What would Watchmen look like if Alan Moore wrote it for Marvel in 1986-87 and it was set in an alternate universe to the main marvel continuity. With way less heroes overall and most of them gone after the Keene act.
Which Watchmen characters would be based on what Marvel characters?
>Ozymandias - Reed Richards >Dan Dreiberg - Retired out of shape Spider-Man >Rorschach - Daredevil who snapped and started killing, quit being a lawyer >Comedian - Nick Fury >Doctor Manhattan - ???
Maybe the twist is that Richards ended up partnering with Doom in Latveria to pull off the squid trick happening in New York and Moscow and a few other places. Two old enemies killing millions because they believe it will save billions.
Not sure if there’s a character in marvel with similar powers to Manhattan
>Not sure if there’s a character in marvel with similar powers to Manhattan Beyonder, Molecule Man, there's a few.
Carson Brown
Molecule Man it is then. He’d be over 20 years old and a much simpler backstory
Eli Taylor
Black Widow replacing Silk Spectre II
Black widow can easily be a title passed down. And Fury and Black Widow worked together. He raped her mom and he’s her dad.
Kevin Myers
Bump
Levi Perez
>What would Watchmen look like if Alan Moore wrote it for Marvel in 1986-87 and it was set in an alternate universe to the main marvel continuity. With way less heroes overall and most of them gone after the Keene act. OP I'm actually more interested in what comic run got him the job to write Marvel Watchmen in the first place because he got his DC acclaim because of Swamp Thing.
Dominic Perry
In this timeline he wrote an acclaimed run of Man-Thing for marvel
Then I don't think he could make it work. Watchmen was created with characters DC owned in mind. I think it would be a deconstruction of Marvel properties, maybe X-Men or Spider-Man.
Zachary Long
What would a Moore deconstruction of marvel characters look like then?
Lucas Nguyen
I dont know about him, but probably something regarding the X-Men because they were the Marvel flagship series. I would kill to see late 80s Alan tackle them.
Mason Parker
See, now I'm just wondering what that would look like. DC always had a better handle of the occult/mystic and horror elements and, frankly, adult themes that was central to that run. Without that, does it even hit with Marvel? What does a Marvel version of Vertigo it would eventually inspire look like? Really, that was a really interesting question that skews the whole thing; Moore got the shot at it because DC was in the right place with the right tone to allow all of it, even if they constantly fucked with him. I don't know that Marvel had the weird shit with the right tone in the background to support it.
I mean, shit, it's an important and influential thing that came from that run. What does a Marvel John Constantine look like?
Pretty much just Doctor Strange, yeah? Or maybe the Darkhold Redeemers.
Jaxson Thompson
Epic Comics was already a thing at Marvel at the time. Watchmen would have been published under Epic.
Jonathan Ward
I really like the idea of Reed Richards Mr Fantastic being Ozymandias
Could have Reed get rich off his inventions and marketing merchandise of the fantastic four. Then becoming less human over time, separating from his wife, family and friends to focus on science. Before doing the giant hoax
Without a story using the Charlton characters (or the OC variants they became) Watchmen would have been a different story. Moore didn't put Doctor Manhattan in Watchmen because he needed a reality manipulator. He wrote Watchmen about Captain Atom and then changed him to Doctor Manhattan when DC told him to use OCs instead.
So it's not a matter of slotting different characters into the roles, because the story would be fundamentally different at every level if Moore was writing it for a different set of characters.
William Cook
>I mean, shit, it's an important and influential thing that came from that run. What does a Marvel John Constantine look like? I hate to imagine what a Marvel Constantine would look like because he'd totally be a casualty of modern Marvel. DConstantine on the other hand still somewhat holds strong despite Assarello and Mulligan.
Jayden Perry
Could sentry fill the role? I know he is a superman parody but I don´t know he feels fitting for me in the alternate watchmen
Benjamin Gutierrez
No because he literally didn't exist.
Luis Turner
>what if watchmen wasn't good
Samuel Howard
>He wrote Watchmen about Captain Atom and then changed him to Doctor Manhattan when DC told him to use OCs instead. he pitched a story about the Charlton heroes, and when he was told he could not use them he almost tanked the project because the point was to make a "final" story for a complete continuity. it was talking about it with dave gibbons where they realized this was actually an opportunity to create their own continuity. that's when they actually started writing watchmen i mean, people think moore had the whole thing setup and all he did was rename the characters, but he had to think about them from scratch too. manhattan is not captain atom.
Jose Wright
So doomsday clock?
Isaac Gray
likely to blook like Alex Ross Earth x Miniseries, with doom as ozy instead of reed...
Alexander Anderson
>implying you know fucking anything
John Perry
I'm pretty sure the absolute edition or something has the story.
Jaxon Moore
Sure, fair point, but he still crafted a narrative around that inspiration. If he were at Marvel, he wouldn't have plugged Reed Richards into Ozymandias's role in the narrative. He would have crafted a narrative around the character he was working with.
Landon Nguyen
Shut the fuck up bitch
I'll fucking end you
That's right kike stay quiet
Evan Ross
calm down bro it's just a joke
Robert Barnes
That's not very nice.
Dylan Watson
I SAID SHUT THE FUCK UP LOSER I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU YOU THINK I'M FUCKING JOKING YOU'RE JUST A PISS DICK DICK THAT'S FUCKING RIGHT MOTHERFUCKER
