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[V for Vendetta, 1984, Brave New World, 2,000 A.D.] How would V, as the archetypical ultimate opponent of dystopian oppression, act and fare in these other famous dystopias?

1984: *Obviously* he would actively and violently oppose this *monstrous* regime, which I consider to collectively be *the* single most despicable antagonist in *any* medium, but could he actually get a revolution off the ground considering the extreme lengths to which Ingsoc goes to control not only its people, but the perception of reality itself? V stands for the concept that "ideas are bulletproof", but Big Brother is the most prominent fictional demonstration of effectively succeeding in *murdering* ideas.

Brave New World: Being an ostensible utopia that is considered a dystopia due to having abandoned values that we consider moral imperatives in our current mindset, I'm not sure quite how a figure like V would react here, but given how stable Huxley's narrative stresses this world state to be, it seems unlikely he'd get far in trying to topple any aspect of it…

2,000 A.D.: Considering how nightmarish this world is regardless of who has the power and the general portrayal that things would be even *worse* without the Judges, I'd easily imagine that a setting like Mega-City One would showcase the uglier side of V, creating a situation where he would openly rebel, and be in the *wrong*, not to mention without question on the losing side, in doing so.
gpt
Same thing happens in each instance. V only succeeds in his reality because the government is already only barely in power. The citizens are already ready to rebel, and the government control is not only tenuous, but incompetent. In each of the examples in the prompt, the government control is leaps and bounds greater, and the governments are much more entrenched and competent than in his reality. In each reality he would fail for the same reasons. He wouldn't be able to convince the citizens to rebel, the government would more easily crush and erase any few citizens he did turn, and he would be killed much more quickly than in his reality. Ideas can be hard to kill, but only if a large number of people want the idea to survive. His reality needed only a little push, but these realities would need a bulldozer, and these realities push back much harder than he can handle.