How Edward Blake became The Comedian (Watchmen) 

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Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a _parody_ of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely...

The comedian was the only one to ever catch Moloch and to put that in perspective Moloch escaped from Dr Manhattan in the books, that's how incredible the character is supposed to be in the books

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He was 16 when he became the comedian, and in the watchmen movie he was in his 20’s when he became the comedian, that’s why he looks a lot older than his comic counterpart

He was a dark parody of the Joker, one who couldn’t laugh at his own jokes.

Jeff Morgan nailed it in watchmen

I don't agree; I don't think Ozymandias pretended to be beat because he was smart enough to realize the Comedian had government support...I think the Comedian just plain beat his ass. The way he describes it dismissively as a crude but effective feint....it's the difference between being totally prepared artificially, and real life experience. Ozymandias has all this training, "the smartest man alive", to the point he thinks he's invincible - that in real life, not everything goes to plan. He didn't consider "what if Rorschach simply mailed a report about his findings to the press, before leaving for Antarctica?" - never occurred to him. Similarly, by the time they fought, the Comedian had been getting in fist fights on a weekly basis for something like three or four decades. While Ozymandias was just starting out in his career (not the peak condition we even saw by 1985). So for all his ranting about "I'm the best trained and smartest man alive", the Comedian's just plain real life experience proved a greater threat than he anticipated. That was always Ozy's weakness: not realizing that even the smartest man alive isn't all-knowing.

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The comedian isn't psychotic: Hes in touch with reality, understands the consequences of his actions, but don't care who he harms; Hes psychopathic, and doesn't even have a lot of normal human emotions, like regret, or empathy

Maybe make a short combined one on Silk Spectre II and Nite Owl II? I mean, they're the surviving characters and the graphic novel at least implies that just as the Crimebusters were the "Silver Age" heroes in their universe, they'll restart a new generation of "Bronze Age" heroes. I guess a through-line could also be the fact that they're BOTH "Legacy characters", how comics do that with multiple characters taking up the same mantle. That she didn't want to be the new Silk Spectre, while in contrast he _politely asked_ the original Nite Owl to take up the title.

I want a Silk Soectre Nite Owl video. They have the most hopeful end in the comic.

Plotwise, switching from an alien squid to Dr. Manhattan makes far more sense. I'm a new subscriber and I've been enjoying your videos.

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The type of character that’s scary because he makes too much sense

I would love to see a Nite Owl/Silk Spectre vid would be great! Two second generation heroes with predecessors with the same name.

You skipped over one extra detail, it was a Psychic Squid. Not only did he dump a horrible mutant on Manhattan, but it was a side effect of transmitting horrible images into the minds survivors. I think that was what truly freaked out The Comedian. I mean, that squid isn't much different than dropping a bomb, but those psychic images might have been horrifying. Maybe that's how Adrian finally beat Edward. When it comes to physicality, the guy with the guns is going to win, but Adrian's title was "The World's Smartest Man," it makes sense that he'd win by attacking the Comedian's mind.

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The comedian was smart enough to know that life is a joke

Probably not the best thing to say but the comedian was my favorite character right next to rorsach obviously not a fan of a few things the character did, however the way he saw the world around him as well as his philosophy was very interesting plus Jeffrey dean morgan had an amazing performance

Last line, from the New Frontiersman publisher: "I leave it entirely in your hands."

I havnt read the book yet but from what I can gather the movie adaptation is the most faithful comic to movie to date. The biggest change which also made more sense is swapping aliens with Dr Manhattan.

1:26 The comedian was aged up for The watchmen movie

The comedian was a horrible person but I can't help but have a soft spot for his realness. He definitely has some guilt considering he asked for forgiveness before his untimely decease.

“What happened to the American dream? It came true, you’re lookin at it.”-Edward Blake/aka The Comedian

One of my favourite characters!

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Yo man, whycreate talking about watchmen? so inspirational.

Thank you so much.

Oh Ozymadias actually lost a fight? He seemed 100% accurate in any situation, the dude can catch bullets on the fly, and counter on coming sneak attacks like he has spider sense. I'm shocked to hear he actually got his ass beat for once.

