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Doctor Manhattan is a character in Watchmen, a graphic novel series published by DC Comics in 1986 and 1987. He also appeared in the film Watchmen in 2009.

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Why was Dr. Manhattan blue?

Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons said in a Q&A that he wanted Manhattan's blue skin to represent a sort of barely-contained "electrical energy or atomic energy" in the reader's perception. Dave Gibbo …
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Could Dr Manhattan have cured Janey's cancer?

It very much depends on your choice of canon. In the film and comic, his powers are certainly up to the task of interacting with humans on a cellular (or even atomic) level but the reality is that rem …
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Was Dr. Manhattan actually time blinded by tachyons?

The comic series is a little clearer on the issue. Manhattan sees the future and the past but he hasn't quite transcended time yet. He's still sufficiently human to need for events to play out in the …
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Why did Jon Osterman never contact his father?

The next panel in the original comic shows that he kept his identity hidden until immediately after his father's death. There's no further canon confirmation why this was the case but I think it's lik …
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Did Doctor Manhattan care about Rorschach?

It's totally wrong to characterise Jon/Manhattan as being without emotion. Although we see him increasingly attempting to divorce himself from his own humanity (presumably to protect himself from the …
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