What Character, Where Is God In The Watchmen?

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Who watches the watchmen? The WATCHMAN chronicles the lives of six “masked adventurers” all with their own tragic and violent pasts and current day prejudices. They are no strangers to violence and often put their own personal needs/ desires in front of those of the common good. Not exactly the benevolent, self-sacrificing behavior we often associate with superheroes or God. COMIC BOOK SLIDE Captain America. Wonder woman. Superman. Nightshade. All superheroes immortalized in graphic novels. All masked vigilantes charged with saving humankind from danger and from themselves. We perceive them as god-like creatures, ethereal beings who literally hold the power of life and death in their hands. It is what draws us to them, the idea that there is something larger than us…someone tangible and of pure intention and heart to constantly defend the rights of the persecuted and forgotten. One who would gladly give up their own lives to save ours. Where is God in the Watchmen. What character, what humble costume adventurer exhibits those Godly attributes?

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Rorschach, a classic anti-hero, after describing his vigilante killing of a child-murder comes to the realistically depressing realization that God has no place in this world, that he can neither be blamed for nor expected to fix the depraved world we have created for ourselves. “The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood, and when the drain finally scabs over, all the vermin will drown.” (Rorschach) He believes in an absolute difference between right and wrong and staunchly believes that evil doers should be punished and is not afraid to take on the role of judge and executioner. There is no room for atonement of sins in his form of

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