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Rorschach isn’t a hero.

In Watchmen (2009), he believes criminals deserve punishment — not mercy.
This is one of the darkest superhero stories ever told.

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Transcript
00:001985 someone threw America's deadliest superhero out of a skyscraper.
00:04But the most terrifying part, he knew it was coming.
00:06This is Edward Blake, they called him the comedian.
00:08He wasn't a hero saving cats from trees.
00:10He was a government-sanctioned monster who burned villages for a paycheck.
00:13He thought the entire world was just one sick, violent joke.
00:16And he was the only one laughing.
00:17But tonight the joke is over.
00:19Someone breaks into his high-rise apartment.
00:21It isn't a robbery, it is an execution.
00:22They don't use lasers or superpowers.
00:24They just beat him into the floor bone by bone.
00:26He doesn't pay.
00:26He doesn't fight back at the end, he just bleeds.
00:28Then they throw him to the glass.
00:30He falls perfectly silent.
00:31Hitting the pavement below.
00:32A yellow smiley face pin rolls into the gutter.
00:34A single drop of blood cuts across the eye.
00:37The comedian wasn't a symbol of hope.
00:38He was the ugly twisted reflection of a society obsessed with war.
00:41And his murder isn't a tragedy.
00:43It is the starting gun for the apocalypse.
00:45Because if someone can kill the worst monster in the world.
00:48Who is coming for the rest of them?
00:49Full breakdown on Epic Lens.
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