Watchmen (comics)/Characters: Difference between revisions

 

* [[Batman Gambit]]: In one of the RPG modules (which had input from the original creators), he secretly arranged the kidnappings of the 1960's heroes' loved ones in order to force them to work together, in an effort to make them more amenable to the idea of teaming up as The Crimebusters. If considered canon (there's nothing in the comic that contradicts it), the plan obviously didn't work, but he wasn't exposed as the mastermind.

* [[The Cape]]

* [[Demoted to Extra]]: In [[The Movie]] he has no lines, and his role in the Crimebusters is [[Composite Character|transferred to Ozymandias]].

* [[Villain With Good Publicity]]

* [[Villain Protagonist]]

 

=== Dollar Bill (Bill Brady) ===

* [[Lipstick Lesbian]]

* [[Rich Bitch]]: Her only line is an insulting dig at Sally (who had covered up her heritage), and she's mentioned as being a rather unpleasant person.

 

=== Silk Spectre I (Sally Juspeczyk/Jupiter) ===

** There are also elements of Superman, a fact even commented on by characters in the story.

* [[Extreme Doormat]]: He only became a nuclear physicist because his father ordered him to. Even after he became the most powerful man in the world, he still remained a doormat, following the orders of the government.

* [[Freak Lab Accident]]

* [[Humanoid Abomination]]

* [[Reed Richards Is Useless]]: Averted. His presence and abilities have definitely solved many of the world's problems. (Not as many as he ''could'' solve, though.)

** Lampshaded by Niteowl I. He states that he plans to run a car repair shop after he puts up the cape, saying that even Dr. Manhattan can't change cars. Manhattan then explains how he can do ''exactly that''.

* [[Superpower Lottery]]: It's not even fair--nobody else in the series has any powers at all, and he's a [[Physical God]]!

* [[The Spock]]

* {{spoiler|1=[[Big Bad]]/[[Big Good]]}}.

* {{spoiler|[[Broken Ace]]}}: {{spoiler|He is a young, blonde supergenius who is insanely rich, pretty much has America in his hands and defeats Rorschach, Silk Spectre, Nite Owl and Dr Manhattan at the end. He is also the antagonist, and portrayed as deludedly idealistic to believe that his plan will work.}}

* [[Charles Atlas Superpower]]

* [[Expy]]: Of Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt.

* [[Anti-Hero]]: Type IV or V.

** Type II or III during the early days of his career. He was in better health mentally, being a vigilante was still legal, and he would leave criminals to be arrested by the police, instead of murdering them. But the Keene Act and mentally snapping after the brutal murder of a girl [[Jumping Off the Slippery Slope|had driven him nearer to the edge]].

* [[Anti-Villain]]: Type III

* [[Asexual]]: He likes to think of himself as this, although he may not be completely asexual due to his active Oedipal hang-ups. He says once that putting on his mask lets him be free of "fear or weakness or lust", and he once had some kind of creepy wet-dream nightmare about his mom when he was a kid. Of course, this may signify the start of his asexuality.