Favourite Watchmen Character

[SnakeClock]

Well I just read Watchmen in all its weird, dark glory, and I'm curious who the best of the heroes would be. I'm keeping it narrow to the ones set in the present, though, since we know more about them.

My vote is for Rorschach. He's extremely misunderstood but has a faultless sense of justice, which I admire in a character. He also looks good in a trench coat, and he knows how to fuck with people's heads. And his mask is cool.

I find Doc Manhattan annoying, though. I hate characters that can do anything and don't give a shit.

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Make it so we can see who voted what.

[SnakeClock]

Make it so we can see who voted what.

I did. Click the numbers in the poll.

[Slurpee]

They're all pretty reprehensible in their own way.
Except Joey, I don't remember Joey.

I picked the nigh-omniscient determinist who allowed his powers and disillusionment with politics to detach him from his humanity, Dr. Manhattan.
Veidt's failure to destroy him was pretty "hell yeah," as far as high moments go, and more importantly, he delivers the biggest zinger in the book. "35 minutes ago" was good. "Nothing ever ends" was better. Manhattan sealed the thematic importance of Veidt, himself, and Rorchach within a few pages.

Veidt, utilitarian extraordinaire, staged an alien invasion to bring about world peace. Self-important and arrogant at his success, he asks Manhattan if he done good. Manhattan reminds him that in the grand scope of things, we're all just little men, bringing Ozymandias up to speed with the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem that shares his name.
Rorschach, unable to reconcile that a mass murderer was responsible for world peace and that bringing him to justice would cause even bigger problems, went to expose the scheme, knowing that Dr. Manhattan would kill him, and needing him to.
Manhattan, having spent the entire book lulling in and out of humanity, and finding himself no longer able to connect with them, but now finding value in human life, finds peace in Laurie falling in love with Niteowl, and exits the affairs of human kind to be on his own plane.

Manhattan owns.

Nite Owl II is pretty cool too, I guess. Its fun to see him go from regretting a life he saw as wasted in superheroics to really relishing life as his place as a superhero suddenly becomes a truly important position that may benefit all of mankind.



boop boop booooo I read way too much into 20 year old comic books written by surly bearded magicians.

[SnakeClock]

Manhattan reminds him that in the grand scope of things, we're all just little men, bringing Ozymandias up to speed with the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem that shares his name.

I was wondering when that was going to be brought up. It would definitely be an awkward moment for Ozymandias.

Still, Manhattan strikes me as something very unusual: a MacGuffin character. He doesn't really do anything until he's supposed to, and it's irritating how he can change the universe and he's just "Ehh" about it. Not even "ehh", he's like "I'm not really doing anything. It's just time catching up with me." Does he still qualify as human? They didn't really touch on that.

[Slurpee]

He doesn't really do anything until he's supposed to, and it's irritating how he can change the universe and he's just "Ehh" about it. Not even "ehh", he's like "I'm not really doing anything. It's just time catching up with me."

See, to me, that's part of his appeal.
It speaks of somebody who was, and knew he was, completely beyond our problems, but just didn't know what else to do with himself.

I think a large part of his character is that he wasn't human anymore, and all of his actions in regard to humans were just him trying to letting go of that.

[SnakeClock]

See, to me, that's part of his appeal.
It speaks of somebody who was, and knew he was, completely beyond our problems, but just didn't know what else to do with himself.

I think a large part of his character is that he wasn't human anymore, and all of his actions in regard to humans were just him trying to letting go of that.

I suppose he's tragic in that respect... at least the way we see it. Maybe if I got accidentally trapped in an intrinsic field generator by a "safety feature", I'd have a better perspective on it.

[Maltese]

They're all pretty reprehensible in their own way.
Except Joey, I don't remember Joey.

I picked the nigh-omniscient determinist who allowed his powers and disillusionment with politics to detach him from his humanity, Dr. Manhattan.
Veidt's failure to destroy him was pretty "hell yeah," as far as high moments go, and more importantly, he delivers the biggest zinger in the book. "35 minutes ago" was good. "Nothing ever ends" was better. Manhattan sealed the thematic importance of Veidt, himself, and Rorchach within a few pages.

