Ok…
I’ll be stretching the time period rule but…
Simon Templar “The Saint” Master of disguise, weapons experts and contacts all over the world.
The Bride for the reasons stated above
Ray from Ghostbusters I picked him because he has a knowledge of science and the occult and knows how to deal with the supernatural.
Barnabus Collins Never hurts to have a vampire on your side.
The Professor A man who can make a geiger counter out of a cocoanut and bamboo has got to be an asset to the team.
First person I thought upon seeing the first sentence was the ever popular Indiana Jones L, Second was H.P. Lovecraft (if we want an unbalanced HPL character, since West was already named- how about Charles Dexter Ward?, but I like the real HP better)
Others (keeping within the relative timeline)-
Quincey Harker (son of Jonathan & Mina),
Dr. Ransom (Edwin?) from CS Lewis’s Space Trilogy,
lessee… maybe for Action Girl, Susan Penvese (grown up) sp? of the Narnia children?
Alternately…
Forrest Gump- talent, getting into & out of historical situations
Karl from SLING BLADE- swift & deadly with a kaiser blade, some folks call it a sling blade, and also likes them french fried po-tay-ters
Raymond “Rain Man”- mathematical whiz
Nell- causes diversion by taking clothes off randomly
Leonardo DiCaprio’s character from GILBERT GRAPE- haven’t seen it so I really have no idea
The Gimp- witty repartee’
I’ll limit my picks to quasi-realistic characters from classic movies set in the 80s and 90s. The team should have variety, characters shouldn’t be too similar to each other.
Buckaroo Banzai: Leader. No on one and yes on two. The Hong Kong Cavaliers were all killed by the World Crime League, and now he’s putting together a new team.
**Jack Burton ** from Big Trouble in Little China. Brawler, Trucker, Comic relief. When the going gets tough, you know what Jack Burton says?
Jules from Pulp Fiction. Every team needs a Bad Motherfucker. He’s walking the Earth, like Caine from Kung Fu, helping people. “And you will know my name is the LORD when I lay my vengenence upon you!”
Mitch Taylor. The young kid from Real Genius. Yes, Val Kilmer’s character would be nice, but we’ve already got too many smartasses. Adds techno-know-how. If you need a bromium exomer laser whipped up or secret computer files broken into he’s the guy you call.
Maverick from Top Gun. Every team needs a hot-shot fighter pilot who makes his own rules, no matter how much those pencil-pushers back at headquarters squeal.
Crocodile Dundee. Outdoorsman, can track villains through the wilderness, make friends with animals, and sweep city-girls off their feet all at the same time.
Dana Sculley. From the X-Files movie. Doctor, Scientist, FBI Agent, Goddess. Too bad our forbidden love can never be…
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Good choices, but I’m not sure how effective The Six Million Dollar Man is going to be if they repo-ed five million in enhancements.
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Too much contemplation over whether to use the 6 or spell Six, and I forgot to include either. Well, hell, with the way our economy’s been over the past couple of years and all the problems the tech business had after it’s boom, chances are, some of his bits have gone bankrupt, so who knows?
Oh, as for the restrictions…I thought about putting more on, because teams could just end up being slimmed down X-Men teams, or as we saw, the Justice League, but cutting out comic book characters cuts out a huge patch of pop heros, so I figured I’d leave it in. Still, there are some great teams that avoid comic characters out there (I really like the sound of Big Bad Voodoo Lou’s team, for example).
As for Star Trek characters, I guess they could still work, due to the fact that there were so many damned time travel episodes, it’s possible any of them could have been caught in a trans-warp flow ripple effect caused by the quadrandible byflux jiggamahoo and ended up in 2004.
Yes, but whenever he’s around, you always find yourself in a life-and-death chase with Nazis and/or ancient cults. That man is a trouble magnet.
This isn’t fair, comparing your dream team to TLOEG, since the pool of characters in TLOEG had to be public domain characters (copyrights never sought or lapsed). You try choosing only those characters for whom your use of them will not lead to lawsuit.
Peace.
Don’t forget to mention the snakes!
I decided that I’d start over from scratch, so I gave this a lot of thought at lunch yesterday. Alas, two of my picks were already mentioned, since I forgot about this thread until today, but I guess that doesn’t matter 
Anita Blake- Raises the dead (a useful skill if more violent team members get carried away), has useful connections to werewolves and vampires.
Laura Croft- Expert with weaponry, seems to have more money than God.
Dana Scully there’s no “e” in her name, people!- Investigative and pathology skills useful (perhaps she and Blake can work together. Autopsy, then re-animation!), keen sense of science-based logic, used to dealing with paranoid people…
Hermione Granger- Spells are always useful, as well as the desire to look things up so the adults don’t have to. She’d also be useful for reconnaissance, since who’d suspect a young girl of spying?
Roland (The Gunslinger) - Good with a gun, well aware that “there are other worlds than these”.
John Ross (Knight of the Word) - He dreams damnation. It’s a useful tool for determining if the team is on the right track.
Adrian Mole- Has no super powers or expecially useful skills - other than being a good chef- but every group needs a prissy neurotic.
Buffy Summers (alternately either Spike or Angel)-Asskicker #1, supernatural experience
James Bond- Infiltration, utility player.
John Shaft (alternately Jules from PF)- Urban contacts, backup asskicker
The Bride- Asskicker #2. Crime knowledge.
Fox Mulder- Supernatural, extraterrestrial and conspiracy backgrounds.
Indiana Jones is too cool to pass up. Just say the Grail made him as young in 2004 as Harrison Ford is today.
