Yeah in the comics, and presumably in the film but not mentioned, it was Batch-5 put into the people in the camps. Wasn't a result of the virus in the film continuity. The virus wasn't a thing in the comics so the film kinda glossed over Batch-5.
https://dc.fandom.com/wiki/Batch-5
But then again... V lived it.
But then again... how much power did the fascists have before Sutler took over where they captured minorities and experimented on them?
I take V at his word, so perhaps the UK government in that world was already fascist for one reason or another and maybe the 2014...
Okay there is some confusion about what came first: the virus or the experiments.
Even Reel Rejects was confused on that (timestamped here: )
But then you gotta look at the dates in the film itself: The virus was dropped 14 years prior to Evey after her months in the camps (the 2nd "5th of...
lmao there is no good anarchy btw. I was making a broad comparison to what the end of the comic lead to and how the milked up crazies at the end of Pennyworth would have lead to.
I'm curious how Pennyworth would have lead into V for Vendetta or a version of it, considering everything in that show was the INVERSE of the whole V for Vendetta storyline.
Comic goes like:
Normalcy --> Fascists take over England due to a dispute near Poland/Germany --> 'good'(?) Anarchy...
Bat-Fam is actually not that bad.
I can enjoy it as a adult and it's not annoyingly kiddy to where it's unwatchable.
Also, I love Luke Wilson. Best version of Pat Dugan via Stargirl.