 The comics follow the story's title character and protagonist, V, an anarchist revolutionary dressed in a Guy Fawkes mask, as he begins an elaborate and theatrical revolutionist campaign to kill his former captors, bring down the 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 sold more than 500,000 copies of the graphic novel in the United States by 2006.Warner Bros. released a film adaptation of the same name in 2005.