First look at Watchmen characters

[Ilium]

Ok, I must be mixing up the characters. I thought the Silk Specter was Laurie's mother. Did she use the same name?

Clearly I have to break out my copy of Watchmen. It's been too long since I read it.

 

[Trickstergod]

Ok, I must be mixing up the characters. I thought the Silk Specter was Laurie's mother. Did she use the same name?

Clearly I have to break out my copy of Watchmen. It's been too long since I read it.

Yeah, they used the same name. The Silk Spectre is essentially analogous to Black Canary - who is also a legacy character, with the mother as the first Canary and her daughter as the second.

And I'd say Silk Spectre II was assertive - certainly more so than Nite-Owl.

As for the way the characters look, I'm not a fan of the Comedian's look - the hair is obviously fake. The gray should be a little better blended in with the rest of his hair; as it stands, the gray in his hair looks only nominally better than it is with the guy playing Reed Richards.

The woman playing Silk Spectre's also too skinny - she looks like some fashion model waif. Not that the Silk Spectre needs to be some overly fit, athletic looking superhero, but she should have a bit of meat on her.

And then Ozy. He needs to lose the Bat-armor. I'm actually fine with it on Nite-Owl - it makes sense for him. But Ozymandias has a relatively simple outfit and I don't see why something a little more comic accurate isn't used.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Something occurred to me.

Is it possible that there is a deeper reason to the early-Batman-movie styled costumes than just 'they look cool' or making them close to the comics?

Maybe this is me reaching a bit, but since Watchmen was at its heart, a commentary on comics...is it possible the movie might add in a few things to comment on certain comic book movies in a similar way?

 

[Cthulhudrew]

Maybe this is me reaching a bit, but since Watchmen was at its heart, a commentary on comics...is it possible the movie might add in a few things to comment on certain comic book movies in a similar way?

Well, there are nipples on Ozymandias' suit...

 

[Klaus]

Yeah, they used the same name. The Silk Spectre is essentially analogous to Black Canary - who is also a legacy character, with the mother as the first Canary and her daughter as the second.

And I'd say Silk Spectre II was assertive - certainly more so than Nite-Owl.

As for the way the characters look, I'm not a fan of the Comedian's look - the hair is obviously fake. The gray should be a little better blended in with the rest of his hair; as it stands, the gray in his hair looks only nominally better than it is with the guy playing Reed Richards.

The woman playing Silk Spectre's also too skinny - she looks like some fashion model waif. Not that the Silk Spectre needs to be some overly fit, athletic looking superhero, but she should have a bit of meat on her.

And then Ozy. He needs to lose the Bat-armor. I'm actually fine with it on Nite-Owl - it makes sense for him. But Ozymandias has a relatively simple outfit and I don't see why something a little more comic accurate isn't used.

Sidenote:

Black Canary is only a legacy character in recent years. Originally, she was from Earth-2 (the JSA Earth) and moved to Earth-1 to join the JLA and date Green Arrow.

Silk Spectre, like all Watchmen characters, is analog to a Charlton Comics character. In this case, Nightshade.

 

[horacethegrey]

Silk Spectre, like all Watchmen characters, is analog to a Charlton Comics character. In this case, Nightshade.

But Alan Moore never cared much for the original Nightshade, which is why Silk Spectre has elements of the Black Canary, of whom Moore was more of a fan of. The same with Rorschach. While undoubtedly influenced by the Question, Moore took more elements from Steve Ditko's earlier and more extreme objectivist vigilante, Mr.A.

 

[qstor]

Ok, I must be mixing up the characters. I thought the Silk Specter was Laurie's mother. Did she use the same name?

Clearly I have to break out my copy of Watchmen. It's been too long since I read it.

Same here mine is in storage. I thought the outfits were great. I'm looking forward to the movie.

Mike

 

[Felon]

The outfits look OK.

But with the exception of Rorschach, I bet we're not going to see much of them. In most comic book movies, you don't see that much of the hero in costume (particularly if he wears a mask), and in the Watchmen comic we didn't see much of the characters in costume either. So, this isn't such an important to get spot on. They don't even look so much like shots from the movie. More like production stills.

 

[Felon]

Sidenote:

Black Canary is only a legacy character in recent years. Originally, she was from Earth-2 (the JSA Earth) and moved to Earth-1 to join the JLA and date Green Arrow.

Silk Spectre, like all Watchmen characters, is analog to a Charlton Comics character. In this case, Nightshade.

Well, the Charlton characters that Moore wasn't allowed to use were the direct analogues, but the influence of other characters is also apparent. Nite Owl, for instance, seems at least as reminiscent of Batman as he is of The Blue Beetle.

 

[Trickstergod]

Well, the Charlton characters that Moore wasn't allowed to use were the direct analogues, but the influence of other characters is also apparent. Nite Owl, for instance, seems at least as reminiscent of Batman as he is of The Blue Beetle.

Nite-Owl is no more like Batman than Veidt or Rorschach. He's much closer to Ted, though some of the similarities only cropped up with Blue Beetle after Watchmen (namely, the gut and otherwise getting out of shape).