'Sexing Up' the British

[area23]

James Bond type character and Dr. Who were already mentioned, but worth repeating.
How about a 1940's style Avengers team?
And from the Colonies? From India there would be loads of things one could think of. Not to mention explorers and archeologists using foreign arcane artifacts to save the Empire.

[ancient one]

Super heroes from that era Union Jack and Spitfire (British members of the Invaders), Maximan (from 2000ad' Zenith series). Also worth a look is Robot Archie (written during the 1950's) whose look could suit Weird war 2 quite easy.

[Dezmond]

Everyone knows the Second World War was won on the playing fields of Hogwarts.



(Call of Potter: Wand at War?)

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Then we have the female SOE ninja assassin:-



Presumably she can get in to hand to hand fights with the Nazi fetish girl on top of a Zeppelin or something.

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And don't forget the (whatever) Firefly.



Take an American mech (or golem, or giant monster, or whatever) and strap the biggest gun you can find to it.

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And if we are talking Great War, there is the Contemptible. Britains pre war army (which became known as the Old Contemptible) was very small by European standards, but well trained. Naturally, trained soldiers were far to valuable to sit idle just on account of having been killed. So many were brought back to life by the technologies of Herbert West (reanimator) and put back in to the line. Over the course of the war, additional improvements were made to them, and by the Berlin offensives of 1920, an average Contemptible stands ten feet from the bottom of their hooves to the end of their horns, can wield a specially modified pom-pom in each hand, and is quite, quite mad from all the excitement.

And after spending the inter-war years in storage, the program could be reactivated to fight the Nazi scourge.

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And there are the SAS and the Commandos. And British Paras were known as the Red Devils, which obviously means that a dark ritual has turned the entire unit in to Hellboys.

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And Churchill. As we all know, Churchill was lethal with a submachine gun.



This picture was taken shortly before he led the final assault on the Reichstag in an attempt to prevent Hitler fleeing by rocket to the Nazi moonbase.

http://www.grippingbeast.com/product.php?ItemID=2578



(As we all know, Churchill actually killed Hitler (the first time) with the Mauser C96 he carried at the Battle of Omdurman, loaded with silver bullets blessed by the Archbishop of Canterbury to overcome Adolfs occult defences)

[robertsjf]

Huh, didn't know that Churchill had formed an alliance with the Italian crime syndicate to fight against the Nazis. And yet it all makes sense!

[aircav]

How about Winston & the Ironsides

[MidLifeCrisis]

How about Winston & the Ironsides

Sweet!

[Dezmond]

"If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."

(Churchill, to his personal secretary John Colville the evening before Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union.)

In a WWW2 setting, can we assume that both happened?

[ryoden]

The Coldest War
by Ian Tregillis

has a few interesting ideas for WWII, the Brits had access to warlocks who could make deals with Demonic forces, deals that involved sacrificing x many people via "accidents" the amount depending on the size of the required favour.  The idea being that it was acceptable for a certain number of the unknowing public be sacrificed for the greater good (without telling them of course).

The Germans had super science agents with enhanced psionic powers.

[tnjrp]

Yes I've mentioned Trelligis before, his book is rather much a turnabout of the "eebil Nazis is teh Okkults" trope tho but it could be used definitely if you haven't already settled on having Hitler's chaps fielding demonic familiars...

As more of an aside, here's a Peter Pan character that wouldn't necessarily look out-of-place on a WWWII battlefield, flying to the rescue of Britain from Neverland:
http://www.beastsofwar.com/sci-fi-wargaming/infamy-prove-pixie-dust-peter-fly/

[tnjrp]

OTOH Peter's (fairy?) companion is prolly too steampunky. Stempunkish. Whatever. Or just plain risque to lead the charge of the strange brigade back in the Weird World Wars I and II.
http://www.beastsofwar.com/infamy/follow-pixie-dust-infamys-talullah-belle/

The "wings are absolutely superb too" comment was funny tho, if you are given to think about what other "absolutely superb" features of Belle's attire Brennon doesn't explicitly mention