Moore said of his characteristic morally ambiguous endings: However, in a 2009 interview with, Moore explained this elusive quality in his narrative conclusions in relation to a similar finale featured in his other famed series, V For Vendetta.
With all that moral ambiguity, and Moore’s own non-committal responses to this perceived uncertainty within his own work, it may seem difficult to find the moral-ethical core of Watchmen. With such characters as the violent Rorschach and the nefarious Ozymandias, Moore managed to showcase a certain potential within the comics medium hitherto unheard of, as the formerly spotless archetypes of superheroes like Batman and Superman were cast in a “gray and grayer” ethical framework to highlight their underlying flaws. Related: Watchmen Creator Alan Moore Has Surprising Advice For Writers Manhattan in particular was deconstructed as apathetic and somewhat capricious despite his ability to manipulate the fabric of existence itself, culminating in his ultimate murder of the character Rorschach at the end of the story. Manhattan ended up changing the path of global politics, the series was lauded for its uncompromising deconstruction of the psychology of this world’s “heroes.” Alan Moore often reveals selfish or severely psychotic motivations in characters who would normally be considered sterling role models in the usual mainstream comics fare.
Set in an alternate, realism-tinged history where the emergence of a godlike being named Dr. Watchmen tells the tale of a group of former “masked adventurers” who must band together to solve the mysterious murder of one of their own, an amoral sociopath called The Comedian.
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