Minor characters in V for Vendetta
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The following is a list of minor characters within V for Vendetta.
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[edit] Main characters
[edit] Evey Hammond
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[edit] V (character)
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[edit] The Party
[edit] Adam James Susan
The Founder/Leader of The Party. He is named "Adam Sutler" in the film.
[edit] Peter Creedy
Peter Creedy is a fictional character from the film and graphic novel V for Vendetta. In the movie version he is played by Tim Piggott-Smith.
In both interpretations, Creedy is head of the secret police, called "the Finger." He and his secret police are charged with apprehending "V," a masked vigilante whose high-profile acts of terrorism have undermined Norsefire's control of the country.
[edit] Graphic Novel
In the graphic novel, Creedy comes to power after the death of Derek Almond. Unlike Susan, who genuinely believes in fascism, Creedy is a cold-blooded opportunist whose only goal is absolute power. A coarse, petty man, he is widely disliked within the Party's inner circle, and his own men refer to him (behind his back) as "Creepy Creedy."
After Susan is shot down during a publicity parade, Creedy and his forces take total control of London. However, his term as the "emergency commander" is short-lived, as his chief of staff, a Scottish mercenary named Alistair Harper, turns on him after being given a substantial bribe by the manipulative Helen Heyer. Harper and his men grab Creedy and hack him to death with a razor.
[edit] Film
In the movie, Creedy lurks in the shadows of his country home. He is the head of the Finger, who carry out the secret kidnapping, detention and mass murder of anyone who criticizes Norsefire or does not fit its racist standards of "purity". His complete ruthlessness is shown in the film, in which he evolved from a petty criminal to an ice-cold sociopath; V describes him as "a man seemingly without a conscience, for whom the ends always justify the means."
Although his level of personal involvement is never directly stated, it is made clear that he is complicit in murdering almost a hundred thousand people with a bio-engineered plague, which is later blamed on terrorists and used to terrorize the public into giving Norsefire total control. In a meeting with Inspector Eric Finch, a disguised V suggests that it was Creedy's idea to use the virus not on "an enemy of the country, but rather the country itself."
The Finger's trademark is the black bags they put over the captives' heads. One such instance is when the Chancellor (renamed Sutler in the movie) orders variety show host Gordon Deitrich arrested for mocking Sutler on his show; Creedy personally shows up at Deitrich's home and beats him with a nightstick, splitting open his face. He is then taken away and presumably executed.
During the second half of the movie, Creedy has fallen out of favor with Sutler because of his failure to stop V's terrorism. One night while tending his flowers in his countryside home, Creedy is confronted by V, who offers him a deal; V offers to turn himself over in exchange for Sutler. Creedy accepts the offer after the raging Sutler threatens to fire him.
V and Creedy meet in an abandoned tube station, and Creedy personally shoots the hated dictator in front of V. But when V violently refuses to turn himself in, the Fingermen open fire but fail to take him down. A mortally wounded V cuts down all of Creedy's Fingermen. Fulfilling his promise that Creedy would die with his hands around his neck, the masked vigilante corners Creedy and breaks his neck.
[edit] Conrad Heyer
Conrad Heyer is a fictional character from Alan Moore's graphic novel, V for Vendetta. In the novel, he is the head of "The Eye," the visual-surveillance department of Norsefire, a fascist dictatorship ruling post-apocalyptic England.
[edit] Graphic novel
In the graphic novel, he and his wife, Helen, play relatively minor roles, but their actions — particularly Helen's — are key in advancing the plot in later chapters. From the beginning Helen hints at Norsefire's plot to take advantage of the chaos left in the wake of a nuclear war; Helen apparently planned to install Conrad as the ruler of the country, while she secretly pulled his strings. She persuades Scottish gangster Alistair Harper to feed her information on movements by his boss, Peter Creedy, and the Finger, the political police arm of the Norsefire state. She promises him control of the Finger when Conrad comes to power.
Later on, Helen starts an affair with Harper, and their lovemaking is caught in a closed-circuit bedroom camera that she knows is installed in the bedrooms of every member of the Norsefire Party. Conrad eventually watches the video in a monitoring room to his complete shock. He lures Harper into a room in his house where the same video is playing. While Harper is entertained, Conrad ambushes him and beats him to death with a wrench, but not before being mortally wounded by Harper's razor. Helen then discovers the two in the secret room, and seeing that her plans are ruined, berates him one last time before wiring up a camera to the TV set so Conrad can watch himself die.
