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[[WMG: Silhouette is [[Film/{{Hellboy}} Kroenen's]] (the film version) sister]]

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[[WMG: Silhouette is [[Film/{{Hellboy}} [[Film/Hellboy2004 Kroenen's]] (the film version) sister]]
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[[WMG: Richard Nixon [[WhoShotJFK was behind the Kennedy assassination]] (either one) in the Watchmen timeline.]]
Nixon is given somewhat of a HistoricalVillainUpgrade given he's used as a sign of the CrapsackWorld of Watchmen, recklessly authorized Dr Manhattan and is good friends with the amoral Comedian. It's heavily implied the Comedian killed Woodward and Bernstein under Nixon's orders. And he was guarding Nixon during the JFK assassination, which the Comedian had a hand in(in ComicBook/BeforeWatchmen, he's guilty of the RFK assassination). If you accept the movie or the quip in the original comic as Eddie Blake being who killed President Kennedy, Nixon may have done it out of losing to him in 1960. That, and get rid of the competition which might have been why RFK was shot in this timeline.
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*** The "UnfortunateImplications" are in the masculinity being a sign of being [[AmbiguouslyGay metrosexual]] instead of gay. HardGay is a trope [[ThisExists for a reason]].

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*** The "UnfortunateImplications" are in the masculinity being a sign of being [[AmbiguouslyGay metrosexual]] instead of gay. HardGay is a trope [[ThisExists for a reason]].
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They were married 35 minutes ago and they had babies who were half-man, half-genetically altered lynx. And those babies were [[PoisonOakEpilepticTrees gay]].

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They were married 35 minutes ago and they had babies who were half-man, half-genetically altered lynx. And those babies were [[PoisonOakEpilepticTrees [[WMG/PoisonOakEpilepticTrees gay]].
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He's travelling between worlds and either creates or enpowers from shadows many beings, trying to create perfect companion for him. Hoever, he's not happy with results of those experiments for some reasons and just left them live in their worlds, despite consequences. He's responsible for creating [[{{Hellsing}} Alucard]], LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya, at last one of [[Creator/HPLovecraft Elder Gods]], Manga/{{Akira}}, [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Adam, Lilith]], [[Webcomic/{{Mindmistress}} Sisters of Twillight]], [[Series/TheTwilightZone Anthony Fremont]], WebOriginal/{{Zalgo}}, [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Willow Rosenburg]] and many others.

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He's travelling between worlds and either creates or enpowers from shadows many beings, trying to create perfect companion for him. Hoever, he's not happy with results of those experiments for some reasons and just left them live in their worlds, despite consequences. He's responsible for creating [[{{Hellsing}} [[Manga/{{Hellsing}} Alucard]], LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya, at last one of [[Creator/HPLovecraft Elder Gods]], Manga/{{Akira}}, [[Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion Adam, Lilith]], [[Webcomic/{{Mindmistress}} Sisters of Twillight]], [[Series/TheTwilightZone Anthony Fremont]], WebOriginal/{{Zalgo}}, [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Willow Rosenburg]] and many others.
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* How about this: Doctor Manhattan created the universe ''Comicbook/AllStarSuperman'' takes place in. Within that universe, Superman created our Earth. So Doctor Manhattan is our Earth's grandfather.

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* How about this: Doctor Manhattan created the universe ''Comicbook/AllStarSuperman'' ''ComicBook/AllStarSuperman'' takes place in. Within that universe, Superman created our Earth. So Doctor Manhattan is our Earth's grandfather.
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* How about this: Doctor Manhattan created the universe AllStarSuperman takes place in. Within that universe, Superman created our Earth. So Doctor Manhattan is our Earth's grandfather.

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* How about this: Doctor Manhattan created the universe AllStarSuperman ''Comicbook/AllStarSuperman'' takes place in. Within that universe, Superman created our Earth. So Doctor Manhattan is our Earth's grandfather.
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*How about this: Doctor Manhattan created the universe AllStarSuperman takes place in. Within that universe, Superman created our Earth. So Doctor Manhattan is our Earth's grandfather.




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*Interestingly enough, Thunderbolt, the superhero on whom Ozymandias was based, shares a name with Lovecraftian writer Peter Cannon. Moore is a Lovecraft fan, so maybe he knew that.




