What Alignment is V?

[Meloncov]

I ask because I am currently playing a charecter who has many strong similarities to him, and for whom I've been trying to pin down an alignment for most of the campaign.

 

[Herobizkit]

I'd probably say Chaotic Good. He's a defender of personal freedoms and unafraid to take whatever steps necessary to fight corruption, especially in a land of "laws" that are cruel and unjust.

 

[Sammael]

I can only talk about the movie version of V, since I've never read the comic. I'd say he was CN: his primary goal was freedom from oppression, and he did both good and evil acts in pursuing that goal.

 

[painandgreed]

I'd probably go with whatever alignment the character wrote down so long as he had some good reasoning. Then from there warn about alingment change if his character started exhibiting traits I found in conflict.

V of the comic book was an anrchist, but as V states, anarchy is not chaos.

I'd still put him at CG. Even if he did commit what could be considered an evil act, he's not a paladin and if the good outweighted the evil, he'd still be good.

 

[Meloncov]

I can only talk about the movie version of V, since I've never read the comic. I'd say he was CN: his primary goal was freedom from oppression, and he did both good and evil acts in pursuing that goal.

My charecter is closer to the movie version (he's not the anarchist described in the comics), so that's fine.

 

[Felix]

He's enigmatic, thus the popularity of his character.

Yes, he fights for personal freedoms, so he can be Good.
Yes, he commits evil acts in pursuit of Vengance, so he could be Evil.
He does both, so he could be neutral.

I think of him as very similar to the Operative from Serenity, though he was fighting for Order, and V fights for freedom. The difference being was that the Operative knows he is Evil because of what he does and admits as much. While V does not admit it, it is not inconcieveable that he could have had a similar speech in the move; it would have fit.

That being said, you can argue for Evil, Neutral or Good.

I'd argue Chaotic Neutral. Some Good intents, some Evil intents, with some good acts and evil acts.

 

[LiKral]

Chaotic Neutral. He's fighting for freedom which is good - but he uses violent terrorist means - therefore evil - averaging out at neutral. He's an anarchist, so chaotic, no question.

 

[Andor]

I thought this thread was going to be about Vaarsuvius. I would have said Eliteist-Pedant.

 

[Umbran]

He's a great supporter of personal freedom, so definitely Chaotic.

As for the rest... I tend to go for Neutral. In essence, if you have to resort to "the ends justify the means", you aren't really Good.

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

CG - His torture of Evey is the only truly evil act I think he commited. Blowing up buildings that house the instruments of oppression isn't evil in my book. If you were working for the Gov't of that story you were not an innocent. You were part of the system and got what you had coming.