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“V has absolutely no connection to the word Visitors. V is and always has been the universal symbol of Resistance against Tyranny.

“I got idea for using V as the title for my original miniseries from seeing Winston Churchill holding up his two fingers as a V in the darkest days of World War II — and from seeing so many Nazi propaganda posters with a big red V slashed across them. Leonardo Cimino even states it loud and clear in my original… Anyone who ever paid an ounce of attention to my original — or to history — certainly knows that.

“Calling the Visitors “The V’s” is pretty silly and not only totally misses the entire point in an effort to sound pseudo-hip, but denigrates the efforts of millions of Resistance fighters, many of whom died heroically in their determination to win and preserve freedom.”

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—Kenneth Johnson, original creator of “V”