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Before Watchmen (Comic Book)
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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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Retired Badass | |
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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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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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Subliminal Seduction | |
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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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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: In issue #2, we meet a band that resembles The Beatles. | |
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Hero Stage Show | |
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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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Rape as Drama | |
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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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Scenery Censor: The first cover already features this. In the actual comic his penis is shown (but never erect). | |
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Amazingly Embarrassing Parents | |
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Backstory Horror: | |
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Does This Remind You of Anything? | |
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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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Where It All Began | |
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Where It All Began: This is the story of the Minutemen. | |
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Sex, Drugs and Rock & Roll | |
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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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Opaque Nerd Glasses | |
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Opaque Nerd Glasses: Byron. Gretchen in her flashback. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Travis Bickle comes to Rorschach's aid in issue two. | |
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Looks Like Orlok | |
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Looks Like Orlok: Moloch's appearance is exaggerated compared to his appearance in the original comic. | |
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Ãœbermensch | |
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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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Who Shot JFK? | |
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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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Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off! | |
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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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Crimefighting with Cash | |
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Crimefighting with Cash: Dan uses the inheritance from his father to pay for Archimedes and his Nite Owl gadgets. | |
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Knight in Sour Armor | |
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Knight in Sour Armor: In #4, Rorschach makes it clear that he considers himself to be one. | |
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Alpha Bitch | |
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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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Adaptation Expansion | |
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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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Ascended Fanboy | |
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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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Heel–Faith Turn | |
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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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Mythology Gag | |
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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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Alliterative Title | |
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Alliterative Title: Every main word of the title starts with C. | |
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Spiritual Successor | |
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Spiritual Successor: To Curse of the Black Freighter, of course. | |
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Walking the Earth | |
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Walking the Earth: Adrian, in the footsteps of Alexander the Great. | |
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Stage Mom | |
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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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Bury Your Gays | |
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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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Bring My Brown Pants | |
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Bring My Brown Pants: The guy Hooded Justice advances on in the first issue wets himself. | |
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Ambiguously Jewish | |
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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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Bondage Is Bad | |
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Bondage Is Bad: Twilight Lady makes an appearance as a...negligent dominatrix supervillainess. | |
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Sophisticated as Hell | |
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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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False Flag Operation | |
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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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Nominal Hero | |
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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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Even Evil Has Standards | |
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Even Evil Has Standards: Rolf Muller was kicked out of the Nazi party because he was too sick for them. | |
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Kick the Son of a Bitch | |
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Kick The Son Of A Bitch: Rorshach kills Taylor Stone with his signature "The End Is Nigh" sign. | |
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Distant Finale | |
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Distant Finale: The epilogue jumps forward five years, to Rorschach finally punishing the Bard for his attack on Nancy. | |
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Loved by All | |
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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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TheSixties | |
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The '60s: The comic takes place in 1966, several months before she become Silk Spectre and attends the Crimebusters meeting. | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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The Hero Dies: Bill was Doomed by Canon. Bill's funeral is featured at the end of the story. | |
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Former Regime Personnel | |
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Former Regime Personnel: Rawhead and his crew are former Vietnam veterans turned to crime. | |
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Foregone Conclusion | |
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Foregone Conclusion: You know that no matter what happens, Rorschach and Nite Owl will survive safe and sound. | |
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Warts and All | |
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Warts and All: Hollis is writing the book to show what the team was really like, in success and in failure. This becomes a running motif, things like comics and other idealized drawings contrasting how the team really functioned, and ultimately failed. | |
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Feeling Their Age | |
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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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Humans Are Bastards | |
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Humans Are Bastards: The underlying theme of the story. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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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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Son of a Whore | |
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Daughter of the Town Tramp: Laurie gets a lot of flak from her classmates for the fact that her mother was once a sultry pinup girl featured in Tijuana Bibles and sleazy B-movies. | |
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Parental Substitute | |
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Parental Substitute: Hollis was the closest thing to a Father Laurie had. | |
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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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Bittersweet Ending | |
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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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Killed to Uphold the Masquerade | |
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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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Tagalong Kid | |
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Tagalong Kid: Subverted; while young, Eddie is far from useless, and good luck trying to kidnap him. | |
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Light Feminine and Dark Feminine | |
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Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Sally is a glamorous, strawberry-blonde all-American girl who's happy to take the credit for a few busted crooks but doesn't like to get her hands dirty. Ursula is a trenchcoat-wearing, raven-haired Jewish lesbian immigrant, capable of real ruthlessness but deep compassion. | |
