He visited underworld bars, putting fourteen people in the hospital needlessly, but the fifteenth gave him an address to Modern Modes , an unused dressmaker's shop in Brooklyn. Rorschach arrived at the unlit building at dusk while Grice was out. He checked the backyard and saw two attack dogs, German Shepherds named Fred and Barney , fighting over a knob of bone.
He broke in through the front door and examined the house. In a nearby wood-burning stove he found a piece of children's clothing. One of the cabinets was filled with meat hacking utensils and in the kitchen was a large cutting slab with thick cuts on it. He peered out the window, out at the dogs, and looked at the bone they were still fighting over.
It was a femur, a human bone. He went into the yard and cut one dog's head open with a meat cleaver. It was at that moment, when he closed his eyes and opened them again, that he claimed to no longer be Walter Kovacs; he was now Rorschach. He then used the meat cleaver to kill the other dog. Grice was out drinking when he entered and returned at that night.
When he walked into the house, Rorschach threw the bloody corpse of one, then the other of the dogs at him through the window, knocking him to the ground. Silently, Rorschach grabbed and handcuffed him to the furnace while Grice screamed that Rorschach had no evidence of what he did. Rorschach left a hacksaw by his hand, then started to pour kerosene throughout the house and pulled out a match, telling Grice that he couldn't saw through the cuffs in time -- suggesting Grice saw through his wrist.
Rorschach dropped the match and stood outside, watching the house burn to the ground for an hour, and realized the emptiness of human existence. After the incident, Rorschach quit his job as a garment worker.
The Keene Act was passed, outlawing costumed adventurers and demanding their retirements. Enraged and defiant, he answered by leaving the corpse of the notorious multiple rapist Harvey Charles Furniss [1] in front of a police station with a note pinned to his chest, reading "Never! During the day, he could be seen walking around the streets of New York City without his face or costume as a vagrant with a sign that reads "The end is nigh.
On October 12th, , a man named Edward Blake was thrown out of his apartment window, and Rorschach wrote his first journal entry. Using the grappling hook gun given to him by Nite Owl , Rorschach climbed to the fourth floor and investigated Blake's home, discovering his secret identity as the Comedian.
In attempting to discover the murderer's motivation Rorschach develops the 'mask-killer' theory; someone is attempting to kill all existing costumed vigilantes.
Considering this as a possible cause makes Rorschach feel obliged to inform the other masks about a threat on their lives. First on the list to warn is his old partner, Dan Dreiberg, formerly known as Nite Owl. He enters his apartment by breaking in the lock and eating a can of cold baked beans. He tosses Dreiberg the Comedian's badge that he picked up from the blood drenched sidewalk.
Dreiberg suggests an ordinary burglary or a political killing, but Rorschach persists with his 'mask-killer' theory. He recalls when they were partners and Dreiberg pleasantly remarks, "Those were great times He tells Happy Harry about the incident, then breaks Steve 's fingers, calling out for anyone to tell him some information.
No one knew anything, so he left for Adrian Veidt 's office, warning him and listening to his 'political killing' opinion. At p. Osterman explains how he has no reason to care for human life, and Laurie expresses her hate for the Comedian. On October 16th, Kovacs was outside the cemetery during Eddie Blake 's funeral; he noticed Edgar Jacobi , once the villain known as Moloch, there, and had already broken his home.
Bursting out of his refrigerator, he asked why he had attended the funeral since they had been enemies for forty years, and how he knew his name. Jacobi explained that Blake had broken into his room and rambled about somebody trying to mess with the big blue geek and about an island with writers, scientists, and artists. Deciding Edgar didn't know anything, Rorschach left, after examining a bottle of illegal pills called Laetrile.
Jacobi explained he needed the medication since he had cancer. Writing another entry , Rorschach broke into the cemetery and paid his last respects to Blake 'without fuss' the priest's scripture readings , taking one of the roses Jacobi left.
The other week Kovacs kept visiting Bernard who made tongue-in-cheek comments about the end of the world; Kovacs claimed it would happen that day, and before leaving he asked Bernard to keep his New Frontiersman for tomorrow. Manhattan Leaves Earth," persuading his 'mask-killer' theory more heavily since the second ' mask ' had been exiled. He leaves but not before snatching a bottle of Nostalgia. Rorschach hadn't slept since Saturday; in October 21 he breaks into Jacobi's house again after midnight, this time shoving him into the refrigerator, and is slowly starting to unravel the plot of the murder.
Rorschach leaves the house thus writing one entry after leaving Jacobi's, and then another after leaving his apartment and seeing Dreiberg and Laurie come out of Gunga Diner. He sits in the diner and watches his 'maildrop' across the street the trash can on the corner , waiting for Jacobi to leave a message. Writing his final entry on October 21, he has learned of the attempted assassination on Adrian Veidt 's life, which is further proof of his 'mask-killer' theory. He reads a note from Jacobi that tells him to call at p.
