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* {{Fanboy}}: He's a huge fan of UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat and sees him as his only worthy peer, pitying the fact that his greatest idol died millennia before his birth. During his global travels, Veidt retraced the exact steps of Alexander's crusade of conquest throughout the civilized world, wishing to one day realise Alexander's goal of uniting the ''entire'' world under one banner. He concludes that the only way to do so is not through conquest, but trickery. Veidt even professes a desire to gain the direct approval of Alexander in the "Hall of Legends".
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* SonOfAWhore: He developed a number of sexual hangups thanks to growing up around his mother's work. Well, that and being beaten and verbally abused by his mother, and bullied by other kids for being a SonOfAWhore.
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* WalkingDisasterArea: He tends to create a mess a lot. It ranges from the relatively mild, such as easily breaking Dreiberg's locks and busting into his house to eat his cans of beans, to the extreme brutality of burning down a house, terrifying a load of bargoers just by showing up to break a criminal's fingers, and wrecking his cell and a prison restroom to kill his victims.
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* RelatedInTheAdaptation: He's the maternal half-brother of Cardinal Matthew Glick from ''Dogma''. They never met before Walter died.
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* LegFocus: Her costume is meant to accentuate her legs.
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* ShesGotLegs: Her costume is meant to accentuate this.
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* BystanderSyndrome: Inverted. He beats up thugs who have harmed people he's never met and idealizes people he doesn't know (Kitty Genovese, Harry Truman, etc.) but loathes virtually everyone he does know. Familiarity breeds contempt, indeed.
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* BystanderSyndrome: Inverted. He beats up thugs who have harmed people he's never met and idealizes people he doesn't know (Kitty Genovese, Harry Truman, etc.) but loathes virtually everyone he does ''does'' know. Familiarity breeds contempt, indeed.
* CombatPragmatist: To an insane degree. Rorschach's solution to the "Gordian Knot problem". When faced with an impossible lock, Rorschach will simply ''kick the door down.''
* ConfusionFu: Dan says that Rorschach was a good fighter because he was unpredictable. Probably related to the fact that he's not quite sane.
* ConfusionFu: Dan says that Rorschach was a good fighter because he was unpredictable. Probably related to the fact that he's not quite sane.
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* SiblingYinYang: To her half-brother Loren. She was trained from birth to be a hero and hated her mother for forcing her to become a hero. Loren meanwhile is a HeroWorshipper and respects his mother's status as a hero.
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* LousyLoversAreLosers: Despite Doctor Manhattan being a [[TheOmniscient near-omnipotent man]], he fails to be a satisfying lover to Laurie. This is due to his omnipotence leaving him too apathetic and dispassionate to connect with her on an emotional level, leaving their sex feeling mechanical and lifeless. In their last attempt at intimacy, he [[PowerPerversionPotential uses his powers to duplicate himself while in bed with her]], thinking she'd enjoy the idea of a TwinThreesomeFantasy, but this just ends up creeping her out and she runs out of the bedroom... only to find that he had more duplicates working on an experiment the whole time while they were supposed to be having an intimate moment and she incident causes them to break up. In contrast, her next lover Danny has [[TheLoinsSleepTonight problems with impotency]], but because he and Laurie still manage to emotionally connect as human beings, they do eventually end up having mutually fulfilling sex.
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* LousyLoversAreLosers: Despite Doctor Manhattan being a [[TheOmniscient near-omnipotent man]], he fails to be a satisfying lover to Laurie. This is due to his omnipotence leaving him too apathetic and dispassionate to connect with her on an emotional level, leaving their sex feeling mechanical and lifeless. In their last attempt at intimacy, he [[PowerPerversionPotential uses his powers to duplicate himself while in bed with her]], thinking she'd enjoy the idea of a TwinThreesomeFantasy, but this just ends up creeping her out and she runs out of the bedroom... only to find that he had more duplicates working on an experiment the whole time while they were supposed to be having an intimate moment and she moment. This incident causes them her to break up.up with him. In contrast, her next lover Danny has [[TheLoinsSleepTonight problems with impotency]], but because he and Laurie still manage to emotionally connect as human beings, they do eventually end up having mutually fulfilling sex.
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* TheUnfettered: It helps his powers manage to keep him without many hurdles to do what he wants.
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* AndIMustScream: Jon’s body took a while to see itself back together, and the few times people catch sight of this it’s clear he was conscious and in absolute ''agony''.
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* InSpiteOfANail: Despite staying together in this timeline, they just end up as another group of street level crime fighters and still brake up later.
