History Film / VForVendetta

* PetTheDog: Unlike his other targets, V ''doesn't'' violently kill Delia Surridge, but instead chooses to inject her with a lethal poison while she sleeps, because she was the only one to regret what she did. He even seems sorry that he had to do so.

* CulturePolice: The Norsefire regime tightly controls all entertainment in Britain, censoring everything which ever appears on the British Television Network (BTN) which is government-run. Presumably the [[TheAlternet Interlink]] and any other media is also under their thumb. A specific example is Sutler ordering a painting which had mockingly portrayed him dressed in drag, called "God Save The Queen", destroyed (but V rescued it).

** Gordon, who is a closeted gay man, appreciator of many banned items, and who secretly loathes the government, does a skit on his show that makes an ass out of Sutler, portrays V in a positive, if humorous, light, and is overall a huge middle finger to the government and everything it stands for. Gordon believes he'll get away with it, only getting fined and forced to make an apology, because he's too famous to get disappeared. [[spoiler: He is ''so'' wrong; the totalitarian government's goons end up beating and arresting him in his own home and later him executed for his collection of illegal materials, no doubt found when they searched his house]].

* PurposeProse: V prefers a very verbose and [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness loquacious]] way of speaking.

* VillainBall: As V pushed the city more towards chaos and anarchy by [[spoiler:giving everyone masks and cloaks like his]], Finch realizes the "powder keg" will be blown by someone in the government doing something stupid. [[spoiler:As he says this, we see a Fingerman shoot the little girl with glasses, who was wearing V's mask, for putting V's mark over a Norsefire poster]].

* RealityEnsues:
** When people begin to support V's anarchism, some people, like the convenience store robber, use it as a cover to commit crimes.
** Gordon, who is a closeted gay man, appreciator of many banned items, and who secretly loathes the government, does a skit on his show that makes an ass out of Sutler, portrays V in a positive, if humorous, light, and is overall a huge middle finger to the government and everything it stands for. Gordon believes he'll get away with it, only getting fined and forced to make an apology, because he's too famous to get disappeared. [[spoiler: He is ''so'' wrong; the totalitarian government's goons end up beating and arresting him in his own home and later him executed for his collection of illegal materials, no doubt found when they searched his house]].
** [[spoiler: A BulletproofVest wouldn't be enough to protect you from all those shots.]]

* EvilSoundsDeep: V is given a deep baritone voice which helps him express his mannerisms in spite of his mask.

* InfantImmortality: Averted. A little girl being gunned down for dressing up as V is the last straw that starts the revolution.

* TooDumbToLive: Gordon Dietrich switches out the state-approved script for his show with one mocking the Chancellor. Though the public certainly found it funny, said Chancellor is the ruler of a totalitarian society, a bigot, a zealot, and a complete monster who is willing to abuse his vast power for the pettiest of reasons. Gordon boasts that the worst that will happen is a fine and he'll be forced to write a letter of apology. [[spoiler:He's arrested and then shot for all the banned material in his home.]] It's hinted from earlier comments to Evey that this might be an intentional SuicideByCop.

* AdaptationalWimp: The movie turns Gordon Dietrich into a chubby, middle-aged comedian (played by Creator/StephenFry, no less) when he was a younger, more physically imposing career criminal in the book. Then again, the film also has him defying the Party's laws by hiding banned books and films in his house, and openly mocking Chancellor Sutler on his show, which is ''far'' more badass than anything the character did in the book.

* BigBadDuumvirate: [[PresidentEvil High Chancellor Adam Sutler]] and [[TheDreaded Party Leader Peter Creedy]] are the leaders of the Norsefire Party and fascist dictators of Britain who are the titular V's primary targets. Though Creedy technically works under Sutler, he is shown to have [[DragonInChief just as much power]] and spearheaded the party's rose to power. [[spoiler:He also betrays Sutler in the end.]]

* BigBad: At first, V is the primary threat to London. But the movie's obvious antagonist is Adam Sutler.

[[caption-width-right:326:''Remember, remember the Fifth of November.'']]

* SecondAmericanCivilWar: The movie mentions a "Second American Civil War" afflicting "the former United States" (presumably by analogy with "the former Soviet Union"). There was no nuclear war in the movie, but from what little inter-national news is shown (on the [[UnreliableNarrator propaganda-heavy]] television of the Norsefire Party) it looks like they have fallen into dire poverty and are plagued by disease to no end (though famine isn't among their problems, possibly).

* BadassLongRobe: V.

* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The film was made in 2005 and is set in the 2030s.