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Hooded Justice
TheWatchmenuniverse doesnt start to peel off from our own until 1938.
Whether or not Hooded Justice took inspiration from Superman remains an open question.
In fact, Moore and Gibbons leave much about Hooded Justice an open question.
Little is known about why he began brawling with would-be robbers in the fall of 1938.
Little is known of his final fate, either.
He disappeared after refusing to reveal his identity to the House Un-American Activities Committee.
In the interim he became a member of the Minutemen, an affiliation of masked heroes.
(More on all of this below.)
The team disbanded under political pressure from HUAC in the late 40s.
The Comedians sexual assault of Jupiter helped sour the chemistry of the Minutemen.
Born Laurie Juspeczyk, their child would later become the second Silk Spectre.
Disassembled at the atomic level, Osterman returns (sort of) as the nearly godlike Doctor Manhattan.
Though he becomes a celebrity and a superhero, Doctor Manhattans presence creates a kind of global existential crisis.
How is humanity supposed to define itself in the presence of such a being?
Though Doctor Manhattan begins a high-profile relationship with Laurie Juspeczyk, he becomes increasingly alienated from humanity.
As the book ends, he suggests he plans to leave our galaxy for one less complicated.
(The Comedian also makes an allusion to ridding Nixon of some troublesome journalists.)
Some members of the Knot Tops have violent criminal tendencies, including the group that murders Hollis Mason.
But Veidt owes his true inspiration to Alexander the Great and his world-conquering ambitions.
Using his vast wealth, Veidt has amassed a globe-spanning business empire asWatchmenopens.
WhenWatchmencloses, weve come to learn the true purpose of that empire.
(And for those whove only seen theWatchmenmovie, heres where it diverges from the book.)
That might undermine the journals legitimacy.)
one character scoffs, in a winking reference to the actor with the same initials who became president.
Its a funny joke, and one worth remembering before watching the HBO series.
