History Characters / VForVendettaComic

* PunchClockVillain: He is mostly indifferent and actually a bit dislillusioned towards the Norsefire government's ideology. He pretty much only does his job because he believes that it is the lesser evil compared to letting England descend into chaos. Until it gets personal that is.

* GenderBenderName: His surname, Susan, is a name that is considered to be a female name.

* NaiveEverygirl: She's unaware of just how corrupt the goverment is and the dangers all around her when she and Gordon go out for a night on the town.

* WomenAreWiser: Zigzagged. She says that she doesn't want to kill people but when [[spoiler:Allistair Harper kills Gordon, she is ready to kill him in retaliation, and might have gone through it had V not thwarted her when he kidnaps her. Later, when V gives her the option to have Harper killed, Evey decides to spare his life instead.]]

* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Alistair is shown sitting in a sleazy bar, talking with one of his co-workers about his new job working for [[StateSec the Finger]]. During the conversation he bragged about [[OffstageVillainy using his new-found power to arrest a married couple, beat up the husband, then perform a strip search on the man's wife and feel her up]].

* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: In addition to what he mentioned in his EstablishingCharacterMoment, he also made a lewd comment about Evey, to her face, when he sees her with Gordon; thankfully he was there and shuts Alistair down.

* PsychoKnifeNut: He has a definite fondness for blades, as he used a sword to kill Gordon and [[spoiler:when he turned on Creedy, he used a knife or razor in what is implied to be a truly horrific and sadistic fashion. This also came into play against Conrad, see MutualKill below.]]

* {{Robosexual}}: He is romantically and sexually attracted to a supercomputer.

* WellIntentionedExtremist: In the comics he likes to imagine himself as one, seeing his actions as necessary for the survival of his people.

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* DropTheHammer: [[spoiler:How he killed Allistair Harper.]]

* DirtyOldMan: He is an elderly pedophile rapist who uses his position to get away with his crimes. Though he prefers little girls, he's not exclusive to them, as Dr. Surridge mentions that he used to openly leer at her chest while they worked together at Larkhill.

* TheAloner: He is a solipsist, he believes that only he and FATE (whom he considers to be God) are real.

* {{UsefulNotes/Solipsism}}: [[spoiler:He relates in one monologue near the end that "I've known since childhood no one else was real", and that God was the only other person he felt he could properly talk to; when FATE was constructed, he could finally look upon the presence of God in a tangible physical form, one "that I could love", and the betrayal he imagines he's suffered has left him completely alone and bereft.]]

* {{Solipsist}}: [[spoiler:He relates in one monologue near the end that "I've known since childhood no one else was real", and that God was the only other person he felt he could properly talk to; when FATE was constructed, he could finally look upon the presence of God in a tangible physical form, one "that I could love", and the betrayal he imagines he's suffered has left him completely alone and bereft.]]

* SinisterMinister: Not only is he a pedophile and a rapist, he was formerly the pastor at the Larkhill concentration camp.

* ArmoredClosetGay: Implied by the fact that he claims that dolls are for "pooftahs" while also collecting dolls himself.

* MilesGloriosus: He likes to brag with his bodyguards, who are actual hardass soldiers, about their shared military service, as if he shared experiences similar to theirs. Prothero was [[SoldiersAtTheRear the director of a concentration camp]], his military service consisted of lording over and bullying people who were too starved, beaten down, or broken by the medical experimentation being done on them to resist. And as seen with his DirtyCoward entry, when he's one on one with V he shows his true colors.
* MoralMyopia: He cares far more about his ''doll collection'' than he did about the people he tortured at Larkhill. And seeing the dolls burned in the same ovens where he roasted people makes him lose his mind.
* MouthOfSauron: He speaks over the radio for the FATE mainframe, and has such a perfect voice for it that much of the population believes that his voice really is the voice of FATE. For this reason V taking him out of the picture ends up having a subtle but profound effect; when Prothero can no longer perform as the voice of FATE, the Norsefire government is forced to quickly find a lesser replacement. Once that happens it begins to break the public's nearly absolute trust in FATE, and though Norsefire tries they can no longer maintain certain illusions for the public, including the illusion that Norsefire is infallible and invincible.
* PsychopathicManchild: His Doll collection and his often petty and immature personality turn him into this.
* RealMenWearPink: An ex-soldier and former concentration camp commander who makes propaganda for a fascist government. His hobby? Collecting dolls.

