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Watchmen is the 2009 Film Adaptation of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen, directed by Zack Snyder.After almost 20 years in development limbo (including a script by David Hayter, a.k.a. Solid Snake, and not one, but two attempts by Terry Gilliam), the movie was eventually made and released, using a script by Alex Tse which preserves some of Hayter's elements.The story follows the comic really closely, with dialogue and scenes lifted shot-for-shot at times. There are only a handful of alterations, much of it removing excess backstory and subplots to streamline the story, with the primary change being key elements of the villains' plan at the end. That makes it probably the most accurate adaptation of an Alan Moore comic (with the possible exception of the Justice League episode "For the Man Who Has Everything") and one of the most comics-accurate adaptations ever made overall.This page is for movie-only tropes — most will be on the main Watchmen page. Similarly, movie-specific character tropes go here. | |
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Hotter and Sexier: Laurie's costume is tighter and much more revealing than it was in the book. The pudgy, homely Dan Dreiberg is played by a good-looking actor. And the sex scene in the owlship is much more explicit than anything Dave Gibbons ever drew. | |
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Age Lift: Sally and Eddie had their Minutemen-era ages lifted for the film, as Gugino and Morgan could not convincingly play the characters that young. Sally went from being 19 to being 25, while Eddie changed from 16 to 19 in early screenplay drafts before they settled on him being 22. Other ages and dates were tweaked a bit, as revealed in supplementary materials. In a broad sense the main cast are played by actors in their 30s while they are supposed to be in their mid-40s in the present day. It was a necessary deal since so much of the story features flashbacks to decades in the past, rather than trying to subtly portray the age differences of 25-45 they maintained a standard appearance throughout the film. This contrasts the older heroes, who are seen in various stages between their 20s and their 70s using make-up. | |
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I Was Quite a Looker: The first Silk Spectre's problem. | |
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Creator Cameo: Zack Snyder has a cameo as one of the American soldiers behind the Comedian in the Vietnam War scene. | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed | |
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No Celebrities Were Harmed: Completely and utterly averted. Among others, we see John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Leonid Brezhnev, Fidel Castro, Henry Kissinger, Lee Iacocca, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, the Village People, and John McLaughlin. This all works to demonstrate the Alternate Universe setting. | |
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The Artifact | |
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The Artifact: Bubastis, Ozymandias's genetically engineered pet, is only introduced right toward the end, and is only really there long enough to be vaporized. In the graphic novel, she was important in that her existence foreshadowed Ozymandias's genetic engineering and the giant alien squid vagina monster. But since that was taken out, Bubastis has little purpose. | |
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Crucified Hero Shot | |
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Crucified Hero Shot: When Dr. Manhattan first materialize in the institution's cafeteria, he takes on that pose. | |
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Scenery Censor: Very noticeably averted with Doctor Manhattan's nudity. | |
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Heroic BSoD | |
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Heroic BSoD: Dr. Manhattan has one when he thinks that he caused the death of many of his old friends and soon his old girlfriend by giving them cancer. | |
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Trailers Always Spoil | |
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Trailers Always Spoil: Several of the trailers show scenes that tip off the reveal for anyone with even a passing familiarity with the characters. The fans of the comic also have no compunction about dropping major plot points. Said fans include a major webcomic. This is because a lot of the comic's power came from the fact that the plot points were stupidly obvious. Like, if you missed the fact that Ozymandias was going to be the main villain you just weren't paying attention. And it worked anyway. | |
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Darker and Edgier: The film has way more blood and tits than the book. Of course, the book was considerably darker and edgier than its contemporary comics, so exaggerating it for the film is something of a Pragmatic Adaptation. | |
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Hitler Ate Sugar | |
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Hitler Ate Sugar: Averted, where Rorschach uses the valid logic associated with this trope: | |
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All There in the Manual | |
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All There in the Manual: The Under the Hood featurette included in home media releases shows some information about the setting, particularly concerning the history of the Minutemen, one wouldn't know just from watching the film (which is rather appropriate, as excerpts from Hollis Mason's book served a similar purpose as back-up material in the original comic). | |
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Visionary Villain | |
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Visionary Villain: Ozymandias and his vision of world peace bought at a terrible price. | |
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Title Drop | |
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Title Drop: In the graffiti, as in the comic; and in the name of the super-team-that-never-was (which in the comic was called "the Crimebusters"). | |
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Never Trust a Trailer | |
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Never Trust a Trailer: The trailer for the film made it look like a (relatively) typical superhero movie. Hence the number of parents who mistook it for kid-friendly material. | |
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Death by Origin Story | |
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Death by Origin Story: The film has a bit of subtle fun with the Batman ur-example: the very first "still" in the title sequence shows the first Nite Owl punching out the would-be killer of Bruce Wayne's parents! | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: If anything there is A LOT of male nudity in this movie, A LOT! | |
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Freak Lab Accident | |
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Freak Lab Accident: The accident that creates Dr. Manhattan. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: When Nite Owl and Silk Spectre rescue Rorschach from the prison riot, he states he has to go to the "little men's room", then enters the bathroom in which Big Figure tried to hide. | |
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Fingore: Rorschach's bone-snapping interrogation methods. In the director's cut, Veidt's secretary's fingers are shot off by the assassin hired by Veidt to kill Veidt. | |
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Who Shot JFK? | |
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Who Shot JFK?: The opening credit sequence reveals that it was The Comedian, from the grassy knoll of course. | |
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Bloodier and Gorier | |
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Thanks to the Bloodier and Gorier aesthetic, Dan and Laurie end up mutilating and killing criminals (where in the comic they would leave them with non-permanent injuries at most). This brings their methods much closer to Rorschach's and undermines what Moore intended by creating costumed heroes of differing levels of violence and compassion. | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: The world seen from Rorschach's viewpoint. | |
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Fake American | |
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Fake American: An in-Universe example is Ozymandias adopting a very convincing American accent in public and slipping into a German one in private, both provided by English actor Matthew Goode. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
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Chekhov's Gun: The "free energy" on which Manhattan and Adrian are working. And a few others. The narration itself, when collected into Rorschach's journal and delivered to the right-wing newspaper. | |
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Adaptation Expansion | |
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Adaptation Expansion: The fight scenes in the comic were shown only in a few panels and very bluntly, which the film elaborates into extended fights, notably the opening which shows Eddie Blake battling the prowler who kills him, and Nite Owl I fighting back the rioters which he didn't have time to do. The film also provides Rorschach a more cathartic finish with Nite Owl getting to witness Rorschach's death scene and punching Adrian Veidt for his utopia. | |
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Ironic Echo | |
