Superhero Origins: Dr. Manhattan 

That is one thing I absolutely loved about the Watchmen movie...Manhattan and Rorschach had perfect voices.

sachet patil I actually disagree about Rorschach. It was really good, but it wasn't really Rorschach for me. It was a bit too "I'm a badass". It needed to sound a bit more, I don't know, uneasy, scary calm rather than the focus on gravelly voice.

sachet patil Those two stand out. But the Comedian and Night Owl also had very distinct characterized voices. To me, all the characters in that movie were very well expressed.

It's a sign of detachment.

Poetic

thier just racist

+SOXCAL_13 I think it's because he came in naked lol

+Bruce DaCynic hardly funny

Solaxe S It wasn't a joke.

***** Oohhhhhh ! I forgot to paint myself blue, I think that's why I got fired.

the perfect adaptation

Yes and last change is also better than comics

yeah idc what people say, this is one of my favorit DC's movies, the rest are V For Vendetta, Constantine, TDK Trilogy, period.

yes, and sin city

he used to be a person thoe

Zofo roronoa yes but after becoming Dr manhattan he pretty much lost his humanity. He could do so many things save so many lives but he doesn't that's not the actions of a super here not is he considered a villain. He just doesn't care.

lekan adams haha so mean of him XD

lekan adams and a dick XD

Dr Manhattan isn't a god he's a douchebag.

It's true. I have blue balls, but I don't anything to make me aroused.

Ikr my friend thinks that batman would win in a fight against Manhattan.

mrepictaco vargas That depends a great deal on how you define "win" and "fight". Ozymandias manipulated Manhattan like he might play a fiddle, and one could make the argument than Bats is smarter than Ozymandias. So, could Batman kill Manhattan? Of course not. Nothing can; he's basically a God. Can Batman defeat Manhattan? Probably easily.

Yonkage good point dude.

Nexcellent There's a difference between defeating and killing. Lex Luthor fucking defeated Braniac.

Sentry's origin is quite tragic and interesting. And he's crazy overpowered.

***** Well actually he is god. The god. There is plenty prrof in the commic that he ariginally created humanity. Then reacratete himslef before humanity was destroyed to continue the cycle infinitely.

One word, Superman.

What about the Hulk or Superman

Adolfo Torres this guy can destroy both hulk and superman without even trying, he controls atoms which means everything that exists

Jake Tupler Dr. Manhattan is WAY more powerful than superman. Superman hasn't even been overpowered in years.

ohhh shiet.lol

Correction: the New 52 Universe

Wait...Huh? Can you elaborate?

Your a newbie I see. DC was created in 1936 as comic strip. Superman was the first superhero. because of DC others were influenced. Though Dr. Manhattan is a cool character. He was in existence when DC was born.

Dude, he was talking about the new story.... Chill out!

for sure. too bad whoever did the casting chose malin akerman for silk spectre II. ugh

Wrong, Man Of Steel is great, he revived Superman franchise, along with it´s sequels and Justice League movie.

TheBlond49 At what cost ? By totally changing the nature of a character and descrediting him. I hope the Justice League movie won't be as boring and ridiculous.

Yeah, and David Hayter knows how to write a script

It is the same character in the comics, not Christopher Reeves repeated like Superman Returns., and there is nothing boring in MOS.

please take me with you, these people here either are too dumb for watchmen or just marvel fanboy hate for no reason

Just know that he'll never relate to you.

get off your high horse

looks like we have a special snowflake over here

i can relate to rorschach

The reason he is my favorite is his superpower of omniscience.

subh1 actually if you remember the scene where he was being interviewed he states himself that he isn't omniscient. I think he just gets his knowledge from being a physicist

Spyker The thing that was explained by the movie was that he had a kind of omniscience. He sees possible outcomes and some sort of probabilities, then it's a guess. That's how he was tricked by his own technology, he's not completely omnipotent since it's not 100% sure and can be altered.

He is also the most mature, tragic (and in my opinion) benevolent characters of comic history.

Corey Knight i don't know about "benevolent" more like borderline sociopathic

Snyder is a Great Director, he has some Unique Ideas to Modernize Characters

I agree. As much as I loved the comic, the movie ending was ingenious.

TheGeckoNinja could anti-matter beat dr. manhatten ???

Kuroi Sora no, because he is pure energy so he is immortal and can recreate himself.

Kuroi Sora Yes ! It consume Multiverse's in her path ! Dr manhattan is Overrated , New 52 captain atom would beat Manhattan rather easy .

The Anti-Monitor, The Presence, Nekron, and The Spectre are the only ones from DCU I can think of tha can beat Dr. Manhattan. The Martian Manhunter could stalemate, he can control all the molecules in his body. There are some characters that could travel back in time and kill Jon before the accident, but that's the bitch way out.

