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I recently have had an on going issue with a pal about V for Vendetta I. e. that V (in some misguided opinions) is in fact not a man at all but is in fact the lesbian actress who writes the notes on loo role. But these individuals can?t point out the PROOF! Is anyone else misguided in this way or what? personally  i think V IS the man in room V

Hur hur hur!  I feel proud.

There's no proof either way, if you read the book - it's never established who V is, even at the last. However, there were several people who were experimented upon in the camp, and V never claimed that he was the man in room 5, that was an assumption by one of his victims when faced with the 'V' motif.  The fact that V never denied it is more to do with the fact that 'he' claimed to represent the voices of those in the camp.
The lesbian actress' first name started with a V, too - it's never established if 'V' meant Valerie, room V, or just plain simple Vengeance.
So yah boo sucks, etcetera...
Those who claim the man in room 5 is V also have to produce proof to back up their claim.  "Jack Hughes!" or whatever it is those snail-eating bastards say.

it's never established if 'V' meant Valerie, room V, or just plain simple Vengeance

Or V for - and this is just a random suggestion, you understand - Vendetta?

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Another ?V theory? I heard was that all the stories in Warrior shared the same universe and Alan Moore hinted that V was.....

Marvel Man.

Probably complete Jane Horrocks, but the silhouette of the man in Room 5 does resemble Marvel Man.

I think it's deliberately left unclear to add to the notion that anyone can take on the mantle of V, as Evey does at the end.

Anyway 'V' stands for Victory just like in that most excellent TV series.

But then again, isn't it the point that it doesn't matter who V is? It's the idea that's important. The symbol, not the person beneath it.

The symbol, not the person beneath it.

The symbol, not the person beneath it.

I dunno, couple of more weeks and he'll have the hair for the part ...

Deliah sees Vs face again when he takes the mask off for her.

At one point in the book you see V's face quite clearly, though you don't know it on first reading. Unless it's a rubber mask. If V is a woman she's butt-ugly (no lesbian jokes here...)

What I don't quite get is V opening someone's head during This Vicious Cabaret - only noticed it on last reading. Is it just V getting into the minds of the public one by one? Or is it a character? The art is so great but some of the government characters can tend to look a bit the same.

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But you are all missing the main ID when V confronts his first victim "the Voice of fate" who was the commandant of the resettlement camps he says
"your the man from room five" and as the man in room five was the only surviving inmate of larkhill and he blew it up killing lots of the gaurds any one he missed on that night he cought up with later V IS the man in room five

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according to IMDB, V is a guy called Hugo Weaving!

Damn you hollywood!

Well, that's just his opinion, and he's likely to jump to that conclusion given the circumstances.  It made the most sense to believe in something tangible when faced with something almost supernatural in the form of V.  Although if you were one of the other inmates and you'd just survived an explosion in a eugenics laboratory in a death camp, you'd hardly advertise the fact if everyone thought you were dead.
I've always had a sneaking suspicion there's more than one V in the course of the story (not counting Evey at the end).  Discuss...

I always assumed that there were many Vs. They all embarked on highly dangerous missions, so they must have died quite a bit, right?

but V was the only suviver of the camps experiments all the rest died

When I read it, I always assumed that V was the guy in room 5. It just seems the most logical answer.
Obviously at the end we have the notion that it's not important who wears the mask and it's the idea behind it that matters etc.,but this doesn't necessarily mean it wasn't just one guy doing it all along until he got shot.