Rorschach’s journal October 12th 1985
this ruthless vigilante sees morality in
black and white welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we will explore the comic book
origin of Walter Kovacs otherwise known
as Rorschach because there is good and
evil and evil must be punished even in
the face of Armageddon I will not
compromise in this as with most comic
book characters they’re often
reimagining and different versions to a
character’s past we’ve chosen to
primarily follow the storyline which
unfolded in 1986 is 12 issue Watchmen
series in his debut comic appearance
Rorschach was introduced as a mysterious
masked man investigating the death of
Edward Blake another superhero known as
the comedian who was thrown out of his
apartment window shown to be living in
an alternate version of the 1980s
Rorschach began to theorize that someone
was targeting former crime fighters
searching for leads and crossing off
potential suspects his first action was
to warn his friend Daniel otherwise
known as the retired superhero Nite Owl
while Daniel thought the comedian’s
death was a political statement
Rorschach suspicions grew that there was
indeed a larger plot afoot continuing to
push for answers Rorschach visited other
former superheroes including the godlike
dr. Manhattan and the rich industrialist
Adrian Veidt otherwise known as
Ozymandias during his investigations and
meetings with other superheroes
Rorschach was reminded how much everyone
hated the comedian as though he fought
for the country he was a despicable
human being at the same time dr.
Manhattan was convinced by the media to
go into exile believing he was spreading
cancer to those around him this only
further proved Rorschach’s theory that a
major plot was in play one night while
following up on a lead Rorschach was set
up and arrested by the police
this is the police we know you’re in
there
no no when the police removed his mask
it was revealed that he was the
supposedly crazy person who’d been seen
holding a sign that read the end is nigh
in a number of the earlier scenes
revealing that he was secretly watching
many of the major events in disguise
when talking to a therapist in prison he
briefly revealed that he was indeed a
psychopath who regarded his mask as his
true face he explained that he had had a
brutal childhood as the son of a
prostitute which instilled him with a
hatred for what he described as the scum
of society while working in a garment
factory he found a piece of fabric that
contained fluids between two layers that
changed patterns depending on heat and
pressure this allowed him to make his
infamous shifting mask after taking up
work as a vigilante he came upon the
remains of a little girl that had been
kidnapped
apparently abused and eventually fed to
dogs after killing the dogs in question
he waited for the kidnapper to return
handcuffed him to a furnace and then
burnt him alive it was here that he
believes that Rorschach was born for it
was then that he came to realize that
like an ink blot Rorschach test there is
no real meaning to the world other than
that which we project onto it whatever
was left to Walter Kovacs died that
night with that little girl from then on
there was only Rorschach following his
breakout thanks to the help from his
friend Nite Owl Rorschach came to the
realization that Ozymandias had killed
the comedian who knew about his plan but
wouldn’t go along with it and had
orchestrated the departure of dr.
Manhattan from Earth so that he could
destroy New York
this was all done in order to unite the
people of the world who had come to be
hateful of each other unifying them
across borders under what they perceived
to be a common enemy humanity’s savage
nature will inevitably lead to global
annihilation so in order to save this
planet I had to trick it killing
millions to save billions as the
devastation had already been unleashed
while Rorschach and the Nite Owl battled
Ozymandias Rorschach could do little but
become enraged with the loss of millions
of the innocent lives though dr.
Manhattan returned to earth with the
plans to help Rorschach and stop
Ozymandias the godlike being realized
that the plan had worked that though New
York had been devastated the world had
been brought back from the edge of
nuclear war while night owl realized
that the truth would undermine the
sacrifices made Rorschach strict black
and white moral code dictated that the
world must be told the truth regardless
of the common good realizing that dr.
