

Early in his life, V was captured and put in Larkhill retirement camp in room V (probably how he got his name) where he is experimented on and tortured.

Very little is known about V, with one of the exceptions being he has a background in the military.

In the film, he was portrayed by Hugo Weaving. Finch then confronts Evey, but puts down his weapon after giving in to his hatred of the corruption of the Norsefire regime and joining Evey as they watch V's bomb destroy the Houses of Parliament. Evey then gives him a Viking funeral, as she did in the graphic novel. He then goes to Evey and dies in her arms. Though still mortally wounded he manages to kill Creedy and his men. Creedy and his men then shoot V, but V wore a breastplate to keep the barrage of bullets from killing him. Creedy shoots and kills Norsefire leader Adam Sutler (Adam Susan in the graphic novel), but V refuses to uphold his end of the bargain he made to Creedy, who is just as evil as Sutler. It is Peter Creedy who confronts V at the end of the film, instead of Eric Finch. In the film, he only bombs the Old Bailey and Houses of Parliament buildings and not the Jordan Tower, Post Office and 10 Downing St buildings. There are several other plot deviations between the book and the movie. At the end of the film, he says that he has fallen in love with Evey. He claims to have lost all memory of his past, completing his transformation into the "every man" he claims to be in the comic. His abilities are a result of biological weapons experiments instead of hormonal experiments, as they were in the comics.
#SCARLET BLADE VENDETTA SAME ACCOUNT MOVIE#
In the movie he is shown to be disfigured (a result of burns) instead of being described as being ugly. Conversely, the movie version of the character, though still occasionally indulging in ethically sketchy and ruthless behavior, is still ultimately more heroic. While V in the comics is well-meaning and battling against unambiguously evil individuals, he himself is also depicted as a completely ruthless and callous figure who is willing to kill anyone who gets in his way. It was intended by the author of the story Alan Moore that V be sufficiently morally gray so as to be seen as both a hero and a villain. He is a terrorist and freedom fighter from a dystopian future battling against a corrupt fascist regime in England known as the Norsefire party. V is the main protagonist from V for Vendetta and the deuteragonist of the movie of the same name. ~ V introduces himself with a V-word filled speech. (Chuckles) Verily this vicious swage of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengance, a vendetta, held as a votive not in vain, for the value and voracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. Voila! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. ~ V reciting the Guy Fawkes poem before blowing up the Old Bailey. Remember, remember the Fifth of November, the gunpowder treason and plot, I know of no reason why the gunpoweder treason.