Breaking another lock that Jacobi installed, Rorschach enters his apartment and asks about the "list" that mentioned Dr. Manhattan and his associates, pointing out that both heroes who were disposed of were enemies to Moloch.
Then he found that Moloch had been shot through the head. Steven Fine and Joe Bourquin were outside with a police force and someone with a megaphone outside calls out to Rorschach stating that he is surrounded by the police. Realizing he has been framed, he searches for a sort of protection, grabbing a bottle of Veidt for Men hair spray and matches.
When the cops burst in he torches Officer Shaw , then lights the stairs aflame while running up them. He throws pepper in Willis 's eyes, then shoots Officer Charlie Greaves with his grappling hook gun at point-blank range before leaping through the bedroom's window.
While trying to get up he is surrounded and beaten and his mask removed, revealing his identity. During the bail hearing, Rorschach never responded to anything. In prison, Kovacs is subject to regular mental treatment from a clinical psychologist named Malcolm Long. Long-anticipated treating Kovacs, believing that his extreme vigilantism would open the way to the identification of a syndrome pertaining to masked vigilantes.
In their first meetings he examines Kovacs' opinions through the Rorschach inkblot test, though Rorschach tells Malcolm that he sees pretty butterflies and flowers while he actually sees pictures much more gruesome, like a dog with its head split in a memory of the kidnapped girl ten years ago , or the night when he walked in on his mother with a john.
Kovacs' time in prison consists of relentless death threats. At one incident in the food line, a monstrous man named Otis holds a prisoner's shiv to his back, and Rorschach grabs a canister of hot cooking fat, smashing it into his face, giving him severe burns.
As the guards haul Kovacs to solitary, he screams to the other inmates, "None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with you. You're locked up in here with me. Later, Rorschach tells Malcolm Long a lot about his childhood and growing to become 'Rorschach', eventually telling him about the kidnapped girl that transformed him.
Soon after, Long is affected so much by the reality of Rorschach's views, that he also begins seeing darkness in everything. We later learn that Otis is dying and that when he dies there is likely to be a prison riot in an attempt to take Kovacs' life. Big Figure convinces Kovacs' guard, Mulhearney , to leave for five minutes. On October 31st, Halloween night, Big Figure and his cronies return with an arc welder to get through the lock.
Kovacs insults Lawrence, who reaches through the bars trying to grab him. Using his shredded shirt, Rorschach ties Lawrence's two smallest fingers together, breaking them in the process. Because Lawrence is in the way, Michael is forced to sever of Lawrence's arms, pushing him aside and using the arc welder.
Kovacs monotones, "One-nothing. Your move. Ozymandias then created a plan to summon a gigantic, alien squid-like monster to New York which will annihilate the city, thus creating a common threat that will force people to collaborate and establish world peace.
Millions of people die, but surprisingly enough, the people really unite against a common enemy and despite the high price, world peace is established.
Meanwhile, Dr. And this is where things get interesting. Faced with the truth and its results, Dr. Manhattan and Rorschach, the two protagonists of our article, reacted completely differently. Namely, by becoming dehumanised, Dr. Manhattan achieved a certain level of objectivity that allowed him to interpret human behaviour more properly, seeing the greater good.
For Dr. Manhattan, thing were never really just black or white; Dr. Manhattan was able to see and properly interpret the grey in between. As for Rorschach, he always represented moral absolutism. He was an anti-hero and a vigilante with a strict, albeit bloody moral code that only saw black or white. For Rorschach, you were either good or bad, there was nothing between those two polar opposites.
Manhattan decided to accept it and let Ozymandias get away with it. Being the moral objectivist he is, Rorschach viewed Ozymandias as a villain who killed millions, despite his relatively noble reasons. Throughout the comics, Rorschach believes that someone is trying to kill off former heroes when there's an assassination attempt on Adrian Veidt, a former masked adventurer called Ozymandias, who revealed his own identity and turned himself into a titan of industry.
In the end, Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, and Rorschach learn that Veidt is behind these assassinations as part of a plan to prevent nuclear war. Unfortunately, his plan involves teleporting a massive squid-like alien into the middle of New York City, where it will emit telepathic energy and kill millions, and trick the U. The two global forces, believing the threat of humanity is at stake, will join forces to fight a common enemy.
The heroes are unable to stop Veidt from carrying out his plan, and he succeeds in killing millions in New York City. Nite Owl, Silk Spectre, and Doctor Manhattan know that exposing Veidt would only bring a nuclear disaster, that all those lives lost would be for nothing. But Rorschach believes the truth must be told. In order to stop him from ruining the global balance of power, Doctor Manhattan is forced to vaporize Rorschach. Veidt is left to wonder if he did the right thing, while Doctor Manhattan leaves our galaxy for a less complicated one.
Dreiberg and Juspeczyk develop new identities and start a life together. But, before he died, Rorschach sent his journal to a far right publication for them to expose the truth.
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