Rorschach hero or not?
“A hero can be anyone even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a little boy’s shoulder to let him know that the world hadn’t ended” (Batman). Alongside batman with one of the first comics with superheroes created, there is a graphic novel called Watchmen where numerous everyday people dress up in costumes and run around the streets fighting crime. In addition, the comic also represents the main events that occurred during the year when the comic book was made (1980) like the Vietnam War and other historical events, the events described by the writer Alan Moore closely mirrors reality. Although most comics rely on one superhero, Watchmen contain many masked vigilantes that do fight crime …show more content…
Although Rorschach might be a normal human being with no super strength or what so ever, his extensive physical and mental conditioning helps him survive with any situation that comes his way. His strength is an ability that helps him in many ways such as when he climbed a building with the help of a grappling hook to get to the Comedian’s room and collect evidence on the Comedian’s murder (Gibbons 1.5.9). In addition, his resourcefulness of adapting to his surroundings is another factor that contributes to his superhero qualities. For instance, the way he used household items like pepper to blind a police officer and the use of a spray can that contained flammable substance in combination with a match fire to set a police officer and the house on fire during an encounter at Moloch’s place (Gibbons 5.25-27). On the other hand, despite his psychological problems, Rorschach is highly intelligent on the field while he’s searching around restricted crime areas to find evidence just as the way he found the Comedians secret department filled with personal belongings like his vigilante costume, photos of the minutemen and weapons (Gibbons 1.8). In all, these traits accumulate to what’s known as a superhero, intelligent, resourceful and physically strong. All these physical and mental conditioning helps him fight and defeat …show more content…
In Rorschach’s case, his secrete identity was very important to him, he never told anyone even the two teams of vigilantes, minutemen and watchmen, his identity. The only way people found out about his identity was when the police defeated and captured him then later took off his mask with their bare hands as shown in the confrontation at Moloch’s house (Gibbons 5.28.4-7). Rorschach’s mask which is piece of cloth with moving inkblots represents another face for him, meaning another person then his everyday face which is Walter Kovacs. Walter Kovacs is an everyday face he puts on for society but secretly he feels like he became himself and “free from fear or weakness or lust” (Moore 5.18.6). In all, his secret identity was the fact that he was Rorschach and not Walter Kovacs. Finally, this type of secrete identity and dedication represents a characteristic from a superhero like Superman and Batman might contain. This separation between his two lives demotes himself to get on an average level which most superheroes try to do to get a normal point of view on society and its daily problems in the
“A hero can be anyone even a man doing something as simple and reassuring as putting a coat around a little boy’s shoulder to let him know that the world hadn’t ended” (Batman). Alongside batman with one of the first comics with superheroes created, there is a graphic novel called Watchmen where numerous everyday people dress up in costumes and run around the streets fighting crime. In addition, the comic also represents the main events that occurred during the year when the comic book was made (1980) like the Vietnam War and other historical events, the events described by the writer Alan Moore closely mirrors reality. Although most comics rely on one superhero, Watchmen contain many masked vigilantes that do fight crime …show more content…
Although Rorschach might be a normal human being with no super strength or what so ever, his extensive physical and mental conditioning helps him survive with any situation that comes his way. His strength is an ability that helps him in many ways such as when he climbed a building with the help of a grappling hook to get to the Comedian’s room and collect evidence on the Comedian’s murder (Gibbons 1.5.9). In addition, his resourcefulness of adapting to his surroundings is another factor that contributes to his superhero qualities. For instance, the way he used household items like pepper to blind a police officer and the use of a spray can that contained flammable substance in combination with a match fire to set a police officer and the house on fire during an encounter at Moloch’s place (Gibbons 5.25-27). On the other hand, despite his psychological problems, Rorschach is highly intelligent on the field while he’s searching around restricted crime areas to find evidence just as the way he found the Comedians secret department filled with personal belongings like his vigilante costume, photos of the minutemen and weapons (Gibbons 1.8). In all, these traits accumulate to what’s known as a superhero, intelligent, resourceful and physically strong. All these physical and mental conditioning helps him fight and defeat …show more content…
In Rorschach’s case, his secrete identity was very important to him, he never told anyone even the two teams of vigilantes, minutemen and watchmen, his identity. The only way people found out about his identity was when the police defeated and captured him then later took off his mask with their bare hands as shown in the confrontation at Moloch’s house (Gibbons 5.28.4-7). Rorschach’s mask which is piece of cloth with moving inkblots represents another face for him, meaning another person then his everyday face which is Walter Kovacs. Walter Kovacs is an everyday face he puts on for society but secretly he feels like he became himself and “free from fear or weakness or lust” (Moore 5.18.6). In all, his secret identity was the fact that he was Rorschach and not Walter Kovacs. Finally, this type of secrete identity and dedication represents a characteristic from a superhero like Superman and Batman might contain. This separation between his two lives demotes himself to get on an average level which most superheroes try to do to get a normal point of view on society and its daily problems in the