All I can really say at the moment is that they still Exist. Saga is by its own design made to be impossible to adapt by its creator so I hesitate to give it an adaptation. Maus on the other hand could have an animated film like in A Hippie in the House of Mouse done with the upmost respect to it.
Trying to Please Everyone: Or Converting multiple Pop Culture Utopias into a Timeline.
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The only reason I started reading the comic, or atleast little parts of it, because I was watching a video about it and heard “gay fish couple” and I was like “wait, what” and then I decided I wanted to check it out.
Oh yeah them. I weirdly think of Undertale first when I heard those three words together
South Park will likely get its on post but among the changes are Cartman blocking out the sun in The Wacky Molestation Adventure and Randy convincing the world to give up guns, resulting in an alien with a gun taking the word hostage(Instead of rejecting these ideas because Simpsons did it, they make Simpsons did it a running gag with it being pointed out when it happens, culminating in the titular "Simpsons Did it Episode". Kenny has a sister from the beginning(she was removed and then added later anyway). Several banned episodes are viewable including the episodes featuring Muhammad. Notably Barry White voices Chef and Nancy Cartwright voices a few female characters(including the Bart Simpson parody in one episode). Their effort to create a long running storyline within the series was hampered by the fact they expected Hillary Clinton to win the 2016 election and wrote a big story around it. That problem is butterflied away here and so the series is now much more serialized, something other seasons have problem they can do and that was just a hiccup.
King of the Hill at this point is same as OTL pending future changes.
Family Guy is butterflied away as Life with Larry, the original concept short that became it, was greenlit. Though several characters on that show are basically prototype versions fo Family Guy characters in the form of Larry's family and friends. It aired on Adult Swim, which was Cartoon Network's idea as while they liked the pilot they felt that McFarlane was restraining himself by trying to be kid friendly. Life With Larry last about ten seasons. It's generally agreed that when McFarlane left the show declined without his writing and so here the show basically ends with him.
Once Upon a Time: Season Five(2015-2016)
Once Upon a Time: Season Five
Episode 1 begins with the main cast contemplating how to defeat The Dark One and the protected castle in the middle of New York. The Witches of Fabletown send a cat named Jiji, belonging to the young Witch Kiki. The Cat spies on Rumplestiltskin. It is revealed that there exists a weapon capable of killing the North Wind, created by himself long ago. Its revealed that immortal godlike being tend to create objects capable of killing them in case they want to die. The North Wind created such an object capable known as the Casket of Ancient Winters. The North Wind travels to Asgard to request the use of the Casket(with cameos from Thor, Odin and Loki of the Marvel Movies). Another plan is formed to summon the spirit of Pan's Shadow(since Pan's Shadow was established to be an enemy of Rumplestiltskin). Hook takes Emma to the heavily devastated Neverland to see if Pan's Shadow remains. The Natives of the Island were returned there by Hook though Tiger Lily is still bitter towards the destruction caused by Hook. It turns out Pan's shadow has taken a new body, which taunts Emma and Hook before fleeing. The two attack what they falsely believe to be Pan returning, but it is revealed to be someone else. The figure recognizes Hook but refers to him as Jack. When questioned he claims that Hook is his son Jack, while Hook expresses confusion. Emma asks who he is and the figure steps out of the shadow and is reveals himself as Peter Banning, played by Robin Williams.
Episode 2 reveals Jack Banning's true origin. Never being able to let go. Jack found a way to return to Neverland over the years and was goaded by Smee into acting out the part of Captain Hook before remaining in Neverland, to the extent the Smee even cut off Jack's hand in order to have a hook. The true Hook had died in battle with Peter Banning. In the present, Banning revealed that something similar happened to him as he picked up Hook's clothes and impersonated him(A reference to the novel "Peter Pan in Scarlet"). Banning and Hook agree to track down and confront Smee and politley ask that Emma remain behind as this was a personal conflict. The two track down Smee on the island with the help of Tinker Bell(who brought Banning back to Neverland). Smee reveals the Pan Shadow's and his shared the desire for there to always a Peter Pan and a Hook, which becomes a meta speech about how people want stories to continue even beyond the ending. While Banning is reluctant to hurt Smee, Jack Banning stabs Smee(played by Bob Hoskins reprising his role) with the Hook. Smee looks down at the injury and says "Good Form" before falling off the plank and into the water. Father and son then find out that Pan's Shadow now occupies the body of Jack Banning's son, Rufio.
Episode 3 largely depicts Frau Totenkinder coming up with a plan to defeat Rumplestiltskin and magically preparing with several spells, including summong a house made of Candy. It is revealed by King Cole that Storybrooke's economy is falling apart. Frau Totenkinder grants a purse that spawns contant coins. Meanwhile in the Homelands, Flycatcher decides to set up a new Round Table with the support of the Fables living there. He also sends out requests for information on what could harm the Dark One. When news of the new Camelot spreads across the land and a mysterious bearded figure makes his way there. Flycatcher is guided by a spirit to a tree, which he splits in held with Excalibur, freeing the wizard Merlin from within where he was imprisoned by his love Nimue. Merlin is eccentric but willing to help and reveals that The Dark One's own magic can harm him. Grimhilde hears about this and gets the idea of visiting Cora's old kingdom where Rumplestiltskin turned straw into Gold and the all the gold is collected in a bag of holding. Before the battle Totenkinder recalls her history with Snow and Rose Red. and how the two sisters, while fleeing the Adversary, found the badly burned Totenkinder in the remains of her candy house and helped heal her. Since then she vowed to make their enemies her enemies.
The Battle between Frau Totenkinder and Rumplestilskin begins. While Totenkinder struggles much more, they play smarter. This includes summons of recreations of several constructs they created in their life. For example they recreate the three Billy Goat Gruff, Rapunzel's tower and the Candy House. The latter is transformed into pure sugar and forced into Rumplestiltskin's mouth, causing all the teeth he collected to fall out and decay as according to Frau Totenkinder "Sugar rots your teeth. Even the ones that aren't yours." Totenkinder's true plan is to shower Rumpletiltskin in gold coins and with the aid of Maleficent in Dragon form, melts the coins, turning Rumplestiltskin into a golden statue which contains him as the gold was made by Rumplestiltskin himself and so is his own magic capable of restraining him. An exhausted Frau Totenkinder appears to die from her injuries. A Funeral service is held. Frau Totenkinder is revealed to be alive and shown to now look quite young. Due to her youth being restored she takes back her old name of Gothel. Ozma becomes the new leader of the Witches of Storybrooke. The Rumpletstiltskin statue is moved to Storybrooke, where children nickname it Mr.Gold. The episode ends as a small crack appears in the Gold.
Episode 4, Elsa and Anna along with Jack Frost and a group of others that includes Rapunzel and Flynn Ryder search for where Aurora and the Snow Queen were taken. It was revealed that Maleficent and her minons took the two for the Queens of Darkness. The group uncover Malefiicent's plot to take control of an army of reserve Empire Dragons with the aid of the Demon Pitch. The gorup is assisted by a young Dragon Rider seeking to free the Dragons named "Hick" and meet a young archer from the land of Dun Broch named Merida. Whos' people were attacked by Dragons. The group obtain a Black Arrow, an ancient weapon capable of king dragons which Merida intended to find and use. They are able to expel Pitch. The Snow Queen is revived by a kiss from her son Jack Frost after Elsa points out that true love doesn't have to be romantic.
Episode 5 has the cast search for the location of the Dark One's dagger previously under Elphaba's posession. They search in Oz and find that the land has been overtaken by the Nome King. They also reunite with the Flying Monkey Bufkin, who was often an assistant at the Office in Fabletown and was stuck there when Rumplestiltskin destroyed it. He decided to try climbing the tree in the Fabletown office and finding that it led to Oz, now leading a resistance to overthrow the Nome King along with several characters from Oz. The cast assist to finally overthrow the Nome King. The resistance obtains the Powder of Life which can bring sentient objects to life. Bufkin is captured and about to be hanged but the powder of life is slipped onto the rope by Thumbelina and the rope comes to life, rescuing Bufkin. Eventually the Emerald City is liberated and the sentient rope is used on the Nome King, who points out that he's made of stone and so can't be choked only for his head to be broken off by the rope by pure accident. After this Bufkin is crowned King of Oz. Dorothy meanwhile is seen reuniting with her lover Ozma.
Episode 6 focusing on Nurse Ratched Sprat, a minor character of an obese rude nurse. Snow White calls her out for her rude behavior and Sprat insults Snow White and insults the deceased Boy Blue. Sprat then hears a voice communicating with her implied to be Rumplestiltskin that begins to command her in exchange that she will become beautiful and that "all those beautiful women that mocked her" will die horrible deaths. She is guided to an area and is introduced to a masked man who introduces himself as her fencing instructor and begins to learn from him. WIth Sprat's aid, Rumplestiltskin breaks free and is confronted by Pan's Shadow. The origin of the Pan entity is revealed. The father of Rumplestiltskin discovered Wonderland and intentionally abandoned his son to return there and remain young only to be murdered by a young Captain Hook when he first came to the island, becoming a literal Shadow of his former self. Rumplestiltskin and Pan fight. Having learned of the Casket of Ancient Winters, uses it to kill both himself and Pan's shadow. Both die, freeing Jack's son in the process. Mrs Sprat continues training with the mysterious fencer.
Episode 7 reveals that Merlin can restore Flycatcher's ability to ressurect the dead. This angers Hades a she just got all the souls back, and he threatens the Kingdom of New Camelot with an invasion. Jack Horner, who was one of the knights of Camelot as Jack the giant Slayer, reveals that he once met an made a deal with a devil, retelling the story of Stingy Jack where he was cursed by a devil. Jack tried to escape from this by making a deal with Chernabog. Jack therefore sets out to meet with Chernabog hoping to make a deal with him to counter the power of Hades.
Hades team once more consists of deceased villains: Amos Slade, Charles F.Muntz, Clayton and Sabor, Edgar Balthazar, Claude Frollo, Gaston, The Horned King, Long John Silver, Lady Tremaine, Lyle Tiberius Rourke, Mor'dru, Mother Gothel, Oogie Boogie, Percival C.McLeach, Governor Ratcliffe, Ratigan, Shan Yu, Shere Khan, Stromboli, and Yzma. Hades promises to unleash all these souls at the group's disposal. However, it is reveald that Mother Gothel is an imposter, and that Frau Totenkinder has been spying on Hades's plans using the disguise. Hades immediately kills Edgar Balthazar, Governor Ratcliffe, Claude Frollo, and Stromboli, deeming them useless. Hades then sends out the villains to retrieve object that could make their forces stronger.
For example Charles F.Muntz is sent to retrieve his airship with the aid of a group of hunters including Gaston, McLeach, and Clayton.
The Horned King is sent to search for the Black Cauldron to use as a weapon if the villains can get it working with their magic.
Amos Slade, Sabor, Long John Silver, Shan Yu, Shere Khan, Mor'dru and Scar are sent as part of the wave meant to attack new Camelot led by Doctor Facilier to command their spirits.
Lady Tremaine goes after the Fairy Godmother's wand.
Lyle Tiberius Rourke is sent with a group to invade and steal technology from Atlantis.
Oogie Boogie prepares to launchan invasion of supernatural forces from the Haunted Mansion in New Orleans
Ratigan, Hopper, the Prospector, and Lotso is sent to infiltrate the smaller areas of the Storybrooke Community inhabited by the mice.
The other villains including Maleficient, Cruella De Vill, Ursula, Baba Yaga and Mad Madame Mim coordinate the effort. One of the villains, Jaffar, hatches a plan to steal a magical lamp from Fabletown and use their Djinn.
All the villain plans are launched at once to cause confusion. Muntz is easily able to steal the airship while Carl and Russell are eating ice cream, to their confusion when they see him alive. The group of hunters(Muntz, McLeach, Gaston and Clayton) then take the airship towards Storybrooke. On the way there the two bond over their love of killing and hunting. All having evidently heard of a legendary hunter known simply as "The Man"(Never seen but believed by fans to be the hunter who shot Bambi's mom). The four decide to form a Hunter's club and while all have specific animals they want to hunt. The Hunting Party immediately realizes that it would be suicide to go after the residents of Storybrooke and decide to instead leave to hunt first a large bird Muntz spent his life hunting, and then the large bird McLeach wants to hunt. Gaston protests as he wants a rematch with the Beast and is hurled from the airship, making his way on foot to Storybrooke.
The Horned King crashes the British Museum, which turns out to contain the Black Cauldron and with the aid of Maleficent and Mad Madame Mim, begins to cast a spell using it that revives the dead. Meanwhile Oogie Boogie visits a haunted Mansion along with Dr.Facilier in Louisiana to try and command the dead. They are confronted by the Host of the Mansion, who is revealed to be the spirit of Pirate Jean Lafitte. Lafitte tells them of how he acted as a pirate for any nation who hired him and as a reward for attacking British ships for the French was gifted the Mansion to both the living and the dead. When Oogie Boogie and Facilier continue the ritual, the 999 spirits inside the Mansion are summoned but claim to be happy being dead and don't want to be part of an undead army only to be forced into doing it. Lafitte's ghost escapes but begins searching for a way to counter the dead army marching from Louisiana to Storybrooke.
Episode 8, Lady Tremaine and a group of other villains enter the time portal opened by the author and travel to the night Cinderella was visited by her Fairy Godmother. In the present, the Fairy Godmother reveals that she put enchantments on herself to sense if such as thing were to happen "After last time" and warns Cinderella, while transporting her to the portal, allowing her to confront her own stepmother, wielding the magic wand. Cinderella has had fencing and martial arts training and so is able to be a competent match but also receives the unexpected assistance of the Wicked Witch of the West, who obtains the Fairy Godmother's magic wand and uses it to heal herself. From her perspective she had been travelling through time since wounded in order to find a way to be healed. The Wicked Witch of the West then returns with Cinderella. Lyle Rourke emerges with an army of advanced weaponry from the ocean laughing maniacally(Due to the sequels to Atlantis: The Lost Empire not existing. The City is essentially still hidden).
The final shot of the episode is The ghost of Jean Lafitte travelling through the ocean to a small island. He travels to an Aztec chest and takes one gold coin. He then travels elsewhere to the skeletal remains of a familiar Pirate, which he then enters the body of the Skeleton then regenerates its flesh and stands up, revealing it to be Jack Sparrow.
Episode 9 reveals that Elphaba has some knowledge of the Hades's plans as she was originally in on them and so informs the main cast of most of the plans. As a result, a group is sent to London and battle the Horned King which includes Flycatcher and the Round Table knights including Rose Red, Jack Horner, Merlin and the mysterious bearded Knight, now revealed to be Lancelot, himself having been ressurected. Flycatcher learns from Merlin and Lancelot that he is not the reincarnation of King Arthur, only entrusted with Excalibur. Henry,who goes with the group, believes he may be King Arthur reincarnated. However, the killing blow is delivered by Rose Red, who realizes she is King Arthur now. In the aftermath, she and Lancelot begin a romantic relationship. After sleeping together Lancelot realizes and says out loud "Oh, Fuck. I'm Guinevere."