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* LousyLoversAreLosers: Despite Doctor Manhattan being a [[TheOmniscient near-omnipotent man]], he fails to be a satisfying lover to Laurie. This is due to his omnipotence leaving him too apathetic and dispassionate to connect with her on an emotional level, leaving their sex feeling mechanical and lifeless. In their last attempt at intimacy, he [[PowerPerversionPotential uses his powers to duplicate himself while in bed with her]], thinking she'd enjoy the idea of a TwinThreesomeFantasy, but this just ends up creeping her out and she runs out of the bedroom... only to find that he had more duplicates working on an experiment the whole time while they were supposed to be having an intimate moment and she incident causes them to break up. In contrast, her next lover Danny has [[TheLoinsSleepTonight problems with impotency]], but because he and Laurie still manage to emotionally connect as human beings, they do eventually end up having mutually fulfilling sex.
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* FightingAShadow: He exists in a state beyond physical form, such that completely vaporizing his body is about as trivial as stubbing a toe.
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* ImmortalApathy: Doctor Manhattan became immortal in a FreakLabAccident, and while he hasn't been immortal for very long his perception of time is non-chronological, which means his subjective memory extends much further. He's been shown apathetic to anything going on around him because his perspective is so vast that anything humans do is inconsequential to him.
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* {{Transmutation}}: He can rearrange matter on the subatomic level, meaning he can effectively turn anything into anything else ''at a minimum''. His control of this power is such that he can be in multiple places at once, teleport, and make people explode.
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* BeingGodIsHard: Fails to save a pregnant woman that the Comedian had impregnated then killed and gets so sick of dealing with humanity after being falsely accused of giving people cancer that he leaves Earth and heads to Mars.
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* CreepyGood: Rorschach is firmly on the side of justice and despises criminals, but suffers from a horribly severe case of BlackAndWhiteInsanity, to the point he literally ''cannot properly function'' in normal, modern society.
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* TheFettered: Kovacs' principles are all that matter to him; the good must be protected, and the evil must be punished, no compromise or nuance allowed. When he's finally confronted with his own failure to completely live up to his standards and faced with a dilemma he can't solve just by appealing to his code, [[DeconstructedTrope he breaks down]].
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* NobleBigotWithABadge: Is among other things a misogynist and homophobe. But unlike many examples, instead of white washing his behavior, it only serves to further showcase how unpleasant a person he is, and why you shouldn't entirely identify with him uncritically.
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* PetTheDog:
** Rorschach may be batshit insane, AxCrazy and treat even his team-mates with suspicion and abuse, but he ''does'' make it very clear that he does value his friendship with Nite Owl and apologizes when Nite Owl calls him out on his behaviour.
** When Dan is upset to the point of tears over Hollis Mason's death, Rorschach actually attempts to comfort him. It doesn't come out in the traditional way, being Rorschach, but Dan appreciates the effort.
** When Daniel and Rorschach go to retrieve Rorschach's spare mask, and he calls his landlady a whore to her face, but doesn't press further after seeing her kids
** Rorschach may be batshit insane, AxCrazy and treat even his team-mates with suspicion and abuse, but he ''does'' make it very clear that he does value his friendship with Nite Owl and apologizes when Nite Owl calls him out on his behaviour.
** When Dan is upset to the point of tears over Hollis Mason's death, Rorschach actually attempts to comfort him. It doesn't come out in the traditional way, being Rorschach, but Dan appreciates the effort.
** When Daniel and Rorschach go to retrieve Rorschach's spare mask, and he calls his landlady a whore to her face, but doesn't press further after seeing her kids
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* PragmaticHero: Initially, Rorschach was this during the early days of his career. He was in better health mentally, being a vigilante was still legal, and he would leave criminals to be arrested by the police, instead of murdering them. But the Keene Act and mentally snapping after the brutal murder of a girl [[JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope caused him to lose it]].
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* InHarmsWay: He probably could have gone on without it, but it's clear he missed his old hero days and was eager to go back.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Gets turned on after committing heroics.
* TheLancer: The role he ends up playing to either Rorschach, Comedian, or Silk Spectre whenever he's paired up with them. When they're all together, he settles into being TheLeader.
* InterplayOfSexAndViolence: Gets turned on after committing heroics.
* TheLancer: The role he ends up playing to either Rorschach, Comedian, or Silk Spectre whenever he's paired up with them. When they're all together, he settles into being TheLeader.
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* SecondLove: He becomes this to Laurie after she breaks up with Dr. Manhattan.
