Talk:V vs Rorschach/@comment-5035900-20170211001025

Going by the book versions exclusively, this becomes a much closer match-up.

In the movie, it was pretty much implied that V's experiments made him superhuman, which was shown with how quickly he could take down an entire room of gunmen and that despite wearing metal armor, it was multiple bullets that took him down.

As for the graphic novel, V's experiments never gave him enhanced abilitites, but instead effected him psychologically. In fact, he isn't really shown to be that much of a master fighter, as he's only shown fighting two gunmen at the beginning, charging at another gunman who had an empty firearm, and matched a quickdraw, throwing a knife into someone's shoulder... while getting mortally wounded and dying from one bullet.

So while the movie empheseized his acrobatics, fighting expertise, and being stronger than the average human, the novel was more about V's skills in psychological warfare on his enemies outside of battle, as all three scenes don't show much of his actual finese in combat aside from being a decent knife thrower. As such, by going off just the original graphic novels, now Rorscach and V are more even.