This is consistent with Rorschach’s black and white morality. “Not even in the face of Armageddon,” he says. He insists on trying to bring Ozymandias to justice by telling the world what he did. But Rorschach refuses to go along with the whitewash. Only a few other heroes know that Ozymandias is behind the plot, and they agree not to reveal the truth in order to preserve the fragile peace. Ozymandias’ plan seems to work there’s international sympathy for American victims, and world leaders pull back from the brink of war. He does this because he believes that an alien threat will united the world and prevent a nuclear conflict between the U.S. Watchmen famously concludes with superhero Ozymandias aka Adrian Veidt faking an alien invasion by teleporting a monstrous artificial corpse into New York, resulting in the death of millions. At the end of the series, when the city does look up and shout, “Save us!” his reaction is not the indifference he promised. He decides not to kill his landlady, who badmouthed him to the police after his incarceration, because her frightened child reminds him of his own impoverished, abusive childhood. But there are also moments when he wavers. He kills and tortures people he thinks are in the wrong with impunity. Sometimes Rorschach does behave in accordance with this abhorrent code. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout ‘Save us!’… and I’ll look down and whisper ‘No.’” The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. “This city is afraid of me… I have seen its true face.
Rorschach ends up rejecting Rorschach - which is why he ends up being at least a partially sympathetic figure, and a moral one.Īt the beginning of the comic, Rorschach writes a passage in his diary which sums up his hatred of moral compromise and his unflinching judgment of basically everyone. The thing that Moore doesn’t say, though, is that Rorschach himself shares many of his creator’s reservations. I meant him to be a bad example, but I have people come up to me in the street saying, ‘I am Rorschach! That is my story!’ And I’ll be thinking, ‘Yeah, great, can you just keep away from me and never come anywhere near me again for as long as I live?’” “So actually, sort of, Rorschach became the most popular character in Watchmen. “I had forgotten that actually to a lot of comic fans smelling, not having a girlfriend - these are actually kind of heroic,” Moore said. Moore said he’s disturbed by how many people have identified with the character. He uses household products to fight police like some sort of twisted MacGyver, and expressionlessly drowns a crime boss in the toilet. In the comic, Rorschach kills people in inventive and imaginative ways, which makes him seem cool and exciting. That supposed moral clarity, in which good is good and evil is evil and there is no grey area between them, has appealed to many readers including Texas Republican senator Ted Cruz. His mask shows black and white blobs, which shift and move but never mix. But that hasn’t stopped him from gaining a large fandom. Rorschach is violent, gross, and obviously disturbed. He probably wouldn’t be very careful about his personal hygiene. “He wouldn’t have time for a girlfriend, friends, a social life, because he’d just be driven by getting revenge against criminals… dressed up as a bat for some reason. “So, I thought, ‘Alright, if there was a Batman in the real world, he probably would be a bit mental,’” the writer said. Moore has explained in no uncertain terms that Rorschach is not a model to emulate. In one memorable scene he tortures a bystander just because he happened to speak out of turn. Rorschach in the original comic is a mentally ill, ultraviolent right wing vigilante thug. The character was, after all, the moral center of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’ original 1986-87 graphic novel.Ĭalling Rorschach the moral center of the book may sound dubious.
The teaser doesn’t provide much information, but giving Rorschach and his legacy an important place in a new version of Watchmen seems like a good choice. The trailer for HBO’s upcoming Watchmen TV series shows a bunch of vigilante’s with Rorschach-inspired masks chanting ominously.
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