The sinister Guy Fawkes mask made famous by the film V for Vendetta has become an emblem for anti-establishment protest groups. Who's behind them? From New York, to London, to Sydney, to Cologne ...

Guy Fawkes, for the uninitiated, was an English Catholic who attempted to assassinate King James I by blowing up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. This “Gunpowder Plot” is commemorated in the ...

A protester with the "Occupy Seattle" movement wears a Guy Fawkes mask and takes a photo with a mobile phone as he demonstrates, in downtown Seattle, Oct. 15, 2011.

The iconic version of the Guy Fawkes mask owes its popularity to the graphic novel and film V for Vendetta, which centers on a vigilante's efforts to destroy an authoritarian government in a ...

Demonstrators wearing Guy Fawkes masks in Sao Paulo, Brazil on November 15, 2011. ... As Walker notes, the 4chan-based group’s public face has become the Guy Fawkes mask from V for Vendetta, ...

Netflix's sizeable slate of new movies added in July 2025 includes "V for Vendetta," a cult classic action-thriller ...

V for Vendetta, the Guy Fawkes Bonfire Night set on November 5th, is available to stream now and here are 9 dynamite facts about the cult classic.

V for Vendetta has gone on to inspire anti-establishment groups like Anonymous, who will be leading their controversial Million Mask March from London’s Trafalgar Square tonight – with many ...

Today we celebrate November 5 as Guy Fawkes Night or Bonfire Night by lighting bonfires, setting off fireworks and carrying “Guys” through the streets wearing the ever-so-famous Guy Fawkes mask. The ...

NEW YORK — Look at a photo or news clip from around the world of Occupy protesters and you’ll likely spot a handful of people wearing masks of a cartoon-like man with a pointy beard, closed ...

The Occupy Movement, born out of the Zuccotti Park-based Occupy Wall Street, adopted the mask in 2011. On Guy Fawkes Day that year, a Facebook invitation urged "all OCCUPY protesters of the world ...