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V
The main protagonist is an Anti-Hero that nevertheless goes by very idealistic anarchist creeds. Appearing as a dark figure in a Black Cloak and wearing a Guy Fawkes mask, V's real name is just as unknown as his face that is only described by Dr Surridge as being "pathetically ugly". Swearing to bring down the repressive order that now rules England, he builds the Shadow Gallery with art pieces he saved from destruction and uses it as his headquarters. From then on, he patiently and skillfully destroys various symbols of power, disrupts Norsefire's orwellian surveillance system and emits subversive tracts and TV appearances. A Warrior Poet, V is a philosophical, eccentric yet generally unflappable man with a quirky sense of humour that even his protégée has a hard time getting.- Affably Evil: Naturally evil will depend on one's views of his actions and beliefs. But he is extremely polite and cultured throughout, even to people he plans to kill.
- Alternative Character Interpretation: Even occurs In-Universe. 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, and even Evey, suffer, and who destroys buildings to prove a point? Or maybe both? It should be noted that Alan Moore intended this moral ambiguity.
- Ambiguously Evil: As the battle between V and Norsefire is really Black-and-Gray Morality, he's not exactly good, and while he does things for a good reason, torturing Evey puts him a little bit past being just in the grey area.
- Anti-Hero: On the one hand, he wants to end the Norsefire Party's dictatorship and oppression. On the other, the party calling him a "terrorist" isn't exactly propaganda - he is willing to blow up buildings and torture people if it means winning his little war.
- Badass Bookworm: Has an enormous book collection, and has a particular passion for Shakespeare.
- Badass Normal: True, he is more intelligent, determined, and reactive than most humans - but that's all he is.
- Black Cloak: After the mask, it's his most noticeable piece of clothing, although unlike the mask he is often seen without it.
- Byronic Hero: A morally questionable, brilliant, mysterious, ruthless Anti-Hero who is yet strangely poetic and fond of art.
- Celibate Hero: Whether or not he's Asexual is never brought up. When Evey makes sexual advances to him, he kicks her out of the Shadow Gallery. In the movie, they eventually kiss, even though V is wearing his mask.
- The Chessmaster: V intricately plans out his destruction of the Norsefire government, easily exploiting its weaknesses and accounting for the actions and personalities of a number of people in order to make his plan come to fruition.
- Coat, Hat, Mask: We never see him without a mask, and the coat and hat are always worn whenever he leaves the shadow gallery.
- Cold-Blooded Torture: He has very inventive ways of tormenting his victims.
- Cool Mask: The Guy Fawkes mask. Always worn, except in one scene from the novel where he tortures Prothero, for which V donned a vaudeville outfit and a Punch and Judy mask.
- Cowardice Callout: "Coward" is among the many insults that he levels at the entire population of Norsefire Britain during his iconic "The Reason You Suck" Speech broadcast. The crux of the speech is accusing the population of having no spine, declaring they are entirely responsible for enabling their current despotic overlords to get into power and start making all the decisions for them.
- Crazy-Prepared: Has clearly spent years preparing his campaign with assassinations, explosives and computer hacking before he goes public at the beginning of the graphic novel.
- Cultured Badass: His Shadow Gallery is a monument to forgotten culture, and we know he's a fan of (at the very least) showtunes, Tchaikovsky, The Rolling Stones, Motown and Shakespeare.
- Deadpan Snarker: He can be quite the sarcastic fellow, especially when delivering his Workplace speech to the people of London.
- Deathly Unmasking: 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 Viking Funeral he requested and take up his mantle as the new V.
- Devious Daggers: V is a morally ambiguous, dangerous freedom fighter and knives are the only actual weapons he uses, not including his basic combat skills.
- Died in Your Arms Tonight: In Evey's arms.
- The Faceless: His face is never seen.
- Fatal Flaw: His extremism, as well as his lack of foresight when it comes to creating the society that he wants to make. For all his brilliant scheming and systemic take down of Norsefire, he doesn't seem to know or care on how he'll make a society out of the ashes of Norsefire. All he knows how to do is destroy, so when he has to create something, he seems to leave it up to the people who he's freed. But he never seems to realize that people need some sort of structure in order to create a society. Fortunately, he dies before he has the chance of having this flaw bite him.
- Genius Bruiser: The experiments enhanced his intellect and physical abilities. He can give you a master's class on literature and snap your neck without much effort.
- The Hero Dies: He may be a badass and a Super-Soldier, but not even he can survive the sheer power of bullets.
- The Kindnapper: He kidnaps Evey twice, both times out of benevolent intentions.
- Knight Templar: He is uncompromising in his attempt to overthrow the Norsefire government, having no qualms about killing his enemies in cold blood and even using Mind Rape.
- MacGyvering: A speciality of his. Being the only physically healthy survivor of the experiment performed on him and his fellow prisoners, he was granted 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.
- Malevolent Masked Men: "Malevolent" is slightly downplayed, but Masked Man is the very definition of V.
- Man of Wealth and Taste: Very much so. He even quotes the trope-naming line in the graphic novel.
- Mind Rape: What he does to Lewis Prothero, and to a lesser degree, to Evey Hammond.
- My Death Is Just the Beginning: Of the new England. Or at least, he hopes.
- Only Known by Their Nickname: V's name and history are a complete mystery.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Many of the names on his kill list are those who tormented him at Larkhill.
- Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: When you're using Added Alliterative Appeal on one of the least common letters of the alphabet, you need to start using some long words - Vaudevillian, Vicariously, Visage, Veneer, Vanguarding, the list just goes on.
- Sociopathic Hero: A heroic terrorist.
- Sole Survivor: Of the group of "undesirables" used as guinea pigs for Delia Surridge's research.
- Super-Soldier: The victim of an experiment meant to devise a way to create them. Where it killed or crippled the other unfortunate test subjects, it Went Horribly Right in his case, leading him to develop Olympic-level physical abilities and an incredibly expanded intellect. He used these newfound abilities to stage an escape from his imprisonment and to then seek his revenge against the Norsefire government.
- Tranquil Fury: It's very certain that the events surrounding how he came to be have touched a nerve, but he keeps it very low-key.
- Unreliable Narrator: It may be due to his theatricality but even Evey has a hard time understanding his character.
- Warrior Poet: A seasoned and ruthless assassin who loves to recite poetry, listening to jazz and cultivating beautiful violet roses.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Yes, he's killing people, blowing up buildings, and torturing an innocent young woman to prove a point, but he's doing it to free England.
- Wicked Cultured: the Gallery of Shadows is richly adorned with invaluable paintings and plays beautiful jazz songs. V is the story's Anti-Hero with morally questionable tactics.
Evey Hammond
The series' co-protagonist. She is a young girl whom V takes under his wing after being saved in extremis by V from the state's bloodthirsty secret police V before proceeding to indoctrinate her pursuant to his anarchistic beliefs.- Action Girl: What she eventually becomes.
- Bald Head of Toughness: As part of her torture in V's Confidence Building Scheme, Evey is shaved bald. The mental fortitude she developed while enduring the torture transforms her from a Naïve Everygirl into a Redeeming Replacement for V.
- Break the Cutie: Invoked by V, who believes that for her to break out of her rut and become his successor, she first has to be broken down until she has nothing, so that she can be remade/remake herself
- Confidence Building Scheme: 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.
- Her Heart Will Go On Be it Gordon or V himself, both the men she has been involved with die and she lives on.
- Legacy Character: She becomes a new V, a V to create a new world rather than break down the old, after V dies.
- Meaningful Name: Her name doubles as this and a Stealth Pun. Evey is a direct pronuciation of E-V, and E is the fifth letter of the alphabet.
- Naïve Everygirl: She's unaware of just how corrupt the government is and the dangers all around her when she and Gordon go out for a night on the town.
- Never a Self-Made Woman: Her father was the one who taught her all about politics, and his death and "disappearance" by the government was the reason she refused to ever deal with the topic again.
- Passing the Torch: She becomes V herself.
- Redemption in the Rain: In deliberate contrast to V's Redemption by Fire.
- Redeeming Replacement: 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.
- Sympathy for the Devil: To V himself.
- Tender Tears: 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.
- Traumatic Haircut: She's shaved completely bald when she is tortured in order to break her mentally.
- Women Are Wiser: Zigzagged. She says that she doesn't want to kill people but when Alistair 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.
Eric Finch
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 the death of Delia Surridge. Otherwise without ambitions and rather pragmatic, he simply believes that order is better than chaos.- Anti-Villain: Seems to cross over Hero of Another Story 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. 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.
- Determinator: The guy goes through hell and back during the course of the story, but he never gives up on tracking down V.
- Higher Understanding Through Drugs: 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 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.
- I Let Gwen Stacy Die: He carries a torch for Delia Surridge, and her death changes the chase for V to be something he does out of a sense of duty into a ruthless hunt motivated by anger and a need for revenge.
- It's Personal: After V kills Delia Surridge, the hunt for him stops just being a job for Eric. At the end of it all, he no longer cares if the Norsefire government stands or falls, he just wants to find V and have his revenge.
- Knight in Sour Armour: He is quite jaded but still labors to do what he sees at the right thing.
- Naked on Revival: Invoked. During his field trip to the ruins of Larkhill, he eventually understands what he did as a faithful operative of Norsefire. During this LSD trip, he strips naked and stands before the rising sun, as if he had been born again.
- Punch-Clock Villain: He is mostly indifferent and actually a bit disillusioned 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.
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: While he already wanted to catch V, Dr. Surridge's murder gives him the resolve that eventually allows him to hunt V down and shoot him to death.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: His entire focus was on killing V, the man who killed his former Love Interest Delia Surridge. Once this is done, he is left completely empty and bereft of purpose, as he never had any particular attachment or loyalty to the Norsefire government. The story concludes with him walking away from London, on a deserted highway, to a completely unknown destination.
- Smoking Is Cool: Smokes a pipe in the comics, perhaps drawing a parallel with a certain other Great Detective...
- The Stoic: He starts off the story as one, although the death of Delia and his other experiences wind up knocking the stoicism out of him.
- Sympathy for the Hero: Near the end of the story, after having witnessed the Norsefire's heinous crimes and hypocrisy up close, he comes to understand why V has been leading his crusade against it, but he is still firmly determined to find and catch him, seeing him first and foremost as a dangerous murderer.
- Turn in Your Badge: For one brief moment he completely loses his usual cool out of anger and grief over the death of 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.
The Norsefire Government
Adam James Susan
The cold, merciless, and despotic Leader of the Norsefire government who serves as the Big Bad.- The Aloner: 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 purposeless and alone.