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Ironic Echo: Dan finally calls out Rorschach on his Anti-Hero Jerkass behavior, yet later on it's Rorschach who has to rein in Dan when he finds out that Hollis Mason was killed. Rorschach asks his shrink as he puts on his mask, "What do you see?" The opening montage showed among other things, Hollis Mason (Nite Owl I) beating up a mugger. The deleted scene of his death also showed a montage of him beating up criminals. | |
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer | |
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Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer: There is very little footage of Ozymandias in any of the film's trailers. This is because 90% of his scenes are after he is revealed as The Chessmaster. | |
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Genre Deconstruction | |
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Genre Deconstruction: Snyder said his intention wasn't to translate the comics deconstruction of comic book conventions to comic book movies, but by its nature elements of this certainly crept in. Rorschach's voice is about the most extreme Private Eye Monologue you can imagine, especially as this movie was made in the wake of The Dark Knight and talk of Christian Bale's absurdly low and scratchy Batman voice. The costumes of the 1940s heroes are generally made of cloth and leather while the 1980s heroes wear latex and rubber suits, which reflects the changing pattern of Hollywood superhero costumes. Ozymandias outfit in particular has sculpted nipples, a reference to the infamous designs in Batman & Robin. The violence level is also ramped up. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The Comedian's death. Ozymandias hands Rorschach, Nite Owl and Silk Spectre their asses near the end of the film. And then, unlike in the graphic novel, a guilt-ridden Ozymandias allows Nite Owl to return the favor after Rorschach's death, with a resigned, blank expression. | |
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Turn the Other Cheek | |
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Turn the Other Cheek: Veidt, of all people, when he willingly allows Dan to beat him until he's bruised, bleary-eyed and bleeding, as an implicit admission of guilt and self-loathing over what he did. | |
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Mythology Gag | |
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Mythology Gag: The supplemental movie material shows Rorschach's mask becomes completely blank, followed by a question mark. This is presumably a reference to his being an Expy of the Charlton comics character The Question. (Moore had originally wanted to use the actual Charlton characters, which had been acquired by DC a couple years previously, but the company didn't let him, hence, the Expys.) In the film, the sharp-eyed viewer can see that the name of the Veidt/Manhattan collaboration has the initials S.Q.U.I.D.. | |
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Shoot the Shaggy Dog | |
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In the intro, there's a brief scene of a bunch of hippies protesting Nixon, facing off against some National Guardsmen pointing guns at them. One of them puts a flower into the barrel of one of the National Guardsmen's rifles, and the camera focuses in on the gun so much we can no longer see the hippies. Then all the guns go off... It's Most likely a reference to the Kent State shootings. With this famous photograph of a different protest. | |
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Non-Indicative Name: Even though the Crimebusters have their name changed to prevent confusion, "The Watchmen" are still not the protagonists of the film. They were a proposed superhero team that never actually formed. Practically all of the characters are solo vigilantes. | |
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Real Footage Re-creation | |
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Real Footage Re-creation: The film recreates the assassination of President Kennedy based on footage such as the Zapruder Film. | |
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Easter Egg | |
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Easter Egg: Lots. Veidt's disk has a folder titled "Boys". Veidt's TV wall is full of easter eggs, including "300 Spartans", a porn movie, Apple's famous "1984" commercial, a Marvin the Martian cartoon (possibly a reference to Dr. Manhattan's fate), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior and a MacGyver episode (the man climbing the parachute, MacGyver possibly referring to Ozy himself). In the opening sequence, Nite Owl I appears to save the Waynes in front of a wall of Batman posters outside the Gotham Opera House. Dreiberg has a copy of Watchmen on his desk. Captain Metropolis and Hooded Justice can be seen staring at each other adoringly in the retirement scene from the intro. It was mentioned in passing in the original comic that those two were secretly lovers. Veidt's Watchmen toyline is made up of the real-life action figures released by DC Direct. However, the ones in the movie are painted in brighter, comic accurate colors. The pirate comic can be seen briefly. | |
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Bury Your Gays | |
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Bury Your Gays: Silhouette, who kisses a nurse on V-Day, while a sailor in uniform glances at them and walks by. They strike up a relationship and are eventually found murdered for it. The newspaper lying on the bed with them states she was also kicked out of the Minutemen for it. Which is odd, since there was a gay couple in the Minutemen (though they may not have been "out" yet). | |
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Readings Are Off the Scale | |
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Readings Are Off the Scale: The Antarctica reactor. | |
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Listing the Forms of Degenerates | |
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Listing the Forms of Degenerates: Rorschach does this early on... | |
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Ax-Crazy | |
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Also ironically, in the deleted scene where Nite Owl finds out about Hollis Mason's murder, he beats a member of the gang responsible so hard the guy loses teeth... and Rorschach is the one who tells him to stop — because they're in public (he probably wouldn't have objected if there hadn't been an audience). | |
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Contemplative Boss | |
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Contemplative Boss: Veidt assumes this pose in his Antarctic palace (or while receiving the corporate tycoons in his office). | |
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The Bad Guy Wins | |
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The Bad Guy Wins: Adrian Veidt and his plan to kill millions of people. | |
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Thou Shalt Not Kill | |
Watchmen / int_2f94135c | comment |
Thou Shalt Not Kill: Rarely for a superhero/comicbook movie, completely averted by the heroes. Dr. Manhattan has a habit of exploding everyone from petty crimebosses to Vietcong, Rorschach is... Rorschach, and even Dan and Laurie have no problems jamming knives into peoples' necks during a bit fight scene. | |
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Lipstick Lesbian | |
Watchmen / int_312b02ac | comment |
Lipstick Lesbian: Silhouette from the Minutemen, as seen in the title sequence. | |
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It Will Never Catch On | |
Watchmen / int_3149c4b0 | comment |
It Will Never Catch On: Upon being told about Ronald Reagan becoming a presidential candidate, a newspaper editor dismissed this, asking who'd want a cowboy for president? | |
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Even Evil Has Standards | |
Watchmen / int_319e4a2f | comment |
Even Evil Has Standards: The Comedian has a mental breakdown when he discovers Ozymandias' plan. Also ironically, in the deleted scene where Nite Owl finds out about Hollis Mason's murder, he beats a member of the gang responsible so hard the guy loses teeth... and Rorschach is the one who tells him to stop — because they're in public (he probably wouldn't have objected if there hadn't been an audience). | |
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I Call Him "Mister Happy" | |
Watchmen / int_31c87ac | comment |
I Call Him "Mister Happy": Dreiberg's is "The Owl". | |
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Destination Defenestration | |
Watchmen / int_32976084 | comment |
Destination Defenestration: That's how The Comedian meets his death in the opening confrontation with the Hidden Villain. | |
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Hollywood Law | |
Watchmen / int_3322dd48 | comment |
Hollywood Law: Like in the original comic book, Rorschach was sent to Sing Sing before even being tried for his crimes, while in reality he would be held at Riker's Island until trial. He also would likely be kept isolated from other inmates as a notorious vigilante crime fighter, which is not only for his protection but to avoid an incident like in the cafeteria. | |
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TrailersAlwaysLie | |
Watchmen / int_337a0f4 | comment |
Trailers Always Lie: "Justice is coming for all of us, no matter what we do." This did show up in the Extended Version though. | |
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Adapted Out | |
Watchmen / int_33d5b7f2 | comment |
