![]() Meanwhile, Daniel and Rorschach escape the police and keep investigating who is behind the Comedian’s death, Rorschach’s framing, and the attempted assassination of Veidt. ![]() ![]() Jon agrees to return to Earth with Laurie and save humanity. Laurie debates with Jon about nihilism and the meaning of life and helps him to see that human life has its own meaning, even without God or any guiding force, simply because it is phenomenally improbable that life can exist at all. Jon tells Laurie that he feels utterly disconnected from the human race and needs Laurie to convince him to return to Earth and prevent World War III. However, the police already suspect Dan and Laurie of being illegal vigilantes, and they arrive at Daniel’s house immediately after Rorschach disappears from prison.Īs the police are banging on Daniel’s door, Jon appears in his living room and teleports himself and Laurie back to Mars. During a prison riot, Rorschach fights his way through the other inmates and Dan and Laurie pick him up in their airship. After becoming Nite Owl again, Dan feels reenergized and decides that they must break Rorschach out of prison. Meanwhile, Laurie and Daniel come out of retirement for one night and go adventuring as Silk Spectre and Nite Owl, mainly as a way to combat their boredom and sense of helplessness against the looming threat of World War III. The police arrest Rorschach and imprison him, and Rorschach reveals his backstory to the criminal psychiatrist Malcolm Long: how he grew up in an abusive home and created the persona Rorschach to punish evil-doers. Rorschach, still investigating the “mask-killer conspiracy,” walks into a trap and is framed for murdering Moloch, a retired villain. He is also super-intelligent, and earth’s technological progress leaps forward several decades with Jon’s new scientific insights.Īn assassin attempts to kill Adrian Veidt, but fails and dies in the process. As a superhuman, Jon is not only physically powerful but also experiences every moment in history all at once-he can see both the future and the past. The government immediately enlisted him as a weapon and used him to win the Vietnam War. Manhattan when he was caught in an experimental machine that tore his body apart with radiation, after which he learned to make himself a new superhuman body. Manhattan so upset that he teleports himself to Mars, and the Russians quickly take their opportunity to begin invading the Middle East and occupying new territory. ![]() Manhattan is America’s ultimate weapon against Soviet expansion, a reporter accuses him of causing dozens of former friends’ and lovers’ terminal cancer. Laurie, currently dating Jon, feels neglected by him and leaves him to date Daniel. At Edward Blake’s funeral, Daniel, Jon, and Adrian recall their memories of the Comedian-all of them remember him as vicious, even murderous. Manhattan), and Adrian Veidt (Ozymandias), though none of them take Rorschach’s theory seriously. Believing that he has discovered a “mask-killer conspiracy,” Rorschach warns several other retired vigilantes, including Daniel Dreiberg (Nite Owl), Laurie Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre), Jon Osterman (the superhuman Dr. After the police leave, the costumed vigilante Rorschach enters Blake’s apartment and starts his own investigation, quickly discovering that Blake was the Comedian, another masked vigilante. In 1985, detectives investigate the death of Edward Blake in New York City, after an intruder threw him through the window of his high-rise apartment.
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