Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon’s Watchmen transforms the simple matter of right and wrong into a hidden meaning that no one can seem to fully pin down. It is thickly layered in mystery and makes you wonder if anything is as it seems on the surface. They take a simple story about vigilantes and make you question the darkness and light. With the use of closure, icons, and panels, they develop the characters and plot. These characters show an extreme duality to them that is complex and only grows as the plot is built.
Furthermore, on page 16 of chapter one, we get to see the first taste of our iconic anti-hero Rorschach's need for justice. In these subject-to-subject panels that emphasize each of Rorschach’s actions and thoughts, we see a little of the darkness that lurks behind his ironic mask. There is a startling similarity to Batman from The Dark Knight Returns when he was hanging a criminal from the top of a roof to get information. There is a certain duality between Batman and Rorschach. They both refer to their alter-egos as a separate entity, but Rorschach has taken it a step further. On page 14 of chapter 6 when Rorschach is explaining that Kovac was just pretending to be Rorschach we can use closure to know that de does not even see him as Kovac.…show more content… In these moment-to-moment panels that intensify the scene, Rorschach takes off his mask. Because Rorschach sees no compromise in the slaughter of hundreds, he is an iconic archetypal hero that will always do what is right no matter the consequences. Since there is no compromise for Rorschach, he has only two options: he can go tell everyone or he can die. Rorschach begs to be killed because he cannot live in this kind of world with the knowledge of who murder all those
