History ComicBook / TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen

** [[Series/TheAvengers1960s Emma Peel]] who was a really over the top level spy in her tv series is presented as more an unknowing pawn in her appearance. Although she may have averted this by the time 2009 came along.

** Don't worry, [[IncrediblyLamePun "His end was quite comfortable."]]

* Volume 4: The Tempest -- The purported GrandFinale of the entire series. A six-issue series released in 2018 and finally completed in July 2019. A multi-century arc that ties together all the plotlines from the earlier stories and settings, mixed with ''Literature/{{We}}''. Has the distinction of being the last comic Creator/AlanMoore will ever write (at least so far according to him).

* AdapationalNationality: Apart from having a French-sounding name, there's no indication in the original story that Dr. Moreau is actually from there, as he's said to have lived in Britain before moving to the island. Here he's the uncle of real world French artist Gustave Moreau.

The League was originally envisioned as a Victorian Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, specifically as a CrisisCrossover of several iconic characters in Victorian-Era English literature teaming up to combat equally iconic villains from the popular fiction of the same era. While initially reading like a {{Steampunk}} high adventure story, the later volumes expanded in scope considerably. As Moore clarified in later interviews, the League became less about telling sophisticated adventure stories and became more interested in {{Deconstruction}} as a means and an end. The League is set in a parallel universe comprised entirely of characters from different works of fiction, across genres and authors of different styles. It asserts that [[AllMythsAreTrue all fiction is true]] from the very beginnings of human writing to the future visions dreamed up by science fiction visionaries. It applies ArcWelding to the whole of human literature, theatre, opera, popular music, cinema and television, and of course some odd mentions to comics for good measure.

* StealthPun: The Reverend Dr. Syn is described as "a mild-mannered clergyman from Kent". "Clark" is regional slang for clergy. That's right, he's a [[Franchise/{{Superman}} mild-mannered Clark from Kent]].

* KickTheSonOfABitch: Normally, [[spoiler:beating and raping someone to death is a MoralEventHorizon, but when the victim is Griffin...]]

** [[spoiler:The ménage à trois between Quatermain, Mina and Orlando.]]

--> '''Alan Moore''': I would say, that if you’re talking about a line of progress, if it can be called progress, that runs from Creator/BertoltBrecht’s ''Theatre/TheThreepennyOpera'', to Creator/DonaldCammell's ''Film/{{Performance}}'', to Franchise/HarryPotter, I don’t think you can really see that as anything but a decline.

** "Jimmy" (Franchise/JamesBond), Miss Night ([[Series/TheAvengers1960s Emma Peel, née Knight]]), and Uncle Hugo ([[Literature/BulldogDrummond Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond]]) in ''The Black Dossier''.

** Nemo rescuing a young Jimmy Grey during the invasion of London after his parents are killed when the Martians attacks the railway bridge. He even tries to comfort him, apparently even Nemo cant quite hate English children, no matter how much he despises the nation itself. Grey would eventually build his own underwater vessel as an adult, which was part of the abysmally failed 1950's version of the League, though he had more success on his own.

** Harry is never quite portrayed directly since his overall look is too distinct and overexposed so [[spoiler:Moore introduces him in First person as he mows down his supporting cast with doubles of Draco, Neville, Ginny, Ron, Hermione, [=McGonagall=], Snape and Dumbledore, after which he breaks his glasses and shaves his head and puts a bandage across his forehead where the scar was, with only his green eyes left from his original visual cue]].