Bhutt Hert New 52 captain atom > Martian manhunter and the Justice league combined .

I read the comics after I watched the movie and I was amazed of how similar they are.

Tom J. McCoy me no care about

And one killed the other. I won't give it away for anyone who hasn't seen it.

That bastard killed rorschach

TheGM ***

Doesn't anybody recall that Ozymandias was messing with D.M's perception of the future, thereby rendering it weakened. He couldn't see the future clearly so he couldn't have known.

Shhh. don't question Frank Miller's writing, he gets cranky if you do.

***** Shhh, you'll make Miller cranky.

Sheldon Cooper: they exposed Dr. Manhattans weakness. He can be manipulated. Ozymandias manipulated him throughout the whole movie even tricked him into his whole idea of letting nuclear war happen.

Ozymandias is smarter than Manhattan

Bibi Green I know right, sometimes I wish I could go up to space like him.

***** didnt he try that already?

+Ethan redsky How the f**k would he do that?

+Fero «Messias» Babason No he cant... Even if this battle took place Dr. Manhattan would already be aware of the outcome and with the power to alter fate if he so chooses can in fact defeat the SilverSurfer.

+AllLivingLegend Dr. Manhattan can't alter his future. He can only see it.

+Fero «Messias» Babason +Hastaroth Not a fanboy,just stating a fact. Dr Manhattan can do what he choses and he does indeed precive a number of possible futures at once,but only his own. Even if he is absobed or destroyed he can make him self a new body like that, also he can make several copies of himself. He aslo has better maniupulation powers then the surfer. The battle would either be collosal or very short,and i think Dr M got the surfer in a chocke pretty quick.

I think it's less of he can't and more of he doesn't care enough to do it.

he said his marriage strained over his aging wife and threw himself to mars due to the cancer. those seem like pretty strong motivations.

I was wondering about the same thing. Like can't he just arrange those cancerous cells on a molecular level?

***** yeah, empathy is a better word for what I meant.

i really don't know. he should be able to. perhaps back in the 70's the people had less information about cancer so the writers didn't think about it

Ikr loll

likewise...he's amazing and would kick supermans weakling ass anyday.

Martin Meers not just superman, and also all kinds of Thors, Hulks and anything :))) But Spawn though,,,,! No one is giving enough credit to Spawn.

I mean. He is God. He wins every battle. No debate necessary

Silver surfer would destroy him

minto smith the one above all or the presence. no contest to anything else

I think the difference between Superman and Dr Manhattan is that Superman was born that way, he was born and raised to use his power for goodness, his humanity was never truly lost(if we're talking about the traditional Superman) because it's a constant thing for him, he has people in his life who he respect highly and would allow them to guide him in his life.

TenjoZakito I actually disagree. The superman character was written that way; but I think it's overly simplistic and wouldn't actually pan out that way at all. Even if you were born that way then a few humans trying to direct you in a certain direction would be like ants trying to tell us how live our lives. It just bears no significance to our being. At best Superman would probably heed the words the best he can for a few years. But over many lifecycles that an average human could live, the superman would still be there and will have matured his thought process so far beyond what an average human can do just because of the time he had on its hands. There's no way an average human could comprehend what the superman would be struggling with in his head. To him our thoughts are so simplistic that it'd most likely become humorous over time to him and he could probably deduce our typical behavior the way scientists predict behavior of matter in physics and chemistry today. It would just be another subject to study; how could he have emotion towards something so much simpler than everything else he knows? And factor in the fact that he could go way beyond the earth to discover and understand what's out there he would keep growing farther and farther past thinking anything human is really that important to the grand scheme of things. Maybe that's a good thing about the majority of Superman comics that we know of; they only really talk about the first 50-100 years of Superman since he was born on Krypton and raised on Earth. In a weird way, maybe it is accurate for his "infant" years of existence if he really cared. But to me it's inevitable that he starts to not care for a "fellow man." He would eventually become a Dr. manhattan with time.

TenjoZakito Actually, in the scale of the Universe we're pretty huge. The smallest size we can theoretically observe is a Planck area. If we blew up a dot of 0.1 mm to the size of the known universe, the Planck area would be the size of that original dot inside the new "dot-verse". Or in math terms, if an average sized adult human is a magnitude of 10^0, then the known Universe is 10^(26), while the Planck area is 10^(-35).

that's 26 orders of magnitude greater than us. We can't even make out micron particles out visibly and that's only 6 orders of magnitude smaller in relation to stuff we see. That's less than a speck of dirt. I don't think I was inaccurate in saying that to the rest of the universe we're pretty insignificant in affecting anything else going out there.

