• ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Since when is he a hypocrite, terrible detective, or manchild? Or even a psychopath? There are a lot of things wrong with him, but not those particular things IMO. But maybe it’s been too long since I read Watchmen and I’m forgetting something?

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      11 months ago

      He doesn’t try to prevent crime, he simply delights in the sadistic act of beating up criminals, which is ironically a crime.

      He instantly judges people based on which side of the law they stand on, but when he is declared a criminal himself, he doesn’t even attempt to reflect on it. He just keeps punching.

      When his own friend is revealed to be a rapist, murderer and war criminal(?), he has no interest [“I’m not concerned with speculating on the moral lapses of men who died in their country’s service”], because he doesn’t actually care about crime, he just uses ‘fighting crime’ as an excuse for his real passion, beating up those he considers undesirables.

      He’s a hypocrite (and a fascist).

    • GBU_28@lemm.ee
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      11 months ago

      If I remember correctly he was a pretty good detective in the sense that he figured shit out as fast as literal supernatural humans

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        11 months ago

        He figured out Ozymandias was going to do something terrible. He beat the smartest man in the world. He is a terrible “hero” for a variety of reasons but that isn’t one of them.

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      11 months ago

      Aye, arguably he’s the only one of the heroes who sticks by a moral code, albeit a brutal one. Even at the very end, knowing it would kill him, he sticks to it, and dies for it.