Adapted Out: The subplots concerning many of the normal background characters, Doctor Manhattan's father, the vast majority of the supplemental materials, Captain Metropolis' presence in the "Crimebusters" scene (named the "Watchmen" in the movie) and the artificial alien are removed. | |
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Gentle Giant | |
Watchmen / int_36c64123 | comment |
Gentle Giant: Dr. Manhattan is a walking tower of muscle, able to explode people, take machines apart and rebuild them with his mind, and live on Mars. Billy Crudup plays him as having a very soft, gentle voice. | |
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It Always Rains at Funerals | |
Watchmen / int_36c73fcf | comment |
It Always Rains at Funerals: It rains during the comedian's funeral. | |
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Five-Second Foreshadowing | |
Watchmen / int_381855db | comment |
Five-Second Foreshadowing: The last inkblot pattern that Rorschach's mask forms is almost identical to the blood splatter he makes when Manhattan kills him. | |
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Batman Gambit | |
Watchmen / int_38d02d44 | comment |
Batman Gambit: Ozymandias' plan could only work assuming that the rest of the watchmen, especially Jon, were able to be manipulated. | |
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Male Might, Female Finesse | |
Watchmen / int_3979d6da | comment |
Male Might, Female Finesse: When Nite Owl and Silk Spectre team up. The former is a heavy-hitting melee bruiser, while the latter employs Waif-Fu. | |
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Flatline | |
Watchmen / int_3c83dbf2 | comment |
Flat Line: This happens to the thug Rorschach dumped hot oil onto before the prison riot. | |
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Barrier-Busting Blow | |
Watchmen / int_3d1f2cae | comment |
Barrier-Busting Blow: The Comedian busts his fist through a wall in the opening fight scene. | |
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Not Enough to Bury | |
Watchmen / int_3dc1e273 | comment |
Not Enough to Bury: The disintegration of Jon Osterman leaves no traces behind so all they can do is hold a token funeral. | |
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Son of a Whore | |
Watchmen / int_3edeeff4 | comment |
Son of a Whore: Just as in the comic book, Rorschach's mother was an abusive prostitute. | |
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So Crazy, It Must Be True | |
Watchmen / int_3f118d95 | comment |
So Crazy, It Must Be True: Rorschach believes Moloch's story about the Comedian's visit. | |
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Adaptational Heroism | |
Watchmen / int_3f45f1e6 | comment |
Adaptational Heroism: The Minutemen seem to be much friendlier with each other in this version. In particular in the comics Silhouette is ousted the minute her sexuality is discovered, here both her and her girlfriend are welcome at group functions openly and seemingly without issue. | |
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Ungrateful Bastard | |
Watchmen / int_3fe2b13f | comment |
Ungrateful Bastard: In the jail break-in scene with Nite Owl and Silk Spectre beating the crap out of the rioting prison inmates who had an officer pinned in his office. The two heroes practically saved his life, and what does the officer do? He tries to arrest them, but gets knocked out for his trouble. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
Watchmen / int_40cc0c7e | comment |
Bittersweet Ending: The ending as it's presented, especially when you consider the possibility that the rag Rorschach sent his journal to might actually publish it, revealing Ozymandias' plan and possibly sending the world back toward nuclear devastation. | |
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Not Even Bothering with the Accent | |
Watchmen / int_43b154c9 | comment |
Not Even Bothering with the Accent: For reasons never stated, The Comedian speaks with a Southern Accent despite being from New York City. | |
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Nothing but Hits | |
Watchmen / int_43b785f9 | comment |
Nothing but Hits: Along with going by the (comic) book and adding just about every song that's quoted in Watchmen, the other music from the soundtrack is also well-known (though not exactly from the mid-1980s which are the setting). | |
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Tranquil Fury | |
Watchmen / int_443b78cd | comment |
Rorschach was a calculating and unnervingly calm character, when unmasked his expression conveys boredom and disinterest. In the film every line feels like he is about to snap with barely contained rage. | |
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Homophobic Hate Crime | |
Watchmen / int_45ed7d35 | comment |
Homophobic Hate Crime: In the opening montage, it's shown how Silhouette and her girlfriend were murdered as a result of being lesbians, with "Lesbian Whores" written on the wall over their bodies. | |
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Broken Ace | |
Watchmen / int_48ca7c29 | comment |
Broken Ace: Veidt, by a margin about six miles wider than in the comic. | |
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Scenery Porn | |
Watchmen / int_49d59be9 | comment |
Scenery Porn: As per Zack Snyder's standard. | |
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Gory Discretion Shot | |
Watchmen / int_49f20c6a | comment |
Gory Discretion Shot: Graphically averted. Used during the Prison Riot with Rorschach, given what we see people do on screen it is a rather chilling implication of how bad that guy's fate was. In the intro, there's a brief scene of a bunch of hippies protesting Nixon, facing off against some National Guardsmen pointing guns at them. One of them puts a flower into the barrel of one of the National Guardsmen's rifles, and the camera focuses in on the gun so much we can no longer see the hippies. Then all the guns go off... It's Most likely a reference to the Kent State shootings. With this famous photograph of a different protest. Also used during the cut scene where Hollis Mason is murdered. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
Watchmen / int_4a3e547f | comment |
Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Pretty Little Headshots | |
Watchmen / int_4ab9c868 | comment |
Pretty Little Headshots: The assassination of Moloch was clean enough that Rorschach could talk to him at length before realizing his audience was dead. Lee Iacocca shot during the faked assassination attempt on Ozymandias. | |
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Break the Cutie | |
Watchmen / int_4b316d47 | comment |
Break the Cutie: Played with, when the Comedian assaults and attempts to rape Sally (Silk Spectre). | |
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Twitchy Eye | |
Watchmen / int_4c30f8f0 | comment |
Twitchy Eye: Done twice with Rorschach. | |
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You Are Too Late | |
Watchmen / int_4c3f14e0 | comment |
You Are Too Late: Obviously. Our "heroes" tried to stop Ozymandias from killing millions of people. Yeah... the bombs were already detonated. | |
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Bond One-Liner | |
Watchmen / int_51640e80 | comment |
Rorschach's first murder is far more graphic in the film than it is in the book, and made exponentially worse in the Director's Cut. He splits the child-killer's head open with a cleaver, gives him a one-liner, then keeps on hacking until his nose and other assorted chunks of flesh are literally dangling off of his face. | |
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Bookends | |
Watchmen / int_53224e46 | comment |
Bookends: Begins and ends Rorschach's voiceover. Also, the smiley face which is splattered by ketchup, right before. | |
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"Last Supper" Steal | |
Watchmen / int_53d2d85 | comment |
"Last Supper" Steal: Sally Jupiter's retirement party in the opening credits is framed so everyone is placed like the Apostles in The Last Supper. | |
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Intelligence Equals Isolation | |
Watchmen / int_545d100b | comment |
Intelligence Equals Isolation: Veidt, more so than in the book because he confesses at "[he's] often felt stupid at being unable to relate to anyone." | |
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Evilutionary Biologist | |
Watchmen / int_546e23f6 | comment |
Evilutionary Biologist: Adrian Veidt: "A world united in peace... there had to be sacrifice." | |
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Rule of Perception | |
Watchmen / int_5565c2dd | comment |
Rule of Perception: Subverted. In the climax, Veidt says he could tell Manhattan could still feel by watching the microtwitches in his face (actually a real-life technique). There's a cut to Manhattan while Veidt continues to voiceover, and it's still his regular expression, as far as the audience can tell. | |
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Adaptational Attractiveness | |
Watchmen / int_557838d1 | comment |
Adaptational Attractiveness: Jackie Earle Haley as Rorschach sans mask is just generally a lot less odd-looking than his graphic novel counterpart. Carla Gugino as the elderly Sally Jupiter is far prettier and healthy looking than how the character was drawn, as she originally looked frail and I Was Quite a Looker is a major part of her personality. Patrick Wilson as Nite Owl II may not look just like in the graphic novel (being far less tubby than Dan was), but considering Dan was a male version of Beautiful All Along once Laurie pulled off his glasses in the original too, it's hard to see this as a problem. As far as Matthew Goode as Ozymandias is concerned, the average fan is equally likely to either find him incredibly handsome or complain about his enormous eyes, rather understated chin (in contrast to the graphic novel's Lantern Jaw of Justice), and long neck. The characters' costumes also tend to be dramatically more impressive in the film, most notable with Nite Owl II looking like Batman and Rorschach's costume seemingly having been washed this decade. | |
