Storm Saxon
Storm Saxon is a fictional character in the Alan Moore and David Lloyd comic book (later graphic novel) V for Vendetta. In the graphic novel, he is the idealized Aryan hero of a science fiction television show that forms an occasional backdrop to the story.
Storm's love interest is the blue-eyed blonde Heidi, and his opponents are "black cannibal filth" burdened with lines like "Leroy! Look out! De white debil got him a Laser-Luger!!" The show takes the implicit or explicit racism and lurid sexual fantasies endemic in early to mid 20th century science fiction to extremes. Storm Saxon's name is a reference to the Saxons, a Germanic tribe that populated Great Britain before the Norman conquest of England in 1066.
Just as the initials of Norsefire match those of the National Front, Storm Saxon's are "SS", matching those of the Schutzstaffel, which used lightning runes as its symbols.
Storm Saxon's television programme is seen during V's terrorist hijacking of Norsefire's television station. It is also mentioned by V himself when he causes all visual and audio surveillance of England's citizenry to shut down. Even though the nation's televisions don't work, V has a collection of sets tuned into the frequencies of cameras surveiling the homes of high Norsefire officials; V is so subsequently bored that he admits to sometimes missing the Storm Saxon programme because "the dialogue was better."
In the 2006 film adaptation, The Storm Saxon Show can be seen being played at the BTN television station. In the film version, Storm Saxon is played by Chad Stahelski and there is reference to a new character named "Laser Lass" (Antje Rau). Despite the changes, the imagery the show conveys is the same, as Laser Lass is portrayed as a blond-haired blue-eyed Aryan girl, while the villains are black or Middle Eastern.
References
- Moore, Alan, and David Lloyd. V for Vendetta. DC comics, 1988, 1989.
- V for Vendetta (film), 2006
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