Jim Cobb, the King of the Preppers (as I call him), did something neat yesterday, his “Leagues of Extraordinary Gentlemen” from some of the eras he’s been alive…
Jim said:
“I’ve always liked the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen concept, this idea of taking different characters from various fiction works and tossing them together. I’m far from being the first to do this, but wanted to have some fun so I created my own teams based on rough timeframes. I admittedly played fast and loose with some of these, but that’s some of the fun. In large part, I went with when the character debuted, not when the story/film was set.
I realize that few of you will likely know every single character listed. There’s at least one of them that I’d be shocked more than maybe three of you recognize, LOL. I’d encourage you to let Google or the search engine of your choice be your guide 😉”
2000s
Levi Stoltzfus
Sandman Slim
Eliot Spencer
Dean Winchester
John Wick
Alice (Resident Evil)
1990s
Nikita (La Femme Nikita)
Eric Draven
Ash Williams
Peter Octavian
Hellboy
Mara Jade
1980s
Angus MacGuyver
John Thomas Rourke
John McClane
Rorschach
Jason Bourne
VI Warshawski
1970s
Steve Austin
Lucan
Bo “Bandit” Danville
Harry Callahan
Remo Williams
Carrie White
I loved Jim’s choices!
Now, he didn’t make his lists public… but I will! And I’m adding their antagonist and mission! Like Jim, I’m not telling you what property the character comes from. You figure it out… the Library of Alexandria is at your finger tips.
Don’t post your lists below, share this blog post and make your list on the sharing post.
I went back to the 1960s to start, for a multiversal, time travel adventure from the written page and silver screen with:
THE THREAT? Daleks who have hijacked the Doctor’s Tardis
THE TEAM:
HG Wells (and his Time Machine)
Captain Jerry Cornelius
Cpt. Keith Mallory
Dr. Zira
Commander James Bond
Yojimbo
1970s is Satanic Panic and a whole bunch of political horror!
THE THREAT? Barlow and his new ghoul, Michael Myers, infiltrate Washington DC!
THE TEAM:
Father Joseph Dyer
The ghost of Quint
Jamie Summers
Buford Pusser
Commander James Bond
Dr. Sam Loomis
The 1980s is an action movie spectacle and looks more like The Expandables than the League…
THE THREAT? Who else but RUSSIAN CYBORGS!
THE TEAM:
Col. Bob Hauk
John Rambo
Connor Macleod
Ellen Ripley
Commander James Bond
John Nadda
Oh, the 90s… and our story goes full on dystopian cyberpunk
THE THREAT? CYBORG ALIENS, of course!
THE TEAM:
Thomas Anderson/NEO
Snake Plissken
Judge Dredd
Sgt. Murphy
Commander James Bond
Sarah Conner
As the millennia changes, so does the game… these are all 2000 and after (this was harder than I thought and now I know why Jim stopped it at the 2000’s, too!)
THE THREAT: An army of Bigheads is on the rampage, and man, are they horny… or is it hungry? Horngry?
THE TEAM:
John Wick
Selene
Det. Nick Burkhardt
Danny Torrance
Commander James Bond
The Exit
Yeah. I like James Bond.
Happy New Year, to my friends and fans, all of my peeps and perps.
Thomas R Clark 