Complete Golden & Silver Age Breakdown of Alan Moore's 1986 Watchmen || Docuseries-27 by Alex Grand

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Alan Moore created the characters Dr. Manhattan, The Comedian, Nite Owl, Rorschach, Ozymandias, and Silk Spectre for Watchmen in 1986, but they were actually based on Silver Age characters: Captain Atom, Peacemaker, Blue Beetle, The
Question / Mr. A, Thunderbolt and Nightshade, who were based on Golden Age characters: Atoman, The Shield, Blue Beetle, The Blank, Daredevil, and Phantom Lady. By understanding that, and those characters, it helps to see that Alan Moore essentially meant to show how these characters would actually function in a realistic world of their respective eras. The Watchmen series constantly cycles between the Golden Age, the Silver Age, and the Modern Dark Age of the 1980s. Alan Moore harnesses the actual characters from those ages, merges them into something powerfully interesting, and ultimately deconstructed them into something awfully broken in the real world.

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#CBHDocuseries-27: Breakdown of Alan Moore's 1986 Watchmen characters into Golden & Silver Age characters

📜 Video chapters
00:00 Start
00:26 Alan Moore's Watchmen Characters
01:12 Golden Age Team
01:41 New Golden Age Team, 1970
02:18 1980s Dark Age
03:21 Old Charlton characters
03:40 Dr. Manhattan
04:57 Atoman - Steve Ditko
05:35 The Comedian
06:02 Peacemaker, The Shield
06:58 Nite Owl - Blue Beetle
08:18 Ozymandias
08:45 Thunderbolt
09:40 Daredevil
10:30 Rorschach - The Question/Mr. A
11:22 Panels showing...
12:22 Silk Spectre - Nightshade
13:02 Phantom Lady
14:07 Conclusion

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