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Before Watchmen (Comic Book)

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Before Watchmen (Comic Book)	comment	Before Watchmen is a 2012-13 comics miniseries set in the world of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen. The event was launched in celebration of Watchmen's 25th anniversary. Both Moore and Dave Gibbons insist that the prequels are not canonical.Each of the miniseries involves some of the best talents in the comics industry to date. This event's purpose is to explore the backstory, characters and setting of Watchmen (comics continuity only), as any previous history not shown in the original series is in hard to find RPG's and supplementary materials.The individual miniseries are: Comedian, six issues by Brian Azzarello and J.G. Jones. Dr. Manhattan, four issues, by J. Michael Straczynski and Adam Hughes. Minutemen, six issues by Darwyn Cooke. Nite Owl II, four issues by J. Michael Straczynski and Andy and Joe Kubert. Ozymandias, six issues by Len Wein and Jae Lee. Rorschach, four issues by Brian Azzarello and Lee Bermejo. Silk Spectre II, four issues by Darwyn Cooke and Amanda Conner. Moloch, two issues by J. Michael Straczynski and Eduardo Risso. Dollar Bill, one issue by Len Wein and Steve Rude. Curse of the Crimson Corsair, two page backup in most Before Watchmen issues, by Len Wein & John Higgins.Please note: trope folders are for the characters' miniseries, not the characters themselves. Of course a trope about Edward Blake can be placed in the Comedian folder, but only if that's the series where the trope in question is used. So for instance, tropes about anything Edward does in Ozymandias should be placed in the folder for the Ozymandias series.Warning: Several spoilers from Watchmen will be unmarked.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_112daba0	comment	Retired Badass: Hollis may be old and retired, but he can still track down Laurie and beat-up the most competent of the Big Bad's henchwomen.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_11bc87bc	type	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_11bc87bc	comment	Comic-Book Fantasy Casting: On the over of issue #1, and in most of the series' interior art, Ozymandias bears an uncanny resemblance to Julian Assange.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_11d206ef	type	Subliminal Seduction
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_11d206ef	comment	Subliminal Seduction: The scheme masterminded by the Big Bad of issue #2 involves manipulating the young and trendy with subliminal messages in the songs of a band that, for legal reasons, DC Comics would like to point out is not actually The Beatles, as well as tainted LSD.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: In issue #2, we meet a band that resembles The Beatles.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_1288367c	type	Hero Stage Show
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_1288367c	comment	Hero Stage Show: Dollar Bill's day job is performing in a heroic stage show to entertain kids and promote a bank. At one point, he convinces Nite-Owl to join him.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: The child Ursula rescues from the child porn ring pleads for no more when she finds him. Later, when Hooded Justice and Nelson Gardner have sex, it's clearly and explicitly not what Nelly wanted, and he looks terrified. We also see the aftermath of the Comedian assaulting Sally.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_1420a9b8	comment	Scenery Censor: The first cover already features this. In the actual comic his penis is shown (but never erect).
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Hollis complaining that Laurence cares more about the Minutemen's value as a brand, something he can sell off bit by bit and have readers -- er, civilians, eat up, than their integrity as a group. When Ursula gets shot in the back, it goes right through her and kills the girl she's holding. This is similar to Nazi executions, where women held onto their children so they both die, so the Nazi's save on Ammo.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_15756c9d	type	Where It All Began
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_15756c9d	comment	Where It All Began: This is the story of the Minutemen.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_16e94b0a	type	Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_16e94b0a	comment	Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll: Laurie hitches a ride with some friendly hippies, and the tagline for issue #2 is "The best part of the trip...is the trip." They weren't kidding. Laurie smokes a lot of weed with her roommates and the main crime to be busted involves sinister acid and shout-outs to Ken Kesey.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_1a772c9b	type	Opaque Nerd Glasses
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_1a772c9b	comment	Opaque Nerd Glasses: Byron. Gretchen in her flashback.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: Travis Bickle comes to Rorschach's aid in issue two.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_1d5786ff	type	Looks Like Orlok
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_1d5786ff	comment	Looks Like Orlok: Moloch's appearance is exaggerated compared to his appearance in the original comic.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_1e6dfea1	comment	Übermensch: Rawhead comments this is the gist of Rorscharch's mask. It makes one feel above society by removing their face.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_1f8cdb5c	type	Who Shot JFK?
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_1f8cdb5c	comment	Who Shot JFK?: Once JFK is killed, Adrian investigates all the footage he can find of the murder in order to see if things really went the way the official story says. Eventually, he discovers that despite his tremendous intelligence, it's just not possible for him to get a clear answer about who's the true culprit.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_211c82f5	type	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_211c82f5	comment	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: Young Dan walks in on his dad beating his mother with a belt.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_21889138	type	Crimefighting with Cash
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_21889138	comment	Crimefighting with Cash: Dan uses the inheritance from his father to pay for Archimedes and his Nite Owl gadgets.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_21f7ff0f	type	Knight in Sour Armor
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_21f7ff0f	comment	Knight in Sour Armor: In #4, Rorschach makes it clear that he considers himself to be one.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_22a27b19	comment	Alpha Bitch: Betsy in issue one needles Laurie over her mother's past, and her heritage. Laurie takes her down in a single punch after a jab at her mother's more explicit career.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_23473ae7	type	Adaptation Expansion
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_23473ae7	comment	Adaptation Expansion: Due to its nature exploring periods in the original merely glimpsed and not fully witnessed, many plot threads hinted at in Watchmen are brought out more fully for this series.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_246c5b47	type	Ascended Fanboy
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_246c5b47	comment	Ascended Fanboy: Dan, as ever, with a bedroom full of Nite Owl merch. He tracks down Hollis' hideout and shows up to tell him so.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_266a9dd6	type	Heel–Faith Turn
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_266a9dd6	comment	Heel–Faith Turn: Edgar turned to religion after his stint in prison. If one looks in Watchmen proper, Moloch has a crucifix and a statue of the virgin Mary in his home.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: Rorschach briefly encounters a Taxi Driver who is clearly intended to be Travis Bickle, from the film of the same name. Bickle was one of Moore's inspirations for Rorschach.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_26b2747	type	Alliterative Title
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_26b2747	comment	Alliterative Title: Every main word of the title starts with C.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To Curse of the Black Freighter, of course.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_29292e6d	type	Walking the Earth
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_29292e6d	comment	Walking the Earth: Adrian, in the footsteps of Alexander the Great.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2978c012	type	Stage Mom
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2978c012	comment	Stage Mom: Sally is this with flashbacks showing how she prevented Laurie from making any friends and how she tried to control her life.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2a8a7ea6	type	Bury Your Gays
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2a8a7ea6	comment	Bury Your Gays: Ursula and Gretchen were killed by one of her foes, both for being an enemy and for her orientation.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2b14367f	type	Bring My Brown Pants
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2b14367f	comment	Bring My Brown Pants: The guy Hooded Justice advances on in the first issue wets himself.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: Adrian's parents. (At their cemetery their tombstones are two large crosses, but they're also decayed and crumbled-looking despite being brand new, in a way that suggests Adrian has already sunk into a narrative reverie.)
