Adam Sutler

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## Evil-doer

* Normal
* Scarred

### Alias

The Leader
The Head
Chancellor Sutler

### Allies

Peter Creedy (right-hand; formerly)
Commander Lewis Prothero (subordinate)
Anthony Lilliman (subordinate)
Doctor Delia Surridge (subordinate)
Inspector Eric Finch (subordinate)
Roger Dascombe (subordinate)
Conrad Heyer (subordinate)
Brian Etheridge (subordinate)
Derek Almond (subordinate)
The Finger (subordinates)
The Nose (subordinates)
The Mouth (subordinates)
The Eye (subordinates)
The Ear (subordinates)

### Occupation

United Kingdom's Under-Secretary for Defence (formerly)
High Chancellor of England
Leader of the Norsefire Party

### Resources

Leadership
Near complete political power
Manipulation
Eloquence

### Hobby

Watching TV.
Drinking hot milk.
Reading books.
Playing video games.
Sleeping.
Doing what he wants.
Ordering fast food takeaways.

### Goals

Keep England under his control (succeeded for a while, then failed).
Bring down V by sending his men after him (posthumously succeeded).

### Moral Event Horizon

Unleashing the St. Mary's and Three Waters virus on the United Kingdom's population, which the intention of taking over the country.

### Crimes

Abuse of power
Genocide
Mass murder
Terrorism
Corruption
Conspiracy
Populicide
Human rights violations
Hate crimes

### Type of Villain

Jingoistic Tyrant

**High Chancellor Adam Sutler** is one of the two main antagonists (alongside Peter Creedy) of the 2006 dystopian political action film *V for Vendetta*, based on the webcomic of the same name.

He is the leader of the fascist Norsefire Party and dictator of a dystopian England. He is based on the real-life Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler and the character of Adam Susan from the comic book of the same name.

He was portrayed by the late John Hurt.

## Personality

In the movie, Sutler is presented as an ambitious man with a penchant for power and a strong dislike for anything foreign to England. During his time as Norsefire's leader, he is also presented as extremely controlling, giving orders on absolutely everything, even smaller details, and berating others when they fails to execute them. This is proved by his increasing wrath when he starts to lose control little by little on his country because of V. In relation to this, he is delusional and thinks himself to be a good person who prevented his country from falling into chaos. He seems to be easily offended, as he orders the arrest of Dietrich because he hosted a comedy sketch playfully mocking Sutler on his talk show. In the light of these facts, he is a very ruthless character, and one can see at the end another character trait: his cowardice, as demonstrated by how fearful and cowardly he is when his death came.

## Differences from his original novel counterpart

Unlike his original counterpart, Sutler is a much more socially adept and assertive man, often speaking directly to his people. There is no indication he is celibate or refrains from alcohol. An example of his sociability stems from him running a skit show that makes fun of V to remind the public how futile rebellion is and to remind them how powerful he is.

## What Makes Him Pure Evil?

* He financed Lewis Prothero's pharmaceutical company to develop the Saint Mary virus, which caused an epidemic all over England and killed over 80,000 people, later denouncing the epidemic as a terrorist attack and using it to appoint himself High Chancellor of England, turning England into a fascist state.
* He established the Larkhill Resettlement Camp, a concentration camp for the English citizens who didn't fit the Norsefire Party's Aryan ideal, like Jews, liberals, non-whites, LGBT people, people with disabilities, and Muslims, branded as "enemies of the state". They were all sent there to be tortured, mutilated, and/or killed.
	+ What's worse, is that Sutler assigned Prothero and Anthony Lilliman, an ordinary cleric, to work at the camp as the commander and cleric respectively, but neither did any good, with Prothero abusing, torturing and executing the inmates and Lilliman not batting an eye at any of the abuse happening there.
* He rewarded Prothero and Lilliman after the epidemic ended, giving Prothero his own television show and assigning Lilliman as the Bishop of Westminter. However, Prothero used his show to spread Norsefire's bigoted propaganda and Lilliman employed a sex agency to send him girls to molest.
	+ While one can argue that Sutler may have rewarded them out of gratitude for aiding him in his plot to take over England, it's likely that he did it out of pragmatic reasons, as he doesn't seem to particularly care when Prothero and Lilliman are killed years later, only concerned about what his country's people may do if they realize the truth.
* He is a conservative devout Christian but has no problem actively oppressing minorities despite Christianity stating that all people are equal in God's eyes, proving that he doesn't really put the Christian teachings into practice.
* He spends his administration comfy at his house while letting his high council, led by his right-hand Peter Creedy, rule England on his behalf, forcing people into their houses with curfews and allowing the Fingermen, Norsefire's police, to do whatever they want with law-breakers, not caring when numerous "undesirables" are kidnapped and executed or threatened with rape by the Fingermen.
* He has TV host Gordon Deitrich brutally detained, interrogated, and executed for mocking him with a comedic sketch on his farce show and passes his death off as if he was executed for possessing a copy of the Qur'an.
* He attempted to make an example out of V's supporters on November 11th by preparing to have the country's military open fire on thousands of protesters should they storm the Houses of Parliament.
* Blames Creedy for failing to capture V once he becomes a serious threat to the government, leading a fed-up Creedy to betray Sutler and bring him to V, later killing him to secure the power for himself.
* While he is shown to be terrified and crying on his knees before he dies, it only serves to make him look pathetic and cowardly rather than sympathetic, especially when he was regularly shown to be a loud, boastful and hateful dictator who administered harsh punishments on his subjects for the slightest reasons.