Anonymous
10/22/2025, 1:48:45 PM
No.150950904
>>150947896
He defended The Comedian raping a woman, claiming it was "a lapse of judgment". He's a tool that isn't even consistent with his own ideology, and if you think he was meant to be "badass" here you're an idiot.
>>150948627
You're so fucking off-base it is absurd. The book makes it clear what sort of heroics it actually values, and it's two very clear examples; when Nite-Owl rescues the people from the fire and when the people of NY trying to help each other in their last moments before the squid drops. The former allowed NO to reinvigorate his desire to be a hero (though he loses it by rescuing Rosarch, and is immediately punished for it), while the latter shows the heroic spirits that were snuffed out by these edgy, extreme solutions. It's not that capes are inherently inhuman, it's that superheroes around that time were giving up any pretense of responsibility they had towards actually helping people in favor of being strictly violent power fantasies.
Watchmen is a world corrupted by The Comedian. Nearly every single issue in the book can be traced back to him and how he made the world a worse place by choosing to embrace the void, instead of rising above it.
He defended The Comedian raping a woman, claiming it was "a lapse of judgment". He's a tool that isn't even consistent with his own ideology, and if you think he was meant to be "badass" here you're an idiot.
>>150948627
You're so fucking off-base it is absurd. The book makes it clear what sort of heroics it actually values, and it's two very clear examples; when Nite-Owl rescues the people from the fire and when the people of NY trying to help each other in their last moments before the squid drops. The former allowed NO to reinvigorate his desire to be a hero (though he loses it by rescuing Rosarch, and is immediately punished for it), while the latter shows the heroic spirits that were snuffed out by these edgy, extreme solutions. It's not that capes are inherently inhuman, it's that superheroes around that time were giving up any pretense of responsibility they had towards actually helping people in favor of being strictly violent power fantasies.
Watchmen is a world corrupted by The Comedian. Nearly every single issue in the book can be traced back to him and how he made the world a worse place by choosing to embrace the void, instead of rising above it.