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* EveryoneHatesMimes: Rorschach say that two things he hates are street mimes and the use of recreational drugs.
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* ComicBookMoviesDontUseCodenames: Ozymandias is only known as Adrian Veidt.
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* DiesDifferentlyInAdaptation: Captain Metropolis. In the comic, he’s mentioned to have died in a car crash long before the start of the story; here, he’s abandoned with the hostages in the Statue of Liberty as the other Watchmen flee the time bomb in the cold open.
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* BatmanColdOpen: The script begins with a botched rescue attempt at the UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty.

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* BatmanColdOpen: The script begins with a botched rescue attempt at the UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty.Art/StatueOfLiberty.
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This page, however, is not about that adaptation. ''This'' page is about the 1989 [[UnfortunateNames Sam Hamm]] rough draft script, which was never produced, but is just so balls-to-the-wall SoBadItsGood that it gets its very own page here at TV Tropes.

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This page, however, is not about that adaptation. ''This'' page is about the 1989 [[UnfortunateNames Sam Hamm]] Hamm rough draft script, which was never produced, but is just so balls-to-the-wall SoBadItsGood that it gets its very own page here at TV Tropes.
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* DeadpanSnarker: It’s hard to tell from the script itself (which makes him read as more {{camp}}), but the proposed casting of Creator/CharlesDance as Veidt contextualizes pretty much ‘’everything he says’’ as this:

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* DeadpanSnarker: It’s hard to tell from the script itself (which makes him read as more {{camp}}), but the proposed casting of Creator/CharlesDance as Veidt contextualizes pretty much ‘’everything ''everything he says’’ says'' as this:
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* BatmanColdOpen: The script begins with a otched rescue attempt at the UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty.

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* BatmanColdOpen: The script begins with a otched botched rescue attempt at the UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty.



* GainaxEnding: It ends with the complete destruction of the timeline of the ''Watchmen'' universe, [[WelcomeToTheRealWorld causing New York to revert to the real world.]] This is accomplished via Rorschach, Nite Owl, and Silk Spectre "spinning and tumbling through an otherdimensional funhouse of sound and color" until they land in Times Square, where a kid is reading ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' and excitedly shouts that he recognizes them. Then the police arrive. Cut to black.

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* GainaxEnding: It ends with the complete destruction of the timeline of the ''Watchmen'' universe, [[WelcomeToTheRealWorld causing New York to revert to the real world.]] This is accomplished via Rorschach, Nite Owl, and Silk Spectre "spinning and tumbling through an otherdimensional other-dimensional funhouse of sound and color" until they land in Times Square, where a kid is reading ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' and excitedly shouts that he recognizes them. Then the police arrive. Cut to black.
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* BatmanColdOpen: The script begins with a botched rescue attempt at the Statue of Liberty.

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* BatmanColdOpen: The script begins with a botched otched rescue attempt at the Statue of Liberty.UsefulNotes/StatueOfLiberty.
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Confusingly, Creator/AlanMoore actually ''[[ApprovalOfGod liked]]'' this script, which either makes him the greatest troll of all time or suggests that he thought it would just prove the inherent unfilmability of his work. Had it been produced, it likely would have starred Creator/RobinWilliams as Rorschach, Creator/CharlesDance as Adrian Veidt (he's never called Ozymandias in this script), Creator/JamieLeeCurtis as Silk Spectre, and Gary Busey as the Comedian.

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Confusingly, Creator/AlanMoore actually ''[[ApprovalOfGod liked]]'' this script, which either makes him the greatest troll of all time or suggests that he thought it would just prove the inherent unfilmability of his work. Had it been produced, it likely would have starred Creator/RobinWilliams as Rorschach, Creator/CharlesDance as Adrian Veidt (he's never called Ozymandias in this script), Creator/JamieLeeCurtis as Silk Spectre, and Gary Busey Creator/GaryBusey as the Comedian.
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Confusingly, Creator/AlanMoore actually ''liked'' this script, which either makes him the greatest troll of all time or suggests that he thought it would just prove the inherent unfilmability of his work. Had it been produced, it likely would have starred Creator/RobinWilliams as Rorschach, Creator/CharlesDance as Adrian Veidt (he's never called Ozymandias in this script), Creator/JamieLeeCurtis as Silk Spectre, and Gary Busey as the Comedian.

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Confusingly, Creator/AlanMoore actually ''liked'' ''[[ApprovalOfGod liked]]'' this script, which either makes him the greatest troll of all time or suggests that he thought it would just prove the inherent unfilmability of his work. Had it been produced, it likely would have starred Creator/RobinWilliams as Rorschach, Creator/CharlesDance as Adrian Veidt (he's never called Ozymandias in this script), Creator/JamieLeeCurtis as Silk Spectre, and Gary Busey as the Comedian.
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-->’’’Veidt:’’’ Then I’ve been a very bad boy and you’ll have to spank me.

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-->’’’Veidt:’’’ Then -->”Then I’ve been a very bad boy and you’ll have to spank me.
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* DeadpanSnarker: It’s hard to tell from the script itself (which makes him read as more {{camp}}), but the proposed casting of Creator/CharlesDance as Veidt contextualizes pretty much ‘’everything he says’’ as this.
—>’’’Veidt:’’’ Then I’ve been a very bad boy and you’ll have to spank me.

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* DeadpanSnarker: It’s hard to tell from the script itself (which makes him read as more {{camp}}), but the proposed casting of Creator/CharlesDance as Veidt contextualizes pretty much ‘’everything he says’’ as this.
—>’’’Veidt:’’’
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-->’’’Veidt:’’’
Then I’ve been a very bad boy and you’ll have to spank me.

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