![]() ![]() He has no connection to human realities, only to marketing abstractions and stories and dreams and nightmares that he thinks tell him everything he needs to know. He’s living, almost literally, in an ivory tower, away from people. Remember, again, that Veidt is disconnected. The one haunting shot we get of his crazed eyes as he prepares to throw Blake out of the window confirms it. Egotistical, yes, but also unstable-this man is not okay. He’s explaining his backstory to a room full of dead men. One of my favorite scenes in the comic is when Veidt is explaining his origin story to his servants at Karnak and we see the butterfly land on one of their noses-and we realize, slowly, that he’s poisoned them. Instead, the protagonist himself becomes the threat that he sought to fight: a murderous madman, much like Veidt.) The protagonist is so certain that his family and town are either dead or traitorous that he murders his wife, who, it is suggested, was never in any real danger. Veidt either misinterprets or ignores the implications of the ending. (The Black Freighter, of course, serves as a metaphor for Veidt’s journey-we don’t get to see what Veidt is up to until the latter chapters, so the Black Freighter stands in. Veidt even hints that he dreams of swimming towards the Black Freighter at the end, another sign that he is immersing himself in pop culture on a constant basis. “Just me and the world.” He also recruits Max Shea (a pirate comics writer), Hira Manish (a surrealist painter), James Trafford March (a sci-fi author), and Robert Deschaines (a psychic) for his designs. Remember how he’s been isolating himself in his skyscraper and Antarctica? He’s also been watching TV nonstop-an entire wall of TV screens, changing channels every hundred seconds. Pop culture, nuclear anxiety, and madnessīut this all ignores the fact that Veidt is not doing well. 'without stain'?" If he had paid attention to Rorschach, he would have followed up and discovered the journal: the journal that Moore plants at the end to tell us that, as Manhattan hints to Veidt’s great displeasure, “nothing ever ends,” and Ozy’s successes are short-lived at best. As a reliable witness, Rorschach is hardly. in all likelihood it's of no consequence. He lets Dan and Laurie walk out alive-after all, he needs an audience for his ego!-and also lets Rorschach walk out the door, paying him no mind and even cracking a joke: "Ah well. Speaking of Rorschach, Veidt’s elitism again cripples him at the end. Somebody really had it in for this guy." They comment on how strong someone would have to be to throw Blake out of a window. Even the detectives clock the suspicious crime: "I mean, what is this? A little money got stolen, but no way is this a straight burglary. This is incredibly sloppy, alerting Rorschach to the Comedian’s death immediately. “I merely regret his accidental involvement,” Veidt says-but as the audience, we know that he relished the chance to justify to himself what he’d always wanted to do. How does Veidt react to this? When he discovers the Comedian has learned of his plan, he doesn’t hire an assassin or poison him or what have you: he personally goes to Blake’s apartment and beats him within an inch of his life (Blake is never shown fighting back, by the way!) before throwing him out of a window. it would certainly be on my terms.") Later, Blake again embarrasses him at the Crimebusters meeting. I also swore that when next I met Blake or any other foe, though perhaps not on my territory. He takes time out of his victory monologue at the end to describe how the Comedian once beat the shit out of him and how he swore revenge. He views himself as above normal human beings and isolates himself from them in his skyscraper and in Antarctica. He clearly resents Manhattan for transcending humanity and desperately works to prove his mettle against the world’s only superhuman. He measures himself by men who, in actuality, are remembered for impressive, but brief/faded successes (Alexander, Rameses II). The comic not only rejects this notion-that Veidt’s plan would have succeeded in the medium- to long-term-but also paints Veidt as an irrational, emotional madman and pop culture addict who fell victim to his own nightmares and brought three million people with him. This is a fundamental misunderstanding of Ozymandias as a character and Watchmen as a whole. ![]() One of the pervasive takes on this subreddit is some form of “Ozymandias did something evil/bad, but he did it for a good reason/was right/brought about peace.” ![]() If You Don't Like My Story, Write Your Own Don't comment on non-spoiler posts without using spoiler "code" >!Your Text Here!!Your Text Here! ![]()
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