• @Lookorex@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    Ok, I think I’m gonna need some context for this one, I’m actually pretty intrigued

    Edit: thanks for the context! It all makes sense now. I’ve seen the movie a couple times in the past, just never read the graphic novel.

          • @Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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            51 month ago

            Spoilers yadda yadda

            Is it really controversial to say “framing superman as the threat we need to unite the world against to stop nuclear armageddon” is a better plotline than “I’m going to make it look like aliens attacked us, but in the goofiest way possible, with a plot device necessitating the existence of real psychics in a world that hitherto otherwise seemed to only have Dr. Manhattan as a genuine “otherworldly force””? Reading the graphic novels really threw me for a loop when that scheme was explained, lol.

            • @waddle_dee@lemmy.world
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              21 month ago

              You know, I don’t think in all my life, since reading Watchmen multiple times, I made the Dr. Manhattan - Superman connection. In hindsight it is a little silly lol. I think, I always just liked the visceral look of the squid, and didn’t look much further past that. Thanks for opening my mind!

              • @Shiggles@sh.itjust.works
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                21 month ago

                Isn’t “The superman is real, and he’s American” a direct quote from the novel? Or at least one of those “additional blurbs” written from the perspective of the first Nightwing, unsure if those were “bonus content” or if there are versions of the novel with just the comics.

                • @waddle_dee@lemmy.world
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                  11 month ago

                  I always remember that as Wally correcting a talk show host saying, “I never said the superman is real and he’s american. I said G-d is real, and he’s american.” So, I guess I never associated it with Superman and more or less as, the super man.

    • Celediel
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      171 month ago

      It’s Dr Manhattan’s origin in Watchmen, chapter 4.

    • @chryan@lemmy.world
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      141 month ago

      I believe this is from the Watchmen comic, where Dr Manhattan is attempting to rematerialize from being blasted by his own experiment.