The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen TV Show: 5 Victorian Characters We Want To See

2. Bertha Mason (Jane Eyre)

bertha Bertha is one crazy bird. After burning down Thornfield Hall just because she liked to watch the flames dancing in the moonlight, she€™s committed to a Maximum Security Lunatic Asylum, where she regularly shivs other inmates. But prison bars can€™t hold Crazy Bertie, no sir. During a therapy session with the asylum administrator, Dr. Seward, she takes him hostage by putting him in a choke hold with her hair. Once she€™s out, she goes on a rampage through England, just burning places to the ground, left and right. It€™s up to the League to track her down and toss her back into the loony bin. Subplot: Mr. Hyde has a thing for her! You know, because they€™re both a little cuckoo. He gives her an eloquent, very un-Hyde-like speech to talk her out of burning down the under-construction Tower Bridge, and she willingly goes back to the asylum with him. But right when she€™s back behind bars, he turns back into Jekyll, and he€™s... yeah, he€™s just not into it. She swears vengeance against both of them and will probably come back in Season 2.
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