Den viktigaste politiska temat för V för Vendetta-komiken var anarki vs fascism. Men filmen visade sig inte på det sättet.
Alan Moore sa själv:
[The movie] has been "turned into a Bush-era parable by people too timid to set a political satire in their own country.... It's a thwarted and frustrated and largely impotent American liberal fantasy of someone with American liberal values standing up against a state run by neoconservatives – which is not what the comic V for Vendetta was about. It was about fascism, it was about anarchy, it was about England
MTV (2006). "Alan Moore: The last angry man". MTV.com
Wachowskis tog meddelandet Moore försökte säga med sin komiker om England och transportera den till USA. De ville protestera om vad som händer. Således bytte de V från en anarkist till en frihetskämpe.