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In the book, the citizenry didn't all turn into V at the end, nor do I recall that citizenry was at all behind V, so the extension of V via Evey was, imo, great. And I would be hard pressed to call anything Alan Moore has written (and I have read a lot of that man's work) as "juvenile teenage fantasy fulfillment." I think you're confusing that with the mainstream superhero comic book world.