* MacGyvering: A speciality of his. Being the only physically healthy survivor of the experiment performed on him and his fellow prisoners, he was granded special privileges such as a limited access to gardening supplies. With them, he was able to produce gunpowder, mustard gas, and napalm, all of which he used to stage his escape.

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!!Lewis Prothero
The former commander of the concentration camp Larkhill, at the start of the story he acts as "The Voice Of FATE", a radio program that informs the public of the news and updates around the country, supposedly given by the supercomputer itself. Prothero is so good at his job and has such a perfect voice for it that much of the public has come to half believe that his voice is FATE's actual voice.

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* SmugSnake: Much like Creedy, Helen fancies herself ThChessmaster, and while she is able to out-class the former with her skills at manipulation, at the end of the day her entire scheme hinges on her marriage to Conrad and her affair with Alistair Harper. [[spoiler:Once both men are dead and gone, Helen loses all of her influence with what's left of the government and is soon reduced to selling sex on the streets just to get by.]]

* SmugSnake: Much like Creedy, Helen fancies herself a MagnificentBitch, and while she is able to out-class the former with her skills at manipulation, at the end of the day her entire scheme hinges on her marriage to Conrad and her affair with Alistair Harper. [[spoiler:Once both men are dead and gone, Helen loses all of her influence with what's left of the government and is soon reduced to selling sex on the streets just to get by.]]

* OutDamnedSpot The only one of the Larkhill Three whose conscience is bothered by what she did, she's clearly haunted by her deeds at Larkhill until the story's present.

* ADateWithRosiePalms: He masturbates to the FATE supercomputer.

* WidowWoman: The Commander's England doesn't treat them very well, either.

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* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Even occurs InUniverse. Is V a Freedom fighter who has the best interests of the people of Britain to heart, and a compassionate mentor figure to his sidekick Evey? Or terrorist who's mentally psychotic, and takes pleasure in making his enemies, [[spoiler: and even Evey,]] suffer, and who destroys buildings to prove a point? [[TakeAThirdOption Or maybe both?]] It should be noted that Creator/AlanMoore intended this moral ambiguity.

* CelibateHero: Whether or not he's UsefulNotes/{{Asexual}} is never brought up. When Evey makes sexual advances to him, he kicks her out of the Shadow Gallery. [[spoiler: In the movie, they eventually kiss, even though V is wearing his mask.]]

* CoolMask: The Guy Fawkes mask. ''Always'' worn, except in one scene from the novel where he tortures [[spoiler: Prothero]], for which V donned a vaudeville outfit and a Punch and Judy mask.
* CrazyPrepared: Has clearly spent ''years'' [[spoiler: preparing his campaign with assassinations, explosives and computer hacking]] before he goes public at the beginning of the graphic novel.

* DeathlyUnmasking: [[spoiler: Subverted; after V is shot by Finch, he staggers back to the Shadow Gallery and dies in front of Evie. She briefly considers removing his mask, imagining a number of potential identities, including her lover Gordon, her father, and even Evie herself; in the end, however, she decides not to unmask him, opting to give him the VikingFuneral he requested and take up his mantle as the new V.]]

* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: In Evey's arms.]]

* MindRape: What he does to Lewis Prothero, and to a lesser degree, to [[spoiler:Evey Hammond]].

* BaldHeadOfToughness: As part of her torture [[spoiler:in V's ConfidenceBuildingScheme]], Evey is [[TraumaticHaircut shaved bald]]. The mental fortitude she developed while enduring the torture transforms her from a NaiveEverygirl into a [[spoiler:RedeemingReplacement for V]].