Helen later tries to flee the city, but loses her car and ends up among a gathering of hobos who begin harassing her. In the final pages of the graphic novel, Chief Inspector Eric Finch stumbles upon the group and Helen desperately tries to persuade him to help organize a militia to try to take back the city. Finch refuses and leaves her for the hobos.
[edit] Film
In the film, he is played by Guy Henry.
Although his role is greatly reduced, he does inform Chancellor Adam Sutler of a report stating that "V", a masked terrorist targeting Norsefire officials, would likely destroy Parliament with an airborne attack. He also states that Finch has filed a report suggesting use of an Underground train, though the subway tunnels around Parliament have long been sealed. Finch is later proven to have been right and Parliament is destroyed by V's funeral train.
[edit] Brian Etheridge
Brian Etheridge is a fictional character from the comics series V for Vendetta. In the film adaptation, he is played by Eddie Marsan.
Etheridge is the head of the Norsefire government audio-surveillance division, the "Ear". The group is responsible for random audio surveillance. For unknown reasons he is known among other senior government officials by the nickname 'Bunny' Etheridge. He has a prominent stutter.
The trademark of the Ear is the large armored surveillance vehicles. These vans spout aerial dishes, directional microphones, sousveillance devices, infrared and visual CCTV (though Earmen rarely watch the camera feed) and sometimes light machine guns. To aid Norsefire, the vans constantly roam the streets of London and report their audio findings to Etheridge. He is also in charge of the "Blacklist", which is a list of all music that has been banned by the government.
In the graphic novel, he is killed when V destroys the "Ear," as he was working overnight. In the film, his fate is unknown. Etheridge is last seen during the final cabinet meeting on November 4.
[edit] Eric Finch
The head of "The Nose".
[edit] Roger Dascombe
Roger Dascombe is a fictional character from the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta. In the film, he is played by Ben Miles.
[edit] Graphic novel
In the graphic novel, Dascombe is Chancellor Adam Susan's chief of propaganda. He is portrayed as a somewhat self-loving character who dislikes Mr Almond (head of the finger at the beginning of the novel). When Almond is killed by V, Dascombe initially dates his widow, Rosemary Almond, who is somewhat reluctant about the whole thing. When V attacks Jordan Tower, Dascombe is set up as a dummy and is killed when the police retake the facility.
In the film, he is not killed by the police (he is not present when V takes over), though they still wound a BTN executive during the raid.
[edit] Film
In the film, Dascombe is the head of the Norsefire Propaganda Division, nicknamed "the Mouth", and is chief executive of the British Television Network. He also helps write news reports and puts the spin on stories.
Dascombe tells High Chancellor Sutler that he is calling the destruction of the Old Bailey, which was perpetrated by a masked terrorist calling himself "V," an "emergency demolition", with the help of spin coverage on the BTN and the InterLink. Later that same day, V attacks the Mouth's headquarters, Jordan Tower, and broadcasts a message urging London's citizens to rise up against the government. When Chief Inspector Finch raids the control booth with a police team, Dascombe records the raid with cameras and later use the footage in a news segment. A vest of dynamite is found in the control booth, which Dascombe defuses.
Dascombe tries to help cover up the death of Lewis Prothero (host of The Voice of London) by saying he died "of heart failure while working late at night in his office" when in fact V killed him (at first he considers a stroke, but decides that it is "too horrific"). Dascombe also attacks the public with false reports of water shortages, avian influenza vaccine hoarders, and evidence linking V to past biological terrorist attacks, which were in fact carried out by Norsefire itself. However, it is shown that the public begins to disbelieve the news broadcasts over the course of the film.
In the film, Dascombe's fate is unknown. He is last seen in the final cabinet meeting (which takes place on November 4), where he is extremely nervous when he asks what the Chancellor's contingency plan is should V succeed in destroying Parliament. Sutler replies that if he does, "the only thing that will change, the only difference that it will make, is that tomorrow morning, instead of a newspaper, I will be reading Mr. Creedy's resignation!" Dascombe, Finch, Etheridge, and Heyer are thrown into silence while Creedy looks on.
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