WATCHMEN - Ozymandias vs The Comedian

Requested by a friend. Topic: Why did Edward said "It's a joke. It's all a joke. Mother forgive me"?

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[vandimar77]

Interestingly in the comic the fight is nothing like this intricate. Basically Ozymandias kicks in the door, gives the Comedian a pasting and chucks him out the window. He doesn't really fight back, and I think this is meant to be down to the fact that by this point in the story he's a broken man. He's learnt the extent of Ozymandias' scheme and is mentally and emotionally messed up. It's not just because he's older or out of shape that he loses; he's basically given up.

[MaxFrisch84]

Life sucks. No matter, how hard you try. In fact, the harder you try, the more it sucks. That is the joke.

[illholdthemoff]

@ltsjack They did when both of them were younger. Comedian kicked Ozy's ass

[ltsjack]

@illholdthemoff What? They never fought a time before this?

[illholdthemoff]

@ltsjack The only other time they fought Comedian floored him, so yeah

[ltsjack]

Requested by a friend. Topic: Why did Edward said "It's a joke. It's all a joke. Mother forgive me"?

I always just interperted it as a comment on the irony in Veidt's plan. The fact that he is trying to save the world by destroying it and tricking humanity, the types of things he used to fight against.

[ltsjack]

@vandimar77 He also probably knows that Adrian can kick the shit out of him easily, wether he fights back or not.

[eyegrinder94]

Heard the song a few days back, took me a while to remember where i'd heard it from...

[GothicPredalienWolf]

@Megaritz But then again he might never of cared about an overall good, since he was crazy. I don't know, that's just my opinion. I guess you'll have to ask Alan Moore.

[GothicPredalienWolf]

@Megaritz I can see where you're coming from, Comedian WAS a psycho after all. But I think that although he did kill however many people, innocent or not, he was doing it for America, and the fact that even though he fought for his country, it didn't affect the fact that they would all be exterminated, and that there was nothing he could do about it, all his fighting was for nothing.

[Megaritz]

@GothicPredalienWolf I interpreted it that the Comedian wasn't distraught because millions would die--but because the world was going to be saved from nuclear holocaust. The Comedian had used the world's impending doom as his whole philosophy, and his justification for how he lived, why he thought he could kill innocent people. But now that he knew the world WASN'T doomed, he was horrified--he wasn't justified at all, and it destroyed him. But I could be wrong, been two years since read it.