- Ambiguously Gay: There are some hints that he might actually be homosexual and completely oblivious to it. He consistently internally describes women as strange and ugly beings, while his descriptions of men become borderline erotic at times. (It's also worth noting that when Derek Almond accuses the campy Dascombe of being gay by calling Dascombe "sensitive" and saying he doesn't know why the Leader tolerates him, Dascombe wryly replies that the Leader is the most "sensitive" of them all.)
- Bald of Evil: Adam Susan is portrayed as a pudgy man in a suit with no hair.
- Big Bad: The leader of the Norsefire government that V is trying to bring down.
- Boom, Headshot!: How Rosemary Almond kills him.
- Card-Carrying Villain: He is, at least in his inner monologue, unashamed and even proud to label himself a fascist. That said, he doesn't consider this to be evil. This makes him unique among his treacherous, self-serving compatriots, as he's the only one who genuinely believes in the Norsefire principles.
- Character Catchphrase: When addressing any of his subordinates, he always ends their discussions with the phrase "May England prevail!".
- Death by Irony: After years of hiding within his inner sanctuary and observing FATE, he believes that all he may have left to give his existence any meaning is interacting with his devoted followers, trying to look as "sincere" as they are. Not only are the crowds so demoralized that they're forced to cheer for him by gunpoint, but he pulls over his motorcade to shake hands with Rose, who draws her revolver and blows his head apart.
- Evil Is Petty: Played with. He believes in repressing one's own desires for the greater good, but that only makes them come out in weird ways.
- Evil Overlord: A deliberate subversion. While one might expect a fascist dictator who has successfully taken over an entire country to be a ruthless, intimidating, and perhaps charismatic villain, Adam Susan is a rather pathetic and lonely man. His internal monologue shows that he is very intelligent and thoughtful, but he's rather stiff and unimposing in public. Even his name isn't particularly striking.
- The Evils of Free Will: Believes that individual freedom and personal liberties are dangerous and frivolous and seeks to replace them with a uniformity of thought, word, deed and purpose.
- Fluffy the Terrible: "Adam Susan" is not a particularly menacing or even memorable name, but the man it belongs to is a fascist dictator.
- Freudian Slip: Due to considering himself to be a loveless person whose only true love is FATE, this repressed desire for love manifests when he accidently says "I love you" to a subordinate he's addressing. Fortunately for him, he's able to dismiss this before the subordinate starts asking any awkward questions.
- From Nobody to Nightmare: Before the war, Susan was nothing more than a police chief constable. In the upheaval that follows, he takes the opportunity to form Norsefire, take over England, successfully carry out a genocide of various undesirables, and rule the country with an iron fist for several years.
- Gender-Blender Name: His surname, Susan, is a name that is considered to be a female name.
- Heel–Face Door-Slam: He actually seems to be acknowledging his mistakes and thinking that he should try to treat his citizens better towards the end of his life, only to be assassinated immediately afterward. Perhaps a Downplayed Trope, since it's less of a Heel–Face Turn and more of considering being A Lighter Shade of Black.
- Machine Worship: The FATE supercomputer is the only thing he truly loves. Mixes elements of Cargo Ship and Robosexual in with the worship.
- The Man Behind the Curtain: The brutal leader of the Norsefire party is really just a lonely, sexually repressed man who doesn't exhibit any great or admirable qualities.
- No Celebrities Were Harmed: His position as a former police constable, combined with his homophobia and his conviction that he talks to God are highly reminiscent of former Manchester chief constable Sir James Anderton
. It's probably accidental but the way he's drawn is also very similar to the physical appearance of Gordon Brown. - Oh, Crap!: The look on his face just before Rosemary Almond blows his head off is priceless.
- Orcus on His Throne: He is the head of Norsefire and leader of England, but he rarely leaves the room which houses FATE. The one time he leaves his headquarters, he is promptly assassinated by Rosemary Almond.
- Pet the Dog: After Finch gets in a fight with and punches Creedy, Finch is surprised by how lenient and understanding Susan is about the whole thing. Susan declines to officially punish or reprimand Finch, and instead gives him a combination of unofficial suspension/mandatory holiday so Finch can try to deal with his stress and pull himself together.
- Politically Incorrect Villain: He is an anti-Semitic, homophobic white supremacist responsible for exterminating groups like Jews, non-whites, and gay people from Great Britain.
- President Evil: Although he eschews titles like President and goes simply by Leader, he ticks nearly every box associated with this trope, including being a despot in complete control of the country and police, having a cold, merciless personality, and being a demanding, Mean Boss to his underlings.
- Psychopathic Manchild: Ultimately this is what he is: a pathetic child who wants to feel strong so he doesn't have to deal with his inherent weakness. He conducts himself often like a shy child, though he is responsible for the systematic genocide of dozens, if not thousands of people.
- Robosexual: He is romantically and sexually attracted to a supercomputer. At one point during the comic, he even ends up masturbating to FATE, though thankfully the reader is spared from actually seeing it, instead seeing the stoic reactions of the soldiers guarding Adam's room.
- Sanity Slippage: He is so disconnected from other people and the world around him that he's slowly going mad. Early in the story he's already got bats in the belfry but is still functional. V's hacking of FATE, first to make him think the computer loves him back, then to reveal V's been "cuckolding" him and using the FATE system against him makes his break from reality much worse, until there's no coming back.
