! (, styled yahoo''!'' in its logo) is an American web services provider. It is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and operated by the namesake company Yahoo! Inc. (2017–present), Yahoo Inc., which is 90% owned by investment funds ma ...
* '' Daily Express'', Mary Tourtel
* Volume 2 Issue 4-6, Volume 2S
* One of the creations of Dr. Moreau, he had been stalking Mina Murray and Allan Quatermain when they were searching for Moreau during the Martian invasion. H-9 later fully confronted the two when they were copulating in the woods, and brought them to Moreau. The doctor later reveals that H-9 bears a strong sexual instinct and has to pay a local gypsy to "placate" the aggressive anthropomorphic bear.
H-11 (Algy Pug)
* '' Daily Express'', Mary Tourtel
* Volume 2 Issue 5, Volume 2S
* One of the creations of Dr. Moreau.
H-14 (Tiger Tim)
* '' Daily Express'', Mary Tourtel
* Volume 2 Issue 5-6, Volume 2S
* One of the creations of Dr. Moreau.
Oliver Haddo
''The Magician'' is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under th ...
* '' The Magician'', by W. Somerset Maugham
* BD, Volume 3I1, Volume 3I2
* Haddo was first mentioned in ''The Black Dossier'', as the author of ''On The Descent of Gods''. He makes his full appearance in the first issue of ''Century'', and serves as an antagonist in bringing forth a Moonchild destined to bring about the end of the world. He later possessed Lord Voldemort and had him stage the events of Harry Potter's adventures. Haddo was killed by Harry during his rampage, though he makes it clear that, even in the face of his son's overwhelming power, he isn't the least bit impressed, calling Harry a "banal" wizard and Anti-Christ and telling him that he has been nothing but a disappointment to him. His still-living head is later taken by Mary Poppins, though his ultimate fate is still unknown.
Gary Haliday
* '' Garry Halliday''
* BD
* A commercial pilot who helps to inform Allan Quatermain and Mina Murray at Birmingham Spaceport about the various space rockets.
* Gary Haliday's name is a slight alteration of Garry Halliday of the eponymous TV show.
John Buchan
John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir (; 26 August 1875 – 11 February 1940) was a Scottish novelist, historian, and Unionist politician who served as Governor General of Canada, the 15th since Canadian Confederation.
After a brief legal career, ...
* BD
* Hannay once mentioned to Mina Murray that the "real 39 steps" led to the "greatest secret in British Intelligence". Following this clue led her to
Greyfriars School
Greyfriars School is a fictional English public school used as a setting in the long-running series of stories by the writer Charles Hamilton, who wrote under the pen-name of Frank Richards. Although the stories are focused on the Remove (or lo ...
in
Kent
Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties. It borders Greater London to the north-west, Surrey to the west and East Sussex to the south-west, and Essex to the north across the estuary of the River Thames; it faces ...
and the real identity of "Harry Lime".
Septimus Harding
* ''
The Warden
''The Warden'' is a novel by English author Anthony Trollope published by Longman in 1855. It is the first book in the ''Chronicles of Barsetshire'' series, followed by ''Barchester Towers''.
Synopsis
''The Warden'' concerns Mr Septimus Hard ...
'',
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the '' Chronicles of Barsetshire'', which revolves ...
* Volume 1 Issue 2, Volume 2 Issue 2
* A reverend that wrote articles against Miss Coote, and is killed by
Martians
Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. It became the most popular celestial object in fiction in the late 1800s as the Moon was evidently lifeless. At the time, the pre ...
on
Horsell Common
Horsell Common is a open space in Horsell, near Woking in Surrey. It is owned and managed by the Horsell Common Preservation Society. An area of is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest ...
.
Jack Harkaway
* ''Jack Harkaway's Schooldays'', Bracebridge Hemyng
* Volume 1 cover
* Schoolboy adventurer and proposed member of a mid-19th century League.
Fanny Hill
* ''
Fanny Hill
''Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure''—popularly known as ''Fanny Hill''—is an erotic novel by English novelist John Cleland first published in London in 1748. Written while the author was in debtors' prison in London,Wagner, "Introduction" ...
'',
John Cleland
John Cleland (c. 1709, baptised – 23 January 1789) was an English novelist best known for his fictional '' Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure'', whose eroticism led to his arrest. James Boswell called him "a sly, old malcont ...
* Volume 1 Issue 3, Volume 1 cover, NTA, BD
* Member of the 18th century League under Lemuel Gulliver.
Mycroft Holmes
Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character appearing in stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1893 to 1908. The elder brother (by seven years) of detective Sherlock Holmes, he is a government official and a founding member of the Diogene ...
* ''
The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter
"The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as '' The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes''. The story was originally published i ...
'', Arthur Conan Doyle
* Volume 1 Issue 6, Volume 2 Issue 2-4, BD, Volume 3I1
* Head of
MI5
The Security Service, also known as MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Go ...
following Moriarty's death and older brother of Sherlock Holmes.
A Study in Scarlet
''A Study in Scarlet'' is an 1887 detective novel by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle. The story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become the most famous detective duo in literature. The book's title d ...
Detective
A detective is an investigator, usually a member of a law enforcement agency. They often collect information to solve crimes by talking to witnesses and informants, collecting physical evidence, or searching records in databases. This leads t ...
, and retired
beekeeper
A beekeeper is a person who keeps honey bees.
Beekeepers are also called honey farmers, apiarists, or less commonly, apiculturists (both from the Latin ''apis'', bee; cf. apiary). The term beekeeper refers to a person who keeps honey bees i ...
. He was only shown once in the series throwing Professor Moriarty into Reichenbach Falls, believing that Moriarty did not survive the fall he climbed to safety. In ''The New Travellers' Almanac'', it is said that Mina has met the retired, bee-keeping Holmes in Fulworth.
Captain Hook
Captain James Hook is a fictional character and the main antagonist of J. M. Barrie's 1904 play '' Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up'' and its various adaptations, in which he is Peter Pan's archenemy. The character is a pirate capt ...
* ''
Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie. A free-spirited and mischievous young boy who can fly and never grows up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood having adventures on the mythi ...
Pirates
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, v ...
' Conference.
Horatio Hornblower
* ''
Horatio Hornblower
Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester. He later became the subject of films, radio and television programmes, a ...
'' novels/stories, C. S. Forester
* Volume 2 Issue 3, 1910, 1969
* Fictional Royal Navy officer - Midshipman through retired Admiral - from C. S. Forester's series set in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars and after (last story set during the rise of Napoleon III). While he does not appear as a character ''per se'' in any of the ''League'' stories, his column appears (and is referred to as a meeting locale) in the place and form of our world's Nelson's Column in ''Leagues Piccadily Circus.
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is a 1886 Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old ...
'',
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as '' Treasure Island'', '' Strange Case of Dr Jekyll ...
* Volume 1 Issue 1-Volume 1 Issue 6, ''ASV'', Volume 2 Issue 2-Volume 2 Issue 6, NTA, ''BD'', ''Volume 3I1'',"v3I2", F, N
* The larger, evil half of Henry Jekyll and member of the Victorian League. During the Martian invasion, he developed a strong respect for Mina Murray and sacrificed himself to stop Martian tripods from crossing London Bridge. His self-sacrifice was honored in having Serpentine Park named into Hyde Park and a statue of Hyde is seen in the park in ''The Black Dossier''.
The Great Dictator
''The Great Dictator'' is a 1940 American anti-war political satire black comedy film written, directed, produced, scored by, and starring British comedian Charlie Chaplin, following the tradition of many of his other films. Having been the ...
''
* BD, NRB
* The
dictator
A dictator is a political leader who possesses absolute power. A dictatorship is a state ruled by one dictator or by a small clique. The word originated as the title of a Roman dictator elected by the Roman Senate to rule the republic in ti ...
of Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, "Herr Hynkel" led the country during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
much as
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
did in the real world. He appears as an antagonist only in ''Nemo: The Roses of Berlin''.
I
The Iron Warrior
* ''Thrill Comics'' and ''New Funnies''
* BD
* A 1930s prototype military
automaton
An automaton (; plural: automata or automatons) is a relatively self-operating machine, or control mechanism designed to automatically follow a sequence of operations, or respond to predetermined instructions.Automaton – Definition and More ...
and a member of the failed 1940s Warralson league, where it served as a "faintly desperate attempt" to counterpart Edward Hyde's ferocious power. By this time, it was fairly dilapidated, so it exploded during the battle with pirate-slaver James Soames and Italian master-criminal Count Zero, thus ending the battle and disbanding the league.
Ishmael
Ishmael ''Ismaḗl''; Classical/Qur'anic Arabic: إِسْمَٰعِيْل; Modern Standard Arabic: إِسْمَاعِيْل ''ʾIsmāʿīl''; la, Ismael was the first son of Abraham, the common patriarch of the Abrahamic religions; and is cons ...
