he was trying to kill the king because the king was protestant and he wanted a king who'd force everyone to be catholic it's celebrating that he was stopped hung drawn and quartered L + rip bozo
Glad you pointed this out. The efforts of Guy Fawkes and his team were to restrict the rights of many. Although the character of V For Vendetta is cool, it's very, very loosely based on the actual Guy Fawkes (who gives me the impression of a bigot, from what we know of the gunpowder plot).
dude, literally the first paragraph of the Wikipedia article:
who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.
Common religious squabble L for everyone.
ummm no
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot
who sought regime change in England after decades of religious persecution.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Fawkes
In 1604 Fawkes became involved with a small group [...] who planned to assassinate the Protestant King James and replace him with his daughter, third in the line of succession, Princess Elizabeth.
AKA the "I only know about Guy Fawkes Day because of V for Vendetta" crowd.
"The last man to enter parliament with honest intentions".
TBF it's a celebration that a plot to use terrorism to institute a Catholic theocracy failed.
IDK why people idolize the guy, he was a wannabe Catholic theocrat.
That shit Bloody Mary did, he wanted to do that but make it stick this time.
You mean before or after he's appropriated by Alan Moore as an anarchist symbol?
It's called Guy Fawkes night, not James 1st night or Cecil of Salisbury night. We mark it by setting off explosions and burning things, just like Guido wanted to do. Guido gets the cool character design, and big screen reimaginings where he's a badass counterculture dude. Guido failed in his plot, but he won the PR war.
"Come on, kids! Let's go door to door asking for help celebrating a guy burning to death!"
To be fair, burning to death is probably marginally less excruciating than crucifixion and people who claim to LIKE that Jezza guy can't get enough of celebrating THAT happening to him every spring 🤷
Not sure if your conflating Halloween or talking about the way we
nickedasked if we could have any 8nused wood for the bonfireThe latter. Although kids just used to ask for money.
To be fair, the government
at the time wasis an asshole.The older I get, the more I sympathise with old Guido
don't blame me i was celebrating man getting hit in the groin with a football
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