History Characters / Watchmen

* TheLastDance: The elderly, long-retired Hollis puts up a fight against his murderers before they kill him.

* OldSuperhero: He retired long before the story began.

* IronicEcho: His "left hook" quote advice. We hear it again during Dr. Manhattan's flashback but there Mason outright admits that that is all he has to fight crime, compared to Manhattan and his godlike power.

* IronicEcho: His "left hook" quote advice. We hear it again during Dr. Manhattan's flashback but there we hear that that is all Mason knows to fight crime, compared to Manhattan and his godlike power.

* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Wrote an autobiography called ''Under The Hood'' about his superhero career.

* ImpracticallyFancyOutfit: He attempt to wear a cowl when he was starting out in super heroics. He got rid of it after he kept tripping on it.
* IronicEcho: His "left hook" quote advice. We hear it again during Dr. Manhattan's flashback but there we hear that that is all Mason knows to fight crime, compared to Manhattan and his godlike power.

** She immediately (along with Nite Owl) leaps back into costume to rescue people from a tenement fire, despite the fact that she could be arrested on sight for unauthorized superheroing.

* WouldHitAGirl: First time when he assaults Silk Spectre and the second time when he and Nite Owl are doing riot control. He also ''killed'' a woman who was pregnant with his child!

* GreaterScopeVillain: If one thinks about it, The Comedian is the true villain of Watchmen's story. It was he who [[spoiler: gives Ozymandias the idea to try and "save the world"]], he [[spoiler: tries to rape the first Silk Spectre]], sows seeds of doubt in the second Nite Owl and drives him away from being a superhero, and is the even more depraved, morally bankrupt version of [[KnightTemplar Rorschach]], who, quite ironically, idolizes him. If it weren't for his cynicism and cruelty, perhaps Watchmen might have had a happier ending for all.

* WhoShotJFK: He's also implicated to be behind Woodward and Bernstein's deaths (which didn't happen in our timeline), although this is much more speculative. In the movie, the assassination is shown outright, and The Comedian also remarks while he's violently dealing with an angry mob: "I haven't had this much fun since Woodward and Bernstein!"

* GreaterScopeVillain: If one thinks about it, The Comedian is the true villain of Watchmen's story. It was he who [[spoiler: gives Ozymandias the idea to try and 'save the world']], he [[spoiler: tries to rape Silk Spectre's mom]], sows seeds of doubt in the second Nite Owl and drives him away from being a superhero, and is the even more depraved, morally bankrupt version of [[KnightTemplar Rorschach]], who, quite ironically, idolizes him. If it weren't for his cynicism and cruelty, perhaps Watchmen might have had a happier ending for all.

* GreaterScopeVillain: If one thinks about it, The Comedian is the true villain of Watchmen's story. It was him who [[spoiler: gave Ozymandias the idea to try and 'save the world']], he [[spoiler: raped Silk Spectre's mom]], sowed seeds of doubt in Nite Owl and drove him away from being a superhero, and is the even more depraved, morally bankrupt version of Rorschach (even those as [[KnightTemplar insane]] as Rorschach's.) If it weren't for his cynicism and cruelty, perhaps the ending of Watchmen might have been better.

* GlasgowGrin: Half of one, courtesy of his upset [[AsianBabymama Vietnamese girlfriend]]. Laurie notices how it made him look like he had a permeant smirk or sneer on his face.

* TheGadfly: He invokes this trope in his early career, using jester costume to show society their own dark side, but [[ViewersAreMorons nobody got the joke]], so he quit and just tried to be a {{Troll}}. Until the Crime Busters reunion, where he managed at last to be TheGadfly without even trying by trolling every hero but making Veidt see the truth.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Genuinely attempted to connect with Laurie on two separate occasions and notably didn't react [[BerserkButton the way he usually does]] after she lashed out at him in public and dashed him in the face with a drink. [[AllThereInTheManual According to the RPG]], he was also composing a letter to her before Ozymandias killed him. He also had real feelings for Sally Jupiter and stayed away from Laurie out of respect for her. As much of an amoral, callous asshole he is, he at least cares about the family he could've had.

* DisproportionateRetribution: His most brutal on-screen acts take place in response to attacks upon his person...which he provoked.
* DominoMask: The only thing he wears on his face. However, after getting a nasty face scar from a Vietnamese girl he impregnated, he switches to a leather gimp mask.

