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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 1 Overview 2 A 2.1 Count Allamistakeo 2.2 Ariel 2.3 Artful Dodger 3 B 3.1 Lady Marguerite St. Just Blakeney 3.2 Sir Percival Blakeney 3.3 Peter Blood 3.4 Campion Bond 3.5 Jimmy Bond 3.6 Broad Arrow Jack 3.7 Natty Bumppo 4 C 4.1 Caliban 4.2 Thomas Carnacki 4.3 Katy Carr 4.4 John Carter 4.5 Randolph Carter 4.6 Selwyn Cavor 4.7 Professor George Edward Challenger 4.8 Olive Chancellor 4.9 Christian 4.10 Rosa Coote 4.11 Anna Coupeau 4.12 Great Cthulhu 5 D 5.1 Dejah Thoris 5.2 Doctor Sax 5.3 Dick Donovan 5.4 Hugo Drummond 5.5 C. Auguste Dupin 6 E 6.1 Thomas Edison 7 F 7.1 Fantômas 7.2 Samuel Ferguson 7.3 Phileas Fogg 7.4 Fu Manchu 8 G 8.1 George V 8.2 Dorian Gray 8.3 Hawley Griffin 8.4 Lemuel Gulliver 9 H 9.1 H-9 (Rupert Bear) 9.2 H-11 (Algy Pug) 9.3 H-14 (Tiger Tim) 9.4 Henry Rider Haggard 9.5 Septimus Harding 9.6 Jack Harkaway 9.7 Johnathan Harker 9.8 Fanny Hill 9.9 Mycroft Holmes 9.10 Sherlock Holmes 9.11 Captain Hook 9.12 Edward Hyde 10 I 10.1 Ishmael 10.2 Ithaqqa 11 J 11.1 Henry Jekyll 11.2 Pirate Jenny 11.3 Gullivar Jones 12 K 12.1 Michael Kane 13 L 13.1 Lavell 13.2 Long John Silver 13.3 Arsène Lupin 14 M 14.1 Mac the Knife 14.2 Marisa 14.3 Moonchild 14.4 Sebastian Moran 14.5 Alphonse Moreau 14.6 Dean Moriarty 14.7 Professor James Moriarty 14.8 Mors 14.9 Mina Murray 15 N 15.1 Captain Nemo 15.2 Emma Night 15.3 John Night 15.4 Le Nyctalope 16 O 16.1 Orlando 16.2 Captain Robert Owe-much 17 P 17.1 Plantagenet Palliser (Elder) 17.2 Plantagenet Palliser (Younger) 17.3 Captain Horatio Pugwash 17.4 Sal Paradise 17.5 Peter Rabbit 17.6 Teddy Prendrick 17.7 Captain Pysse-Gummes 17.8 Prospero 18 Q 18.1 Allan Quatermain 18.2 Allan Quatermain, Jr. 18.3 Quong Lee 19 R 19.1 A. J. Raffles 19.2 Lady Ragnall 19.3 Becky Randall 19.4 Robur 20 S 20.1 Arne Saknussemm 20.2 Sapathwa 20.3 Tom Sawyer 20.4 Rodney Skinner 20.5 Captain Slaughterboard 20.6 Spring Heeled Jack 20.7 Stent 20.8 The Reverend Dr. Syn, aka Captain Clegg 21 T 21.1 Nikola Tesla 21.2 The Time Traveller 21.3 Mr. Toad 22 U 23 V 23.1 Jean Valjean 23.2 Sir Francis Varney 24 W 24.1 Pollyanna Whittier 25 X 26 Y 27 Z 27.1 Monsieur Zenith 28 Comparisons of real and historical characters 28.1 Real figures confirmed to exist in the League universe: 28.2 Characters as analogs of historical figures:

Overview

Character's name

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

The appearances key is:

• V1I1: Volume I, Issue 1 (example)
• V1C: Volume I cover (example)
• V1S: Volume I supplemental materials (example)
• ASV: Allan and the Sundered Veil
• NTA: The New Traveller's Almanac
• BD: The Black Dossier
• T: Tales of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• F: The film
• N: Novelization of the film

A

Count Allamistakeo

• Some Words with a Mummy, Edgar Allan Poe
• V1C
• An immortal mummy and proposed member of a mid-19th century League

Ariel

• The Tempest, William Shakespeare
• NTA
• Sprite of Prospero and member of the 1680s League

Artful Dodger

• Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens
• V1I6
• The Dodger leads his children gang into London's sewers to protect against the air war between Professor Moriarty and Fu Manchu

B

Lady Marguerite St. Just Blakeney

• The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emma Orczy
• V1I3, V1C, NTA
• Member of the 18th century League

