The Watchmaker: Difference between revisions

 

== [[Literature]] ==

* The [[Discworld]] book ''Thief of Time'' has Jeremy Clockson, {{spoiler|a son of the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of Time}}. He was a foundling at the guild involved in clock-making and is a completely rational and utterly socially inept genius. For much of the book he aids the Auditors, who are devoted to making the world more orderly (generally in an [[Omnicidal Maniac]] way).

** Although he isn't a watchmaker himself, Lord Vetinari quite often uses a watch metaphor for the city of Ankh Morpork, and the metaphor is very apt- and puts Vetinari right in the centre as the watchmaker: by careful organizing and attention to detail, he has made a ridiculously complex city run smoothly and almost automatically- the parts of the city, like the gears in a watch- are buoyed around by the force of each other. And, fitting with the trope, he's next to omniscient and is most definitely NOT unambiguously good.

* In John Morressy's short story ''Timekeeper'', the mysterious clockmaker who moves to town seems to have time-related powers, but mostly he uses them to have exactly the right clock ready at exactly the right time for every customer who comes into his shop.

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* This is very explicit with Sylar of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', who starts out fixing watches and have the power of complete understanding of how things work. He starts out using this ability to acquire more powers by <s>eating</s> dissecting his victims' [[Brain Food|brains]]. He later starts using it to analyze the other characters and hand out [["The Reason You Suck" Speech|The Reason You Suck speeches]] to them, before finally using it to put together a scheme to achieve [[Take Over the World|Total World Domination]].

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==