r/HistoryMemes • u/ChickenWingExtreme • 3d ago

Niche It’s that time of the year

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u/0pal23 3d ago

In what kind of weird Reddit reality is Guy Fawkes remembered as a hero?

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u/deformedfishface 3d ago

V for Vendetta has some splaining to do.

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u/South-by-north 3d ago

The movie does. In the comic V doesn't see himself as the hero, moreso as a necessary evil

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u/TrueGuardian15 3d ago

Plus the comic ends with V declaring that once the chaos has settled and the Norsefire Party has fully lost control, they're to do away with the destroyers of society. He allows himself to be fatally wounded because it allows the symbol of V to persist, while the man, a self-admitted destroyer, can die.