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They are each from their own fictional universe. "the league of extraordinary gentleman" is a giant crossover fanfiction Movie/comic (It's a comic, too. Who knew?). It has

Allan Quatermain, from the novel King Solomon's Mines by H Rider Haggard,

Tom Sawyer from Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

Captain Nemo from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne

Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde from the Novel "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Invisible Man from the novel of the same name by H. G. Wells

Orlando from "Orlando; a Biography" by Virginia Woolfe

Thomas Carnacki from William Hope Hodgeson's "Carnacki, the Ghost-Finder"

A. J. Raffles from E. W. Hornung's "The Amateur Cracksman

Ishmael from Herman Melville's Moby Dick

Alice from Alice In Wonderland

And thelist goes on and on. Most from different authors, all from different times. I'd call that "Seperate Universes", wouldn't you?