Episode 10 features two battles breaking out, the first has New York being attacking by Rourke and a team using Atlantean technology, which forces the Fables to reveal themselves to fight in the middle of the streets, assisted by cameos from the Avengers. The Cast begin to research into the origins of Atlantis, which in turn leads to some of the aquatic characters, Ariel among them. They find the King and Queen of Atlantis, explorer Milo Thatch and the Queen Kida along with their daughter, have been taken hostage and help to free them, turning the tide against Rourke, resulting in his death once more.
Episode 11 has the Witches of Storybrooke use their spells on Peter Banning to awaken a dormant personality within him. It is revealed that Jack is the reincarnation of a Djinn freed by Aladdin. The Djinn, known simply as "Genie" then restores Aladdin to his more traditional appearance after he was transformed into his original Chinese version previously. Genie then senses that Jaffar is going after a lamp, leading to the episode focusing on retrieving the lamp before Jaffar with Aladdin and Jasmine being the main focus. The Lamp is ultimately burned in lava, preventing Jaffar from using it. Jaffar then returns to the other villains.
Episode 12 focuses specifically on defeating Oogie Boogie and Facilier in the Haunted Mansion. The group therefore includes Princess Tiana and Bigby. They also travel to Halloween Town and recruit Jack Skellington. Their forces are backed up by Jean Lafitte bringing the undead Jack Sparrow into the fray and the two Jacks interacting. The plan turned out to actually be to bring the chest of Aztec Gold and get the Fable team to hold the coins, which curses them with undeath, preventing them from being killed and therefore joining the ranks of the undead. Oogie Boogie is torn open and Facilier is brought back into the afterlife.
Episode 13 focuses on the battle of Storybrooke, occuring at the same time as the Atlantis episode. Muntz, Clayton and McLeach arrive on their airship, having changed their mind in going to see the battle but keep their distance. Among the Fables who aid in fighting are Tarzan, Pocahontas, Mulan, Mowgli, Merida and Simba among others fighting against the villains. Sabor is killed by Tarzan, Shan Yu is killed by Mulan, Scar by Simba, Shere Khan by Mowgli, and Mor'dru by Merida, who sees his spirit fade away soon after. Of the only two villains who are not killed are Long John Silver and Amos Slade, who decide to leave. Sadly Amos Slade, who was forced into joining the villains out of fear of having his soul permanently destroyed, shoots and kills Reynard the Fox. Silver flees in a boat to the sea while Slade is picked up by Muntz's airship. Among those who celebrate are Beast and Belle, who are implied to have sex in celebration of their victory. A flashback to an earlier scene in the series is shown. Frau Totenkinder had consistently until their apparent death been seen knitting with every appearance, stopping only briefly, including defeating Grimhilde and then going back to knitting. Another flashback shows Beast and Belle fleeing the Homelands with the Adversary armies chasing them and the sacrifice of Lumiere, who summons fire power he hurls at the Headless Horseman pursing them("Do you want some More! Be My Guest!"). Beast and Belle once asked what she was working on and she revealed on clothing for their daughter. They commented they weren't expecting but Totenkinder comments that it was all in time. She show's them her work, which is an outfit with multiple arms and legs, leaving Beast and Belle flabbergasted. The two are interrupted by Gaston, who attacks them. Beast fights with Gaston and kills him but is shot in the chest, dying in Belle's arms soon after.
Episode 1 begins with the main cast contemplating how to defeat The Dark One and the protected castle in the middle of New York. The Witches of Fabletown send a cat named Jiji, belonging to the young Witch Kiki. The Cat spies on Rumplestiltskin. It is revealed that there exists a weapon capable of killing the North Wind, created by himself long ago. Its revealed that immortal godlike being tend to create objects capable of killing them in case they want to die. The North Wind created such an object capable known as the Casket of Ancient Winters. The North Wind travels to Asgard to request the use of the Casket(with cameos from Thor, Odin and Loki of the Marvel Movies). Another plan is formed to summon the spirit of Pan's Shadow(since Pan's Shadow was established to be an enemy of Rumplestiltskin). Hook takes Emma to the heavily devastated Neverland to see if Pan's Shadow remains. The Natives of the Island were returned there by Hook though Tiger Lily is still bitter towards the destruction caused by Hook. It turns out Pan's shadow has taken a new body, which taunts Emma and Hook before fleeing. The two attack what they falsely believe to be Pan returning, but it is revealed to be someone else. The figure recognizes Hook but refers to him as Jack. When questioned he claims that Hook is his son Jack, while Hook expresses confusion. Emma asks who he is and the figure steps out of the shadow and is reveals himself as Peter Banning, played by Robin Williams.
Episode 2 reveals Jack Banning's true origin. Never being able to let go. Jack found a way to return to Neverland over the years and was goaded by Smee into acting out the part of Captain Hook before remaining in Neverland, to the extent the Smee even cut off Jack's hand in order to have a hook. The true Hook had died in battle with Peter Banning. In the present, Banning revealed that something similar happened to him as he picked up Hook's clothes and impersonated him(A reference to the novel "Peter Pan in Scarlet"). Banning and Hook agree to track down and confront Smee and politley ask that Emma remain behind as this was a personal conflict. The two track down Smee on the island with the help of Tinker Bell(who brought Banning back to Neverland). Smee reveals the Pan Shadow's and his shared the desire for there to always a Peter Pan and a Hook, which becomes a meta speech about how people want stories to continue even beyond the ending. While Banning is reluctant to hurt Smee, Jack Banning stabs Smee(played by Bob Hoskins reprising his role) with the Hook. Smee looks down at the injury and says "Good Form" before falling off the plank and into the water. Father and son then find out that Pan's Shadow now occupies the body of Jack Banning's son, Rufio.
Episode 3 largely depicts Frau Totenkinder coming up with a plan to defeat Rumplestiltskin and magically preparing with several spells, including summong a house made of Candy. It is revealed by King Cole that Storybrooke's economy is falling apart. Frau Totenkinder grants a purse that spawns contant coins. Meanwhile in the Homelands, Flycatcher decides to set up a new Round Table with the support of the Fables living there. He also sends out requests for information on what could harm the Dark One. When news of the new Camelot spreads across the land and a mysterious bearded figure makes his way there. Flycatcher is guided by a spirit to a tree, which he splits in held with Excalibur, freeing the wizard Merlin from within where he was imprisoned by his love Nimue. Merlin is eccentric but willing to help and reveals that The Dark One's own magic can harm him. Grimhilde hears about this and gets the idea of visiting Cora's old kingdom where Rumplestiltskin turned straw into Gold and the all the gold is collected in a bag of holding. Before the battle Totenkinder recalls her history with Snow and Rose Red. and how the two sisters, while fleeing the Adversary, found the badly burned Totenkinder in the remains of her candy house and helped heal her. Since then she vowed to make their enemies her enemies.
The Battle between Frau Totenkinder and Rumplestilskin begins. While Totenkinder struggles much more, they play smarter. This includes summons of recreations of several constructs they created in their life. For example they recreate the three Billy Goat Gruff, Rapunzel's tower and the Candy House. The latter is transformed into pure sugar and forced into Rumplestiltskin's mouth, causing all the teeth he collected to fall out and decay as according to Frau Totenkinder "Sugar rots your teeth. Even the ones that aren't yours." Totenkinder's true plan is to shower Rumpletiltskin in gold coins and with the aid of Maleficent in Dragon form, melts the coins, turning Rumplestiltskin into a golden statue which contains him as the gold was made by Rumplestiltskin himself and so is his own magic capable of restraining him. An exhausted Frau Totenkinder appears to die from her injuries. A Funeral service is held. Frau Totenkinder is revealed to be alive and shown to now look quite young. Due to her youth being restored she takes back her old name of Gothel. Ozma becomes the new leader of the Witches of Storybrooke. The Rumpletstiltskin statue is moved to Storybrooke, where children nickname it Mr.Gold. The episode ends as a small crack appears in the Gold.
Episode 4, Elsa and Anna along with Jack Frost and a group of others that includes Rapunzel and Flynn Ryder search for where Aurora and the Snow Queen were taken. It was revealed that Maleficent and her minons took the two for the Queens of Darkness. The group uncover Malefiicent's plot to take control of an army of reserve Empire Dragons with the aid of the Demon Pitch. The gorup is assisted by a young Dragon Rider seeking to free the Dragons named "Hick" and meet a young archer from the land of Dun Broch named Merida. Whos' people were attacked by Dragons. The group obtain a Black Arrow, an ancient weapon capable of king dragons which Merida intended to find and use. They are able to expel Pitch. The Snow Queen is revived by a kiss from her son Jack Frost after Elsa points out that true love doesn't have to be romantic.
Episode 5 has the cast search for the location of the Dark One's dagger previously under Elphaba's posession. They search in Oz and find that the land has been overtaken by the Nome King. They also reunite with the Flying Monkey Bufkin, who was often an assistant at the Office in Fabletown and was stuck there when Rumplestiltskin destroyed it. He decided to try climbing the tree in the Fabletown office and finding that it led to Oz, now leading a resistance to overthrow the Nome King along with several characters from Oz. The cast assist to finally overthrow the Nome King. The resistance obtains the Powder of Life which can bring sentient objects to life. Bufkin is captured and about to be hanged but the powder of life is slipped onto the rope by Thumbelina and the rope comes to life, rescuing Bufkin. Eventually the Emerald City is liberated and the sentient rope is used on the Nome King, who points out that he's made of stone and so can't be choked only for his head to be broken off by the rope by pure accident. After this Bufkin is crowned King of Oz. Dorothy meanwhile is seen reuniting with her lover Ozma.
Episode 6 focusing on Nurse Ratched Sprat, a minor character of an obese rude nurse. Snow White calls her out for her rude behavior and Sprat insults Snow White and insults the deceased Boy Blue. Sprat then hears a voice communicating with her implied to be Rumplestiltskin that begins to command her in exchange that she will become beautiful and that "all those beautiful women that mocked her" will die horrible deaths. She is guided to an area and is introduced to a masked man who introduces himself as her fencing instructor and begins to learn from him. WIth Sprat's aid, Rumplestiltskin breaks free and is confronted by Pan's Shadow. The origin of the Pan entity is revealed. The father of Rumplestiltskin discovered Wonderland and intentionally abandoned his son to return there and remain young only to be murdered by a young Captain Hook when he first came to the island, becoming a literal Shadow of his former self. Rumplestiltskin and Pan fight. Having learned of the Casket of Ancient Winters, uses it to kill both himself and Pan's shadow. Both die, freeing Jack's son in the process. Mrs Sprat continues training with the mysterious fencer.
Episode 7 reveals that Merlin can restore Flycatcher's ability to ressurect the dead. This angers Hades a she just got all the souls back, and he threatens the Kingdom of New Camelot with an invasion. Jack Horner, who was one of the knights of Camelot as Jack the giant Slayer, reveals that he once met an made a deal with a devil, retelling the story of Stingy Jack where he was cursed by a devil. Jack tried to escape from this by making a deal with Chernabog. Jack therefore sets out to meet with Chernabog hoping to make a deal with him to counter the power of Hades.
Hades team once more consists of deceased villains: Amos Slade, Charles F.Muntz, Clayton and Sabor, Edgar Balthazar, Claude Frollo, Gaston, The Horned King, Long John Silver, Lady Tremaine, Lyle Tiberius Rourke, Mor'dru, Mother Gothel, Oogie Boogie, Percival C.McLeach, Governor Ratcliffe, Ratigan, Shan Yu, Shere Khan, Stromboli, and Yzma. Hades promises to unleash all these souls at the group's disposal. However, it is reveald that Mother Gothel is an imposter, and that Frau Totenkinder has been spying on Hades's plans using the disguise. Hades immediately kills Edgar Balthazar, Governor Ratcliffe, Claude Frollo, and Stromboli, deeming them useless. Hades then sends out the villains to retrieve object that could make their forces stronger.
For example Charles F.Muntz is sent to retrieve his airship with the aid of a group of hunters including Gaston, McLeach, and Clayton.
The Horned King is sent to search for the Black Cauldron to use as a weapon if the villains can get it working with their magic.
Amos Slade, Sabor, Long John Silver, Shan Yu, Shere Khan, Mor'dru and Scar are sent as part of the wave meant to attack new Camelot led by Doctor Facilier to command their spirits.
Lady Tremaine goes after the Fairy Godmother's wand.
Lyle Tiberius Rourke is sent with a group to invade and steal technology from Atlantis.
Oogie Boogie prepares to launchan invasion of supernatural forces from the Haunted Mansion in New Orleans
Ratigan, Hopper, the Prospector, and Lotso is sent to infiltrate the smaller areas of the Storybrooke Community inhabited by the mice.
The other villains including Maleficient, Cruella De Vill, Ursula, Baba Yaga and Mad Madame Mim coordinate the effort. One of the villains, Jaffar, hatches a plan to steal a magical lamp from Fabletown and use their Djinn.
All the villain plans are launched at once to cause confusion. Muntz is easily able to steal the airship while Carl and Russell are eating ice cream, to their confusion when they see him alive. The group of hunters(Muntz, McLeach, Gaston and Clayton) then take the airship towards Storybrooke. On the way there the two bond over their love of killing and hunting. All having evidently heard of a legendary hunter known simply as "The Man"(Never seen but believed by fans to be the hunter who shot Bambi's mom). The four decide to form a Hunter's club and while all have specific animals they want to hunt. The Hunting Party immediately realizes that it would be suicide to go after the residents of Storybrooke and decide to instead leave to hunt first a large bird Muntz spent his life hunting, and then the large bird McLeach wants to hunt. Gaston protests as he wants a rematch with the Beast and is hurled from the airship, making his way on foot to Storybrooke.
The Horned King crashes the British Museum, which turns out to contain the Black Cauldron and with the aid of Maleficent and Mad Madame Mim, begins to cast a spell using it that revives the dead. Meanwhile Oogie Boogie visits a haunted Mansion along with Dr.Facilier in Louisiana to try and command the dead. They are confronted by the Host of the Mansion, who is revealed to be the spirit of Pirate Jean Lafitte. Lafitte tells them of how he acted as a pirate for any nation who hired him and as a reward for attacking British ships for the French was gifted the Mansion to both the living and the dead. When Oogie Boogie and Facilier continue the ritual, the 999 spirits inside the Mansion are summoned but claim to be happy being dead and don't want to be part of an undead army only to be forced into doing it. Lafitte's ghost escapes but begins searching for a way to counter the dead army marching from Louisiana to Storybrooke.
