Why didn't he try to become a god like Jon?

Why didn't he try to become a god like Jon?

He wasn't a physicist.

But he had money.

Money buys things and people.

Jon could only become a living god due to a combination of many factors including his knowledge of physics, his patience with putting broken shit back together, autism and luck. The chance that Adrian would be able to recreate that feat himself was so small that it simply wouldn't be worth the risk. In all likelihood he'd just be vaporized and never come back.

It doesn't buy being a physicist.

But isn't he the smartest man on earth?

So what? He doesn't have all those other things that that guy just mentioned.
Being super smart doesn't mean you can just will yourself into being exactly what you need to do something.

Well, it doesn't until the writers say it does.

But it means that you have the tools to learn how to do that something.

So smart in fact, that he couldn't influence politics away from WW3 which was triggered by a proxy war in one of the shittiest countries in the world.

If he spent all his dish on politics he probably could have just bought off enough politicians on each side to hold off until disarmament could be engineered.

But no, giant fake space monster and genocide.

Jon's transformation was a freak accident. The conditions were not carefully observed or logged, so it would be impossible to recreate without a chsnce of bwing vaporized.

Maybe it was the air composition of the chamber at that given moment, or the metal on his watch, the fabric of his clothes, what he had for breakfast, etc.

How could he have fixed it? Tell America to build more nukes so they wouldn't be so utterly dependent on Dr. M for defense right up until the point he left?

He had the device in his little lair, and it was functional and running when he tried to use it on Jon so we can assume he's at least ran test.

I don't think he liked the results though.

Bankroll a ton of politicians who are anti-war and pro-disarming nukes on both sides.

Maybe develop an anti-missle system that would nullify one type of nuke deployment, sell it to both sides.

Invent a fake Dr Manhattan to fool Russia (didn't have to work). Invent something similar and give it to Russia.

Adrian is also clearly psychologically unstable.
He couldn't put himself back together when he was still flesh, I doubt he'd be able to as trillions of particles.

Russia would never agree to disarm with America having an actual god on their side and American disarmament is half of the problem.

Build a private army above any nation, even the US.

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That's why he's smart enough not to throw away his life like that.

What would that accomplish aside from having your assets seized?

You could get a nuke of your own?

Again, what would that accomplish beyond labeling you a traitor, terrorist, and maybe even a communist extremist turncoat and having your assets seized?

>in one of the shittiest countries in the world.
Australia?