Theories

[Bubastis]

The official thread for theories you have for things that may have beein going on in Watchmen

Here's one that I like alot that I saw on the WatchmenComicMovie forums. At the end of the book, Ozymandias questions Dr. Manhattan's faith in humanity. He says that he'll go create some. Now, on the one hand, he could have meant that he was going to go and muster some faith in humanity. On the other hand, did he mean that he would go create some humanity? If watchmen is set in an alternate dimension, What if Dr. Manhattan was going off to create the universe that we live in now? Or maybe in the Watchmen Universe in the 90s there exists a speceis of people all peacefully and apathetically living on a planet together, but they're all bald, blue, and omniscient?

Another one is that Rorschach was gay, essentially extrapolating the kindness that Dan had shown him.

One final one before I click "Submit" is that Ozymandias was perhaps jealous of Dr. Manhattan, maybe even idolizing him. He clearly has a God complex, he uses all of his TVs and his power to be as close to omniscient as he knows how to be, and was trying to recreate his teleportation capability.

What thinks all of you?

 

[Gilpesh]

That Alan Moore using the Kitty Genovese murder as Rorschach's inspiration... was a statement about Rorschach. Cause the story of the murder... isn't the actual story, but an article that used misinformation to paint a bad picture of humanity, not caring what it did to people who really did nothing wrong... like all the things that Rorschach said that occurred during the murder... didn't actually happen. Kitty Genovese was murdered, but people did call the cops, none of them pervertedly watched the event, the people didn't actually see the whole thing in the first place... half of them were asleep and didn't notice that she was stabbed in the first attack when they looked outside... then she got up and walked away out of the view of the apartment building so everyone just thinking it was drunks from the local bar went to bed.... and then she was attacked again when she was out of view of the apartment building... but someone else called the cops which is what brought them there. Also, side note... 911 worked differently back when she was murdered.

So the event that made Kovacs put on a mask... didn't actually show the evils of humanity... unless Kovcas looked closer and saw the real problem which was with the reporter building up an event to make people paranoid, but he didn't.