According to the film's co-creator and illustrator David Lloyd, the ending sequence was intended to show that the 'public' (res publica) are of one mind and body, rather than disconnected individuals. By having the people who chose to defy the State (and were killed by the State) shown at the end, the implication is that it's possible for the state to kill a person, but that they can't kill the idea of freedom that those people were willing to die for:
DAVID LLOYD: Well, I think because they stuck so close to the original
in the visual aspects of it... all the key instance scenes seemed like
they did them in that way and I think quite affectively. I
congratulate them the most, if you're asking me sort of about changes,
I congratulate them on the final part, on the ending. It was a very
clever idea of having all those people in the masks because basically
what it kind of symbolizes is an act of mass defiance, which is
actually a mass defiance made up of individuals because, of course, V
is representing the individuals' action. But the public adopting that
persona through the mask and then becoming one... basically it was
like all for one and one for all.
It was a very clever, symbolic way of doing everything.
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