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Comic:

  • The offhand reference early on that Zara, the then-recently born daughter of Princess Anne, is the new Queen at age 16 after the war killed everyone ahead of her in the succession.note 
  • Prothero dressed up as one of his dolls going, "Ma-ma... Ma-ma...".
  • Adam Susan: I didn't call out. Er - I coughed.
  • Evey repeating the inscription on the arch in the big hall loudly ("Vi Veri Veniversum Vivus Vici", but only the initials).
    Evey: V.V.V.V.V.
    V: Evey Evey Evey Evey Evey.
    Evey: Sometimes I could just punch you in your stupid smiley face!
  • Adam Susan says to Fate "I love you." Mr. Creedy thinks he's talking to him. Later, Susan... cleans out his cannon to the Fate computer. The guards stationed outside the office have to endure listening to his moans.
  • After throwing the government's Propaganda Machine into disorder, V says he misses the Storm Saxon serials, the dialogues were better.
  • Although it's meant for Nightmare Fuel the girl spelling bollocks wrong is worth a chuckle.

Movie:

  • The comedy show skit.
  • At the beginning, right after V has given his V-filled introduction.
    Evey: Are you, like, a crazy person?
    V: I am quite sure that they will say so.
  • V has disarmed a Fingerman of his baton, one who had leered "Spare the rod, spoil the child!" before intending to rape Evey:
    V: "We are oft to blame in this, 'tis too much proved, that with devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself."note 
    Fingerman: What does that mean?
    V: (raises baton) Spare the rod... (whack!)
  • The first interaction between V and Evey leads to a little lesson in grammar and philosophy:
    Evey: Who are you?
    V: Who? "Who" is but the form following the function of "what", and what I am is a man in a mask.
    Evey: I can see that.
    V: Of course you can. I'm not questioning your powers of observation, I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is.
    Evey: Oh.
  • When V hijacks the security channel, you can see "V TV" in the corner of the screen.
  • When Evey first sees the Shadow Gallery, she is a little nervous after learning that it's filled with censored artwork that V stole back from the government. V puts it in perspective:
    Evey: God, if they ever find this place...
    V: I suspect if they do find this place, a few bits of art will be the least of my worries.
  • Evey and V are watching the news of Prothero's death, read by her colleague at BTN. Evey knows she is lying about his death being natural causes because that particular newsreader always blinks a lot when reading something she knows is untrue. The newsreader then says Prothero will be badly missed, at which she blinks rapidly and repeatedly.
    • Prothero's death. Being vain, he's watching his most recent televised rant in the shower, echoing and agreeing with himself about how he wishes he could have been at Jordan Tower to punch out V himself. He gets to the end of the recording, and his shower, and turns the screen off. He sees V reflected in the TV screen and is immediately terrified, slipping and falling.
  • Earlier Dascomb and Finch are standing over Prothero's body while Dascomb is wondering how to spin it to the public. He suggests "a quiet, dignified death in his sleep" before glancing down at the blood-flecked vomit around Prothero's corpse and looking both dubious and nauseated.
  • V's "sword fight" against the suit of armour while watching The Count of Monte Cristo, increased tenfold by his awkwardness once he realises that he's being watched by Evey.
    V: Oh, er, oh God.
  • V. Cooking breakfast. Listening to "The Girl from Ipanema". Wearing a pink flowery apron.
  • Evey hiding out at Dietrich's after running off from V. She turns up at his door still dressed to lure the paedophilic Father Lilliman.
    • Dietrich offers her a drink, which she promptly necks. He can only offer a belated "Cheers".
    • When she sees Dietrich's copy of a Koran manuscript:
      Evey: Are you Muslim?
      Dietrich: No, I'm in television.
    • After they watch the comedy sketch, Dietrich is on the phone to his agent:
      Dietrich: What are they going to do, fine us? Big deal. We've got the most-watched show on air! Well, you're my agent, that's what I pay you for. Protect me. (hangs up, turns to Evey) Should've hired him years ago to be my mother.
      Evey: You're mad!
      Dietrich: Either that or I wasn't breastfed.
  • The little bespectacled girl in her V costume running through the street and pretending to fly. She used green and yellow tape to fix her glasses to the outside of the mask.
  • When V sends his mask to thousands of people in the UK, one of them use it in the robbery of a shop:
    Robber: Give me the fucking money! Anarchy in the UK!

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