Manhattan would not allow him to do so
he allowed the demigod to kill him
little did anyone suspect that he’d sent
his journal to the press revealing
everything he had learned a popular and
one-of-a-kind superhero Rorschach
finally got the big screen treatment in
2009’s film adaptation where he was
faithfully portrayed by actor Jackie
Earle Haley Nia seem to understand not
locked in here with you you’re locked in
here with me are you a fan of this
brutal moral compass of the Watchmen
series for more thrilling comic book
origins be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
Rorschach’s journal October 12th 1985
tonight a comedian died in New York
this ruthless vigilante sees morality in
black and white welcome to watchmojo.com
and today we will explore the comic book
origin of Walter Kovacs otherwise known
as Rorschach because there is good and
evil and evil must be punished even in
the face of Armageddon I will not
compromise in this as with most comic
book characters they’re often
reimagining and different versions to a
character’s past we’ve chosen to
primarily follow the storyline which
unfolded in 1986 is 12 issue Watchmen
series in his debut comic appearance
Rorschach was introduced as a mysterious
masked man investigating the death of
Edward Blake another superhero known as
the comedian who was thrown out of his
apartment window shown to be living in
an alternate version of the 1980s
Rorschach began to theorize that someone
was targeting former crime fighters
searching for leads and crossing off
potential suspects his first action was
to warn his friend Daniel otherwise
known as the retired superhero Nite Owl
while Daniel thought the comedian’s
death was a political statement
Rorschach suspicions grew that there was
indeed a larger plot afoot continuing to
push for answers Rorschach visited other
former superheroes including the godlike
dr. Manhattan and the rich industrialist
Adrian Veidt otherwise known as
Ozymandias during his investigations and
meetings with other superheroes
Rorschach was reminded how much everyone
hated the comedian as though he fought
for the country he was a despicable
human being at the same time dr.
Manhattan was convinced by the media to
go into exile believing he was spreading
cancer to those around him this only
further proved Rorschach’s theory that a
major plot was in play one night while
following up on a lead Rorschach was set
up and arrested by the police
this is the police we know you’re in
there
no no when the police removed his mask
it was revealed that he was the
supposedly crazy person who’d been seen
holding a sign that read the end is nigh
in a number of the earlier scenes
revealing that he was secretly watching
many of the major events in disguise
when talking to a therapist in prison he
briefly revealed that he was indeed a
psychopath who regarded his mask as his
true face he explained that he had had a
brutal childhood as the son of a
prostitute which instilled him with a
hatred for what he described as the scum
of society while working in a garment
factory he found a piece of fabric that
contained fluids between two layers that
changed patterns depending on heat and
pressure this allowed him to make his
infamous shifting mask after taking up
work as a vigilante he came upon the
remains of a little girl that had been
kidnapped
apparently abused and eventually fed to
dogs after killing the dogs in question
he waited for the kidnapper to return
handcuffed him to a furnace and then
burnt him alive it was here that he
believes that Rorschach was born for it
was then that he came to realize that
like an ink blot Rorschach test there is
no real meaning to the world other than
that which we project onto it whatever
was left to Walter Kovacs died that
night with that little girl from then on
there was only Rorschach following his
breakout thanks to the help from his
friend Nite Owl Rorschach came to the
realization that Ozymandias had killed
the comedian who knew about his plan but
wouldn’t go along with it and had
orchestrated the departure of dr.
Manhattan from Earth so that he could
destroy New York
this was all done in order to unite the
people of the world who had come to be
hateful of each other unifying them
across borders under what they perceived
to be a common enemy humanity’s savage
nature will inevitably lead to global
annihilation so in order to save this
planet I had to trick it killing
millions to save billions as the
devastation had already been unleashed
while Rorschach and the Nite Owl battled
Ozymandias Rorschach could do little but
become enraged with the loss of millions
of the innocent lives though dr.
Manhattan returned to earth with the
plans to help Rorschach and stop
Ozymandias the godlike being realized
that the plan had worked that though New
York had been devastated the world had
been brought back from the edge of
nuclear war while night owl realized
that the truth would undermine the
sacrifices made Rorschach strict black
and white moral code dictated that the
world must be told the truth regardless
of the common good realizing that dr.
Manhattan would not allow him to do so
he allowed the demigod to kill him
little did anyone suspect that he’d sent
his journal to the press revealing
everything he had learned a popular and
one-of-a-kind superhero Rorschach
finally got the big screen treatment in
2009’s film adaptation where he was
faithfully portrayed by actor Jackie
Earle Haley Nia seem to understand not
locked in here with you you’re locked in
here with me are you a fan of this
brutal moral compass of the Watchmen
series for more thrilling comic book
origins be sure to subscribe to
watchmojo.com
Rorschach’s journal October 12th 1985
tonight a comedian died in New York
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