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The Watchmaker
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Perhaps because of the analogy used by Paley and others comparing God to a watchmaker, characters who fix watches and clocks for a living are often portrayed as somewhat special or even having a supernatural degree of knowledge about the universe. Perhaps because of the somewhat detached nature the metaphor implies, such characters are rarely unambiguously good. Compare with The Chessmaster. See Clocks of Control for another way that clocks can be used to characterize someone. |
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Dr. Manhattan in Watchmen grows up learning about watch repair from his father (who later pushes him into nuclear physics as a better career) and ends up gaining powers that make him into a rather detached and apathetic Physical God who espouses a completely deterministic view of the world from his nonlinear perspective of time. | |
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Monroe, the reformed werewolf, in Grimm is a clock and watch repairman and explains to Nick how the Wesen world works. | |
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This is very explicit with Sylar of Heroes, who starts out fixing watches and has the power of complete understanding of how things work. He starts out using this ability to acquire more powers by eating dissecting his victims' brains. He later starts using it to analyze the other characters and hand out The Reason You Suck speeches to them, before finally using it to put together a scheme to achieve Total World Domination. | |
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The Discworld book Thief of Time has Jeremy Clockson, a son of the Anthropomorphic Personification of Time. He was a foundling at the guild involved in clock-making and is a completely rational and utterly socially inept genius. For much of the book he aids the Auditors, who are devoted to making the world more orderly (generally in an Omnicidal Maniac way). Although he isn't a watchmaker himself, Lord Vetinari quite often uses a watch metaphor for the city of Ankh Morpork, and the metaphor is very apt- and puts Vetinari right in the centre as the watchmaker: by careful organizing and attention to detail, he has made a ridiculously complex city run smoothly and almost automatically- the parts of the city, like the gears in a watch- are buoyed around by the force of each other. And, fitting with the trope, he's next to omniscient and is most definitely NOT unambiguously good. Nanny Ogg kind of makes a roundabout reference to this trope in Witches Abroad; as she thinks "When you know about clockwork, you know about everything. I wish I bloody well knew about clockwork." |
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In the WW II movie The Enemy Below the crew of a destroyer is trying to launch their depth charges faster and faster. A crewman leaves his hand on the rail and it is run over by the charges, causing him to lose his fingers. When the captain visits him in sick bay and assures him that he'll be back at his civilian job soon enough, the crewman tells him he was a watchmaker. Becomes a Moment of Heartwarming when the kid adds "But I'll be OK", to which the Captain responds "I'd bet on that." | |
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The mysterious omnipotent time-traveler Bilis Manger in Torchwood runs a clock shop, reflecting both his power over time and his ability to run seamless Gambit Roulettes. | |
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Max Geiger from Fantasy Strike, whose title is "Precise Watchmaker". On top of making watches, he's a scientist studying time, and he's able to control it to a limited extent. | |
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Whirl from Transformers: More than Meets the Eye is a former watchmaker. He might have once been an otherwise decent individual who tried to play into Square Race, Round Class and avoid being pressured into doing other people's dirty work, being a big battle-copter model of Cybertronian, but things went horribly wrong and Body Horror inflicted as Cold-Blooded Torture is now the reason that he was a watchmaker, and is now an Ax-Crazy Blood Knight and definitely not what most would consider a "good" person. | |
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Prez Rickard in The Sandman is the perfect American president who fixes all the nation's problems and inspires everyone he meets. He also happens to be a watchmaking prodigy, and later refers to God as "the Watchmaker". In the original Prez comics, he first became a public figure (and attracted the attention of the person who suggested a future in politics) by fixing all the clocks in his city. The metaphor was absent, however. | |
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Nanny Ogg kind of makes a roundabout reference to this trope in Witches Abroad; as she thinks "When you know about clockwork, you know about everything. I wish I bloody well knew about clockwork." | |
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Miki from Revolutionary Girl Utena carries a pocket watch-like stopwatch and, during student council meetings, spontaneously clicks it. He seems to click it a lot before speaking himself, taking control of the conversation, and he also clicks it to note important narrative points about to be delivered (such as the first time Nemura Hall is explained). During the last episodes, while the whole of the student council sits around idly waiting for the revolution to occur, Miki is seen just gazing at the watch as it spins. | |
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Julius in Alice in the Country of Hearts and its sequels, and it's barely even metaphorical. As everybody in the Country of Hearts thinks Death Is Cheap, it's up to him to repair all their broken clocks (or "hearts"). This leads him to become a Workaholic as a result. Speculation has it he's the story's stand-in for Father Time. | |
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The Spider-Man villain Big-Time is a slightly cheesy use of this trope - he seems to be good at setting up gambits, but at the same TIME, he can't stop TICKING people off with his really bad clock-puns. | |
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In Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Adam Jensen's apartment has a couple of tables littered with clockwork components, indicating that he has taken up watch assembly as a way to cope with his new augmentations. Also as a way to grow more comfortable with them, due to the fine motor control required. | |
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While not watches, the Keymaker in The Matrix Reloaded has a lot in common with this trope; of note is a very clockwork-looking 'inside the keyhole' shot. | |
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In The Watchmaker Of Filigree Street, the eponymous watchmaker seems to have a preternatural ability to anticipate events. | |
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In Dr. Stone, Senku eventually arranges to have Joel, a famous watchmaker working for Rodex, revived for his expertise in working with extremely intricate mechanisms such as the petrification device, which he manages to fix after it seemingly ran out of power despite admitting that its mechanism is far beyond modern technology. | |
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The Batman had a single-episode villain named Francis Grey, a clock repairman who (after spending 17 years repairing clocks in prison for stealing a watch to try to pay for his mounting bills) became so obsessed with time he eventually discovered he could see how time itself functioned and thus how to rewind it. He then embarks on a plan to get revenge on Gotham for all the time they took away from him, and thanks to his ability to rewind time by 20 seconds at will he actually succeeds in killing Batman and the rest of Gotham as well. | |
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