- Those Wacky Nazis: Alan Moore was obviously inspired by Hitler when he wrote Susan.
- Villainous Aromantic Asexual: A totalitarian dictator who has never felt love or attraction towards anybody other than his supercomputer (and, arguably, himself).
- Villainous Breakdown: He loses all semblance of sanity upon seeing that FATE has been hacked in by V.
- Villain Decay: 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 Sanity Slippage, he becomes more withdrawn and ineffective as a leader, prompting many of his ambitious underlings to plot a coup against him. 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.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: In the comics, he likes to imagine himself as one, seeing his actions as necessary for the survival of his people.
Derek Almond
The Alcoholic and uptight Director of The Finger, the Secret Police of the Norsefire government. He spends the early chapters of the story trying to catch and stop V, but is always a step behind. When he tries to stop V from killing Delia Surridge, he didn't realize that he forgot to charge his pistol, and ends up killed by V.- The Alcoholic: He seems to drink regularly and heavily at home.
- Disk-One Final Boss: Of a sort. Serving as a ruthless counterpart to the more likable Finch, Almond is set up as the more active villain on the scene in contrast to his boss, Adam Susan. However, Almond is killed fairly early in the story, thus paving the way for the less-effective Creedy to step in.
- Domestic Abuse: A really, really nasty one. Being one of the most powerful men in a totalitarian government apparently turned him into an abusive, ungrateful and violent husband to his yet gentle and faithful wife.
- The Dragon: To Susan, until he is killed by V.
- Frontline General: He may be a nasty piece of work but give him this much; he's quite willing to put himself in harm's way to do his job. When he gets a tip about where V may strike, he immediately heads there himself instead of sitting around and ordering his men to do it instead. He gets extra points for doing this when he wasn't even on duty. And when he is killed off the clock, the government uses that as a means of denying his widow any benefits she should be entitled to for him dying in action. Or maybe the real reason is because of V hacking the FATE supercomputer...
- Hoist by His Own Petard: He threatens his wife by acting like he's going to shoot her. At the end he reveals that the gun is unloaded, but promises that one day, it won't be. Only minutes later he gets a tip about where V may be. Guess what he forgets to do before he goes rushing out the door.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: What eventually happens to him. V drives his knives into Almond so hard that Almond's body is left Pinned to the Wall as a result.
- Jerkass: Almond is an altogether nasty customer. Lacking politeness or a pleasant personality are all part of that.
- The Loins Sleep Tonight: At one point in the comic his wife Rosemary comes to him in an attractive nightgown and tries to get him to sleep with her. He tries to make an excuse not to, at which point she talks about how they never have sex anymore, implying that he's impotent, and perhaps has been for some time. He responds by beating her and angrily blaming it on her.
- Minor Major Character: Begins the series as one of the most powerful men in a totalitarian government which has the country in an iron grip, and as the leader of the Secret Police, he's charged with either killing or capturing V. This is a very natural set up for him to play a large role in the story, yet he's killed off rather early, before V's plans are truly in earnest, and has relatively little panel time.
- Never Heard That One Before: He notes that Dascombe tends to reuse the same jokes about Almond's name over and over.
- No Accounting for Taste: Poor, poor Rosemary.
- Pet the Dog: His sole good deed is preventing the Fingermen from taking Robert's mother away to be killed; Peter Creedy has no such reservations.
- Secret Police: The organization he commands, The Finger, is this.
- Straight Man: He very reluctantly plays this role to Dascombe, who then uses it to crack jokes at his expense.
- Volatile Second Tier Position: Being in charge of the Finger puts a lot of pressure on Almond, and when something goes wrong, he's first on the chopping block for failing to stop a catastrophe in the making.
Peter Creedy
The Director of The Finger (the state's secret police) after Almond's death.- Big Bad Wannabe: He fancies himself to be the most dangerous member of the Norsefire party, but is outmaneuvered and killed when push comes to shove.
- Dragon Ascendant: Tries to become this near the end of the book when Commander Susan dies.
- Emergency Authority: He tries to seize control after Susan's death using this principle. As they're in the middle of a security emergency, it's only natural that The Finger and the security forces under his control take charge of the situation... 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. And only Helen Heyer knows that Creedy's private side army of thugs and criminals is about to turn on him.
- Establishing Character Moment: The first time he's seen is after V does his pirate broadcast and the Disguised Hostage Gambit with Dascombe. Creedy talks about how brilliant it was for V to get in and use the media center to make his broadcast, but never even considers that V had an escape plan, which Finch figures out instantly. Creedy then gets peevish and resentful about being corrected, and uses the opportunity to slip in a barbed comment about Finch and Delia's relationship. So after first meeting him we know that Creedy is full of himself, isn't nearly as clever as he thinks, and doesn't see the deeper game that others are playing. (Something that will cost him dearly later in the comic.) Furthermore when given the slightest chance or reason, Creedy will use his position in petty, hurtful ways and lash out at others.
- Jerkass: His Establishing Character Moment includes him averting Never Speak Ill of the Dead 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 "home". When the man protests that the "homes" are just a death camp for the elderly, Creedy confirms it in the most brutal and uncaring manner possible.Robert: Mr. Creedy, please, Mr. Almond and I had an understanding about my mother. She was exempt...
