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 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
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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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).