this is satirical for anyone unfamiliar. It's a page from the right wing newspaper that the character Rorschach reads devotedly. It's got everything. Excessive labels. :liberty-weeping:, the works

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    The rest of the comic is good too. If superheroes were real, they'd be tools for American imperialism and white supremacy. They'd break up riots and assassinate protest organizers.

    I'm still surprised how many comic shitheads worship Alan Moore and love Watchmen and yet completely miss everything it's saying. They idolize Ozymandias and Rorschach, despite both of them being depraved murderers.

    I've always thought there was a good parallel between those characters. There's something there I can't quite articulate, like Ozymandias is the lib ideal and Rorshach is the chud ideal. Rorschach is more honest, but at the cost of his murderous nature being obvious and repellant. He thinks he's fighting for freedom or whatever when in reality he was always someone his friends barely tolerated. Ozymandias is a beloved well groomed celebrity and yet is a more successful mass murderer than any of his super friends. Also thinks it's in the name of peace or freedom.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      That's largely because the movie was directed by Zach Snyder, who is notoriously fashy. Snyder made all the heroes look cool and eroticized the violence, totally undercutting the message of the book.