ThyChrysanthemum I wouldn't disagree with the idea of Superman becoming similar to Dr Manhattan after many many life cycles, but Dr Manhattan became that way in a matter of years, Dr Manhattan was a human and he lost the ability to comprehend human emotions in a very short time after gaining his powers. Superman, on the other hand, is always depicted in a much more human way, the charm of his character is that he never kill and would save as many civilians as possible. His mortal enemy is a human with high intelligence, and when facing a fight with Batman, another human being, most fans have the confidence that Batman would still put up a good fight. Superman is always shown being more naive than others, some would say too much of a goody two -shoes, but I think that's the selling point of Superman, he is stronger than us, but he is one of us. His humanity side is what makes readers get attached to him. This is also why I loved the Watchmen series, because Watchmen dealt with it's characters in a much more realistic way, because they're telling a story with an ending, Dr Manhattan could be cold and distant but that's part of the story and they don't have to deal with low sales rate while trying to sell Dr Manhattan's name.

Yes

*New 52? and Rebirth is awesome dude

He can kill anyone, he just have to think and boom, youre dead, and because of this I think he is a stupid character, he is too fucking powerfull.

***** But the iteresting thing at this character is that he has problem with his powers and it's clearly shown how he slowly disconnects himself from his surronding. He's not a superman boy scout who just comes along saves the day and is the hero forever althoiugh he could be the biggest villian himself. Dr. manhattan is both the hero and the fucking villian!

Sir Dusky Superman one million can create galaxies and revive the dead. Thats only 2 of his feats

yeah superman prime is a super God compared to dr. manhatten

***** He doesnt control time and space, hes able to manipulate atoms, and see the future.

Ugh.. non canon crap.. dr manhattan hands down..

too many butthurt nerds with their spin-offs crap. Dr. Manhattan ez.

well yeah no duh he is basically batman....but he is still pretty cool....

+Xuvial Sylvester He MAY be omnipotent, but omniscient he is not.

I am more intelligent

You people are cracked. Omnipotence implies you can do ANYTHING! Until you understand that concept and try to grasp it properly, you will never know the true definition.

***** he helped america win the vietnam war and he knows free will does not even exist....

***** and if he was omnipotent and had an omniscient mind, he would know what everyone was going to do, therefore they would not have free will, so my argument works both ways.

The ending, where instead of a supposed alien invasion on Earth to unite the world, Dr. Manhattan is blamed for the destruction of major cities across the world

Synder's sounds a lot better

Timeyin Sholaye No disrespect to Alan Moore or anything, but this ending makes more sense too...

Jay Young it made it so much darker which is amazing

he didnt create it just changed it a bit

Boldevin no shit

No, clothes are usually connected to smart beings. It's funny that he's a doctor and remained naked.

SaturnVari3ty He just didn't care. Seriously, if i couldn't get arrested for it - i would go around naked aswell. Well, i might leave my boxers on, but only because of children. I mean it's not like penis is gonna bite you or anything.

Slithereenn His probably could though. If he wanted it to...

Patrick P. O maybe he like this character but "prefers" to see him in pants. NOT everything shall be scientifically analyzed.

jealous because of a comic book character WTF

Y Gui no shit

are you talking about the golden superman prime? the 2nd most powerful character in DC

In my opinion Superman is second to D.M because simply put, D.M can do anything that he wants by a single thought. The only reason you never really see him doing anything is because he just doesn't give a damn enough to actually do it.

no he cant -________- where do you get this info.. manhattan even said he isnt omnipotent

boom doo Except of course he can be anywhere he wants, change the very molecules that make matter what it is, sees through time and space, and don't forget the most powerful example of being able to make life with his thoughts.

boom doo and the first is

woooaaah, on chill pill plz. How can anyone hate papa smurf?

I'm not actually mad. I just don't like the character is all. Manhattan is Naked Smurf.

CanterlotCrusader Yea I don't like he's character neither. the story line and movie sucked

Although powerful, Dr. Manhattan is just a passenger who know what will happen in the future without the power to stop it. Anyone that would be able to see forever would either go mad or become indifferent to what would happen to humanity because they would know that the people of Earth are just a tiny part of the universe, as well as being only a single cosmic second since the beginning of time. Dr. Manhattan can't value life because he can't really "die" (which is why mortals view life as something sacred).