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** He could have developed psychic powers as a technique he learned in Tibet, during his youth travels.
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* Expanding on that, every universe has a limited amount of superpower-giving energy, that's different for each universe but constant in every particular universe (for example, our real world has zero super-energy, while the Marvel or DC universes have huge amounts which allows the existence of multiple cosmic-level entities). The Watchmen universe has a smaller reserve than the big super-hero universes, but nonetheless enough for birthing a respectable number of superhumans, but when Jon Osterman was transformed to Doctor Manhattan he used all the super-energy of his universe, leaving his world unable to manifest other superbeings not only from that moment on, but even retroactively for all history (after all Manhattan lives out of normal time). As a result people who should have been superpowered is now only human, but subconsciously they feel the need to have an heroic (or villainous) identity, that's why in that world apparently normal people dress in strange costumes and fight (or commit) crime. The Silk Spectres should be able to walk through walls, Mothman of real flight, Hooded Justice be super-strong, Rorschach maybe have wolverine-like powers, Moloch have real magic and Ozymandias should be a regular flying brick. And like that every other hero and villain including the ones that we don't see but are hinted to exist off-panel.
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* Or, alternately, the word never came into use for gay women, as it is believed that it would be disrespect to the Greeks who fought with the [[ThreeHundred 300 Spartans]]...

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* Or, alternately, the word never came into use for gay women, as it is believed that it would be disrespect to the Greeks who fought with the [[ThreeHundred [[Film/ThreeHundred 300 Spartans]]...
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And his full name is Byron [[TheTick Arthur]] Lewis.

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And his full name is Byron [[TheTick [[ComicBook/TheTick Arthur]] Lewis.
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[[WMG: The Alien Squid really IS an alien....]]
But Ozymandias simply added a few genetic tweaks to it.
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*** No, to borrow from Mythbusters, PLAUSIBLE. There's nowhere in the comic or movie that actually says whether Carnage lived or died, and without data, you can have no conclusion. He's in [[SchrodingersCat Schr�dinger's Elevator Shaft]], neither alive nor dead.

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*** No, to borrow from Mythbusters, PLAUSIBLE. There's nowhere in the comic or movie that actually says whether Carnage lived or died, and without data, you can have no conclusion. He's in [[SchrodingersCat [[UsefulNotes/SchrodingersCat Schr�dinger's Elevator Shaft]], neither alive nor dead.
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[[WMG: Rorschach is RickAstley's half brother]]

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[[WMG: Rorschach is RickAstley's Music/RickAstley's half brother]]
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As mentioned in the above WMG, there is an Earth that is a DC-ified version of the Watchmen comic. At the end of Watchmen, Jon mentions that he might create some humans of his own. Well after InfiniteCrisis, Jon takes advantage of the newly reborn Multiverse to make his Earth (and universe). And he actually managed to make it better (in that it his counterpart isn't as removed as him and that it doesn't appear that a giant squid had destroyed New York).

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As mentioned in the above WMG, there is an Earth that is a DC-ified version of the Watchmen comic. At the end of Watchmen, Jon mentions that he might create some humans of his own. Well after InfiniteCrisis, ComicBook/InfiniteCrisis, Jon takes advantage of the newly reborn Multiverse to make his Earth (and universe). And he actually managed to make it better (in that it his counterpart isn't as removed as him and that it doesn't appear that a giant squid had destroyed New York).
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[[WMG: Rorschach didn't die. He was sent back in time and to an alternate universe to become [[GranTorino Walt Kowalski]]]]

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[[WMG: Rorschach didn't die. He was sent back in time and to an alternate universe to become [[GranTorino [[Film/GranTorino Walt Kowalski]]]]
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It'll take place in TheNineties and be a deconstruction of the ComicBook/{{X-Men}} with Veidt taking responsibility for the BizarreBabyBoom he created. "Mrs. Hollis" will be hired as TeamMom since she's the only person who's had long-term experience with an actual super-powered being, but she's not very useful because she's not used to super-powered beings with actual ([[TeensAreMonsters and out of control]]) emotions; plus there's that whole "teaming up with the mass murderer who framed her lover" thing.

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It'll take place in TheNineties and be a deconstruction of the ComicBook/{{X-Men}} ComicBook/XMen with Veidt taking responsibility for the BizarreBabyBoom he created. "Mrs. Hollis" will be hired as TeamMom since she's the only person who's had long-term experience with an actual super-powered being, but she's not very useful because she's not used to super-powered beings with actual ([[TeensAreMonsters and out of control]]) emotions; plus there's that whole "teaming up with the mass murderer who framed her lover" thing.
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* [[DoomRepercussionsOfEvil The Doom Marine's name has been revealed as John Stalvern]]. Why would Blake change his name?

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* [[DoomRepercussionsOfEvil [[Fanfic/DoomRepercussionsOfEvil The Doom Marine's name has been revealed as John Stalvern]]. Why would Blake change his name?
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* The head of the rabbit costume from DonnieDarko. Time Paradox away!

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* The head of the rabbit costume from DonnieDarko.''Film/DonnieDarko''. Time Paradox away!
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Until Moore and Gibbons put out their own sequel, nothing in Watchmen can be jossed by information from Before Watchmen and Doomsday Clock...you can cite those entries and examples but use them only as speculation and not as Confirmation...


[[WMG: Every single WMG is now Jossed.]]
Have you read Doomsday Clock?


