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* DefiantToTheEnd: The series ends on the detective watching [[ShowWithinAShow a Pontius Pirate movie]], capped off with the titular pirate's monologue, which [[RuleOfSymbolism happens to be a fancy way of summing up Rorschach's ideology]]: [[TheUnfettered never surrender, even in the face of Armageddon]].
-->'''Pontius Pirate''': Avast, mateys, [[BolivianArmyEnding it appears there may be a tad more of you than there are of me. A hundred to one is it, or do ye have more?]] Is it a thousand flying swords against my single blade? Hahaha, with those odds, if I fight, I cannot win -- you will kill me! By all the wisdom of men and god, I should surely surrender and let you walk me off the plank and take me risks with the sharks! But (...) I never learned to care for the wisdom of gods and men! [[BringIt Have at ye then! Have at ye, bastards! Come and fight]]! [[TheLastDance If I die today, I die a pirate!]]
-->'''Pontius Pirate''': Avast, mateys, [[BolivianArmyEnding it appears there may be a tad more of you than there are of me. A hundred to one is it, or do ye have more?]] Is it a thousand flying swords against my single blade? Hahaha, with those odds, if I fight, I cannot win -- you will kill me! By all the wisdom of men and god, I should surely surrender and let you walk me off the plank and take me risks with the sharks! But (...) I never learned to care for the wisdom of gods and men! [[BringIt Have at ye then! Have at ye, bastards! Come and fight]]! [[TheLastDance If I die today, I die a pirate!]]
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* SpannerInTheWorks: A really subtle, but really important case of this is revealed near the very end of the story: [[spoiler:Just before Diane Condor's [[NeverSuicide presumed suicide]], she recorded a long audio tape "confessing" to her, Oates, and President Redford's involvement in a plot to assassinate Turley (which she was cajoled into recording as part of a pro-Turley FalseFlagOperation before [[HeKnowsTooMuch she was murdered as part of the cover-up]]). This confession tape ends up becoming the singular lynchpin of evidence that would tie the entire plot together (as despite how thorough the detective was at forming the story, there was otherwise little definitive ''proof''), but before the Turley campaign could obtain it, it instead ended up in the hands of Condor's parents, who brought it along with her other belongings back to their home -- the detective only managed to obtain it after tracking them down [[KickTheDog and threatening them for it]]. If it wasn't for this unexpected exchange of hands, the detective would've had little to no agency in determining how Turley and his campaign would close out their plot, and with it, he uses the opportunity [[KickTheSonOfABitch to murder Turley and render it all moot]].]]
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* SpannerInTheWorks: A really subtle, but really important case of this is revealed near the very end of the story: [[spoiler:Just before Diane Condor's [[NeverSuicide presumed suicide]], she recorded a long audio tape "confessing" to her, Oates, and President Redford's involvement in a plot to assassinate Turley (which she was cajoled into recording as part of a pro-Turley FalseFlagOperation before [[HeKnowsTooMuch she was murdered as part of the cover-up]]). This confession tape ends up becoming the singular lynchpin of evidence that would tie the entire plot together (as despite how thorough the detective was at forming the story, there was otherwise little definitive ''proof''), but before the Turley campaign could obtain it, it instead ended up in the hands of Condor's parents, who brought it along with her other belongings back to their home -- the detective only managed to obtain it after tracking them down [[KickTheDog and threatening them for it]]. If it wasn't for this unexpected exchange of hands, the detective would've had little to no agency in determining how Turley and his campaign would close out their plot, and with it, he uses the opportunity [[KickTheSonOfABitch to murder Turley and render it all moot]].moot.]]
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OK, and was there a reason why we should have expected otherwise?
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Yeah, a headshot can stop a criminal right there and then...but it makes actually identifying the guy that much harder.
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As there have been DC comics published after this one that acknowledged the events of Doomsday Clock, I'm removing the Canon Discontinuity pothole because this wiki defines a difference between alternate continuities and series installments that aren't considered canon. It also bears addressing that the DC Black Label titles tend to be set in their own continuities as opposed to being canon to the mainline DC titles.
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* BroadStrokes: While the series holds the original ''Watchmen'' graphic novel in canon, it waffles a bit more on [[Series/Watchmen2019 the 2019 HBO sequel series]]. There are [[MythologyGag a few minor nods to the periphery surrounding it]] (issue #1 mentions that ''something'' happened in Oklahoma), but none of the major events that occurred are ever alluded to or are relevant to this story. Given how both series were being produced at roughly the same time, it's unlikely ''Rorschach'' was originally envisioned with it in mind and simply added the {{Mythology Gag}}s after the fact. Meanwhile, any mentions to ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'' and the Franchise/TheDCU at large [[CanonDiscontinuity are completely absent.]]
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* BroadStrokes: While the series holds the original ''Watchmen'' graphic novel in canon, it waffles a bit more on [[Series/Watchmen2019 the 2019 HBO sequel series]]. There are [[MythologyGag a few minor nods to the periphery surrounding it]] (issue #1 mentions that ''something'' happened in Oklahoma), but none of the major events that occurred are ever alluded to or are relevant to this story. Given how both series were being produced at roughly the same time, it's unlikely ''Rorschach'' was originally envisioned with it in mind and simply added the {{Mythology Gag}}s after the fact. Meanwhile, any mentions to ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'' and the Franchise/TheDCU at large [[CanonDiscontinuity are completely absent.]]absent. Granted, the series is published under DC's Black Label imprint, which aside from printing stories containing more mature content than the mainline titles are also typically set in their own continuity.
