h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Is "V" based on Van the Man?

http://www.arts-wallpapers.com/vintage/V-for-Vendetta/imagepages/image13.htm

Vs

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ioK9F1miBBI/TYNquYZdTKI/AAAAAAAAAJE/1mPFM_8Ex9M/s1600/van-morrison.jpg

The clues are in the name, too. I think I've stumbled upon some da Vinci code hidden meaning thing.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/guywalters/100061665/is-it-anti-catholic-to-celebrate-guy-fawkes-night/

Surely not. It's stretching credulity to suggest any thematic similarity between V and Guy Fawkes. I'm not that much of a conspiracy theorist. It's a novel idea, though.

Is a Vandetta some kind of vengeance movement for Ford Transits?

.....U is for Una who slipped down a drain.
V is for Victor squashed under a train.
W is for Winnie embedded in ice.
X is for Xerxes devoured by mice......

As I've mentioned before, I was brought up Catholic. We used to celebrate Bonfire Night like everyone else, and there was no sense that it was anti-Catholic.

I remember asking about this when I was a bit older and knew a bit more about the story. The explanation I got was that although Catholics were being persecuted, blowing up Parliament was not a particularly Catholic thing to do, and I think there's some evidence that it was foiled or betrayed by Catholics.

Had the plot succeeded, it would have been disastrous for the country, probably led to civil war, and would have been particularly bad for the Catholic community and Catholicism in the UK in general. 5th November was a celebration of a disaster avoided.... or at least it had been until it morphed into its modern form of fireworks and ginger parkin.

Ah, Blackadder - " Cold is God's way of telling us to burn more Catholics!"

"Is a Vandetta some kind of vengeance movement for Ford Transits?"

No, it's a movement for window cleaners who think they invented rock n roll.

{Had the plot succeeded, it would have been disastrous for the country, probably led to civil war, and would have been particularly bad for the Catholic community and Catholicism in the UK in general.}

...unlike the civil war which followed it a few decades later?