And So It Begins... (a "V for Vendetta" crapfic rant)

Seems like you can't have a great movie come out without the fankiddies wreaking fanfiction havoc with the plot and characters, and I *KNEW* as soon as Hugo Weaving was cast as V, that the badfic would begin. So far, we haven't seen any "V-Rescues-Mary-Sue" (or as we're calling it "Evey Hammond? Evey Hammond who?"), but the V/Evey romance-fics are creeping in. Nothing too sugary just yet, but that will come. I've yet to see the subtext nightmare-fic that is haunting my mind, said pairing would be Prothero/V or V/Prothero; personally, I think there's something a little ::Makes limp-wristed gesture, but not in a nasty way:: about graphic novel!Prothero, despite all his locker-room blather to his buddies, but movie!Prothero seems more straight to me. Just my observation. (I'm also not keen on how they handled what happens to movie!Prothero: the fate of graphic novel!Prothero is infinitely scarier, but I suppose the Wachowskis et al didn't want to leave the audience too unsettled... Why then was a "Schindler's List"-esque bit with a mass grave able to slip past the bastard-child of censorship known as "Marketability", but having a man reduced to a feeble-minded, catatonic lump is verboten?)

All right, the gloves are coming off:

I don't want to see V/anyone smutfic. I just don't. We know it's gonna happen; as another Hugo Weaving character would put it, "It is inevitable". I just don't want to see the summaries all over ff.n with "V/::insert name:: smut" or some variation thereon. ( Spoilers within. Click at your own risk )

And for that matter, there's something sacreligous about seeing what might lie behind V's mask. I like how Allan Moore and David Lloyd handled the bits in the graphic novel where V *does* remove his mask: showing us the flesh behind the mask would somehow damage V's mystique.

( Cut for spoiler-heavy Movie-ending vs. Graphic novel-ending discussion )