Episode 8, Lady Tremaine and a group of other villains enter the time portal opened by the author and travel to the night Cinderella was visited by her Fairy Godmother. In the present, the Fairy Godmother reveals that she put enchantments on herself to sense if such as thing were to happen "After last time" and warns Cinderella, while transporting her to the portal, allowing her to confront her own stepmother, wielding the magic wand. Cinderella has had fencing and martial arts training and so is able to be a competent match but also receives the unexpected assistance of the Wicked Witch of the West, who obtains the Fairy Godmother's magic wand and uses it to heal herself. From her perspective she had been travelling through time since wounded in order to find a way to be healed. The Wicked Witch of the West then returns with Cinderella. Lyle Rourke emerges with an army of advanced weaponry from the ocean laughing maniacally(Due to the sequels to Atlantis: The Lost Empire not existing. The City is essentially still hidden).
The final shot of the episode is The ghost of Jean Lafitte travelling through the ocean to a small island. He travels to an Aztec chest and takes one gold coin. He then travels elsewhere to the skeletal remains of a familiar Pirate, which he then enters the body of the Skeleton then regenerates its flesh and stands up, revealing it to be Jack Sparrow.
Episode 9 reveals that Elphaba has some knowledge of the Hades's plans as she was originally in on them and so informs the main cast of most of the plans. As a result, a group is sent to London and battle the Horned King which includes Flycatcher and the Round Table knights including Rose Red, Jack Horner, Merlin and the mysterious bearded Knight, now revealed to be Lancelot, himself having been ressurected. Flycatcher learns from Merlin and Lancelot that he is not the reincarnation of King Arthur, only entrusted with Excalibur. Henry,who goes with the group, believes he may be King Arthur reincarnated. However, the killing blow is delivered by Rose Red, who realizes she is King Arthur now. In the aftermath, she and Lancelot begin a romantic relationship. After sleeping together Lancelot realizes and says out loud "Oh, Fuck. I'm Guinevere."
Episode 10 features two battles breaking out, the first has New York being attacking by Rourke and a team using Atlantean technology, which forces the Fables to reveal themselves to fight in the middle of the streets, assisted by cameos from the Avengers. The Cast begin to research into the origins of Atlantis, which in turn leads to some of the aquatic characters, Ariel among them. They find the King and Queen of Atlantis, explorer Milo Thatch and the Queen Kida along with their daughter, have been taken hostage and help to free them, turning the tide against Rourke, resulting in his death once more.
Episode 11 has the Witches of Storybrooke use their spells on Peter Banning to awaken a dormant personality within him. It is revealed that Jack is the reincarnation of a Djinn freed by Aladdin. The Djinn, known simply as "Genie" then restores Aladdin to his more traditional appearance after he was transformed into his original Chinese version previously. Genie then senses that Jaffar is going after a lamp, leading to the episode focusing on retrieving the lamp before Jaffar with Aladdin and Jasmine being the main focus. The Lamp is ultimately burned in lava, preventing Jaffar from using it. Jaffar then returns to the other villains.
Episode 12 focuses specifically on defeating Oogie Boogie and Facilier in the Haunted Mansion. The group therefore includes Princess Tiana and Bigby. They also travel to Halloween Town and recruit Jack Skellington. Their forces are backed up by Jean Lafitte bringing the undead Jack Sparrow into the fray and the two Jacks interacting. The plan turned out to actually be to bring the chest of Aztec Gold and get the Fable team to hold the coins, which curses them with undeath, preventing them from being killed and therefore joining the ranks of the undead. Oogie Boogie is torn open and Facilier is brought back into the afterlife.
Episode 13 focuses on the battle of Storybrooke, occuring at the same time as the Atlantis episode. Muntz, Clayton and McLeach arrive on their airship, having changed their mind in going to see the battle but keep their distance. Among the Fables who aid in fighting are Tarzan, Pocahontas, Mulan, Mowgli, Merida and Simba among others fighting against the villains. Sabor is killed by Tarzan, Shan Yu is killed by Mulan, Scar by Simba, Shere Khan by Mowgli, and Mor'dru by Merida, who sees his spirit fade away soon after. Of the only two villains who are not killed are Long John Silver and Amos Slade, who decide to leave. Sadly Amos Slade, who was forced into joining the villains out of fear of having his soul permanently destroyed, shoots and kills Reynard the Fox. Silver flees in a boat to the sea while Slade is picked up by Muntz's airship. Among those who celebrate are Beast and Belle, who are implied to have sex in celebration of their victory. A flashback to an earlier scene in the series is shown. Frau Totenkinder had consistently until their apparent death been seen knitting with every appearance, stopping only briefly, including defeating Grimhilde and then going back to knitting. Another flashback shows Beast and Belle fleeing the Homelands with the Adversary armies chasing them and the sacrifice of Lumiere, who summons fire power he hurls at the Headless Horseman pursing them("Do you want some More! Be My Guest!"). Beast and Belle once asked what she was working on and she revealed on clothing for their daughter. They commented they weren't expecting but Totenkinder comments that it was all in time. She show's them her work, which is an outfit with multiple arms and legs, leaving Beast and Belle flabbergasted. The two are interrupted by Gaston, who attacks them. Beast fights with Gaston and kills him but is shot in the chest, dying in Belle's arms soon after.
Once Upon a Time: Season Six(2016-2017)
Once Upon a Time: Season Six
Episode 1 begins with the funeral for Beast. As the world mourns, they prepare to track down the remaining villains. The Airship containing Mcleach, Muntz, Slade and Clayton appears overheadd when it is suddenly confronted by another airship similar to the Glory of Agrabah, which engages in battle with and collides with Muntz's airship, seemingly killing those onboard. The ship lands and Prince Charming steps out. There is a happy reunion as a result, particularly with Snow White and Charming. They then double their efforts to take out the main council using Gothel as a spy. The Main Villains consisting of Maleficent, Cruella De Vill, Ursula, Baba Yaga, Mad Madame Mim, Jaffar, Gothel and Hades. Hades and Maleficent are revealed to have entered into a romantic relationship. De Vill struggles to justify her position on the team as her knowledge of the author is essentially useless now and all she has left is her money.
The Storybrooke residents begin sending people through to the Homelands. Chernabog ends up attacking Hades with some forces of his own, including the Lich Claude Frollo, who is sent to battle Maleficent in France with an army of undead. Prince Charming reunited with his Russian counterpart Ivan Tsarevitch, also known as Ivan the Fool. Ivan tells Charming of the times Baba Yaga assisted him against Koschei the Deathless. Charming then goes out and finds Koschei's the Deathless's soul contained into an egg. Koschei is revealed to be truly Deathless and Charming looked for him as when he was escaping the underworld, he did not see him. Koschei is released and attacks Baba Yaga. This gives enough time for the Fables to retreive the Casket of Ancient Winters and use to to destroy both of them during their battle.
Episode 2, Mad Madame Mim attacks the new Canterlot, forcing Flycatcher and Rose Red to find and recruit the reincarnation of King Arthur, a young boy, who they track down with the aid of an immortal named Macbeth and a group of Gargoyles living in New York, which aid in defeating Mad Madame Mim and the Gargoyle Demona in a crossover episode. Merlin and Mad Madame Mim even have a live action version of their animated duel.
Episode 3 centers of Cruella De Vill seeking to find a current iteration of the Author and a rush to stop her. The sorcerer Yen Sid appears before Henry to warn him with Henry and Emma then searching to stop De Vill as she makes a name for herself in the modern day as a fashion designer and becoming the head of an animal rights organization(a jab at the defunct PETA by being an animal rights organization that claims to protect animals while killing them). De Vill attempts to seduce the current author, who is able to discover what she is trying to do and uses the pen to write that Cruella cannot kill. Cruella takes Henry hostage and Emma kills Cruella to save him, not knowing Cruella can't actually kill anyone.
Following the trend of the last few episodes, Episode 4 concerns the group defeating Ursula, who obtains King Triton's Trident. Among the group who aids in this is Milo Thatch and Kida, Hercules(due to the direct mention that he is related to Ariel through Poseidon), Jack Sparrow, Moana, Maui and Ariel. The Trident is revealed to be able to create curses and its destruction would undo all curses. Ariel is able to obtain the trident and use it to kill a giant Ursula.
Episode 5 like the last one is the defeat of Jaffar led by Aladdin and Jasmine. Jaffar is transformed into an evil Djinn and is then defeated when his lamp is thrown into lava.
Episode 6 finally brings down Hades, who prepares to perform a ritual to revive the already dead souls of all the villains, threatening to undo all the work of the heroes. Jack is able to get Chernabog to attack Hades, but he is killed. Hercules is able to obtain from Zeus, the lighnting rod he forged in case he wished to die, which is used to kill Hades. The Underworld then begins to collapse with his death. Elphaba willing steps in to become the new rule rof the Underworld and sends everyone back. Elphaba then realizes that Prince Charming is still in the Underworld, meaning that the Prince Charming with Snow White is an imposter. Maleficent is revealed to be pregnant, presumably with the child of Hades.
Episode 7 has Elphaba rush to warn the rest of the cast of the imposter Prince Charming. Snow White finds out on her own and is imprisoned but is able to escape. The imposter reveals himself to be Prince Charming's brother James, who now intends to marry Snow White due to the promise of marriage they made long ago. However, his attitudes towards marriage are extremely old fashioned and villainous, including not caring if Snow White consents, seeing nothing wrong with beating, raping or killing his wife, and intending to kill Emma and all other children she may have and replace them with his own. Snow White injures him across the cheek and learn that he's created a curse that means that any damage caused to him would. Several other characters arrive to try to fight James, including the Bigby who puts up an intense and close fight before James using an enchanted sword to turn Bigby Wolf into glass and then shatter him, killing him. Finally, the true Prince Charming arrives and battles his own brother in a sword fight, finally being able to kill him. The Witches begin attempting to put the mirror pieces together again. Meanwhile a Doctor, Doctor Swineheart, performs the autopsy on James and discovers that he has no heart, meaning the blade pierced nothing. James immediately sits up and kills the Doctor and then addresses Miss Sprat, who was acting as the Nurse.
Episode 8 begins with the cast discovering Doctor Swineheart stabbed. Swineheart before dying reveals that James used magic to remove his heart and that if it is destroyed than James will die. Several Fables include the bird Cock Robin are sent out. James is eventually tracked down and fights Snow White just as Cock Robin tracks down his heart and destroys it, causing James to die after being stabbed by Snow White.
Episode 9 takes place during Episode 8 and has the Witches reform the Big Bad Wolf. Mrs. Spratt is revealed to have performed some magic taught by Rumplestiltskin. The piece is returned but causes the reformed Big Bad Wolf to snap and become a mindless monster, killing the Witches, including Ozma, to the sadness of Dorothy. Bigby then goes on a killing spree in New York, as the main cast begins to develop a plan to kill him with Silver Bullets.
Episode 10 follows on a plot by some of the cast to kill Frau Totenkinder which included Rapunzel, Flynn and Cinderella among others. This is due to the false belief that Frau Totenkinder was responsible for Bigby's transformation. In the resulting battle, a bulding is destroyed and Rapunzel finally kills a weakened Totenkinder by stabber her with heel of Cinderella's glass Slipper. After the fact, It is discovered that Spratt had stolen the piece and that Geppetto, still captive, had engineered Biby's corruption. Both are then killed. Spratt by Rose Red and Geppetto is taken to be tortured by the Blue Fairy as revenge.
Episode 11 is surprisingly a jump forward in time, similar to an epilogue. Specifically it concerns Henry writing about the experience roughly 20 years later. None of the present characters are mentioned to prevent spoilers. Henry's young daughter Lucy finds a toy boat, which begins to speak to her. She is instructed to bring it to water, where it grows into a giant living boat that takes her to the Island of Misfit Toys, which is inhabited by Toys that were rejected even by Santa(most of which are represented by actual real life recalled Toys). Henry learns of this from the robot tiger Mountbatten, who leads him to her. In the land of Toys he transforms into an actual tiger. Accompanying Henry are some of his Lucy's toys, which include a Buzz Lightyear and Woody toy(its unclear if they are the originals given this is a 20 years later setting. They could just be similar toys). Lucy at first enjoys being in a world of toys even weirdly broken toys and toys that have odd features but begins to starve as there is no food there. Meanwhile the toys attack Henry and capture the Tiger. Lucy's complaining finally gets one of the toys to snap, a giant Teddy Bear. The Teddy Bear reveals that all the main toys that Lucy befriended were Toys that KILLED Children, which was partly why there are there. For example the giant Teddy Bear caught Fire but was made durable enough to survive, and could do nothing but watch as the child died burning(complete with a shot of the death of a closeup of the Teddy Bear's eye reflecting the child's arm emerging from the crib and screaming as fire surrounded the crib). Other toys confess their crimes, including a baby rolling over ontop of another teddy(and some such as Lawn Darts that did indeed result in deaths). Lucy is left broken and distraught. When Mountbatten, now a living tiger is brought before her, she is forced to kill and eat it to survive, now having become insane and request that the wooden toys be burned to make a fire to cook the meat.
Henry finally arrives and rescues his daughter. Santa also appears to rescue the two and take them back. Lucy gives the toys the task of rescuing a thousand children for everyone whose deaths they were responsible for. After they leave the toys are shown following this and are indeed rescuing children from death, including pulling a baby that stumbled into a pool at night and another that was choking. All while avoiding being seen.
Episode 12 returns to the present and depicts the entirety of the final battle with the Big Bad Wolf, ending in Bigby's death, though they regain enough of their senses to say goodbye before passing away.
Episode 13, titled "...for the Last Time" is an epilogue episode, showing the fate of several characters into the future, including the children of several characters such as Maleficent's daughter, Mal, who seems to have grown up considerably more normal than her mother. The episode progresses going further and further into the future, which includes cameos from the settings of WALLE and Treasure Planet once the world dives into the far future, before finally concluding the series.
Episode 1 begins with the funeral for Beast. As the world mourns, they prepare to track down the remaining villains. The Airship containing Mcleach, Muntz, Slade and Clayton appears overheadd when it is suddenly confronted by another airship similar to the Glory of Agrabah, which engages in battle with and collides with Muntz's airship, seemingly killing those onboard. The ship lands and Prince Charming steps out. There is a happy reunion as a result, particularly with Snow White and Charming. They then double their efforts to take out the main council using Gothel as a spy. The Main Villains consisting of Maleficent, Cruella De Vill, Ursula, Baba Yaga, Mad Madame Mim, Jaffar, Gothel and Hades. Hades and Maleficent are revealed to have entered into a romantic relationship. De Vill struggles to justify her position on the team as her knowledge of the author is essentially useless now and all she has left is her money.
