CMP PHIL2325 §20050

Novy SP08

Some Watchmen Basics

 

"This rudderless world is not shaped by vague metaphysical forces,

 It is not God who kills the children. Not fate that butchers them

 or destiny that feeds them to the dogs.

 It's us. Only us." -- Rorschach

 

Annotated Watchmen

http://www.capnwacky.com/rj/watchmen.html

 

Frame-by-frame

http://iat.ubalt.edu/moulthrop/hypertexts/wm/index_old_1100.html

 

Plot summaries by chapter

http://www.watchmencomicmovie.com/watchmen-comic-plot-summary.php

 

Who

Description

Appears in

Bernard

Newspaper vendor

 3,  5,  6,  8,  11,  12

Bernie

Kid reading Tales of the Black Freighter

 3,  5,  11,  12

Bubastis

Ozymandias’ genetically-engineered red lynx

 4,  10,  11 ,  12

Capt. Metropolis

Nelson Gardner

Founded Minutemen; attempted to form Crimebusters

 2,  4,  6,  9,  11.

Dr. Manhattan

Jon Osterman

At Crimebusters meeting;

Gov. agent: Vietnam; Cold Wart; legally active after Keene Act

Lives with Laurie Juspeczyk at Rockefeller military base

Manipulates matter w/ thoughts; knowledge of (some of) the future

 1,  2,  3,  4,  6,  9,  11,  12

Dollar Bill

?

Minutemen member

 2

Hooded Justice

?

Minutemen member

First masked super hero

Gay; Sally Jupiter official girlfriend

Refused to testify before HUAC; disappeared

 2.

Long, Mal

Rorschach’s prison psychiatrist

 6,  11,  12

Moloch

Edgar Jacobi

Crime Lord retired

Former Magician

Cancer received while working at Dimensional Developments

Killed; death used to frame Rorschach

 2,  4,  5.

Mothman

Byron Lewis

Minutemen Member

Currently in a sanitarium in Maine

 2,  9.

Nite Owl (#1)

Hollis Mason

Minutemen member

Retired to run a garage

Autobiography Under the Hood

Murdered by Knot-tops, confused Nite Owl (2)

 1,  4,  8,  9.

Nite Owl (#2)

Daniel Dreiberg

Independently wealthy

At Crimebusters meeting

Occasional partner with Rorschach

Retired w/ Keene Act

Goes into hiding with Laurie as Sam and Sandra Sam Hollis

 1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10,  11,  12

Nixon, Richard

38th president; serving 1968 to present

Uses Dr. M in foreign affairs & tech. development

Vietnam becomes 51st state

Pushes passage of Keene Act

 3,  10.

Ozymandias

Adrian Veidt

“World’s Smartest Man”

At Crimebusters meeting

Emulates Alexander the Great

Retires; Financial empire (inc. Dimensional Developments & Ozymandias products)

 1,  2,  4,  5,  7,  10,  11,  12

Rorschach

Walter Joseph Kovacs

Garment-worker turned superhero following death of Kitty Genovese

At Crimebusters meeting

Occasional partner with Nite Owl (2)

Illegally remains active after Keene Act

 1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10,  11,  12.

Silhouette

Ursula Zandt

Minutemen member

Expelled when outed as a lesbian

Killed shortly after with her partner

 2.

Silk Spectre (#1)

Sally Jupiter (Juspeczyk)

Minuteman member

Mother of Laurie Juspeczyk, i.e. Silk Sectre (2)

Retires, marries manager Laurence Shexnayder; film & modeling career

Lives as retirement home in California

 2,  8,  9,  11,  12.

Silk Spectre (#2)

Laurie Juspeczyk

Daughter of Sally Jupiter

Raised to be Silk Spectre (2)

At Crimebusters meeting

Lives with Dr. Manhattan at Rockefeller military base

Retired under Keene Act

Goes into hiding with Dreiberg as Sam and Sandra Hollis

 1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  11,  12.

 

Dr. Manhattan

 


The Comedian

 

Silk Spectre (#2)

 

Ozymandias

 


Captain Metropolis

 

Nite Owl (#2) 

 

Rorschach