* ''
Moby-Dick
''Moby-Dick; or, The Whale'' is an 1851 novel by American writer Herman Melville. The book is the sailor Ishmael's narrative of the obsessive quest of Ahab, captain of the whaling ship ''Pequod'', for revenge against Moby Dick, the giant white ...
'',
Herman Melville
Herman Melville (born Melvill; August 1, 1819 – September 28, 1891) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are ''Moby-Dick'' (1851); '' Typee'' (1846), a r ...
* Volume 1 Issue 4, Volume 2 Issue 4, Volume 3I1, NHI, F, N
* First mate on the ''
Nautilus
The nautilus (, ) is a pelagic marine mollusc of the cephalopod family Nautilidae. The nautilus is the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal suborder, Nautilina.
It comprises six living species ...
'', serving under Captain Nemo and then Janni Nemo. His son takes his place in 1941.
August Derleth
August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. Though best remembered as the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft, and for his own contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and th ...
* ASV
* A
Great Old One
American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) created a number of fictional deities throughout the course of his literary career. These entities are usually depicted as immensely powerful and utterly indifferent to humans who can barely begin to ...
that possesses Allan Quatermain and is driven off by Marisa.
J
Jeeves
Jeeves (born Reginald Jeeves, nicknamed Reggie) is a fictional character in a series of comedic short stories and novels by English author P. G. Wodehouse. Jeeves is the highly competent valet of a wealthy and idle young Londoner named Bertie W ...
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
''Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde'' is a 1886 Gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson. It follows Gabriel John Utterson, a London-based legal practitioner who investigates a series of strange occurrences between his old ...
'',
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as '' Treasure Island'', '' Strange Case of Dr Jekyll ...
* Volume 1 Issue 2-Volume 2 Issue 2, ''Volume 2 Issue 3'', ''Volume 2 Issue 5'', F, N
* A
scientist
A scientist is a person who conducts scientific research to advance knowledge in an area of the natural sciences.
In classical antiquity, there was no real ancient analog of a modern scientist. Instead, philosophers engaged in the philosophica ...
who is the lesser half of Edward Hyde and member of the Victorian League.
Pirate Jenny
* ''
The Threepenny Opera
''The Threepenny Opera'' ( ) is a " play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, ''The Beggar's Opera'', and four ballads by François Villon, with music ...
'',
Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a ...
* Volume 3I1, Volume 3I2, NHI, NRB, NRG, MIM
* Janni, the daughter of
Captain Nemo
Captain Nemo (; later identified as an Indian, Prince Dakkar) is a fictional character created by the French novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's science-fiction classics, '' Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' ...
and heir to the ''
Nautilus
The nautilus (, ) is a pelagic marine mollusc of the cephalopod family Nautilidae. The nautilus is the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal suborder, Nautilina.
It comprises six living species ...
''. She married Broad Arrow Jack and have a grandson whose father is the descendant of
Robur the Conqueror
''Robur the Conqueror'' (french: link=no, Robur-le-Conquérant) is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne, published in 1886. It is also known as ''The Clipper of the Clouds''. It has a sequel, '' Master of the World'', which was published in 19 ...
.
Tracy Jordan
Tracy Jordan is a fictional character in the American television series ''30 Rock'', played by the actor Tracy Morgan. The character is a movie star whose personality traits and life events are taken from Morgan's own life. In 2010, ''Entertainm ...
* ''
30 Rock
''30 Rock'' is an American satirical sitcom television series created by Tina Fey that originally aired on NBC from October 11, 2006, to January 31, 2013. The series, based on Fey's experiences as head writer for ''Saturday Night Live'', ta ...
'',
Tracy Morgan
Tracy Jamal Morgan (born November 10, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian and actor best known for his television work as a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' (1996–2003) and for his role as Tracy Jordan in the sitcom ''30 Rock'' (2006 ...
* Volume 3III
* The Star of TGS with Tracy Jordan, he appears through the poster for his movie "Who Dat Ninja".
Martian
Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. It became the most popular celestial object in fiction in the late 1800s as the Moon was evidently lifeless. At the time, the pre ...
resistance.
K
Charles Foster Kane
Charles Foster Kane is a fictional character who is the subject of Orson Welles' 1941 film ''Citizen Kane''. Welles played Kane (receiving an Academy Award nomination), with Buddy Swan playing Kane as a child. Welles also produced, co-wrote a ...
* ''
Citizen Kane
''Citizen Kane'' is a 1941 American drama film produced by, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. He also co-wrote the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz. The picture was Welles' first feature film. ''Citizen Kane'' is frequently cited ...
'', directed by
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, known for his innovative work in film, radio and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential f ...
* NHI
* An extremely powerful and influential publishing magnate, Kane hires three American scientists/adventures to pursue Janni Nemo and recover the treasure that she stole from his guest, Queen Ayesha.
Michael Moorcock
Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English people, English writer, best-known for science fiction and fantasy fiction, fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic nov ...
* Volume 2 Issue 1
* A human man transported back in time to Mars, where he establishes a ruling dynasty. Kane was mentioned in dialogue between Gullivar Jones and John Carter, which Carter believes that he is not native to Earth and that his Earth name was a "coincidence".
King Kong
* ''
King Kong
King Kong is a fictional giant monster resembling a gorilla, who has appeared in various media since 1933. He has been dubbed The Eighth Wonder of the World, a phrase commonly used within the franchise. His first appearance was in the novelizat ...
''
* NHoI
* A gigantic ape which was slain in New York after its extraction from its home. The bones were returned to Skull Island.
Mister Kiss
* '' Mother London'', by Michael Moorcock
* ''BD''
* Professional mind-reader, stage performer, lodger at Mrs. Cornelius's boarding house.
The Call of Cthulhu
"The Call of Cthulhu" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine ''Weird Tales'' in February 1928.
Inspiration
The first seed of the story's first chapter '' ...
R'lyeh
R'lyeh is a fictional lost city that was first mentioned in the H. P. Lovecraft short story "The Call of Cthulhu", first published in ''Weird Tales'' in February 1928. R'lyeh is a sunken city in the South Pacific and the prison of the entity call ...
* Mentioned by Oliver Haddo in "On the Descent of the Gods" as "Kutulu" and by the Rt. Hon. Bertram Wilberforce Wooster in "What Ho, Gods of the Abyss!", misheard it as "Cool Lulu".
L
Lavell
* ''
The War of the Worlds
''The War of the Worlds'' is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by ''Pearson's Magazine'' in the UK and by '' Cosmopolitan'' magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was i ...
astronomer
An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses their studies on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. They observe astronomical objects such as stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies – in either o ...
who discovers jets of gas on
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmos ...
Citizen Kane
''Citizen Kane'' is a 1941 American drama film produced by, directed by, and starring Orson Welles. He also co-wrote the screenplay with Herman J. Mankiewicz. The picture was Welles' first feature film. ''Citizen Kane'' is frequently cited ...
'', directed by
Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter, known for his innovative work in film, radio and theatre. He is considered to be among the greatest and most influential f ...
* NHI
* Star
reporter
A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...
and long time friend of Charles Foster Kane, who discusses the aftermath of the ill-fated 1925 Antarctica expedition with him.
Ho Ling
* ''The Case of Ho Ling'', Thomas Burke
* Volume 1 Issue 3
* Ho Ling is seen being tortured when we first see Dr. Fu-Manchu in Volume 1, Book 3, in Shen-Yan's "Barber Shop".
* '' The Comet''
* BD
* Newly appointed as head of Britain's resumed space programme, along with Dan Dare and Captain Morgan. He is seen on the front page of a newspaper in the Malibu pub.
Long John Silver
Long John Silver is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the novel '' Treasure Island'' (1883) by Robert Louis Stevenson. The most colourful and complex character in the book, he continues to appear in popular culture. His missin ...
* ''
Treasure Island
''Treasure Island'' (originally titled ''The Sea Cook: A Story for Boys''Hammond, J. R. 1984. "Treasure Island." In ''A Robert Louis Stevenson Companion'', Palgrave Macmillan Literary Companions. London: Palgrave Macmillan. .) is an adventure n ...
'',
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, essayist, poet and travel writer. He is best known for works such as '' Treasure Island'', '' Strange Case of Dr Jekyll ...
* NTA
* Member of the
Pirates
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, v ...
' Conference.
Arsène Lupin
Arsène Lupin (French pronunciation: ʁsɛn lypɛ̃ is a fictional gentleman thief and master of disguise created in 1905 by French writer Maurice Leblanc. The character was first introduced in a series of short stories serialized in the maga ...
Maurice Leblanc
Maurice Marie Émile Leblanc (; ; 11 December 1864 – 6 November 1941) was a French novelist and writer of short stories, known primarily as the creator of the fictional gentleman thief and detective Arsène Lupin, often described as a French c ...
