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Before Watchmen: Doctor Manhattan (2012) #2

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I watch myself leaving, but I cannot be leaving. Because I did not leave.
— Doctor Manhattan (Jon Osterman)

Before Watchmen: Doctor Manhattan #2 is an issue of the series Before Watchmen: Doctor Manhattan (Volume 1) with a cover date of December, 2012. It was published on October 10, 2012.

Synopsis for "One-Fifteen P.M."


Appearing in "One-Fifteen P.M."

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  • Intrinsic Field Chamber
  • Janey Slater & Jon Osterman's Photo
  • Janey Slater's Watch
  • "Space Misteries"
  • Washington Post

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Synopsis for "Wide Were His Dragon Wings: Part One"


Appearing in "Wide Were His Dragon Wings: Part One"

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  • Gordon McClachlan

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  • Mesoamerican tribe (Unnamed) (First full appearance)

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  • "The Curse of the Crimson Corsair" (Behind the scenes)

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Notes

  • The Curse of the Crimson Corsair continues from Before Watchmen: Ozymandias #3.
  • Although it is not named in the issue, the plane of existence– where Jon glimpses all the alternate possibilites of the Watchmen Universe– is supposedly Hypertime.
  • In the main alternate reality observed by Doctor Manhattan:
    • The Intrinsic Field Chamber does not activate, so the alternate Jon is never turned into Doctor Manhattan;
    • Jon proposes to Janey in 1960 and marries her a year later;
    • President Kennedy sends Ozymandias to avert the Nuclear War during the Cuban Missile Crisis;
    • President Kennedy is murdered in 1963;
    • Richard Nixon never resigned because of the Watergate Scandal and was eventually elected for a third term;
    • In the late 1970s, Nixon allows the beginning of World War III, so Earth is destroyed by the Nuclear War.
  • Other timelines are foreseen by Doctor Manhattan:
    • A timeline in which, like in the Real World, the Cold War ends with the peace between United States and Soviet Union. In this timeline, Kennedy survives his attempted murder in Dallas, Nixon resigned because of the Watergate scandal, and Ronald Reagan does his Berlin speech, leading to the Fall of the Berlin Wall;
    • A timeline in which Kennedy sends the Comedian instead of Ozymandias during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Comedian chooses to use brutal force with the Russian ships, starting World War III;
    • A timeline in which the Comedian never murdered his Vietnamese lover, so the couple had a child.
  • "One-Fifteen P.M." is reprinted in Before Watchmen: Nite Owl/Dr. Manhattan.
  • "Wide Were His Dragon Wings, Part One" is reprinted in Before Watchmen: Ozymandias/Crimson Corsair.

Trivia

  • The epilogue of "One-Fifteen P.M." features J. Robert Oppenheimer's famous quote, "For I am become Death, the Destroyer of Worlds".


See Also


Links and References

  1. ↑ Death of JFK
  2. ↑ Nixon's speech
  3. ↑ Reagan's speech

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