* ConfidenceBuildingScheme: [[spoiler: in Book 2, Evey is arrested and interrogated by the Norsefire regime for her connection to V, subjected to torture, humiliation and the threat of death. Her only solace is a note left by a former inmate of the prison, which eventually inspires her to refuse her final chance to confess and accept execution. However, it then turns out that the "prison" was just part of the Shadow Gallery, and V was torturing her all along: having seen her afraid of rebelling against Norsefire, he wanted to free her from her fear - but also from the happiness she found in her civilian life, and everything else that would prevent her from embracing true freedom]].
* HerHeartWillGoOn [[spoiler: Be it Gordon or V himself, both the men she has been involved with die and she lives on.]]

* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler: She becomes V herself.]]

* RedeemingReplacement: [[spoiler: As laid out by V himself, Evey will carry out the second, constructive stage of the anarchist project, after he's finished the initial, destructive one.]]

* TenderTears: [[spoiler: Upon learning what V did to the Archbishop Lilliman. Of course, she doesn't know what the guy did to V so it's understandable.]]

The main antagonist of the series is an officer from Scotland Yard, now renamed "The Nose". Melancholic, somewhat jaded, Eric Finch is still determined to find and punish V, especially after [[spoiler: the death of Delia Surridge]]. Otherwise without ambitions and rather pragmatic, he simply believes that order is better than chaos.

* AntiVillain: Seems to cross over HeroOfAnotherStory and ultimately averted. Eric gives the reader the story from the government position. He truly believes himself to just be a policeman doing what is necessary to pull England back from the brink of post-war destruction. He isn't pleased with himself or the system, but is convinced that it is absolutely necessary. From his point of view England is one of the few barely functioning states in the post war world, and V actions risk sending them back into Chaos. [[spoiler: Then he takes LSD to try an understand V. It succeeds, but also exposes his deep guilt over his role in the purges. Pre-War he was deeply involved with and respectful of the black and LGBT communities with many of his friends being a part of one or both. Post-War the loss of his wife and child allowed him to radicalized by Norsefire, and he personally sent his said friends to the camps where they met their horrible ends. While he is still determined to stop V, he concludes and accepts that he is a monster.]]

* HigherUnderstandingThroughDrugs: He manages to understand V's mindset by dropping acid in the remains of the concentration camp that created him. It allows him to know what [[spoiler:V is planning, and he manages to find and shoot him, wounding him fatally]]. It also leads him to finally break completely away from the Norsefire government.

* OhCrap: [[spoiler: The look on his face just before Rosemary Almond blows his head off is priceless.]]

* VillainDecay: In the beginning of the story, Susan is a very intimidating figure - a ruthless, tyrannical despot who inspires terror in his subordinates to a point where no one in their right mind would dare cross him. Later, as he undergoes his SanitySlippage, he becomes more withdrawn and ineffective as a leader, prompting many of his ambitious underlings to plot a coup against him. [[spoiler: By the time of his death, the society and government he built are both crumbling to pieces and he can't do much besides watch and sigh in resignation.]]

* BigBadWannabe: He fancies himself to be the most dangerous member of the Norsefire party, [[spoiler: but is outmaneuvered and killed when push comes to shove]].
* DragonAscendant: Tries to become this near the end of the book [[spoiler: when Commander Susan dies.]]
* EmergencyAuthority: He tries to seize control after [[spoiler:Susan's death]] using this principle. As they're in the middle of a security emergency, it's only natural that [[StateSec The Finger]] and the security forces under his control take charge of the situation... [[BlatantLies just until everything calms down, of course]]. All of the high level members of the government present know that it amounts to a forceful takeover of the government. [[spoiler:And only Helen Heyer knows that Creedy's private side army of thugs and criminals is about to turn on him]].

* {{Jerkass}}: His EstablishingCharacterMoment includes him averting NeverSpeakIllOfTheDead by speaking disrespectfully of the deceased Delia and then mocking her and Finch's relationship. His second scene is him refusing to prevent a man's mother from being shipped out to a "[[DeadlyEuphemism home]]." When the man protests that the "homes" are just a death camp for the elderly, Creedy confirms it in [[KickTheDog the most brutal and uncaring manner possible]].

* VillainousBreakdown: He desperately pleads for mercy when he sees that [[spoiler:Harper has betrayed him]]. No mercy comes.

