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* KickTheSonOfABitch: First makes himself known by [[spoiler:turning Earth-3's Owlman into a splotch. He later kills Eobard Thawne, too.]]
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* KarmaHoudini:
** [[spoiler:Despite restoring the Justice Society and undoing the deaths of Superman's parents, he basically leaves the DCU without facing any real punishment or making any actual atonement for the untold number of people he traumatized through his "experiment" and the people his callousness erased from existence. He's not even shown making an effort to fully restore the memories of the pre-Flashpoint universe he kept trying so hard to remove.]]
** [[spoiler:He restored Alan Scott, and by extension the Justice Society, as well Jonathan and Martha Kent, but he doesn't restore the Legion of Super-Heroes. They're instead replaced by a brand new version that has no connection to Superman, with him not realizing his childhood friends had essentially been killed and erased.]]
** [[spoiler:Despite restoring the Justice Society and undoing the deaths of Superman's parents, he basically leaves the DCU without facing any real punishment or making any actual atonement for the untold number of people he traumatized through his "experiment" and the people his callousness erased from existence. He's not even shown making an effort to fully restore the memories of the pre-Flashpoint universe he kept trying so hard to remove.]]
** [[spoiler:He restored Alan Scott, and by extension the Justice Society, as well Jonathan and Martha Kent, but he doesn't restore the Legion of Super-Heroes. They're instead replaced by a brand new version that has no connection to Superman, with him not realizing his childhood friends had essentially been killed and erased.]]
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* KarmaHoudini:
** [[spoiler:Despite restoring the Justice Society and undoing the deaths of Superman's parents,KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Downplayed; he basically leaves the DCU without facing any real punishment or the residents there making any actual atonement him pay for his immoral actions and lives several years raising his adopted son, but in the untold number of people he traumatized through end, scarifies his "experiment" and the people existence to give said son his callousness erased from existence. He's not even shown making an effort to fully restore the memories of the pre-Flashpoint universe he kept trying so hard to remove.]]
** [[spoiler:He restored Alan Scott, and by extension the Justice Society,powers as well Jonathan and Martha Kent, but he doesn't restore the Legion of Super-Heroes. They're instead replaced by a brand new version that has no connection to Superman, with him not realizing his childhood friends had essentially been killed and erased.repentance.]]
** [[spoiler:Despite restoring the Justice Society and undoing the deaths of Superman's parents,
** [[spoiler:He restored Alan Scott, and by extension the Justice Society,
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* RedemptionEqualsDeath: [[spoiler: Realizing he has become the villain in the metaverse, Jon fixes his damage to the DCU, returns to his home dimension to prevent its nuclear destruction and passes on his powers to his adopted son Clark, fading away in the process but ensuring a powerful superbeing will protect humanity.]]
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** He also ''really'' hates being called crazy or written off as such. Bruce bluntly doing as much causes Reggie to completely lose it.
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* SuperiorSuccessor: Zig-zagged. Reggie lacks a great number of Kovacs' faults, including his uncompromising BlackAndWhiteMorality, his bigotry and his sociopathic streak. However, his personality is even more unhinged and deranged, and he seems to lack any of the skills that gave Kovacs his reputation. On the other hand, where Rorschach was misled because of his warped ideology, Reggie is misled by people who are trying to use him, and when given the truth, he explodes into a fit of rage that allows him to do the one thing Rorschach I never did and always wanted to, [[spoiler:beating Ozymandias to a bloody pulp, unlike Walter who couldn't even land a single punch]]. By issue #12, the zigzagging goes into Playing It Straight as [[spoiler:Batman and Alfred convince Reggie to become something better, thus Reggie becomes a heroic costumed vigilante, saving Adrian's life so he can receive justice than dying in revenge.]]
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* SuperiorSuccessor: Zig-zagged. Reggie lacks a great number of Kovacs' faults, including his uncompromising BlackAndWhiteMorality, his bigotry and his sociopathic streak. However, his personality is even more unhinged and deranged, and he seems to lack any of the investigative or intimidation skills that gave Kovacs his reputation. On the other hand, where Rorschach was misled because of his warped ideology, Reggie is misled by people who are trying to use him, and when given the truth, he explodes into a fit of rage that allows him to do the one thing Rorschach I never did and always wanted to, [[spoiler:beating Ozymandias to a bloody pulp, unlike Walter who couldn't even land a single punch]]. By issue #12, the zigzagging goes into Playing It Straight as [[spoiler:Batman and Alfred convince Reggie to become something better, thus Reggie becomes a heroic costumed vigilante, saving Adrian's life so he can receive justice than dying in revenge.]]
