Watchmen/Crimebusters to Last Longer than One Meeting?

[BestGirl]

I'm starting to think that the Watchmen group, aka the Crimebusters, is going to last longer than one five minute meeting. Here's my evidence:

1. The photo taken of the Watchmen. Why take a picture of a team that lasted just a few minutes? The pic might've been taken before the meeting started, though.

2. Dan at one point says "Watchmen are over." Why say that something is over if it never really began?

3. In the new NBS segment, the anchor refers to DM as belonging to a "recently formed group of masked avengers" which implies that Watchmen is a publicly known ongoing team.

What would you guys think if Watchmen turned out to be a successful team of crime fighters that disbands at a later date?

 

[Solidus]

I'm starting to think that the Watchmen group, aka the Crimebusters, is going to last longer than one five minute meeting. Here's my evidence:

1. The photo taken of the Watchmen. Why take a picture of a team that lasted just a few minutes? The pic might've been taken before the meeting started, though.

2. Dan at one point says "Watchmen are over." Why say that something is over if it never really began?

3. In the new NBS segment, the anchor refers to DM as belonging to a "recently formed group of masked avengers" which implies that Watchmen is a publicly known ongoing team.

What would you guys think if Watchmen turned out to be a successful team of crime fighters that disbands at a later date?

Well its never really said flat out. The "Crimebusters" meeting was one meeting, and Metropolis felt that they could do things, with him leading. What seemed to happen is they banded together, but in an odd way. Like a loose group.

It sounded like from what you gather, Dan and Walter kinda teamed up. Laurie and Jon kinda did. Blake and Veidt kinda seemed to be a mystery. But it showed Blake was working with Dan sometimes.

It seems that there was some kind of group, just not as organized and formal as Metropolis wanted. Because it seemed like they worked together in some capacity when the riots took place prior to the Keene Act in 77.

 

[The Guard]

The script before Snyder got a hold of it features a group called "Watchmen". There is also a "Watchmen Headquarters" mentioned. Snyder has said it's more like just the name the public gives the masked heroes in the movie's Watchmen universe.

 

[Katsuro]

Well we know Comedian burns the map, and most likely subsequently storms out. I think that's the important part.

Solidus is right, in that while they may never have officially teamed up, they did all work together a lot after the meeting. Maybe the public continued to perceive them as a group, even if they didn't have an official name and weren't as friendly with eachother as the Minutemen appeared to be.

 

[I Am The Knight]

Technically, they are a group. They are all masked vigilantes, a different type of citizen. And it's no secret that Nite-Owl and Rorschach are a sort of a "Dynamic Duo."

 

[BestGirl]

Well we know Comedian burns the map, and most likely subsequently storms out. I think that's the important part.

I was thinking maybe the Comedian did that at a later meeting. You're right that it's the most important part.

Solidus is right, in that while they may never have officially teamed up, they did all work together a lot after the meeting. Maybe the public continued to perceive them as a group, even if they didn't have an official name and weren't as friendly with eachother as the Minutemen appeared to be.

That sounds plausible, especially if the Watchmen worked together publicly at riots and so forth.

 

[Project862006]

yeah watchmen is basically another word for vigilante in the film i heard as well