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V for vendetta spoilers? 

Finding out that V is coded as a trans woman forced to detransition in the concentration camp is hitting me different a lil atm and making me emotional. Kinda funny who the wachoski sisters then wrote the screenplay for the movie adaptation but yeah just hitting me hard.

V for vendetta spoilers? 

Now I've found the part that he says that the character before was called the doll and basically wasn't made because execs didn't want a "transsexual terrorist". The article is written in 1982 or 3 so wording is find there but he does describe the character of the doll as freakish. I'm unsure if that's to do with the transness tho considering he actually doesn't bring up the trans part until the bit about it getting rejected? Implying that wording is meant to be inferred that way? Its not clear but then we see parts of the books story that are very trans coded mostly in illusions to hormone experiments once V enters the concentration camp, the lesbian cell neighbour story could be V we don't know, the idea of V removing Envy's gender expression as part of the simulation they make her go through which leads her to act androgynous for the rest of the book, the woman researcher wanting to see V's face and calling it beautiful before she dies, and the fact that V says Envy must never actually see V's face and that could be read into not wanting to see what it became.

Most of that I got from an article that argues this but also never mentions the bit about the doll which I got from the article Alan Moore wrote in Warrior #17 that then got put at the end of the novel version of V for Vendetta called "Behind the painted smile" which I could not find online. Had yo use my big copy from reading a random blog who says they read it from the back of the book.

Here's the source of the in book references comicsverse.com/v-for-vendetta

V for vendetta spoilers? 

@roxie Envy? Is that a work-in-progress name for Evey?

I've got the novel version at home, could take some pics later and show them to you if you'd like. I had never heard of this interpretation before and it's interesting. Also, I skipped most of the non-graphic parts of the novel, maybe I should go read them now.

re: V for vendetta spoilers? 

@JordiGH its been a while since ive seen it proper but thats probs her name. either way its right at the back but like not the final pages. you just go back a few pages till you get the article and its on the second page of the article

V for vendetta spoilers? 

@roxie My read on “beautiful” was that V was originally going to turn out to be an alternate-history version of Miracleman - though they dropped that when they did the second half, obviously. But this is a good interpretation and I think your point about the gender stuff with Evey is a good one

re: V for vendetta spoilers? 

@ghost_bird i mean i stole it from the gal who wrote the article i linked they are the smarty pants here

re: V for vendetta spoilers? 

@roxie Oops. I did skim the original article but then I went looking for your reference to “The Doll” and I forgot the rest of it wasn’t you. Interesting idea, regardless

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