* NTA, BD
*
Gentleman thief
A gentleman thief, gentleman burglar, lady thief, or phantom thief is a stock character in fiction. A gentleman or lady thief is characterised by impeccable manners, charm, courteousness, and the avoidance of physical force or intimidation to ...
and member of Les Hommes Mystérieux.
Vesper Lynd
Vesper Lynd is a fictional character featured in Ian Fleming's 1953 James Bond novel '' Casino Royale''. She was portrayed by Ursula Andress in the 1967 James Bond parody, which is only slightly based on the novel, and by Eva Green in the ...
Eva Green
Eva Gaëlle Green (, ; born ) is a French actress and model. The daughter of actress Marlène Jobert, she began her career in theatre before making her film debut in Bernardo Bertolucci's '' The Dreamers'' (2003). She achieved international reco ...
* Volume 3III
* The love interest of James Bond VI, visual cameo only.
* '' Casino Royale'', Ian Fleming
* Volume 1 Issue 1-6, Volume 2 Issue 1-6, BD, Volume 3I, Volume 3II, F, N
* M is the codename of the head of Britain's intelligence services. Successive incumbents in the various League eras include Moriarty,
Mycroft Holmes
Mycroft Holmes is a fictional character appearing in stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from 1893 to 1908. The elder brother (by seven years) of detective Sherlock Holmes, he is a government official and a founding member of the Diogene ...
The Threepenny Opera
''The Threepenny Opera'' ( ) is a " play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, ''The Beggar's Opera'', and four ballads by François Villon, with music ...
'',
Bertolt Brecht
Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (10 February 1898 – 14 August 1956), known professionally as Bertolt Brecht, was a German theatre practitioner, playwright, and poet. Coming of age during the Weimar Republic, he had his first successes as a ...
* Volume 3I1
* MacHeath, a charismatic
butcher
A butcher is a person who may slaughter animals, dress their flesh, sell their meat, or participate within any combination of these three tasks. They may prepare standard cuts of meat and poultry for sale in retail or wholesale food establishm ...
. His full name is Jack MacHeath, and he is the true identity of
Jack the Ripper
Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in and around the impoverished Whitechapel district of London, England, in the autumn of 1888. In both criminal case files and the contemporaneous journalistic accounts, the killer ...
, returning to London in 1910 to commit murders again. He was caught and was about to be hanged without trial until he was vouched by a message from the 14th Earl of Gurney (the lead character from the play '' The Ruling Class'') who confesses to all the original Ripper crimes, making MacHeath a freed man.
Nomi Malone
* ''
Showgirls
''Showgirls'' is a 1995 erotic drama pulp noir film directed by Paul Verhoeven and written by Joe Eszterhas. The film stars Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan, Gina Gershon, Glenn Plummer, Robert Davi, Alan Rachins, and Gina Ravera.
Produce ...
'',
Elizabeth Berkley
Elizabeth Berkley (born July 28, 1974) is an American actress. She played Jessie Spano in the television series '' Saved by the Bell'' and Nomi Malone/Polly Ann Costello in the 1995 Paul Verhoeven film '' Showgirls''. She voiced the title rol ...
* Volume 3III
* The popular stripper, whose appearance is on a poster in the background.
Metropolis
A metropolis () is a large city or conurbation which is a significant economic, political, and cultural center for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications.
A big c ...
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (; December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States.Obituary ''Variety'', August 4, 1976, p. 6 ...
* BD, NRB
* A female automaton created to serve Dr. Rotwang.
* Serves the Hynkel regime in the Berlin Metropolis, wearing synthetic flesh for propaganda reasons.
Marisa
* Original character
* ASV
* An African maidservant and witch in the service of Lady Ragnall.
Mars Man
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, only being larger than Mercury. In the English language, Mars is named for the Roman god of war. Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmo ...
* ''Marsman Comics'', circa 1948
* MIM
* Member of the 1964 league, the Seven Stars. He was a
Martian
Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. It became the most popular celestial object in fiction in the late 1800s as the Moon was evidently lifeless. At the time, the pre ...
explorer who came to Earth to study its "social life and civilization", but soon started fighting crime.
Extras (TV series)
''Extras'' is a British sitcom about extras working in television, film, and theatre. The series was co-produced by the BBC and HBO and was written, and directed by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, both of whom starred in it. ''Extras'' ...
'',
Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervais ( ; born 25 June 1961) is an English comedian, actor, writer, and director. He co-created, co-wrote, and acted in the British television sitcoms '' The Office'' (2001–2003), '' Extras'' (2005–2007), and '' An Idiot Abroad ...
* Volume 3III
* Mentioned in dialogue as appearing on a TV show.
Colonel Sebastian Moran
Colonel Sebastian Moran is a fictional character in the stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle. An enemy of Sherlock Holmes, he first appears in the 1903 short story " The Adventure of the Empty House". Holmes once described him as "the second mo ...
* ''
The Adventure of the Empty House
"The Adventure of the Empty House", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 13 stories in the cycle collected as ''The Return of Sherlock Holmes''. It was first published in ''Collier's'' in th ...
'', Arthur Conan Doyle
* Volume 1 Issue 5
* Right-hand man of Moriarty and occasional front of his criminal empire.
Alphonse Moreau
* ''
The Island of Doctor Moreau
''The Island of Doctor Moreau'' is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells (1866–1946). The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick who is a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island ...
Gustave Moreau
Gustave Moreau (; 6 April 1826 – 18 April 1898) was a French artist and an important figure in the Symbolist movement. Jean Cassou called him "the Symbolist painter par excellence".Cassou, Jean. 1979. ''The Concise Encyclopedia of Symbolism.' ...
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Of French-Canadian anc ...
* BD
* Member of the 1950s American League and great-grandson of James Moriarty.
Professor James Moriarty
Professor James Moriarty is a fictional character and criminal mastermind created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to be a formidable enemy for the author's fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. He was created primarily as a device by which Doyle could ...
* ''
The Adventure of the Final Problem
"The Final Problem" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his detective character Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in ''The Strand Magazine'' in the United Kingdom, and ''McClure's'' in the United States, under the title ...
'', Arthur Conan Doyle
* Volume 1 Issue 4-Volume 1 Issue 6, MIM, F, N
* Head of
MI5
The Security Service, also known as MI5 ( Military Intelligence, Section 5), is the United Kingdom's domestic counter-intelligence and security agency and is part of its intelligence machinery alongside the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), Go ...
, and the "Napoleon of Crime" who survived his climactic battle with Sherlock Holmes at
Reichenbach Falls
The Reichenbach Falls (german: Reichenbachfälle) are a waterfall cascade of seven steps on the stream called Rychenbach in the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. They drop over a total height of about . At , the upper falls, known as t ...
. After his aerial battle against Doctor Fu Manchu, Moriarty was presumed dead when he was floated away into space by Cavorite. Mina Murray discovered his body sixty years later, still holding the Cavorite inside a block of ice floating through space.
Mors
Mors may refer to:
*Mors (mythology), the personification of death in Roman mythology
*Mors, Latin for death
*Mors (automobile), a French car manufacturer from 1895 to 1925
:* American Mors, Mors vehicles produced under licence in America by the S ...
* ''The Air Pirate and His Steerable Airship''
* ''Volume 1 Issue 3'', ''Volume 1 Issue 4'', ''Volume 1 Issue 6BC'', ''Volume 2S''
* A German pirate of the air.
Dracula
''Dracula'' is a novel by Bram Stoker, published in 1897. As an epistolary novel, the narrative is related through letters, diary entries, and newspaper articles. It has no single protagonist, but opens with solicitor Jonathan Harker taki ...
'',
Bram Stoker
Abraham Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is celebrated for his 1897 Gothic horror novel ''Dracula''. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and busin ...
* Volume 1 Issue 1-6, Volume 2 Issue 1-6, ASV, NTA, BD, Volume 3I1-3, MIM, T, F, N
* Leader of the Victorian-era League and the League of the 20th century, the Murray Groups.
N
Hiro Nakamura
is a fictional superhero on the NBC superhero drama '' Heroes'' who possesses the ability of space-time manipulation. This means that Hiro is able to alter the flow of time, teleport and time travel. In the show, he is played by Japanese actor ...
Masi Oka
is a Japanese actor, producer, and digital effects artist who became widely known for starring in NBC's '' Heroes'' as Hiro Nakamura and in CBS's '' Hawaii Five-0'' as Doctor Max Bergman.
Early life
Oka was born in Tokyo, Japan, to Setsuko Oka ...
* Volume 3I3
* A Japanese comic book geek with the ability to alter the flow of time and time-travel.
* Hiro is seen attempting to time-travel during the battle with the Antichrist. He appears as a visual cameo only.
