(also kind of inspired by peter webb's thing of pop-culture collage as worldbuilding)
- Van Helsing - grizzled vampire hunter
- Lord Byron - foppish romantic author
- Blackbeard - swarthy pirate captain
- Torquemada - humourless tonsured inquisitor
- Lope de Aguirre - wild-eyed conquistador
- Don Quixote - senile paladin w/ fat servant
- Caligula - gibbering pervert in toga
- Edgar Allan Poe - melancholy novelist
- Falstaff - cheerful, pompous fat knight
- King Lear - lonely half-mad monarch
- Quasimodo - kind-hearted hunchback
- Sherlock Holmes - smug master detective
- Fu Manchu - silk-robed mastermind
- Aleister Crowley - faux-satanic tryhard
- D'Artagnan - jolly, foolhardy musketeer
- Lucrezia Borgia - poisonous femme fatale
- James Bond - debonair sociopathic spy
- Harry Flashman - cowardly war hero
- Dr. Frankenstein - self-loathing mad scientist
- Frankenstein's Monster - tragic walking corpse
- Ibn Battuta - urbane travelling scholar
- Hannibal Lecter - homicidal psychiatrist
- Doc Holliday - slowly-dying gunfighter
- Captain Macheath - chivalrous highwayman
- Arsene Lupin - gentleman thief
- Thomas Carnacki - gentleman ghost hunter
- Inspector Japp - gruff, stoic policeman
- Miss Marple - crime-solving spinster
- Imhotep - vengeful mummy
- Genghis Khan - nomad warlord
- Socrates - philosopher who won't shut up
- Li Bai - drunk poet in love w/ moon
- Queen of Hearts - head-chopping royal narcissist
- Jack the Ripper - manic serial killer
- Hawley Griffin - invisible lunatic
- Sweeney Todd - throat-slitting barber
- Erik the Red - Viking berserker
- Thomas de Quincey - perplexed opium addict
- Oda Nobunaga - honourable samurai
- Leonardo da Vinci - clockwork inventor
- Merlin - powerful-but-useless wizard
- Nikola Tesla - autistic electric savant
- Red Sonja - half-naked barbarian warrior
- Zorro - flamboyant masked hero
- The Grey Mouser - wry, pragmatic rogue
- Nero Wolfe - obese, immobile sleuth
- Mikhail Bakunin - bearded revolutionary
- Tom Swift - boy adventurer w/ gadgets
- Elric of Melnibone - depressed wandering hero
- Franz Mesmer - creepy hypnotist
- Sir Galahad - gallant Grail-seeker
- Baba Yaga - crooked old witch
- Joan of Arc - divinely-guided soldier
- Pennywise - horrible clown
- Gorilla Grodd - resentful psychic ape
- Dr. Moreau - breeder of hideous hybrids
- Hercules - boisterous strongman
- Ja'far ibn Yahya - scheming grand vizier
- Rasputin - hollow-eyed mad monk
- Baron Munchausen - teller of absurd tales
- Hop-Frog - psychotic court jester
- Robin Hood - anticapitalist archer
- Elizabeth Bathory - bather in virgins' blood
- The Hardy Boys - mystery-solving teens
- Abraham Lincoln - folksy statesman
- Sigmund Freud - sex-obsessed alienist
- Charles Darwin - naturalist w/ grand theory
- Napoleon - extremely short conqueror
- Fox Mulder - conspiracy theorist
- Oscar Wilde - acerbic old queen
- Geronimo - stone-faced outlaw
- Charles Manson - hippie murder-cult leader
- Sun Wukong - unstoppable trickster hero
- Pantagruel - gluttonous stupid giant
- Beethoven - manic, half-deaf composer
- The Buddha - calm, cryptic sage
- Ramses II - pharaoh who thinks he's God
- Lassie - extremely good dog
- Daniel Boone - surly frontiersman
- HP Lovecraft - racist sci-fi nerd
- C-3PO - chirpy mechanical servant
- Al Capone - wisecracking mobster
- Jordan Peterson - faux-intellectual conman
- Gepetto - avuncular toymaker
- Houdini - renowned escapologist
- Queequeg - tattooed pagan harpoonist
- Mephistopheles - tempting devil
- Robert Johnson - itinerant bluesman
- Aladdin - thieving street urchin
- Scarlett O'Hara - Southern belle
- Ulysses McGill - smooth-talking hobo
- Nigel Thornberry - pith-helmeted explorer
- Sabrina - teenage witch w/ talking cat
- P. T. Barnum - slick freak-show proprietor
- Burke and Hare - body-snatching best friends
- Vladimir and Estragon - philosophical tramps
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern - bickering sycophants
- Bonnie and Clyde - romantic bank robbers
- Batman and Robin - caped crusader and teen sidekick
- Count Alucard - definitely not Dracula
What are they doing though:
- Looking for treasure
- Looking for way out
- Looking for Dracula
- Hiding from monster
- Arguing with (roll again)
- Fighting with (roll again)
