![]() After the murder of the Comedian, his former teammate Rorschach dedicates himself to solving the crime, unitentionally uncovering a vast and terrifying conspiracy that reconnects the old team and will ultimately end up changing the face of the world as they know it forever. Though in this universe masked crime-fighters were once a part of everyday life with the heroic Minutemen living as both vigilantes and celebrities, they have been banned by the time the book begins, leaving the former heroes in disarray. The Watchmen’s StoryWatchmen is set in an alt-universe version of America where the country won the Vietnam War with the help of Doctor Manhattan, and Richard Nixon is still President after the repeal of the 22nd Amendment. And last but certainly not least is the super-smart Adrian Veidt, who worked under the historically ominous name Ozymandias. Next on the slate is inventor Daniel Dreiberg, who took on the legacy title of Nite Owl from one of the Minutemen (the previous generation of masked heroes). Laurie's romantic partner is the naked, blue, and omnipotent Doctor Manhattan, who began life as a nuclear physicist called Jonathan Osterman. The only woman on the team is Laurie Juspeczyk, also known as the Silk Spectre, who took on that costumed-adventurer mantle from her mother. Edward Blake is better known as the Comedian, a Vietnam vet, mass murderer, and rapist whose suspicious death sparks the story. Our "in" character is Walter Kovacs' Rorschach, a desperate and deranged vigilante who will stop at nothing to find the truth. Who Are the Watchmen?The titular team is made up of six costumed heroes (although they’re never really called Watchmen in the comic). So here's everything you need to know about the original Watchmen series, the men who made it, and the massive impact it's had on pop culture history. (The movie, of course, had a different ending than the comic.) Read our first impressions of the Watchmen pilot. Additionally, the HBO Watchmen TV series is a continuation of the book, not the movie, set some 34 years after that story. That seminal book was of course turned into a movie directed by Zack Snyder in 2009, though by its very nature the film had to drop or alter several elements from the comic. ![]()
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