Adrian Veidt, better known as Ozymandias, was a man born with a genius intellect who became an acrobatic and highly intelligent vigilante, idolizing the warrior and leader Alexander the Great and the great Egyptian Pharaoh Ramesses II, granting himself the latter's Greek name. After retiring from crimefighting, he built the massive commercial empire of Veidt Enterprises, and used it to further his own self-image as well as save the world from nuclear annihilation by tricking the human race into thinking that aliens were invading, uniting them against a common enemy, but costing three million lives and facing the wrath of Rorschach and Doctor Manhattan. Adrian Veidt was created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, first appearing in Watchmen #1 (1986).
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