I have never thought about this until this video, but do you use PowerPoint for your videos? Like I could totally see it. The transitions are very similar

He's like a male version of my ol lady. Damn I love that crazy woman

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I understand Alan should have a say in his works, but the later works that expanded Watchmen were really good. I loved them. Now I guess its a personal choice as to which narrative we will follow.... I like to acknowledge both. Like I acknowledging Alan's narrative and how he wanted this to be a one-shot story that stands as an satire to superhero genre, a dark joke with hard-hitting punchline. For Alan, it was never about creating and expanding an universe, it was about making a point. And he made it well. Dragging this thing on doesn't make sense and could even ruin the purpose. But I also get the DC narrative and how they see that as wonderful universe left quite unexplored so it makes total sense to expand into it. And they have done a good job in it. For example Doomsday Clock #12 is my favorite finishing to any comic series. Now I can live with this. You know acknowledging Alan's narrative while also enjoying DC works

Comedian=Joker in a different universe

do you take into account the watchmen tv series of the story about hooded justice?

Can you do a life on Dan dreiberg second nite owl

Alan Moore lost his hunger a long time ago.

Did you do Dollar Bill? Don't forget him!

Please reconsider and do silk and night owl

He might be super, but he's no hero!

Doomsday clock is amazing

Man I got this in recommendations and thought I'd give it a chance. This is like a sixth grader's essay. I wasn't going to be too harsh until he said he already covered four other characters but decided not to cover the last two because they're "boring". Sounds like he just barely understands the more obvious commentary this graphic novel provides about the super hero genre.

....and then he became Negan.

1:27 This is a nitpick but in the movie he's 21 or 22 in that scene. They aged Blake up by 6 years so they could use Jeffrey for that flashback instead of getting another actor.

But what about the best character Mothman?

Have you ever heard the theory that the Comedian was used by the government to destabilize superhero groups?

I hate that we don't have more of One Piece. And I know, we get more every week or two but sadly as it is, if Oda would take his time to tell everything about this world, then this story would never come to a conclusion...

Do a Comedian Vs. Superman please.

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I know I might be late to say this, but in case y'all haven't noticed, he's based off of Peacemaker. If you read or watched Watchmen before The Suicide Squad and The Peacemaker tv show, don't be surprised to what he does since he's the one who was an inspiration for Comedian. We all know that he's not a nice guy. I hate the person he is, but I like his badass skills. Unfortunately it was dated when he got his ass whooped by Ozymandias.

I dunno, night owl is pretty interesting...being a super hero is literally his fetish

I cant help but love the Comedian. He is such an amoral asshole too

Honestly I hate Alan Moore, part of what makes comics special is because it is medium were many writers united to tell stories, I hate how he thinks that he deserves better treatment than hundreds of great writers that let their character being written by other writers. Specially when he originally wanted to use already existing characters like the Question, Blue Beatle, and Peacemaker; and it was Dc who told him to create “new” characters

How the fuck would he be at that point physically at 15?

Why was he so old. 67 or something when he died, but night owl and the rest are in their 30-40s.

Before watchmen is great go read it

he was right that life is a joke but there's no excuse to be such an asshole he just wanted to kill people for own sick pleasure at the cost of others. but that what meant to represent the dark side of humans.

The Watchmen TV shoe on HBO was the biggest load of self serving wank I've ever seen. What an embarrassment. The theme was basically "white people bad".

I guess the downside of being “just good” as Nightowl makes him less interesting. Funny how life works. No one gets out without paying a price of some sort no matter how “good” you are.

You can only be so much of a self made parody until you start pushing people away to the point where it's not even a joke anymore. Blake died the way he lived: Alone.

HBO ruined the whole world.

"You keep using that word, I don't think it means what you think it means" lots of misused words in this video.

So, a man overtaken by bloodlust, sees the world as a massive joke, kills men, women and children without remorse, thinks the world and everyone in it are crazy except for him, dresses garishly like a clown. Of course, I'm talking about The Joker.

I like before watchmen but the comedian one sucked. Should’ve been his origin instead of that Vietnam crap

He aint too funny for a comedian.