History Series / Watchmen2019

** Saint Petersburg, Russia, is still referred to as "Leningrad", Red Scare (a Russian immigrant/expat) identifies as a communist, and a Soviet flag is seen on Scare's desk, suggesting that the Main/ColdWar never ended and the Soviet Union still exists.

*** [[spoiler:"All we ever see of stars are their old photographs."[[note]]Part of Doctor Manhattan's monologue after he moved to Mars.[[/note]] ]]
*** [[spoiler:"Janey, what's up? Are you cold? I can raise the temperature."[[note]]Said to his first girlfriend Janey Slater during Christmas 1959.[[/note]] ]]
*** [[spoiler:"As far as I know, there is no situation in Afghanistan currently requiring my attention."[[note]]Said during his ill-fated TV interview in Chapter 3.[[/note]] ]]
*** [[spoiler:"You will all return to your homes."[[note]]Said before he teleported an entire rioting mob away from the White House during the 1977 police strike.[[/note]] ]]

The series premiered on October 20, 2019 with a nine-episode run. The future of any second season is murky. Officially it is a miniseries since Lindelof has said he feels like he’s told the story he wanted to tell. However, HBO has left the door open for him to continue should he want to, which he hasn’t ruled out.

* OddNameOut: Off all the episodes, only the eighth ("A God Walks into Abar") isn't named after some work of fiction. It's instead JustForPun. The first episode is named from a song from ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}'', two is from a painting, three from a Music/{{Devo}} song, four from the novel ''Literature/ThingsFallApart'', five from Creator/JulesVerne's ''Literature/TwentyThousandLeaguesUnderTheSea'', six and seven are from ''Watchmen'' itself, and nine is from the classic Music/TheBeatles song, "I am the Walrus"

** A common trope in superhero origin stories, from Franchise/{{Batman}} to Franchise/SpiderMan to the Franchise/XMen, is that wearing the mask helps them with some sort of past trauma or injustice. Angela, Wade, and [[spoiler:Will]] all wore masks for similar reasons. But as [[spoiler:Will]] admits in the end, just wearing a mask is a wholly inadequate way to address those kinds of issues:

* ActionGirl: Angela Abar / Sister Night and Pirate Jenny are both police officers and vigilantes.

* PragmaticVillainy: The reason Veidt turns against [[spoiler:his daughter]] Lady Trieu. [[spoiler:While he is as narcissistic as Trieu, he recognizes just how megalomaniacal it is to [[GodhoodSeeker try to personally hijack Doctor Manhattan's powers]] and how succeeding would bring far more harm to the world than good.]]