The whole big thing Alan Moore was trying to do with League of Extraordinary Gentlemen was to do a pastiche of famous public domain Brit-lit characters that was NOT a Sherlock Holmes story, a Dracula story, or a Sherlock Holmes/Dracula crossover Cause most of them arehttps://twitter.com/raffleupagus/status/1312593159076089856 …
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Mina's character, of course, revolves around the idea that Dracula himself is dead and not coming back And the whole idea of the League is they only created it because Sherlock is assumed to be dead, if he weren't then Mycroft would've just called him
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I kinda thought he was just chumming around in Wold-Newton territory.
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Sherlock is obviously not actually dead, as anyone who has read the stories knows, but during the first LXG arc he's pretty invested in making sure everyone thinks he is
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I meant moore was chumming around in the WNU playground. I thought he was just trying out that whole shtick. I was unaware of the specific authorial intent of "no holmes" and "no dracular".
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Yeah everyone asked him why he chose to set the story during the "Sherlock is dead" time period between The Final Problem and The Empty House and he said he couldn't have Holmes actually be in the story and do him justice without him taking over everything
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Same with why he didn't use Dracula as a villain, because if you really do that character justice then the vampire lore also takes over everything Hence the twist of making Mina a "half vampire" good guy instead (Cf. Penny Dreadful, which did go ham with the Dracula stuff)
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