When V storms the Mouth's media headquarters, [[spoiler:he leaves Dascombe behind dressed up as V and gagged as a decoy for the police storming the building. Those policemen promptly shoot Dascombe while V makes his escape]].

* DropTheHammer: [[spoiler: How he killed Allistair Harper]].

* LoveMartyr: Upon learning that the wife who treats him like dirt is having an affair, his first reaction is to [[spoiler:go after her paramour in the belief that this will prove to her that he's the better man. Helen's actual reaction is to chew him out for ruining her plans for a coup by killing her co-conspirator and leave him to watch himself bleed out on the floor]].

* HaveIMentionedIAmHeterosexualToday: Prothero is defensive to his bodyguards about his doll-collecting hobby (even though it's he who brought it up), claiming that it's not just for "pooftahs" (a derogatory term for "gays") but perfectly appropriate for a "ladies' man" like himself. He then proceeds to tell them a bawdy story about a couple of women he allegedly met in the service. That he's a heavily-closeted homosexual is also implied in the [[{{Camp}} campy]] Dascombe's claim, earlier in the chapter, that Prothero is "sensitive."

Once a priest in the Larkhill camp (he provided "spiritual support" for the guards) he is a child molester and now promoted to Bishop of Westminster.

--> '''Finch:''' And do you know what? When it reached his abdomen, it was still cyanide.

Blaming Norsefire for having taken away her husband and her happiness, she decides to [[spoiler:murder Commander Susan. She manages to assassinate him during a public appearance, shooting him in the head when he greets her without even recognizing her]]. She was probably killed afterwards but is only shown being battered by the Fingermen.

* AccompliceByInaction: [[spoiler: Invoked. Rosemary specifically regrets doing nothing to stop the police from taking her neighbor and her family (an Indian woman named Mrs. Rana), even though said neighbor kept her fed during the post-war famine. However, she comes to regret her actions, which becomes part of her motivation to kill Susan. But her main beef with Susan is that she got ignored by the government as Derek's widow and begins to fall to the bottom of society herself, [[LaserGuidedKarma experiencing firsthand what she let happen to others by choosing not to act]].]]
* AndThisIsFor: [[spoiler: While preparing herself to assassinate the Commander, she mentally enumerates and reviews all the reasons why she was about to do it and why they all made perfect sense.]]

* HeroicSacrifice: She knew full well what would happen to her [[spoiler:when she decided to murder the Commander. But she didn't care and preferred to die with dignity rather than live like a whore]].
* TheLastDance: [[spoiler: Feeling she had nothing left to lose and no purpose left in life anyways, she decides to at least do something useful before dying.]]

* ThousandYardStare: Has one of these just before [[spoiler:shooting Adam Susan in the face]].
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler: It isn't clearly shown whether or not Rosemary died after killing Commander Susan, her very last appearance shows her getting battered into confession by the Fingermen. It's heavily implied that she was KilledOffscreen but she's not seen nor mentioned again.]]
* UnwittingPawn: [[spoiler: Implied. During a discussion with Evey about why he leaves violet roses to his victims, V states that he cultivated a "very special rose" for Susan, insinuating that he may have had a hand in the repudiation of Rosemary's alimony as Derek Almond's widow, given his access to the FATE supercomputer. Whether he did it because he judged her as an AccompliceByInaction or if it was just manipulation is left to interpretation.]]

[[ManipulativeBitch Manipulative]], fairly attractive, and extremely shrewd, she uses bribery and sex to get men to do her bidding and is pretty good at it. Still all her plans go awry as V understands her intentions and [[spoiler:sends a videotape of her screwing Allistair Harper to Conrad. Conrad Heyer responds by attacking and killing Harper, but is badly wounded himself in the process]]. Furious at the destruction of her plans, she leaves her husband to die, showing her true colours. The end of the comics show that she is reduced to living in the street and bartering sex for food and other survival necessities.

* BigBadWannabe: She tries to set herself up as the unofficial head of Norsefire. [[spoiler: Her grab for power is cut short once V catches wind of her involvement.]]