Captain Nemo
Captain Nemo (; later identified as an Indian, Prince Dakkar) is a fictional character created by the French novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's science-fiction classics, '' Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' ...
* ''
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' (french: Vingt mille lieues sous les mers) is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne.
The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-J ...
'',
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraord ...
* Volume 1 Issue 1-6, Volume 2 Issue 1-6, NTA, Volume 3I1, BD, F, N
* Commander of the submarine ''
Nautilus
The nautilus (, ) is a pelagic marine mollusc of the cephalopod family Nautilidae. The nautilus is the sole extant family of the superfamily Nautilaceae and of its smaller but near equal suborder, Nautilina.
It comprises six living species ...
'' and member of Murray's first League. He left the League during the climax of the
Martian
Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. It became the most popular celestial object in fiction in the late 1800s as the Moon was evidently lifeless. At the time, the pre ...
invasion when the British government heartlessly used biological weapons against the Martians, which also doomed some people who were near the aliens. Nemo died on April 12, 1910, and was succeeded by his daughter Janni (Jenny Diver). Furthermore, on request of his death, Nemo's skull was nailed to the forecastle of the ''Nautilus'' which the vessel was painted black.
Emma Peel
Emma Peel is a fictional spy played by Diana Rigg in the British 1960s adventure television series '' The Avengers'', and by Uma Thurman in the 1998 film version. She was born Emma Knight, the daughter of an industrialist, Sir John Knight. She ...
of '' The Avengers''
* BD, Volume 3I2
* Government agent and daughter of British industrialist Sir John Night. She adopts her husband's last name when she later marries test pilot Peter Peele. It is also implied that Emma grows up to be the female M of the modern James Bond movies after her time in the Avengers serving under
Mother
]
A mother is the female parent of a child. A woman may be considered a mother by virtue of having given birth, by raising a child who may or may not be her biological offspring, or by supplying her ovum for fertilisation in the case of ge ...
(a.k.a. Robert Kim Cherry, a.k.a. Harry Lime (character), Harry Lime). She learned the truth about her father's death. She also told Orlando she was keeping the aging Bond alive as long as possible, despite the fact that he was in great agony from several diseases. After the battle with the Antichrist was over, Emma resigned from MI5. Along with two other resigned agents, she helped move the body of Allan Quatermain (who had been killed during the battle) to Africa to be buried. She was last seen departing for locations unknown along with Mina and Orlando.
John Night
* Johnny Bull from the
Greyfriars School
Greyfriars School is a fictional English public school used as a setting in the long-running series of stories by the writer Charles Hamilton, who wrote under the pen-name of Frank Richards. Although the stories are focused on the Remove (or lo ...
series (''
The Magnet
''The Magnet'' was a British weekly boys' story paper published by Amalgamated Press. It ran from 1908 to 1940, publishing a total of 1,683 issues.
Each issue cost a halfpenny and contained a long school story about the boys of Greyfriars S ...
'', 1908–1940) by
Charles Hamilton Charles Hamilton may refer to:
People in Canada
* Charles Hamilton (bishop) (1834–1919), Anglican bishop of Ottawa
* Charles Edward Hamilton (1844–1919), Canadian politician
* Sir Charles Hamilton, 2nd Baronet, of Marlborough House (1767–184 ...
* Sir John Knight, father of
Emma Peel
Emma Peel is a fictional spy played by Diana Rigg in the British 1960s adventure television series '' The Avengers'', and by Uma Thurman in the 1998 film version. She was born Emma Knight, the daughter of an industrialist, Sir John Knight. She ...
of '' The Avengers''
* ''BD''
* Not seen on-panel, industrialist who designed many fantastic gadgets, friend of Hugo Drummond. By the 1950s, Night received contract rights for his industry in supplying a United Nations intelligence department which brought enmity from the United States government who competed for the rights. Night was killed by Jimmy Bond who works as a double agent for the United States, and his death was covered up as a result from a heart attack.
* It is implied that John Night is the grown up version of Johnny Bull, a member of the Famous Five in the Greyfriars magazine serial and (later) novel series. This would imply that
John Bull
John Bull is a national personification of the United Kingdom in general and England in particular, especially in political cartoons and similar graphic works. He is usually depicted as a stout, middle-aged, country-dwelling, jolly and matter- ...
was a nickname because of his tremendous strength for a child his age. He was best friends with ''Harry Wharton'' and ''Bob Cherry'', also members of the Famous Five. Of the Famous Five, he was the least capable of tolerating Billy Bunter.
Julius No
Dr. Julius No is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1958 ''James Bond'' novel and its 1962 film adaptation '' Dr. No'', the first of the series, in which he was portrayed by Joseph Wiseman.
Novel biography
The novel explains tha ...
* '' Dr. No'', Ian Fleming
* ''BD''
* At the beginning of ''Black Dossier'', Jimmy Bond had just defeated a "yellow peril" enemy located in Jamaica. It is later found that Dr. No was a fabrication by the
CIA
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ), known informally as the Agency and historically as the Company, is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, officially tasked with gathering, processing, ...
as a cover-story for Jimmy Bond's assassination of John Night. His name was a hint that there was "no doctor".
Andrew Norton
* ''
Slow Chocolate Autopsy
''Slow Chocolate Autopsy: Incidents from the Notorious Career of Norton, Prisoner of London'' is a 1997 novel by Iain Sinclair and illustrated by Dave McKean. It concerns Norton who is trapped in space, within London's city limits, but not in t ...
'', by
Iain Sinclair
Iain Sinclair FRSL (born 11 June 1943) is a writer and filmmaker. Much of his work is rooted in London, recently within the influences of psychogeography. Biography Education
Sinclair was born in Cardiff in 1943. From 1956 to 1961, he was educa ...
* ''BD'', ''Volume 3''
* Known as the "Prisoner of London", Andrew Norton travels through time but is stuck within the physical confines of London.
The Haunter of the Dark
"The Haunter of the Dark" is a horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written between 5–9 November 1935 and published in the December 1936 edition of ''Weird Tales'' (Vol. 28, No. 5, p. 538–53). It was the last written ...
'', H.P. Lovecraft
* BD
* Near the end of ''Black Dossier'', Nyarlathotep makes a cameo appearance as an "emissary" from Yuggoth negotiating with Prospero a truce between the Blazing World and the Lloigor.
Jean de La Hire
Jean de La Hire (pseudonym of the Comte Adolphe-Ferdinand Celestin d'Espie de La Hire) (28 January 1878 – 5 September 1956) was a prolific French author of numerous popular adventure, science fiction and romance novels.
Adolphe d'Espie was bo ...
* NTA, BD
* Superhero and member of Les Hommes Mystérieux.
O
Gerald O'Brien
John Gerald O’Brien (2 December 1924 – 13 December 2017), known as Gerald O'Brien, was a New Zealand politician of the Labour Party.
Early life
O'Brien was born in Wellington on 2 December 1924, the son of John Thomas O'Brien, and was ed ...
* ''
Nineteen Eighty-four
''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (also stylised as ''1984'') is a dystopian social science fiction novel and cautionary tale written by the English writer George Orwell. It was published on 8 June 1949 by Secker & Warburg as Orwell's ninth and final ...
'' by
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalita ...
Airstrip One
In George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', the world is divided into three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, who are all fighting each other in a perpetual war in a disputed area called the Equatorial Front. Al ...
(England). Later became head of
INGSOC
In George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', the world is divided into three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, who are all fighting each other in a perpetual war in a disputed area called the Equatorial Front. Al ...
(The English Socialist Party) in 1952 upon the death of Big Brother. However, O'Brien was unable to maintain power, and conceded to the Conservative Party's demands to be reinstated as an official party. Soon after he was voted out of office, most of the Ingsoc government's programs were reversed.
Kim
Kim or KIM may refer to:
Names
* Kim (given name)
* Kim (surname)
** Kim (Korean surname)
*** Kim family (disambiguation), several dynasties
**** Kim family (North Korea), the rulers of North Korea since Kim Il-sung in 1948
** Kim, Vietnamese ...
'' by
Rudyard Kipling
Joseph Rudyard Kipling ( ; 30 December 1865 – 18 January 1936)''The Times'', (London) 18 January 1936, p. 12. was an English novelist, short-story writer, poet, and journalist. He was born in British Raj, British India, which inspired much o ...
* BD
* Mentioned briefly as a spy who worked in colonial India and is the reason for the middle name of Robert Cherry.
Orlando
Orlando () is a city in the U.S. state of Florida and is the county seat of Orange County. In Central Florida, it is the center of the Orlando metropolitan area, which had a population of 2,509,831, according to U.S. Census Bureau figures r ...
*
Matter of France
The Matter of France, also known as the Carolingian cycle, is a body of literature and legendary material associated with the history of France, in particular involving Charlemagne and his associates. The cycle springs from the Old French '' chan ...
