Human Morality In The Watchmen

The movie is full of wonderful conversation, art, characters and everything else that makes comic-superhero films so unique. What The Watchmen does that is above what almost any other film is able to do is to be filled with numerous layers. A key topic that is tackled throughout this film is human morality, particularly in the difference between tyranny, the concept that truth and morals are absolute not up for interpretation, and each of the masked adventurers seems to have a altered way of how to handle this.

At one extreme end we have Rorschach. Rorschach is the prime example of tyranny, he believes that all felons should be penalized for their crimes and often punishes drastically different levels of offenders in similarly vicious ways (for example, he murders both a serial rapist and a common mugger). A repeated mantra of his which emerges several times during this movie.

At the other extreme is the Comedian. While the Comedian's own ethics are cast unclear through the film. Dr. Manhattan claims that the Comedian is "deliberately amoral", while Rorschach sees the Comedians wrong doings as "moral lapses". Yet, his tendencies are clearly shown at the first gathering of the “Crimebusters” in 1966, when he enlightens them

The Comedian was not the best of guys in his younger life and showed little respect to anyone. Dr. Manhattan is flawed in my opinion as well. While some may not even consider him a superhero and more of a ‘superhero’ he is flawed. I consider him flawed in that he has little to no preference: he chooses the occupation his father sets out for him, his girlfriend ends up asking him out, his alteration is the result of negligence, not choice (Ozymandias chose every thing about himself, insomuch as he was able), and once omnipotent allows himself to be a pawn, hides from his father, and he feels forced to a detailed track through