List of characters in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen

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A collection of the characters from The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Contents: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N P R S T U V W Y Z

Contents

[edit] Overview

Character's name

  • Original source/author
  • Appearances or mention in the League universe
  • Brief biography/overview
  • Notes

The appearances key is:

An italicized appearance is either a graphic novel or film appearance where the character is only mentioned in dialogue or otherwise referenced by not shown or a text story appearance where the character is mentioned either briefly or indirectly.

[edit] A

[edit] Count Allamistakeo

  • Some Words with a Mummy, Edgar Allan Poe
  • V1C
  • An immortal mummy and proposed member of a mid-19th century League
  • He is shown sleeping on the cover of V1, as is his name and portrait displayed.

[edit] Ariel

[edit] Artful Dodger

  • Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
  • V1I6 (p.3)
  • The Dodger leads his gang of children into London's sewers for protection against the air war between Professor Moriarty and Fu Manchu.

[edit] B

[edit] Lady Marguerite Blakeney (née St. Just)

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emma Orczy
  • V1I2 (p.23, pnl.2), V1C, NTA, BD
  • French-born wife of Sir Percy Blakeney, a member of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel as well as Gulliver's Fellowship (the 18th century League).
  • In V1 Lady Marguerite is shown in the Montegu House portrait of Gulliver's Fellowship (the 18th century League), and her name appears in the caption.

[edit] Sir Percival Blakeney

  • The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emma Orczy
  • V1I2 (p.23, pnl.2), V1C, NTA, BD, F
  • The masked do-gooder, the Scarlet Pimpernel. Saves members of the French aristocracy from the guillotine during the French Revolution. Member of the 18th century League under Lemuel Gulliver.
  • In V1 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.

[edit] Horatio Blimp

  • The works of David Low
  • V2I2, V2I3
  • An overconfident major in the British army who leads the initial strike against the Martians. He is killed at the beginning of issue three by the Martians' Heat-Ray.

[edit] Peter Blood

[edit] Campion Bond

  • Original character
  • V1I1, V1I2, V1I4, V1I5, V2I2, V2I3, V2I6, NTA, BD, V3I1, N
  • Agent of MI5 and handler of the 1st Murray Group (the late 19th century League). Grandfather of James Bond.

[edit] Jimmy Bond

  • Casino Royale by Ian Fleming, Casino Royale (1967).
  • BD
  • Successor and grandson of Campion. He is portrayed as an incompetent bungler, a cowardly liar, and a sadistic rapist; the polar opposite of the suave super-spy.
  • The name "Jimmy" probably refers to James Bond as portrayed by Woody Allen in his espionage spoof Casino Royale (1967), as they have similar attributes.

[edit] Broad Arrow Jack

  • Broad Arrow Jack, E. Harcourt Burrage
  • V1I4, V2I3-6, V2S, NTA, V3I1, MIM
  • Officer on the Nautilus.

[edit] Natty Bumppo

  • The Deerslayer, James Fenimore Cooper
  • V1I2 (p.23, pnl.2), V1C, NTA, BD, F
  • American colonial raised by Native Americans. Member of the 18th century League under Lemuel Gulliver.
  • In V1 Natty is shown in the Montegu House portrait of Gulliver's Fellowship (the 18th century League), and his name appears in the caption. His portrait is also seen briefly in the film.

[edit] William George "Billy" Bunter

  • The Magnet weekly, created by Frank Richards.
  • BD
  • The former student and current caretaker of Greyfriars School. 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," 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.

[edit] C

[edit] Caliban

[edit] Thomas Carnacki

  • The Gateway of the Monster, William Hope Hodgson
  • BD, V3I1
  • Ghost finder and paranormal detective. Member of 2nd Murray Group (the early 20th century League)

[edit] Katy Carr

[edit] John Carter

[edit] Randolph Carter

[edit] Selwyn Cavor

  • The First Men in the Moon, H.G. Wells
  • V1I2BC, V1I2 (p.22-23), BD
  • 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.

