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Lewis Prothero is a minor antagonist in the V for Vendetta limited comic book series.
He is a bigoted radio broadcaster/television host who works for the Norsefire government, spreading hateful and fascist propaganda. In the past, Prothero helped to plant the seeds of Norsefire's rise to power by serving at the Larkhill Resettlement Camp, where he brutalized many of Norsefire's targeted citizens.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- He served as the commander of the Larkhill Resettlement Camp, a concentration camp where all England inhabitants who didn't fit the Norsefire Party's Aryan ideal, like those who were political opponents like liberals and libertarians, had other ethnicities than Caucasian, or were members of the LGBT community, were sent to be tortured and killed due to not "changing their ways".
- Under his supervision, the Larkhill inmates were thrown into dirty cells, tortured to death, starved, burned alive or dead (with Prothero personally operating the ovens according to V), and even injected with the Batch 5 drug during hormone research experiments, which led to some patients experiencing hideous mutations, like getting extra nipples and fingers. Such was the case of a lesbian woman named Rita Boyd, who got extra vestigial fingers in her legs. The majority of those injected with Batch 5 died as a result.
- Though to be fair, Prothero didn't invent the Batch 5 drug, which was created by Dr. Delia Surridge, one of his co-workers at Larkhill. However, Surridge administered the drug to the inmates under Prothero's orders and unlike him, came to regret her actions for the rest of her life. Prothero also personally selected the 48 test subjects for the experiments.
- Prothero also mocked and gloated over the prisoners being experimented on in the medical wing, calling out sadistic "jokes" to them as he passed by their cells on his rounds and disparaging them as being in "the funny farm".
- Among his victims was a lesbian actress named Valerie Page, whose whereabouts he found out by torturing Valerie's lover Ruth to the point she gave up her location, which later led Ruth to kill herself for betraying her love.
- After the Larkhill Resettlement Camp's destruction, he starts to work as "The Voice of Fate", the English government's radio broadcaster, daily transmitting Norsefire's bigoted propaganda, spreading hate throughout the country.
- When tortured by V, one of his past victims at Larkhill, he tries to lie by saying he never worked there and cares more for his doll collection.
Trivia[]
- Although both versions of Lewis Prothero qualify for Pure Evil status, some can argue that the original graphic novel version of Prothero may not count due to the story's implications that Prothero could be a closeted homosexual man, given his hobby of collecting dolls and excusing such habit as being usual for a "ladies' man" like himself, which could paint him as insecure. However, this isn't confirmed and even if it were true, nothing excuses how he hypocritically murdered gay people at the Larkhill Resettlement Camp for no other reason than their being non-heterosexual.
- Lewis Prothero is, so far, the only V for Vendetta villain to be Pure Evil in both the original graphic novel and the film: Anthony Lilliman's lack of heinousness in the film prevents him from qualifying unlike his graphic novel's version, Adam Sutler lacks the well-intentioned extremist traits and redeeming qualities of his comic counterpart Adam Susan and the film's version of Peter Creedy lacks the honorable traits he had in the graphic novel.
External Links[]
- Lewis Prothero on the Villains Wiki
- Lewis Prothero on the V for Vendetta Wiki
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