Poll: Who is your favorite Watchmen character?

[Arsen]

I personally didn't care for Watchmen but am sentimental towards the characters and their world.

I don't know...there was a lack of the basic theological concept of "good and evil" and the characters seemed to much like sterotypical archetypes to me. I like the fact that they tried to make it "realistic" within a certain sense but the whole "Right Wing" "Left Wing" thing that Alaon Moore did for the series truly through me off. He didn't paint the characters sympathetically enough for me, nor did he show an ounce of emotion.

Overall, it was dreary, depressing, and without hope.
Sorry, but I need hope at the end of the day.

 

[Selvalros]

Overall, it was dreary, depressing, and without hope.

That is the point. Not everything can be rainbows and puppy dogs at the end of the day and that type of story is boring and overdone. I don't like it when the good guy wins because, as Watchman illustrates perfectly, there is no good and evil. Moral relativity ftw.

 

[Darkintent]

"GIVE ME BACK MY FACE!!!!"
ownage

 

[Quick Ben]

Am I one of the only ones who likes Adrian Veidt? After all he did save the planet from nuclear holocaust...Or at least he postponed it a while, so things could have a chance of righting themselves...
That so many people voted Blake or Rorschach is strange. People like them have no place in a functioning society...

 

[Inarticulate_Underachiever]

I'm going to be unpredictable and say Rorschach. He was the most entertaining character for me.

 

[ranc0re]

Am I one of the only ones who likes Adrian Veidt? After all he did save the planet from nuclear holocaust...Or at least he postponed it a while, so things could have a chance of righting themselves...
That so many people voted Blake or Rorschach is strange. People like them have no place in a functioning society...

Ozymandias is hard to like. You know, with the killing of millions of people, even though what he's doing is (arguably) for the best. It's a tricky situation.

And the reason everyone picks Rorschach is because he's such a bad ass. He's also the only character in the novel who sticks to his morals no matter what. He has one view of good, one view of bad. Cross that line and he'll drop you down an elevator shaft. He's not really someone you can admire, BUT HE'S SO FUCKING COOL. Caps was necessary there.

 

[ranc0re]

I liked the comedian, he did what we wanted, and I loved him for it
He just did what he had to, to get the job done, he wasn't scared of any pansies in his way

Yeah, he does so much terrible shit in the story, but you just can't hate the guy. Despite myself, I actually like The Comedian.

 

[THEMANWHOIS]

All about the Comedian.

 

[jboking]

Rorschach easily has the best quotes, not to mention the fact that he is just a badass.

 

[TerribleTerryTate]

+1 for Rorschach.

 

[Sewer Rat]

Rorschach, a completely f*cked up sonnavabitch... And we love him for it. The way he was killed in the end was very dissapointing though.
"I'm gonna get back to New York and tell everyone using a frozen ship that I do not even know how to fly." "Okay, Die then." *explodes* Shitty ending to an awesome character.

 

[butterkniferampage]

Rorschach and the comedian are tied with me. Great book.

 

[poi-son]

How can you NOT like the silk spectre, shes hawt! (boobs win every time)

 

[Simriel]

Nite Owl. He is like a more human version of batman. With a laser.

 

[Arcyde]

Rorschach

 

[Marv21]

Manhattan and Eddie are my favorites, simply because they understand. They get it. Rorschach is my least favorite on the other hand. I don't dislike him, but he's a moral absolutist. And, like in Watchmen, a functioning society has no place for creatures like those.

Ahhhhh their is the question...is the society we live in functional....where rapists and murderers play the insanity card and get off mostly scott free...where America is getting dumber, and fatter (I think fat is FINE!, but dumb is bad), where we have to question every movement of our governement because they seem to just want out money and not the responisbility?


Does that sound like a functioning society to you?

It barely is in my opinion, but enought that people like these should exist, but only underground, where our law had no regard or power.

 

[Riley_Tahn]

Manhattan took the cake. Completely logical, and super powerful. His telling of his background story was my favorite part in the movie, hands down. He simply has the most character substance, in my opinion.