The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen/YMMV

The comics:

• Bile Fascination: As the series became ever weirder and the Take Thats more explicit, some people showed up just to see messed up/off the rails things had gotten.
• Canon Defilement: Harry Potter's Lawyer-Friendly Cameo involves him literally being the Antichrist. James Bond's has him as Too Incompetent to Operate a Blanket.
• Complete Monster:
  • Griffin: In the first book, he murders a completely innocent policeman And that's far from the worst thing he does. Why? Because he can do it and get away with it. He gives the reason that he felt a bit chilly and the policeman had a uniform, but throughout the story he seems quite unable to resist the temptation of using his undetectability to do terrible things to people.
    • He's introduced living undected inside a girl's boarding school, where he rapes the girls with impunity because they (and the teacher) believes that he is the "Holy Spirit", even getting several of them pregnant as a result.
  • Fantomas: who Mina describes as more inhuman and frightening than Dracula.
    • On that note, Dracula himself. Apparently bad enough to make Mina feel fine about Hyde.
  • The "Chinese Doctor": who makes Quatermain weak-kneed with just a look, as he glimpses him calmly torturing a man.
  • Hyde: Arguably subverted, especially in the second book. Hyde is a literal monster and kills with reckless abandon, but he's not crazy or anything.
  • Nemo: too can channel a Complete Monster vibe when he feels like it, although he focuses it solely on his enemies (he is, however, completely horrified when Dr Moreau and the British government reveal and use biological weapons against the Martians, so he has limits).
  • "Jimmy" is a serial rapist and a sexual sadist and also a backstabbing double-agent.
• Crack Pairing: Since the series deals with the relationships between various fictional characters, this happens quite a bit. Most visibly with Quartermain and Murray, but it happens with minor characters as well. Frankenstein's monster and his wife Olympia from Tales of Hoffman come to mind.
• Designated Hero: The League in Tempest. The Moonchild was hiding away in Grimmauld Place trying very hard to be an Anti-Anti-Christ. Then the League provoked him into rampaging.
• Fanfic Fuel: Every piece of British media exists in there somewhere.
• Genius Bonus: Pretty much every damn page.
• Just Here for Godzilla: The series adapting The War of the Worlds, one of the most popular and enduring pieces of Victorian era fiction, got a lot of interest.
• Mind Screw: It starts with the back-up story in Volume One, but the series really gets trippy with The Black Dossier and Century: 1969.
• Seasonal Rot: Around Volume 3, as the Take Thats and Author Filibusters became more overt and less clever, people started to feel that the series' glory days were behind it. Some even argued it drifted into Audience-Alienating Premise as Moore just began attacking 20th and 21st century pop culture (something the vast majority of the audience at the time of publication liked and was looking forward to seeing).
• The Scrappy: The Moonchild. A Take That at Harry Potter released during the series' heyday was always going to be controversial but even those who are okay with a Take That consider this instance to be a lazy In Name Only Shallow Parody that fails to do anything worthwhile.
• Shallow Parody:
  • The series set itself up as a Deconstruction Crossover showing how the egos and/or personal issues of teams like the Avengers will cause the team to fracture. However its critics argue that it falls short for the simple fact that the characters Moore used for the series were Public Domain Characters who have nothing to do with hero teams like the Avengers. It's less showing what inevitably happens to all hero teams and more showing why the League is a warning story to teams like the Avengers to not let personality conflicts get in the way of doing good.
  • Similar to The Boys, critics argued that when Moore really wanted to make an Author Filibuster, characters were warped so completely that they became In Name Only strawman versions, most notably Harry Potter being the Antichrist.
  • Those who disagree with Moore's Author Filibusters about the vapidity of 20th and 21st century media usually argue this. Moore may have a point somewhere in all that but a lot his critiques (vapid cash grabs, Long Runners, works with either too much or too little to say) are perfectly applicable to 18th and 19th century media. The only real difference is that people only started to have larger archives in the 20th century so it only looks those trends started then.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: We never get to see the full exploits of the Second League of the Extraordinary Gentlemen, and their very much indeed awesome sounding encounter with Les Hommes Mysterieux is only described in text on the Black Dossier. Also sideway referenced in text are the missions of Prospero's Men, The Third League of the Extraordinary Gentlemen, Der Zwielicht-helden and Les Hommes Mysterieux themselves.
  • We also see far too little of the League of the 1780s, featuring Lemuel Gulliver, the Scarlet Pimpernel and wife, the Scarecrow, Fanny Hill, and Natty Bumpo. Most of what we do see when they appear is when they've largely retired from adventuring and are touring the world indulging their more hedonistic tendencies.
  • The Black Dossier in general gives us brief, often sterile summaries of what sound like really fantastic adventures, but instead of giving us the dose of pure adventure they could've been, we're given George Lucas Throwbacks to various novels and literary styles. The emphasis is skewed annoyingly to style over substance, and very dull style at that.
• Unfortunate Implications: Usually parodied, but Black Dossier's Sexfiend Golliwog definitely qualifies.
  • Though knowing Alan Moore he fully knows about these and is chortling to himself as people get in a huff about them. As the Values Dissonance shows he does like playing around with Un-PC notions.
• Values Dissonance: The comic deliberately fakes this trope to create aesops such as "ORIENTALS, while BRILLIANT, are EVIL".

The film:

• Nightmare Fuel: Dorian Gray, as he turned into a hideous, rotting corpse when exposed to his own picture.

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