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Author: MarkThis

Feb 8th 2012 at 4:12:01 PM

Usually a Guile hero doesn't break the setting he is in: think Wesley from ThePrincessBride, {{Zorro}}, [[PiratesOfTheCaribbean Old Captain Jack giving 'em what for]], and so on and so forth. And the example you are looking for in Watchmen is Ozymandias, not Dr. Manhattan. For one thing, there isnt any main character to Watchmen. That, and Ozy is the YoungConqueror that changes the wrld: Doc is only a tool, in more ways than one.
 And whle they already fit the definition, I suggest we add examples of inventors that developed fileds of science and/or technology that forever changed the world around them. Such as Nobel and dynamite, or Edison and electrical stuff (he never invented anything: he ''paid'' eggheads to ''do'' that: ''he'' focused on finding out what would have the most potential to change the world, and on helping it ''reach'' that potential, making him filthy rich in the process, and changing the world forever).

The concet is obvious enough; an in-universe {{Munchkin}} who exploits LoopholeAbuse, RulesLawyering and DidntSeeThatComing to completely change the status quo around them.

Also, Rational!Haarry is a ''subversion'': he ''thinks'' he'll pull it off because of all the low-hanging fruit and the obvious opportunities a xenophobic, reactionary, unscietific Magical Britain offers, but then he ''finds out'' that the game is a ''lot'' more complicated than it seems at first glance, there are no refrees, no-one will tell you the rules, and the dealer has a permanent grin affixed to his face, on account of being the freaking  GrimReaper. It's ''adult'' business, and he ain't ready for it.