![]() The irony is that Jon is more interested in and inspired by individual human lives than Adrian, in the end. ![]() It's clear that Adrian is fascinated with Jon, and incredibly envious, and I'm sure he takes some pleasure (even if he wouldn't admit it to himself) in blinding Jon's senses and getting the jump on him, albeit temporarily. Which is the contrast with Jon/Doctor Manhattan, who does have this ability and yet is completely passive about it to the point of inaction. He's not concerned about humans, he's concerned about humanity, and his role as the wise shepherd/pharaoh/leader of humanity, whether covertly or overly.īut at the same time, he is one human being and he is not omniscient in the way that would really be required to make this work completely successfully. Which explains his plan, how he gets it to work, and how we see him generally operating in the novel. I have always read Ozymandias as somebody who is preternaturally good at seeing the "big picture" of how human systems operate, to the point that he's able to nudge then into tipping points to shape them in the way he wants (which is, like, the ultimate dream of people who work with complex systems. Anthills, bird flocks, human societies, the economy.all are good examples. I'm a software engineer working to build models to understand complex systems - that is, systems made up of a ton of moving parts, where the parts add up to more than the whole in interesting and nonpredictable ways. Ozy is my favorite as well, and for some different reasons than other people have mentioned (as well as some of the same ones). Ozy and Rorshach are so similar, both trying to carry out justice regardless of who they hurt in the process. How do you hate on the US for going to war with the messed up Taliban? Or, how do you say getting Osama bin Laden was a bad thing? Because it broke another nation's trust? Well. Nuke an enemy city to safe your troops or stave off WWIII? Sure! Ozy is America the state in so many ways. Topple a regime by doing every evil spy thing in the book? Sure. No evil is off the board if it's in the service of fighting evil. The government that does wrong and even horrible things, but at times at least, for the right reasons. But the very doing that they do will be a step too far, it'll hurt and cause pain and create problems. Backed with our nuclear arsenal, we could go in and take down a government and tell folks to get in line. So many tyrants to topple, so many corrupt regimes in the world. He's never done enough in the story because the US could always do so much more. All the amazing things we can do and achieve all in one person. Manhattan is US's nuclear/scientific power. A lot of Americans have done really corrupt things because they don't idolize the state/laws and so it's okay to break things.ĭr. Doesn't trust the government, companies, the media, questions everything, thinks cops are corrupt, but still believes in a certain sense of justice. Regardless of our opinions around that right wing movement, this is someone who doesn't trust. The liberterian vein that has made up Trump supporters. Rorshach is very much a rank and file person, almost rural America. Manhattan are all 3 separate iterations of the United States, all three have really good parts and all three have really screwed up negative traits too. Though I think he's a pretty gray character for sure. His story is pretty much the same but there's passion which is really nice. And that earns him a unique little space in the gallery of extremely intelligent superheroes who use brains over brawns atleast for me because well it's such a better explaination than 'I possess the gift of knowledge and hence I owe it to the world to use it for their welfare'. Which kinda puts an interesting light about knowledge being a struggle for him. He didn't see knowledge as a gift or a curse but in reality he chose to be different and maybe everyone chooses all these little things that are special about them. I don't know why but I love that little detail which makes everything so unique. Veidt as a response intentionally brought in average grade for the rest of his life to escape the suspicion of him being any different. I think when he was a kid he turned out to be an absolute genius and his parents were confused because they weren't really remarkable so it couldn't be genetic. ![]() If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own
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