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf (; ; 25 January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer, considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors and a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.
Woolf was born ...
/ Orlando (The Marmalade Cat)
* Volume 2 cover, NTA, BD, Volume 3I1, Volume 3I2, MIM, T
* Immortal omnisexual member of the Prospero, Gulliver, and second Murray Leagues, and mutual lover of Mina and Allan.
* For a period in his life, Orlando went by the name Vita, which is the name of
Vita Sackville-West
Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.
Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as wel ...
, who was the inspiration for Woolf's Orlando.
* In "Minions of the Moon" it is revealed that Orlando (as a female in 1964) is also O. from ''
Story of O
''Story of O'' (french: Histoire d'O, link=no, ) is an erotic novel published in 1954 by French author Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Réage, and published in French by Jean-Jacques Pauvert.
Desclos did not reveal herself as the auth ...
Richard Head
Richard Head ( 1637 – before June 1686) was an Irish author, playwright and bookseller. He became famous with his satirical novel ''The English Rogue'' (1665), one of the earliest novels in English that found a continental translation.
Life
...
* NTA
* Explorer,
perpetual traveler
A perpetual traveler (also PT, permanent tourist or prior taxpayer) is a person who bases different aspects of their life in different countries, without spending too long in any one place, under the belief that they can reduce taxes, avoid civic ...
and member of the 1680s League, Prospero's Men. Captain of the ''Pay-Naught'', the ''Excuse'' and the ''Least-in-Sight''.
* '' 24''
* Volume 3III
* Mentioned as the President of the United States in 2009.
Sancho Panza
Sancho Panza () is a fictional character in the novel ''Don Quixote'' written by Spanish author Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in 1605. Sancho acts as squire to Don Quixote and provides comments throughout the novel, known as ''sanchismos'', ...
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best know ...
* NTA
*
Peasant
A peasant is a pre-industrial agricultural laborer or a farmer with limited land-ownership, especially one living in the Middle Ages under feudalism and paying rent, tax, fees, or services to a landlord. In Europe, three classes of peasan ...
servant/'
squire
In the Middle Ages, a squire was the shield- or armour-bearer of a knight.
Use of the term evolved over time. Initially, a squire served as a knight's apprentice. Later, a village leader or a lord of the manor might come to be known as a ...
' of
Don Quixote
is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, its full title is ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'' or, in Spanish, (changing in Part 2 to ). A founding work of Wester ...
. His brief, disastrous stint as a
governor
A governor is an administrative leader and head of a polity or political region, ranking under the head of state and in some cases, such as governors-general, as the head of state's official representative. Depending on the type of political ...
Can You Forgive Her?
''Can You Forgive Her?'' is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in serial form in 1864 and 1865. It is the first of six novels in the Palliser series, also known as the Parliamentary Novels.
The novel follows three parallel stories o ...
'',
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the '' Chronicles of Barsetshire'', which revolves ...
* ''BD''
* Duke of Omnium and intelligencer for the 1680s League.
Can You Forgive Her?
''Can You Forgive Her?'' is a novel by Anthony Trollope, first published in serial form in 1864 and 1865. It is the first of six novels in the Palliser series, also known as the Parliamentary Novels.
The novel follows three parallel stories o ...
'',
Anthony Trollope
Anthony Trollope (; 24 April 1815 – 6 December 1882) was an English novelist and civil servant of the Victorian era. Among his best-known works is a series of novels collectively known as the '' Chronicles of Barsetshire'', which revolves ...
* ''Volume 1 Issue 2'', ''Volume 1 Issue 3 back cover''
* Duke of Omnium and
British Prime Minister
The prime minister of the United Kingdom is the head of government of the United Kingdom. The prime minister advises the sovereign on the exercise of much of the royal prerogative, chairs the Cabinet and selects its ministers. As modern ...
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Of French-Canadian anc ...
* BD
* Member of the 1950s American League.
Peter Rabbit
Peter Rabbit is a fictional animal character in various children's stories by English author Beatrix Potter.
A mischievous, adventurous young rabbit who wears a blue jacket, he first appeared in ''The Tale of Peter Rabbit'' in 1902, and subs ...
* ''
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
''The Tale of Peter Rabbit'' is a children's book written and illustrated by Beatrix Potter that follows mischievous and disobedient young Peter Rabbit as he gets into, and is chased around, the garden of Mr. McGregor. He escapes and returns ho ...
'',
Beatrix Potter
Helen Beatrix Potter (, 28 July 186622 December 1943) was an English writer, illustrator, natural scientist, and conservationist. She is best known for her children's books featuring animals, such as '' The Tale of Peter Rabbit'', which was ...
* Volume 2 Issue 6
* He was seen being fed by a mother
fox
Foxes are small to medium-sized, omnivorous mammals belonging to several genera of the family Canidae. They have a flattened skull, upright, triangular ears, a pointed, slightly upturned snout, and a long bushy tail (or ''brush'').
Twelv ...
to her young.
Pinocchio
Pinocchio ( , ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany. Pinocchio was carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a Tuscan vil ...
* ''
Pinocchio
Pinocchio ( , ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of the children's novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1883) by Italian writer Carlo Collodi of Florence, Tuscany. Pinocchio was carved by a woodcarver named Geppetto in a Tuscan vil ...
'',
Carlo Collodi
Carlo Lorenzini (24 November 1826 – 26 October 1890), better known by the pen name Carlo Collodi (), was an Italian author, humourist, and journalist, widely known for his fairy tale novel ''The Adventures of Pinocchio''.
Early life
Co ...
* Volume 2 Issue 3
* His head is shown in the cover.
P.L. Travers
Pamela Lyndon Travers (; born Helen Lyndon Goff; 9 August 1899 – 23 April 1996) was an Australian-British writer who spent most of her career in England. She is best known for the ''Mary Poppins'' series of books, which feature the eponymous ...
* BD, Volume 3III
* A powerful aspect of God that represents love and kindness. She has reality bending powers that are used to defeat the antichrist in 2009.
Harry Potter
''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students a ...
* ''
Harry Potter
''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students a ...
'', J.K. Rowling
* Volume 3III
* A boy wizard who was scarred by Oliver Haddo (who possessed Tom Riddle) with the mark of the beast to become the Antichrist and was never referred to by name. All of his adventures, friendships, and rivalries were staged to prepare him for his true purpose; even his name is false, as he is actually Haddo's son by a way of Tom Riddle's body. In his later life, the truth traumatised Harry to the point that he slaughtered all of the students, staff, and miscellaneous inhabitants of The Invisible College (Hogwarts) and killed Haddo, then kept his still-living head in a cage; he later massacred the entirety of Diagon Alley and killed his way all the way back to the train station, where he escaped back into London. Harry then spent years hiding from the public in the now-abandoned Grimmauld Place, clawing off his mark, breaking his glasses, and shaving his head out of a paranoid fear of being found. He also takes pills to manage his psychoses and constantly has to fight to keep his normal human appearance stable as he loses more and more of himself to his demonic nature. He was defeated by God (in the form of Mary Poppins) by being turned into a chalk drawing and is washed away by a thunderstorm.
Teddy Prendrick
* ''
The Island of Doctor Moreau
''The Island of Doctor Moreau'' is an 1896 science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells (1866–1946). The text of the novel is the narration of Edward Prendick who is a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat. He is left on the island ...
'', H.G. Wells
* Volume 2 Issue 4
* Former companion of Moreau who was driven mad by witnessing his experiments. He lives his life as a hermit and an astrologer as said in the novel, and was secretly observed by Moreau's hybrids lest he ever try to tell the public about Moreau and his experiments.
Prospero
Prospero ( ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of William Shakespeare's play '' The Tempest''.
Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan, whose usurping brother, Antonio, had put him (with his three-year-old daughter, Miranda) to sea ...
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's natio ...
Duke of Milan
The following is a list of rulers of Milan from the 13th century to 1814, after which it was incorporated into the Kingdom of Lombardy–Venetia by the Congress of Vienna.
Before elevation to duchy
Until 1259, Milan was a free commune that elec ...
who led the 1680s League. It is also stated, in ''Black Dossier'', that Prospero is also John Suttle (Subtle from '' The Alchemist'' by
Ben Jonson
Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for ...
Pirates
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, v ...
' Conference.
Captain Pysse-Gummes
* ''
Zap Comix
''Zap Comix'' is an underground comix series which was originally part of the youth counterculture of the late 1960s. While a few small-circulation self-published satirical comic books had been printed prior to this, ''Zap'' became the model for ...
'', S. Clay Wilson ("Captain Pissgums")
* Volume 2 Issue 3
* Member of the
Pirates
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, v ...
' Conference.