The Storybrooke residents begin sending people through to the Homelands. Chernabog ends up attacking Hades with some forces of his own, including the Lich Claude Frollo, who is sent to battle Maleficent in France with an army of undead. Prince Charming reunited with his Russian counterpart Ivan Tsarevitch, also known as Ivan the Fool. Ivan tells Charming of the times Baba Yaga assisted him against Koschei the Deathless. Charming then goes out and finds Koschei's the Deathless's soul contained into an egg. Koschei is revealed to be truly Deathless and Charming looked for him as when he was escaping the underworld, he did not see him. Koschei is released and attacks Baba Yaga. This gives enough time for the Fables to retreive the Casket of Ancient Winters and use to to destroy both of them during their battle.
Episode 2, Mad Madame Mim attacks the new Canterlot, forcing Flycatcher and Rose Red to find and recruit the reincarnation of King Arthur, a young boy, who they track down with the aid of an immortal named Macbeth and a group of Gargoyles living in New York, which aid in defeating Mad Madame Mim and the Gargoyle Demona in a crossover episode. Merlin and Mad Madame Mim even have a live action version of their animated duel.
Episode 3 centers of Cruella De Vill seeking to find a current iteration of the Author and a rush to stop her. The sorcerer Yen Sid appears before Henry to warn him with Henry and Emma then searching to stop De Vill as she makes a name for herself in the modern day as a fashion designer and becoming the head of an animal rights organization(a jab at the defunct PETA by being an animal rights organization that claims to protect animals while killing them). De Vill attempts to seduce the current author, who is able to discover what she is trying to do and uses the pen to write that Cruella cannot kill. Cruella takes Henry hostage and Emma kills Cruella to save him, not knowing Cruella can't actually kill anyone.
Following the trend of the last few episodes, Episode 4 concerns the group defeating Ursula, who obtains King Triton's Trident. Among the group who aids in this is Milo Thatch and Kida, Hercules(due to the direct mention that he is related to Ariel through Poseidon), Jack Sparrow, Moana, Maui and Ariel. The Trident is revealed to be able to create curses and its destruction would undo all curses. Ariel is able to obtain the trident and use it to kill a giant Ursula.
Episode 5 like the last one is the defeat of Jaffar led by Aladdin and Jasmine. Jaffar is transformed into an evil Djinn and is then defeated when his lamp is thrown into lava.
Episode 6 finally brings down Hades, who prepares to perform a ritual to revive the already dead souls of all the villains, threatening to undo all the work of the heroes. Jack is able to get Chernabog to attack Hades, but he is killed. Hercules is able to obtain from Zeus, the lighnting rod he forged in case he wished to die, which is used to kill Hades. The Underworld then begins to collapse with his death. Elphaba willing steps in to become the new rule rof the Underworld and sends everyone back. Elphaba then realizes that Prince Charming is still in the Underworld, meaning that the Prince Charming with Snow White is an imposter. Maleficent is revealed to be pregnant, presumably with the child of Hades.
Episode 7 has Elphaba rush to warn the rest of the cast of the imposter Prince Charming. Snow White finds out on her own and is imprisoned but is able to escape. The imposter reveals himself to be Prince Charming's brother James, who now intends to marry Snow White due to the promise of marriage they made long ago. However, his attitudes towards marriage are extremely old fashioned and villainous, including not caring if Snow White consents, seeing nothing wrong with beating, raping or killing his wife, and intending to kill Emma and all other children she may have and replace them with his own. Snow White injures him across the cheek and learn that he's created a curse that means that any damage caused to him would. Several other characters arrive to try to fight James, including the Bigby who puts up an intense and close fight before James using an enchanted sword to turn Bigby Wolf into glass and then shatter him, killing him. Finally, the true Prince Charming arrives and battles his own brother in a sword fight, finally being able to kill him. The Witches begin attempting to put the mirror pieces together again. Meanwhile a Doctor, Doctor Swineheart, performs the autopsy on James and discovers that he has no heart, meaning the blade pierced nothing. James immediately sits up and kills the Doctor and then addresses Miss Sprat, who was acting as the Nurse.
Episode 8 begins with the cast discovering Doctor Swineheart stabbed. Swineheart before dying reveals that James used magic to remove his heart and that if it is destroyed than James will die. Several Fables include the bird Cock Robin are sent out. James is eventually tracked down and fights Snow White just as Cock Robin tracks down his heart and destroys it, causing James to die after being stabbed by Snow White.
Episode 9 takes place during Episode 8 and has the Witches reform the Big Bad Wolf. Mrs. Spratt is revealed to have performed some magic taught by Rumplestiltskin. The piece is returned but causes the reformed Big Bad Wolf to snap and become a mindless monster, killing the Witches, including Ozma, to the sadness of Dorothy. Bigby then goes on a killing spree in New York, as the main cast begins to develop a plan to kill him with Silver Bullets.
Episode 10 follows on a plot by some of the cast to kill Frau Totenkinder which included Rapunzel, Flynn and Cinderella among others. This is due to the false belief that Frau Totenkinder was responsible for Bigby's transformation. In the resulting battle, a bulding is destroyed and Rapunzel finally kills a weakened Totenkinder by stabber her with heel of Cinderella's glass Slipper. After the fact, It is discovered that Spratt had stolen the piece and that Geppetto, still captive, had engineered Biby's corruption. Both are then killed. Spratt by Rose Red and Geppetto is taken to be tortured by the Blue Fairy as revenge.
Episode 11 is surprisingly a jump forward in time, similar to an epilogue. Specifically it concerns Henry writing about the experience roughly 20 years later. None of the present characters are mentioned to prevent spoilers. Henry's young daughter Lucy finds a toy boat, which begins to speak to her. She is instructed to bring it to water, where it grows into a giant living boat that takes her to the Island of Misfit Toys, which is inhabited by Toys that were rejected even by Santa(most of which are represented by actual real life recalled Toys). Henry learns of this from the robot tiger Mountbatten, who leads him to her. In the land of Toys he transforms into an actual tiger. Accompanying Henry are some of his Lucy's toys, which include a Buzz Lightyear and Woody toy(its unclear if they are the originals given this is a 20 years later setting. They could just be similar toys). Lucy at first enjoys being in a world of toys even weirdly broken toys and toys that have odd features but begins to starve as there is no food there. Meanwhile the toys attack Henry and capture the Tiger. Lucy's complaining finally gets one of the toys to snap, a giant Teddy Bear. The Teddy Bear reveals that all the main toys that Lucy befriended were Toys that KILLED Children, which was partly why there are there. For example the giant Teddy Bear caught Fire but was made durable enough to survive, and could do nothing but watch as the child died burning(complete with a shot of the death of a closeup of the Teddy Bear's eye reflecting the child's arm emerging from the crib and screaming as fire surrounded the crib). Other toys confess their crimes, including a baby rolling over ontop of another teddy(and some such as Lawn Darts that did indeed result in deaths). Lucy is left broken and distraught. When Mountbatten, now a living tiger is brought before her, she is forced to kill and eat it to survive, now having become insane and request that the wooden toys be burned to make a fire to cook the meat.
Henry finally arrives and rescues his daughter. Santa also appears to rescue the two and take them back. Lucy gives the toys the task of rescuing a thousand children for everyone whose deaths they were responsible for. After they leave the toys are shown following this and are indeed rescuing children from death, including pulling a baby that stumbled into a pool at night and another that was choking. All while avoiding being seen.
Episode 12 returns to the present and depicts the entirety of the final battle with the Big Bad Wolf, ending in Bigby's death, though they regain enough of their senses to say goodbye before passing away.
Episode 13, titled "...for the Last Time" is an epilogue episode, showing the fate of several characters into the future, including the children of several characters such as Maleficent's daughter, Mal, who seems to have grown up considerably more normal than her mother. The episode progresses going further and further into the future, which includes cameos from the settings of WALLE and Treasure Planet once the world dives into the far future, before finally concluding the series.
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A History of Licensed Comics: Part II: 1980-2006
A History of Licensed Comics: Part II
The Japanese Toy Company Takara wanted to branch into the American Market and contacted the Mego Corporation, which producted toys for Marvel, DC, Star Trek, Planet of the Apes and others. The result was comic adaptations of Micronauts. Billy Mantlo became involved when his son was excited to get micronauts toys for Christmas, leading him to gain interest in promoting the product. He convinced Jim Shooter to get the license, as a result Micronauts comics outlived the toyline and crossed over with the X-Men, with several original characters including Marionette, Arcturus Rann, Bug and Captain Universe becoming marvel mainstays. Bug would be promoted in Guardians of the Galaxy alongside Rocket Raccoon, a creation of Mantlo and Captain Universe's power would briefly be transferred to Spider-Man for a time.
ROM: Spaceknight
Parker Brothers was looking for a company to promote their new action figure with electronic parts known as Rom. With unprecedented freedom, Mantlo turned the comic into a big hit even as the toy sold terribly. Mantlo had Rom arrive on Earth and appear to go on a rampage, seemingly vaporizing random people. One of the survivors of Rom's attacks followed him and discovered that Rom was a member of a race known as Space Knights fighting the evil shapeshifting Dire Wraiths. Rom crashed on earth and discovered that the Dire Wraiths had infiltrated Earth and he was actually seemingly vaporizing dire wraiths disguised as humans. As a result of the low sales, Hasbro chose to give the character to Marvel.
DC continued to ride high with their Star Trek license rivaling the Star Wars License, however Marvel also had Indiana Jones, even telling original stories under the banner "The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones". DC was able to counter this with James Bond. Marvel also got Dragonslayer. DC also adapted James Bond Jr into comic form. Marvel in 1982 adapted Time Bandits and the Toy Motorcycle line Team America, both folded into the Marvel universe as was standard practice. Another series to be included was Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone, which shared a time period with Conan the Barbarian. Marvel also adapted Blade Runner and Dark Crystal the same year.
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Marvel was approached to revitalize G.I.Joe, providing new toys. Marvel was significant in creating the characters of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, now franchise mainstays. In 1983, Marvel printed a biography on Pope John Paul II, the Smurfs and Tyco's US-1 truck toys, which starred the hero trucker Ulysses Solomon Archer(USA). Marvel also published a series called the Saga of Crystar, which was falsely believed to be based on a Toyline that was released around the same time, though the toyline was based on the comic. The Movie Krull recieved a comic adaptation, followed by the A-Team. Star Raiders was a 120-page-long limited series released by DC and Atari. Its success led to DC acquiring the license to adapt Atari properties.
In 1984, the computer game publisher Adventure international was granted the license to create a series of games featuring Marvel characters called Questprobe, which also had comics to tie into the games. The Japanese toy company Tomy teamed up with Marvel to adapts the Zoids toyline for the west, which kepts its name. Marvel made comics for the toys. However, it would be 1984 when the next big license would come to Marvel. Hasbro, seeing Marvel's success with Rom and G.I.Joe, gave Marvel the rights to produce Transformers comics.
The Transformers license was shared with Marvel UK, which created its own version. Since the UK followed a different release schedule. They were therefore granted the freedom to branch off in their own direction and create original. Both the US and the Uk versions were then cycled back into Japan and became an even bigger hit with toys being produced, so much so that other Japan series went through the same circular process such as Super-God Masterforce, Victory, and Zone(Battlestars not existing as it was made after Zone was cancelled, using ideas from the unmade season). Japan branched off into its own content. Marvel still considered the Transformers a part of their universe, including making a crossover between the Transformers and Avengers. Marvel therefore created an imprint devoted solely to licensed works and another for child audiences which included a revival of the characters from the bought out Harvey Comics, which closed its doors in 1982 and had its assets bought by Marvel.
Marvel adapted the Muppet films in their super specials, due to the friendship between Jim Henson and Stan Lee. This was added into the new Harvey Comics. This opened the door to the likes of Fraggle Rock, Heathcliff, Strawberry Shortcake, Get along gang, Muppet Babies, Star Wars: Ewoks, Star Wars : Droids, Care Bears, Thundercats, Masters of the Universe, Madballs, Hugga Bunch, Animax, Popples, Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos, Defenders of the Earth(Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician), Inhumanoids, The Flintstones, Foofur, SilverHawks, Air Raiders, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light and Count Duckula.
In 1985, Coleco's Sectaurs: Warriors of Symbion toyline was adapted into a series this led Tomy to partner with Marvel to promote the Zoids series. Marvel also got the license to another Robert E. Howard character in Solomon Kane. Marvel also adapted Labyrinth and its sequel. In 1986, Marvel adapted Robotix, the horror film House II: the Second Story. In 1987 they adapted the failed television series Sledge Hammer! In 1988. Marvel Uk began creating comics based on The Real Ghostbusters, and The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers while the US Marvel would gain Alf while a graphic novel by Denny O'Neil and Michael William Kalutra was created in The Shadow: Hitler’s Astrologer along with an adaptation of the film Willow.
Marvel tried to launch its own multimedia franchise with David Oliphant's Solarman with an animated series comic book and pilot, which barely got off the ground. Tyco's Dino-Riders toyline was also adapted as did Robocop. Marvel Uk adapted Teddy Ruxpin and the TV Show Crossbow. Marvel created the Epic Comics imprint for creator owned works, though it also became a home for darker and mature series such as William Gibson’s Neuromancer, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, Nightbreed, and Weaveworld, Wild Cards, and William Shatner’s TekWorld. Also in 1989, Marvel would produce an adaptation of the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom. In 1990 when the Family Channel produced a new Zorro television series, the character was licensed to Marvel for his own comic.
In 1991, Marvel produced both an adaptation of An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Hook, a series based on the wildly successful Barbie toyline, and The Toxic Avenger. Marvel also commissioned singer Jacqueline Tavarez to become the superheroine Nightcat, performing under the name professionally as a comic was produced based on her fictionalized backstory. Marvel also began to dive into video games such as Double Dragon and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and its sequel would get an adaptation, along with the Teminator films, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, and The Pirates of Dark Water. In a weird move, Marvel pushed for the creation of NFL Superpro, a Super hero team made up of NFL athletes.
In 1992, Marvel gained another video game license with Defenders of Dynatron City, along an animated film released by the game developers. However, Marvel's attempt at making a comic based on World Championship Wrestling failed. They also adapted Animated series such as Fish Police,Biker Mice from Mars, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, and Beavis and Butthead. Thomas Nelson approached Marvel to create a Christian superhero called the Illuminator but Marvel refused. An adaptation of The Coneheads followed along with an anthology series based on the Disney Afternoon that included DuckTales, Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, and Aladdin. Dark Horse Comics gained the rights to comics based on Alien, and then Predator, choosing to combine the two. A Uk Magazine meanwhile printed Aliens including the storylines Aliens: Crusade and Aliens: Matrix. It's success led to a crossover with the British Anti-Hero character Marshall Law in 1993. Marshall Law was a story about a police officer tasked with killing superheroes.
