Talk:V for Vendetta

The massive embrace of this movie by the political lunatic fringe deserves mention. tmtoulouse 18:53, 30 September 2008 (EDT)

I have a tattoo on my wrist drawn from the comic :P --Tom Moore^{fiat justitia ruat coelum} 19:23, 30 September 2008 (EDT)

Need I say anything? -- 16:42, 28 February 2009 (EST)

tea party would love this

it struck me as weird reading the people bashing it as liberal and shit on wikipedia; if this movie was put out in 2011 would the tea party embrace it? Nailo1 (talk) 18:52, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

paultards celebrate Guy Fawkes day.--User:Brxbrx/sig 18:56, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

He'll rue his promiscuity

The "He'll rue his promiscuity" speech is probably more key to understanding the comic than the TV broadcast. It is missing entirely from the movie. V uses a Shakespearean trick, instead of conventional euphemisms where a character is pretending to speak of something else while actually talking about sex, V seems to speak about sex while actually talking about something else. V's "only love" is the principle of Justice, while the Leader's is the supercomputer Fate. When V says "many years it is since first I bedded his" he refers to how long V has owned an identical, functioning replica of the Leader's console for accessing Fate.

This is why V is permanently one step ahead, despite the pervasive surveillance cameras and other apparatus of a police state. V was running things from the outset, he punches new holes into the paper tape and reality obligingly changes to match. This is also why it is important for V to die. He isn't just a murderer on a small scale, killing the people associated with the death camp or police officers who try to stop him, he has committed attrocities on a vast scale, using Fate to bring about conditions (remember the background with food shortages due to "computer error"?) that result in the riots that finally topple the government he hates. As an Anarchist we might assume V believes only in Liberty, but Moore goes out of his way to emphasise that V loves Justice more, and so as the perpetrator of these unforgiveable crimes V must die and go unmourned. Tialaramex (talk) 14:50, 29 March 2013 (UTC)

Delete

Along with the Alan Moore article (already mission tagged & under discussion on its talk page), I suggest deleting this. It's mostly uncritical fancruft, & doesn't advance any of our missions or relate closely enough to them to be worth covering, IMO. Щєазєюіδ^{Methinks it is a Weasel} 22:56, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

There may be a trace of mission, but it would need quite a rewrite to show it. Delete, unless there's a volunteer to missionify it. Sophie^Wilder 23:02, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Delete. Aside from the mask, nothing to do with the mission. --Kels (talk) 23:06, 17 January 2014 (UTC)