The other leading character of V for Vendetta is Evey Hammond, a young woman whom V rescues from fascist policemen on November 5, 1997.

V is an anarchist who commits assassinations to punish his oppressors from the concentration camp, and stages highly theatrical acts of sabotage in order to induce the British populace to rise in revolution and overthrow their fascist rulers. Moore, via V, uses Fawkes as a symbol of rebellion against authoritarian rule. However, William Harrison Ainsworth’s 1841 novel Guy Fawkes or, The Gunpowder Treason recast Fawkes as a sympathetic antihero, and Fawkes thereafter became a hero in serials in “penny dreadfuls” and children’s books. Ever since then, the British have celebrated the thwarting of the Gunpowder Plot on every November 5, which has become known as “Guy Fawkes Night.” These celebrations traditionally include fireworks and the burning of a masked effigy of Fawkes in a bonfire. Fawkes was discovered with gunpowder beneath the House of Lords shortly after midnight on November 5, 1605, and was sentenced to be executed. Fawkes is the best known member of the “Gunpowder Plot,” a 1605 conspiracy by a group of English Catholics to assassinate King James I, blow up the House of Lords, and make James’s daughter, Princess Elizabeth, the new Catholic queen of England. V masquerades as one of the most famous rebels in British history, Guy Fawkes (15701606), complete with an eerily smiling face mask. Each of the chapter titles of V for Vendetta prominently features a word starting with “V.” He apparently took his alias from the Roman numeral “V” on the door of his room in which he was imprisoned. However, the story establishes that V was a prisoner in one of the British fascist regime’s concentration camps, where he was subjected to experiments that greatly enhanced his strength, endurance, and reflexes. Moore and Lloyd never reveal V’s true name or face. In V for Vendetta’s alternate history, there was a nuclear world war in the 1980s Britain survived, but a fascist political party took control of the government, imprisoning dissidents and other alleged undesirables in concentration camps. V for Vendetta, created by writer Alan Moore and artist David Lloyd, is the saga of V, a mysterious costumed vigilante with superhuman physical prowess, who conducts a one-man war against a totalitarian government that rules the United Kingdom.

(Warner Bros./DC Comics / The Kobal Collection / Appleby, David.) V for Vendetta (pop culture) In 2005 Hugo Weaving starred in the movie version of V for Vendetta.

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