Characters
A superhero who uses owl-themed gadgets
Nite Owl II (Daniel Dreiberg)
In what city does the comic take place?
New York
What is the reason that got The Silhouette killed?
Because she is a lesbian.
A former member of the Minutemen who suffered from alcoholism and mental illness later in life.
Mothman
The daughter of Sally Jupiter, the first Silk Spectre.
Laurie Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre II)
What American war is occurring in the present time line of the Watchmen.
The cold war
Like the super heroes in this comic who were demonized on their return from war?
American soldiers of the Vietnam era.
A news vendor who appears periodically on the central New York street corner.
Bernard
Reconstructed a physical body for himself after after being disintegrated in an Intrinsic Field Subtractor in 1959.
Doctor Manhattan (Dr. Jonathan Osterman)
The doomsday clock is referencing to what worldwide threat?
Atomic inhalation
Why are there so few black characters?
Representation of Black Americans being marginalized from good positions.
who is comparable to Alexander the Great and the Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II
Ozymandias (Adrian Veidt)
Which character was known as the smartest person in the world?
Ozymandias (Adrian Veidt)
Won this war with ease because of Dr. Manhattan
Vietnam War
Few female hero's and largely sexualized, what is commentary on?
This was largely the work culture for women threw out the 20th century.
Each characters voice is emphasized and imaginatively different through the use of...
Speech Bubbles
The son of a prostitute.
Rorschach
How was Rorschach delusional crusade for justice begin?
The Comedian falling to his death from his New York City high-rise in 1985.
Why does the world look so down cast, and the streets so poor.
Representation of American gloom and loss of the American dream.
What joke does Rorschach whilst reminiscing on the legacy and murder of The Comedian make?
The ironic Pagliacci joke of a clown.
The Comedian was her biological father
Laurie Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre II)
Dr. Manhattan is accused of giving his close associates cancer from supposed radiation so where does he exile himself?
Mars
Hollis Mason's comments about the existence of Dr. Manhattan reflect what presumption Alan Moore has about the effect of a "super being" existing on earth.
The devaluation of human or all life.
Who's quote concerning an "abyss" and "monsters" is within the novel?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Killed a pregnant Vietnamese woman.
The Comedian
What was Rorschach theory about the comedian, that turned to be true?
Someone is trying to kill the old superheroes.
The news vendor protects the boy as they are both disintegrated in the end...what is the purpose?
Hope/faith in humanity
This man's songs are allusions in this text and were in the movie. He is also the only American song writer to win a Nobel Prize in literature.
Bob Dylan