Hmmm… I think we’re going about this all wrong. TLOEG is composed primarily of villains. We need a pulp Suicide Squad, not a pulp Justice League.
Allan Quatermain - hero
Mina Harker - hero
Captain Nemo - hero
Hawley Griffin (Invisible Man) - villain
Dr. Jekyll - hero; Mr. Hyde - villain
I’ll admit the heroes are more morally ambiguous than usual, but I wouldn’t say that Alan Moore’s group was primarily villains.
Major pedant: Custer doesn’t actually see Wayne’s ghost. We know this because Wayne first began talking to Jesse three years while the actor was still alive. Standard theory is that Wayne’s appearances are Jesse unconsciously telling himself what he needs to do when he doesn’t consciously know, which is borne out by Wayne appearing only when Jesse is uncertain. When Jesse is moving by himself or too drunk to move at all, Wayne is absent.
My vote for this slot is Gideon “King Mob” Stargrave.
According to Young Indiana Jones, Indy was born in 1898. Also, do remember that the effects of the Grail wear off when you stop drinking from it - remember the Grail knight’s two brothers died of old age when they left the canyon?
If you need a contemporary, non-physical character for your team - and I think we do - then I recommend Lincoln Rhyme. He has all the characteristics you listed for Indy, plus he’s of a realistic age.
You’d almost have to have Mulder, I think.
What’s the League without Sean Connery? Marko Ramius even has a cool, high-tech submarine!
Personally speaking, I believe the League should and must draw from literature rather than film. West would absolutely be in a 1930’s League (along with the Phantom, the Shadow and Miss Marple), but not the contemporary League.
You know, I’ve had a thought. By the original dating, Asimov’s robopsychologist Susan Calvin is now contemporary.
In which case, go to the source material: John Rambo. Not the sequel Rambo, but the Rambo of Morrell’s original nobel: a psychotic ex-Marine drifting through America. He’s perfect.
And of course, Mina Harker can still be in the League.
Actually, though I’m not sure when the original Rambo novel was written (I didn’t know there WAS a novel!), the Punisher has been around since the 1970s (first appeared in Amazing Spider-Man #129). He has more in common with adventure fiction heroes Remo Williams (the Destroyer) and especially Mack Bolan (the Executioner) than Rambo.
Wait, I thought of a new league: The quasi-superheroes of action-adventure 70s television.
MacGyver: Obvious. Every team needs a tech wiz.
David Banner: “Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry”.
Steve Austin: Only Six Million bucks? A bargain. We can rebuild him. Make him better than he was before. Better. Stronger. Faster.
The Man from Atlantis: Patrick Duffy with webbed hands and swim trunks and gills. Every team needs a sea-based hero.
Bo and Luke Duke: Can drive any vehicle, jump any canyon, crash any roadblock. Experts with bows, dynamite, huntin’, fishin’, and moonshine. Someday the mountain might get them, but the Law never will. (Since we have these two, we don’t need Knight Rider, since his only power was his robot car.)
Wonder Woman: In her satin tights, fighting for our rights. The 70s TV show version isn’t too overpowered. The magic lasso. The bullet-deflecting bracelets. The cleavage. Perfect.
Mork, from Ork: A cocaine-fueled Robin Williams is a supervillain’s worst nightmare. Can drink water with his finger, chew furniture, and riff on pop culture.
And the shadowy leader of the team:
J.R. Uses his vast fortune and cunning to fight the forces of evil. Not above pulling a few dirty tricks on the enemies of freedom. A man to be feared and respected.
I think somebody already mentioned this, but simply must Indy, not just because he’s the one member universally agreed on but also because he has been granted unnatural long life by drinking from the Holy Grail - so he should easily live a few hundred years in which to lead the League. The knights did die after they stopped drinking, but my fanwank is that the older you get, the more often you need to drink. Your first sip will last fine for the first hundred years or so.
Hiro Protagonist (Snowcrash) – Because a moder League would need a computer expert, preferably one who’s also good with a katana. Gets the group free pizza.
Rupert Giles/Ripper (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) – a badass with encyclopedic knowledge of evil who can do a few spells besides? Bring it. He’s only League member who can reason with…
Mrs. Coulter (His Dark Materials) – (No, not Ann, for the love of all things) Beautiful, mesmerizing, and very keen on sucking out souls. Plus, two words: monkey sidekick.
**Elle Driver ** (Kill Bill) – Blind, but still a badass. No one is really sure of her loyalties at any given time.
Captain Marko Ramius (The Hunt for Red October) – As it turns out, Montana was kinda boring. Plus, ya gotta have a submarine.
The Corinthian (Sandman) – Daniel doesn’t have much use for him, but is reluctant to unmake him again. Is generally a scary badass, and can enter the dreams of the League’s enemies for intel as well.
The Six Million Dollar Man and The Bionic Woman.
Michael Knight and KITT
The A-Team
Riggs and Murtaugh
John McClane
Dirty Harry
Shaft
Lenny Briscoe
Andy Sipowicz
uh…the bald guy from the Shield.
Snake Plissken
Mad Max
Trinity
John Connor
Zephrem Cochraine
The all-blind LoEG:
(May contain spoilers to movies…)
Daredevil
Dr. Mid-Nite from the Justice Society Of America
Master Po(?) from Kung Fu
Agent Sands from Once Upon A Time In Mexico
Elle Driver from Kill Bill
I just want to say that is completely and unreservedly awesome.
(PS: The Corinthian has no eyes, does that count?)
Thank you very much! And yeah, I wasn’t even thinking about him, put him in there too!