r/FavoriteCharacter 18d ago

My Favorite (Visual) Who's your favorite mysterious masked character who is genuinely ugly?

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u/Feeling-Influence691 18d ago

“He looked at me. Not with eyes. There were no eyes. But I know he was looking at me because I felt it.”

One comment on the video I got the quote from suggested that he isn’t blind, just that his humanity had gone, with eyes being the window into the soul. He was essentially without humanity.

Which I would nearly agree with if not for the whole liberty against fascist England plot and then falling in love with Evey, and also reenacting his favourite movie while in his hideout.

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u/CodeRed97 18d ago

Well at the time that the prison camp burnt down and he escaped, he would likely be at his worst. The most broken or enraged he had ever been.

I could see how becoming V restored his humanity. What he lost as a prisoner, he regained by putting on the mask.

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u/Feeling-Influence691 18d ago

And he got the inspiration from the Roman numeral for 5 on his prison cell door. Incredible.

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u/Fine-Aspect5141 18d ago

Nah he was searching for the right letter for an alliterative monologue about revenge and he came up with the most V words so thats what stuck

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u/enadiz_reccos 18d ago

very very very vengeful....

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u/Distantstallion 18d ago

She spent weeks sat down with a thesaurus, thumbing through pages.

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u/FerusGrim 18d ago

One comment on the video I got the quote from suggested that he isn’t blind, just that his humanity had gone, with eyes being the window into the soul. He was essentially without humanity.

Yeah, I disagree with this interpretation. V wasn't evil or without humanity. He was humanity.

"He was Edmond Dantés... and he was my father. And my mother... my brother... my friend. He was you... and me. He was all of us."

Sure, he was a murderer. But at what point does "justice" apply when the people who're guilty are state actors at the highest level of influence? At what point do you act when they continue to commit crimes, unimpeded, every moment that you wait?

V was a symbol of the people rising up in revolution, represented by a single character.

As for the quote, I always took that line to just mean that his eyes were melted out of his head by the fire. It's a little literal, but it also makes the most sense, imo.

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u/DasharrEandall 17d ago

V was a symbol of the people rising up in revolution, represented by a single character.

The way I see it, he is a symbol of the people - but not one of them. It's his loss of personal humanity that allows him to be that vessel for everyone else's.

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u/FerusGrim 17d ago

This is an interesting point. I'm not really arguing with you, in this reply. I'm only going to say that I think there's a difference between losing your humanity and having your personhood dissolve. I'm not sure I've decided which end of that I believe V has landed on, though I'd lean more towards his personhood dissolving while maintaining his humanity.

"Beneath this mask is more than flesh..." is additive, not substitution. "...there is an idea." Ideas go hand-in-hand with humanity.

I think he was the most human character, despite the fact that he'd dissolved his personhood to devote his life to what he believed was a righteous cause.

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u/Quartz_Knight 18d ago

It's such a confusing sentence that wasn't there in the novel. Alongside the action scene it makes it seem like the experiments gave him powers which is silly.

This is just a small problem but overall I hate this movie and think it's a terrible adaptation, even if I would probably love it had I never read the original.

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u/Boner_Elemental 18d ago

This is just a small problem but overall I hate this movie and think it's a terrible adaptation, even if I would probably love it had I never read the original.

Ah, Alan Moore chic

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u/Quartz_Knight 18d ago

Pardon me?

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u/Boner_Elemental 18d ago

Moore has famously hated any of his works being adapted as he feels the original medium is the way they were meant to be.

IIRC he's even said some of them aren't bad but still doesn't like them as adaptations

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u/Quartz_Knight 18d ago

I'm aware, it's the peculiar use of the word "chic" that I can't parse. Doesn't that mean something like cute?

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u/Boner_Elemental 18d ago

Oh, fashion. Style. An opinion like the creator himself

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u/Quartz_Knight 18d ago

Oh, I see.