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V seizes his agency from those who took it away, but Evey stumbles hesitantly into it when her boyfriends get killed.

At her moment of transcendence, when V tells her what all the torture has led to, tells her that she can reach herself, she screams for her mommy and daddy and sobs in the arms of her protector.Īnd she is a sexualized child, one who shyly propositions both of the men she lives with. When she lives with V, he reads her bedtime stories in a room full of teddy bears. She is a girl playing dress up when she is introduced, a child in her mom’s make-up. She protests whinily when he continues to leave her in the dark, to give her riddles for answers.Įvey is not a woman: she is a child. And she continues to love him, kisses him and thanks him profusely for his monstrous behavior. She stays, like a loyal pet, and does whatever he wants. She no longer has any agency, she never considers leaving the man who betrayed and tortured her. Once she is stripped naked, he can rebuild her as he chooses. V’s torture of Evey is designed to break down everything that makes her herself, except for her essential core. When he takes her back, against her will, he punishes her in order to train her. When she starts to ask the wrong questions, he abandons her like a puppy. He gives her a bed and some food, pats her head and doesn’t tell her shit. He picks her up when she’s wandering the streets begging for scraps. It’s easy to see what she was meant to be: V reborn, his protégé, shaped by him into a weapon through which his work could continue. The biggest example of the female gender being stamped into dirt is, of course, Evey.

The only woman who isn’t hyper-sexualized, Valerie, is sexualized as much as possible within her lesbianic limits, never appears in person, and is rarely mentioned. All the women have sex and appear naked, while very few to none of the men do. And the classic graphic novel has done nothing to assuage these fears.Īll the women in this comic are hypersexualized to an absurd degree, and are made into permanent and willing victims. As a geeky kinda girl, I tend to approach comics with caution, afraid of how they treat women. I’ve just finished the V for Vendetta graphic novel, and I must say, rarely have I been more disappointed.

V for Vendetta: Everything that’s wrong with women in comics