"If Watchmen did in any way kill off the superhero - which is a dubious proposition - then Marshal Law has taken it further with this wonderful act of necrophilia, where it has degraded the corpse in a really amusing way. I think that's great... Pat and Kevin do it so well, with such style and with such obvious malice; that's the fun thing about Marshal Law. They're not just kidding, they really hate superheroes."
- Alan Moore, The Comics Journal #138
"I'm a Hero Hunter. I hunt heroes. Haven't found any yet."
-Marshall Law.
While originally, a parody of Judge Dredd, the two shows crossed over and were canonized into the being in the same universe and by extension to crossovers, this applied to the worlds of Alien and Predator as well. Judge Dredd would also produce a spinoff series a cadet class of Judges up until graduation with dived into the life of training to become a "Marshall", the British equivalent.
In 1995, Marvel would produce a series based on Gargoyles, along with a "Best of Disney" series adapting their films. They also resumed the Phantom, and Flash Gordon, the latter of which had legendary artist Al Williamson. They also gained Skeleton Warriors and resumed publication of Casper due to the film. Marvel also adapted Earthworm Jim game and series and resumed publication of KISS.
In 1996, DC meanwhile made a deal that resulting in the rights to the Snake Plissken films, The Mighty Heroes and Mission Impossible in addition to their Star Trek rights.
Austin Powers #1
In 1997, Wildstorm gained the rights to produce Austin Powers comics, with art by J.Scott Campbell. Another company, Image, gained the rights to Power Rangers and crossed it over several times with their properties.
Star Wars: Infinities
In 1999, Peter David was hired to write the first of Star Wars: Infinities. The First Issue revolved around the point of Divergence of R5-D4 being bought by Uncle Owen instead of R2-D2, never suffering the bad motivator that led to R2D2 being chosen instead. As a result, R2-D2 is taken when Stormtroppers kill the Jawas and secure the droids, meaning Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru are not killed. The plans for the Death Star are not retrieved but the Rebellion is also not discovered. Darth Vader, sensing something from Princess Leia as she is about to be executed, intervenes, rescuing. Leia and taking her on as an apprentice. Ben Kenobi, the disturbance in the force caused by the destruction of Alderaan, goes and forcibly takes Luke Skywalker to train him. The story jumps ahead to depict Luke Skywalker training under Kenobi and Yoda and both the Jedi and Darth Vader with Leia launch an assassination attempt to kill the Emperor that concludes the the Death Star crashing down on the planet Coruscant. The two main survivors, Luke and Leia, become a couple and take to ruling the galaxy together(OTL, an idea close to this was pitched by Peter David but rejected due to having Luke and Leia get together, unaware they are siblings. It was rejected or this reason. ITTL, Luke and Leia are not related).
Monte Cook, co-designer of the third edition of Dungeons and Dragons adapted the campaign he used to playtest the edition which Marvel adapted into 2006's Ptolus: City by the Spirit. They also gained the rights to Halo,Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, George R. R. Martin’s The Hedge Knight, Orson Scott Card‘s Tales of Alvin Maker series and Wyrms, Magician Apprentice, Lords of Avalon series, and Highwayman. Marvel also gained the rights to the soap Opera the Guiding Light and turned the cast into superheroes, Stephen King's the Dark Tower, The Stand, Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, Philip K. Dick’s The Electric Ant, and the television series Castle.
ROM: Spaceknight
Parker Brothers was looking for a company to promote their new action figure with electronic parts known as Rom. With unprecedented freedom, Mantlo turned the comic into a big hit even as the toy sold terribly. Mantlo had Rom arrive on Earth and appear to go on a rampage, seemingly vaporizing random people. One of the survivors of Rom's attacks followed him and discovered that Rom was a member of a race known as Space Knights fighting the evil shapeshifting Dire Wraiths. Rom crashed on earth and discovered that the Dire Wraiths had infiltrated Earth and he was actually seemingly vaporizing dire wraiths disguised as humans. As a result of the low sales, Hasbro chose to give the character to Marvel.
DC continued to ride high with their Star Trek license rivaling the Star Wars License, however Marvel also had Indiana Jones, even telling original stories under the banner "The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones". DC was able to counter this with James Bond. Marvel also got Dragonslayer. DC also adapted James Bond Jr into comic form. Marvel in 1982 adapted Time Bandits and the Toy Motorcycle line Team America, both folded into the Marvel universe as was standard practice. Another series to be included was Michael Moorcock's Elric of Melnibone, which shared a time period with Conan the Barbarian. Marvel also adapted Blade Runner and Dark Crystal the same year.
US-1
Marvel was approached to revitalize G.I.Joe, providing new toys. Marvel was significant in creating the characters of Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow, now franchise mainstays. In 1983, Marvel printed a biography on Pope John Paul II, the Smurfs and Tyco's US-1 truck toys, which starred the hero trucker Ulysses Solomon Archer(USA). Marvel also published a series called the Saga of Crystar, which was falsely believed to be based on a Toyline that was released around the same time, though the toyline was based on the comic. The Movie Krull recieved a comic adaptation, followed by the A-Team. Star Raiders was a 120-page-long limited series released by DC and Atari. Its success led to DC acquiring the license to adapt Atari properties.
In 1984, the computer game publisher Adventure international was granted the license to create a series of games featuring Marvel characters called Questprobe, which also had comics to tie into the games. The Japanese toy company Tomy teamed up with Marvel to adapts the Zoids toyline for the west, which kepts its name. Marvel made comics for the toys. However, it would be 1984 when the next big license would come to Marvel. Hasbro, seeing Marvel's success with Rom and G.I.Joe, gave Marvel the rights to produce Transformers comics.
The Transformers license was shared with Marvel UK, which created its own version. Since the UK followed a different release schedule. They were therefore granted the freedom to branch off in their own direction and create original. Both the US and the Uk versions were then cycled back into Japan and became an even bigger hit with toys being produced, so much so that other Japan series went through the same circular process such as Super-God Masterforce, Victory, and Zone(Battlestars not existing as it was made after Zone was cancelled, using ideas from the unmade season). Japan branched off into its own content. Marvel still considered the Transformers a part of their universe, including making a crossover between the Transformers and Avengers. Marvel therefore created an imprint devoted solely to licensed works and another for child audiences which included a revival of the characters from the bought out Harvey Comics, which closed its doors in 1982 and had its assets bought by Marvel.
Marvel adapted the Muppet films in their super specials, due to the friendship between Jim Henson and Stan Lee. This was added into the new Harvey Comics. This opened the door to the likes of Fraggle Rock, Heathcliff, Strawberry Shortcake, Get along gang, Muppet Babies, Star Wars: Ewoks, Star Wars : Droids, Care Bears, Thundercats, Masters of the Universe, Madballs, Hugga Bunch, Animax, Popples, Chuck Norris: Karate Kommandos, Defenders of the Earth(Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Mandrake the Magician), Inhumanoids, The Flintstones, Foofur, SilverHawks, Air Raiders, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light and Count Duckula.
In 1985, Coleco's Sectaurs: Warriors of Symbion toyline was adapted into a series this led Tomy to partner with Marvel to promote the Zoids series. Marvel also got the license to another Robert E. Howard character in Solomon Kane. Marvel also adapted Labyrinth and its sequel. In 1986, Marvel adapted Robotix, the horror film House II: the Second Story. In 1987 they adapted the failed television series Sledge Hammer! In 1988. Marvel Uk began creating comics based on The Real Ghostbusters, and The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers while the US Marvel would gain Alf while a graphic novel by Denny O'Neil and Michael William Kalutra was created in The Shadow: Hitler’s Astrologer along with an adaptation of the film Willow.
Marvel tried to launch its own multimedia franchise with David Oliphant's Solarman with an animated series comic book and pilot, which barely got off the ground. Tyco's Dino-Riders toyline was also adapted as did Robocop. Marvel Uk adapted Teddy Ruxpin and the TV Show Crossbow. Marvel created the Epic Comics imprint for creator owned works, though it also became a home for darker and mature series such as William Gibson’s Neuromancer, Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, Nightbreed, and Weaveworld, Wild Cards, and William Shatner’s TekWorld. Also in 1989, Marvel would produce an adaptation of the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom. In 1990 when the Family Channel produced a new Zorro television series, the character was licensed to Marvel for his own comic.
In 1991, Marvel produced both an adaptation of An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, Hook, a series based on the wildly successful Barbie toyline, and The Toxic Avenger. Marvel also commissioned singer Jacqueline Tavarez to become the superheroine Nightcat, performing under the name professionally as a comic was produced based on her fictionalized backstory. Marvel also began to dive into video games such as Double Dragon and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and its sequel would get an adaptation, along with the Teminator films, Captain Planet and the Planeteers, and The Pirates of Dark Water. In a weird move, Marvel pushed for the creation of NFL Superpro, a Super hero team made up of NFL athletes.
In 1992, Marvel gained another video game license with Defenders of Dynatron City, along an animated film released by the game developers. However, Marvel's attempt at making a comic based on World Championship Wrestling failed. They also adapted Animated series such as Fish Police,Biker Mice from Mars, King Arthur and the Knights of Justice, and Beavis and Butthead. Thomas Nelson approached Marvel to create a Christian superhero called the Illuminator but Marvel refused. An adaptation of The Coneheads followed along with an anthology series based on the Disney Afternoon that included DuckTales, Chip ‘n Dale Rescue Rangers, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, and Aladdin. Dark Horse Comics gained the rights to comics based on Alien, and then Predator, choosing to combine the two. A Uk Magazine meanwhile printed Aliens including the storylines Aliens: Crusade and Aliens: Matrix. It's success led to a crossover with the British Anti-Hero character Marshall Law in 1993. Marshall Law was a story about a police officer tasked with killing superheroes.
"If Watchmen did in any way kill off the superhero - which is a dubious proposition - then Marshal Law has taken it further with this wonderful act of necrophilia, where it has degraded the corpse in a really amusing way. I think that's great... Pat and Kevin do it so well, with such style and with such obvious malice; that's the fun thing about Marshal Law. They're not just kidding, they really hate superheroes."
- Alan Moore, The Comics Journal #138
"I'm a Hero Hunter. I hunt heroes. Haven't found any yet."
-Marshall Law.
While originally, a parody of Judge Dredd, the two shows crossed over and were canonized into the being in the same universe and by extension to crossovers, this applied to the worlds of Alien and Predator as well. Judge Dredd would also produce a spinoff series a cadet class of Judges up until graduation with dived into the life of training to become a "Marshall", the British equivalent.
In 1995, Marvel would produce a series based on Gargoyles, along with a "Best of Disney" series adapting their films. They also resumed the Phantom, and Flash Gordon, the latter of which had legendary artist Al Williamson. They also gained Skeleton Warriors and resumed publication of Casper due to the film. Marvel also adapted Earthworm Jim game and series and resumed publication of KISS.
In 1996, DC meanwhile made a deal that resulting in the rights to the Snake Plissken films, The Mighty Heroes and Mission Impossible in addition to their Star Trek rights.
Austin Powers #1
In 1997, Wildstorm gained the rights to produce Austin Powers comics, with art by J.Scott Campbell. Another company, Image, gained the rights to Power Rangers and crossed it over several times with their properties.
Star Wars: Infinities
In 1999, Peter David was hired to write the first of Star Wars: Infinities. The First Issue revolved around the point of Divergence of R5-D4 being bought by Uncle Owen instead of R2-D2, never suffering the bad motivator that led to R2D2 being chosen instead. As a result, R2-D2 is taken when Stormtroppers kill the Jawas and secure the droids, meaning Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru are not killed. The plans for the Death Star are not retrieved but the Rebellion is also not discovered. Darth Vader, sensing something from Princess Leia as she is about to be executed, intervenes, rescuing. Leia and taking her on as an apprentice. Ben Kenobi, the disturbance in the force caused by the destruction of Alderaan, goes and forcibly takes Luke Skywalker to train him. The story jumps ahead to depict Luke Skywalker training under Kenobi and Yoda and both the Jedi and Darth Vader with Leia launch an assassination attempt to kill the Emperor that concludes the the Death Star crashing down on the planet Coruscant. The two main survivors, Luke and Leia, become a couple and take to ruling the galaxy together(OTL, an idea close to this was pitched by Peter David but rejected due to having Luke and Leia get together, unaware they are siblings. It was rejected or this reason. ITTL, Luke and Leia are not related).
Monte Cook, co-designer of the third edition of Dungeons and Dragons adapted the campaign he used to playtest the edition which Marvel adapted into 2006's Ptolus: City by the Spirit. They also gained the rights to Halo,Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, George R. R. Martin’s The Hedge Knight, Orson Scott Card‘s Tales of Alvin Maker series and Wyrms, Magician Apprentice, Lords of Avalon series, and Highwayman. Marvel also gained the rights to the soap Opera the Guiding Light and turned the cast into superheroes, Stephen King's the Dark Tower, The Stand, Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game, Philip K. Dick’s The Electric Ant, and the television series Castle.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen(1999-2014)
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
The League of Justice(However this will not be about them).
Alan Moore and Kevin O'Neil first worked on an Elseworlds story, The League of Justice, which placed the Justice League in the Victorian Era. Moore chose to reuse the Victorian Era Batman from Gotham by Gaslight and the Wonder Woman from Wonder Woman: Amazonia. To Do this needed some retconning on Moore's part as the stories featured two different versions of Jack of the Ripper and explanations for his origin. Moore drew from is own work From Hell and then tied it to Lovecraftian monsters invading Earth from Mars in 1898, leading to the Justice League to form to stop them after being warned by Martian Manhunter.