Q
Allan Quatermain
Allan Quatermain is the protagonist of H. Rider Haggard's 1885 novel '' King Solomon's Mines'', its one sequel '' Allan Quatermain'' (1887), twelve prequel novels and four prequel short stories, totalling eighteen works. An English professional ...
* ''
King Solomon's Mines
''King Solomon's Mines'' (1885) is a popular novel by the English Victorian adventure writer and fabulist Sir H. Rider Haggard. It tells of a search of an unexplored region of Africa by a group of adventurers led by Allan Quatermain for the ...
'', H. Rider Haggard
* Volume 1 Issue 1-Volume 2 Issue 6, ASV, NTA, BD, Volume 3I1-Volume 3I3, F, N
* The Great White Hunter and last remaining member of the Victorian League following the Martian invasion, alongside Mina Murray.
Quong Lee
* ''The Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse'', Thomas Burke
* Volume 1 Issue 3, ''Volume 3I1''
* A purveyor of fine teas.
* Also mentioned indirectly in Volume 3I1 (p. 13, pnl.7).
Don Quixote
is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, its full title is ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'' or, in Spanish, (changing in Part 2 to ). A founding work of Wester ...
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (; 29 September 1547 (assumed) – 22 April 1616 NS) was an Early Modern Spanish writer widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world's pre-eminent novelists. He is best know ...
* NTA, BD
* Spaniard aristocrat turned
knight-errant
A knight-errant (or knight errant) is a figure of medieval chivalric romance literature. The adjective ''errant'' (meaning "wandering, roving") indicates how the knight-errant would wander the land in search of adventures to prove his chivalric ...
, member of the 16th century League, Prospero's Men.
Gentleman thief
A gentleman thief, gentleman burglar, lady thief, or phantom thief is a stock character in fiction. A gentleman or lady thief is characterised by impeccable manners, charm, courteousness, and the avoidance of physical force or intimidation to ...
and member of Murray's second League. Raffles' reason for joining the League was due to being blackmailed when his burglary career was uncovered. He later fought in World War One, and died during the
Second Battle of Ypres
During the First World War, the Second Battle of Ypres was fought from for control of the tactically important high ground to the east and south of the Flemish town of Ypres in western Belgium. The First Battle of Ypres had been fought the pr ...
.
Lady Luna Ragnall
* ''The Ivory Child'', H. Rider Haggard
* ASV
* A friend of Allan Quatermain who similarly faked her death. She dies of fright after Quatermain is possessed by Ithaqaa.
Becky Randall
* ''
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm'' is a classic American 1903 children's novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that tells the story of Rebecca Rowena Randall and her aunts, one stern and one kind, in the fictional village of Riverboro, Maine. Rebecca's ...
'',
Kate Douglas Wiggin
Kate Douglas Wiggin (September 28, 1856August 24, 1923) was an American educator, author and composer. She wrote children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel ''Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,'' and composed collections of children's ...
* Volume 1 Issue 2
* One of Miss Coote's students and Griffin's victims.
* ''Frank Reade'' series, Luis Senarens
* NHI
* One of the three science heroes hired by
Charles Foster Kane
Charles Foster Kane is a fictional character who is the subject of Orson Welles' 1941 film ''Citizen Kane''. Welles played Kane (receiving an Academy Award nomination), with Buddy Swan playing Kane as a child. Welles also produced, co-wrote a ...
* ''Frank Reade'' series, Luis Senarens
* NHI
* Mentioned as the creator of the Steam Man of the Prairies.
Armand Robur
* Original character
* MIM, NHI
* Son of Jean Robur, son-in-law of Janni Nemo, husband of Hira Dakkar, and father of Jack Nemo.
Jean Robur
* ''
Robur the Conqueror
''Robur the Conqueror'' (french: link=no, Robur-le-Conquérant) is a science fiction novel by Jules Verne, published in 1886. It is also known as ''The Clipper of the Clouds''. It has a sequel, '' Master of the World'', which was published in 19 ...
'',
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraord ...
* Volume 1 cover, ''Volume 1 Issue 2'', ''Volume 1 Issue 4'', ''Volume 1 Issue 6 back cover'', NTA, ''Volume 2S'', BD
* A dangerous and megalomaniacal air pirate, and member of ''Les Hommes Mystérieux'' (French > "The Mysterious Men"), also as a captain of the airship ''Albatross''. He supposedly dies during World War One when his airship was shot down at the
Battle of the Somme
The Battle of the Somme (French: Bataille de la Somme), also known as the Somme offensive, was a battle of the First World War fought by the armies of the British Empire and French Third Republic against the German Empire. It took place bet ...
Metropolis
A metropolis () is a large city or conurbation which is a significant economic, political, and cultural center for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications.
A big c ...
'',
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (; December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States.Obituary ''Variety'', August 4, 1976, p. 6 ...
and Thea von Harbou
* BD, NRB
* Member of ''Die Zwielichthelden'' (from German"The Twilight Heroes") and the creator of the high-advanced Berlin Metropolis.
Doctor Sax
''Doctor Sax'' (''Doctor Sax: Faust Part Three'') is a novel by Jack Kerouac published in 1959. Kerouac wrote it in 1952 while living with William S. Burroughs in Mexico City.
The novel was written quickly in the improvisatory style Kerouac cal ...
'',
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Of French-Canadian anc ...
* BD
* He is opposed by Sal Paradyse and Dean Moriarty, two other characters of Kerouac's. He kidnaps Dean Moriarty, grandson of Professor James Moriarty, in order to perpetuate the family feud between the Moriarties and his own family, that of his relative Fu Manchu. Dr. Sachs is also in league with the
Nova Mob
A nova (plural novae or novas) is a transient astronomical event that causes the sudden appearance of a bright, apparently "new" star (hence the name "nova", which is Latin for "new") that slowly fades over weeks or months. Causes of the dramati ...
, which in the world of League are conflated to being Lovecraftian monstrosities from the dream realm of Yuggoth.
* Doctor Sax wears a black cape and slouch hat and uses a chilling laugh to instill fear in his enemies, much like
The Shadow
The Shadow is a fictional character created by magazine publishers Street & Smith and writer Walter B. Gibson. Originally created to be a mysterious radio show narrator, and developed into a distinct literary character in 1931 by writer Walter ...
. He is a talented alchemist who suffers from ''Visagus Nightsoil'', a rare skin disease that turns his skin mossy green at night.
Arne Saknussemm
''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' (french: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also translated with the variant titles ''A Journey to the Centre of the Earth'' and ''A Journey into the Interior of the Earth'', is a classic science fiction novel ...
* ''
Journey to the Center of the Earth
''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' (french: Voyage au centre de la Terre), also translated with the variant titles ''A Journey to the Centre of the Earth'' and ''A Journey into the Interior of the Earth'', is a classic science fiction novel ...
'',
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraord ...
* Volume 1 Issue 2
* One of his runic markers from his expedition into the Earth's interior is in the Secret Annex.
William Samson, Sr.
* Original character
* Volume 2 Issue 3, Volume 2 Issue 5, Volume 2 Issue 6
* Father of William Samson Jr, coach driver for the first Murray group, and veteran of the conflict against the "Mad Mahdi".
William Samson, Jr., The
Wolf of Kabul
William Sampson or Samson, the Wolf of Kabul, was a literary character in British boys' papers published by D. C. Thomson & Co. He first appeared in ''The Wizard'' in 1922.Mike Conroy, "Of Clicky-Bas & .303s", ''War Stories: A Graphic History'', ...
The Hotspur
''The Hotspur'' was a British boys' paper published by D. C. Thomson & Co. From 1933 to 1959, it was a boys' story paper; it was relaunched as a comic in October 1959, initially called the ''New Hotspur'', and ceased publication in January 19 ...
''
* BD
* Former adventurer of colonial India and a member of the failed 1940's League. Son of William Samson Sr.
Sapathwa
* ''The Blue Dwarf: A Tale of Love, Mystery and Crime (Splendidly Illustrated)'' (1860) by "Lady Esther Hope" (William Stephens Hayward?). ''The Blue Dwarf, A Tale of Love Mystery and Crime; Introducing Many Startling Incidents In The Life of That Celebrated Highwayman, Dick Turpin'' (c. 1884) by Percy Bolingbroke St. John.
* Volume 1 cover
* A disguised noble criminal and proposed member of a mid-19th century League.
Thousand and One Nights
''One Thousand and One Nights'' ( ar, أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ, italic=yes, ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folk tales compiled in Arabic during the Islamic Golden Age. It is often known in English as the ''Arabian ...
''
* BD
*
Concubine
Concubinage is an interpersonal and sexual relationship between a man and a woman in which the couple does not want, or cannot enter into a full marriage. Concubinage and marriage are often regarded as similar but mutually exclusive.
Concubi ...
* Sinbad the Sailor, Anonymous
* NTA, BD
* Ancient explorer and lover of Orlando.
