His name was Guy Fawkes, and in 1605, he and a ring of other Catholic recusants, sick of the Protestant monarchy in England, decided to assassinate King James I and other members of the British House of Lords by igniting over 30 barrels of gunpowder stored underneath the House of Parliament. He's been the face of almost every contemporary major protest movement or hacktivist group that has considered themselves an anti-establishment linchpin, from Occupy Wall Street to the cybervigilante collective Anonymous.įirst introduced to audiences in the comic magazine Warrior (penned by writer Alan Moore with art by David Lloyd), published as the graphic novel under the title V for Vendetta in 1988, and then reintroduced to a wider audience in 2006 with the film adaptation , his visage has become the embodied ethos of the disenfranchised on a global scale, and declared " the face of the post-modern protest." Even if you're not sure of his name, you know his face quite well: the pointed, drawling beard, the Hummel figurine complexion, the self-satisfied smile.
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