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2cc736e4	type	Bondage Is Bad
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2cc736e4	comment	Bondage Is Bad: Twilight Lady makes an appearance as a...negligent dominatrix supervillainess.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2d4a6d8c	type	Sophisticated as Hell
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2d4a6d8c	comment	Sophisticated as Hell: When an angry General Ripper tears into the Comedian, questioning his integrity as an independent agent, Eddie says, standing at attention with a straight face, "With all due respect sir, go fuck yourself."
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2dddd99d	type	False Flag Operation
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2dddd99d	comment	False Flag Operation: The Comedian is sent by the FBI to bust Moloch for drug-running. It turns out to just be a distraction, so he is not in Dallas when Kennedy is shot.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2de7bbf1	type	Nominal Hero
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_2de7bbf1	comment	Nominal Hero: Sally is, as ever, in it for the publicity. This puts her at odds with many of her teammates, particularly Ursula, who willingly takes on difficult and unglamorous cases. (Dollar Bill is also transparently a marketing ploy rather than an actual crime-fighter, but he's less ostentatious about it.)
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Rolf Muller was kicked out of the Nazi party because he was too sick for them.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_32768814	type	Kick the Son of a Bitch
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_32768814	comment	Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Rorshach kills Taylor Stone with his signature "The End Is Nigh" sign.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3318a1cb	type	Distant Finale
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3318a1cb	comment	Distant Finale: The epilogue jumps forward five years, to Rorschach finally punishing the Bard for his attack on Nancy.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3451115d	type	Loved by All
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3451115d	comment	Loved by All: Hollis becomes this by stories end. His good work ethic and honesty made him a local hero out of uniform and in-uniform he became one of the most well liked heroes, even having a parade thrown for him in the end when he rescues a missing child. He's one of the only Minutemen to survive with his health and reputation intact having escaped many of the scandals that claimed his companions.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3618ebb9	type	TheSixties
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3618ebb9	comment	The '60s: The comic takes place in 1966, several months before she become Silk Spectre and attends the Crimebusters meeting.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Bill was Doomed by Canon. Bill's funeral is featured at the end of the story.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_38ac6c7d	type	Former Regime Personnel
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_38ac6c7d	comment	Former Regime Personnel: Rawhead and his crew are former Vietnam veterans turned to crime.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3bc88a7f	type	Foregone Conclusion
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3bc88a7f	comment	Foregone Conclusion: You know that no matter what happens, Rorschach and Nite Owl will survive safe and sound.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3d2d0d5c	type	Feeling Their Age
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3d2d0d5c	comment	Feeling Their Age: Hollis starts to feel old in the 1950s, having endured the murder of his close friend Silhouette, a HUAC investigation, and the "Friend of the Children" investigation, which resulted in Nite Owl killing Hooded Justice after being led to believe that he'd been kidnapping and murdering kids. After Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias start appearing, he decides that he's really not needed anymore.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3d4d3dc9	type	Humans Are Bastards
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3d4d3dc9	comment	Humans Are Bastards: The underlying theme of the story.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: Nite Owl fights The Comedian dressed as Hooded Justice, and Hollis is beaten quite badly, and has his ribs broken.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3f11ef74	comment	Parental Substitute: Hollis was the closest thing to a Father Laurie had.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3f267047	type	Voiceover Letter
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_3f267047	comment	Voiceover Letter: The textual equivalent in issue #2; the text of Laurie's letter to Hollis, assuring him and her mom that she's having lots of good clean fun with her new friends, accompanies scenes of everyone getting stoned and cuddling and Laurie and her new boyfriend in bed.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Rawhead and the Bard get what they deserve, but the only truly sympathetic character (Nancy) ends up traumatized for life and leaving the city, which has the side-effect of damning the last shot at humanity Rorschach had. And in the end, when it's all said and done, it's clear that despite Rorschach's quest to fight crime, the world remains as rotten as always and nothing will change.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_44880a8c	type	Killed to Uphold the Masquerade
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_44880a8c	comment	Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: Adrian has Marla killed, since she knows too much about his plans to fake an alien invasion. He does the same thing in Watchmen to all the scientists and writers who unknowingly work on his project. His series ends with his reluctant decision to kill the Comedian when Blake stumbles upon Adrian’s secret island.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_44dd01be	type	Tagalong Kid
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_44dd01be	comment	Tagalong Kid: Subverted; while young, Eddie is far from useless, and good luck trying to kidnap him.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_45a387bc	type	Light Feminine and Dark Feminine
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4885c04b	type	Road Trip Plot
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4885c04b	comment	Road Trip Plot:
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: It's a Lee Bermejo comic. What else did you expect?
