The Comedian

So do you do stand up or what?

“What Happened to the American Dream”
“It came true….your looking at him”

Right, now that I’ve done my favorite Watchmen Character, lets move onto another vigilante psychopath from the series, save one that is much less awesome about it, the comedian. Now I don’t dislike the comedian, I think he is an interesting character in terms of moving the plot, but he always struck me as too radically right wing to be sympathetic. I realize that he is suppose to represent kinda the ‘common man’, a normal thug from the streets with a small sense of justice, but is just as given to brutality and self serving ideals out of hedonistic selfishness, as well as using the American fanaticism during the Cold War as an excuse to let out his inner killer, and is little more than a brute. I do like his fatalism through and his massive insecurity.

So anyways, alignment. So the Comedian is certainly evil. He murders people in Nam, including his lover/his unborn child, has attempted to rape a comrade, and he attacks and brutalizes people, generally being an evil bastard. So yeah, evil but what kind. Lawful is out, because he is far too spontaneous and lacks any real moral code, but what is it? I’d be tempted to say NE, as he seems to be focused on himself more than anybody else. While he doesn’t have much of a code, he isn’t chaotic for its own sake, and seems to work to help himself first. But in the end, I’d say CE. He lacks any real focus to himself. While he does work for his own self interest, he is more focused on his own personal pleasure than anything else, and doesn’t really seem in control of his life, acting off his temper, his lust, or his greed, what ever he feels at the time. And its worth noting that when he discovers the big villain’s evil plot, he just collapses, breaks into his arch rival’s house, and has a mental collapse after heavily drinking, then going home. He is driven by his emotions more than anything else, so I’m going to go with CE.

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