[edit] Professor George Edward Challenger

  • The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle
  • NTA, V3I1
  • Explorer and scientist, consultant to 2nd Murray Group
  • Only briefly mentioned in dialogue, never shown in the series thus far

[edit] Olive Chancellor

[edit] Robert Kim Cherry (AKA "Harry Lime")

[edit] Christian

[edit] Rosa Coote

[edit] Mrs. Cornelius (AKA "Mrs. C")

  • First appeared in The Condition of Muzak by Michael Moorcock.
  • BD
  • Mina Murray and Allan Quartermain Jr.'s foul-mouthed landlady when they were staying in Brookgate.

[edit] Jeremiah "Jerry" Cornelius

  • First appeared in The Final Programme, by Michael Moorcock.
  • BD, V3I2
  • 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.

[edit] Anna Coupeau

[edit] Cool Lulu or Kutulu

  • The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft
  • BD
  • Cthulhu, the dread god of R'lyeh
  • Mentioned by Oliver Haddo in "On the Decent of the Gods" as "Kutulu" and by the Rt. Hon. Bertram Wilberforce Wooster in "What Ho, Gods of the Abyss!", misheard as "Cool Lulu."

[edit] D

[edit] Dejah Thoris

  • A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • ASV, V2I1, V2S
  • A princess of Mars and John Carter's lover. Possibly captured or killed by the mollusc invaders, or V2 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.
  • Dejah Thoris is only mentioned in ASV as "almost naked ruby-clad princess." In V2I1 she is only once referred to and then only as "the princess." While she may be depicted in the supplementary material to V2, it may also be Kane's Princess Shizala, Gullivar's Princess Heru.

[edit] Doctor Sachs

  • Doctor Sax, Jack Kerouac
  • BD
  • He is opposed by Sal Paradyse and Dean Moriarty, two other character 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, 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 create fear in his enemies, much like The Shadow. He is a talented alchemist who suffers from Visagus Nightsoil, a rare skin disease that turns his skin mossy green at night.

[edit] Dick Donovan

  • The Man-Hunter: Stories from the Note-Book of a Detective, J.E. Preston Muddock
  • V1I2
  • Detective and MI5 agent who handles the recruitment of Hyde and Griffin

[edit] Hugo Drummond

[edit] C. Auguste Dupin

[edit] E

[edit] Thomas Edison

  • Real individual
  • V1I1
  • Inventor of some of the steampunk 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 V1I1 bears the logo "Edison Teslaton."

[edit] F

[edit] Fantômas

[edit] Samuel Ferguson

  • Five Weeks in a Balloon, Jules Verne
  • V1I5 (p.22, pnl.5)
  • An acquaintance of Captain Nemo, who gave him his balloon 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.

[edit] Phileas Fogg

[edit] Fu Manchu

  • The Insidious Dr Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer
  • V1I3, V1I4, V1I6, V2S, BD
  • Leader of the Chinese organized crime in Limehouse, and personal and professional rival of Moriarty. In 1948, Limehouse having been purged by the INGSOC Party, he relocates to New York City. He is also a relative of Dr. Sachs and (according to the CIA) Dr. No. He is never referred to by name as the character Fu Manchu is not public domain in Europe.

[edit] G

[edit] Golliwog

[edit] Dorian Gray

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
  • V1C, V1S, V2I3, F, N
  • His portrait hangs in the Secret Annexe; possible member of a mid-19th century League and member of the Movie League.
  • Dorian Gray is unaging and immune to any damage his body takes. His body shows no sign of aging, disease, decay, or damage; it is instead depicted upon the image of his portrait. However, if his portrait is ever destroyed all of the hurts the image displays will be visited upon Gray in full, effectively killing him in a very gruesome manner.

[edit] Jimmy Grey

  • The Beano comic strip "The Iron Fish"
  • V2I4, BD
  • Saved by Captain Nemo after the death of his parents by a tripod. Later in life, as Professor James Grey and creator of the Iron Fish series of submersibiles, he is a member of the Warralson Team, a surrogate League in the 1940s. A newspaper clipping on p.14, pnl.1, of Black Dossier suggests he was lost at sea in 1949.

[edit] Hawley Griffin

  • The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
  • V1I2-V2I5, NTA, BD, V3I1
  • Member of the Victorian League (the 1st Murray Group), perverted sociopath, and traitor to mankind.
  • Moore derived the character's last name from the book The Invisible Man, 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.
  • Griffin only appears in paintings in BD and V3I1. In BD M references him to Jimmy once (BD p.78, pnl.3).