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[[WMG: Every single %% WHEN PLACING ENTRIES DISCUSSING WMG is now Jossed.]]
Have you read Doomsday Clock?

FOR WATCHMEN, KEEP IN MIND THAT THE ORIGINAL COMIC BY MOORE AND GIBBONS IS STANDALONE BY CREATORS AND THE PUBLIC FOR NEARLY THIRTY REAL-WORLD YEARS.





[[spoiler:'''Confirmed'''. As in {{ComicBook/DoomsdayClock DoomsdayClock}}, the world is in nuclear war.]]

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[[spoiler:'''Confirmed'''. [[spoiler: As in {{ComicBook/DoomsdayClock DoomsdayClock}}, the world is in nuclear war.]]
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[[WMG: Every single WMG is now Jossed.]]
Have you read Doomsday Clock?

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[[Spoiler:'''Confirmed'''. See {{ComicBook/DoomsdayClock}}, but they are in nuclear war.]]

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[[Spoiler:'''Confirmed'''. See {{ComicBook/DoomsdayClock}}, but they are [[spoiler:'''Confirmed'''. As in {{ComicBook/DoomsdayClock DoomsdayClock}}, the world is in nuclear war.]]
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[[Spoiler:'''Confirmed'''. See {{ComicBook/DoomsdayClock}}, but they are in nuclear war.]]
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* This is somewhat like the planned Terry Gillam treatment for the film. There, Roarschach's journal is published, Ozy's plan is exposed, nuclear war ensues. Dr Manhattan reboots the world to a world where vigilante impact on history is removed - our world!
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[[WMG: The book is a sequel to ''CodeGeass'']]

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[[WMG: The book is a sequel to ''CodeGeass'']]''Anime/CodeGeass'']]
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*** I think I speak for everyone when I say that this WMG has gotten way out of hand even by TVTropes laid-back standards.

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*** I think I speak for everyone when I say that this WMG has gotten way out of hand even by TVTropes Wiki/TVTropes laid-back standards.
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[[WMG: AlanMoore believes PsychicPowers are real]]
One of the biggest criticisms of the comic is that it is a fairly hard sci-fi setting, which could exist in the real world except for the [[Mohns/OneBigLie One Big Lie]] of Dr. Manhattan... that is until the very end when PsychicPowers are revealed to exist with no explanation or foreshadowing. This could be because the author believes that Psychics aren't a sci-fi element at all, but something that is part of the real world that could be enhanced with the more advanced tech of the Watchmen universe, just like genetic engineering and the physical sciences were. This is AlanMoore we're talking about, after all.

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[[WMG: AlanMoore Creator/AlanMoore believes PsychicPowers are real]]
One of the biggest criticisms of the comic is that it is a fairly hard sci-fi setting, which could exist in the real world except for the [[Mohns/OneBigLie One Big Lie]] of Dr. Manhattan... that is until the very end when PsychicPowers are revealed to exist with no explanation or foreshadowing. This could be because the author believes that Psychics aren't a sci-fi element at all, but something that is part of the real world that could be enhanced with the more advanced tech of the Watchmen universe, just like genetic engineering and the physical sciences were. This is AlanMoore Creator/AlanMoore we're talking about, after all.
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Doctor Manhattan threw him into another Universe (as evidenced by his cameos in the Marvel Universe, Kingdom Come, {{Top Ten}}, and an AU Books of Magic graphic novel, there might even be more cameos of him than just this), so Rorschach's journey is to find portal back to his world and undo the future that is Veidt and his giant squid.

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Doctor Manhattan threw him into another Universe (as evidenced by his cameos in the Marvel Universe, Kingdom Come, {{Top Ten}}, ComicBook/TopTen, and an AU Books of Magic graphic novel, there might even be more cameos of him than just this), so Rorschach's journey is to find portal back to his world and undo the future that is Veidt and his giant squid.
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A Man Is Not A Virgin is no longer a trope.


Think about it. Rorschach is a CelibateHero depicted as having a total fear of anything sexual, which is implied to be the result of a [[FreudianExcuse messed up childhood]]. It wouldn't be too far off to suggest that Rorschach is a subversion of AManIsNotAVirgin.

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Think about it. Rorschach is a CelibateHero depicted as having a total fear of anything sexual, which is implied to be the result of a [[FreudianExcuse messed up childhood]]. It wouldn't be too far off to suggest that Rorschach is a subversion of AManIsNotAVirgin.virgin.
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** According to ImAMArvelAndImADC, Rorschach himself is after the people who want to make Watchmen 2. On the other hand, Deadpool's interference with his interrogations might hinder his attempts a bit...

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** According to ImAMArvelAndImADC, ''WebVideo/ImAMArvelAndImADC'', Rorschach himself is after the people who want to make Watchmen 2. On the other hand, Deadpool's interference with his interrogations might hinder his attempts a bit...

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