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Let's Get Dangerous! | |
Watchmen / int_562abd51 | comment |
Let's Get Dangerous!: Dr. Manhattan doing something akin to a determined walk when he finally goes after Ozymandias. | |
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Meta Twist | |
Watchmen / int_57cfcbdd | comment |
Meta Twist: While it's obvious to a modern reader that Veidt is the murderer/guiding force behind the plot of the graphic novel, the book first appeared before comics in general became much Darker and Edgier and it was perfectly reasonable for an audience to assume that Veidt was the honest, caring man he seemed to be. Nowadays, a saintly seeming character in a work otherwise full of grim antiheroes sticks out really obviously as the villain, so in the film Veidt becomes a glacial, aloof, rather sneering figure to actually detract the likelihood of his being the culprit from a newcomer's POV — only for it to still be him. But then it's twisted again in the end by how much less at peace he seems than his comic-book counterpart... | |
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Adaptational Modesty | |
Watchmen / int_580be152 | comment |
Adaptational Modesty: Averted, Dr. Manhattan is frequently shown completely nude as in the comics and unapologetically so. Some noted that even though it was not exploitative it could still be distracting, demonstrating why this trope exists. | |
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Not His Sled | |
Watchmen / int_5a36f8bc | comment |
Not His Sled: The giant squid does not appear. | |
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Adaptation Distillation | |
Watchmen / int_5a40d6a | comment |
Adaptation Distillation: Tightens focus on main superhero characters at the expense of the subplots for the recurring supporting characters. The only subplot retained, and developed in the Ultimate Cut, is between Bernie the newsstand owner and Bernard the boy who reads the pirate comic. The other side character subplots, namely Malcolm Long, are drastically cut and shortened. The removal of the Squid removes the mystery surrounding the missing artists and thinkers, and the few subplots showing a romance between two of the characters. | |
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Spandex, Latex, or Leather | |
Watchmen / int_5a60637c | comment |
Spandex, Latex, or Leather: All three, actually, and more. The 1940s-vintage heroes mostly wore Spandex or its period equivalent (rather amusing are the realistic canvas, silk or cotton home-made costumes, considering that the heroes in question were ordinary people having either a bout of schizophrenia or a surfacing vigilante streak); some of those that didn't — like Silhouette — wore leather. The later Comedian preferred leather body armor, and Silk Spectre II was in latex. (Malin Åkerman famously commented that her costume made her "smell like a giant condom".) Both Nite Owl◊ and Ozymandias◊ wear form-fitting latex resembling what is worn by any Batman in film. | |
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Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification | |
Watchmen / int_5a852047 | comment |
Sliding Scale of Adaptation Modification: Is both a Type 3 (Pragmatic Adaptation) and Type 4 (Near Identical Adaptation) of the original graphic novel. | |
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Man on Fire | |
Watchmen / int_5d86966a | comment |
Man on Fire: During the Prison Riot, a random inmate or guard is seen on fire, running around and screaming. | |
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The V-J Day Kiss | |
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When The VJ Day Kiss happened, the lesbian Silhouette kissed the nurse instead of the sailor. | |
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Only Friend | |
Watchmen / int_5f861d0f | comment |
Only Friend: The movie plays up the friendship between Rorschach and Nite Owl more than the comic did. Indeed, after Rorschach leaves to tell the world that Veidt is responsible for the nukes that went off around the world, Nite Owl follows him to try to calm him down and thus witnesses Rorschach's death by Dr. Manhattan which Nite Owl reacts rather badly to. Comic Nite Owl does none of this, staying inside with Silk Spectre. | |
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Creative Closing Credits | |
Watchmen / int_5f91efd9 | comment |
Creative Closing Credits: The opening credits consisting of a series of slow motion shots which won the OFTA Film Award for Best Titles Sequence. | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation: The original comic passed through generations of filmmakers, including the likes of Terry Gilliam, trying to make it into a comprehensible movie. It became famous for being impossible to adapt to the screen. Among the reasons listed is the constantly switching narrative (the first chapter is mostly the perspective of the police investigating Comedian's death), the page layout being too intricately crafted to replicate in a film (the chapter "Fearful Symmetry" mirrors itself in color and layout) and the non-linear order (Dr. Manhattan alone sees time as omni-present, leading to his chapter being about him experiencing all major events of his life at once). The film's solution was to replicate the story as closely as possible, using the comic itself as a storyboard (much like Snyder's adaptation of 300), and streamline the narrative to keep the focus on the principle characters. The antagonist's plot is simplified to reduce the number of new concepts needing to be explained to the audience: instead of Veidt sending a genetically engineered squid upon a major city to scare the world into fearing an alien invasion, he detonates Dr. Manhattan-inspired bombs (of comparable strength to a nuke) around the world to make them fear Dr. Manhattan personally, achieving the same effect of distracting the world from nuclear war and being more open to world peace. This has caused some debate as to its value compared to the original comic, while it may have lost that visceral reaction to such a devastating event, many said it possibly improves upon the original by being simpler and better foreshadowed. | |
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Fictional Counterpart | |
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Fictional Counterpart: The New York Gazette replaces The New York Times in the Watchmen universe. However, other newspapers such as The New York Post remain the same. | |
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Cyanide Pill | |
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Cyanide Pill: Adrian Veidt reaches into the mouth of his would-be assassin to get at his cyanide pill. More accurately, he feeds it to the hitman to clean up that loose end. The whole thing was staged to throw suspicion off Veidt. | |
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Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames | |
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Comic-Book Movies Don't Use Codenames: Averted. Especially with Rorschach, since we don't learn his real name until later. | |
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Grievous Bottley Harm | |
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Grievous Bottley Harm: The pregnant Vietnamese girl using a broken bottle to slash The Comedian's face. | |
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Mook Horror Show | |
Watchmen / int_6860368a | comment |
Mook Horror Show: Members of the Vietcong get massacred by the Watchmen when they participate in the Vietnam War, mostly thanks to Dr. Manhattan. They personally surrendered to him when they gave up. | |
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Meaningful Name | |
Watchmen / int_6bda9a30 | comment |
Meaningful Name: A bit obvious when you're dealing with costumed heroes, but "The Comedian" is bitterly ironic. | |
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The Shrink | |
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The Shrink: Dr. Long, who starts out convinced he can help Rorschach... | |
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Villainous BSoD | |
Watchmen / int_6d871385 | comment |
Villainous BSoD: Ozymandias appears to be going through one of these during the last we see of him. He's shaky, staring into space, and looking like he's about to fall over. Of course, the fact that what he did saved the world could make this just as strongly count as a Heroic BSoD. Ozymandias actually confirms this on screen. He is the type of person that despises killing and would not normally ever willingly do it. But the destruction he caused was the only way to prevent global nuclear annihilation (conflict between the US and USSR which was rapidly approaching). He killed millions, to prevent a nuclear holocaust that would kill billions. And he stated that he forced himself to feel every single death and that he would have to live with that burden. | |
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Deadly Delivery | |
Watchmen / int_6dc99d2a | comment |
Deadly Delivery: An attack on Veidt which is really Engineered Heroics to keep suspicion off himself. | |
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Adaptation Personality Change | |
