![]() ![]() The resulting loss of life numbered in the millions. The psychic blast, however, was real-the creature Vedit designed did very much have the ability to fry people's brains, and it did. The teleportation wasn't a gateway to another world or an attack, but teleportation tech Veidt had invented that would move objects from point A to point B, in this case with "point A" being one of Veidt's secret labs and "point B" being New York City. In reality, the creature wasn't an alien, or even from another dimension at all, but a genetic mutation Veidt himself had developed in a lab. The "alien" creature-a giant squid-like monster-would teleport in, seemingly from another dimension or planet, and kill thousands upon thousands of people, both from the sudden destruction caused by its body appearing in the middle of Manhattan and because of a "psychic blast" it would emit that would fry onlookers' brains up to miles away. He would stage a massive "alien invasion" with the help of experimental tech developed in secret by his company, in New York City. By way of careful manipulation and liberal use of his public persona as a billionaire genius and former superhero, he set up what essentially amounted to a long con. In a twist on the typical supervillain tropes of the superhero genre, Adrien Veidt, one of the smartest people in the Watchmen world, had concocted a plan that would, in his mind, be the only real way to prevent the Doomsday Clock from actually ticking down to midnight. It all relates back to Ozymandias's grand scheme to avoid nuclear annihilation and end the Cold War back in the 1980s. They occasionally rain down from the sky. In the show, there are squids everywhere in Tulsa, and presumably, the rest of the world, if the headlines about "interdimensional attacks" and "hoaxes" on newspapers like The New Frontiersmen are any indication. Obviously, major comics spoilers from here on out, and some minor spoilers for the first two episodes of HBO's Watchmen. Now Playing: Watchmen Episode 2 "Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship" Breakdown There’s uncertainty on his face rather than triumph.By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's The last image of Veidt is him looking over his shoulder at a model of the universe. Successful, sure, but with what to show for it? Veidt may have accomplished what he set out to do, but like the end of the poem, Watchmen ends with the lingering chaos and death needed to accomplish it. In the poem, the statue exalts in a great kingdom, no longer there, and ends on the lines: This quick sequence from pure pride to that small need of assurance is just as the poem by Shelley. Nothing ever ends.” And he leaves to play god in his own universe. Jon can only reply with a question of the words “in the end,” almost fascinated by the word choice, and tells Veidt that “nothing ends, Adrian. Manhattan has his own agenda, already making his mind up to leave and create something new, and when Veidt’s desperate words of "Jon, wait before you leave…I did the right thing didn’t I? It all worked out in the end,” catches him, he seems almost amused by it. Though correct in his assessment as people move towards peace and help one another as seen in the final news headlines, Veidt still needs some sort of assurance from his equal. ![]() "Next I’ll help her towards Utopia.“īig words for someone who later needs vindication from a man akin to a god. Only a scene before, when Nite Owl and Rorschach discover his scheme and Laurie and Jon watch the millions of deaths on screen, Veidt is exuberant in his success, the frame of Alexander the Great with the Gordian Knot frames him as he proclaims, both arms up like a sports champion, that he did it! Manhattan, the only other individual Veidt saw as a potential threat, and asks him if he did it right. He accomplishes his goal setting the world into peace by killing millions, but at the end of the comic, he turns to Dr. Granted, in the end, Veidt is successful. However, it is his altar ego, Ozymandias, that foreshadows Veidt’s largest weakness: his hubris. This poem is based on the Egyptian pharaoh, Ramesses II, and Adrien Veidt in the comic is particularly influenced by the Egyptians and Alexander the Great. This sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley looks at the inevitable decline of the proud king Ozymandias. The lone and level sands stretch far away. Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!” The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,Īnd wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone ![]()
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