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Thesis

In the comic Watchmen, Dr Manhattan’s abilities and powers affect the entire Watchmen world and its inhabitants in positive and negative ways.

Conclusion

The entire Watchmen universe and its inhabitants are affected positively and negatively due to Dr. Manhattan’s abilities and powers in the comic Watchmen.

Jon is the only superpowered being in the universe

Jon being the only being with nigh-omnipotence affects everything

Synthesizing new compounds and elements

Dr. Manhattan has the powers of energy construct creation and energy projection

Positve Effects

  • Comedian and Veidt would kill
  • Rorschach would be merciless
  • Laurie and Dan would be humane

Negative Effects

Positive Changes

  • False Hope
  • Innovation
  • Only One
  • New Clothing
  • Electric Vehicles
  • New Genetic Possibilites

Actual History

  • Neither side actually attacked each other
  • No military victory
  • Nixon resigned

Negative Changes

  • Allows Veidt to carry out his plan
  • Puts people out of work, like Hollis
  • Vietnam Deaths

Watchmen History

  • Dr. Manhattan gives US a strategic advantage
  • Achieves military victory
  • Nixon goes onto third term

Effects on Characters

Dr. Manhattan's powers had various psychological effects on various characters

Positve Effects

  • New Creatures for Adrian
  • Effects of chronokinesis on Laurie
  • New Technology for Dan

Negative Effects

History

Superpowers have disrupted the flow of history

  • Sense of hopelessness
  • God to the Vietnamese
  • Impotence
  • Trauma and Death

The Effects of Superpowers Upon the Watchmen Universe

By Naushil Sridhar

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