Watchmen / int_6fbe85e6 | comment |
Adaptation Personality Change: Silhouette's unpleasantness is nonexistent. She and her female lover become tragic hate crime victims. Ozymandias in the comics presented himself with a pleasant, charming and charismatic exterior, and maintained a high degree of self-confidence. Matthew Goodes' performance is colder and more introspective, making him more self-aware on what he is doing. Rorschach was a calculating and unnervingly calm character, when unmasked his expression conveys boredom and disinterest. In the film every line feels like he is about to snap with barely contained rage. | |
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And the Adventure Continues | |
Watchmen / int_716c0b1b | comment |
And the Adventure Continues: It ends with Nite Owl and Silk Spectre (now lovers) coming out of retirement to fight crime together. Then there's The Stinger, implying that they may have to deal with the fallout from Rorschach exposing Ozymandias' crimes... | |
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Token Super | |
Watchmen / int_71ee90a7 | comment |
Token Super: Doctor Manhattan. True to the source material, he is the only hero with actual powers, once again being depicted as a Physical God in an otherwise un-super world. | |
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Mugging the Monster | |
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Mugging the Monster: A steetgang makes the mistake of attempting to mug Laurie and Dan in an alley. | |
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Jerkass Has a Point | |
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Jerk Ass Has A Point: Veidt's reaction to The Comedian's "smartest man on the cinder" speech. | |
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Prison Riot | |
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Prison Riot: Big Figure tries to have Rorschach killed during one. | |
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Nostalgia Filter | |
Watchmen / int_75f626a5 | comment |
Nostalgia Filter: Lampshaded by Silk Spectre I. | |
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Hazy-Feel Turn | |
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Hazy-Feel Turn: Dr. Manhattan turning to Ozymandias' side. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: | |
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Big Bad Friend | |
Watchmen / int_7ef70048 | comment |
Big Bad Friend: Adrian Veidt. Unlike in the graphic novel, he and Dan are close, affectionate friends in this version — Adrian's Germanic depressive tendencies only melt around Dan, and it's highly unlikely Adrian would have taken that penitential beating from anyone else. | |
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How We Got Here | |
Watchmen / int_80251be3 | comment |
How We Got Here: The opening sequence showcases just how different their world is from ours as well as the Minutemen's ever-changing lineup. | |
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Necessarily Evil | |
Watchmen / int_83f3983b | comment |
Necessarily Evil: Ozymandias presents himself far more as this in the film than in the graphic novel, down to standing there and letting Dan beat him up. It was only Executive Meddling that saved him — in earlier drafts, he made Dan promise to protect his utopia and then let Dan kill him. | |
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Adaptational Dumbass | |
Watchmen / int_86ae1278 | comment |
Adaptational Dumbass: One mild example with Laurie: in the comic, the character is a smoker, which is why she hits the flame-thrower button in the Owl Ship, thinking that it's a cigarette lighter. Since Laurie doesn't smoke in the film, her hitting the button here seems more like a case of, "oohh, I wonder what this button clearly marked with a fire icon does?" | |
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Badass Boast | |
Watchmen / int_86b21114 | comment |
Badass Boast: Courtesy of Rorschach after melting off a guy's face using boiling oil at the prison canteen... "None of you understand: I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked up in here with me!" Also when Big Figure asks what the score is while trying to break into his cell and kill him during the riot (after sawing a goon's arms off), Rorschach just says "One-nothing. Come and get me." Also Doctor Manhattan to Ozymandias: the speech ending in "The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite." | |
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City Noir | |
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City Noir: Rorschach's plotline is fully dedicated to this. | |
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Couldn't Find a Lighter | |
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Couldn't Find a Lighter: The Comedian uses the pilot light on his flamethrower to light a cigar. Made rather amusing by the fact that "Zippo" was a nickname that American soldiers gave the flamethrower in Vietnam. | |
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Germanic Depressives | |
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Germanic Depressives: Veidt comes off as rather dour and bitter, with an aloof smirk the closest to a smile he seems to actually be capable of (in contrast to his much warmer, more genial comic book counterpart). | |
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Artistic Title | |
Watchmen / int_89102272 | comment |
Artistic Title: The breathtaking Title Sequence, which plays off of many iconic images from the second half of the 20th century, albeit tweaked to show the progression of the alternate history of Watchmen's continuity. | |
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Teeth Flying | |
Watchmen / int_898d0f32 | comment |
Teeth Flying: Played for Drama in a scene from the director's cut. When Nite Owl learns from a Knot-Top that his mentor Hollis Mason was murdered by other members of that gang, he snaps and punches the man in the face repeatedly, visibly knocking a few teeth loose. The last you see of the guy is him gurgling his own blood which has most of his teeth floating around in it. | |
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Villain Protagonist | |
Watchmen / int_898ff050 | comment |
The Comedian has a mental breakdown when he discovers Ozymandias' plan. | |
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Bullet Time | |
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Bullet Time: Ozymandias uses this to evade an assassin's bullet. | |
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Sphere of Destruction | |
Watchmen / int_8e4fc189 | comment |
Sphere of Destruction: The ending replaces the giant squid monster with spheres of destruction (the first of which releases energy pulses that resemble tentacles) made from Dr. Manhattan's energy destroying New York, Moscow, and other cities around the world, essentially making Dr. Manhattan as the deterrent for nuclear war. However, there is a subtle Shout-Out to the original ending: the system is named S.Q.U.I.D. | |
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Character Exaggeration | |
Watchmen / int_9002083e | comment |
Character Exaggeration: More likely to be cited by those who didn't like it. That said, Rorschach is undeniably more forward with his prejudices in the movie. Rorschach's craziness and morbid personality are a little more scaled back in the movie though. In the book he seemed calmer and creepier in his actions (Laurie says he gave her the creeps, even before he went truly crazy), while in the movie Jackie Earle Haley plays him more like a small terrier, with lots of anger and aggression. His facial expression, blank in the book, is a lot more of a scowl in the movie as well. Thanks to the Bloodier and Gorier aesthetic, Dan and Laurie end up mutilating and killing criminals (where in the comic they would leave them with non-permanent injuries at most). This brings their methods much closer to Rorschach's and undermines what Moore intended by creating costumed heroes of differing levels of violence and compassion. | |
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Mook Chivalry | |
Watchmen / int_955aba87 | comment |
Mook Chivalry: Notably averted. When the police try to arrest Rorschach, they attack him together instead of one at a time. | |
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Attack on One Is an Attack on All | |
Watchmen / int_95f4a369 | comment |
Attack on One Is an Attack on All: Rorschach says that the murder of the Comedian is an attack on all costumed vigilantes, retired or otherwise. | |
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As You Know | |
Watchmen / int_9843be73 | comment |
As You Know: Veidt is introduced to the audience via a speech from a reporter outlining his personal history to Veidt himself. Veidt, displaying his savvy attitude in his first line, interrupts with a slightly annoyed "I'm not hearing a question, Mr. Roth." | |
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Water Tower Down | |
Watchmen / int_9951519 | comment |
Water Tower Down: Nite Owl uses his airship's gatling cannon to cut down the supports of a water tower on the roof of a burning building, flooding it with water. Though given that the roof was weakened enough to allow Silk Spectre to crash through it, he was lucky not to collapse the roof and kill everyone. | |
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Villainous Plan Inertia | |
Watchmen / int_9979acb2 | comment |
Villainous Plan Inertia: Played with; before the big boss fight, Ozymandias informs the heroes that even if they were to defeat him, his plan had already been set in motion and could not be stopped. He's right, of course, and the fight never happens as a result. | |
