Couldn't he have just disintegrated all the nukes?
Couldn't he have just disintegrated all the nukes?
No
He probably eventually could but he's still kind of new to the whole god being thing. Pretty sure in the comics it states he’d only be able to catch like 60% of USSR nukes before getting counter-nuked
Couldn’t he have just disintegrated all the Russians?
sorry it was more important he disintegrate the racist incel chud because the comic writers hate having interesting characters
Alan Moore is a shitty writer. Watchman was a big deal because a grumpy Englishman took goofy American capeshit characters and made them edgy. Literally all he does. Took a big shit on Harry Potter in the third volume of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Big wow.
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No, it was literally stated in the comic that he wasn't powerful enough to stop the entire Soviet arsenal if they were all launched at once. He was never originally written to be omnipotent, just pretty strong within his own universe.
The entire point of his character is that even as a "God" he can't prevent things from happening even if he wanted to.
sorry chud but dr. manhattan is a black woman now, refer to her as such
can form an entire human body out of randomly-floating atoms
can't stop a couple dozen missiles in mid-flight
in the comic they dont know until like 30 minutes after it happened right?
Both the U.S. and Soviet Union have arsenals numbering in the thousands, far more than actual real life Cold War peaks. Both sides massively overbuilt their stockpiles out of fear that Dr. Manhattan might try to neutralize them
how do you launch missiles without an button?
why didnt he ask the atoms
Human body is made out of more than a thousands of atoms.
I thought the idea was he could have, but he wanted to convince them to do it because who wants to micromanage humanity for the rest of eternity when you could trick it into behaving?
He literally couldn't. He can't stop shit because he sees the future in linear terms, AKA it HAS happened, or it WILL happen. He can't stop anything outside of his own initiative even if he wanted too. His character is absolutely useless in the grand scheme of things. It's the entire reason why he retreats to Mars and eventually leaves forever to fuck off larping as God. He can't change or make humans do something different whatever the outcome. It's the basis on why he kills Rorschach in the first place.
dozens
Retard, even after decades of nuclear disarmament Russia still has 1,700 missiles on launch ready alert including hundreds on submarines that could be just miles of US coastlines
But he doesn't leave forever, he goes to a moon of Jupiter and makes a dome of breathable atmosphere where he recreates the English manor that he was evacuated to during WW2, complete with clones of the couple who owned it but now they're servants in their own facsimile house. He gets bored with that and returns to earth to hook up with a black American woman working as a cop in Saigon. Didn't you watch the show?
ligma
They already addressed this you dumb idiot.
Prove it
He can multiply at will, why doesn't he make 10k clones ? Or 100k if needed ? Or grow Galactus size to litteraly stomp russia ?
He just didn’t want to get involved, ok? Get the fuck off his back
Harry Potter in the third volume of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Big wow.
qrd? I only read the first 2 when I was a teenager and have only ever flirted with the idea of buying the 3rd... but your post makes me think it's not worth at all
LoEG goes steadily downhill from the first two volumes. You did the right thing.
Couldn't he have just not become a nigger?
He doesn't interfere anymore.
No, not really. Dr. Manhattan's powers are vastly overestimated... Yes, he can see the future, past, etc.
But only in his vicinity.
He can't really dismantle every single warhead on a whim.
He is omnipresent about time but consciously in his own experience, he is omnipotent but consciously.
He can't just say "this random person in the world will get testicular torsion" and then it happens.
It is outright stated by himself in the movie that he could not, he could get a lot of them but would miss some. In the graphic novel it's stated as a report by the U.S government.
It went downhill as soon as alien shit started
why doesn't he
he doesnt care
The point is and always has been "doomsday weapons bad", more specifically "doomsday weapons ultimately pointless/ineffectual"
The entire movie/comic Manhattan's PR propaganda beats you over the head with how perfect and unstoppable he is whilst Manhattan and everything that happens in his life shows you how flawed, broken and in actuality entirely human he is
Manhattan is the stand in for the nuke, him being useless and wrong every time it counts (wrong about Laurie, wrong about Ozy, wrong about his own abilities and even his own emotions) is Moore telling you as directly as possible that when it comes to it the nuke is not going to save you, it's not capable of saving you and it never could, save yourself
How the fuck you still need this spelling out in 2025 is beyond me, this is a very simple story, it's a comic book you fucking clod
I mean couldn't he just teleport to Russia and just pop Putin like he did Rorsach? Hey Russian faggots, *snaps fingers*, well there goes Putin....anybody else want to launch nukes gets the same fucking treatment. It's pretty fucking simple. You threaten every single country's leader that they'd get turned into fucking Nickoldeon slime and nobody bothers with war or threats of nuclear winter.
Why didn't Rorschach heat up the beans?
Fine like this.
Manhattan is not omniscient. The implications of that limitation are readily apparent to anyone who isn't retarded.
yes
nukes have already saved countless lives by stopping more World Wars. Moore is a faggot retard like everyone else who knocks nukes.
you weren't even born when the soviet union fell, you haven't existed in a world where fear of nuclear was was omnipresent
The entire point of the movie was he didn't care about humans any more. The entire adventure started by Vieght is what led him to realize that there was meaning in life and why he self exiled in the end because he was sick of everything.
Dr. Manhattan didn't want to save the world.
The entire point of the movie was he didn't care about humans any more
That's what you think the entire point of Watchmen was?
Then there wouldn't be a movie. This is like asking why couldn't Thanos just make more resources. It's the obvious answer but the film makers won't do that because it makes too much sense.
He could but then he'd have nothing to complain about
No. the entire point of the movie was a deconstruction of the super hero and a questioning of what the hero is supposed to care about ie. human lives or moral character.
the point of the movie in regards to Dr. Manhattan was his ambivalence to humanity
He can change almost anything
Then Doomsday Clock happened and its entire conflict boiled down to Superman calling Jon a pussy for not killing himself to prove his detachment from humanity
He was projecting his own lack of meaning onto humanity. He saw no need to save them because he viewed himself as a lost cause who was already past saving
why doesnt he just dismantle them before theyre ever shot
He was an essentially an omnipotent, omniscient being, and his entire arc is slowly losing his humanity due to us being a pack of niggers so from a galactic point of view, we are utterly insignificant at best, and not really worth saving, and at worst it would be better if humanity were actively exterminated. He definitely could have bent the laws of space and time to come back with Laurie and stopped Ozymandias had he really wanted to, but his last vestiges of humanity were spent sympathizing with her personally, rather than any altruistic intentions for us as a species.
Literarily, he serves as an argument that there is no God as we perceive it, as, if there were, we would have been long ago destroyed by any rational divine entity.
Why doesn't your average Anon Babble user shower every day or get a job? They dont care, same as Manhattan