George Smiley
George Smiley OBE is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Smiley is a career intelligence officer with "The Circus", the British overseas intelligence agency. He is a central character in the novels '' Call for the Dead'', '' A ...
* Several novels by
John le Carré
David John Moore Cornwell (19 October 193112 December 2020), better known by his pen name John le Carré ( ), was a British and Irish author, best known for his espionage novels, many of which were successfully adapted for film or television. ...
.
* BD
* Assistant of M (a.k.a. Harry Lime) in 1958.
Captain Slaughterboard
* ''
Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor
''Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor'' is a darkly humorous children's picture book written and illustrated by the British author Mervyn Peake and published by Country Life in 1939. It was his first published work.
Plot
The story concerns the ...
'',
Mervyn Peake
Mervyn Laurence Peake (9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968) was an English writer, artist, poet, and illustrator. He is best known for what are usually referred to as the '' Gormenghast'' books. The four works were part of what Peake conceived ...
* NTA
* Member of the
Pirates
Piracy is an act of robbery or criminal violence by ship or boat-borne attackers upon another ship or a coastal area, typically with the goal of stealing cargo and other valuable goods. Those who conduct acts of piracy are called pirates, v ...
Stardust the Super Wizard
Stardust the Super Wizard is a fictional superhero from the Golden Age of Comics who originally appeared in American comic books published by Fox Feature Syndicate. The character was created by writer-artist Fletcher Hanks. Stardust the Super ...
'',
Fletcher Hanks
Fletcher Hanks, Sr. (December 1, 1889 – January 22, 1976) was an American cartoonist from the Golden Age of Comic Books, who wrote and drew stories detailing the adventures of all-powerful, supernatural heroes and their elaborate punishments of ...
* MIM
* Depicted as a monstrously cruel fascist who attempted to gain access into a secret college of science-gods.
* Defeated by Captain Universe who locked him in ice-nine and took control of his base.
Amber St. Clair
* ''Forever Amber (novel), Forever Amber'', Kathleen Winsor
* BD
* Courtesan and member of Prospero's Men.
Stent
* ''
The War of the Worlds
''The War of the Worlds'' is a science fiction novel by English author H. G. Wells, first serialised in 1897 by ''Pearson's Magazine'' in the UK and by '' Cosmopolitan'' magazine in the US. The novel's first appearance in hardcover was i ...
'', H.G. Wells
* Volume 2 Issue 2
* The Astronomer Royal. Killed by
Martian
Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, has appeared as a setting in works of fiction since at least the mid-1600s. It became the most popular celestial object in fiction in the late 1800s as the Moon was evidently lifeless. At the time, the pre ...
s on
Horsell Common
Horsell Common is a open space in Horsell, near Woking in Surrey. It is owned and managed by the Horsell Common Preservation Society. An area of is a biological Site of Special Scientific Interest
A Site of Special Scientific Interest ...
Monkey King, Sun Wukong/The Monkey King
* ''Journey to the West'', Wu Cheng'en
* NTA
* Simian demigod/demon of Chinese legend, also known as the "Great Sage Equal to Heaven", found stuffed in a Chinese museum by Orlando. Orlando doesn't believe the preserved body is as old as the museum claims due to its clothes being relatively recent.
Doctor Syn, The Reverend Dr. Christopher Syn, a.k.a. Captain Clegg
* ''Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh'', Russell Thorndike
* Volume 1 Issue 2 (p. 23, pnl.2), Volume 1 cover, NTA, F
* A pirate, smuggler, and clergyman. He is a member of Gulliver's Fellowship (the 18th century League), also a member of the Pirate's Conference and the captain of the pirate ship ''Imogene''.
* In Volume 1 Dr. Syn is shown in the Montegu House portrait of Gulliver's Fellowship (the 18th century League), and his name appears in the caption. In the film he only appears in a painting on the wall.
T
Suki Tawdry
* ''The Beggar's Opera'', John Gay
* Volume 3I1
* Prostitute and resident of the Cuttlefish Hotel. She appeared to be almost supernaturally aware of the eventual arrival of the Nautilus and Janni Diver's massacre of the Hotel patrons.
Terner
* ''Performance (film), Performance'', Mick Jagger, Donald Cammell
* Volume 3I2
* A rockstar who is being poised to become the next Daemon of Haddo.
Nikola Tesla
* Real individual
* ''Volume 1 Issue 1''
*
Inventor
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of some of the
steampunk
Steampunk is a subgenre of science fiction that incorporates retrofuturistic technology and aesthetics inspired by 19th-century industrial steam-powered machinery. Steampunk works are often set in an alternative history of the Victorian era ...
technology of the League universe. A circuit-breaker on the final page of Volume 1 Issue 1 bears the logo "Edison Teslaton".
Thomas the Tank Engine
* ''The Railway Series''
* Volume 3, 2009
* Sentient steam locomotive from the Island of Sodor.
* Appears long-dead at the Invisible College, presumably killed by the Antichrist and has visual cameo only.
Thor
* Norse mythology
* BD
* A Norse thunder-god armed with a magical hammer.
* Seen in "The Life of Orlando" slaying Jormungand during Ragnarök.
The Time Traveller
* ''The Time Machine'', H.G. Wells
* ASV, Volume 2S
* A traveller through space and time who helped defeat the forces of the Great Old Ones.
Tiresias
* Greek mythology
* BD
* Father of Orlando and Manto (mythology), Manto. He was greatly dismayed to discover from Orlando that she inherited his gender-changing ability. Tiresias sold Orlando to pirate slavers and died escorting Manto to become the Pythia, Oracle at Delphi.
Mr. Toad
* ''The Wind in the Willows'', Kenneth Grahame
* Volume 2 Issue 5, Volume 3I1
* One of Moreau's creations. Later, in ''1910'', it is shown preserved in a jar of formaldehyde as a specimen in the Secret Annexe of the British Museum.
U
Captain Universe
* ''Captain Universe'', Mick Anglo
* MIM
* Space hero who worked with Mina in her disguise as Vull the Invisible during her time as a member of the Seven Stars, a British superhero group.
* He defeated Stardust the Space Wizard, locking him in ice-nine.
* Captain Universe is one of few copyrighted characters in the series to be used with permission from his creator, therefore having no need to mask the character's background.
V
Jean Valjean
* ''Les Misérables'', Victor Hugo
* NTA
* A man whose name appears in the graffiti of Parisian sewers.
Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen
* The stories of Jacques Futrelle
* NHI
* Member of Janni Nemo's pirate crew. Sacrifices his life in order to allow Janni and Broad Arrow Jack to escape from Frank Reade and Tom Swift.
Varney the Vampire, Sir Francis Varney
* ''Varney the Vampire'', James Malcolm Rymer
* Volume 1 cover
* A vampire and proposed member of a mid-19th century League.
Venus (mythology), Venus
* Roman mythology/''Under the Hill'', Aubrey Beardsley
* NTA, BD
* Queen of Horselburg.
Lord Voldemort
*
Harry Potter
''Harry Potter'' is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard, Harry Potter, and his friends Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley, all of whom are students a ...
series, J.K. Rowling
* Volume 3I2, Volume 3I3
* Referring to himself only as "Tom" (whose middle name "is a marvel" and surname "is a bit of an enigma"), Voldemort attends the Purple Orchestra concert at Hyde Park and is possessed by the spirit of Oliver Haddo once the latter's plan to possess Terner is foiled. It is later revealed that he is an instructor at the unnamed Hogwarts, wizarding academy, and in a flashback sequence, it is revealed that he becomes the headmaster at the time of Harry's breakdown. The enraged Harry breaks into his office and kills him, keeping his head in a cage.
W
Annie Walker (Coronation Street), Annie Walker
* ''Coronation Street''
* ''BD''
* An unseen character. She, and her husband Jack Walker, run the Malibu pub on Bayswater Road in London in the 1950s, but after the 1958 election, and the end of INGSOC, she and her husband plan on moving "back up north", ostensibly then becoming the owners of the Rovers Return Inn, the name being significant because "their rovin' days are over" (BD p. 9, pnl.6).
Jack Walker (Coronation Street), Jack Walker
* ''Coronation Street''
* BD
* The bartender of the Malibu pub on Bayswater Road in London in the 1950s, but after the 1958 election, and the end of INGSOC, he and his wife (Annie) plan on moving "back up north", ostensibly then becoming the owners of the Rovers Return Inn, the name being significant because "their rovin' days are over" (BD p. 9, pnl.6).
Worrals, Joan Warralson
* Worrals series
* BD
* Leader of the Warralson group which was formed in 1946 after Mina Murray's apparent defection to the United States. In the LOEG storyline, Captain Warralson is insinuated to have had a sexual relationship with her sidekick 'Frecks'.
Alexander Waverly
* ''The Man from U.N.C.L.E.''
