Why didn't he just make all the nuclear weapons disappear?
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Meme response
Meme disingenuous response
Too low IQ response
Midwit response, probably got this information from youtube review
High IQ response, understood what he read in the novel
It's a comic not a novel.
BECAUSE UM.... He was just tired of humanity or society or something like that OK????
Man his powers are stupid
He didn´t gave a shit anymore, and that fact was actually a major plot point of the story.
He was very disappointed with Veidt though
He saw and knew that he wouldn't
Pretty much. Whether or not he's completely omnipotent there were any number of horrible things he could have prevented if he wasn't so detached from humanity. But he sees things as predetermined and follows the path accordingly to the point where he reacts in surprise to discovering things he already supposedly knows.
No he didn't. He only sees what actually happens, minus the bits obscured by tachyons, and what actually happened was he fricked off into space before any nukes were launched.
Wouldn't not couldn't
Dumb response
Manhattan isn't bound to his course of actions, he just exists at all points in his past, present, and future. The real issue is that he just doesn't give a shit. Manhattan is a cosmic being who can't bring himself to care about a bunch of gibbering primates about to blow themselves up.
It's why he drops the photo on Mars. It's the whole fricking point of the Watchmaker issue. Alan Moore literally created the character to answer the age-old moronic question of why Superman doesn't just get rid of all the nukes, or end world hunger, or stop all the petty street crime. It's because a being like Superman probably wouldn't give any more of a shit about us than we would care about a particular colony of termites about to be flooded by a storm.
>Manhattan is a cosmic being who can't bring himself to care about a bunch of gibbering primates about to blow themselves up.
He himself was a gibbering primate at some point, which is already the main problem. I would argue that the mentality he displays (abandonment of humanity) was already in his mind before he became a cosmic being. After all, he was an atomic physicist who presumably worked for the government, presumably so the government could proceed in their various projects to control and kill other people.
He was always a piece of shit who abandoned his humanity and WOULD let everyone die in global atomic fire. "The people responsible for the events that created Manhattan won't save you." Moore is saying.
Knowing everything that's ever going to happen to you or to anything you interact with ahead of time would make anyone a fatalist.
He's not a genie.
Dr. Manhattan is not omnipotent.
Wasn't he the most powerful being that easily slapped all Earth heroes around all he wanted in Doomsday Clock? Seems like he is a max level reality warper now on par with 5th dimension imps.
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Probably this. Doesn't he say that in the event of a total nuclear war, he'd only be able to stop half the missiles?
Did you read the damn thing? Like even the movie says that he can perceive time differently than we can and no matter what idea he tried there wasn't a plan he could make that could prevent the war.
I don't recall this happening. He just claimed he was not capable of stopping every nuke if the Soviets launched. and after a while he stopped being able to see a difference between a living and a dead person so nuclear armageddon did not matter.
He did in Doomsday Clock
In my fanfiction he fricks Rorschach up the ass
"We are all puppets, I'm just the only one who can see the strings"
He's kinda like Alien X. He's so powerful that he's stupefied by his own omnipotence, and is now useless.
But the reason alien X is useless is because it's personalities can never agree on anything
I don't know if that's right. The destructive power of nuclear weapons is exagerated in pop-culture. Nuclear winter isn't even real, for instance. They fricked up the math.
>Nuclear winter isn't even real
Exaggerated
Still real. The climatic effects of a full-scale nuclear exchange would be severe.
This. In this reality the cold war never balances out, like in the early days when only the US had nukes and bullied everyone else. The Soviets in universe respond by building a sufficiently huge nuclear arsenal that not even he can stop it all.
>Nuclear winter isn't even real
This meme is doing the rounds on Cinemaphile, it's like "those pinko liberals gypped us out of our cool multimegaton exchange" as if it wouldn't have been fricking terrible beyond imagination.
Regardless, it's an 80s comic that captures the 80s zeitgeist.
Which was more about the BOOM than the aftermath. The aftermath was gonna be shit, but I remember, people were shit scared of the BOOM.
t. gen X boomer
>This meme is doing the rounds on Cinemaphile, it's like "those pinko liberals gypped us out of our cool multimegaton exchange" as if it wouldn't have been fricking terrible beyond imagination.
The past isn't a real place to these people, just a kind of narcissistic self-projection.
Seems like he was made just a little too powerful. To the point where he makes for a bad Superman allegory. Superman is still a guy raised on Earth, still has normal human perceptions and still wants to be helpful.
But Manhattan is an all powerful supreme being that can reshape all of reality but walks around on the street as a naked blue guy. Of course it's boring for him to be there. He has nothing to do and nowhere to go.
Would have been retreading the same ground as Moores Miracle Man run. Likely not done because as a writer youd want to try a new spin on the concept you like and have used before.
I also feel he contrasts to Moores other god character, Miracle Man. Moore was of the impression that a guy with that much power wouldn't just fall into "stop bad guys, then go back to his 9-5 civilian guise". Both Miracle Man and Manhattan abandoned their human selves, and Miracle Man set out to solve all the worlds problems, while Dr. Manhatten saw himself as above it.
The nuclear weapons are a fixed item in time, so they cannot be removed. Like Superman was or some crap, can't remember the doomsday clock.
He did not have free will.
Because he's a c**t
I thought the point was there was so many nukes that not even he could get rid of them all in time?
Because he couldnt be everywhere in the timeframe he has.
And if you mean going to the silos, becsuse he knows he didnt and will never.
I mean okay, but you think people wont just built new ones?