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1. Leave a comment to this post.
2. I will give you a letter. (Edited to point out, only if you ask for one, you can comment without having to do this yourself)
3. Post the names of five fictional characters whose names begin with that letter, and your thoughts on each. The characters can be from books, movies, or TV shows

clanwilliamgave me a V....

V is for Vendetta. Valiantly vanquishing varlets, vicious, vile... oh, I can't do it. The original Alan Moore character interested me far more than the movie version (which translated enough of David Lloyd's visuals to be interesting) since you never got under the mask. Where the movie was Beauty and the Beast, the original was murder in the dark. And if you get a chance, listen to David Jay's setting of "This Vicious Cabaret" - I* can probably quote it by heart.... "In no longer pretty cities there are warrant forms and chitties..."

V is for Victor von Doom, perenially harrassed by the meddling Fantastic Four, Doom survives and comes back fighting. I have a running joke with my friend Bill about Doom hiring the good hearted but dim Absorbing Man, who's always encouraging him to get out from under the heel of his abusive boss - "Doom is not pleased!", "Aye, Vic, maybe he's not pleased, but he should come down here and tell me himself."

V is also for Vialle, married off to Random, Prince of Amber as a punishment to him for abandoning a previous lover. She is a blind sculptress, who manages to charm Corwin, and his son Merlin. A still centre to all that intrigue.

Victor Ignatious MacIlvaney, of Victor and Barry, who were the campest, funniest comedy duo a student could ever be starstruck by. They would have been my Fascinating Aida, if their stars hadn't been so ascendant, and divergent. Go have a look at them on uTube.

And, finally, Victor Meldrew, who I may become, if I'm not him already.