Creedy: Mr. Almond's dead, Robert. Things are different now. You don't have special status anymore and your mum should have been in a home a long time ago.
Robert: Homes? They're gas chambers!
Creedy: Not gas. If you want the truth, Robert, there's just three good South Ken boys with iron bars. Now get out of my sight, you miserable old pansy. - Out-Gambitted: Helen Heyer paid his private army better than he did. His attempt to use them to seize power never had a chance.
- Pet the Dog: He wants to give some of the Fingermen time off to attend Etheridge's funeral, but ultimately Susan stops him.
- Revolvers Are Just Better: His personal weapon is a magnum revolver.
- Secret Police: The head of one.
- Smug Snake: Creedy is an arrogant bully who thinks he can easily waltz into taking over the government. It quickly falls apart and he pays a horrible price for overestimating himself and underestimating those around him.
- The Starscream: Even before Susan's death, Creedy was trying to increase his power and pave the way for his eventual takeover. Granted, this appears to have been kickstarted by the recognition that Susan was going (or had already gone) mad, and was making critical mistakes in handling the unrest in the streets.
- Villainous Breakdown: He desperately pleads for mercy when he sees that Harper has betrayed him. No mercy comes.
Roger Dascombe
The smart-mouthed and mocking director of The Mouth, which oversees propaganda and media in Britain.- Affably Evil: Humorous and happy-tempered but still just as corrupt as the government he serves.
- Ambiguously Gay/Ambiguously Bi: He acts very Camp and Almond accuses him of being gay, but Dascombe later sleeps with Rosemary, and is a top ranking official in a repressive, genocidal government which mercilessly purged its LGBTQ population. (Of course, in real life such governments are often massively hypocritical and have high ranking members who are either members of groups the government officially persecutes or who practice things those governments preach against.)
- Cheshire Cat Grin: His default expression that he only loses upon facing V.
- Comforting the Widow: What he does to Rosemary after Derek Almond's death, in a very unsavoury way.
- Disguised Hostage Gambit: V escapes from Dascombe's studio by gagging Dascombe, putting him in V's clothes and mask, and then leaving Dascombe in plain sight while V makes his escape. The police force storming the studio riddle Dascombe with bullets while V escapes in the crowd.
- Laughing at Your Own Jokes: He is very amused at himself when he makes jokes about Almond.
- The Ministry of Truth: His role as head of The Mouth.
- Propaganda Machine: The head of it.
- Slimeball: The best way to characterize his behavior, especially seducing Rosemary purely in order to get back at Derek Almond, who had recently been killed by V.
Conrad Heyer
The good-hearted but weak-willed director of The Eye, the government's surveillance section, is also the Henpecked Husband of the ruthless Helen Heyer who uses him as a means to an end.- Alas, Poor Villain: He may be the head of surveillance in a totalitarian state, but it's difficult not to feel sorry for him when he's shown being physically and emotionally abused and cuckolded by his wife, who eventually abandons him to die after he's stabbed by her lover, coldly telling him that she never loved him and forcing him to watch a live feed of his own death on the viewscreen.
- Anti-Villain: He's essentially a Punch-Clock Villain/Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain who's never seen doing anything actually villainous.
- Big Brother Is Watching: The Eye oversees surveillance throughout the city.
- Bludgeoned to Death: He kills Allistair Harper with a hammer.
- Domestic Abuse: The victim of it in this case.
- Henpecked Husband: By his abusive, bossy, manipulative wife Helen.
- Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: One cannot help but feel sorry for the guy with how his cruel and ambitious wife utterly humiliates him on a regular basis and only really sees him as a pawn in her game, and he yet he is still hopelessly in love with her in spite of it.
- Love Martyr: Upon learning that the wife who treats him like dirt is having an affair, his first reaction is to 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.
- Mutual Kill: Though he manages to kill Allistair Harper in their confrontation, Harper manages to seriously wound him. Helen finds him in this state, but angry that he has thrown a wrench in her plans for a coup, she leaves him to bleed to death rather than helping him.
- The Peeping Tom: Implied to have voyeuristic tendencies with having cameras everywhere, though he is loyal to his wife.
- Token Good Teammate: Sort of. He isn't evil per se but he still serves the government loyally. The only other member of the inner circle who could be described as this would be Brian Etheridge, who doesn't appear to have any cruel or aggressive qualities.
- Unrequited Love: Despite being married, Helen feels nothing but contempt for him but he truly loves her.
Brian Etheridge
The unassuming head of the Ear.- Big Brother Is Watching: In charge of audio surveillance at the Ear.
- Dropped a Bridge on Him: Killed when V blows up Jordan Tower. It probably wasn't even intended since he was working late.
- Happily Married: In noticeable juxtaposition with every other member of the Norsefire Government, he seems to have a stable marriage.
- In-Series Nickname: "Bunny". Its origin is never explained.
- Out of Focus: Everyone in the Norsefire Government gets their own subplot except for Etheridge.
- Punch-Clock Villain: We never see him do anything particularly villainous beyond his job.
- Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic: He, uh, has a habit of, erm, peppering what he says, ah, with a lot of ums and ahs.
- Token Good Teammate: Well, relativistic to being in the cabinet of a fascist government, he shows zero overt villainous traits.
- Villains Out Shopping: Invited Eric Finch over for dinner with his wife.
