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They started out as one of the world's first big software corporations before eventually making the brain-interface computers used by cyberspace cowboys to jack into the Matrix. They're also the manufacturers of a video-game console called the "[[Xbox|X-Deck]]", which eventually evolves into the ever-popular Simstim deck.
== [[Back to The Future
*The alternate timeline's version of Biff in [[Back to The Future Part II]] was based on Donald Trump. Given LoEG's tendency to blend fiction and reality, it would only make sense if this universe's version of Trump was the alternate timeline's version of Biff.
**Alternatively, [[A Fairly
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**Or his surname is [[Historical In-Joke
** Or [[Pixels|Will Cooper]] is the Trump-equivalent, and his approval rating soared when he helped defeat an alien invasion.
*While we're on the subject of U.S. Presidents, [[Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator|Lancelot R. Gilligrass]] is probably this universe's [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]] equivalent.
== If [[The Threepenny Opera|Mack The Knife]] is [[Jack the Ripper]], then [[The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui|Arturo Ui]] is [[Al Capone]] ==
* Ui was partially based on Hitler, and partially based on Al Capone. Since the role of Hitler in this universe is taken up by [[The Great Dictator|Adenoid Hynkel]], it is likely then that the role of Al Capone is taken up by Arturo Ui, who is a Hynkel-supporter.
* While we're on the subject of Brecht plays, maybe [[The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny|Mahagonny]] becomes the equivalent to [[Las Vegas]] after [[Doomed Protagonist|Jimmy]]'s death.
== At some point, the team travels to America and meets [[Dollars Trilogy|The Man With No Name]] ==
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== Mars, in this universe, eventually becomes known as [[Dune|Arrakis]] ==
I doubt this was intentional, but still...the outfit that Gullivar Jones wears in the second volume reminded me a lot of a Fremen stillsuit, complete with a gasmask and Arab-inspired robe/burnoose combo. Combined with the various Middle-Eastern motifs in the Mars scenes (hell, the book opens with Gullivar riding a flying carpet), it seems more than a little bit reminiscent of ''[[Dune]]''. Then again, if [[The Invisible Man]] and [[H. G. Wells]]' [[The War of the Worlds (novel)
* The existence of the [[The Time Machine]] was confirmed in the Story Allan and the Sundered Veil, in which he fights alongside Allan against {{spoiler|Lovecraft's Great Old Ones}}, so the theory definitely works.
== Jonathan Harker wasn't necessarily the bad guy in his marriage with Mina. ==
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== The [[James Bond]] character in Black Dossier is not the same man who appears in the Bond novels and movies. ==
As in the original ''Casino Royale'' movie (and one of the theories on the [[James Bond (film)/WMG|James Bond]] WMG page), the name is passed on to whatever agent currently holds the 007 rank.
* He's certainly not Pierce Brosnan. But it's possible that he's Roger Moore.
* It could be the James from the novels. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen doesn't pay much attention to the continuity of the films, just classic literature.
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== Before the end of the 20th century, our heroes will live through some kind of nuclear exchange ==
A lot of fiction has been made based on the idea that there was some kind of atomic war in the three generations after [[World War Two]]. A ''lot''. If its coming, then we ought to see it sometime around [[The Eighties]], since atomic war fiction before then tends towards potenially kick-ass after-effects (example off the top of my head - Asimov's "I, Robot" collection), while fiction during and after then points up potentially horrific side-effects ([[Threads]], [[Mad Max]]), while also marking a rise in the number of [[Commando (film)|guntoting g]][[The Terminator|oons in pop fi]][[Rambo|ction]]. Maybe it ties into the [[Crisis on Infinite Earths]], maybe it doesn't. Whichever, our protagonists better [[wikipedia:Nuclear winter|dress up warm]], and start watching out for [[Youngblood: Judgment Day|cyborg-versus-atomic-zombie brutality]]...
* And Watchmen will be involved somehow.
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* Superhero comics are probably not that big a deal anymore, but with the anniversary of a few significant deaths coming up, studios are working on some [[Green Lantern (film)|big]] [[Dark Knight Trilogy|budget]] [[The Man of Steel|biopic]] [[Marvel Cinematic Universe|films]].
** Though many young people still have nostalgic memories of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w&ob=av3e this particular cartoon series]
* Based on a series of documents leaked around a decade ago about a weird division of [[MI 6]] in the Victorian period, which quite caught the public imagination at the time, a few writers have tried [http://sanctuary.wikia.com/wiki/The_Five_%28group%29 their] [[wikipedia:The Establishment (comics)|own]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20141202083315/http://home.earthlink.net/~rkkman/frames/summaries/S13.htm take] on the idea. Of course, no-one really cares about those stories anymore.
== The regions in the [[Pokémon]] franchise are the geologically warped remains of Japan ==
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*** You convinced me. Better than I would have guessed.
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