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* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: Compels Batman to read Walter Kovacs' journal so that he will know what Ozymandias did. While succeeds in making him believe in the threat, he also ends up [[spoiler:convincing Batman that Reggie is insane and should be locked up in Arkham Asylum]].
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* HeroicSecondWind: [[spoiler: Batman and Alfred convince him to take up the mantel of Rorschach once again, which allows him to save Veidt's life, and continue on in his own world as a superhero.]]
* HesBack: [[spoiler: Take up the mantle of Rorschach again towards the end of the comic with a little encouragement. It's implied he'll keep on going in his own world as a hero.]]
* HesBack: [[spoiler: Take up the mantle of Rorschach again towards the end of the comic with a little encouragement. It's implied he'll keep on going in his own world as a hero.]]
* SociallyAwkwardHero: Even as a kid, he described himself as being socially awkward and bad with girls. This only got worse once he went insane due to the psychic attack of the alien.
* DisappearedDad: Her father committed suicide, feeling she'd be better off without him, since the corrupt cops would always be using her as a bargaining child.
* FreudianExcuse: Erika was bullied by the neighborhood kids even before her life went to shit, with them calling her a pedophile for having a puppet shop and trying to beat her up, calling her things like "an ugly slut". Her only friend appeared to be Marcos. Her father committed suicide when she was a preteen so his daughter wouldn't be put in danger anymore by the crooked cops shaking him down for money. She killed them and from then on she and Marcos grew up on the streets into the hardened criminals they became. She may be psychotic but it's hard not to want to give her a hug with such a rough backstory.
* GirlNextDoor: Was one for Marcos before she turned into a DarkActionGirl. They met as children when their parents had businesses on opposite sides of the street. Right from the moment they met, they were best friends, and grew up together, though due to the CrapsackWorld they lived in things were rough for them right from the very start.
* HairstyleInertia: Her hair as an adult is identical to the style she had as a child. Might have a Freudian edge to it seeing as how she was happy as a child until her father died.
* GirlNextDoor: Was one for Marcos before she turned into a DarkActionGirl. They met as children when their parents had businesses on opposite sides of the street. Right from the moment they met, they were best friends, and grew up together, though due to the CrapsackWorld they lived in things were rough for them right from the very start.
* HairstyleInertia: Her hair as an adult is identical to the style she had as a child. Might have a Freudian edge to it seeing as how she was happy as a child until her father died.
* MissingMom: Was raised solely by her father. She also involuntarily became one to her son since he was taken away from her after he was born.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: With the Mime might be physically strong and murderous, he generally only kills when in defense of his wife, and so is much more passive when it comes to murdering people. The Marionette, on the other hand, is absolutely ''insane'', and far more prone to leaving a string of bodies than her husband. She was the one to kill the two corrupt police officers when they were kids, with Marcos only assisting her. She's also much more sadistic, using her razor wire to torture people rather than flat-out kill them.
* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: With the Mime might be physically strong and murderous, he generally only kills when in defense of his wife, and so is much more passive when it comes to murdering people. The Marionette, on the other hand, is absolutely ''insane'', and far more prone to leaving a string of bodies than her husband. She was the one to kill the two corrupt police officers when they were kids, with Marcos only assisting her. She's also much more sadistic, using her razor wire to torture people rather than flat-out kill them.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Aside from being a little vicious with her childhood bullies, she's shown to be a cute little girl who loves her father, playing with the puppets he makes, and befriending the boy across the street by making an introduction using her favorite marionette doll.
* UnholyMatrimony: With her husband.
* VoiceForTheVoiceless: Acts as one for Marcos since he can't speak and has since they were children.
* UnholyMatrimony: With her husband.
* VoiceForTheVoiceless: Acts as one for Marcos since he can't speak and has since they were children.
* AmbiguousSituation: A couple of situations:
** Exactly what the deal is with his invisible weapons. [[spoiler: Did he create them somehow? Did he just find them? Are they real weapons he turned invisible through some tech he found? Or is this a case of YourMindMakesItReal where he's creating them out of thin air somehow?]]