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Sociopathic Hero | |
Watchmen / int_9ac6b0c1 | comment |
KC & The Sunshine Band's "I'm Your Boogie Man" playing over the Comedian's riot dispersal. | |
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Montage | |
Watchmen / int_9b1da792 | comment |
Montage: Most of the backstory (the history of the first-generation costumed heroes, and the effects they had on politics and culture) is revealed in a series of Bullet Time or slow motion shots played over the opening credits. It is one of the best treatments of How We Got Here seen in a long time. | |
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Slow-Motion Fall | |
Watchmen / int_9b9d5657 | comment |
Slow-Motion Fall: The Comedian's death is like this. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
Watchmen / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: The opening montage includes shots of all the characters, including a young Walter Kovacs watching a man leave his mother's bedroom, and a young Laurie Jupiter watching her parents argue. Both scenes are revisited as important parts of the characters' backstories. In the scene where the gunman fires at Veidt and the tycoons, the light above the elevator that signals his arrival is the same color as Veidt's suit, hinting at who hired him. | |
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Made of Iron | |
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Made of Iron: Moreso than in the graphic novel. The main characters are all a bit more "super" than in the book. | |
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This Is Reality | |
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This Is Reality: Done in the original comic as well but deserving a mention for being kicked up a notch in a humorous allusion to the original comic by having Veidt's "I'm not a Republic serial villain" line replaced by "I'm not a comic book villain". | |
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Camera Abuse | |
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Camera Abuse: Silk Spectre walks up to the camera and appears to shatter the lens with a punch. It's then revealed to be Dr. Manhattan's structure on Mars that she actually punched. | |
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Living Legend | |
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Living Legend: Like the comic, explores the positive and negative aspects of fame + heroism. | |
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Friendly Address Privileges | |
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Friendly Address Privileges: Rorschach, to the psychiatrist after his arrest. | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish" | |
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The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Ozymandias' password is RAMESESII. | |
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"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner | |
Watchmen / int_a3c6c2b7 | comment |
"Facing the Bullets" One-Liner: The iconic one from the comic returns here. | |
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Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy | |
Watchmen / int_a796d2a6 | comment |
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: The man trying to kill Veidt is a horrible shot. Veidt could've probably stood completely still and been perfectly safe, considering his first two shots aren't even close to hitting him while he's standing still. And much earlier, Rorschach proves he IS completely safe standing still, conveniently framed in a busted window, as a police officer fires at him. Although we see the officer looking startled by Rorschach's abrupt off-screen disappearance from the window, moments before is a shot of the vigilante looking calmly over his shoulder as his face is lit up by the flash, as though mocking the cop's poor aim. And later, Rorschach evades automatic gunfire from a SWAT team in the close quarters of a janky stairwell. Unlike Veidt, Rorschach is not faster than a bullet; but apparently he IS faster than a trained gunman. | |
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Alternate History | |
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Alternate History: When The VJ Day Kiss happened, the lesbian Silhouette kissed the nurse instead of the sailor. All of the U.S. flags in the film have 51 stars, because in the film's alternate history, Vietnam became the 51st state after America won the Vietnam War. | |
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Not So Stoic | |
Watchmen / int_a8a4b41e | comment |
Not So Stoic: As in the graphic novel, Rorschach is visibly choking up during his death scene. | |
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Soundtrack Dissonance | |
Watchmen / int_abad35b4 | comment |
Soundtrack Dissonance: The opening scene of The Comedian's brutal murder with the romantic song "Unforgettable" playing in the background. This was deliberate, as one theme of the story is the eroticism of violence and how, for The Comedian especially, masked heroes only felt alive when they're beating the hell out of somebody. The use of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" during Dan and Laurie's sex scene. The song was already meant to be ironic and melancholy. The use of the word "Hallelujah" in contrast to the general mood of the song only emphasizes its mood, making it even more melancholy. KC & The Sunshine Band's "I'm Your Boogie Man" playing over the Comedian's riot dispersal. | |
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Character Filibuster | |
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Character Filibuster: Adrian's Take That! speech to a big-shot of the oil industry seems to be this, causing the audience to roll their eyes at yet another superhero movie with a message. Turns out it was just a Red Herring to make the audience not notice him checking his watch or suspect that his solution to the energy crisis isn't something else instead. | |
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Private Eye Monologue | |
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Private Eye Monologue: Rorschach's journal voiceovers. | |
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Armor-Piercing Response | |
Watchmen / int_aca32000 | comment |
Armor-Piercing Response: The script adds an excellent one from Rorschach to Dr. Manhattan during their confrontation: | |
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Narrating the Obvious | |
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Narrating the Obvious: Dr. Manhattan after The Comedian kills the pregnant Vietnamese girl. | |
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I Did What I Had to Do | |
Watchmen / int_b17f6a27 | comment |
I Did What I Had to Do: This is how Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias justifies exploding bombs in major cities around the world, killing millions, while framing Doctor Manhattan for it. Because it caused the entire world to unite against Doctor Manhattan and back off from global nuclear war, saving billions of lives. To be fair, he's probably not wrong. | |
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Celebrity Casualty | |
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Celebrity Casualty: Lee Iacocca is among various executives meeting with Veidt/Ozymandius during the 80s when an assassin arrives and makes an attempt on Veidt's life. Iacocca is killed in the ensuing chaos, a full 30+ years before his actual death in 2019. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Updated to target a newer President! The editor of the New Frontiersman responds to Ronald Reagan's candidacy by saying "no one wants a cowboy in the White House!" In the book, he responded to Robert Redford's candidacy with "no one wants a cowboy actor in the White House!" | |
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Snuff Film | |
Watchmen / int_b6aad019 | comment |
Snuff Film: The Zapruder Film is incorporated into the opening credits with a tacked-on fictionalized ending that reveals the Comedian to have fired the shot from the grassy knoll. | |
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Lantern Jaw of Justice | |
Watchmen / int_b83aeca9 | comment |
As far as Matthew Goode as Ozymandias is concerned, the average fan is equally likely to either find him incredibly handsome or complain about his enormous eyes, rather understated chin (in contrast to the graphic novel's Lantern Jaw of Justice), and long neck. | |
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Treacherous Advisor | |
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Treacherous Advisor: Veidt's role in the film is given shades of this that weren't in the comic, due to his and Dan's relationship in this version clearly being affectionate and friendly rather than just the acquaintance of former superheroes. | |
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Demoted to Extra | |
Watchmen / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: Most of the Minutemen and their backstory is reduced to the bare essentials, but Captain Metropolis suffered the most. In the book, he's a hopelessly naive superhero who forms the Crimebusters in the 1960s and tries to convince them that they can solve all of the world's problems. In the movie, Ozymandias forms the team (re-named "The Watchmen"). Metropolis becomes an unspeaking character who briefly appears in a flashback. | |
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Cool Mask | |
Watchmen / int_bb067aba | comment |
Cool Mask: Rorschach's moving inkblot mask. | |
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Ominous Multiple Screens | |
