13. V
V is a charismatic and skilled freedom fighter who was the unwilling subject of experimentation by Norsefire - a fictional fascist political party ruling the United Kingdom who held political opponents, homosexuals, ethnic minorities and other "undesirables" in concentration camps. The experimentation was related to a virus, which tended to kill most of the subjects exposed to it, but which gave V peak human physical statistics enabling him to escape and become the masked vigilante that would star in the movie. He destroys the Old Bailey, then urges the people of Britain to rise up against their oppressive government and to meet him in one year, on the 5th of November, outside the Houses of Parliament, which he promises to destroy. He becomes hunted in that time, but manages to escape capture by virtue of his fighting skills and stealth abilities and, on the night of the planned destruction of Parliament, he distributes thousands of masks like his out to the masses. In the end, V is killed when he refuses to surrender, but he was truly a one-man revolution and a highly skilled fighter.