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: The abducted child's corpse at the end of Minutemen #2. We see Hollis reeling from the foul smell before they even enter the room, and then horrified reactions' on the three's faces. Byron is just standing there stock-still, tears running down his face. At the same time the panels keep cutting away to HJ assaulting Captain Metropolis, showing little more than their faces and hands. Ultimately Ursula's death was this. With the perpetrator breaking in advancing on Gretchen and Ursula sleeping, and a final panel of her trying to defend Gretchen and holding out her hand in defense. A panel before only showed a limp bloody hand, and the word "Lesbian whores" written in their blood. The Liquidator also dies this way, with Sally hunting him down after he murdered Ursula. Ironically, his body was discovered with a limp bloody hand as well.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4b2c373	type	Impractically Fancy Outfit
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4b2c373	comment	Impractically Fancy Outfit: Hooded Justice: The Noose looks cool, but it serves as an easy thing to grab onto in a fight. When Comedian left, he used it to flip Justice over and subdue him and in issue #6 Hollis grabs onto it, breaking his neck. Lampshaded.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4c27e0e8	type	Temporary Love Interest
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4c27e0e8	comment	Temporary Love Interest: Rorschach gets (something resembling) a love interest in Nancy the waitress, for whom he seems to feel some kind of affection and whom he asks out on what is essentially a date. However, the date never happens, as Rorschach gets captured by Rawhead, while Nancy is assaulted by the Bard.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: As a boy, Edgar was bullied for his freakish appearance. His parents didn't even want to look at him as they raised him.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4d97e2b9	type	Urine Trouble
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4d97e2b9	comment	Urine Trouble: Bubastis pees on Adrian at one point.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Rorschach and Nite Owl don't work together anymore, and Dan doesn't get together with the Twilight Lady.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "You should go inside. It's cold. Oh, and at some point you should call the hospital. Looks like your father had a heart attack. I'd do it myself, but for some reason I just can't remember the phone number.''
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: The case at the end of Minutemen #2.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4f247a69	type	Adaptational Ugliness
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_4f247a69	comment	Adaptational Ugliness: While Edgar had been depicted as plain-looking, his Before Watchmen comic shows him as a borderline Gonk.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_51ecf708	type	Self-Disposing Villain
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_51ecf708	comment	Self-Disposing Villain: Attracted by the anonymity wearing Rorschach's mask gives him, Rawhead takes to the streets to beat up some looters who are taking advantage of the blackout. Unfortunately for him, he's not as good a fighter as Rorschach, and they unceremoniously beat him to death.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_52fbbe7	type	Yellow Peril
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_52fbbe7	comment	Yellow Peril: Japanese are considered the enemies as the war rages, and as it ends. When Eddie goes Solo he's seen killing armed Japanese gangsters. Two new heroes, Bluecoat and Scout, inform the heroes of a plot by bitter Japanese after the war ended. They all plan to blow up the Statue of Liberty, so they team up with the remainder of the Minutemen. Bluecoat and Scout are based on a fictional comic, where the titular heroes beat up the "evil Japanese." Turns out that the two are actually Japanese themselves, a father and son who had lost their wife/mother in the internment camps, and the boy's grandfather is starting the whole scheme. The two did not want so many people to die, so they teamed with the Minutemen to stop them, dressing as the all-American heroes lest they be distrusted.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5353bf39	type	With This Ring
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5353bf39	comment	With This Ring: In the reality where Jon never became Dr. Manhattan, he proposes to Janey by hiding a ring inside a stuffed bear he arranges for her to win at a carnival sideshow.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_53c3fa83	type	Granola Girl
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_53c3fa83	comment	Granola Girl: Some of Laurie's friends in issue #2, when they're not just classic hippies.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: "Lucky", Rawhead's main henchman who is more than able to match up Rorschach in a fistfight.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_545d100b	type	Intelligence Equals Isolation
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_545d100b	comment	Intelligence Equals Isolation: Adrian is too busy working out how to play the stock market to keep up with his girlfriend. During his childhood, his efforts to hide his intelligence lead to Adrian never making any friends.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_55232afa	type	Politically Incorrect Hero
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_55232afa	comment	Politically Incorrect Hero: Laurie is a product of her time — she thinks of herself as plenty liberated but has no qualms about calling two female Mooks she beats up nasty names. Understandable, as she's still a teenager and no one in Watchmen is exactly spotless in any way.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_557838d1	type	Adaptational Attractiveness
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_557838d1	comment	Adaptational Attractiveness: Darwin's stylistic art makes everyone look quite good. Ursula is better-looking and more feminine than her portrayal in the original Watchmen, Hooded Justice is drawn more super heroic with Irisless Eye Mask Of Mystery getting rid of his odd looking eyes sticking out from the hood. Young Eddie's downright handsome in the more cartoonish style.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_55d919f7	type	Lovecraft Lite
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_55d919f7	comment	Lovecraft Lite: An odd example; the plot and narration are practically dripping with Lovecraftian details (the implicit Sanity Slippage of Veidt himself, the recurring tentacle images foreshadowing his custom-made Eldritch Abomination from the end of the original story, the 1920s-style decor, machinery and architecture despite the story being set in the 1940s and 1950s), but there are no actual supernatural elements to be found.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_55ea5620	type	Cosmetically-Advanced Prequel
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_55ea5620	comment	Cosmetically-Advanced Prequel: Two and a half decades of improvements in the art department will do that for you.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_562abd51	type	Let's Get Dangerous!
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_562abd51	comment	Let's Get Dangerous!: Upon hearing about Silhouette's death Sally forgoes her stilettos, grabs some boots, a brass knuckle and a knife, and goes out to torture and kill the murderer, The Liquidator.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_590eb583	type	Domestic Abuse
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_590eb583	comment	Domestic Abuse: Dan's dad is abusive, in a direct reversal of the fanon sensibility that Adrian's parents were abusive Nazis and Dan's were ineffectual but well-meaning.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Deconstructed. Given that the superheroes do much of the real crime-fighting, the New York city council refuses to grant the police’s annual raise. This leads the police union to go on strike and the government to ultimately pass the Keene Act in response.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5a365ed2	type	Incompatible Orientation
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5a365ed2	comment	Incompatible Orientation: During their time in the Minuteman, Hollis would help Silhouette in her mission to finding and bringing down a Child-killer, both more interested in enforcing justice rather than working on their brand. They soon became friends and Hollis would develop feelings for her. When he decides to act upon these feelings, she awkwardly breaks it to him that she was in a relationship with Gretchen. While he does not hold it against them and is not bothered that his friends are homosexuals, he still harbored feelings that would eventually devastate him when they were both found murdered by the Liquidator.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: Hooded Justice isn't Rolf Mueler, and we never see his adult face outside of shadows (though we may have seen him as a child), and when he dies, Nelson demands that his mask stays on when he blows up the tower.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5aa8d3d8	type	Friendly Enemy
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5aa8d3d8	comment	Friendly Enemy: Eddie shares a moment with Moloch in issue #1, busting through his goons to face him, only to find Moloch crying over JFK's assassination. The two cease hostilities and stare in disbelief at the report, with Moloch giving Blake some liquor.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5ae357c1	type	Knight Templar Parent
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5ae357c1	comment	Knight Templar Parent: Sally really wants Laurie to succeed at being a superhero, even at the cost of Laurie's personal life. Laurie feels that Sally is projecting on her. The Comedian beats up and threatens to kill Greg if he doesn't break up with Laurie and join the military.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5c9caf26	type	Civvie Spandex
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5c9caf26	comment	Civvie Spandex: Laurie's first costume in issue #2 is in her iconic yellow-and-black colors, but it's just a skimpy Minidress of Power she asks one of her hippie friends to design for her rather than the layered, more identifiably costume-like outfit she will later wear.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5ec9f980	type	Drunk on the Dark Side
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5ec9f980	comment	Drunk on the Dark Side: Strangely inverted; Rawhead gets "Drunk on the light side" after putting on Rorschach's mask and deciding to go do some vigilantism.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5fc68f05	type	There Was a Door
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_5fc68f05	comment	There Was a Door: In #6, Rorschach and Nite-Owl smash their way through a barroom window, causing the Comedian to snark "Door was open, you morons..."