* BreakTheHaughty: What ultimately happens to her after [[spoiler: being rebuffed by Eric Finch and reduced to sell her charms to survive]].
* DomesticAbuse: Regularly hits, ridicules, belittles [[spoiler: and cheats on]] her husband Conrad.
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: Her use of sex as a weapon led her to [[spoiler:cheat on her husband. When he finds out he kills her lover and gets mortally wounded himself, ruining her plans to control the government. Later Helen, who used sex as a weapon to ruthlessly manipulate people and control her downtrodden husband, [[LaserGuidedKarma is reduced to selling sexual favors to survive; like Rosemary back when she was expelled from Norsefire's privilege circle after Derek's death]]]].

* SmugSnake: Much like Creedy, Helen fancies herself a MagnificentBitch, and while she is able to out-class the former with her skills at manipulation, at the end of the day her entire scheme hinges on her marriage to Conrad and her affair with Alistair Harper. [[spoiler: Once both men are dead and gone, Helen loses all of her influence with what's left of the government and is soon reduced to selling sex on the streets just to get by.]]

* VillainousBreakdown: Helen has two towards the end of the comics. The first occurs when [[spoiler: she comes home to find Alistair dead and her mortally wounded husband lying on the floor of the lounge room with the tape of her affair with Alistair. She proceeds to yell at and belittle Conrad for ruining her plans before abandoning him to die of his wounds]]. The second occurs when she encounters [[spoiler:Finch and tries to convince him to work with her. When Finch refuses Helen is reduced to shrieking and ranting while he quietly leaves her behind]].

* HypercompetentSidekick: He's the one who figures out the Larkhill connection, and also realizes that V is [[spoiler: controlling FATE.]]

* OnlySaneMan: After [[spoiler: the assassination of Susan]], he's this to Norsefire. Creedy and Helen Heyer are too interested in getting power for themselves, while Conrad is preoccupied with [[spoiler: getting revenge on Ally Harper for cuckolding him]], and Finch loses all interest in the state of the country. It also looks like he'll [[spoiler: help to rebuild the country with Evey.]]
* PassingTheTorch: [[spoiler:By the end of the comics he has largely taken over Finch's role as the honest and competent cop, and furthermore it is implied at that Evey has also chosen him as her successor]].
* YouAreInCommandNow: First when Finch is suspended for punching Creedy, and again when Finch goes to Larkhill. Eventually, he [[spoiler: becomes the commander of the entire country after the rest of Norsefire ends up dead or missing.]]

Unfortunately for Creedy, [[spoiler:Harper is also working for Helen Heyer, who pays him better than Creedy does]].

* KnifeNut: He has a definite fondness for blades, as he used a sword to kill Gordon and [[spoiler:when he turned on Creedy, he used a knife or razor in what is implied to be a truly horrific and sadistic fashion. This also came into play against Conrad, see MutualKill below.]]

* NiceHat: He's never seen without it unless he's safely in his own home.

* CulturedBadass: His Shadow Gallery is a monument to forgotten culture, and we know he's a fan of (at the very least) showtunes, [[Music/PyotrIlyichTchaikovsky Tchaikovsky]], Music/TheRollingStones, Creator/{{Motown}} and [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare.]]

* TheHeroDies: [[spoiler:He may be a badass, but not even he can survive the sheer power of bullets.]]

* KnightInSourArmour: He is quite jadedness but still labors to do what he sees at the right thing.

* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: [[spoiler: All he cared about was killing V, the man who killed his former LoveInterest Delia Surridge. Once this is done, all the rest is of no concern to him. The story concludes with him walking away nonchalantly from London, on a deserted highway, to a completely unknown destination.]]

* KnifeNut: The knives are the only actual weapons he uses, not included his basic combat skills.

* TurnInYourBadge: For one brief moment he completely looses his usual cool out of anger and grief over the death of [[spoiler:Delia Surridge]], during which Peter Creedy makes an unsavory comment regarding their relationship. This is the final straw for Eric after a long and stressful investigation that has now turned bitterly personal, and he ends up sucker punching Creedy square in the jaw. Following this, Adam Susan, while not outright punishing him for this infraction, still personally orders him to take an extended vacation. Eric still stubbornly continues his hunt for V.