![]() ![]() Image: HBOīut a focus on Jon can obfuscate the fact that Ozymandias also has an absurdly superheroic origin. Doctor Manhattan is considered the exception that proves the rule. Watchmen’s costumed crime-fighters are sordidly mundane, and famously so. The performer doesn’t rely on actually catching a bullet, but in obfuscating the firing of a fake bullet and the secreting of a look-a-like bullet on their own person for reveal at the end.īut, the bullet catch still looms large in the imagination, particularly in the comic book genre, where one of the most iconic abilities of its founding character - Superman - is that he can shrug off bullets like rainwater. Though stage magicians have been performing variations on the bullet catch trick for 400 years, it’s just a trick. As in the show, he collapses to the ground, but the bullet is revealed to be in his bloody hand, and he fells his opponent with a swift surprise kick. Only a few scenes later, Veidt puts his considerable money where his even more considerable mouth is, when he actually catches a pistol bullet, fired mere feet away from him by the Silk Spectre. Image: Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons/DC Comics “You couldn’t have planned it!” Nite Owl says, “What if shot you first instead of your secretary?” He was targeted for assassination a well! Veidt couldn’t be the man behind the murder of the Comedian, Rorschach’s arrest, and Doctor Manhattan’s disappearance, the bird-themed vigilante insists. After Veidt explains to his fellow costumed heroes that he’s dropped a psychic squid on New York City, Nite Owl is caught up in disbelief, grasping at straws. He reveals this particular talent in the final issue of Watchmen. This was not an illusion: Veidt can pluck a bullet out of the air. Ozymandias’ secret is revealed: He caught the bullet in his hand. The Game Warden cuts him off at the pass, and after repeatedly telling “Master” to stop, and after his Master repeatedly brushes off the warning, the Warden fires on him.Īdrian collapses, seemingly dead, only to deliver a powerful kick to the Warden when he draws close. Image: HBOĮarly on in “See How They Fly,” Adrian attempts to escape from the utopian prison of Europa by way of Lady Trieu’s spaceship. ![]() And in the final episode of HBO’s Watchmen, he does it again. Adrian Veidt might be the smartest man in the world, but aside from his health and wealth, he’s got nothing that one could consider a classic superpower in the pages of Watchmen.īut there is one point in Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ story that he quietly and cleverly exhibits one of the most fundamental superheroic powers. ![]()
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