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_6238a13a	type	Marijuana Is LSD
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_6238a13a	comment	Marijuana Is LSD: Hashish doesn't make you trip balls, either! A little easier to buy if you think Adrian's "friend" slipped him something extra, or Veidt's already losing it.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: Rorschach has already adopted his clipped monotone and black-and-white worldview long before the events that triggered his breakdown in Watchmen proper.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_63389b0b	type	Kids Are Cruel
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_63389b0b	comment	Kids Are Cruel: During Edgar's childhood, Edgar included.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_657f77e4	type	Caught with Your Pants Down
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_657f77e4	comment	Caught with Your Pants Down: In issue #1, Rorschach kicks down the door on a crook while he is in a booth at an adult cinema.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_6860368a	type	Mook Horror Show
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_6860368a	comment	Mook Horror Show: Hooded Justice's debut involves him stalking two murderers after beating two others. He takes one out and advances threateningly, silently and visibly onto the final man as he drops his gun, begs and wets himself. HJ throws him out the window, and Hollis mentions that the crook's body smashed a car and coated the officer standing next to it. Said officer retired the next day.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_69df137	type	Fake Danger Gambit
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_69df137	comment	Fake Danger Gambit: Silk Spectre's pre-Minutemen superhero career consisted almost entirely of staged heroics by thwarting staged shop robberies using hired actors, which the stores usually go along with it for the free publicity, to raise her profile. Naturally, she resented teammate Silhouette, whose pre-Minutemen career consisted of hunting down pedophiles and rescuing children. The Minutemen succeed in stopping a criminal act, but rather than being Italian fascist saboteurs smuggling bombs, they blow up a warehouse full of smuggled fireworks. Nelly even holds up one of his armored car's own shells as proof the criminals were arms smugglers.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_6a42ef	type	Cynicism Catalyst
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_6a42ef	comment	Cynicism Catalyst: When Ursula was in Linz, she and her sister lived in the orphanage. She met Gretchen, her girlfriend, and prepared to flee with her, but found that her sister had been taken and murdered by a Nazi torturer. Since then she's become devoted to saving children from those who would do them harm, closing herself off from others in her crusade.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_6ba906f	type	Berserker Tears
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_6ba906f	comment	Berserker Tears: Byron has them in Minutemen #2. Ursula and Hollis follow the sound of crying because they think they're on the way to finding the abducted child they're seeking — and they do, just not alive. The person crying is Byron.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_71d1ee83	type	Coat, Hat, Mask
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_71d1ee83	comment	Coat, Hat, Mask: The nature of Ursula's costume, though whether it's a full redesign or simply her original costume before Lawrence made her over into something more sellable is debatable.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: That's the feeling Edgar got when coming face to face with Dr. Manhattan, who could do the amazing feats of power Edgar only could pretend to do with magic. He saw no possible way to outrun or defeat him, ending up in jail. The further conflicts he had with Ozymandias and The Comedian were pointless as long as Manhattan existed.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: The Bard, a maniac who murders women, strips them naked, carves faux-meaningful philosophical ramblings onto their corpses, and leaves them in public places to be found.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7374ab13	type	Once More, with Clarity
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7374ab13	comment	Once More, with Clarity: The Comedian reveals to Hollis that Hooded Justice was not Rolf Mueler, the child Serial Killer that Silhouette was searching for. The Comedian already killed him and then dressed up as Hooded Justice, so Nite Owl would go after HJ. The Comedian didn’t expect Nite Owl to kill HJ, but wasn’t sorry to see him dead.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: Silhoette's M.O. as a hero. After her sister and a bunch of their fellow orphans were brutally tortured and killed by the Nazis that took over their orphanage, she eventually took up vigilante crime-fighting, specifically targeting those involved child trafficking and child pornography, eventually joining the Minutemen with the hope that they would help her.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7570a10c	type	Bond Villain Stupidity
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7570a10c	comment	Bond Villain Stupidity: As a result of his inflated ego, Rawhead always decides to capture Rorschach and have fun with him rather than just kill him. Ironically this isn't what gets him killed, at least not directly.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_75c33176	type	Saved by Canon
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_75c33176	comment	Saved by Canon: Anyone who's alive in Watchmen is obviously not going to die or get permanently injured, no matter what it might look like.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_75fa8a59	type	All-American Face
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_75fa8a59	comment	All-American Face: Wearing the bank's colors and the Stars and Stripes.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_766de4dc	type	To Absent Friends
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_766de4dc	comment	To Absent Friends: Bill's reaction to hearing the news of Silhouette's death, drinking a toast for her journey to the afterlife; even though he thought God was punishing her for her orientation, he still thought of her as a loyal teammate.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_76c42cce	type	Pronouncing My Name for You
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_76c42cce	comment	Pronouncing My Name for You: In a conversation with Captain Metropolis, Adrian is asked if his name is pronounced Ozymandius or Ozymandius. He explains that while both are acceptable, he's always preferred Ozymandius.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_77ed6b7d	type	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_77ed6b7d	comment	Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: When Adrian's bullied by an older kid at school who steals his lunches, Adrian starts taking martial arts lessons... and uses them to calculatedly shatter the older boy's knee. When told that the other boy may never walk normally again, Adrian calmly says that it'll remind him not to repeat his transgressions later in life. (This seems to be a deliberate parallel with Walter Kovacs' childhood violence in the original Watchmen, except that Adrian has loving parents who can buy him out of trouble by paying to build the school a new library. Likewise, the grotesque splintering of the broken leg is reminiscent of the amped-up gore in the film adaptation.)