The Larkhill Three
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.- Armored Closet Gay: Implied by comments by Dascombe, and that Prothero himself immediately defends his doll-collecting hobby by bringing up the supposed sexual adventures of his youth to prove his masculine bonafides, sidestepping any explanation of why the dolls themselves would appeal to a "military man".
- Aroused by Their Voice: A lot of attention is drawn in the comic to Prothero's incredibly charismatic voice, which has a rich tenor and is disarmingly sensitive.
- Cruel Mercy: Instead of killing him, V Mind Rapes him to render him incurably insane.
- Dirty Coward: He brags about his military service and such, but when confronted by V all he does is either plead for mercy or try to deny that he was ever at Larkhill.
- Fat Bastard: Fat, corrupt, a sadistic bully, and a Miles Gloriosus to boot.
- Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: 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 campy Dascombe's claim, earlier in the chapter, that Prothero is "sensitive".
- Jerkass: Possibly the nicest thing that anyone could say about this man.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Although V doesn't kill him, he ends up literally crazy and unable to speak, other than repeating "Ma-ma!" over and over, like his beloved dolls. And for extra karma points, his precious doll collection burns in the same ovens that Norsefire used to burn "undesirables", which he used to operate.
- Miles Gloriosus: 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. In reality the director of a concentration camp, Prothero's "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 it's uncertain if he faced any combat even as a young soldier stationed overseas. As seen with his Dirty Coward entry, when he's one-on-one with V, he makes no attempt to fight back other than ineffectually denying and defending his actions.
- Moral Myopia: He cares far more about his doll collection than he did about the people he tortured at Larkhill. Seeing the dolls burned in the same ovens where he roasted people makes him lose his mind.Prothero: My god, if you've damaged any of them... they're priceless! Hardly any of the big collections survived the war. If you've damaged them...
V: Admirable concern, Commander. But it's deuced odd, isn't it? How you can show so much concern for porcelain and plastic... and so little for flesh and blood. - Mouth of Sauron: 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.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If Prothero had trusted his initial misgivings and not agreed to give the man in room five virtually unrestricted access to gardening chemicals, he wouldn't have been able to blow up Larkhill and go on to become V.
- Psychopathic Manchild: His doll collection and his often petty and immature personality turn him into this.
- Real Men Wear Pink: An ex-soldier and former concentration camp commander who makes propaganda for a fascist government. His hobby? Collecting dolls, which he claims the average citizen is ignorant about and assumes is a pastime for "pooftahs", not a military veteran like himself.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: During a conversation with his bodyguards he brings up his hobby of collecting dolls completely unprompted, purely so he can stress that it doesn't mean he's gay. His bodyguard's reaction implies that he brings this up a lot.
Archbishop Anthony Lilliman
Once a priest in the Larkhill camp (he provided "spiritual support" for the guards) he's a child molester and now promoted to Bishop of Westminster.- Asshole Victim: He might be a weak old man, but he's also a pedophile and a rapist.
- Dirty Old Man: 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; when told Evey claims to be fifteen, he demurs, then remarks that he must "bear [God's] disappointments" and seems to resign himself to it.
- Hypocrite: Despite being the head of the Church of England, he is a pedophile who possesses a large collection of child pornography and rapes little girls every Sunday.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Just like Prothero, he is given an ironic way to die, being forced to ingest a poisoned host.
- Pedophile Priest: He possesses a stash of child pornography and every Sunday night, he rapes a different pre-teen girl.
- Perfect Poison: The way V chooses to dispose of Lilliman.
- Serial Rapist: Every Sunday he rapes an underage girl delivered to him by a child porn agency, calling it "the children's hour".
- Sinister Minister: Not only is he a pedophile and a rapist, he was formerly the pastor at the Larkhill concentration camp, and now uses his pulpit to preach the Christian virtues of Norsefire's fascism, with his congregation reciting a hymn in Chapter Six about a vengeful God purging the wicked in nuclear fire."One race, one nation, united in thy love."
- Twisted Eucharist: V forces him to take part in one. When Lilliman confirms for him that the communion host becomes the body of Christ when swallowed, V makes him swallow a wafer he's laced with cyanide.Finch: And do you know what? When it reached his abdomen, it was still cyanide.
- Villains Want Mercy: He switches from sadistic violence to weeping as he begs V for mercy. V, however, is not in a forgiving mood.
- Would Hurt a Child: Implied by the fact that his weekly rape sessions are known as "the children's hour" and that he considers fifteen-year-olds to be almost too old.
Dr. Delia Surridge
The Chief Medical Officer of Larkhill, she did human experiments on the prisoners. After Larkhill's destruction, she became consumed by guilt over what she had done. She used to be in a relationship with Finch.- Ambition Is Evil: Lampshaded. She wanted to become a world-class doctor and had no moral compunction at the time about experimenting serums and new medicine on the Larkhill inmates. After the destruction of Larkhill, she comes to the realization that what she did was an infamy and that she, along with all the people involved in it, deserved to be castigated for it.
- Anti-Villain: After she leaves Larkhill.
- Apocalyptic Log: She leaves one behind, and it explains why V is the way he is.
- Because You Were Nice to Me: Since she had been by far the gentlest (at least, post-Larkhill) and most repentant of the three, V rewards her with a painless and peaceful death.
