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{{short description|Graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd}}
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{{Infobox graphic novel
| title          = V for Vendetta 
| image          = V for vendettax.jpg
| caption        = ''V for Vendetta'' collected edition cover art by [[David Lloyd (comics)|David Lloyd]]
| publisher      = '''United Kingdom'''<br />[[Quality Communications]]<br />'''United States'''<br />[[Vertigo (DC Comics)|Vertigo]] ([[DC Comics]]) '''France'''<br />[[Delcourt (publisher)|Delcourt]]<br />'''Brazil'''<br />[[Editora Abril|Abril Jovem]]<br />[[Panini Comics]]
| origdate       = March 1982&nbsp;– May 1989
| origissues     = 10
| writer         = [[Alan Moore]]
| artists        = {{plainlist|
* [[David Lloyd (comics)|David Lloyd]]
* [[Tony Weare]]}}
| letterer       = Steve Craddock
| colourist      = [[Steve Whitaker]]<br />Siobhan Dodds<br />David Lloyd
| editors        = {{plainlist|
* [[Dez Skinn]]
* Karen Berger
* Scott Nybakken}}
| origisbn1      = 0-930289-52-8
| origisbn1-info = SC
| origisbn2      = 0-930289-52-8
| origisbn2-info = HC
| oclc           = 922848320
}}
'''''V for Vendetta''''' is a British [[graphic novel]] written by [[Alan Moore]] and illustrated by [[David Lloyd (comics)|David Lloyd]] (with additional art by [[Tony Weare]]). Initially published between 1982 and 1985 in black and white as an ongoing [[Serial (literature)|serial]] in the British [[anthology]] ''[[Warrior (comics)|Warrior]]'', its serialisation was completed in 1988–89 in a ten-issue colour limited series published by [[DC Comics]] in the United States. Subsequent [[collected edition]]s were typically published under DC's specialised imprint, [[Vertigo (DC Comics)|Vertigo]], until that label was shut down in 2018. Since then it has been transferred to [[DC Black Label]]. The story depicts a [[dystopia]]n and [[apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic fiction|post-apocalyptic]] near-[[future history]] version of the United Kingdom in the 1990s, preceded by a [[nuclear war]] in the 1980s that devastated most of the rest of the world. The [[Nordicism|Nordic supremacist]],<ref name=":1">{{Cite book|title=Specters of Anarchy: Literature and the Anarchist Imagination|last=Shantz|first=Jeff|publisher=Algora Publishing|year=2015|isbn=978-1628941418|pages=223|quote=[Norsefire's] goal is to lead the country that I love out of the Twentieth century. I believe in survival. In the destiny of the Nordic race.}}</ref> [[Neo-fascism|neo-fascist]],<ref name=":2">{{cite journal|last=Call|first=Lewis|date=1 January 2008|title=A IS FOR ANARCHY, V IS FOR VENDETTA|url=http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/hist_fac/15/|journal=Anarchist Studies|volume=16|issue=2|pages=154–172|quote=V for Vendetta offers a clever, insightful look at the rise of fascism. The fascist 'Norsefire' party takes advantage of the power vacuum which occurs as the liberal British state collapses in the aftermath of the nuclear war.|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111006155531/http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/hist_fac/15/|archive-date=6 October 2011}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite book|title=Quicklet on V for Vendetta By Alan Moore|last=Muise|first=Chris|publisher=Hyperink, Inc.|year=2011|isbn=978-1614640844|pages=1–10|quote=Britain, however, survives under the cold, watchful eye of the Norsefire government, a fascist regime that took control amidst the chaos and confusion after the war.}}</ref><ref name=":9">{{cite web|url=http://madelyn.utahunderground.net/vendetta/vendetta2.html|title=An Annotation of Literary, Historic, and Artistic References in Alan Moore's Graphic Novel, V For Vendetta.|author=Madelyn Boudreaux|access-date=25 October 2008|quote=...make Britain great again....This is typically "nationalistic" sentiment.... It was this sentiment, taken to its extremes, that drove Hitler's Nationalist Socialist (Nazi) Workers' Party to try to rid Germany of "non-Germans".