[edit] Lemuel Gulliver

  • Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
  • V2I2 (p.23, pnl.2), V1C, NTA, BD, F
  • The leader of the 18th century League
  • In V1 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.

[edit] H

[edit] H-9 (Rupert Bear)

[edit] H-11 (Algy Pug)

[edit] H-14 (Tiger Tim)

[edit] Henry Rider Haggard

  • Real individual
  • ASV
  • Chronicler of Quatermain's adventures

[edit] Richard "Dick" Hannay

[edit] Septimus Harding

[edit] Jack Harkaway

  • Jack Harkaway's Schooldays, Bracebridge Hemyng
  • V1C
  • Schoolboy adventurer and proposed member of a mid-19th century League

[edit] Jonathan Harker

  • Dracula, Bram Stoker
  • V1I1, V1I5, V2I5
  • Divorced husband of Mina Murray
  • Never shown, only mentioned in dialogue

[edit] Fanny Hill

[edit] Mycroft Holmes

[edit] Sherlock Holmes

[edit] Captain Hook

[edit] Edward Hyde

[edit] I

[edit] Ishmael

[edit] Ithaqqa

[edit] J

[edit] Henry Jekyll

[edit] Pirate Jenny

[edit] Gullivar Jones

[edit] K

[edit] Michael Kane

  • Kane of Old Mars, by Michael Moorcock
  • V2I1
  • A human man transported back in time and to Mars, where he establishes a ruling dynasty

[edit] L

[edit] Lavell

[edit] Long John Silver

[edit] Arsène Lupin

[edit] M

[edit] Mac the Knife

[edit] Marisa

  • Original character
  • ASV
  • An African maidservant and witch in the service of Lady Ragnall

[edit] Moonchild

[edit] Colonel Sebastian Moran

[edit] Alphonse Moreau

[edit] Dean Moriarty

[edit] Professor James Moriarty

[edit] Mors

[edit] Wilhelmina Murray (née Harker)

  • Dracula, Bram Stoker
  • V1I1-6, V2I1-6, ASV, NTA, BD, V3I1-3, MIM, T, F, N
  • Leader of the Victorian-era League and the League of the 20th century, the eponymous Murray Groups

[edit] N

[edit] Captain Nemo

[edit] Emma Night

  • Emma Peel of The Avengers
  • BD
  • 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 (AKA Robert Kim Cherry, AKA Harry Lime).

[edit] John Night

  • Johnny Bull from the Greyfriars School series (The Magnet, 1908-1940) by Charles Hamilton
  • Sir John Knight, father of Emma Peel of The Avengers
  • BD
  • Not seen on-panel, industrialist who designed many fantastic gadgets, friend of Hugo Drummond.
  • 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 was a nick-name 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.

[edit] Julius No

  • Dr. Julius No of Dr. No
  • BD
  • At the beginning of Black Dossier, Jimmy Bond had just successfully defeated a "yellow peril" enemy located in Jamaica. It is later found that Dr. No was a fabrication by the CIA. His name was a pun, as there was "no doctor."

[edit] Le Nyctalope

  • L'Homme Qui Peut Vivre dans l'Eau, Jean de la Hire
  • NTA, BD
  • Superhero and member of Les Hommes Mystérieux

[edit] O

[edit] Gerald O'Brien

[edit] Orlando

  • Matter of France/Orlando: A Biography, Virginia Woolf
  • V2C, NTA, BD, V3I1, MIM, T
  • Immortal omnisexual member of the Prospero, Gulliver, and second Murray Leagues
  • For a period in his life, Orlando went by the name Vita, which is the name of Vita Sackville-West, 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.

[edit] Captain Robert Owemuch

  • The Floating Island, Richard Head
  • NTA
  • Explorer, perpetual traveler and member of the 1680s League, Prospero's Men. Captain of the Pay-Naught, the Excuse and the Least-in-Sight.

