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- In terms of being a cautionary tale about superheroes (and the comics were far less flattering than the movie in this regard), this ending allows Watchmen to comment on both the inflated egos of the heroes, and the fickle nature of the world's political powerhouses.
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Aug 1, 2019 · In terms of being a cautionary tale about superheroes (and the comics were far less flattering than the movie in this regard), this ending allows Watchmen to comment on both the inflated egos of the heroes, and the fickle nature of the world's political powerhouses.
- Editor
1 day ago · The superheroes in Watchmen help impose U.S. might around the world, changing the tide of the Vietnam War in America’s favor and turning the United States into the planet’s sole nuclear force ...
Sep 5, 2023 · When Watchmen was released, female superheroes only really existed as their team's de facto mother or damsel in distress. Silk Spectre II perpetuated this patronizing stereotype to some extent, but she pushed it to its most human extreme.
- Critic
Oct 24, 2019 · Watchmen was created as a cautionary tale of extreme right-wing politics, but hasn’t always been interpreted that way. Watchmen is a superhero story, and decades of superhero...
- Alex Abad-Santos
May 17, 2021 · Watchmen is a cautionary tale about superheroes asserting their will on the world. By contrast, the restraint the Utopian and the Union showed by not using their powers to affect World War II, Vietnam, or any other global conflict, and restricting their activities to saving the world from supervillains, actually maintained a sense of relative ...
- John Orquiola
- Senior Editor-Star Trek
Oct 21, 2019 · From that grain of truth, Watchmen spins its fantastical tale, equally interested in deconstructing superheroes, society, and belief systems; just as much about a badass masked cop who kicks...
Mar 4, 2020 · By taking a look at a crew of former superheroes washed up on the grim shores of the 1980s, Watchmen examines the world's rightward creep toward authoritarianism, the place of force in civil...