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Road Trip Plot | |
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Road Trip Plot: | |
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Scenery Porn | |
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Scenery Porn: It's a Lee Bermejo comic. What else did you expect? | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
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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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Impractically Fancy Outfit | |
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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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Break the Cutie | |
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Break the Cutie: It's quite a shock to see Nelson Gardner, previously a neurotic wreck in Watchmen proper, as a fit and self-assured younger man. His relationship with HJ probably had a lot to do with it. Byron is following a similar downward trajectory. | |
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Temporary Love Interest | |
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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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All of the Other Reindeer | |
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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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Urine Trouble | |
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Urine Trouble: Bubastis pees on Adrian at one point. | |
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Downer Ending | |
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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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Wham Line | |
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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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Wham Shot | |
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Wham Shot: The case at the end of Minutemen #2. | |
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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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Self-Disposing Villain | |
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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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Yellow Peril | |
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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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With This Ring | |
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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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Granola Girl | |
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Granola Girl: Some of Laurie's friends in issue #2, when they're not just classic hippies. | |
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The Dragon | |
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The Dragon: "Lucky", Rawhead's main henchman who is more than able to match up Rorschach in a fistfight. | |
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Intelligence Equals Isolation | |
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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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Politically Incorrect Hero | |
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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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Adaptational Attractiveness | |
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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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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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Cosmetically-Advanced Prequel | |
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Cosmetically-Advanced Prequel: Two and a half decades of improvements in the art department will do that for you. | |
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Let's Get Dangerous! | |
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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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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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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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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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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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Friendly Enemy | |
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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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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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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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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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There Was a Door | |
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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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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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Plot Hole | |
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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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Kids Are Cruel | |
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_63389b0b | comment |
Kids Are Cruel: During Edgar's childhood, Edgar included. | |
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Caught with Your Pants Down | |
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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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Mook Horror Show | |
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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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Fake Danger Gambit | |
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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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Cynicism Catalyst | |
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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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Berserker Tears | |
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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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Coat, Hat, Mask | |
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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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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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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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Once More, with Clarity | |
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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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Friend to All Children | |
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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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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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Saved by Canon | |
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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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All-American Face | |
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All-American Face: Wearing the bank's colors and the Stars and Stripes. | |
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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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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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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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Like Brother and Sister | |
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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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For Want of a Nail | |
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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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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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Dating Catwoman | |
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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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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"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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Junkie Prophet | |
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Junkie Prophet: Adrian's desert vision is elaborated upon a bit in this. | |
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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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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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The Alcoholic | |
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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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Unfriendly Fire | |
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Unfriendly Fire: Eddie does this to his commanding officer in the Pacific during World War II. | |
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Establishing Character Moment | |
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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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How We Got Here | |
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How We Got Here | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Karmic Death | |
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_90d44f44 | comment |
Karmic Death: Rawhead is beaten to death by some looters while attempting to play at being Rorschach. | |
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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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Sinister Minister | |
