Dr manhattan biography
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Doctor Manhattan
Watchmen
Main Alias
Doctor Manhattan
- Thermodynamic miracles... events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds of your ancestors being alive; meeting; siring this precise son; that exact daughter... Until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union, of the thousand million children competing for fertilization, it was you, only you, that emerged. To distill such a specific form from that chaos of improbability, like turning air to gold... that is the crowning of unlikelihood. The thermodynamic miracle.
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Doctor Manhattan (real name Jonathan "Jon" Osterman) was a nuclear physicist transformed into a godlike being by a radioactive particle test. Cold, distant, and easily distracted, he was instrumental in Ozymandias' prevention of nuclear war, and altered the timeline of Earth-0 as part of his experiments.
Early Years
Jonathan Osterman was born in 1929 Germany to Jewish watchmaker Josef Osterman and his wife Inge. When Jon was nine years old,
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Doctor Manhattan’s actual powers boggle the mind
Doctor Manhattan is famously the only character in Watchmen with actual superpowers, allowing the venerable comic series to maintain the fan-awarded label of a “realistic superhero story.” His abilities have a profound effect on Watchmen’s alternate history of the United States, and frame the bounds of its plot.
In episode 8 of HBO’s Watchmen, Doctor Manhattan’s abilities came into sharp focus after he’s revealed to be Calvin, the husband of the main character Angela. But even watching the super human navigate time and space doesn’t make understanding Doctor Manhattan any easier. What are his powers? Can he be killed? When and where is he at any given moment? Good questions, and we have answers.
[Ed. note: This piece contains spoilers for Watchmen’s eighth episode, “A God Walks Into Abar.”]
Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons/DC Comics
Doctor Manhattan can manipulate matter
There are a lot of things that Doctor Manhattan does in the Watchmen comic. He creates glass clockwork castles on Mars, he teleports organic and inorganic matter, and he blasts members of the Viet Cong with lasers from his hands. And while it might be different for other sup
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