Differences between the novelization of League of Frankenstein and the Movie:
1) They replaced (Black) Jane Porter (Tarzan) with Lord John Roxton (The Lost World). The Great White “Ape” (Tarzan by any other name) is also absent from the novel, replaced with a giant mechanical statue of Cthulhu as the guardian of the amulet. This deprived us of scenes about a Black Female Indiana Jones punching Tomb Pillaging Nazis and Sexist British Empire Officers alike as she’s guiding a scientific and archaeological expedition in a African colony in 1930s, which is, I say, the greatest crime of all.
2) Cthulhu has also become the main villain of the story, the one orchestrating the events from the shadow so he could be finally be released and wreak havoc upon the world. He gets released during the novel climax, and start trashing London before being stopped by Alice.
3) Alice (Alice in Wonderland) also gets some major changes in the novel. She loses her dimension hopping abilities, changing Wonderland from an actual different dimension with hallucinations induced by the drugs the people who experimented on her at the asylum in order to keep her complacent with them before she finally snapped and managed to escape. She also has shrinking and growing powers now, which prove themselves fundamental to the leagues’ plans, both when she needed to shot Adrenalin inside Frankenstein’s Monster/Wife by shrinking and carrying it inside her bloodstream by herself due to her sleepwalking rage and bulletproof skin stopping more conventional methods to wake her up, and in the story climax when she first grows as tall as Cthulhu so she can have a fistfight with a elder god, before finally mastering her powers and grow impossibly in size, grab a now comparably small Cthulhu with her hands, bite their head off and spit it unto a open dimensional portal right into the sun’s surface, shortly followed by the rest of the body.
All of this while naked (Her dress and suit didn’t grow with her).
She’s still a Harley Queen Expy due to the Over-sized Mallet and Personality tho.
4) The Daughter of Captain Hook is pretty much the same, if she’s not the main villain anymore due to Cthulhu upgrade. The novel has given more focus on her exploits in Neverland and her symbiotic relationship with Morgan the evil fairy. The novel also outright calls Peter and the Lost Boys child soldiers, and some Lost Boys deaths are seen in graphic detail. Her magic powers have also grown from simply flying and owning a “Power Saber” into having a magical hook cannon and super regeneration.
5) Peter Pan also stays the same, which is dead for 90% of the book. He and Wendy are still Frankenstein’s new assistants in his London Lab, He fight hooks when she accidentally ends up in Frankenstein’s Lab and later flies into London’s Skies with his “Power Saber” so he can stop her, gets killed, passes the rest of the book dead, and is revived in the end by Frankenstein after many tribulations, so he can return with Wendy to Neverland to rebuild after the Last Lost Boys - Pirates War.
6) Frankenstein also stays the same. He’s obsessed with bringing his wife back to life, is still a shady amoral bitch, he still creates a dimension portal creator, accidentally bringing Hook’s daughter and her evil fairy in the world, he still creates the league so he can stop her, and he still desecrates Peter’s body so he can take his heart and use it to bring back his wife to life. More people call him out on his bullshit tho, and that’s good. His Monster/Wife is also more violent and unthinking than in the movie, only gaining her sanity back during the final act and the final battle when, seeing Pirates, Peter’s Heart “Activates”, giving her her sanity and personality back (If not also the urge to slaughter as many pirates as possible). Story still ends with her deciding to die, asking her husband to finally let her go, so he can put back her heart inside of Peter and bring him back to life instead, as for Tinkerbell dying wish.
7) Wendy Darling is more proactive in the novel. She still passes most of the first act in mourning after his fiance’s Peter death, but warms up after Tinkerbell finally joins the league, and is a great help to the league both as the one who ends up freeing them from police custody along with Tinkerbell after they got arrested over the events of the second act, all with Frankenstein’s Monster Wife rampaging in London downtown and them trying to stop her, along with being the League’s designated driver (It’s a miracle they ever managed to go anywhere in one piece). In the climax of the story, while Alice and Cthulhu are having a gigantic fistfight, she is the one having a Power Sabre duel with hook on top of the London Bridge, ultimately avenging Peter and killing the villain in ruthless, sadistic glee. Her demure personality she had in the movie and in the first act also starts turning into the aforementioned sadistic vengeful glee during the course of the novel, which is a mirror and parallel to Tinkerbell’s grief-stricken vengeance seeking on Hook and the Morgan the Evil Fairy, her estranged sister, and the death of many lost boys and Peter, turning into quiet acceptance of her death when, dying for the wounds she got during her battle with her sister, she sacrifices herself into a magical thunderstorm so that Frankenstein could use her remaining magical energy to bring back Peter, her only real friend, back to life.
8) Speaking of Tinkerbell, she isn’t confirmed a lesbian in the Novel! That’s not good, especially since the Novel seems to imply she used to have a thing with Peter and was jealous of his relationship with Wendy despite their role as Platonic Life Partners given the fact she liked girl she had in the Movie. The rest is pretty much the same, she’s still a small ball of rage and grief that can turn into a human sized ball of rage and grief, angry with the world and everyone she meets over her rough life, her dead friends, and her shitty family. The romantic and sexual relationship she had with (Female) Van Helsing has been also cut short.
9) Speaking of (Female) Van Helsing, she’s also pretty much the same. There is some foreshadowing to Dracula actually being the one behind it all, except he actually never appears, so it could just be a sequel hook, and her relationship with Alice is now more on the lines of Mentor and Worried Mother Figure the the one they had in the movie. She also has a non sexual (As in, not even once it was hypothesized either of them wanted to actually bang the other, they just outright despised each other with rare bursts of respect) rivalry with Roxton over who of the two of them is a better Mentor/Parent Figure to Alice, with Van Helsing not wanting her to get hurt or join the fray and Roxton wanting to give the “Kid” a chance because he trust her and knows she can go far in the adventuring business.
Which wasn’t in the movie and, while it was still pretty nice to read, yes, I feel like it would have been 100 times better if instead of bland ass Han Solo Expy John Roxton the one doing the mentoring was, actually, fucking BLACK JANE PORTER, Nazi Punching Bad Ass and mistress of the Great White Ape, mostly because, in the movie, Jane Porter and Van Helsing actually do end up together, thus proving that a family can be a dutch vampire hunter, her Nazi punching black wife, and their dimension hopping daughter.
10) There is a small Mycroft Holmes Cameo, mostly to have him as this shady government figure wanting both to stop the league and use them to stop Hook from taking over London. He ends up enlisting the League as a crackpot squad with the task to find and retrieve magical artifacts for the British government before other powers (I.E., the Nazis, this is still 1935 for some WEIRD FUCKING REASON after all) do, in exchange of a complete pardon for all the shit they pulled during the book in order to stop Hook and later Cthulhu. They are, of course, forced to accept. This never really happened in the movie (As far as I remember).
That’s it, that’s the most I remember, those are the main differences between the Novelization and the Movie, I know no one will care but I kinda had to write it up somewhere.