**The reason why he's mute. Marionette claims he pulled his tongue out with pliers as an adult to enforce being eternally silent, though she may have just been saying that for the intimidation factor. As a child, he didn't speak at all either, though whether it stems from a purely physical or psychosomatic condition is up for debate. As an adult, he's shown in several situations where he ''should'' be making involuntary noises no matter how quiet he is such as getting beaten up in battle, lending weight to the theory it truly is a physical condition with him
** Exactly what the deal is with his invisible weapons. [[spoiler: Did he create them somehow? Did he just find them? Are they real weapons he turned invisible through some tech he found? Or is this a case of YourMindMakesItReal where he's creating them out of thin air somehow?]]
**The reason why he's mute. Marionette claims he pulled his tongue out with pliers as an adult to enforce being eternally silent, though she may have just been saying that for the intimidation factor. As a child, he didn't speak at all either, though whether it stems from a purely physical or psychosomatic condition is up for debate. As an adult, he's shown in several situations where he ''should'' be making involuntary noises no matter how quiet he is such as getting beaten up in battle, lending weight to the theory it truly is a physical condition with him
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: He met Erika as a child when she befriended the lonely little boy across the street, the two grew up together afterwards living rough, and eventually they married as adults.
* CloudCuckoolander: What most people assume he is. He's....odd, even for a theatrical supervillain. However...
* TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight: ...As it turns out he really ''does'' have invisible weapons like he claims.
* CloudCuckoolander: What most people assume he is. He's....odd, even for a theatrical supervillain. However...
* TheCloudCuckoolanderWasRight: ...As it turns out he really ''does'' have invisible weapons like he claims.
* DisappearedDad: His birth father was not around and he was raised by his mother and stepfather. He also ended up being one to his son against his will since he was imprisoned when he was born, with the boy being taken away by social services after he was born.
** However, it's implied Erika may be just trying to intimidate Rorschach II with [[UnreliableNarrator the story,]] seeing as how he was apparently unable to speak even as a child, with his stepfather calling him a weirdo because of it.
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** PracticallyJoker: However, due to his sadistic love of killing and painting his smile with the blood of one of his victims, while wearing white makeup, he is also one of none other than the Joker.
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** PracticallyJoker: However, due to his sadistic love of killing and painting his smile with the blood of one of his victims, while wearing white makeup, he is also one of none other than the Joker. It's implied due to TheMultiverse he actually may ''be'' the Watchmen universe's equivalent of the Joker, especially with the blood-splashed smile he wears in the first issue.
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* MissingMom: His mother Anita was killed when she tried to stand up to the cops that were shaking down everyone in the neighborhood.
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* TheSpeechless: Never makes a sound throughout the entire series.
* TongueTrauma: Erika claims he ripped his own out with pliers, though whether she was telling the truth is up for debate.
* TongueTrauma: Erika claims he ripped his own out with pliers, though whether she was telling the truth is up for debate.
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* WickedStepfather: His stepfather was at the very least verbally abusive to him and didn't even ''care'' enough to look for his stepson after he ran away with Erika as a boy.
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* ContinuityRebooter: ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' and ''Doomsday Clock'' reveal that he is responsible for the alterations to continuity that occurred in ''ComicBook/New52'' rather than Barry Allen and Pandora, having used his powers to change the history of the DC Universe and everyone's memories by meddling with everything behind the scenes. By the end of ''Doomsday Clock'', he is inspired by Superman reaching out to him instead of fighting him to reverse most of the changes.
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* ContinuityRebooter: ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' [[spoiler:''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' and ''Doomsday Clock'' reveal that he is responsible for the alterations to continuity that occurred in ''ComicBook/New52'' rather than [[ComicBook/FlashpointDCComics Barry Allen and Pandora, Pandora]], having used his powers to change the history of the DC Universe and everyone's memories by meddling with everything behind the scenes. By the end of ''Doomsday Clock'', he is inspired by Superman reaching out to him instead of fighting him to reverse most of the changes.]]
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* ContinuityRebooter: ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'' and ''Doomsday Clock'' reveal that he is responsible for the alterations to continuity that occurred in ''ComicBook/New52'' rather than Barry Allen and Pandora, having used his powers to change the history of the DC Universe and everyone's memories by meddling with everything behind the scenes. By the end of ''Doomsday Clock'', he is inspired by Superman reaching out to him instead of fighting him to reverse most of the changes.
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* OutDamnedSpot: The moral dissonance in helping Ozymandias after this attack on New York killed his family and drove him insane gave Reggie a complex in regards to filth and cleanliness. Soon after being allowed to use a shower, he tries to wash away the wretchedness of what he's doing by scratching at his scalp so hard that it starts to bleed.