- Deadly Doctor: Delia used to be this. She performed horrific hormonal experiments on Norsefire's victims, who she viewed as animalistic. These experiments caused people to grow vestigial body parts and die. In hindsight, she comes to a Despair Event Horizon after realizing what a monster she was.
- Death Seeker: Upon learning that V has come to kill her, her only response is "Thank God."
- Face Death with Dignity: The only victim not to break down or cry for mercy when they face V.
- Morally Ambiguous Doctorate: Used her position to conduct horrific experiments on inmates, often with high mortality rates. After Larkhill (and after witnessing V's initial rampage), she realized how evil her work was and awaited the day V would come to kill her.
- My God, What Have I Done?: In a way, she created V. She thanks him when he shows up to kill her, feeling she deserves it for her part in the Larkhill experiments.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Her experiments and granting of gardening privileges and access to certain chemicals to the man in room five led to him becoming V, escaping Larkhill and beginning his one-man war on Norsefire.
- Playing with Syringes: It was her syringes that helped make V what he is.
- Redemption Equals Death: She just couldn't live with the guilt, so much so that she was happy to find out that V came to kill her.
- Visionary Villain: Performed experiments on humans with the intention of eradicating disease. When she saw the extent of the damage her experiments caused, she fell to despair and was genuinely grateful when V shows up to kill her.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Genuinely believed that her experiments were for the good of Britain and mankind in general.
Supporting Characters
Rosemary Almond
The gentle, demure but abused wife of Derek Almond. After his death, she is left to fend for herself, the Government refusing to give her any pension for being an official's widow.- Accomplice by Inaction: 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, experiencing firsthand what she let happen to others by choosing not to act.
- And This Is for...: 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.
- Beware the Nice Ones: Who could have thought the sweet, gentle, and enduring Rosemary would ever snap so radically?
- Break the Cutie: Her entire story arc is this happening until it drives her to strike back.
- Broken Bird: After enduring her husband's abuse, being Dascombe's plaything, and then being forced to perform demeaning burlesque numbers just to survive, Rosemary becomes quite broken.
- Despair Event Horizon: Although unlike many examples, rather than a single incident pushing her over it, it's a gradual accumulation until she doesn't care about the fact that she'll probably be tortured and killed in response for assassinating Susan.
- Deus Angst Machina: After all what she's been through, it's really justified.
- The Dog Bites Back: Everything she endures at the hands of the system that Susan built, she finally breaks and decides that she has to do something to hit it, (and him) back, regardless of the cost.
- Domestic Abuse: We get to see her being the target of it, complete with the abuser in question flat out telling her that one day he will work up to murdering her.
- Fan Disservice: Seeing her in a revealing burlesque outfit is somewhat less than erotic considering how demeaning this is for her.
- Heroic Sacrifice: She knew full well what would happen to her when she decided to murder the Commander. But she didn't care and preferred to die with dignity rather than live like a whore.
- The Last Dance: Feeling she had nothing left to lose and no purpose left in life anyways, she decides to at least do something useful before dying.
- Lifetime Movie of the Week: Her own arc looks very much like this, except it's done well.
- Shrinking Violet: Before Derek's death.
- Thousand-Yard Stare: Has one of these just before shooting Adam Susan in the face.
- Uncertain Doom: 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 Killed Offscreen but she's not seen nor mentioned again.
- Unwitting Pawn: 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 Accomplice by Inaction or if it was just manipulation is left to interpretation.
- Walking Spoiler: The end of her character arc is a major spoiler that shakes up the the entire story.
Helen Heyer
The scheming, arrogant and domineering wife of Conrad Heyer who plans to take control of Norsefire through her husband, with her being the power behind the throne.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 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.
- Ambition Is Evil: Her ambition results in multiple murders, among other sordid activities. Furthermore, the book seems to suggest that the ambitions of all the people who want the top spot in the government after Susan's death are as responsible for destabilizing and toppling the government as anything else.
- Big Bad Wannabe: She tries to set herself up as the unofficial head of Norsefire. Her grab for power is cut short once V catches wind of her involvement.
- Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She knows all too well how to sit back and play the good, charming wife in public while making cold hearted, ruthless schemes for power.
- Break the Haughty: What ultimately happens to her after being rebuffed by Eric Finch and reduced to sell her charms to survive.
- Domestic Abuse: Regularly hits, ridicules, belittles and cheats on her husband Conrad.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Her use of sex as a weapon led her to 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, is reduced to selling sexual favors to survive; like Rosemary back when she was expelled from Norsefire's privilege circle after Derek's death.
- Hope Spot: She has an extremely brief one towards the very end of the comics, when after being reduced to living on the street and offering sex to a gang in exchange for protection, she spots Eric Finch and tries to convince him to work with her in regaining some control over chaos in the wake of the government's collapse. When Finch refuses her she knows all too well that her last chance is lost.
- Ice Queen: Of the total bitch variety.
- Lady Macbeth: She can see a path that will lead her husband Conrad to becoming the most powerful man in the country, (at least on paper) and she pushes him towards it and won't let anything, including him not being suited to that role, stand in her way.
- Manipulative Bitch: Oh so much, and oh so skilled.
- Pretty in Mink: Never seen without her expensive mink coat.
- Rich Bitch: Being the wife of one of the most powerful men in the country has brought her plenty of wealth and comfort, but it hasn't made her any less cruel or ambitious.
- Smug Snake: Much like Creedy, Helen fancies herself The Chessmaster, 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. 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.
