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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Macbeth" data-source="post: 1156769" data-attributes="member: 11259">Well, while alot of what you say is true, I'd have to disagree that Ozymandias is the hero of the piece. When we come to the end, we have Rorshach dead (and obviouslly mostly insane, even moreso then at the begining), Dr. Manhattan being a spectator, trying to learn about humanity, Ozymandias trying to figure out if he really did help humanity, and Night Owl II with Mrs. Jupiter (sorry, forgot her real name), comforting her. Now, the moral of this story, the theme, the statement I believe Moore is trying to make, comes not in any of the "real" heros, the ones who (try) to correct universal wrongs, who weild unlimited power, who prevent wars, but in the connection between Nighte Owl and Jupiter, not as heros, but as people. At the end of the work, who can you really call a hero? Rorshach? He truns out to be an obsesive madman who would rather comply with his abstract childish notion of 'good' then save humanity from war. Dr. Manhattan? He has prove to be little more then an all powerful observer, he could have saved all of these people, he could have solved almost all of humanitie's problems, but he didn't. Ozymandias? He just killed several thousand, possibly miilion people in a demented plot to 'save' the world from war. And that leads up to Night Owl, the only chracter who, when the curtain closes, has made a positive impact on the world. Night Owl hsa deeply improved the life of one person, but he is the only that Moore allows to seem heroic.These are just my thoughts, but I do think that Ozymandias is not a hero as Moore portrayed him in the original. Now the movie may be a different story...</blockquote>

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