this is satirical for anyone unfamiliar. It’s a page from the right wing newspaper that the character Rorschach reads devotedly. It’s got everything. Excessive labels. :liberty-weeping:, the works

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    I’m sure the crying statue of liberty is less of a prediction and more of Stan Kelly lifting the joke straight from this panel. There’s simply no way he isn’t aware of Watchmen.

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        That is probably true. I tried looking into it, but there’s like only one interview that deals with the crying statue of liberty and Kelly frustratingly enough doesn’t break character:

        BNR: Where did you first get the idea for the crying Statue of Liberty who so often appears in your cartoons?

        SK: I take issue with your question. Lady Liberty is a powerful symbol of our nation, and I take great care to use her sparingly. It’s only when a cartoon is dealing with issues crucial to the survival of the Republic that I usher her into my panel. To see her shed a single tear should be enough to reduce every honest, patriotic American to a puddle of distraught emotion. I think hard and long before I use a weapon like that on my readers.

        Pretty funny answer though

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    Not only did Zac Snyder not understand that Rorschach was meant as a satire of grimdark law and order takes on Batman like Year One, no, his Rorschach and his Batman are the exact same character.

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      Snyder’s Watchmen lifts so much of its cinematography and script directly from Moore’s book that they gave him a writer’s credit. honestly its impressive how, despite that, Snyder managed to turn Rorschach into the main POV and sideline the actual main character Night Owl just through which scenes were given more screentime and how the editing framed the characters.

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      Still love how Rorschach was a none too subtle dig against Steve Ditko’s Mr. A as well

      Nearly the exact same outfit, nearly identical philosophy

      But where Mr. A is a principled newspaper reporter who moonlights as a vigilante, Rorschach is a greasy weirdo who only reads the greasy right-wing tabloids

      He’s ugly, he doesn’t bathe and moreover he’s short and drives a psychologist to the brink with his depravity

      Nobody should like Rorschach and yet, for some reason, he’s the most popular character

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          Also it doesn’t help that he gets the most badass ending out of all the characters in the comic. He refuses to help cover up the mass murder of innocents and chooses to be executed rather than compromise his morals. Meanwhile Night Owl and Silk Spectre just pathetically accept defeat and retire and Dr. Manhattan tells Ozimandias all his plans are ultimately futile before fucking off into space forever. When I first read Watchmen as a teen I thought Rorschach was the only actual hero in it, mostly because of this scene.