Sir Percival Blakeney

• The Scarlet Pimpernel, Emma Orczy
• V1I3, V1C, NTA, F
• Member of the 18th century League

Peter Blood

• Captain Blood, Rafael Sabatini
• NTA
• Member of the Pirates' Conference

Campion Bond

• Original character
• V1I1-V2I6, NTA, N
• Agent of MI5 and liaison of the League

Jimmy Bond

• Casino Royale, Ian Fleming
• BD
• Successor and grandson of Campion

Broad Arrow Jack

• Broad Arrow Jack, E. Harcourt Burrage
• V1I4, V2I4-6, V2S
• Officer on the Nautilus

Natty Bumppo

• The Deerslayer, James Fenimore Cooper
• V1I3, V1C, NTA, F
• Member of the 18th century League

C

Caliban

• The Tempest, William Shakespeare
• NTA
• Servant of Prospero and member of the 1680s League

Thomas Carnacki

• The Gateway of the Monster, William Hope Hodgson
• BD, V3I1
• Detective and member of Murray's second League

Katy Carr

• What Katy Did, Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
• V1I2
• One of Miss Coote's teachers

John Carter

• A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
• ASV, V2I1
• A Confederate States Army officer who is transported to Mars and leads the native resistance against the mollusc invaders

Randolph Carter

• The Statement of Randolph Carter, H.P. Lovecraft
• ASV, NTA
• A Miskatonic University occultist and grandnephew of John

Selwyn Cavor

• The First Men in the Moon, H.G. Wells
• V1I3
• A scientist who developed the Cavorite substance used for the prospective British turn-of-the-century Moon mission

Professor George Edward Challenger

• The Lost World, Arthur Conan Doyle
• BD
• Explorer and scientist, consultant to Murray's second League

Olive Chancellor

• The Bostonians, Henry James
• V1I2
• One of Miss Coote's students

Christian

• The Pilgrim's Progress, John Bunyan
• NTA
• An etheric traveler and member of the 1680s League

Rosa Coote

• The Convent School, or Early Experiences of A Young Flagellant, William Dugdale
• V1I2, V2S
• Dominatrix headmistress of an Edmonton girl's school

Anna Coupeau

• Nana, Émile Zola
• V1I1
• One of the prostitutes killed by Hyde

Great Cthulhu

• The Call of Cthulhu, H.P. Lovecraft
• V2S
• The dread god of R'lyeh

D

Dejah Thoris

• A Princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs
• ASV, V2I1
• A princess of Mars and John Carter's lover. Was apparently captured or killed by the mollusc invaders.

Doctor Sax

• Doctor Sax, Jack Kerouac
• BD
• Member of the 1950s American League

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

Hugo Drummond

• Bulldog Drummond, H.C. McNeile
• BD
• A racist, jingoistic government agent who hunts down Murray and Quatermain.

C. Auguste Dupin

• The Murders in the Rue Morgue, Edgar Allan Poe
• V1I1-2
• A Parisian detective who is assigned to investigate the recent murders of prostitutes

E

Thomas Edison

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

F

Fantômas

• Fantômas, Marcel Allain & Pierre Souvestre
• NTA
• Criminal mastermind and member of Les Hommes Mystérieux

Samuel Ferguson

• Five Weeks in a Balloon, Jules Verne
• V1I6
• An acquaintance of Captain Nemo, who gave him his balloon Victoria

Phileas Fogg

• Around the World in Eighty Days, Jules Verne
• V1C
• Gentleman explorer and proposed member of a mid-19th century League

Fu Manchu

• The Insidious Dr Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer
• V1I3-V1I6, V2S
• Leader of the Chinese organized crime in Limehouse, and personal and professional rival of Moriarty

G

George V

• Real individual
• V3I1
• New King of Great Britain in 1910

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

Hawley Griffin

• The Invisible Man, H.G. Wells
• V1I2-V2I5
• Member of the Victorian League and traitor to mankind

Lemuel Gulliver

• Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift
• V2I3, V1C, NTA, F
• The leader of the 18th century League

H

H-9 (Rupert Bear)

• Daily Express, Mary Tourtel
• V2I4-6, V2S
• One of the creations of Dr. Moreau

H-11 (Algy Pug)

• Daily Express, Mary Tourtel
• V2I5, V2S
• One of the creations of Dr. Moreau

H-14 (Tiger Tim)

• Daily Express, Mary Tourtel
• V2I5-6, V2S
• One of the creations of Dr. Moreau

Henry Rider Haggard

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

Septimus Harding

• The Warden, Anthony Trollope
• V1I2, V2I2
• A reverend that wrote articles against Miss Coote, and is killed by Martians on Horsell Common

