Pretty much anything made by Shakespear

Most of Greek mythology (Specifically the Odyssey and The Illiad)

Pride and Prejudice

Dracula

Jekyl and Hyde

The three musketeers

Anything else in the public domain but these examples are the ones I’ve seen original characters made from.

Post-civil war United States is being overrun by Celtic warriors. Thomas Edison, who has a lion’s head, and his friends Helena Blavatsky and Karna from the Hindu epic Mahabharata lead what’s left of the power armor-wearing American forces against Queen Medb and her menagerie of Celtic heroes and also Beowulf and Karna’s rival Arjuna. The Native American hero Geronimo leads a resistance consisting of himself, Florence Nightingale, Billy the Kid, Robin Hood, countess Elizabeth Bathory, the Roman emperor Nero, Rama (also from Hindu texts), and Cu Chulainn’s mentor Scathach. The resistance fails miserably and they have to team up with Edison to liberate Washington DC from the Celtic forces.

During the 9th crusade, King Arthur suddenly shows up with his knights of the round table and occupies Jerusalem, rebuilding it to resemble Camelot. King Arthur then declares that only people who are pure of heart can live, and then proceeds to nuke the shit out of everything outside of Camelot, leaving the earth scorched. Sir Bedivere can’t abide by this and teams up with Leonardo da Vinci, the Persian hero Arash, and the Brotherhood of Assassins to fight them. Meanwhile, pharaoh Ozymandias built a desert from scratch and rules it from his pyramid that shoots laser beams and he gives zero fucks about being beheaded. Also Xuanzang from Journey to the West is there.

man, narrating in russian: Every fucking year, this time of the year, the pond at my backyard gets infested. What do ponds get infested with? Frogs? Poisonous weeds? Geese? No. Not my pond.

[The man opens the back door, stepping out into a garden. Three or four nude, human-like figures dash from the borders of a pond back into the water.]

man: Rusalki! I don't know where they come from or how they get here, and I can't afford to hire an exterminator every year. I can't let my cat outside anymore. Last year a rusalka managed to drown a whole deer in my pond, the stench was unbearable.

[He walks as he speaks, approaching the pond. There are several eerily beautiful female beings peering at him from under the surface, their long hair floating in the murky water. Their eyes are gleaming in an unhuman way. The man holding the camera stops to film them.]

man, calm and deadpan: What the fuck are all of you staring at. Get jobs or something.

[One of the rusalki, smaller than the others and clearly not a fully matured adult, slowly reaches out of the water with her white, thin hand, grasping his ankle. He appears unconcerned.]

man: You can't drown me, you little idiot. You're too small. Shoo!

[A loud thud startles the rusalki, making them scatter. A second thud makes it clear these are the approaching footsteps of something massive. The man turns around and points the camera at what appears to be a house, walking past above the treeline with chicken-like legs]

You all know how big a rabbit is.  Jack Rabbits and hares are much bigger. they’re the size of large cats or small dogs or just-walking-age children.

They also like to hang out in gangs of a hlf dozen to over 30.

and in the middle of backcountry dirt roads.

perhaps they’re dustbathing

or blood sacrifce

I don’t know because when you come up the road at night because your dog has a tiny bladder and needs to go out at midnight and you have no yard so you’re walking him on the dirt road around your neighborhod because you might aw well get some stargazing in, and you come just over the ridge to see a coven of twenty jackrabbits in the middle of the road

and

they

all

stand

up

not just onto all fours like a proper prey animal

No they get up on thier hind legs and don’t just sit but STAND like tiny rabbit-skinned toddlers, wobbing slightly as they stare directly at you eyes shining in your flashlight’s glow

…Blood Red.

And a chill goes through you on that warm july night because while they’re a puntable size and allegedly herbivores they’re standing and watching you just like people and you are vastly outnumbered.

everyone freezes

you’re considering your odds aganst roughly 200lbs of Suspiciously Humanoid Hare

and they’re considering their odds against you

the only sound in the never-ending high desert wind 

somewhere in your peripheral vision you can see the streetlights but they seem awfully far away

The nearest Jack Rabbit

Blinks

and takes a single shuffling step

forward

You area an overdevloped monkey and your prefrontal cortex is capable of some amazing feats but it runs very slowly compared to the reflexes of a rabbit and you’re frozen as you desperately scramble for the appropriate course of action, hands feeling thick and useless, mouth dry and feet imeasurably heavy there’s no way you’d outrun THESE, god there’s a rabies outbreak going around that shit’s not curable-

The Dog

L U N G E S

It’s only the briefest of movements but the animal you’d picked out for his gangly legs and floppy ears and goofy smile is suddenly a dark shape of muscle and teeth and had flung himself at the horrible goblin rabbits faster than mere physics should dictate, appearing in the circle of the flashlight for only the briefest of moments before the jolt from the leash makes you stumble and the light falters

The Jack Rabbits

Scatter

Vanishing into the faintly starlit sagebrush in as so many faint gray shapes that might be mistaken for the dustclouds they kick up

Later, you sit on the couch disquieted

and you wonder

If the sight of the Jack Rabbits standing and studying you was frightening enough to make you yearn for the safety of the yellowed streetlights

what must it be like from thier end?

what terrifying creature 

deliberately ties itself

to something so horrible

CONGRATULATE, THAT’S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GOING FOR.

Another two I had to share from Crydius. This is so nerd-perfect. :D

Part 1: What did we do last night? Part 2: Meet Gamma: Twilight and Sunset

Don’t forget to go love the artist on DA! (They have quite the comic art collection to enjoy…)