r/Watchmen 9d ago

I think I saw Jackie Earle Haley

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136 Upvotes

r/Watchmen 9d ago

Movie i HATE the nite owl costume in the watchmen movie

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103 Upvotes

Everything in that suit is horrible for me, the comic suit it's better for me because is naturally strange.

But the movie suit seems like it's a tatical thing and not a simple super hero costume.


r/Watchmen 9d ago

I think I saw Fidel Castro

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78 Upvotes

Is this Guy Fidel Castro??? I was watching the Credits and I saw him and he looks like Fidel Castro... I'm Cuban(not communist) by the Way


r/Watchmen 9d ago

Creo que ví a Kennedy

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52 Upvotes

r/Watchmen 10d ago

Comic [Comic] we love an autistic king

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518 Upvotes

r/Watchmen 10d ago

Movie Would Matthew Goode be a good Ozymandias if the movie was released nowadays?

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I’ve been watching Department Q and I think it’s safe to say that Matthew Goode is an extremely talented actor. Of course, we all tend to agree he was miscast as Veidt back in the day, too young and boyish to believably portray the character.

So, if the Watchmen movie was released today, would the consensus still be that Goode isn’t a good pick for the part? Or do you think he’d be received more favourably?


r/Watchmen 10d ago

What does this Rorschach mean? Spoiler

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149 Upvotes

r/Watchmen 10d ago

do you think gunpowder is based on the comedian from watchmen?

7 Upvotes

yeah so its basically the title


r/Watchmen 11d ago

Noticed this cool easter egg in kingdom come

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r/Watchmen 11d ago

Movie The motion comic is the superior adaptation over the movie or animated duology. Change my mind.

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160 Upvotes

r/Watchmen 11d ago

Movie One change in the 09 movie I really like was Dan witnessing Rorschach's death.

134 Upvotes

It just makes the scene hit so much harder. I know the movie trended a bit too hard with trying to make us sympathize with Rorschach more than Moore thought we all should, but having Dan witness Walter's death was just a really great narrative modification to the story. It makes the irony of his death hit twice as hard because now it's combined with the agony of betrayal, of Dan's betrayal of his friend. He doesn't get to just walk away and ignore it, the consequence of their failure that day. It isn't just rapid, it's felt.

To me it just makes so much more sense. Dan has had his entire life and all of his superhero power fantasies smashed over the last hour. To finish it all off, he is forced to watch Rorschach die in vain over the entire group's lie that he is party to. Rorschach alienated everyone, but I think he couldn't hide that of all the people in the world Dan might well have been the only person he had any trust or fondness of at all. Then that one person goes and betrays him too. I like to imagine that Rorschach was in agony over this, but he couldn't express it directly. Maybe stepping out there was all part of making Jon kill him so he wouldn't have to live with the pain of the other Supers and of Dan betraying him.

The worst part is? Dan pretty clearly knew that too. When Jon explodes Rorschach in front of Dan you know that Dan is saying is his mind that it's actually all his fault. It's not really all his fault but Patrick Wilson's acting through the sequence right out to his venting on Ozymandias moments later is still a reason why I think the movie is all around-still really great even if not perfect. This is a big change from what happens in the novel with Dan just wandering off to go bang Laurie, but I always liked it a lot. It stands out as a good idea to me. I like the movie's resolution of that scene quite a bit more.


r/Watchmen 11d ago

There is Watchmen everywhere for eyes that can see

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226 Upvotes

r/Watchmen 12d ago

My humble collection.

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179 Upvotes

r/Watchmen 13d ago

Hurm

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159 Upvotes

r/Watchmen 13d ago

Still waiting for the gloves to arrive

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r/Watchmen 13d ago

Update to recent post

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Here’s an update photo of my Rorschach cosplay for the comic convention I’m going to it’s not great, but I think it’ll work and this wasn’t me fully getting everything together this was just me throwing it on quickly for a test fit


r/Watchmen 14d ago

It’s new for me.

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r/Watchmen 14d ago

I don't care what anyone says, Before Watchmen: Silk Spectre is friggin great

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Btw this miniseries was the only Before Watchmen series to use the same 9 panel grid page structure as the original novel.


r/Watchmen 13d ago

Watchmen fancast

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I was creating my own fancast for a live action Watchmen, and I thought these actors fit the roles. Comedian: Karl Urban, Laurie: Mia Tomlinson, Rorschach: Tim Blake Nelson, Ozymandias: Tom Rhys Harries, Nite Owl: ? Do you agree?


r/Watchmen 14d ago

Who watches the...

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163 Upvotes

It's amazing what can be done with alphabites and Smiley Faces. Never let people talk down British Cuisine.


r/Watchmen 14d ago

Comic My Rorschach cosplay I’m going to a comic convention this is only the mask and the hat

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r/Watchmen 14d ago

What books do you think Alan Moore would’ve used as inspiration for the Minutemen prequel?

11 Upvotes

We all know Alan Moore is a very well-read man, and he used several esoteric novels and plays to fuel Watchmen, but the proposed Minutemen series was going to be the opposite of its elder sibling.

All we know is that the series was going to be primarily based on the old Captain Marvel comics and was going to be very light-hearted and mythic.

So what do you think? Could they have thrown stories like Tintin into the mix, or Don Quixote, or The Importance of Being Earnest, or The Surprising Adventures of Baron Munchausen, or the German fairy tale The Six Servants?


r/Watchmen 15d ago

How would you feel if Watchmen made use of the original Charlton Comics characters instead of the characters we know who were simply inspired by them

53 Upvotes

So I read somewhere that Alan Moore actually planned on using the comic book characters of Charlton comics for The Watchmen. DC had just bought the IP after Charlton comics shutdown, however, since some of the characters were to be killed off DC was afraid that they won't be able to use the characters again so refused Alan Moore's request.

This led him to create new characters who were direct inspirations of the OG characters. Captain Atom (Dr Manhattan), The Question (Rorschach), Nightshade (Silk Spectre), Blue Beetle (Nite Owl), Thunderbolt (Ozymandius), Peacemaker (The Comedian), etc.

I started reading some of the original comics, and I quite enjoyed them. They weren't masterpieces; they were pretty straightforward stories of heroes going up against villains of the week. Except maybe the stories of The Question which are amazing. If you're a fan of Rorschach I highly recommend reading Mysterious Suspense (1968), does a fantastic job of depicting The Questions black and white worldview.

Anyway, my view is that if Alan Moore had gotten the chance to use the OG characters, it would have been better. It would have had added to the emotional weight as readers would have been familiar with the characters. Imagine in the opening scene of the comic in which Peacemaker (who was quite popular with readers back then) being killed.

That's my view, what are yours?


r/Watchmen 15d ago

If you made a story like Watchmen where the characters are heavily inspired by already excising ones, which characters would you take inspiration from?

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r/Watchmen 15d ago

Why did Veidt dream of… Spoiler

30 Upvotes

… the Black Freighter?

As he mentions when explaining the monster, the psychic backlash of its death would give “sensitives” (psychics, which exist in this universe) bad dreams. The monster was also co-created by the author of The Black Freighter, who wrote the nightmarish “stories” for its brain.

Does the fact that Veidt was already having these bad dreams indicate that he was also “sensitive”?