Had the power to snap his neck or crush his brain and make him have a painless death and leave a body to be buried

>had the power to snap his neck or crush his brain and make him have a painless death and leave a body to be buried
>intead makes daniel's last memory of his best friend be of a stain of blood, bones and guts on the snow
why was he such and asshole?

even in the comic this was way out of character

in fact Manhattan's character as a whole is the weakest of the whole book

he stopped giving a fuck

What was even the point in killing Rorhard? Who would believe some random dipshit psycho manlet anyway?

More than weakest it was the most complicated to explain.

>Hurr durr brown ants or balck ants, he is like a god for us
>losing it becuase of a fucking tv interview and a pussy

BRAVO MOORE

The splatter is reminescent of the mask, Kovaks became a literal rorschach test on the white of the snow. It was a poetic move on Dr. Manhattans part, since Rorschach was never going to be buried as a man. He was always shameful of his true skin, but his "face" (the ink blot mask) was who he was. In death he became that symbol literally.


Because he was never going to stay quiet. He was unflinching. And he was absolutely right about everything. Ultimate irony, the only truly sane man was the insane hobo in an inkblot mask.
The significance of him sending that book to the publisher shadows the line that Viedt says, (paraphrasing but along the lines of "I enacted my plan half an hour ago"). Rorschach enacted his plan days earlier, and while he sent it to a kook magazine, he can bring everything Veidt achieved crashing down. Again, irony. The bum in a mask was 10 steps ahead of the worlds smartest man, and the truth is out there.

>dude I feel isolated because of my godlike powers and superior understanding of the universe I'm the only supernatural element in this whole thing lmao
>nvm a bunch of scientists in an island can create teleporting squids with psychic powers a hundred times more dangerous than the nuclear weapons we've been obsessing about the whole book lol
Zack>Moore

ozymandias was in the right and Rorschach was the equivalent of Hitler for getting in the way of what was an analogy of Gods' plan. He represents a demagoge and a christian one at that who had many unholy prophecies attached to them.

He is somewhat detached from humanity. He probably saw blowing him up as the simplest thing to do without really thinking about the aftermath.

Manhattan could:
1. Take his tongue, literally making the guy mute
2. Teleport him on deserted island, Mars etc
3. Wibbly wobbly atomic manipulate his memory and erase all notions of Veidt's plan
4. Make him float in the air until he calms down

The guy is literally God, there was no need to murder the guy

Except he was human again, he had regained his love of life and wanted to create more. He could also see the future, and his "nothing ever ends" line was probably him seeing that rorschachs posthumous influence brought the world back to what it was. He had contempt for Viedt, and probably respected Rorschach enough as an ally and in his new found humanity just put the long suffering Walter Kovaks out of his misery

Ozymandias represents "the ends justifying the means", and his righteous plan was tainted by his fouls actions. Detonating an alien in the heart of a city killing millions and uniting the world is a mixed bag. Through Rorschachs journal they can come to the truth and actual heal the wounds of the world instead of slapping a big false band aid over it like Veidt tried to.

The entire arch of Manhatten is him coming back to his humanity. He saw that Rorschach was unflinching and took pity on him, and he probably saw that the journal brought down Veidts lies and made the world better.

P O T T E R Y

Cool headcannon, senpai

>4. Make him float in the air until he calms down
lol

That's what you get when you fuck a mans wife.

But that's the point.

...

what did he mean by this?

would you rather stare into your friends lifeless eyes?
would you rather have his body to deal with and have to cart it all the way home from Antarctica?
Sitting in Archie with the body of your best friend?

Manhattan was doing Daniel a favour as his last memories of Rorschach was fighting, which was the essence of his character anyway

>waaah being God is so boring
Is Manhattan the most entitled fuck in all of fiction?