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* DatingCatwoman: Played straight and deconstructed with his relationship with Twilight Lady. Dan enter a relationship with Lady Twilight in hopes he could [[LoveRedeems reform her]], but Twilight was only interested in being Dan's romantic partner. After a long and tumultuous relationship, Dan and her parted ways.
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* GadgeteerGenius: Has an insane amount of gadgets devoted to fighting crime in his basement. Also, while we repeatedly see Airships are commonly used in 1985 as a viable form of transport due to Dr Manhattan being able to synthesize Helium; the fact that Archimedes on the other hand is able to ''hover'' with ''no'' visible jets seems to suggest that Dan invented some form of anti-gravity technology. That he has Archie in the first (and only) Crimebusters meeting, means that he had cracked this technology as early as ''1965!''
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* GadgeteerGenius: Has an insane amount of gadgets devoted to fighting crime in his basement. Also, while we repeatedly see Airships are commonly used in 1985 as a viable form of transport due to Dr Dr. Manhattan being able to synthesize Helium; the fact that Archimedes on the other hand is able to ''hover'' with ''no'' visible jets seems to suggest that Dan invented some form of anti-gravity technology. That he has Archie in the first (and only) Crimebusters meeting, means that he had cracked this technology as early as ''1965!''
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* DangerouslyShortSkirt: Her outfit comes with a mini-skirt, and she's undoubtedly dangerous to her enemies.
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* TradeYourPassionForGlory: Rorschach sees him as a sellout. Ozymandias merely sees his work as doing what superheroes ought to do in real life, save the world and avoid nuclear war, no matter the costs.
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* CompositeCharacter: They take traits from the original comic, movie, and the ''Before Watchmen'' comics.
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* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Part of the reason they never really got off the ground is that they don't really work well together at all.
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* IJustWantToBeNormal: Initially; she doesn't actually enjoy being a costumed vigilante and wanted to be a veterinarian instead.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: As he strays away from humanity through the years his tact begins to suffer. When Hollis Mason happily looks forward to spending his retirement repairing cars, Dr. Manhattan more or less informs him that electric cars will shortly make such work obsolete, seemingly unaware of what a bomb he'd just dropped on Hollis.
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* ClassicalAntiHero: Needs his costume to overcome his shortcomings.
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* GadgeteerGenius: Deconstructed. his gadgets are AwesomeButImpractical because most villains he fights are just normal people.
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** It's also Deconstructed since his gadgets are AwesomeButImpractical because most villains he fights are just normalpeople.people.
** Not just Archie, during that timeframe Dan had created a working exoskeleton, a tiny handheld laser gun, and night vision goggles that at least were as good as the stuff we have available nowadays.
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* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: With the twist that as Dan Dreiberg, he doesn't fake idiocy but instead pretends to be a harmless intellectual. After he retires, it's not so much an ''act...''
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* BeautyMark: Below her right eye, which is the exact same spot as her mother.
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* LaserGuidedKarma: After he nearly destroyed the world with The Manhattaning, he became the most wanted man in the world, with the Keene Act being lifted just to have heroes help hunt him down.
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* AdaptationOriginConnection:
** The radiation from his bomb accidentally caused Kimiyo Hoshi and a pregnant Miya Shimada to become ill and activate their meta-genes.
** His actions accidentally caused Lux Beata to conceive Alyce Sinner.
** The radiation from his bomb accidentally caused Kimiyo Hoshi and a pregnant Miya Shimada to become ill and activate their meta-genes.
** His actions accidentally caused Lux Beata to conceive Alyce Sinner.
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* IntelligenceEqualsIsolation: By his own admission. Part of what leads to his Evil Plan is that as the smartest man he believes it's up to him to find a solution but his loneliness means he either can't trust anyone's help or simply fails to see a better way
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* YouAreTooLate: Was originally the TropeNamer via "Thirty Five Minutes Ago", telling the Crimebusters he already set off the bombs.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: Deconstructed (naturally) with the Comedian. He is originally kicked out of the Minutemen for being this — not for being an AntiHero or HeroicComedicSociopath, but for trying to '''rape''' his teammate, Silk Spectre. He is then invited back to join the Crimebusters, but he himself torpedoes the group.
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* StopWorshippingMe: Dr. Manhattan is powerful enough to be considered divine, but resents being perceived this way. He says something like "I don't think there is a God, and if there is I don't think I'm anything like Him."
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* DatingWhatDaddyHates: Part of the reason she dated Dr. Manhattan as long as she did was to annoy her mother Sally.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Laurie [[LegacyCharacter inherited her mother's identity]], and mooches off of her romantic partners because she doesn't have any real skills outside of crime fighting.
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