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The title could well be a play upon that of The League of Gentlemen (the novel and subsequent film), the Justice League of America comic books, or the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel.
The story takes place in 1898 in a fictional world where all of the characters and events from Victorian era adventureAdventure (from Latin res adventura a thing about to happen), chance, and especially chance of danger; so a hazardous enterprise or remarkable incident. Thus an adventurer from meaning one who takes part in some speculative course of action, came to mean literature actually existed. The world the characters inhabit is one far more technologically advanced than our own was in the same year (c.f. steampunkSteampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan "What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner. It includes ficti). This setting allows Moore and O'Neill to insert 'in-jokes' and cameos from many of the great works of Victorian fiction, while also making contemporary references and jibes. (In issue 1, there is a half-finished bridge to link Britain and France, referencing problems constructing the real-world Channel TunnelThe Channel Tunnel ( French: le tunnel sous la Manche often nicknamed the Chunnel is a rail tunnel beneath the English Channel at the Straits of Dover, connecting Cheriton in Kent, England and Sangatte in northern France. A long-standing and hugely expens).
The League is assembled by the British government to protect the empire from various menaces, including the criminal genius Fu ManchuFu Manchu is a fictional character, a villain of Chinese origin, first featured in a series of novels by Sax Rohmer. Imagine a person, tall, lean and feline, high-shouldered, with a brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan, a close-shaven skull, and lo (Vol. 1) and the MartianThis article is about hypothetical inhabitants of Mars. In computer networking there are also " Martian packets," and a group of famous physicists and mathematicians from Hungary were dubbed " The Martians The name Martian is given to the hypothetical nats from H. G. Wells' novel The War of the WorldsAn early science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds ( 1898), by H. Wells, describes the fictional 1895 invasion of Earth by aliens, from Mars, who use laser-like Heat-Rays, chemical weapons, and mechanical three-legged "fighting machines" that could pot (Vol. 2).
The individual members of the League are:
The League are recruited for the Government by one Campion Bond. Bond is an original creation likely an homage to Margery Allingham's Albert Campion and Ian Fleming's James Bond.
Campion Bond deserves special attention because he may well be the only character in the series who is an original creation of Moore's. Every other character in the series, from the dominatrix/schoolmistress Rosa Coote to single-panel throwaway characters like Inspector Dick Donovan, is an established character from a previous work of fiction. This has lent the series considerable popularity with fans of esoteric Victoriana, who have delighted in attempting to place every character who makes an appearance.
Sherlock Holmes and Dracula are notably absent from the League's adventures, though the former appears in a flashback sequence and the latter's connections to Mina Murray do not go unnoticed. Holmes is still believed by the public to be deceased following the events of " The Final Problem". Moore has noted that he felt these two seminal characters would overwhelm the rest of the cast, thus making the book a lot less fun.The juxtaposition of characters from different sources in the same story is similar to science fiction writer Philip José Farmer's works centering around the Wold Newton family.
Moore has anounced his intentions to write the adventures of other Leagues in different historical eras. One possible group of heroes is seen in a portrait dated 1787 seen in the League's headquarters in volume 1 of the comic. A slightly different version of the portrait can be seen in the film version.
The heroes in the portrait appear to be:
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