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_78540917	type	Like Brother and Sister
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_78540917	comment	Like Brother and Sister: At the end of his career, surrounded by dead friends and ones trapped by physiological problems, Hollis is still very close to Sally, becoming an "uncle" to her daughter Laurie. He admits he has few personal connections, but Sally and Laurie mean a lot to him.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_79a60aec	type	For Want of a Nail
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_79a60aec	comment	For Want of a Nail: In the first issue, Dr. Manhattan creates a universe where Jon Osterman never got turned into Dr. Manhattan. The second issue continues from there to Jon's and Janey's wedding, where a small decision (going to the left or right door) decides whether the Comedian or Ozymandias becomes part of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7aa989ea	type	Token Evil Teammate
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7aa989ea	comment	Token Evil Teammate: Eddie's not yet the bastard he'll grow up to be, but he's still pretty fresh-mouthed, and robs the crooks he apprehends. In his debut, he beats up a bunch of thugs in a bar, and then threatens the bartender for pickled eggs, which he then eats, knocks the old man out, and robs him. We also see the aftermath of him assaulting Sally.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7d163c9c	type	Dating Catwoman
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7d163c9c	comment	In Watchmen Dan described Twilight Lady to Laurie as being a sick woman with an obsession with him and misremembers her name as Dusk Woman, though given he kept her photo it's implied he was leaving out details. This comic explains they had a Dating Catwoman relationship that ended with her breaking up with him.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Hollis gives one to one of Laurie's hippie friends, saying that he had a responsibility to look after his friends and that he has no right to judge Sally for how she raised.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7db56b0b	type	Junkie Prophet
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7db56b0b	comment	Junkie Prophet: Adrian's desert vision is elaborated upon a bit in this.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7e081ea0	type	Slice of Life
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7e081ea0	comment	Slice of Life: Not entirely, since the costumed adventurer/civilian life tensions are still present, but this miniseries focuses more on Laurie and Sally as people and Laurie's coming of age.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7e74d66f	type	Politically Correct History
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7e74d66f	comment	Politically Correct History: Averted, within the first few pages of Minutemen #1 someone's getting casually called an antisemitic slur by a police officer. Likewise, the series touches on anti-gay prejudice with both the Silhouette and Hooded Justice/Nelson Gardner.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7eebe99c	type	The Alcoholic
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7eebe99c	comment	The Alcoholic: As in the original, Byron Lewis. Some of the reasons are brought to the fore — the sheer terrifying difficulty of doing what he did day in and day out (jump off of tall buildings, in the course of an already stressful career, and hope it worked, every single time) eventually broke him.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7fbb13bf	type	Unfriendly Fire
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7fbb13bf	comment	Unfriendly Fire: Eddie does this to his commanding officer in the Pacific during World War II.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Issue #1 is built on this, and it gives one to each and every member of the Minutemen, showing a promotional picture, and then their scene. Hooded Justice is big threatening and invokes a Mook Horror Show. Silk-Spectre is shown in a pin-up, and then shown taking down a crook, while Hollis narrates about how her manager hired an actor to play the crook, payed off the cops, and had a failing jewelry store get robbed to get publicity. Hollis debuts jumping onto an armored car, subduing the crooks, and causing it to flip over, right before jumping out and saving a mother and child from getting hit. Mothman debuts with a pan of his house, showing his wealth, accomplishments, and finally his alcohol, then, he's seen on a roof, looking all the way down, and drinking to get the courage to fly. Silhouette debuts jumping down the ledges on a building to stop a man carrying off a carpet. She catches him and takes quite a beating before slashing his chest and making him run off, before opening the carpet revealing an abused child, and telling him he's safe. Dollar Bill debuts on a movie advertisement, where he beats up some crooks, and encourages people to invest in the bank. Finally, Captain Metropolis debuts, with a pan of his estate, costumes, and technology, all as he talks about putting an ad in the paper to attract other heroes.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Issue #1 is a surprisingly touching mother/daughter narrative that's much more tender, even at its strained moments, than we see in Watchmen proper. And it looks like Laurie's biggest issues are all relatively low-key.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_82a64c4b	type	Adaptational Nice Guy
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_82a64c4b	comment	Adaptational Nice Guy: The Comedian is portrayed more sympathetically and altruistically than he was in the original comic.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_835f53f3	type	Pals with Jesus
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_835f53f3	comment	Pals with Jesus: Blake is shown to be loyal to the presidency (to the Kennedys in B.W. and Nixon in Watchmen proper) and even kills Marilyn Monroe on behalf of Jackie Kennedy. He's genuinely saddened when he hears that JFK was assassinated in Dallas, when he wasn't around.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_84fa1d7d	type	Disposable Woman
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_84fa1d7d	comment	Disposable Woman: Miranda in issue #1 is an example played relatively straight — she exists to be gorgeous redheaded eye candy, to reinforce Adrian being at least bisexual, if not straight, by way of her sexual voraciousness... and end up picturesquely dead in his bed from a drug overdose, compelling him to take down Moloch's drug ring.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_8543ec22	type	Reality Subtext
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_8543ec22	comment	Hollis complaining that Laurence cares more about the Minutemen's value as a brand, something he can sell off bit by bit and have readers -- er, civilians, eat up, than their integrity as a group.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Does Greg get back from Vietnam alive? We never know.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_86b21114	type	Badass Boast
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_86b21114	comment	Badass Boast: "So, crime fighter huh? Is that what you are? Nice to meet you. I am crime." Rawhead's first lines.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: The Minutemen, while they can fight well, they're very dysfunctional, and their relationships to each other varies from respect to apathy to outright hatred.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_8a9eb844	type	Perspective Flip
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_8a9eb844	comment	Perspective Flip: Issue no. 4 quite literally flips to show Ozymandias’s perspective on his conversation with Manhattan about the Alternate Universes Manhattan created and destroyed and Manhattan’s inability to fully see the future of the existing timeline. Ozymandias makes sure to keep his pulse calm, since Manhattan could hear any emotional reactions.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_8e0bedfe	type	Kid Sidekick