Veidt, utilitarian extraordinaire, staged an alien invasion to bring about world peace. Self-important and arrogant at his success, he asks Manhattan if he done good. Manhattan reminds him that in the grand scope of things, we're all just little men, bringing Ozymandias up to speed with the Percy Bysshe Shelley poem that shares his name.
Rorschach, unable to reconcile that a mass murderer was responsible for world peace and that bringing him to justice would cause even bigger problems, went to expose the scheme, knowing that Dr. Manhattan would kill him, and needing him to.
Manhattan, having spent the entire book lulling in and out of humanity, and finding himself no longer able to connect with them, but now finding value in human life, finds peace in Laurie falling in love with Niteowl, and exits the affairs of human kind to be on his own plane.

Manhattan owns.

Nite Owl II is pretty cool too, I guess. Its fun to see him go from regretting a life he saw as wasted in superheroics to really relishing life as his place as a superhero suddenly becomes a truly important position that may benefit all of mankind.



boop boop booooo I read way too much into 20 year old comic books written by surly bearded magicians.

the funny thing is, you could read further into it.

[FlossClock]

Kid reading the pirate comic and Joey were both pretty great, but I was actually a HUGE fan of Rorschach's therapist. He gets so messed up by just a few sessions with Rorschach, to the point where he loses his wife and begins to seriously contemplate justice, fairness, and the world as a whole. Ending of course, as he goes to commit his first act of justice by attempting to stop the fight between Joey and her lover.

[SnakeClock]

Kid reading the pirate comic and Joey were both pretty great, but I was actually a HUGE fan of Rorschach's therapist. He gets so messed up by just a few sessions with Rorschach, to the point where he loses his wife and begins to seriously contemplate justice, fairness, and the world as a whole. Ending of course, as he goes to commit his first act of justice by attempting to stop the fight between Joey and her lover.

Heh, yeah that was awesome.

RORSCHACH: "I see something happy, like you want me too."
THERAPIST: "You're getting better all the time!"
THERAPIST'S WIFE: "That's great, dear!"
*next day*
RORSCHACH: "I see that the world's shit and we have to do what we can to help it out."
THERAPIST: "Oh Goddamn, you're right. We can't just sit around."
THERAPIST'S WIFE: "Come on, have sex with me!"
THERAPIST: "How can I enjoy it when the world sucks?"

I think it says more about Rorschach's character than the therapist about what a strong influence he is.

[peyoteclock]

i'm going with the cliched answer of rorschach, i just really liked him, brutal justice to the point of insanity, i loved the story of what he did to those kids when he was a lad and later on when he stopped being kovacs pretending to be rorschach and became rorschach pretending to be kovacs.

also really liked manhattan as a concept, he was very lsd.

[miracle fruit]

silk spectres ass looks great in the movie

[AnimeClock]

The Comedian, I got rumblies in my tummy when I found out he was juspeczyc's pappy... and when sally cries over his picture

[AbacusClock]

I just finished reading this last Tuesday and freaking loved it. My favorite character has to be Ozymandias, mainly because of how low-key he seemed throughout the novel. Also, I sort of expected that he was the one behind the alien invasion at the end, partially because of the fact that he was so under-explored throughout the novel, and partially because it seemed like something his character would do. It was great, the way he justified his actions, and especially when he asked Jon at the end if he'd done the right thing. It made him so much more human, I loved it.

[DiscoBallClock]

Oops, please remove my vote, if you can do that.

[buttplug]

silk spectres ass looks great in the movie

Quoted for truth.

[FlossClock]

http://www.clockcrew.cc/talk/showthread.php?p=1471674#post1471674

[patriotclock]

Obviously Rorschach followed by Comedian

[Kaijuclock]

Rorschach, with the pirate comic kid in second