The Elseworlds story was a success, but something had latched onto Moore. He saw the potential of creating a Victorian era super steam using public domain characters. Thus, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was born. The first volume assembled the team. Moore wanted the team to be led by a normal woman and chose Irene Adler. He felt that having Sherlock Holmes and Dracula, the two most famous literary characters, might take attention away from the test of the team and so intentionally excluded them. However, he decided to represent Dracula by include Mina Harker on the team as well. The two were distinguished by Irene, being more of a seductress while Mina was much more calm and normal. The test of the team included explorer Allan Quatermain, the invisible Man Hawley Griffin, Dr.Jekyll and Mr.Hyde and Captain Nemo. Nemo was depicted as Indian as a nod to the sequel to 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Mysterious Island, revealing Nemo to be an Indian Prince. All these figures had faked their deaths in their source material, justifying their appearance. Volume 1 had the team be assembled by the mysterious M to thwart the schemes to create a deadly airship by the insidious Dr.Fu Manchu(actually named ITTL due to different copyright rules rather than OTL when he was not named because of Copyright but referred to as "The Devil Doctor"). While successful, they discover that M is in fact Professor James Moriarty, the archenemy of Sherlock Holmes, who survived his demise in the Sherlock Holmes story "The Final Problem". The League then fights against Moriarty and thwarts his scheme.
unfinished design for Hyde in the film.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen(2003)
Given that many of Alan Moore's works had been adapted into films, the film rights to League of Extraordinary Gentlemen were soon picked up by Universal Studios, defeating Fox to the punch. Universal's reasons for entering the bidding war was a desire to reboot their Monster Cinematic Universe and saw a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen film as an excellent compliment to it. The film would remain fairly faithful to volume one plotwise. Then came the casting choices. Sean Connery expressed interest in the film, but refused to do several scenes in the original script and was also looking to retire from acting(making only small cameos from then on), and therefore had no interest in committing to a film series. Richard Chamberlain, who had previously played Allan Quatermain in a 1985 adaptation of King Solomon's Mines, reprised his role, now being of a convincing age to play the older and weathered Quatermain. Chamberlain requested less money than Connery had, meaning the film had more of its budget to use on its effects. Monica Belluci was cast as Mina Harker(not a vampire ITTL), Jason Fleming was cast as Dr.Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(practical effects being use for the Hulk Like monster, though the appearance is more comic accurate, closer in line with the transformed henchman fought in the finale). Indian actor Naseeruddin Shah was cast as Captain Nemo and given a Nautilus closely resembling the Comic version, which was based on a Squid attacking a Whale, alluding to both 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and to Moby Dick, as the first mate of Nemo was Ishmael, played by Jack Aranson(Nemo asks him what he thinks of the League when he is alone with him, calling him first mate and he responds with "Call me Ishmael. We've known each other long enough"). Overall the film, minus some edits to certain scenes such as the capture of the Invisible Man in an woman's school acting as a "Holy Spirit", was fairly faithful, with Fu Manchu being played by chinese actor Tony Leung Chiu-Wai(who was hesitant to accept but lookedover the script and finally approved it), and Richard Roxburgh as Professor James Moriarty. Sean Connery did make a cameo as Campion Bond, James Bond's grandfather. The idea of including an American character such as Tom Sawyer was rendered mute by the inclusion of Irene Adler among the cast.
The film was also released on DVD with a short film adaptation of Allan and the Sundered Veil with Chamberlain. reprising his role. The short film has Quatermain meeting with his old friend Lady Ragnall to try a drug called Tanuki that allows the user to experience past lives. Something goes wrong and Quatermain finds himself in a strange world with two likewise displaced people, John Carter(Taylor Kitsch), and Randolph Carter(Bryan Moore). John is revealed to be the grandfather of Randolph. The group are attacked but rescued by Guy Pierce, playing the Time Traveller from The H.G.Wells novel, the Time Machine. The Time Traveller explains that there if a rift in space and time and that creatures from beyond are threatening to invade their universe and recruits the three to stop them. They travel the Time Traveller's base where they are attacked by Morlocks(with a design based on the 1960 Time Machine film, with the time travelling forward effect from that film replicated). The group escapes while the time traveller repairs his machine and head into the rift in space and time but are all hit with visions of their future, causing the Carters to disappear. Allan also sees visions of the future(alluding to events in the film and the sequel, including Hyde fighting a Martian Tripod. Allan Quatermain is possessed by the deity Ithaqua and is forcibly ejected by the Time Traveller. He returns to his own time but is posessed and goes on a rampage, killing Lady Ragnall before waking up as himself in front of the burning mansion. In his depression he turns to opium and when mina comes to him, he recognizes her from one of his visions of the future. He tells her to go away but she refuses, leading into the events of the film.
The film was also released on DVD with a short film adaptation of Allan and the Sundered Veil with Chamberlain. reprising his role. The short film has Quatermain meeting with his old friend Lady Ragnall to try a drug called Tanuki that allows the user to experience past lives. Something goes wrong and Quatermain finds himself in a strange world with two likewise displaced people, John Carter(Taylor Kitsch), and Randolph Carter(Bryan Moore). John is revealed to be the grandfather of Randolph. The group are attacked but rescued by Guy Pierce, playing the Time Traveller from The H.G.Wells novel, the Time Machine. The Time Traveller explains that there if a rift in space and time and that creatures from beyond are threatening to invade their universe and recruits the three to stop them. They travel the Time Traveller's base where they are attacked by Morlocks(with a design based on the 1960 Time Machine film, with the time travelling forward effect from that film replicated). The group escapes while the time traveller repairs his machine and head into the rift in space and time but are all hit with visions of their future, causing the Carters to disappear. Allan also sees visions of the future(alluding to events in the film and the sequel, including Hyde fighting a Martian Tripod. Allan Quatermain is possessed by the deity Ithaqua and is forcibly ejected by the Time Traveller. He returns to his own time but is posessed and goes on a rampage, killing Lady Ragnall before waking up as himself in front of the burning mansion. In his depression he turns to opium and when mina comes to him, he recognizes her from one of his visions of the future. He tells her to go away but she refuses, leading into the events of the film.
The Martians Invade
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Part II(2005)
Alan Moore was writing the second volume of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen during the release of the first film and both the film and the comic alluded to what the film was to be. A newspaper in both reported on Volcanoes on Mars. The Sequel attracted the attention of Stephen Spielberg, who wanted to adapt War of the Worlds for some time. League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Part II revealed that the League was involved in thwarting the Martian Invasion from War of the Worlds, one group being sent to retrieve a secret weapon, revealed to be a chemical weapon created by Dr.Moreau. The Invisible Man, Hawley Griffin, betrays the League to the Martians and beats Mina. Hyde is then revealed to be able to see Griffin(something revealed in the first film) and kills him. With the Martians invading London and the weapon not ready yet, Hyde sacrifices himself, taking down one of the tripods, ripping it open and, in a parody of Independence Day, exclaiming "Ello Chap! Welcome to Jolly Ol' England." He then eats the squidlike creature before the other Martian tripods vaporize him. The weapon is revealed to be biological and released, killing the Martians and several innocents. Campion Bond states that the disease would be covered up as the Common Cold. Captain Nemo is outraged and quits. The other surviving League members or Irene, Allan and Mina also quit and join Nemo(Moore's original idea was disbanding the League but he decided against it, leading to a more hopeful ending which Spielberg liked more. Another change made due to the fact that Moore knew the comic would be adapted was the removal of a romance between Allan and Mina, as in this context Mina was still happily married and it would have been awkward to include in film).
Spielberg has gone on record saying that his favorite scene is in the opening in which on Mars, John Carter and Gulliver, lead the various races of Mars on an attack on the Tripods, because it was a homage to Lawrence of Arabia, one of Spielberg's favorite films.
It was decided that like the first film, the Sequel would also have a short film. Moore had included "The New Traveller's Almanac" which is map of the world, itself including references. It was tweaked a bit for adaptation. The idea was that the League was travelling around the world and recording what they encountered. Instead of being directed by Spielberg, the short film was directed by Wes Anderson, which fit the Stroybrooke/journal format as the characters visited many different locations, though with some stories included such as the story of a "young Miss A.L. who fell down a rabbit hole", a meeting between the League and Sherlock Holmes as a retired Beekeeper, and the League helping Randolph Carter investigate a case relating to Lovecraftian monsters.
The Twilight Heroes
Spielberg has gone on record saying that his favorite scene is in the opening in which on Mars, John Carter and Gulliver, lead the various races of Mars on an attack on the Tripods, because it was a homage to Lawrence of Arabia, one of Spielberg's favorite films.
It was decided that like the first film, the Sequel would also have a short film. Moore had included "The New Traveller's Almanac" which is map of the world, itself including references. It was tweaked a bit for adaptation. The idea was that the League was travelling around the world and recording what they encountered. Instead of being directed by Spielberg, the short film was directed by Wes Anderson, which fit the Stroybrooke/journal format as the characters visited many different locations, though with some stories included such as the story of a "young Miss A.L. who fell down a rabbit hole", a meeting between the League and Sherlock Holmes as a retired Beekeeper, and the League helping Randolph Carter investigate a case relating to Lovecraftian monsters.
The Twilight Heroes
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century(2007)
The future of the series came into question. Moore wanted to jump ahead to the 1950's, but he was forced to reconsider and instead came up with the idea of an overarching story called 'Century" with chapters occuring in 1910, 1958, 1969, and 2009. It was ambitious at the time but the plan was approved. The 1910 chapter was originally written as a tribute to the Threepenny Opera until it was pointed out that the Threepenny opera occurred during the coronation of Queen Victoria and not 1910 and most of the ideas were scrapped. Moore instead made 1910 about the League battling their german counterpart Die Zwielichthelden(The Twilight Heroes in German) and their french counterpart Les Hommes Mystérieux(The Mysterious Men). The Twilight heroes trick the League and the Mysterious Men into fighting each other as part of an alliance by cultist Oliver Haddo to start a World War. Then the French villain Fantomas, on the Mysterious Men, blows up the Opera House the two groups are fighting in and proclaims "I win!". The League now include Aj Raffles, Thomas Carnacki and the immortal Orlando. Despite the defeat of Fantomas, it is clear World War I is inevitable and the last scene shows both Leagues fighting in the Battle of the Somme.
The Extra features on the DVD/Blur Ray include an animated Life of Orlando, an immortal who changes gender every seven years due to a curse inherited by their father Tiresias. The short depicts Orlando's immortal life from their birth in 1260 B.C. to 1910. Narrated by Orlando himself/herself.
The Extra features on the DVD/Blur Ray include an animated Life of Orlando, an immortal who changes gender every seven years due to a curse inherited by their father Tiresias. The short depicts Orlando's immortal life from their birth in 1260 B.C. to 1910. Narrated by Orlando himself/herself.
Nemo: Heart of Ice(2008)
The first of the spinoff series, focusing on Nemo's daughter Janni Dakkar. Directed by Guillermo Del Toro(who accepted because he'd always wanted to do an adaptation of The Mountains of Madness but this universe allowed him to do anything he wished, granting him more freedom). The film is set in 1925 and begins with Janni's crew stealing treasure from Charles Foster Kane that belonged to the enchantress Ayesha(here composited with Akasha from Queen of the Damned). Charles Foster Kane sends former boy adventurers Franke Reade Jr, Tom Swift and Jack Wright. Janni goes on an adventure to the Mountains of Madness, with a crew that includes the elderly Ishmael, Broad Arrow Jack Jr, and Augustus Van Dusen. Janni is obsessed with going to the Mountains as her father was driven insane from his journey there and never completed. During the chase, Ishmael sacrifices himself to kill Jack Wright. Finally, Janni's crew enter the Mountains of Madness with Augustus Van Dusen wounded, he sacrifices himself to buy them time as Tom Swift killing him with a gunshot awakens a Shoggoth that kills Reade and drives Swift insane. Fans speculate from the design of the Shoggoth that it is also John Carpenter's The Thing.
One of the themes in the film is the progression of technology, with Swift comparing his own technology to Janni's, including showing off his "Electric Rifle", which he boasts will be used by every police officer in the country. A meta joke as the modern Taser, was inspired by the device in Tom Swift and stands for Tom Swift's Electric Rifle.
Who is this "Cute Lulu" anyway?
The DVD/Blu-Ray included a short film which had Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry reprise their roles from the Jeeves and Wooster 90's series and tell a story set in the League verse in which Jeeves and Wooster encounter the Cthulhu mythos and Jeeves calls the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to help deal with the problem, however the perspective never leaves Jeeves and Wooster despite the League clearly battling the monstrosity in the background.
One of the themes in the film is the progression of technology, with Swift comparing his own technology to Janni's, including showing off his "Electric Rifle", which he boasts will be used by every police officer in the country. A meta joke as the modern Taser, was inspired by the device in Tom Swift and stands for Tom Swift's Electric Rifle.
Who is this "Cute Lulu" anyway?
The DVD/Blu-Ray included a short film which had Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry reprise their roles from the Jeeves and Wooster 90's series and tell a story set in the League verse in which Jeeves and Wooster encounter the Cthulhu mythos and Jeeves calls the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen to help deal with the problem, however the perspective never leaves Jeeves and Wooster despite the League clearly battling the monstrosity in the background.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier(2009)
A blend of Black Dossier and the 1969 chapter of Century. This is due to Black Dossier being mostly made up of extra material. The first part begins in 1958, in a Britain that has seen the fall of the Big Brother government. James Bond approaches a woman and flirts with her. He reveals that he is a spy and this is lampshaded as "You know you really shouldn't go around telling people you're a spy". Bond and the woman leave, being followed by an unseen man. Bond takes her to the abandoned Ministry of Love building and pulls a gun on her, revealing that he knows something is off about her, only to be attacked by the man following them. The two then steal the titular Black Dossier from a file cabinet(other files mention the Village from the Prisoner and Manor Farm from Animal Farm). As they are leaving Bond, nearly kills them with a pen that fires a dart, but this backfires when he misses. The two then flee.
The next morning Bond is seen speaking with Bob Cherry(played by Michael Caine). Bond accidentally calls him Harry Lime, which offends Cherry as he claims that man is dead. Bond is tasked with retrieving the Black Dossier. He is joined by the older Hugo Drummond and his niece Miss Emma Knight. The briefing reveals that Mina and Allan seemingly disappeared in 1910 while searching for an enchanted pool said to grant eternal youth, but the group is split on believing this. The group encounter Mina and Allan at a futuristic airport, where they steal a plane and leap off moments before they explode. Mina and Allan reach a castle and cause an explosion that downs but does not kill Bond and Emma. Allan and Mina are confronted by Drummond on his own, but get him off their trial by revealing the Dossier has information regarding to a mission Bond went on to assassinate Emma Knight's father, the head of Knight Industries. Drummond allows Mina and Allan to leave. Bond arrives next and Drummond attacks him. While Bond is badly beaten, he is able to reach a gun and fire, killing Drummond. He then lies to Emma when she arrives. Mina and Allan reach a land known as the Blazing World, and give the Dossier to the wizard Prospero as well as reuniting with Orlando.
The story jumps ahead to 1969, where Mina, Allan and Orlando are dropped off by Nemo's daughter Janni Dakker back in London on the orders of Prospero, in order to prevent the rise of Oliver Haddo's Antichrist. They meet at a secret location and mention how there was one effort to create an antichrist using a woman named Rosemary but the child died days later. James Bond and Emma(now Peel) become aware the League are back and go after them.