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_8e0bedfe	comment	Kid Sidekick: Dan wants to be this for Hollis, but Hollis resists taking him on due to his age and vulnerability, even after he's proved himself as technically apt for the job. Hollis does, however, train Dan to succeed him.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: Minutemen #4 is where the ball really drops: Silhouette is killed, Silk Spectre quits, Mothman's severe alcoholic problems increase, and Hooded Justice is revealed to have some connection to the child murders. The death of the boy who became Scout in #5. The revelations about Hooded Justice in #6.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_92264449	type	Jabba Table Manners
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_92264449	comment	Jabba Table Manners: Not quite so extreme, but Eddie shaking down a bartender for some pickled eggs and then wolfing them down is pretty gross.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9245d989	type	Sinister Minister
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9245d989	comment	Sinister Minister: Reverend Taylor Stone.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The Chairman has all the local enforcers, promoters, and cookers terminated when he packs up shop.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_96709930	type	Posthumous Narration
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_96709930	comment	Posthumous Narration: Bill does this after his funeral.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: What Hollis Mason decided to let Dan know about his past. Though it might be the stuff we read about in Minutemen.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_96cc4848	type	"Dear John" Letter
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_96e01893	type	Bodyguard Babes
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_96e01893	comment	Bodyguard Babes: The Chairman calls them the Shake Sisters.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Rawhead.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_977a6ec0	type	Girl Friday
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_977a6ec0	comment	Girl Friday: Marla. So much so that Ozy has her killed, because he fears she knows too much.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_99c36bb5	type	Ironic Nursery Tune
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9a158325	type	Gothic Horror
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9a158325	comment	Gothic Horror: Adrian's view of events during Ozymandias #1 have a distinct flavor of this, almost to the point of melodrama.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9b86a4f8	type	Nostalgic Narrator
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9b86a4f8	comment	Nostalgic Narrator: Hollis's opening narration displays him as such, but he's written the book to show that nostalgia or no, the truth needs to be known.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Despite being an actor, and afraid of getting shot, Bill follows Nite Owl and Hooded Justice into one of the banks he supported to fight the robbers. After that, he compares his experiences to playing football in college, and how the adrenaline got him going.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9c73b5b2	type	Let Them Die Happy
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9c73b5b2	comment	Let Them Die Happy: At the end, is told by Adrian everything he wished to accomplish with his plan and how he would do it. Edgar is happy to help the world in his own way, to participate in "the ultimate magic trick".
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: All over the damn place. One very good example is when Ursula tries rescuing the girl, and is shot, with the girl dying. She states that the girl is fading like a flickering light, with the image of Silhouette and the girl, small and featureless, in a flickering light-bulb foreshadowing her own death. When Ursula calls Hollis at the police box, a poster for the Bluecoat comics can be seen behind him, though the figure is wearing a red cape.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9d17b859	type	Made of Iron
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9d17b859	comment	Made of Iron: Rorschach is pretty roughed up by Rawhead's men, but he pushes on.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9d39440e	type	Right-Hand Attack Dog
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9d39440e	comment	Right-Hand Attack Dog: Rawhead has a tiger. Ironically it is used against him by Rorschach.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: The papers that Hollis gives Dan to read are probably, or at least possibly, a reference to the less honorable stuff that the Minutemen did in Minutemen.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9f00986d	type	Gut Punch
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9f00986d	comment	Gut Punch: In issue 4, the series hits the moment where the tone falls firmly into cynicism, more character deaths occur, and the team starts to lose membership in one way or another. Specifically the moment where Ursula and Gretchen die.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9fe35833	type	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Adrian shows his only gleam of genuinely off-guard emotion when he receives the news his parents have been killed. He also later sells a perfume made specifically to smell like his mother.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Hollis is horrified to realize that Hooded Justice, whom he killed, was innocent.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a1e5faab	type	Doomed by Canon
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a1e5faab	comment	Doomed by Canon: In one way or another, they're all bound to wind up dead or shells of their former selves by the time the main Watchmen series starts.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a29a7058	type	Not Quite Flight
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a29a7058	comment	Not Quite Flight: Byron's wings.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: The Chairman shoots Spades through his glasses in his right eye.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a5aad059	type	BulletProofHumanShield
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a5aad059	comment	Bullet Proof Human Shield: Averted. When Ursula rescues a child, she is shot, the bullet passes through her back and into the child's chest, killing her.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God: Manhattan is able to create and destroy Alternate Universes simply by imagining into and out of existence. And after the events of Watchmen, Manhattan goes on to create new lifeforms on another planet.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: The comic centers on a cast of some of the most minor characters in the series so this trope is a given. Dollar Bill had no lines in the original series, and Silhouette is given a fairly prominent role despite only saying one sentence in the comic. All the Minutemen get their personalities expanded upon.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: Played with When Ursula and Gretchen are killed they're given an unmarked grave by Byron's request as their deaths were a hate crime, he wanted to preserve their dignity, and not have anyone vandalize the burial. Sally even pays her respects, apologizing for treating Ursula with scorn, and reveals that she hunted down and executed her killer. Even Eddie appears to pay his respects. As time went on, Hollis mentions that despite all the good Ursula did in helping children, the tabloids turned her into a joke, and that's all the public really remembers.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a67b86a7	type	General Ripper
