![]() And when he is satisfied with what he has done, he gives the last of his life force "to this world and this child," thinking of a life that could have been - one shared with Janey Slater and without super powers - as he passes on. He walks through the decimated ruins of Veidt's corporate headquarters, plants growing under his feet as he moves. It is not immediately clear what he does, other than presumably prevent World War III. He does, indeed, return home and uses his power to do as much damage control as he can. The same logic that led him to spare the lives of the Marionette and the Mime because hey were expecting a child. His nobility presumably pinged the same part of Doctor Manhattan's humanity that the led him to come back from Mars in Watchmen because each human life is a miracle. the former Silk Spectre, and Ozymandias will all be part of the ensemble. It turned out that this was Adrian Veidt's plan all along: he knew that he would never be able to convince Doctor Manhattan to come back, but that Superman would. ADVERT ADVERT According to the official HBO site, Watchmen will premiere on. This act of kindness - likely something he was not used to, since the last decades of his life on the Watchmen Earth were spent with people constantly scheming to use him - shifted his perspective, and Superman convinced Doctor Manhattan that the reason he could not see the future of the DC Universe at the time was not because either of them died, but because he was going to go back home and do his best to save his own universe instead. ![]() But while Doctor Manhattan prepared himself for whatever destiny had in store for him, Superman cold-cocked a villain who was set on attacking the blue god from behind. Yes, Superman did charge at Doctor Manhattan, rage in his eyes and fist cocked. Considering it's Superman we're talking about, it shouldn't surprise anyone that he found a third way. Along the way, Superman has to deal with an increasingly paranoid and unhinged public who distrust him as a result of conspiracy theories being circulated to slander the metahuman community.Īnd it was all leading up to a showdown between Doctor Manhattan and Superman, in which Doctor Manhattan believed that either Superman would kill him, or he (Doctor Manhattan) would kill the universe.ĭoctor Manhattan (Photo: DC Entertainment) Picking up on a plot thread writer Geoff Johns had left in DC Universe: Rebirth #1, Johns and artist Gary Frank, along with colorist Brad Anderson, return to the world of Watchmen and explore the question of just what Doctor Manhattan may have had to do with 2011's post- Flashpoint relaunch of DC's main line of continuity. While its finale and the final episode of HBO's Watchmen both hit this week, each of them is a very different sequel to the classic '80s alt-history comic. ![]() To establish a baseline: Doomsday Clock takes Doctor Manhattan, Ozymandias, and other characters from Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen and transplants them into the DC Universe, fleeing the destruction left behind by a war that broke out after world leaders learned of Ozymandias's duplicity at the start of the original series. Click away now if you don't want to know. Spoilers ahead for Doomsday Clock #12, obviously. So here's what we know about the "for-now" conclusions given to the characters of the series. When Jonathan Osterman was first inside an intrinsic field chamber, he was transformed into Dr. Do what we were meant to.There was a lot going on in this final issue, but we figured everyone was going to be pretty keen to find out what happened to Doctor Manhattan and Ozymandias at least. Whatever happened to Bubastis, the genetically engineered lynx owned by Ozymandias in the story, The Watchmen In the movie, the cat stepped inside an intrinsic field chamber with Dr. This is as much your victory as it is mine. Well, what are you waiting for? Do it.ĭo you see? Two super powers retreating from war. One more body amongst foundations makes little difference. Of course, you must protect Veidt's new Utopia. If you'd cared from the start, none of this would've happened. see every innocent face I've murdered to save humanity. That's always been the difference between us, Daniel. If we hope to preserve it here, we must remain silent. The Watchmen graphic novel encompasses a variety of strange elements, ranging from an omnipotent blue man who prefers to be naked all the time to the power politics at play in the United States. On Mars, you taught me the value of life. Exposing Adrian would only doom the world to Nuclear destruction again. Will they? By exposing me, you would sacrifice the peace so many died for today. We were meant to exact justice! Everyone's gonna know what you've done. Do you see? It's your super powers retreating from war. Embrace the brilliance of Watchmens Ozymandias with this minimalist purple t-shirt, adorned with his enigmatic symbol.
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