[edit] P

[edit] Plantagenet Palliser (Elder)

[edit] Plantagenet Palliser (Younger)

[edit] Sal Paradyse

[edit] Peter Rabbit

[edit] Teddy Prendrick

[edit] Prospero

[edit] Captain Horatio Pugwash

[edit] Captain Pysse-Gummes

[edit] Q

[edit] Allan Quatermain

[edit] Allan Quatermain, Jr.

  • Original character
  • NTA, BD, V3I1, MIM
  • Identity used by the real Quatermain to hide a mystical rejuvenation after he has exposed himself to the Fire of Life.

[edit] Quong Lee

  • The Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse, Thomas Burke
  • V1I3, V3I1
  • A purveyor of fine teas.
  • Also mentioned indirectly in V3I1 (p.13, pnl.7).

[edit] Don Quixote

[edit] R

[edit] A. J. Raffles

  • The Amateur Cracksman, Ernest William Hornung
  • NTA, BD, V3I1
  • Gentleman thief and member of Murray's second League

[edit] Lady Ragnall

[edit] Becky Randall

[edit] Jean Robur

  • Robur the Conqueror, Jules Verne
  • V1C, V1I2, V1I4, V1I6BC, NTA, V2S, BD
  • A dangerous and megalomaniacal air pirate, and member of Les Hommes Mystérieux. Captain of the airship Albatross

[edit] S

[edit] Arne Saknussemm

[edit] Sapathwa

  • The Blue Dwarf
  • V1C
  • A disguised noble criminal and proposed member of a mid-19th century League

[edit] Tom Sawyer

[edit] Scheharezade

[edit] Rodney Skinner

  • Original character
  • F, N
  • An invisible thief in the Movie League. He stole Dr. Griffin's formula and used it on himself to aid in robberies.

[edit] Captain Slaughterboard

  • Captain Slaughterboard Drops Anchor, Mervyn Peake
  • NTA
  • Member of the Pirates' Conference

[edit] Spring Heeled Jack

  • Real individual
  • V2S
  • A devil-like figure with an ability to jump great distances

[edit] Stent

[edit] The Reverend Dr. Christopher Syn, aka Captain Clegg

  • Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh, Russell Thorndike
  • V1I2 (p.23, pnl.2), V1C, NTA, F
  • A pirate, smuggler and clergyman. He is a member of Gulliver's Fellowship (the 18th century League). He is also a member of the Pirate's Conference. Captain of the pirate ship Imogene.
  • In V1 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.

[edit] T

[edit] Nikola Tesla

  • Real individual
  • V1I1
  • Inventor of some of the steampunk technology of the League universe

[edit] The Time Traveller

[edit] Mr. Toad

  • The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
  • V2I5, V3I1
  • One of Moreau's creations. Later, in 1910, shown soaking in a jar of formaldehyde as a specimine in the Secret Annexe of the British Museum

[edit] U

[edit] V

[edit] Jean Valjean

[edit] Sir Francis Varney

[edit] W

[edit] 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," austensibly then becoming the owners of the Rovers Return Inn, the name being significant because "their rovin' days are over" (BD p.9, pnl.6).

[edit] 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," austensibly then becoming the owners of the Rovers Return Inn, the name being significant because "their rovin' days are over" (BD p.9, pnl.6).

[edit] General Sir Harold 'Big Brother' Wharton

  • The Magnet (1908-1940) by Charles Hamilton.
  • BD
  • World War Two war hero, leader of the English Socialist Party (INGSOC), and later Dictator of Airstrip One (England) from 1945 to 1951. Married Bessie Bunter, Billy Bunter's little sister.
  • Harry Wharton was the name of one of Billy Bunter's classmates at Greyfriars School. He was Captain of the Lover Forth 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.

[edit] Pollyanna Whittier

[edit] X

[edit] Y

[edit] Z

[edit] Monsieur Zenith

[edit] Comparisons of real and historical characters

[edit] Real figures confirmed to exist in the League universe

The LXG novelization (outside the comic continuity) also mentions H. G. Wells, Oscar Wilde, Karl Benz, Henry Ford, Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Richard Francis Burton, the Marquis de Sade, and Otto von Bismarck

[edit] Characters as analogues of historical figures

[edit] Fictional characters that are also fictional in the world of the League

[edit] External links

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