![]() ![]() ![]() Edward Blake (the Comedian), whom the American government employs as a special operative-fighting in wars, assassinating targets-and celebrates as a patriot, tries to rape his teammate Sally Jupiter (the original Silk Spectre). ![]() Watchmen’s deeply flawed characters critique popular notions of heroic vigilantes, arguing that even people society deems heroes possess villainous flaws and the capacity for evil.Īlthough much of American society in the novel regards the Watchmen as heroes, many of them exhibit deeply flawed morality, suggesting that notion of a pure “hero” is fundamentally misguided. ![]() However, contrasting with popular depictions of superheroes past such as Superman, Moore’s heroes are far from perfect paragons of virtue. Manhattan)-they occupy archetypal hero roles, fighting crime, wearing costumes, and forming leagues. Although the Watchmen do not possess superhuman powers-except for Jon Osterman (Dr. Alan Moore’s graphic novel Watchmen tells the interweaving stories of a handful of American heroes between the 1940s and 1980s, loosely referred to as the Watchmen (referencing a 1963 speech by John F. ![]()
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