History Funny / Watchmen

--'''Ozymandias''': To answer your question, you get to be a superhero by [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower believing in the hero within you and summoning him or her forth by an act of will]]. Believing in yourself and your own potential is the first step to realizing that potential. Alternately, you could do as [[PhysicalGod Jon did]]: [[ILoveNuclearPower Fall into a nuclear reactor and hope for the best]]. [[DeadpanSnarker On the whole I think I prefer to stick to my own methods]].

* A unintentional example in Chapter one, Rorsach interrogates Doctor Manhattan and Silk Specter in the Rockefeller Research Lab. When the Doc is walking by, the panel layout makes it look like Rors [[HoYay was checking out Doc's ass with a "Hurrm".]]

* The look Laurie and Dan exchange after being "trapped" in the alley by the street gang.

** It's even funnier in the book where Silk Spectre and Nite Owl manage to have ''a full arguement'' in the amount of time Rorschach is inside dealing with Big Figure.

* A unintentional example in Chapter one, Rorsach interrogates Doctor Manhattan and Silk Specter in the Rockefeller Research Lab. When The doc is walking by, the panel layout makes it look like Rors [[HoYay was checking out Doc's ass with a "Hurrm".]]

** Another example from this chapter, after Laurie has accidentally set of the flamethrower, Dan is going through the ship's systems.

* Maybe it's because I have an incredibly dark, surreal sense of humor, I cracked up at the mention of Rorschach dropping someone down an elevator shaft. This might be troubling, to be honest, as I was about 13-14 at the time.
** Maybe. But then again, it makes Laurie and Dan crack up even as they recognize that they shoudln't find it funny.

* "Have to visit Men's Room." "Oh for Christ's sake!" What's going on in there is probably horrifying, but Laurie and Dan's reactions are priceless.

* "The End Is Nigh" Guy [[spoiler: (Rorschach in disguise)]] asking the newsseller that he won't forget his copy of the New Frontier. Newsseller assures him he won't, and he walks away. Newsseller takes a drink, and guy reappears [[FailedASpotCheck behind the seller]], taps him on the shoulder, wanting a promise out of the seller. Cue SpitTake.

--> '''[[HeroicSociopath Rorschach:]]''' Why are so few of us left active, healthy, and without personality disorders?

---> '''[[HeroicSociopath Rorschach:]]''' Why are so few of us left active, healthy, and without personality disorders?

--->'''Little Boy''': Mom? That guy in the Space Rocket, is that Jesus?

--->'''Man''': Are you with the fire department?
--->'''Silk Spectre''': [[DeadpanSnarker Listen, I'm Smokey The Bear's secret mistress]]. Now will you please just ''move'' or throw yourself over the side or something?

** The film actually manages to make the second sex scene more ridiculous. The music is Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen, and the sequence follows thus:
--->'''Song:''' And even though it all went wrong, I'll stand before the lord of song, with nothing in my heart but Hallelujah.
--->'''Laurie:''' *Orgasms and hits the flamethrower button*
---> {{Beat}}
--->'''Song:''' HALLELUJAH!

-->'''Rorschach:''' No.

-->'''Laurie:''' Oh shit. I'm on Mars.

** Maybe. But then again, it makes Laurie and Dan crack up even as they recognize that they shoudln't find it funny.

* Maybe it's because I have an incredibly dark, surreal sense of humor, I cracked up at the mention of Rorschach dropping someone down an elevator shaft. This might be troubling, to be honest, as I was about 13-14 at the time.

--->'''Laurie''': That's it! That does it! No more smoking.

--->'''Laurie''': That's it! That does it! No more smoking.
* HypocriticalHumor from Rorschach.
---> '''[[HeroicSociopath Rorschach:]]''' Why are so few of us left active, healthy, and without personality disorders?

--->'''Laurie''': That's it! That does it! No more smoking.

* "The End Is Nigh" Guy [[spoiler: (Rorschach in disguise)]] asking the newseller that he won't forget his copy of the New Frontier. Newsseller assures him he won't, and he walks away. Newsseller takes a drink, and guy reappears [[FailedASpotCheck behind the seller]], taps him on the shoulder, wanting a promise out of the seller. Cue SpitTake.

** Also in chapter 3, when we see Daniel getting new locks installed because Rorschach broke them during his previous visit. The guy installing the locks laughs as Daniel explains about how they were broken by his 'friend'. The real kick is when Rorschach visits again at the end of the chapter, saying "By the way, you need a stronger lock. That new one broke after one shove." This troper found this whole segment to be hilarious.
** There's something for everyone in chapter 7, which is about Dan and Laurie. There's the first page, where Laurie is in the owlship, and, looking for a dash lighter, she presses the button that turns on the owlship's flamethrower. Then there's [[spoiler:both sex scenes, particularly the SoundtrackDissonance in the first and the SomethingElseAlsoRises in the second.]] Finally, there's the scene where Nite Owl and Silk Spectre rescue the citizens from the burning building, which contains these two gems:

*** Another example from this chapter, after Laurie has accidentally set of the flamethrower, Dan is going through the ship's systems.

* "The End Is Nigh" Guy [[spoiler: (Rorschach in disguise)]] asking the newseller that he won't forget his copy of the New Frontier. Newseller assures him he won't, and he walks away. Newseller takes a drink, and guy reappears [[FailedASpotCheck behind the seller]], taps him on the shoulder, wanting a promise out of the seller. Cue SpitTake.

-->'''Little Boy''': Mom? That guy in the Space Rocket, is that Jesus?

-->'''Man''': Are you with the fire department?
-->'''Silk Spectre''': [[DeadpanSnarker Listen, I'm Smokey The Bear's secret mistress]]. Now will you please just ''move'' or throw yourself over the side or something?
*** Another example from this chapter, after Laurie has accidently set of the flamethrower, Dan is going through the ship's systems.
-->'''Dan''': ...public address system and screechers functioning, air-to-air missiles funtioning, fog-screens funct...
-->'''Laurie''': Air-to-Air missiles?
-->'''Dan''': Sure. Button there. Next to the '''flame thrower'''.
-->'''Laurie''': That's it! That does it! No more smoking.