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a67b86a7	comment	General Ripper: Eddie revealed to have served under one in the war. After Eddie, and one of his troops, Greg survive their squadron's attack (by one sniper and a mine field), through the kindness of a native and her child, they report the attack to him. The General Orders the placed shelled against Eddie's protests. When Eddie tries to warn the woman, he comes too late, and finds her, disorientated, and severely burnt, with her child fused against her side. The General shoots her, in a mocking gesture of mercy. In true Comedian fashion he slits the general's throat with a Japanese Bayonet.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: In-Universe, when Jon sees many different realities from several decisions. Some include John F. Kennedy surviving his assassination attempt, JFK's assassin either being a successful Comedian or a thwarted Lee Harvey Oswald, to the Comedian with the Vietnamese woman and her newborn child, whose lives he spared.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: Averted, Edgar mentions he could have tried other faiths but was drawn to Catholicism for various reasons, like the Latin texts and a chance for redemption.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: The comics avert Politically Correct History, with slurs being commonly used while several characters are examples of Politically Incorrect Hero.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Rorschach is in top form.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Face–Heel Turn: A kinda hard one to spot, but the Iron Lid (wearing the armor and welding mask and carried a blow torch) showed up to audition for the minute men ("We burn them all, yes?"), later he's apparently become a bad guy and can be seen in the background getting beaten by Dollar Bill.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: The central theme of the story. For example, when the city blacks out, the city becomes chaotic and violent, and Rorscharch takes this as a statement of the city's nature.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_b1e81ef2	type	Dead-Hand Shot
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_b1e81ef2	comment	Dead-Hand Shot: How we see Ursula's death, via bloody slashed hand. The Liquidator's death is shown this way as well, seeing only his hand from the bathtub.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming of Age Story: Laurie clashes with her mother, experiences first love, gets her first boyfriend, and kicks the hell out of some crooks.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Two noticeable examples, though easily explained away by saying that Dan didn't feel like telling Laurie the true details and lied. In Watchmen Dan tells Laurie that he was surprised his father had left him his money after he died, having apparently been disappointed that he didn't go into banking like him. This comic reveals that he was an abusive man who had a heart attack when Dan was seventeen after beating his wife, with her and Dan choosing to wait until he was actually dead before calling an ambulance. In Watchmen Dan described Twilight Lady to Laurie as being a sick woman with an obsession with him and misremembers her name as Dusk Woman, though given he kept her photo it's implied he was leaving out details. This comic explains they had a Dating Catwoman relationship that ended with her breaking up with him.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_b64b1fc1	type	Left for Dead
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_b64b1fc1	comment	Left for Dead: Happens to Rorschach.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_b707726f	comment	Hypocritical Humor: Unintentionally, when the doctor has treated Laurie's friends who've overdosed on drugs, he tells her to stay safe and to stay away from harmful stuff like that, while he and the nurse light up cigarettes, probably unaware of its detrimental effects.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_b994e8cb	type	Understanding Boyfriend
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_b994e8cb	comment	Understanding Girlfriend: When Ursula is shot, the first person she goes to is her girlfriend.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser:
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_bc281366	type	Costume Copycat
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_bc281366	comment	Costume Copycat: Rawhead takes Rorschach's mask and goes out to fight crime in it.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Comedian #1 tries to nudge Eddie from a Type IV/V situation into a Type III.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_c2c80ef	type	Neck Lift
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_c2c80ef	comment	Silhouette's first appearance has her descend a building by jumping on ledges to get to a large man carrying a kid in a carpet. When she gets to the ground, the guy uses her momentum against her by punching her in the face. When he runs off, he waits behind a corner to blindside her and then kick her in the face while she's down, and then Neck Lift her. She is close enough to slash and kick him, and he runs after that.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_c2d6fc5e	type	Murder by Inaction
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_c2d6fc5e	comment	Murder by Inaction: Mrs. Dreiberg doesn’t call 911 when her abusive husband has a heart attack … because she can’t remember the number.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_c313d43a	type	True Companions
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_c313d43a	comment	True Companions: At least for now, Laurie's housemates and traveling companions.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: How Hollis regards Dollar Bill, in spite of his Politically Incorrect Hero status, Hollis calls him a friend and mourns his passing in issue #5 Hollis himself is also one. He takes time off during his beat to help an Italian family with getting the car to start, even giving a kid his hat to play with. He mentions that after that they "thought he was alright for an Irishman." He mentions the wife of the guy he helped helped him pick out flowers, and he went looking for her son when he was taken.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Hey, a HJ/Nelly sex scene! Hey, uh, what are you doing there, Justice?
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Kid Adrian has a poster of The Thing from Outer Space on his bedroom wall.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: Rorschach's torturing a man while a porn movie plays.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_cfdb9e17	type	Cerebus Syndrome
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_cfdb9e17	comment	Cerebus Syndrome: The first issues have some really funny moments. The latter issues are noticeably darker.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d01b1c12	type	Opaque Lenses
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d01b1c12	comment	Opaque Lenses: Gretchen in the present day, looking more stoic. Larry has them as well.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: The comic is in black-and-white.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d280a296	type	Teen Genius
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d280a296	comment	Teen Genius: Dan is a really smart kid.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: Rawhead's tiger end up being used against him.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Sally gives one to Captain Metropolis and Hooded Justice after they all voted Silhouette off, and she was killed as a result. She then quits.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d7bc08e9	type	Superhero Packing Heat
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d7bc08e9	comment	Superhero Packing Heat: Silhouette dual wields pistols as part of her ensemble all the time. In issue #5, Captain Metropolis shows that he has several automatic weapons and handguns, and he, Hooded Justice, Nite Owl, Mothman, and Bluecoat all take up arms.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d7c45a19	type	Cape Snag
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d7c45a19	comment	Cape Snag: Played for Drama, as the end of the comic shows Bill's last moments and thoughts during the events that lead up to his death.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d83f3588	type	Depending on the Artist
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_d83f3588	comment	Depending on the Artist: Those art styles and ideas differ on some designs. Moloch looks like a regular person in Comedian, but in his series he Looks Like Orlok, and Silhouette has a redesign in Minutemen and Dollar Bill, but her single-panel appearance in Moloch has her design from Watchmen.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Laurie, even more so than in Watchmen proper.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_db15f008	type	ReallySeventeenYearsOld
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_db15f008	comment	Really 17 Years Old: Hey, Eddie's old enough to bust crooks he's old enough to have a beer, right?