MoriKAshi Then what, pray tell, could Manhattan value, if not life itself? Perhaps, at some point, he found value in people's hopes and dreams, or keeping cosmic balance. But since he sees and knows everything, and yet does not value anything like we do, how could he decide the fate of millions, something mortals value, without knowing anything of worth? In some respects, I feel bad for Manhattan because there can be nothing in the cosmos. at any time. that he lives for, since it's all a spec of dust in the ocean of time and space. However, since he knows not the value, he is lacking the perspective and authority to take away and do with the universe as he wishes. Rorschach, despite his obvious disgust of humanity and negativity, still valued the lives of the innocent to the point where he would deal with the consequences of our own self destruction than offer the lives of innocents as a sacrificial lamb. Manhattan isn't a god. He is just as susceptible to fate and evil as anyone else. I wonder if he can see his own vulnerability and that's why he became a hero. To save himself.

Thoscis very long

Thoscis very long

Parker Logsdon Erm, what?

Parker Logsdon Pardon, monsieur?

+Leo The Martian Veidt. He tried

DC Rebirth dude.....

The match of the century.....Scarlet Witch vs Dr. Manhatthan

+Alvaro Gonzalez are you joking he can turn goku or superman into powder

+Keiji Tan Damn

I dunno...it'd be pretty lonely.

Are u even worthy the power of a god? If so what what would u do with it.

It would be lonely, but would you care at all? If you're that powerful, I'm pretty sure you wouldn't care.

+Dianne Suarez everyone would see your wiener :D

what would you do with that power?

Same

Me too, shit that was more twisted than captain america

+Rayan The psychopath But why would Dr. Manhattan created the New 52? What was the point of it all? What was it all for?

+Anthony Fanchin Silk Spectre:"I thought you cared about life again?" Dr. Manhattan:"I do, maybe I'll create some."

+NoOne Alive id say batman off of Rorschach, considering their personalities, and they're detectives.

+Captain MonStar lmao

what

Savage Beast When Marshawn Lynch kept saying "you know why I'm here" at the press conferences.

Or darkseid

What the fuck? Galactus would snap his finger and Dr. Manhattan would have never existed in the first place. Dr. Manhattan is a weaker version of Silver Surfer, and Silver Surfer is just a small portion of Galactus' power.

rtc7788 we don't know enough about manhattan to know who would win anyway. We would have to get another comic about him, but that would be ruining the watchmen comic

Dr M is based off Captain Atom. And is a much weaker version of him. Based off what Dr M showed, his feats were minuscule in comparison to Galactus.

Yeah, I totally agree with you, he's get obliterated if what he shown is his maximum power, but we don't know his limit, his absolute strenght, so we don't know for sure if that would happen. But if his maximum power is what he show, he is weaker than any cosmic superheroes/vilains.

Dr. Manhattan himself tried to figure out himself while he was created. He got to the point where he considered that he was a ripple in time anomaly that even if you went back in time and stopped his father that he would still exist. Because you went back in time to stop his father because of dr. Manhattan but by doing so dr. Manhattan supposedly never existed so you would never have a reason to go back in time and so your interference would disappear. You can literally do anything except you couldn't kill him we're not making be born. That's why Eobard Thawn never kills Barry Allen because without Barry he wouldn't be the Reverse Flash.

Connor Dutton thank you sir! If this would be a class you would get an A+ from me, and a Star sticker on your paper 🌟 very well indeed 😉

Numan Küleç haha

As far as I know, he has full power over atoms and molecules.

He can manipulate matter and energy and he exists on a quantum uncertainty scale. He also has the ability to perceive several realities at once, which is how he can see the future.

he can manipulate energy in every way (matter, nuclear, etc) forces (gravitational, etc) and also the tachyon (particules related to time and stuff like that)

Basically his powers are the ability to do whatever he wants.

Except to understand the humans xD

nah it was flash. he broke time on accident

nicholas islam Nope, he wasn't responsible

Yeah! He stole a decade when Flash tried to fix everything!

+nicholas islam nope it was Dr manhattan

yup

Lol?

"OH Shit! im on mars"... idky it just sounds funny in my head.

plontulublalulu He's a symbolism for God within the stories, God appears often in comic books, a lot more often than you'd think.

plontulublalulu he does has his limits, and there are stronger beings in both marvel and dc. He does seem insanely over powered, but that is in comparison to other characters. I think the emphasis was that instead of having a world full of super heros, just one emerged and it was op as hell

gabe plz nerf

plontulublalulu It wasn't an expirment it was an accident. Yeah it wasn't realistic ofcourse but he's sorta like a parody of super heros. You know like the cliche "accident gave him powers" origin, and the cliche OP abilities. Watchmen is more of a "what if super heros were real" story rather than the traditional fantasy super hero story.

Jerry Hess That's true. But he's also a metaphor for the atomic bomb. His name, Doctor Manhattan, is a reference to the Manhattan project.

Project TsukiNoMe Give him the air bubble treatment like Laurie. Even then Rorchache can't be left alive if he knew the truth.

+max adam he is just fed up