Watchmen ozymandias5/23/2023 ![]() Interestingly enough, somewhere in the 30-year time jump between the end of the Watchmen comics and the start of the Watchmen TV show, someone involved in Veidt's plan-or perhaps Veidt himself-apparently engineered some sort of failsafe. In fact, rather than debunking the squid, the publication of Rorschach's journals really only managed to galvanize radical groups like the white supremacist organization The 7th Kavalry in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and provide dogma for conspiracy theorists. Unfortunately, Rorschach was also a known sociopath with a criminal record and a reputation for psychotic delusions, so the details he was able to lay out about Vedit and the attack were never widely accepted. For one, Rorschach-one of the only people to fully uncover Veidt's plan-did indeed have his journals published by the New Frontiersman. But what we learn in the TV show is that things aren't that simple. Almost instantly, Russia and the United States come to a peace agreement, characters comment on the community's abrupt mood swing from anxiety and fear to peace and love, etc. We get to see the dust beginning to settle, and it seems that Veidt was correct. Of course, the graphic novel ends almost immediately after the attack. Sure, the whole thing cost millions of innocent lives, but better that than a full-on nuclear holocaust, right? In that way, the squid attack had to be completely and 100% believable-the sort of wild goose chase that would keep every country in the world so distracted and fixated that the idea of blowing each other up wouldn't even be on anyone's radar anymore. By Veidt's calculation, humans are simply not designed to be peaceful they can only have their aggressions redirected and refocused on things that aren't one another-in this case, an enemy that they will never actually be able to find, much less fight or kill, because it doesn't actually exist. The goal of the squid was, for all its frills, pretty simple: The "attack" would functionally force every major government superpower in the world to stop looking at one another as enemies and immediately pivot their attention to this looming extraterrestrial threat. ![]() 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 By clicking 'enter', you agree to GameSpot's
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