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_db38d6ca	type	Torture Technician
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_db38d6ca	comment	Torture Technician: Both Rorschach and Lucky.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: The child killer's identity was implied to be the man from Ursula's past. Hooded Justice was the prime suspect; he wore a hood and similar colors. Numerous hints were dropped that he at least had some connection to the case. The true culprit being Rolf Müller (who was the man from her past), with Eddie pointing out the Fridge Logic of him not being Justice, given the age difference.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_dc3e598c	type	LittleProfessorDialogue
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_dc3e598c	comment	Little Professor Dialogue: Adrian as a kid falls into this trope headfirst. It's incredibly creepy.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Silhouette calls Hollis Mr. Owl or Mr. Nite-Owl, more as a formality. As they get to know each other, she calls him Mr. Hollis, and later, more affectionately, Mr. Silly, or silly man. When delirious from blood loss, she calls him Mister Angel.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_df7e9c0	type	Obligatory Bondage Song
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_df7e9c0	comment	Obligatory Bondage Song: One of the alternate covers for Ozymandias #2 has Adrian being somewhat suggestively strangled by a strange woman in costume.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e0040f41	type	Start of Darkness
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e0040f41	comment	Start of Darkness: Well, in Veidt's eyes, it's this.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e031b7ef	type	Slave to PR
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e031b7ef	comment	Slave to PR: Sally refuses to help with depressing cases, because she wants the team's name (and her own) to be associated with happy, triumphant things in the minds of the public: Gang bosses, terrorists, or some new super-villain named... Moloch.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e1fa333c	type	Hannibal Lecture
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e1fa333c	comment	Hannibal Lecture: Eddie turns the meeting that's meant to be his official dismissal from the Minutemen (for sexually assaulting Sally) into an opportunity to beat up HJ and accuse the rest of them as being just as bad as he is.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e292f761	type	Obligatory Swearing
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e292f761	comment	Obligatory Swearing: Shove it up it!
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e36de06c	type	Combat Stilettos
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e36de06c	comment	Combat Stilettos: Sally has them, until her Let's Get Dangerous! moment. Silhouette's silhouette had the appearance of them, as it was Juxtaposed with a cover of Vogue which she appeared on, implying a fashion motif, but upon getting into a fight reveals that they're regular boots.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: In the final scene, Laurie's thoughts about the other heroes during the Crimebusters meeting.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e3cd6ed7	type	Rejecting the Inheritance
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e3cd6ed7	comment	Rejecting the Inheritance: Adrian gives up his inheritance so he can be a truly Self-Made Man.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e43c66bd	type	Art Evolution
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e43c66bd	comment	Art Evolution: Each miniseries is in a different art style from each of the others, as well as from the detailed but utilitarian art of the original Watchmen.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Silhouette's first appearance has her descend a building by jumping on ledges to get to a large man carrying a kid in a carpet. When she gets to the ground, the guy uses her momentum against her by punching her in the face. When he runs off, he waits behind a corner to blindside her and then kick her in the face while she's down, and then Neck Lift her. She is close enough to slash and kick him, and he runs after that. Mothman's a determinator too. His original tests resulted in some pretty bad breaks. He continued on, still wanting to help people, but always living with the fear of falling, dying and all of his trust in a machine which had let him down before.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e807c3ec	type	Levitating Lotus Position
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_e807c3ec	comment	Levitating Lotus Position: Veidt, on one of the covers of issue #1.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Laurie removes her boot from a criminal's throat when he complains he can't breathe, but pins him down by kneeling on his junk. When he complains about it, she retorts that she can kneel harder.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Nite Owl and Rorschach both pull one.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_edfb8d92	type	The Generation Gap
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_edfb8d92	comment	The Generation Gap: Personified between Sally Juspeczyk, who hit the peak of her career in the 40s and never recovered, and Laurie, who's coming to adolescence at just the right time to acutely feel all the social changes of the 60s.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_eeb86ce6	type	Good Samaritan
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_eeb86ce6	comment	Good Samaritan: In WW2, Eddie's viewpoint is challenged when he almost gets killed in the pacific islands by a mine. A local woman and her son rescue Eddie, and Greg, and she and Greg carry Eddie back to patch him up. After he and Greg report to camp the general has the area she lived in shelled.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_f31926c2	type	Expendable Alternate Universe
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_f31926c2	comment	Expendable Alternate Universe: All the Alternate Universes Dr. Manhattan creates end in nuclear war, so he more safely destroys them all by thinking them out of existence.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_f3d5d15f	type	Creepy Child
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_f3d5d15f	comment	Creepy Child: Walter in #4.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: The Mooks with the card suits on their faces try this, but Laurie outclasses them, The Chairman and Hollis play this straight.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_f6f2ff1	type	Insult Backfire
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_f6f2ff1	comment	Insult Backfire: The Twilight Lady responds to Rorschach calling her a whore by remarking that he says it like it's a bad thing.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_f75cf3bd	type	Terrible Interviewees Montage
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_f75cf3bd	comment	Terrible Interviewees Montage: The auditions for the Minutemen. The hopefuls range from amusingly ineffectual (Liberty Lassy, a cheerful Statue of Liberty-themed triple threat who can cook a mean brisket) to strange (Iron Lid, a crimefighter in a welder's mask and metal armor who wants to burn crooks with fire, and The Slut, a perfectly ordinary-looking woman who likes to take her clothes off and do...stuff) to just sad (Hank, an overweight man in a dirty sweatshirt with a bucket on his head who's "just Hank").
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_f7d4f121	type	Mushroom Samba
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_f7d4f121	comment	Mushroom Samba: Laurie and her friends get drugged in issue 3, and she proceeds to talk to her now triangular three legged cat. Then she talks to the skeleton of the bird she left at home, which she thinks has starved, then she argues with Larry, her supposed father, sees a hallucination of Hooded Justice, then a bunch of her possible fathers, and so on and so forth. The panels get wavey, and soon turn into a spiral to reflect her state of mind.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_f85354eb	type	Attempted Rape
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_f85354eb	comment	Attempted Rape: A gang of playing-card-themed criminals Laurie takes down seem to have designs on this, or something worse; it makes the ass-kicking they receive particularly brutal.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_fab3b838	type	Everything Is Racist
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_fab3b838	comment	Everything Is Racist: A black guy working in a diner misinterprets a comment by a female cacuasian workmate.
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_fdc83c2c	type	Dead Hat Shot
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_fdc83c2c	comment	Dead Hat Shot: A non-drowning example in Issue #6 we see a flashback of Ursula's death with her hat turned upside down, and her bed in the back.
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