In Before Watchmen: Doctor Manhattan, Jon attempts to look back before his conception as Manhattan and creates an alternate timeline where he never becomes Doctor Manhattan and the world ends. The end of the comic sees Jon in a new timeline, the DC timeline, as I like to call it, the world of Before Watchmen, the original Watchmen, and Doomsday Clock. In this case, shouldn't we have pages for both the original Watchmen timeline before Jon looked back, and the alternate timeline he created by accident? I think yes. As for names, "Watchmen: Manhattan Timeline" for the accidental alternate timeline, and "Watchmen: Original Timeline" for the original timeline.
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