Rolf Muller was a circus performer that was alleged to be Hooded Justice after the hero's sudden disappearance.
History
Rolf Muller, also known as "Mighty Mueller" in the circus, was found shot in the back of the head in Boston Harbor in the 1950s.
Roughly ten years later, Hollis Mason - the former crimefighter Nite Owl - alleged that Rolf Muller was actually the hero Hooded Justice, who had a similar body structure and disappeared around the same time. [1]
This allegation was used as reference for the 2019 television docu-series American Hero Story: Minutemen, though the series claimed that Muller was not Hooded Justice and that Muller was a scapegoat for the real Hooded Justice to go into hiding.
Notes
- This version of the character is exclusive to the continuity of the television series Watchmen and is an adaptation of Rolf Müller. The original character was created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and first appeared in Watchmen #1.
- Though Rolf Muller never physically appeared, an actor portraying his corpse - as well as a depiction of the original on the back of the actor's jacket - appeared in Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship.
- Rolf Muller's corpse actor went uncredited.
- Unlike the original Rolf Müller that appeared in Alan Moore's series, this Rolf Muller isn't known to use an umlaut on the U in his name. Agent Dale Petey doesn't use one in his memo to the FBI, [1] the spelling on the back of the corpse actor's jacket doesn't use one - (though it spells his stage name as Mueller, with an E), and the closed captions for the episode Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship spell it without an umlaut as well.
Related
- 1 Appearances of Rolf Muller (Watchmen TV Series)
- 1 Images featuring Rolf Muller (Watchmen TV Series)
- Quotations by or about Rolf Muller (Watchmen TV Series)
- Character Gallery: Rolf Muller (Watchmen TV Series)
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