Meanwhile Basil Thomas, a member of the band Purple Orchestra is drowned in his swimming Pool as part of a ritual by Oliver Haddo, who has survived by leaping into bodies. Both the League and James and Emma discover that Haddo intends to leap into the body of rockstar Turner at a tribute concert at Hyde Park. In order to stop him, Mina takes a drug that causes astral projection and fights Haddo on the astral plane, preventing him from possessing Turner. He instead possesses a young student named Tom Riddle(When asked what his name is he responds with "Well my first name's Tom, my middle name is a Marvel and my last name is a conundrum). James Bond shoots and kills Haddo's previous body, Cosmo Gallion. Mina awakens but is scared by Bats that are released as part of the tribute concert, which in her drug addled state, remind her of Dracula. She is found and placed in a mental institution. Haddo, in Riddle's body, is seen walking through Platform 9 3/4. Another character to make an appearance in the film, bumping into the League, is the Doctor, specifically the First Doctor, who also seems to be searching for Haddo. Sometime later, Orlando and Allan had lost contact with Mina and Allan falls into depression. Orlando says goodbye after Allan tries to pawn off Excalibur and leaves, taking the sword.
The DVD/Blu Ray Bonus feature was an animated story about Mina tracking down a supervillain named Vull the Invisible in 1964 and killing him, only for an emergency transmission to go out, forcing mina to don the helmet and attend the meeting of a superhero group Vull was infiltrating called the Seven Stars, with other heroes including Captain Universe, Marsman, Zom of the Zodiac,Satin Astro, Flash Avenger and Electro Girl. The group is backed by the United World Organization and are opposed by the British Government supported Victory Vanguard. The Seven Stars defeat, Toby the giant School boy, a mutated child that they return back to normal. They also become stranded between dimensions, including the Twilight Zone(they turn black and white and objects float through space, they are also visited by a member of the Q Continuum who resembles Rod Serling). This leads to a very little case of the "Big Lipped Alligator moment" as Zom of the Zodiac meets an old friend who is an alligator wizard in one of the universes and he is kind enough to send the group home. Unfortunately, while they were gone the British government released a blob like monster called "The Mass" to have their Superhero team defeat it and make them look good, only for them to fail. The Seven Stars join the fight, but Toby willingly allows himself to be transformed back into the two ton school boy and defeats the Mass by eating it, dying soon after. The British Government has the Media blame the Seven Stars for turning Toby back and the Seven Stars disbands.
Robert Downey Jr as Adenoid Hynkel
The next morning Bond is seen speaking with Bob Cherry(played by Michael Caine). Bond accidentally calls him Harry Lime, which offends Cherry as he claims that man is dead. Bond is tasked with retrieving the Black Dossier. He is joined by the older Hugo Drummond and his niece Miss Emma Knight. The briefing reveals that Mina and Allan seemingly disappeared in 1910 while searching for an enchanted pool said to grant eternal youth, but the group is split on believing this. The group encounter Mina and Allan at a futuristic airport, where they steal a plane and leap off moments before they explode. Mina and Allan reach a castle and cause an explosion that downs but does not kill Bond and Emma. Allan and Mina are confronted by Drummond on his own, but get him off their trial by revealing the Dossier has information regarding to a mission Bond went on to assassinate Emma Knight's father, the head of Knight Industries. Drummond allows Mina and Allan to leave. Bond arrives next and Drummond attacks him. While Bond is badly beaten, he is able to reach a gun and fire, killing Drummond. He then lies to Emma when she arrives. Mina and Allan reach a land known as the Blazing World, and give the Dossier to the wizard Prospero as well as reuniting with Orlando.
The story jumps ahead to 1969, where Mina, Allan and Orlando are dropped off by Nemo's daughter Janni Dakker back in London on the orders of Prospero, in order to prevent the rise of Oliver Haddo's Antichrist. They meet at a secret location and mention how there was one effort to create an antichrist using a woman named Rosemary but the child died days later. James Bond and Emma(now Peel) become aware the League are back and go after them.
Meanwhile Basil Thomas, a member of the band Purple Orchestra is drowned in his swimming Pool as part of a ritual by Oliver Haddo, who has survived by leaping into bodies. Both the League and James and Emma discover that Haddo intends to leap into the body of rockstar Turner at a tribute concert at Hyde Park. In order to stop him, Mina takes a drug that causes astral projection and fights Haddo on the astral plane, preventing him from possessing Turner. He instead possesses a young student named Tom Riddle(When asked what his name is he responds with "Well my first name's Tom, my middle name is a Marvel and my last name is a conundrum). James Bond shoots and kills Haddo's previous body, Cosmo Gallion. Mina awakens but is scared by Bats that are released as part of the tribute concert, which in her drug addled state, remind her of Dracula. She is found and placed in a mental institution. Haddo, in Riddle's body, is seen walking through Platform 9 3/4. Another character to make an appearance in the film, bumping into the League, is the Doctor, specifically the First Doctor, who also seems to be searching for Haddo. Sometime later, Orlando and Allan had lost contact with Mina and Allan falls into depression. Orlando says goodbye after Allan tries to pawn off Excalibur and leaves, taking the sword.
The DVD/Blu Ray Bonus feature was an animated story about Mina tracking down a supervillain named Vull the Invisible in 1964 and killing him, only for an emergency transmission to go out, forcing mina to don the helmet and attend the meeting of a superhero group Vull was infiltrating called the Seven Stars, with other heroes including Captain Universe, Marsman, Zom of the Zodiac,Satin Astro, Flash Avenger and Electro Girl. The group is backed by the United World Organization and are opposed by the British Government supported Victory Vanguard. The Seven Stars defeat, Toby the giant School boy, a mutated child that they return back to normal. They also become stranded between dimensions, including the Twilight Zone(they turn black and white and objects float through space, they are also visited by a member of the Q Continuum who resembles Rod Serling). This leads to a very little case of the "Big Lipped Alligator moment" as Zom of the Zodiac meets an old friend who is an alligator wizard in one of the universes and he is kind enough to send the group home. Unfortunately, while they were gone the British government released a blob like monster called "The Mass" to have their Superhero team defeat it and make them look good, only for them to fail. The Seven Stars join the fight, but Toby willingly allows himself to be transformed back into the two ton school boy and defeats the Mass by eating it, dying soon after. The British Government has the Media blame the Seven Stars for turning Toby back and the Seven Stars disbands.
Robert Downey Jr as Adenoid Hynkel
Nemo: Roses of Berlin(2010)
Set in 1941, Janni's daughter is married to Armand Robur, son of Nemo archenemy Jean Robur. Shortly after they are attacked and taken hostage, leading Janni and Broad Arrow Jack Jr to break into Berlin-Metropolis to rescue them(with an impressive recreation of the 1927 film's location but updated with modern technology) . They end up being confronted by the remains of the Twilight Heroes including the robot Maria(who's robotic nature is revealed Terminator style where her skin is burned away), Dr.Caligari and his sleeping soldiers, and Dr.Mabuse. Dr.Mabuse helps the group get closer in, hoping to overthrow the other members. Adenoid Hynkel(Robert Downey Jr), the leader of the Axis is also present. They also discover that Ayesha is present. Jack is killed but the newly weds are rescued. Dr.Caligari is killed mid command, resulting in his sleepwalker soldiers firing and destroying Maria by accident. Janni finally battles Ayesha in a sword fight, which ends in Ayesha's death and Janni escaping the Burning Berlin.
The extra material provided this time is an animated interview by Hildy Johnson(from This Girl Friday) of Janni, which mentions several events that are flashbacked to, including Janni stealing the corpse of King Kong to return him to Skull Island for a proper burial.
Daniel Radcliffe reprised his role as Harry Potter from the then recently concluded Film series
The extra material provided this time is an animated interview by Hildy Johnson(from This Girl Friday) of Janni, which mentions several events that are flashbacked to, including Janni stealing the corpse of King Kong to return him to Skull Island for a proper burial.
Daniel Radcliffe reprised his role as Harry Potter from the then recently concluded Film series
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Antichrist(2012)
While the comic version of the story was released in 2009, the film adaptation was intentionally moved to 2012, the release date. The last chapter went through more revisions than any other even in its comic form. Moore chose to depict Harry Potter as the Antichrist, originally, due to his dislike of the franchise. Of course, it was pointed out to Moore how problematic this seemed, as while Moore initially drew Harry as a spoiled brat, the canon Harry hated his destiny as the chosen one. The then still recent passing of JK Rowling, and the donation of most of her money going to charity. It was therefore in bad taste to depict her creation in such a way. However, Moore kept Harry as the Antichrist, but changed how he portrayed the character. Harry Potter was fighting against bringing about the end of the world. However, this meant there needed to be an extra antagonist to make the story work as planned. Moore decided to bring in another AntiChrist.
Prospero emerges from a mirror to berate Orlando for abandoning their mission, revealing the antichrist is now full grown. With no idea where Mina is, Orlando reluctantly goes to MI5 and is confronted by several spies claiming to be James Bond(the actual James Bond actors reprising their roles). He is brought to the new M, which is revealed to be Emma Peel(played by Judi Dench). James Bond also appears, now retired. He was captured while in America and held in Alcatraz under an assumed name until he escaped(a reference to the film the Rock). In order to hide his capture, agents were recruited to impersonate Bond. Emma provides Orlando with Mina's last known location in exchange for the location of the pool of immortality. Orlando is partnered with the current James Bond(Henry Cavill) and a similar case to the James Bond codename in Sherlock Holmes(Benedict Cumberbatch). Orlando runs into a homeless man revealed to be Allan, but he refuses to get involved. The League are able to find the imprisoned Mina in a mental institute and free her. They then head to Platform 9 3/4 and once again meet the Doctor(in his then current incarnation). The group then pass through the wall at Platform 9 3/4 and find the ruins of the Hogwarts Express, which they are are to get working, travelling through a wasteland to Hogwarts.
The League arrives at the ruins of Hogwarts(a cameo of what appears to be the corpse of Thomas the Tank Engine is among the wreckage. As the League walks through the ruins, they begin to piece together what happened. As they do so, an assault on Hogwarts is seen from a first person perspective. The Antichrist reaches a Pensieve in Dumbledore's office and places a memory inside. The memory of Voldemort appears and speaks to the Antichrist, revealing that Haddo found Riddle to be much like him and created the Antichrist as a backup plan before his death, however, this plan failed due to the love of Harry's mother. The actual Antichrist is in fact someone else.
The League goes to confront Harry Potter at Number 12 Grimmauld Place. A fight ensues between Harry and the League before the true Antichrist arrives, revealed to be Damien Thorn(played by Sam Neill, who Bond comments that he looks like someone he knew). The League battle the Antichrist. Allan arrives with a massive gun and fires a shot that blows the Antichrist apart but he regenerates with Quatermain being killed. However, he sends a signal flare given to him by Prospero and Mary Poppins(played by Emily Blunt) arrives. A magical battle begins between Mary Poppin and Damian Thorn that leads to Damian Thorn being transformed into a chalk drawing that is washed away in the rain. Mary Poppins then warns the League about Prospero before departing.
Allan is buried in Africa and Mina promises to lead Emma Peel, who has faked her death(implied to have been in Skyfall), A new League has been formed consisting of The Doctor, Harry Potter and the current incarnations of Sherlock Holmes and James Bond. Emma asks Mina how one deals with immortality and she tells her the answer is to keep living. The last show is of Allan's grave, the clouds above forming the image of a Lion(alluding to Mufasa from the Lion King).
It was actually the BBC that pushed the idea of a modern League being featured since they figured that was something everyone wanted to see. Allan Moore confessed to knowing nothing about modern pop culture and so had several directors and writers essentially ghost write certain parts to include more references to modern pop culture. Among the references are Entourage(Aquaman 2 is a film being promoted), 24(on a news report), The Thick of It(Malcolm Tucker being interviewed on TV as almost nothing but bleeps with Peter Capaldi in the role, though a deleted uncensored version of his rant exists), the band Driveshaft from Lost, and so on, notably it is mentioned that David Palmer is President, evidently having succeeded Josiah Bartlet.
The DVD, Blu-Ray included a Faux Shakespeare Play called Fairies Fortune Founded, which depicts the founding of original League, which was directed by Julie Taymor.
Prospero emerges from a mirror to berate Orlando for abandoning their mission, revealing the antichrist is now full grown. With no idea where Mina is, Orlando reluctantly goes to MI5 and is confronted by several spies claiming to be James Bond(the actual James Bond actors reprising their roles). He is brought to the new M, which is revealed to be Emma Peel(played by Judi Dench). James Bond also appears, now retired. He was captured while in America and held in Alcatraz under an assumed name until he escaped(a reference to the film the Rock). In order to hide his capture, agents were recruited to impersonate Bond. Emma provides Orlando with Mina's last known location in exchange for the location of the pool of immortality. Orlando is partnered with the current James Bond(Henry Cavill) and a similar case to the James Bond codename in Sherlock Holmes(Benedict Cumberbatch). Orlando runs into a homeless man revealed to be Allan, but he refuses to get involved. The League are able to find the imprisoned Mina in a mental institute and free her. They then head to Platform 9 3/4 and once again meet the Doctor(in his then current incarnation). The group then pass through the wall at Platform 9 3/4 and find the ruins of the Hogwarts Express, which they are are to get working, travelling through a wasteland to Hogwarts.
The League arrives at the ruins of Hogwarts(a cameo of what appears to be the corpse of Thomas the Tank Engine is among the wreckage. As the League walks through the ruins, they begin to piece together what happened. As they do so, an assault on Hogwarts is seen from a first person perspective. The Antichrist reaches a Pensieve in Dumbledore's office and places a memory inside. The memory of Voldemort appears and speaks to the Antichrist, revealing that Haddo found Riddle to be much like him and created the Antichrist as a backup plan before his death, however, this plan failed due to the love of Harry's mother. The actual Antichrist is in fact someone else.
The League goes to confront Harry Potter at Number 12 Grimmauld Place. A fight ensues between Harry and the League before the true Antichrist arrives, revealed to be Damien Thorn(played by Sam Neill, who Bond comments that he looks like someone he knew). The League battle the Antichrist. Allan arrives with a massive gun and fires a shot that blows the Antichrist apart but he regenerates with Quatermain being killed. However, he sends a signal flare given to him by Prospero and Mary Poppins(played by Emily Blunt) arrives. A magical battle begins between Mary Poppin and Damian Thorn that leads to Damian Thorn being transformed into a chalk drawing that is washed away in the rain. Mary Poppins then warns the League about Prospero before departing.
Allan is buried in Africa and Mina promises to lead Emma Peel, who has faked her death(implied to have been in Skyfall), A new League has been formed consisting of The Doctor, Harry Potter and the current incarnations of Sherlock Holmes and James Bond. Emma asks Mina how one deals with immortality and she tells her the answer is to keep living. The last show is of Allan's grave, the clouds above forming the image of a Lion(alluding to Mufasa from the Lion King).
It was actually the BBC that pushed the idea of a modern League being featured since they figured that was something everyone wanted to see. Allan Moore confessed to knowing nothing about modern pop culture and so had several directors and writers essentially ghost write certain parts to include more references to modern pop culture. Among the references are Entourage(Aquaman 2 is a film being promoted), 24(on a news report), The Thick of It(Malcolm Tucker being interviewed on TV as almost nothing but bleeps with Peter Capaldi in the role, though a deleted uncensored version of his rant exists), the band Driveshaft from Lost, and so on, notably it is mentioned that David Palmer is President, evidently having succeeded Josiah Bartlet.