* BD
* Alexander Waverly is the head of U.N.C.L.E. and was mentioned in the ''Black Dossier'' as 'Al' Waverly and was revealed to be a former student at Greyfriars School. It is also mentioned in the graphic novel that when he was constructing U.N.C.L.E., his organization received equipment support from John Night's industry.
Michael Westen
* ''Burn Notice''
* Volume 3
* Disillusioned CIA agent. Mentioned by Emma Knight as the man who revealed that it was Jimmy Bond who was responsible for the deaths of her father and uncle.
Famous Five (Greyfriars School), General Sir Harold Wharton, a.k.a. Big Brother
* ''
The Magnet
''The Magnet'' was a British weekly boys' story paper published by Amalgamated Press. It ran from 1908 to 1940, publishing a total of 1,683 issues.
Each issue cost a halfpenny and contained a long school story about the boys of Greyfriars S ...
'' (1908–1940) by
Charles Hamilton Charles Hamilton may refer to:
People in Canada
* Charles Hamilton (bishop) (1834–1919), Anglican bishop of Ottawa
* Charles Edward Hamilton (1844–1919), Canadian politician
* Sir Charles Hamilton, 2nd Baronet, of Marlborough House (1767–184 ...
, and ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'' by
George Orwell
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist, and critic. His work is characterised by lucid prose, social criticism, opposition to totalita ...
.
* BD
*
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
war hero, leader of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc), and later Dictator of
Airstrip One
In George Orwell's 1949 dystopian novel ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', the world is divided into three superstates: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia, who are all fighting each other in a perpetual war in a disputed area called the Equatorial Front. Al ...
(England) from 1945 to 1951. Married Bessie Bunter, Billy Bunter's little sister. He was secretly assassinated in a plot orchestrated by Gerald O'Brien and Robert Cherry, the former becoming Wharton's successor.
* "Harry Wharton" was the name of one of Billy Bunter's classmates at
Greyfriars School
Greyfriars School is a fictional English public school used as a setting in the long-running series of stories by the writer Charles Hamilton, who wrote under the pen-name of Frank Richards. Although the stories are focused on the Remove (or lo ...
. He was Captain of the Lower Fourth Remove and an avid cricketer. Harry Wharton, along with Bob Cherry and Johnny Bull were members of the Famous Five, a tight knit group of students who, along with Billy and certain other schoolmates, had many adventures and defeated many adversaries.
Pollyanna Whittier
* ''Pollyanna'', Eleanor H. Porter
* Volume 1 Issue 2
* One of Miss Coote's students and Griffin's victims.
Jack Wright (fictional character), Jack Wright Jr.
* ''Jack Wright'' series, Luis Senarens
* NHI
* One of the three science heroes hired by Citizen Kane, Charles Foster Kane to catch Janni Dakkar.
Ira Levin
Ira Marvin Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007) was an American novelist, playwright, and songwriter. His works include the novels '' A Kiss Before Dying'' (1953), '' Rosemary's Baby'' (1967), ''The Stepford Wives'' (1972), ''This Perfec ...
* Volume 3/2
* Mentioned in name only, she was chosen by Haddo's son to be the mother of the antichrist, but the child died soon after its birth.
Bertie Wooster, Bertram Wooster
* '' Extricating Young Gussie'', P. G. Wodehouse
* BD
* Present during the Brinkley Court Affair and was nearly oblivious to the danger of the otherworldly situation.
X
Y
Z
Zanoni
* ''Zanoni'', Edward Bulwer-Lytton
* Volume 3I1
* Immortal Chaldean sorcerer and member of the Merlin Society.
Monsieur Zenith
* The Sexton Blake series, Anthony Skene
* BD
* Albino gentleman thief who duels with Orlando for the sheer thrill of it, member of ''Les Hommes Mysterieux'' (French > "The Mysterious Men").
Zuki
* Original character
* Volume 3II
* A tribute band to Suki Tawdry.
Comparisons of real and historical characters
Characters as analogues of historical figures
* The Rolling Stones/The Purple Orchestra
* The Beatles/The Rutles
* Oasis (band), Oasis/DriveShaft
* Osama Bin Laden/Jack Nemo
* Anne Boleyn/Nan Bollen
* Neal Cassady/ Dean Moriarty
* Joan Crawford/Blanche Hudson
* Aleister Crowley/
Oliver Haddo
''The Magician'' is a novel by British author W. Somerset Maugham, originally published in 1908. In this tale, the magician Oliver Haddo, a caricature of Aleister Crowley, attempts to create life. Crowley wrote a critique of this book under th ...
a.k.a. Dr. s:Casting the Runes, Karswell, Dr. A Dance to the Music of Time, Trelawney, Rosemary's Baby (novel), Adrian Marcato, The Devil Rides Out, Mocata, Warlock (The Avengers), Cosmo Gallion, Robert Irwin (writer), Charles Felton, The Black Cat (1934 film), Hjalmar Poelzig, Lord Voldemort
* Dr. John Dee (mathematician), John Dee/
Prospero
Prospero ( ) is a fictional character and the protagonist of William Shakespeare's play '' The Tempest''.
Prospero is the rightful Duke of Milan, whose usurping brother, Antonio, had put him (with his three-year-old daughter, Miranda) to sea ...
a.k.a. The Alchemist (play), Johannes Suttle
* Edward Kelley/The Alchemist (play), Edward Face
* Elizabeth I of England, Queen Elizabeth I/The Faerie Queene, Queen Gloriana I
* Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II/Queen Gloriana II
*
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...
/ Adenoid Hynkel
* Benito Mussolini/Benzino Napaloni
* William Randolph Hearst/Citizen Kane, Charles Foster Kane
* James I of England, King James I/King Jacob I
* Horatio Nelson/
Horatio Hornblower
Horatio Hornblower is a fictional officer in the British Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars, the protagonist of a series of novels and stories by C. S. Forester. He later became the subject of films, radio and television programmes, a ...
*
Jack Kerouac
Jean-Louis Lebris de Kérouac (; March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969), known as Jack Kerouac, was an American novelist and poet who, alongside William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg, was a pioneer of the Beat Generation.
Of French-Canadian anc ...
/On the Road, Sal Paradyse
* Kray twins, Ronnie Kray/Villain (1971 film), Vic Dakin
* Kray twins, Ronnie Kray/Jake Arnott#Novels, Harry Starks
* Kray twins, Ronnie Kray/Performance (film), Harry Flowers
* Kray twins, Ronnie Kray/Piranha Brothers, Dinsdale Piranha
* Kray twins, Reggie Kray/Piranha Brothers, Doug Piranha
* G. Gordon Liddy/Felix Leiter, F. Gordon Leiter
* Richard Nixon/Wild in the Streets, Max Foster
* George W. Bush/
Josiah Bartlet
Josiah Edward "Jed" Bartlet is a fictional character from the American television serial drama '' The West Wing'' created by Aaron Sorkin and portrayed by actor Martin Sheen. The role earned Sheen a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Tel ...
* Barack Obama/ David Palmer
* Mick Jagger/Performance (film), Terner
* Siouxsie and the Banshees/Zuki and the Tawdries
* Lady Gaga/Spooky Tawdry
* Kurt Vonnegut/Kilgore Trout
* Sir Francis Walsingham/The Unfortunate Traveller, Sir Jack Wilton
*
Alice Liddell
Alice Pleasance Hargreaves (''née'' Liddell, ; 4 May 1852 – 16 November 1934), was an English woman who, in her childhood, was an acquaintance and photography subject of Lewis Carroll. One of the stories he told her during a boating trip bec ...
/
Alice
Alice may refer to:
* Alice (name), most often a feminine given name, but also used as a surname
Literature
* Alice (''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''), a character in books by Lewis Carroll
* ''Alice'' series, children's and teen books by ...
* John Sladek/John Thomas
*
Michael Moorcock
Michael John Moorcock (born 18 December 1939) is an English people, English writer, best-known for science fiction and fantasy fiction, fantasy, who has published a number of well-received literary novels as well as comic thrillers, graphic nov ...
/James Colvin
*
Tracy Morgan
Tracy Jamal Morgan (born November 10, 1968) is an American stand-up comedian and actor best known for his television work as a cast member on ''Saturday Night Live'' (1996–2003) and for his role as Tracy Jordan in the sitcom ''30 Rock'' (2006 ...
/
Tracy Jordan
Tracy Jordan is a fictional character in the American television series ''30 Rock'', played by the actor Tracy Morgan. The character is a movie star whose personality traits and life events are taken from Morgan's own life. In 2010, ''Entertainm ...
* Mark Wahlberg/Entourage (U.S. TV series), Vincent Chase
* Donald Trump/Infinite Jest, Johnny Gentle
Fictional characters that are also fictional in the world of the ''League''
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