Watchmen / int_bcf1bb32 | comment |
Ominous Multiple Screens: In his lair Ozymandias is shown viewing a wall filled floor to ceiling with television screens, each showing a different image, in order to demonstrate his ability to pay attention to each one simultaneously. | |
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Time-Compression Montage | |
Watchmen / int_be272a3 | comment |
Time-Compression Montage: Snyder shows the golden age of the "heroes", their eventual decline, the rise of the next generation, and the public revolt against "vigilantes", while at the same time throwing in a butt-load of backstory and tidbits from the comic that would have been difficult if not impractical to put into the body of the movie. And sets it to Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'" | |
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Anti-Hero | |
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Dan finally calls out Rorschach on his Anti-Hero Jerkass behavior, yet later on it's Rorschach who has to rein in Dan when he finds out that Hollis Mason was killed. | |
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Isn't It Ironic? | |
Watchmen / int_bf8a2be2 | comment |
Isn't It Ironic?: One very rare aversion with Nena's song "99 Luftballons" which is a cheerful song about nuclear holocaust. For once, it fits. | |
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Accent Relapse | |
Watchmen / int_c00484eb | comment |
Accent Relapse: Though it's never mentioned in the film, Matthew Goode decided to play Adrian Veidt/Ozymandias as a German immigrant himself (not just the son of immigrant parents) who has learned to adopt a newscaster-perfect American accent in public but slides back into a relatively light German one in private. It helps to establish that he's just that cunning. Sadly because this was done rather subtly, quite a few viewers saw it as Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping or just plain wondered What the Hell Is That Accent? There's a video of the actor discussing the role doing the switch very suddenly and for contrast, going from his own British accent to explaining that "Veidt's public peRRsona is veRRy AmeRRican" [in an American accent, hard Rs and all] "bot oo-en hhe iss in pri-vit he bekomms a bit Gehr-mahn" [in a German accent]. Done that quickly, it's jarring. | |
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Serkis Folk | |
Watchmen / int_c0abbbc2 | comment |
Serkis Folk: Dr. Manhattan — the director described his costume as pajamas with blinking lights on them. | |
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Dies Differently in Adaptation | |
Watchmen / int_c181a846 | comment |
Dies Differently in Adaptation: In the graphic novel, Rorschach killed the kidnapper by handcuffing him in his house and set it on fire, leaving him a hacksaw. This was felt to be too similar to Saw, so it was changed to Rorschach bludgeoning him to death with a meat cleaver. In the graphic novel, Big Figure's henchman Lawrence has his throat cut. In the film, he gets his arms cut off with a buzzsaw, causing him to bleed to death. | |
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Dull Surprise | |
Watchmen / int_c1b2c63f | comment |
Dull Surprise: Malin Åkerman, as Laurie Juspeczyk, gives rather... measured responses to being on Mars and to being told the world will end. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
Watchmen / int_c25c7890 | comment |
Fun with Acronyms: Dr. Manhattan and Ozymandias's device is called the Sub-Quantum Intrinsic Device because it takes the place of the squid-monster at the end of the movie. Also counts as an Easter Egg Mythology Gag. | |
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Big "NO!" | |
Watchmen / int_c2cedc1c | comment |
Big "NO!": Laurie has one when she realizes that the Comedian is her father. Nite Owl after Rorschach dies. | |
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Recut | |
Watchmen / int_c3ae786a | comment |
Recuts: This movie has two additional cuts, one that adds about a half hour to the run time and a second one that brings the total time to over three and a half hours by adding in Tales of the Black Freighter. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
Watchmen / int_c660bc15 | comment |
Fan Disservice: Partway through the film, there's a lengthy flashback featuring Carla Gugino in a corset. Unfortunately, she's also being brutalized and nearly raped by the Comedian. | |
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Film Adaptation (Live-Action) | |
Watchmen / int_c671163e | comment |
Film Adaptation (Live-Action): A film based on the graphic novel Watchmen. | |
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Offscreen Teleportation | |
Watchmen / int_c691d3f4 | comment |
Offscreen Teleportation: When he's interrogated, Rorschach describes an occasion where he threw two objects through windows, yet is able to get inside the house and stand next to the man he threw it at in about two seconds. Rorschach being Rorschach, he's something of an Unreliable Expositor. | |
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Shout-Out | |
Watchmen / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out in the title sequence. When the movie shows Neil Armstrong landing on the moon, he says "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky!" | |
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Luke, I Am Your Father | |
Watchmen / int_c83a589c | comment |
Luke, I Am Your Father: Silk Spectre II learns that The Comedian is her biological father. | |
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Charles Atlas Superpower | |
Watchmen / int_ca04edd6 | comment |
Charles Atlas Superpower: Everyone except for Dr. Manhattan. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
Watchmen / int_cbe687ab | comment |
Corrupt Corporate Executive: Adrian Veidt isn't one, but played straight with the oil tycoons who try to make him give up on clean electricity after Dr. Manhattan's disappearance. | |
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Weapon Stomp | |
Watchmen / int_ccfb490 | comment |
Weapon Stomp: During their final confrontation, Ozymandias steps on and breaks Nite Owl II's gun while the latter is down and reaches for it. | |
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Anti-Villain | |
Watchmen / int_d001c42c | comment |
Anti-Villain: Veidt. His intentions might be good, but his means of getting there are evil. | |
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In Spite of a Nail | |
Watchmen / int_d243518d | comment |
In Spite of a Nail: A very minor blink-and-you'll-miss-it example. In spite of the Alternate History, the Mad Max films still get made in this continuity. | |
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Bullet Catch | |
Watchmen / int_d264e7d4 | comment |
Bullet Catch: Ozymandias catches a bullet fired by Silk. | |
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What the Hell, Hero? | |
Watchmen / int_d39e327f | comment |
What the Hell, Hero?: Group version from Nite Owl II: "What the hell happened to us? What happened to the American Dream?" Another one is delivered by The Comedian to Dr. Manhattan after the Comedian kills the woman pregnant with his child, and Dr. Manhattan does nothing to stop him. Happens in the present time with Dan and Rorschach, but it ends much more amicably. | |
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Curb-Stomp Battle | |
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Curbstomp Battle: Ozymandias defeats both Rorschach and Nite Owl II with ease during their final confrontation. | |
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Foe-Tossing Charge | |
Watchmen / int_da2b1604 | comment |
Foe-Tossing Charge: Laurie and Dan's jailbreak starts out like this, a callback to a similar scene in 300. | |
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Good Smoking, Evil Smoking | |
Watchmen / int_dab2f3ee | comment |
Good Smoking, Evil Smoking: The second Silk Spectre's smoking was absent from the film whereas she was all but a chainsmoker in the comics. The Comedian still smokes cigars in almost all of his appearances. | |
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Ludicrous Gibs | |
Watchmen / int_db33bc7e | comment |
Ludicrous Gibs: What happens when Dr. Manhattan uses his explosive powers against gangsters, Viet Cong, and Rorschach. | |
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Inelegant Blubbering | |
Watchmen / int_dc031fde | comment |
Inelegant Blubbering: The Comedian's visit to Moloch is full of it, complete with snot and dribble. | |
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Ozymandias is combined with Captain Metropolis, whose role is significantly diminished. In this version, he's the one who proposes the creation of the Watchmen ("The Crimebusters" in the comic book), and he's the one who presents an ambitious plan for Saving the World to the other heroes — only to get mocked by the Comedian. | |
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Stock Scream | |
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Stock Scream: One of the guards in the Prison Riot uses the Wilhelm Scream as he's dropped off the top balcony. | |
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Artistic License – Prison | |
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Artistic License – Prison: Rorschach takes out an attacker in the cafeteria by throwing a pan full of frying oil into his face. There wouldn't be a oil fryer on the serving line for the prisoners, in order to prevent exactly that sort of thing from happening. During the prison break, Rorschach kills the prison gang leader Big Figure by following him into a public restroom located on the cell block (there are clearly cells adjacent to the restroom). The problem is, there wouldn't be such a restroom where the prisoners are housed. The prisoners have toilets in their cells, and prisons don't have such restrooms in the cell blocks because it would create a place where prisoners could meet without being observed, and the guards wouldn't enter because they wouldn't know what was going on inside and could easily be trapped. | |
