

When Dreiberg begins to believe in some aspects of Rorschach’s conspiracy theory, the pair are tasked with getting him out of jail.ĭr. Unsatisfied in her relationship with Manhattan, Juspeczyk moves in with Dreiberg, with whom she begins an affair they don their old suits and resume their work as vigilantes, becoming more and more involved. Rorschach’s paranoid beliefs appear justified when Adrian Veidt survives an assassination attempt and Rorschach is the victim of a set up to charge him for the murder of Moloch, a former supervillain. When the US government takes the allegations seriously, Manhattan exiles himself to Mars, and in doing so he throws humanity into political chaos, with the Soviet Union invading Afghanistan to capitalize on America’s perceived weakness. Manhattan is accused on national television of being the cause of cancer that struck his friends and former colleagues.

Manhattan (formerly the human Jon Osterman) and his lover Laurie Juspeczyk (second Silk Spectre), and Adrian Veidt (once the hero Ozymandias, the world’s smartest man and owner of a commercial empire).Īfter Blake’s funeral, Dr. Discovering that Blake is actually the Comedian, a costumed hero and government agent, Rorschach believes he has uncovered a plot to finish off the costumed vigilantes and decides to warn his four retired companions: Dan Dreiberg (formerly the second Nite Owl), the super powerful and emotionally distant Dr. As the police do not have good results, the masked vigilante Rorschach decides to investigate further. In October 1985, the NYPD is investigating the murder of Edward Blake. The differences explained What is Watchmen about?īefore we do a precise analysis, we’d like to introduce you to the plot of the Watchmen comic book so that you – if you haven’t really seen everything – have a rough outline of what happened and why it has become such a cult work.