Jack Harkaway

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

Johnathan Harker

• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• V1I1, V1I5, V2I5
• Divorced husband of Mina Murray

Fanny Hill

• Fanny Hill, John Cleland
• V1I3, V1C, NTA, BD
• Member of the 18th century League

Mycroft Holmes

• The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter, Arthur Conan Doyle
• V1I6, V2I2-4, V3I1
• Head of MI5 following Moriarty's death

Sherlock Holmes

• A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle
• V1I5, V2I3, NTA
• Younger brother of Mycroft and retired bee-keeper

Captain Hook

• Peter Pan, J. M. Barrie
• NTA
• Member of the Pirates' Conference

Edward Hyde

• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
• V1I1-V1I6, ASV, F, N
• The larger, evil half of Henry Jekyll and member of the Victorian League

I

Ishmael

• Moby-Dick, Herman Melville
• V1I4, V2I4, F, N
• First mate on the Nautilus

Ithaqqa

• Ithaqua, August Derleth
• ASV
• A Great Old One that possesses Alan Quatermain and is driven off by Marisa

J

Henry Jekyll

• Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson
• V1I2-V1I2, F, N
• The lesser half of Edward Hyde and member of the Victorian League

Pirate Jenny

• The Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht
• V3I1
• An angry pirate

Gullivar Jones

• Lieutenant Gullivar Jones: His Vacation, Edwin Lester Linden Arnold
• V2I1
• One of the leaders of the Martian resistance

K

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

L

Lavell

• The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
• V1I2
• An astronomer who discovers jets of gas on Mars, actually the launch of the Martians fleet

Long John Silver

• Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson
• NTA
• Member of the Pirates' Conference

Arsène Lupin

• Arsène Lupin, gentleman cambrioleur, Maurice Leblanc
• NTA
• Gentleman thief and member of Les Hommes Mystérieux

M

Mac the Knife

• The Threepenny Opera, Bertolt Brecht
• V3I1
• A charismatic butcher

Marisa

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

Moonchild

• Moonchild, Aleister Crowley
• V3I1-3
• A occultist-created being that may be the Antichrist

Sebastian Moran

• The Adventure of the Empty House, Arthur Conan Doyle
• V1I5
• Right-hand man of Moriarty and occasional front of his criminal empire

Alphonse Moreau

• The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells
• V2I5-6, V2S
• Vivisectionist and animal experimenter who assists the British government

Dean Moriarty

• On the Road, Jack Kerouac
• BD
• Member of the 1950s American League and great-grandson of James

Professor James Moriarty

• The Adventure of the Final Problem, Arthur Conan Doyle
• V1I4-V1I6, F, N
• Head of MI5 and the "Napoleon of Crime"

Mors

• Der Luftpirat und Sein Lenkbares Luftschiff
• V1I3, V1I6, V2S
• A German pirate of the air

Mina Murray

• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• V1I1-6, V2I1-6, ASV, NTA, BD, V3I1-3, T, F, N
• Leader of the Victorian-era League

N

Captain Nemo

• 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
• V1I1-6, V2I1-6, NTA, V3I1, F, N
• Commander of the submarine Nautilus and member of Murray's first League

Emma Night

• Emma Peel of The Avengers
• BD
• Government agent and daughter of industrialist John Night

John Night

• 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

Le Nyctalope

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

O

Orlando

• Matter of France/Orlando: A Biography, Virginia Woolfe
• NTA, BD, V3I1, T
• Immortal omnisexual member of the Prospero, Gullivar, and second Murray Leagues

Captain Robert Owe-much

• The Floating Island, Richard Head
• NTA
• Explorer and occasional member of the 1680s League

P

Plantagenet Palliser (Elder)

• Can You Forgive Her?, Anthony Trollope
• BD
• Duke of Omnium and intelligencer for the 1680s League

Plantagenet Palliser (Younger)

• Can You Forgive Her?, Anthony Trollope
• V1I2
• Duke of Omnium and Prime Minister of Britain in 1898

Captain Horatio Pugwash

• The Eagle, John Ryan
• NTA
• Member of the Pirates' Conference

Sal Paradise

• On the Road, Jack Kerouac
• BD
• Member of the 1950s American League

Peter Rabbit

• The Tale of Peter Rabbit, Beatrix Potter
• V2I6
• Being fed by a mother fox to her young

Teddy Prendrick

• The Island of Doctor Moreau, H.G. Wells
• V2I4
• Former companion of Moreau who was driven mad by witnessing his experiments

Captain Pysse-Gummes

• Zap Comix, S. Clay Wilson
• NTA
• Member of the Pirates' Conference

Prospero

• The Tempest, William Shakespeare
• NTA
• A wizard and exiled Duke of Milan who led the 1680s League

Q

Allan Quatermain

• King Solomon's Mines, H. Rider Haggard
• V1I1-V2I6, ASV, NTA, F, N
• The Great White Hunter and last remaining member of the Victorian League following the Martian invasion

Allan Quatermain, Jr.