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Historical In-Joke | |
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Let's just say the entire opening sequence is one huge Historical In-Joke and leave it at that. | |
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Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique | |
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Rorschach's bone-snapping interrogation methods. | |
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Perfume Commercial | |
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Perfume Commercial: The film opens with the Comedian watching one, creating a huge contrast between its perfection and the rest of the Crapsack World. | |
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Ambiguously Gay | |
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Ambiguously Gay: Veidt, though it's much less ambiguous in the film than it was in the novel, the biggest example being when Dan accesses Veidt's personal computer and a folder entitled "Boys" is visible on the desktop. In the opening montage, they're slightly anvilicious about it: he's also seen going into Studio 54 and shaking hands with someone who looks an awful lot like Ziggy Stardust, who purposely epitomized the drug and sex culture of the '70s (Mick Jagger is next to Bowie). To make it even less ambiguous, the Village People are in that same scene. | |
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Authority Equals Asskicking | |
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Authority Equals Asskicking: Ozymandias's superhuman-like intellectual abilities are surprisingly matched by his physical ones. | |
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Composite Character | |
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Composite Character: Dr. Milton Glass and his assistant Wally Weaver were merged into one character, "Professor Wally Weaver". Weaver's death is also shown on-screen, and directly references the panel where Jon Osterman's father died. Ozymandias is combined with Captain Metropolis, whose role is significantly diminished. In this version, he's the one who proposes the creation of the Watchmen ("The Crimebusters" in the comic book), and he's the one who presents an ambitious plan for Saving the World to the other heroes — only to get mocked by the Comedian. | |
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Expy | |
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Expy: Minus the long, flowing cape, the one shot of Dollar Bill that we get in the opening credits looks like a stylized version of Golden Age Captain America's suit. | |
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Light Is Not Good | |
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Light Is Not Good: As opposed to the Eldritch Abomination from the comic, New York City here has a much brighter fate. | |
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Info Drop | |
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Info Drop: While the film makes Ozymandias as Ambiguously Gay as possible, the real proof comes from a desktop icon labeled "Boys" on his computer. | |
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In Prison with the Rogues | |
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In Prison with the Rogues: Rorschach gets set up and walks straight into a crime scene with cops tipped off ready to arrest him. He gets put in a prison full of criminals who know and resent him. But they soon learn that if any of them try to screw with him, they'll be lucky to walk away with severe scarring. As Rorschach makes it clear: "I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!" | |
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Artistic License – Geography | |
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Artistic License – Geography: During the opening credits, Leonid Brezhnev and Fidel Castro are watching a Soviet military parade from the top of Lenin's Mausoleum. However, the missiles are shown moving from right to left; from their perspective, the vehicles are coming from St. Basil's Cathedral toward the State Historical Museum. Actual parades through Red Square move in the opposite direction, so that they can reach the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky Bridge near the Cathedral and head out of Moscow. | |
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Traitor Shot | |
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Traitor Shot: Done very subtly. Watch the movie again knowing that Veidt hired his own would-be assassin as part of the plot. Notice that he glances impatiently at his watch right before the gunman arrives, in a very "What's keeping this guy!?" manner. | |
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Helpless Window Death | |
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Helpless Window Death: As with his comic book incarnation, Dr. Manhattan was created when Dr. Osterman ended up being accidentally locked inside an Intrinsic Field Subtractor, leaving him to be disintegrated before the eyes of his horrified colleagues. | |
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Period Piece | |
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Period Piece: Justified by director Zack Snyder: | |
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Censor Shadow | |
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Censor Shadow: Amusingly inverted. Dr. Manhattan's genitals are often obscured (especially in the trailer) by a nimbus of light. Not always, though. | |
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Groin Attack | |
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Groin Attack: Flashback of Rorschach as a young boy attacking one of his bullies. | |
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu? | |
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Did You Just Scam Cthulhu?: DID YOU JUST USE THE RESULTS OF SCAMMING CTHULHU TO SCAM THE ENTIRE WORLD? | |
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Never a Self-Made Woman | |
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Never a Self-Made Woman: Laurie. | |
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Decomposite Character | |
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Decomposite Character: Captain Metropolis has his presence reduced, with his role of attempting to found a second group of costumed crimefighters given to Ozymandias. | |
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Scary Symbolic Shapeshifting | |
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Scary Symbolic Shapeshifting: During the animated Tales of the Black Freighter chapters, the shipwrecked captain appears to physically degenerate as the horror of his efforts to save his homeland weigh upon him, at one point even manifesting Black Eyes of Evil and a grin full of shark teeth. However, though there is a supernatural element of the Black Freighter comic, it's clear that this is intended to be a strictly symbolic transformation given that he appears fully human when he arrives home. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: The Comedian. First time when he assaults Silk Spectre and the second time when he and Nite Owl are doing riot control. He also killed a woman who was pregnant with his child! | |
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Walk on Water | |
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Walk on Water: In a commercial for Nostalgia perfume. Which was recognized — and at first thought to be — an actual commercial from The '80s. It wasn't. | |
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Attempted Rape | |
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Attempted Rape: The Comedian attempts to rape Sally after the first photo shoot of "The Minutemen". | |
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R-Rated Opening | |
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R-Rated Opening: Parents who took their children to the big new superhero movie (and somehow missed the R rating) most likely left the theater after watching an old man being brutally beaten up and thrown out of a skyscraper. If not, the opening montage (which includes among others, two dead women with "LESBIAN WHORES" written on a nearby wall in something red that looks very much like it could be their own blood) could be enough. | |
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Weird Moon | |
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Weird Moon: While Mars looks more realistic than the graphic novel's (a pink desert planet), at the same time it has an Alien Sky with Phobos and Deimos being depicted as twin moons large enough to be visible like our moon on Earth, when in reality they're just two asteroids caught in Mars' orbit. | |
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Answer Cut | |
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Answer Cut: One scene shows someone beating up Edward Blake, and immediately cuts to Ozymandias. Twice. | |
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BloodSplatteredInnocents | |
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Blood-Splattered Innocents: Some ladies get splattered in blood when Dr. Manhattan makes two gangsters explode. | |
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