• gayhobbes [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Yes, they love him because he's lumpenprole and not because he's a savage vigilante butcher or anything

    • Candidate [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      They like him because he's basically the protagonist for most of the series. He's the guy with a goal that he's pursuing and it turns out his investigation isn't insane, it's bang on the money. Maybe it's just that I'm living in a post-Dexter world, but it just seems so quaint that Moore thinks that Rorschach's flaws were going to turn people off.

      Even the whole "he smells and doesn't have a girlfriend" doesn't really make a lot of sense - those are ascetic values that most societies are trained to respect, at least on an abstract level.

      • gayhobbes [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Nite Owl and Silk Spectre were intended to be the protagonists of the series, not Rorschach. Moore intended them to be a more neutral, non philosophical point of view while the other characters embodied utilitarianism, pragmatism, and so on.