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

Quong Lee

• The Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse, Thomas Burke
• V1I3
• A purveyor of fine teas

R

A. J. Raffles

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

Lady Ragnall

• The Ivory Child, H. Rider Haggard
• ASV
• A friend of Alan Quatermain who similarly faked her death; she is killed by Quartermain when he is possessed by Ithaqaa

Becky Randall

• Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Kate Douglas Wiggin
• V1I2
• One of Miss Coote's students and Griffin's victims

Robur

• Robur the Conqueror, Jules Verne
• V1I2, V1I6, NTA, V2S
• A dangerous and megalomaniacal air pirate, and member of Les Hommes Mystérieux

S

Arne Saknussemm

• Journey to the Center of the Earth, Jules Verne
• V1I2
• One of his runic markers from his expedition into the Earth's interior is in the Secret Annexe

Sapathwa

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

Tom Sawyer

• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
• V2I3, F, N
• His portrait hangs in the Secret Annexe; US Secret Service agent and member of the Movie League

Rodney Skinner

• Original character
• F, N
• An invisible thief in the Movie League

Captain Slaughterboard

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

Spring Heeled Jack

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

Stent

• The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells
• V2I2
• The Astronomer Royal, killed by Martians on Horsell Common

The Reverend Dr. Syn, aka Captain Clegg

• Doctor Syn: A Tale of the Romney Marsh, Russell Thorndike
• V1I3, V1C, NTA, F
• Member of the 18th century League and the Pirates' Conference

T

Nikola Tesla

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

The Time Traveller

• The Time Machine, H.G. Wells
• ASV, V2S
• A traveller through space and time who helped defeat the forces of the Great Old Ones

Mr. Toad

• The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame
• V2I5
• One of Moreau's creations

U

V

Jean Valjean

• Les Misérables, Victor Hugo
• NTA
• A man whose name appears in the graffiti of Parisian sewers

Sir Francis Varney

• Varney the Vampire, James Malcolm Rymer
• V1C
• A vampire and proposed member of a mid-19th century League

W

Pollyanna Whittier

• Pollyanna, Eleanor H. Porter
• V1I2
• One of Miss Coote's students and Griffin's victims

X

Y

Z

Monsieur Zenith

• The Sexton Blake series, Anthony Skene
• BD
• Albino archvillain and gentleman thief who duels with Orlando for the sheer thrill of it, member of Les Hommes Mysterieux

Comparisons of real and historical characters

Real figures confirmed to exist in the League universe:

• Alexander the Great
• Alexander of Abonoteichus
• Mark Antony
• Apollonius of Tyana
• King Arthur
• Anne Boleyn
• Augustus Caesar
• Julius Caesar
• Caligula
• Miguel de Cervantes
• Charlemagne
• Claudius
• John Cleland
• Cleopatra
• Thomas Edison
• King George III
• King George V
• H. Rider Haggard
• Heliogabalus
• Henry VIII of England
• Julian the Apostate
• Abraham Lincoln
• Lucian
• Mehmet II
• Napoleon
• Nero
• Blondel de Nesle
• Ozymandias
• William Pitt the Younger
• Pliny the Elder
• Ptolemy
• Richard the Lionheart
• Roland
• William Shakespeare
• Spartacus
• William Tell
• Nikola Tesla
• Tiberius
• Leonardo da Vinci
• 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

Characters as analogs of historical figures:

• Clement Attlee/General Sir Harold 'Big Brother' Wharton
• Anne Boleyn/Nan Bollen
• Neal Cassady/Dean Moriarty
• Joan Crawford/Blanche Hudson
• Aleister Crowley/Oliver Haddo
• Dr. John Dee/Prospero
• Queen Elizabeth I/Queen Gloriana I
• Queen Elizabeth II/Queen Gloriana II
• Adolf Hitler/Adenoid Hynkel
• King James I/King Jacob I
• Jack Kerouac/Sal Paradise
• Ronnie Kray/Harry Starks
• Ronnie Kray/Harry Flowers
• G. Gordon Liddy/F. Gordon Leiter
• Horatio Nelson/Horatio Hornblower
• Kim Philby/Robert Kim Cherry, a.k.a. Harry Lime
• Kurt Vonnegut/Kilgore Trout
• Sir Francis Walsingham/Sir Jack Wilton