The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen/WMG: Difference between revisions

== [[Back to The Future | Biff Tannen]] is this universe's equivalent to [[Donald Trump]]. ==

**Alternatively, [[A Fairly Odd Movie: Grow Up, Timmy Turner! | Hugh Magnate]] is this world's Trump-equivalent,and was mocked greatly while running for President, for believing that fairies exist.

**Or, Trump is still Trump, but he's a descendant of [[Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey | Baron Trump]].

**Or his surname is [[Historical In-Joke | Drumpf]].

** 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.

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)||martians]] both exist in the same universe around this time, it's a pretty safe bet that [[The Time Machine]] exists as well. It's entirely possible that one or more of the characters could have used it to visit the future that Frank Herbert described in the [[Dune]] books. And Gullivar and John Carter ''did'' mention the Molluscs performing genetic experiments during their time on Mars. Maybe the Sandworms are the descendants of one of these experiments.

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.