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Sinister Minister: Reverend Taylor Stone. | |
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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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Posthumous Narration | |
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_96709930 | comment |
Posthumous Narration: Bill does this after his funeral. | |
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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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"Dear John" Letter | |
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_96cc4848 | comment |
"Dear John" Letter: The Comedian forces Greg to write one to Laurie and then join the Marines. | |
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Bodyguard Babes | |
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_96e01893 | comment |
Bodyguard Babes: The Chairman calls them the Shake Sisters. | |
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Big Bad | |
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Big Bad: Rawhead. | |
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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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Ironic Nursery Tune | |
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_99c36bb5 | comment |
Ironic Nursery Tune: Minutemen #2 uses Robert Louis Stevenson's poem "The Unseen Playmate" juxtaposed with a child going missing at the fairground and the frantic search for him. Ursula seems to have it in her notes about finding the kids, and it may be connected to Hooded Justice. | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas | |
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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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My God, What Have I Done? | |
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My God, What Have I Done?: Hollis is horrified to realize that Hooded Justice, whom he killed, was innocent. | |
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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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Not Quite Flight | |
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Not Quite Flight: Byron's wings. | |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 |
Face–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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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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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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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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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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Genius Bruiser | |
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_bbf11c0 | comment |
Genius Bruiser: | |
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_bbf11c0 | |
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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_c2c80ef | |
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_c313d43a | |
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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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_c75df49a | |
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 | |
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_ca7ec334 | comment |
Two Lines, No Waiting: Rawhead's gang as the A-plot; the Bard as the B-plot. | |
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Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_cb70651c | type |
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane | |
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_cb70651c | comment |
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: In-Universe, Edgar admits that some of his henchmen believed he had real magic powers, while some thought it was illusion. He was only using smoke and mirrors, and later advanced technology to achieve his feats. | |
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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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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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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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Action Girl | |
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_dae5c997 | comment |
Action Girl: Laurie, even more so than in Watchmen proper. | |
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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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Torture Technician | |
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_db38d6ca | comment |
Torture Technician: Both Rorschach and Lucky. | |
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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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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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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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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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Start of Darkness | |
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Start of Darkness: Well, in Veidt's eyes, it's this. | |
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Slave to PR | |
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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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Hannibal Lecture | |
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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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Obligatory Swearing | |
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Obligatory Swearing: Shove it up it! | |
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Combat Stilettos | |
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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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Call-Forward | |
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Call-Forward: In the final scene, Laurie's thoughts about the other heroes during the Crimebusters meeting. | |
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Rejecting the Inheritance | |
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Rejecting the Inheritance: Adrian gives up his inheritance so he can be a truly Self-Made Man. | |
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Art Evolution | |
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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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Determinator | |
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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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Levitating Lotus Position | |
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Levitating Lotus Position: Veidt, on one of the covers of issue #1. | |
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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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Big Damn Heroes | |
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Big Damn Heroes: Nite Owl and Rorschach both pull one. | |
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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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Good Samaritan | |
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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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Expendable Alternate Universe | |
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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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Creepy Child | |
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Creepy Child: Walter in #4. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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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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Insult Backfire | |
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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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Terrible Interviewees Montage | |
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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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Mushroom Samba | |
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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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Attempted Rape | |
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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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Everything Is Racist | |
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Everything Is Racist: A black guy working in a diner misinterprets a comment by a female cacuasian workmate. | |
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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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Dark and Troubled Past | |
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Dark and Troubled Past: Ursula fled from the Nazis after they murdered her sister Blanche. Hooded Justice also seems to have one, because after he broke into her apartment, he could be seen waking up crying and screaming Nein. | |
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Doting Parent | |
Before Watchmen (Comic Book) / int_ff251a68 | comment |
Doting Parent: Not to the comical extreme to which this trope is usually played, but Adrian's parents are wealthy perfumers who seem proud of their son and overall pleasant. Even when buying off his school to keep them from expelling him over permanently disabling another student. | |
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Pet the Dog | |
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Pet the Dog: Ursula is hardly a villain, but she's still closed-off and none too friendly with her fellow masked adventurers. She goes out of her way to combat child abuse and child trafficking in particular — it's not glamorous compared to catching wartime saboteurs and stopping bank robberies, but somebody has to think of the children. She also considers Hollis and Byron her friends. | |
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