|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080514174658/http://madelyn.utahunderground.net/vendetta/vendetta2.html|archive-date=14 May 2008}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{Cite book|title=V for Vendetta, Book One: Europe After the Reign|last=Moore|first=Alan|publisher=[[Vertigo (DC Comics)]]|year=1981|isbn=0-930289-52-8|pages=37–39|quote=My name is Adam Susan. I am the leader. Leader of the lost, ruler of the ruins. I am a man, like any other man... I am not loved, I know that. Not in soul or body. I have never known the soft whisper of endearment. Never known the peace that lies between the thighs of woman. But I am respected. I am feared. And that will suffice. Because I love. I, who am not loved in return. I have a love that is far deeper than the empty gasps and convulsions of brutish coupling. Shall I speak of her? Shall I speak of my bride? She has no eyes to flirt or promise.  But she sees all. Sees and understands with a wisdom that is Godlike in its scale. I stand at the gates of her intellect and I am blinded by the light within.  How stupid I must seem to her.  How childlike and uncomprehending. Her soul is clean, untainted by the snares and ambiguities of emotion.  She does not hate. She does not yearn.  She is untouched by joy or sorrow. I worship her though I am not worthy. I cherish the purity of her disdain. She does not respect me. She does not fear me. She does not love me. They think she is hard and cold, those who do not know her. They think she is lifeless and without passion. They do not know her.  She has not touched them. She touches me, and I am touched by God, by Destiny. The whole of existence courses through her. I worship her. I am her slave.}}</ref> outwardly [[Christofascism|Christofascistic]], and [[homophobic]] fictional ''[[Norsefire]]'' political party has exterminated its opponents in [[concentration camp]]s, and it now rules the country as a [[police state]].

The [[comics]] follow the story's title character and protagonist, [[V (character)|V]], an [[Insurrectionary anarchism|anarchist]] [[revolutionary]] dressed in a [[Guy Fawkes mask]], as he begins an elaborate and theatrical [[Revolution|revolutionist campaign]] to kill his former captors, bring down the [[Fascism|fascist]] state, and convince the people to abandon fascism in favour of [[anarchy]], while inspiring a young woman, [[Evey Hammond]], to be his protégée.

DC Comics had sold more than 500,000 copies of the graphic novel in the United States by 2006.<ref>{{cite news |date=30 March 2006 |title=The V for Vendetta Graphic Novel is a National Bestseller |work=[[WarnerMedia]] |url=https://www.warnermediagroup.com/newsroom/press-releases/2006/03/30/the-v-for-vendetta-graphic-novel-is-a-national-bestseller |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200708070724/https://www.warnermediagroup.com/newsroom/press-releases/2006/03/30/the-v-for-vendetta-graphic-novel-is-a-national-bestseller |archive-date=8 July 2020}}</ref> [[Warner Bros.]] released [[V for Vendetta (film)|a film adaptation of the same name]], written and co-produced by [[the Wachowskis]],{{efn|Credited as ''The Wachowski Brothers''}} in 2005. Following the [[Pennyworth (season 1)|first]] and [[Pennyworth (season 2)|second season]] [[Season premiere|premieres]] of ''[[Gotham (TV series)|Gotham]]'' [[prequel]] [[television series]] ''[[Pennyworth (TV series)|Pennyworth]]'' in 2019 and 2020, [[showrunners]] [[Danny Cannon]] and [[Bruno Heller]] confirmed the series would also serve as a prequel to ''V for Vendetta'',<ref name="V" /> with the series' [[Alternate history|British Civil War]] eventually giving way to the [[Norsefire]] government and rise of V,<ref name="CBR" /><ref name="CBR2" /><ref name="SciFiNow" /> and the [[Pennyworth (season 3)|third season]] featuring predecessors to V wearing [[Guy Fawkes mask]]s.<ref name="AV">{{cite web|url=https://www.avclub.com/trailer-for-season-3-pennyworth-wild-comic-book-cameo-1849511853|title=Trailer for the third season of ''Pennyworth'' has a truly confounding comic book cameo|first=Sam|last=Barsanti|website=[[The A.V. Club]]|date=8 September 2022|access-date=8 September 2022|archive-date=8 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220908164530/https://www.avclub.com/trailer-for-season-3-pennyworth-wild-comic-book-cameo-1849511853|url-status=live}}</ref>