Does anyone think that Doctor Manhattan being a watchmaker partly influenced Sylar?

[DarkSuperman]

I'm rereading watchmen and it just occurred to me that both Sylar and Doctor Manhattan are watchmaker's sons who end up the most powerful beings on the planet...

I was wondering if anyone else ever saw that or if I was disillusion and crazy.

 

[TheAQU4M4N]

IMO this whole entire series took bits of pieces of the WM plot.

 

[shoelessthunder]

Yeah, I'd say that's definitely one of the most concrete elements of Heroes that was taken from Watchmen.
Watch the episode from Volume 3, Villains, I can't remember which episode it is, but it's when Arthur brings Sylar to where Elle's being kept and she starts zapping Sylar and there's a shot that's like a carbon copy of the shot where Osterman gets zapped and becomes Doc Manhattan.
When that episode first aired I reacted like "Holy ****, Watchmen."

 

[DarkSuperman]

Yeah, I'd say that's definitely one of the most concrete elements of Heroes that was taken from Watchmen.
Watch the episode from Volume 3, Villains, I can't remember which episode it is, but it's when Arthur brings Sylar to where Elle's being kept and she starts zapping Sylar and there's a shot that's like a carbon copy of the shot where Osterman gets zapped and becomes Doc Manhattan.
When that episode first aired I reacted like "Holy ****, Watchmen."

Ohhhhh yeah! I remember that! He was all exploding with blue light like Doctor Manhattan while she was lighting him up like a Christmas tree. Good eye, man.