A friend brought up this question at dinner the other night, so I figured it’d be fun to toss the idea out here.
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the book, not the piece of shit movie) was a great idea, mixing together a bunch of classic Victorian era characters together into one team. So, if evil were to rear it’s ugly head today, and you were able to put together a team of five of today’s pop-culture characters together to be heroes, who would you choose? My picks:
Indiana Jones: Skilled with a whip and a pistol and possessing an incredible amount of knowledge of the occult, this archeology professor would be a great addition and wonderful leader, in my mind. Sure, he may be getting along in years, but with all his odd adventures, I’m sure some explaination could be created to help keep him faily young for a modern day adventure (he is kinda immortal, right?). Even so, Quartermain was an old fart when he joined the team, and he proved himself well…the two are essentially different sides of the same coin, so it’s only fitting.
Ash: Sure, he’s a dumbass, but he’s one of my favorite characters, and face it…the bastard’s invincible! Okay, not really, but how many times should this guy have died and yet walked away? He’s one tough cookie, and seeing as how it seems he finally got over the whole “everybody but me tends to die” syndrome he suffered from the first two Evil Dead movies, I’m sure he’d fit in nicely.
The Million Dollar Man: Well, every team needs a power hitter for the occassional impromtue escape hatch threw a brick wall, and although I’m sure his implants are in serious need of an update by now, I’m sure he’s still as strong as ever.
Willow: There needs to be at least one woman on the team, and what better place to find one than from Buffy? Still, we’ve got enough people that can just beat the shit out of the enemy, so who needs a slayer? A witch, on the other hand, would prove to be rather useful.
James Bond: He’s the world’s greatest secret agent, and has defeated pretty much every kind of crazed, world hungry madman out there, so where would a team designed to fight evil be without him? Of course, this is all assuming that Q is still going to be on hand to dish out the lovely little toys (Cpt. Nemo had all his engineers, I don’t see why not). Still, if for some reason the two don’t come as a packaged deal, I’d pick Q then. There are plenty of people who can use his gadgets, so sacrificing one more for the actual inventor would be a much better trade in my mind. Still, it wouldn’t be so bad to have his good buddy along with him, knowwhatImean.