- Socialite: Only in appearance. Her goals are way more sinister than just being a catty Rich Bitch.
- The Vamp: She has no problems with using sex as a weapon.
- Villainous Breakdown: Helen has two towards the end of the comics. The first occurs when 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 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.
- The Woman Behind the Man: She's the one truly responsible for Conrad's career continuing to rise, and she's aiming for him to be an Authority in Name Only while she's the true power.
Dominic
Finch's sidekick at the Nose.- Hypercompetent Sidekick: He's the one who figures out the Larkhill connection, and also realizes that V is controlling FATE.
- The Lancer: To Eric Finch. He is young and more enthusiastic and naive about his work, where the middle-aged Finch is more cynical and disillusioned.
- Naïve Newcomer: At first, he plays somewhat like a Watson to Finch's Holmes, later he grows into the role of being Finch's replacement.
- Only Sane Man: After 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 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 help to rebuild the country with Evey.
- Passing the Torch: 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.
- You Are in Command Now: First when Finch is suspended for punching Creedy, and again when Finch goes to Larkhill. Eventually, he becomes the commander of the entire country after the rest of Norsefire ends up dead or missing.
Valerie Page
An unseen character (besides some clips on a movie screen) that is only talked about throughout the novel. A lesbian actress who gained substantial acclaim in her day, she was among the people that were first taken to the Larkhill concentration camp.- Break the Cutie: Her writings tell her life story, and detail exactly how this happened to her.
- Bury Your Gays: She had been imprisoned in Larkhill for being a lesbian and killed off during the experiments, before the main story starts.
- Easily Forgiven: Valerie was betrayed by her girlfriend Ruth which led to Valerie's imprisonment. Valerie immediately forgives Ruth as they had tortured her into signing a confession that she had been seduced by Valerie. Ruth also could not live with the guilt and committed suicide.
- Flower Motifs: The purple rose is her emblem that V took for himself.
- Gay Romantic Phase: Had a girlfriend who treated their relationship as a phase they would grow out of. A teacher even stated that they would do so. While the girlfriend did indeed do so, Valerie didn't.
- Lipstick Lesbian: She dressed in a feminine way, and the only difference from most other women was that she didn't want to get married with a man. And this was what she had been ultimately sent to Larkhill for, soon after her girlfriend Ruth.
- Posthumous Character: Those notes that get slipped to Evey through the cell wall? Being passed through by V.
- The Unseen: Although we see V watch some clips of her.
Gordon
A former acquaintance and fellow smuggler of Alistair Harper. He picks up Evey some time after V expels her from the Shadow Gallery and eventually becomes her lover. He ends up killed by Harper shortly before V abducts Evey again.- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: He is killed by being stabbed in the head with a sword by Harper's henchman.
- A Lighter Shade of Gray: Gordon is involved in the black market, and as such has probably been involved with any number of unsavory things, but he's far more human and decent than Harper.
- Nice Guy: He often shows kindness for no reason other than just because. This is contrasted with the likes of Creedy and Harper, who enjoy using their power and position to bully or terrorize people.
- Satellite Love Interest: In the novel, he is mostly presented to see just how he picked up Evey after she was expelled from the Shadow Gallery.
- Street Smart: A requirement for being involved in illegal activity. Gordon frequently shows that he knows what's going on in the street, who the important players are, and how to tell when a situation is going bad.
Alistair Harper
A vicious Scottish crook who starts off as a major player in the Black Market, he and his men are recruited by Creedy to be Creedy's private side army, a group of thugs who can do anything without being obviously linked to the government. Creedy has fond dreams of using the combined forces of the Fingermen and Harper's thugs to push himself to the head of the government.- Black Market: Appears to more or less control what we see of it.
- Cruel and Unusual Death: Implied to have inflicted one on Creedy, who pleads for a quick death. Harper refuses, saying "I wouldn't waste the bullet" and goes to work with his knife instead.
- The Dragon: To Creedy. In the overall power structure, probably closest to being The Brute.
- The Dreaded: To Gordon, who's a petty crook compared to Harper being a violent crime boss.
- Faux Affably Evil: Has a superficial layer of charm, but there is a very nasty and cruel bastard hiding just beneath the surface.
- I Have You Now, My Pretty: In addition to bragging about feeling up women under the guise of strip searches while working for the Finger, 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.
- Mutual Kill: Though Conrad manages to surprise Alistair by ambushing the latter with a spanner while he's watching a video of himself and Helen, Harper manages to seriously wound Conrad with his razor. However Conrad beats Alistair to death with the spanner before bleeding out himself.
- Psycho Knife Nut: He has a definite fondness for blades, as he used a sword to kill Gordon and 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 Mutual Kill above.
- The Starscream: Soon after Creedy recruits him he agrees to serve as Helen Heyer's mole within Creedy's organization, then she makes it plain that he'll be head of the Finger if anything should happen to Creedy...
- The Unintelligible: His speech is rendered in a Funetik Aksent so confusing that it's all but indecipherable to non-British or non-Scottish readers.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Selling Rose Almond a gun to defend herself with results in her assassinating Susan with it, leading to the collapse of Norsefire and what little semblance of order remained.
- Violent Glaswegian: Although he is more clever and self-controlled than is normal for this trope, he is a Scotsman with a mile-wide violent streak, so still counts.