* CorruptedCharacterCopy: Of Peacemaker. The Comedian also looks a lot like Bucky in his Minuteman days who somehow grew into a wise-cracking, cigar-smoking, woman-beating version of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica. His CaptainPatriotic elements and wartime status come from ComicBook/TheShield, whom he was going to be in the ''very'' earliest pitch of ''Watchmen.'' Not only that, in his path from being a dashing young war hero in WWII to his later life as a top super-spy with a fondness for cigars, greying temples, and a facial scar, he bears a strong resemblance to the original ComicBook/NickFury.

* CoolOldGuy: Remained a very effective solo agent right up until his death at sixty-one. "Cool" doesn't necessarily mean "nice".
* CombatPragmatist: Prefers guns and a straight fighting style over the more stylized moves others use.

* CarpetOfVirility: When he was with the new generation, his uniform let his chest hair open.

* CannotSpitItOut: A justified example; he can never tell Laurie outright that he is her father and that he wants a genuine positive parental relationship with her, largely due to his inability to live down once attempting to rape Sally Jupiter (her mother), battering her and breaking her ribs in the process. Sally for her part tells the Comedian to back away when the latter tries to talk to Laurie as a teen, and The Comedian respects her wishes to not tell Laurie who her father is.

* BoringButPractical: He tends to rely on simple boxing moves while fighting and using his considerable strength as well as using whatever weapons he can to end fights as quickly as possible, in sharp contrast to the flashier martial arts moved used by the others.

* TheChessmaster: Engineered the whole villainous plot.

* CannotSpitItOut: A justified example; he could never tell Laurie outright that he was her father and that he wanted a genuine positive parental relationship with her. That's because he could never live down attempting to rape her mother once and breaking her ribs when she refused, as Laurie bitterly recounts to Rorschach. Sally for her part tells the Comedian to back away when the latter talks to Laurie as a teen, and The Comedian respected her wishes to not tell Laurie who her father is.

* BecomingTheMask: At one point Rorschach theorizes that The Comedian took on his persona in order to become a satirical reflection of society's corruption. If this theory is true (Rorschach is hardly an unbiased observer), Blake appears to have gotten into the part a bit too much. Also, he [[DefiedTrope defies this trope]] when he discovers Ozymandias' plan and raves about it to Moloch: [[EvenEvilHasStandards He discovers that even he cannot laugh this off as another joke]]:

* DeadpanSnarker: It's his whole shtick.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He originally invokes TheGadfly trope, trying to show society its own dark side with a jester-like costume, but when that image fails to gain traction with the public, he quits that idea and settled into being a {{Troll}}. Come the Crimebusters meeting, he manages to be TheGadfly without even trying by showing the truth to young crimefighter and idealist Ozymandias (Adrian Veidt). This results in Blake crossing the DespairEventHorizon when he discovers Veidt's EvilPlan, forcing SarcasmFailure in The Comedian.

* TheGadfly: He invoked this trope in his early career, using jester costume to show society their own dark side, but [[ViewersAreMorons nobody got the joke]], so he quit and just tried to be a {{Troll}}. Until the Crime Busters reunion, where he managed at last to be TheGadfly without even trying by trolling every hero but making Veidt see the truth.

* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: He invoked TheGadfly trope trying to show society their own dark side with a jester-like costume. When that persona failed to get traction with the public, he quit that idea and settled into being a {{Troll}}. Until the Crime Busters reunion, when he at least managed to be TheGadfly without even trying by showing the truth to Veidt. This would result in the Comedian crossing the DespairEventHorizon when he discovered Veidt's EvilPlan, forcing SarcasmFailure in The Comedian.

* TheBeard: For Hooded Justice, to hide his affair with Captain Metropolis.

* BashBrothers: With Rorschach.

* TheParagon: Many saw him as the best and most successful of the team considering he'd managed to maintain a stable superhero career through sheer strategy and skill. He was known for being considerably successful and was the last person anyone suspected of being the BigBad.

* PyrrhicVictory: Not only does his plan destroy him, he isn't even sure it worked and ask Jon if it was worth it.

** He also takes great personal satisfaction in denying the nihilist Comedian his "last laugh at the world's expense".