The DVD, Blu-Ray included a Faux Shakespeare Play called Fairies Fortune Founded, which depicts the founding of original League, which was directed by Julie Taymor.
Nemo: River of Ghosts(2013)
Set in 1975, Janni plans to go one one final adventure, having received information on a conspiracy there. Janni recruits the superhuman Hugo Hercules and they travel through Maple White Land, encountering Dinosaurs and the gill men from Creature from the Black Lagoon. They finally discover the truth, a secret Nazi Facility that is creating both clones of Hynkel(referencing the Boys from Brazil) and female androids(alluding to the Stepford Wives), Both under the command of Dieter Vogel(from the film The Debt, albeit much younger Here), and Dr.Goldfoot(from Dr.Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine). They are also attempting to clone Ayesha. The final battle concludes with the attempted escaping Nazis accidentally crashing into a nest of Gill Men creatures and Janni finally killing the Ayesha clones. Janni, sensing her death is nigh, remains behind as the Nautilus takes off, dying on a throne of a pile of her enemies.
The Bonus animated story on the DVD this time is an event mentioned by Hugo Hercules, where in 1930 he was hired by Clark Savage Sr to kill superhuman Hugo Danner, tracking him down to the ruins of Utopia and engaging in battle with him, finally succeeding in killing him.
The Bonus animated story on the DVD this time is an event mentioned by Hugo Hercules, where in 1930 he was hired by Clark Savage Sr to kill superhuman Hugo Danner, tracking him down to the ruins of Utopia and engaging in battle with him, finally succeeding in killing him.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Tempest(2014)
The Final chapter of the film series as Alan Moore announced his retirement. Tempest begins with Emma Peel entering the enchanted Pool and emerging younger.
"Avengers Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover of all time."
Alternate Universe super Commercialized Alan Moore:
In the Future, Satin Astro, time traveller and former of the Seven Stars is fleeing from an attack by an unknown enemy(referenced are Neo Queen Serenity, the Legion of Superheroes, and Planet Express). Satin Astro travels to 2012, a year she recognizes as when the world nearly ended but historical records from that time were lost. She recruits Mars Marsman. Meanwhile back in the present:
"Congratulations on becoming the new M, Mr. Bond."
"Why thank you Basil Exposition."
-the reveal that Bond is now M with Michael York reprising his role.
In her absence, the original James Bond(played by Sean Connery) has become the New M and has an "entourage"(every other James Bond actor as a group that just follows him around as bodyguards). He also de-thaws Austin Powers(who even points out that he's just a cameo before leaving) and another weaker Bond spy(played by Woody Allen). Viewing security footage of a young Emma with Mina and Orlando, Bond puts two and two together and heads to where he deduces the enchanted pool is. Bond then finds and enters the pool and emerges as a young man once more, proclaiming the new M is a new man. He then kills the Woody Allen Bond that followed him and leaves a suitcase Nuke behind, which is set on a timer. Bond appears to go to the plane, seemingly intending to leave the other Bond actors behind but then steps out and warns them to get in. They all watch as the nuke goes off. Emma, Mina and Orlando hear about this on the news(the new also mentions Terrance and Phillips from South park and Frank Underwood from House of Cards), which also declares Mina, Emma and Orlando, fugitives due to Emma stealing classified documents. With nowhere else to go, the women decide to go find Janni Dakkar and travel to their base on Lincoln Island. Bond begins reading a copy of the Black Dossier, parts of which are seen and animated. From this he learns about the Blazing World and sets out with his entourage in a submarine, finding its location and firing a nuke through it that appears to completely destroy it.
Mina, Emma and Orlando encounter Hugo Hercules on Lincoln Island and are taken to Jack Nemo. It is revealed that Augustus Van Dusen saved his memory in a supercomputer, something he did using technology that couldn't be used until decades later. Meanwhile Satin Astro and Marsman visit a retirement home for Superheroes, including many famous cameos such as an elderly Billy Batson, who keeps trying to say "Shazam" only being able to say "Zam" and elderly versions of Captain America and the Green Hornet. It is here that they recruit Captain Universe, and Electrogirl. One element introduced is that a conspiracy theory known as the "Superman Theory" is that most superheroes are American because fo a government project to create supersoldiers, with a falsified video shown of fictional actors such as Norma Desmond, seemingly staging the finding of a young baby Kal-el on the Kent Farm, a video allegedly leaked by Lexcorp. Captain Universe begins to doubt himself as a hero. Mina and Captain Jack Nemo head to the Blazing World and find that Prospero is magically holding back the explosion. Prospero contains the blast and places it within a box to be delivered to MI5 by a fairy. Mina learns form Queen Gloriana that Prospero intends to unleash the forces of the Fairie Realm against the mortal world in revenge. Prospero stands before a massive army of creatures from across fiction including Godzilla, King Kong, Gort from the Day the Earth Stood Still, the giant Ants from Them, Gamera, and so on. Prospero also reveals his true identity.
"Children of the Night. What music they make."
Prospero shapeshifts into several forms, including Dracula, Pennywise and finally his true form as Nyarlahotep. Mina flees back to the Nautilus. A Demogorgon emerges, though it is not named(it resembles its Dungeons and Dragons form, but seems to be mutating into something that resembles its Stranger Things incarnation, which was in development at the time). Hugo Hercules is able to defeat the Demogorgon and allow the group to flee. Mina returns to the Nautilus. Around the world everywhere is being attacked by monsters. Vampires in Transylvania, Genies in the Middle East, Kaiju in America and Japan, Werewolves in London and so on. Emma and Orlando travel to MI5 with the intent of killing James Bond out of revenge for killing Emma's father. Captain Universe also arrives due to a psychic at the Superhero retirement home predicting disaster at MI5, leading to the bomb being discovered and contained. Bond half heartedly apologizes to Emma but insists he was on a mission. Captain Universe is able to pull everyone out except for Bond, who is seemingly killed in the blast, contained only to the MI5 building. Across the world, Superheroes and other elements begin to turn the tide of the battle, the Ghostbusters defeat supernatural enemies, civilians resembling the cast of Resident Evil, Left 4 Dead, and the Walking Dead are seen fighting off zombies, Giant robots are deployed to battle the Kaiju while some of the Kaiju break free of the mind control they seemed to be under and turn against each other. Billy Batson finally succeeds in saying Shazam and transforms while other elderly heroes emerge to fight off the attacks. All around the world the attack begins to be turned around. The Doctor aids James Bond in transporting the bomb in the wooden box back to the Blazing World, intending to have Prospero die from the same blast originally intended to kill him. With the aid of the Nautlilus a second Nuke is sent through and Prospero is distracted holding back the blast. The original James Bond, entering the Blazing World with the bomb originally sent to him, sacrificing himself to set off the bomb, which vaporizes Prospero.
The Epilogue is devoted to much of the world moving on as well as the reveal that Jack Nemo is building a spaceship version of the Nautilus. The final shots jump ahead to show Mina still alive in the spaceship Nautilus, as several quick shots further in time are shown, including an apocalyptic war leading to a wasteland where intelligent apes and Terminators fight each other, Neo and John Connor fight machines, soldiers using Power Armor, the rise of Megacities and the Judges, contact with the Vulcans. The Federation at war with the Principality of Zeon, the Reapers, their defeat(a mention is made of President Archer giving a medal to Commander Sheperd on a news broadcast), an invasion of the Daleks, the Covenant and so on. Finally the story resumes in the 30th Century, shortly after Satin Astro travelled back in time, where the Legion of Superheroes are seen heading towards the scene of the crime with what is clearly a young Superman in their ranks, brought forward by time travel. The last shot is of what is clearly an elderly Superman with Clark Kent glasses watching the scene and smiling. The screen cuts to black and the song "Dance to the Music of Time" plays(while a novel OTL, ITTL Dance to the Music of Time was turned into an Opera with a classical music song that gradually shifts into different styles of music).
"Avengers Infinity War is the most ambitious crossover of all time."
Alternate Universe super Commercialized Alan Moore:
In the Future, Satin Astro, time traveller and former of the Seven Stars is fleeing from an attack by an unknown enemy(referenced are Neo Queen Serenity, the Legion of Superheroes, and Planet Express). Satin Astro travels to 2012, a year she recognizes as when the world nearly ended but historical records from that time were lost. She recruits Mars Marsman. Meanwhile back in the present:
"Congratulations on becoming the new M, Mr. Bond."
"Why thank you Basil Exposition."
-the reveal that Bond is now M with Michael York reprising his role.
In her absence, the original James Bond(played by Sean Connery) has become the New M and has an "entourage"(every other James Bond actor as a group that just follows him around as bodyguards). He also de-thaws Austin Powers(who even points out that he's just a cameo before leaving) and another weaker Bond spy(played by Woody Allen). Viewing security footage of a young Emma with Mina and Orlando, Bond puts two and two together and heads to where he deduces the enchanted pool is. Bond then finds and enters the pool and emerges as a young man once more, proclaiming the new M is a new man. He then kills the Woody Allen Bond that followed him and leaves a suitcase Nuke behind, which is set on a timer. Bond appears to go to the plane, seemingly intending to leave the other Bond actors behind but then steps out and warns them to get in. They all watch as the nuke goes off. Emma, Mina and Orlando hear about this on the news(the new also mentions Terrance and Phillips from South park and Frank Underwood from House of Cards), which also declares Mina, Emma and Orlando, fugitives due to Emma stealing classified documents. With nowhere else to go, the women decide to go find Janni Dakkar and travel to their base on Lincoln Island. Bond begins reading a copy of the Black Dossier, parts of which are seen and animated. From this he learns about the Blazing World and sets out with his entourage in a submarine, finding its location and firing a nuke through it that appears to completely destroy it.
Mina, Emma and Orlando encounter Hugo Hercules on Lincoln Island and are taken to Jack Nemo. It is revealed that Augustus Van Dusen saved his memory in a supercomputer, something he did using technology that couldn't be used until decades later. Meanwhile Satin Astro and Marsman visit a retirement home for Superheroes, including many famous cameos such as an elderly Billy Batson, who keeps trying to say "Shazam" only being able to say "Zam" and elderly versions of Captain America and the Green Hornet. It is here that they recruit Captain Universe, and Electrogirl. One element introduced is that a conspiracy theory known as the "Superman Theory" is that most superheroes are American because fo a government project to create supersoldiers, with a falsified video shown of fictional actors such as Norma Desmond, seemingly staging the finding of a young baby Kal-el on the Kent Farm, a video allegedly leaked by Lexcorp. Captain Universe begins to doubt himself as a hero. Mina and Captain Jack Nemo head to the Blazing World and find that Prospero is magically holding back the explosion. Prospero contains the blast and places it within a box to be delivered to MI5 by a fairy. Mina learns form Queen Gloriana that Prospero intends to unleash the forces of the Fairie Realm against the mortal world in revenge. Prospero stands before a massive army of creatures from across fiction including Godzilla, King Kong, Gort from the Day the Earth Stood Still, the giant Ants from Them, Gamera, and so on. Prospero also reveals his true identity.
"Children of the Night. What music they make."
Prospero shapeshifts into several forms, including Dracula, Pennywise and finally his true form as Nyarlahotep. Mina flees back to the Nautilus. A Demogorgon emerges, though it is not named(it resembles its Dungeons and Dragons form, but seems to be mutating into something that resembles its Stranger Things incarnation, which was in development at the time). Hugo Hercules is able to defeat the Demogorgon and allow the group to flee. Mina returns to the Nautilus. Around the world everywhere is being attacked by monsters. Vampires in Transylvania, Genies in the Middle East, Kaiju in America and Japan, Werewolves in London and so on. Emma and Orlando travel to MI5 with the intent of killing James Bond out of revenge for killing Emma's father. Captain Universe also arrives due to a psychic at the Superhero retirement home predicting disaster at MI5, leading to the bomb being discovered and contained. Bond half heartedly apologizes to Emma but insists he was on a mission. Captain Universe is able to pull everyone out except for Bond, who is seemingly killed in the blast, contained only to the MI5 building. Across the world, Superheroes and other elements begin to turn the tide of the battle, the Ghostbusters defeat supernatural enemies, civilians resembling the cast of Resident Evil, Left 4 Dead, and the Walking Dead are seen fighting off zombies, Giant robots are deployed to battle the Kaiju while some of the Kaiju break free of the mind control they seemed to be under and turn against each other. Billy Batson finally succeeds in saying Shazam and transforms while other elderly heroes emerge to fight off the attacks. All around the world the attack begins to be turned around. The Doctor aids James Bond in transporting the bomb in the wooden box back to the Blazing World, intending to have Prospero die from the same blast originally intended to kill him. With the aid of the Nautlilus a second Nuke is sent through and Prospero is distracted holding back the blast. The original James Bond, entering the Blazing World with the bomb originally sent to him, sacrificing himself to set off the bomb, which vaporizes Prospero.
The Epilogue is devoted to much of the world moving on as well as the reveal that Jack Nemo is building a spaceship version of the Nautilus. The final shots jump ahead to show Mina still alive in the spaceship Nautilus, as several quick shots further in time are shown, including an apocalyptic war leading to a wasteland where intelligent apes and Terminators fight each other, Neo and John Connor fight machines, soldiers using Power Armor, the rise of Megacities and the Judges, contact with the Vulcans. The Federation at war with the Principality of Zeon, the Reapers, their defeat(a mention is made of President Archer giving a medal to Commander Sheperd on a news broadcast), an invasion of the Daleks, the Covenant and so on. Finally the story resumes in the 30th Century, shortly after Satin Astro travelled back in time, where the Legion of Superheroes are seen heading towards the scene of the crime with what is clearly a young Superman in their ranks, brought forward by time travel. The last shot is of what is clearly an elderly Superman with Clark Kent glasses watching the scene and smiling. The screen cuts to black and the song "Dance to the Music of Time" plays(while a novel OTL, ITTL Dance to the Music of Time was turned into an Opera with a classical music song that gradually shifts into different styles of music).
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While I love the description of the League films , you failed to mention who played Irene .
I left it vague on purpose as I couldn't really think of a specific actress and I wasn't sure to go with the actress from the Robert Downey Jr Holmes films as she was quite young at the time.
I honestly think Tails Waititi would have been a better option for Adenoid Hynkel, after all he did do a humorous Hitler OTL.
The reason why it isn’t Taika Watiti was because he was playing an imaginary Hitler and a lot of the jokes revolves around him being an imaginary friend and a version a child would think of. Here Hynkel is an already existing character and Downey has proven he can impersonate Charlie Chaplin, making him more fitting.
