The movie League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is based on the comic and in the comic he fakes his death. The explanation for his change in size is that it represented the degree of evil residing in Dr. Jekyll. At first, it is smaller than the good, but when Mister Hyde becomes a serial killer of prostitutes it continues to grow into a giant and look less and less human and Dr. Jekyll becomes more and more frail and smaller and eventually he disappears altogether. At that point Mister Hyde assrapes the Invisible Man to death, although he kind of had it coming

In the movie he's supposed to be part of a ragtag team of misfits trying to solve a problem
They obviously needed to change the character to the point where becoming Hyde is in any way beneficial because as it was in the original story he was basically just a drug addict who got some temporary charisma and became an asshole when he drank, hardly a superpower.
Hyde needs to be powerful in any story with a villain because otherwise its just a story about a normal guy trying to take down the villan but also he's a drug addicted.

>>25114954
>In the book is right away and repeatedly noted that Hyde is almost a dwarf
No, he grows as he is fed. Failing at reading a novella is not a good sign. Neither is being befuddled by the looks of an action movie monster.

>>25114954
The connnections between Jekyll/Hyde and the Hulk are also just plainly established. The Incredible Hulk IS based on Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Stan Lee and Jack Kirby said it directly, you can read it on the Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulk

So insofar as Jekyll and Hyde influenced the creation of the Hulk, it feels like some neat symmetry that there's a version of Jekyll and Hyde that clearly has Hulk influences. I've never minded it.

>>25114954
You made me rewatch League. Good god it sucked. It's the project Connery chose instead of Lord of the Rings and I think we should be thankful.

>>25115626
Alan Moore deliberately made 007 a villain in the series and had him beat up because he was pissed at the movie and the casting of Connery

>>25115805
Maybe that was the prompt but he does it in a really whiny way that's a lot to do with how he was written in the books (eg. misogynist, racist, macho, waaaah). It's literally "I made you the basedjak so I win the argument" in comic form.

>>25114954
Van Helsing and League of Extraordinary Men are capeshit action movies, of course they give the characters a twist to be more appropriate for the kind of story they're telling. I mean Van Helsing himself is generally portrayed as a badass vamprie/monster hunter with a variety of gadgets and weapons when in the original novel he's an old doctor with knowledge of the occult who may have encountered vampires before.

>>25115890
007 in the league comic is very close to how he actually is in the books. He is also getting the shit beat out of him in the books all the time. In the books he is a fan of rape but also really prissy and fussy about which brands and foods he eats and refuses to have sex with a woman because his pinky was broken and it made him too sour for sex

>>25115890
Moore IS whiny. Moore loves to fucking whine, if you listen to him.