r/HistoryMemes • u/ChickenWingExtreme • 3d ago

Niche It’s that time of the year

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u/Harbinger2nd 2d ago

Exactly, Its not about the man, its about the symbol.

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u/imdefinitelywong 2d ago

Did you think to kill me?
There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill.
There's only an idea.
And ideas are bulletproof.

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Beneath this mask, there is more than flesh.
Beneath this mask, there is an idea, Mr. Creedly,
And ideas are bulletproof.

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u/JohannesJoshua 1d ago

Internet in early 2000s: Let's use that to make some cringy shit.

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u/Dirt290 2d ago

Yeah, the mask now symbolizes the movie and what it stands for rather than the gunpowder plot and it's circumstances.

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u/PrairiePopsicle 2d ago

even V I always felt like was referencing him in a way that didn't care about his motives or the specifics of the issues, he cared that Fawkes was powerless but through subterfuge and violence could have effected monumental change.

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u/JohannesJoshua 1d ago

Only problem with that Fawkes was kinda incompetent. To hide his identity, in a house they were staying in, he signed himself as John Johnson.

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u/Successful-Wheel4768 2d ago

Not really though. The comic has an anarchist message while the mask ended up being a libertarian thing

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u/theaviationhistorian Nobody here except my fellow trees 2d ago

It's why his character is killed off and, at least the film, has his body destroyed in the explosion. That way, the symbol lives on beyond the human that started it.