So Dr Manhattan can rearrange cells and blow people up from the inside, why can't he just de-age his girlfriend? Make her physically 16 or so again, but keep her memories intact?
>>154256480>can rearrange cellsHis own.>blow people up from the insideAnyone can do that.
>>154256518>Anyone can do that.how?
>>154256794Handgranate down the throat.>>154256480He can rearrange atoms. But i dont think that this is good while the person is alive.
>>154257434>He can rearrange atoms. But i dont think that this is good while the person is alive.But a dead human and a live one have the same number of atoms, creating a human (even himself) is just a matter of arranging the pieces like clockwork, etc.The difference between this and, say, not just saving the pregnant Vietnam woman, is that this is something he clearly wants. He could have all the jailbait in the world, he's not emotionless or un-driven. If he's monogamous, he could de-age a woman (and 99% of 30+ women would want that too). If he's a coomer, he could have a whole harem.Moore wrote this in, so it's not like he didn't think about it. More like an oversight or outright plot hole. They could have depicted him with a creepy closet full of de-aged clones of all the women he's felt attracted to, or something.>What's wrong, Sally? These women I created mean nothing to me. They are like dolls, simply for my own gratification.
>>154256480He should fuck up her memories while he's at it. And alter her sex drive.
>>154256480Simple, but rather silly explanation:From Jon's perspective he's always having his first, most passionate time with prime Janey, he has no reason to go out his way for her presently as she's perpetually putting out no matter how much she complains or if they break up.
>>154257478Too busy having an existential crisis, if he was Captain Atom of Firestorm it would be feasible but he has slowly been losing his humanity over the years due to his newfound powers and the fact that he can see past and future at the same time. He says so himself:>"I'm just a puppet who can see the strings"Basically he FEELS specifically that he's all but helpless to the whims of "fate"(that's my interpretation) which causes him to dip out.So maybe if he DIDN'T have that shitty power he would do it.
>>154256480I'm going to level with you, Anon: Alan Moore is a hack. That's the real issue here, and Watchmen is easily his most overhyped comic. Everything to do with Jon is him trying to do "superhero but realistic physics", but his grasp of physics was laughable horseshit even for the 1980s state of the art and he's clearly picked discredited theories just for the sake of maximum bleakness and fatalism (since that's the theme). The fact that Jon is completely unimaginative with his powers is true but it's also very secondary to his cack-handed handling of Jon's futuresight generally.
>>154257754For me Dr and Quinch and Miracleman are the peak of Moore. V for Vendetta, Killing Joke and Watchmen are overrated. They're just so boring and dreary compared to his earlier stuff.
>>154257754>Determinism is a discredited theory lollmao
>>154257754Anon, I understand the scary beardy man was rude to your favourite corporation, and that confuses and enrages you so you feel the need to strike out at him, but "hack" is a word with a very precise meaning that doesn't fit in this context, it doesn't mean "bad writer who was insufficiently respectful to our worthy masters"
>>154257607that's something I never considered and makes a lot of sense actually
>>154257607He also technically constantly experiencing that she' leaves him for nite owl.As an aside, good for you actually understanding how Manhatten's powers work. I've come to find that most people actually don't.
>>154257478Before we continue, dont mix body morphing and body creation.Body morphing would be painfully. Thats why you get anestethics in hospitals. When kids grow they have growing pains. Dr. Manhattan needs to do it slowly and even this suggests that he can move atoms in a living, moving organism.Creating bodies opens up the question if he can create something with a mind. We kinda learn that his mind reformed his body, so it suggests that there is something like a mind. Every body Manhattan creates could be a body with a mind like a stone, a baby or another Janey.
>>154259212He could block the pain signals of the nerves while he morphs the person.He really can do anything he wishes but chooses not to do so.
>>154259433>Jon makes Janey like himself>She immediately sleeps with Dan Dreiberg
>>154256480He could, he just didn't really care supposedly until the end of chapter 9 , Comedian pointed that out.
Because human cells cannot be repaired.
>>154256480because he never does thateverything that happens in Watchmen happens because it is preordained to happenJon has already been to the future and seen how things turn out, and there is therefore no possibility that they turn out differently
>>154257754You seem to be too smart to have such a dumbfuck interpretation of the comic. In school, I noticed a lot of genuinely smart people were so retarded about fiction, especially pop fiction.
>>154259433He cant do everything, he has limits. What you propose uses as much attention and focus as destroying all soviet nuclear rockets that fly to the US. And he cant destroy every tocket. So he cant do what you propose without harm or pain.
>>154256480Because he's bored
>>154262755He re-assembled his own body after coming apart in the accident, didn't he? He can't do the exact same thing again to someone else's body?It's not a problem of capability, but of drive. Even before he started experiencing time differently, he was always just going along with how others shaped his life.
>>154262755Just block the pain signal traveling the brainstem before they reach the… brain.
Should we take Manhattan's angst seriously or is he a pseud faggot who should stop whining? Like he acts like he didn't have a choice to cheat on his wife with some sexy teen.
>>154264043Part of the point of Watchmen is that everyone isn't as clever as they think they are.
>>154256480If Doc was less of a retard there would be a lot he could do. It’s one of those situations where just because someone has a lot of information it doesn’t mean they will know how to use it.
>>154257607>>154258511>>154258638These are all true. He experiences time differently from a human being would, I forget the exact line but he sees all events happening at once like all the facets of a diamond. Such a perspective essentially robs him of freewill.
>>154264672Have you considered having free will?
>>154257478>If he's a coomer, he could have a whole harem.Thinking too smallJon could create little copies of himself that are just walking vaginas with arms and legs that just fuck him all the timeBoobs all over his workshop. Piled up in the corners for resting, floating in the air, propping up all your tools. Dude could have made himself 30 dicks
>>154264043You should take his angst serious. Because he knows he already did that. He cant and wont do anything different. I suppose if he differs from the original happenings, he gets too confused. Thats why he is always the one that reacts not takes the action.
>>154263638And he didnt achieved that on the first try. Let alone all the screaming, must have hurt really bad.But i agree that he lacks the drive and motivation. Just like with Comedian in Vietnam.>>154263843Can he do that? Because this means a chemical reaction and thus changing something in her body. Stopping that could also mean some serious side effect like crippling her.
>>154265282Dr. Zesthattan
>>154257478>But a dead human and a live one have the same number of atomsThe entire point of that line is there is a major fucking difference between a dead body and a live body.
