Jon Osterman was born in 1929, the son of a watchmaker he was pushed into the field of atomic physics his father after the US dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima at the close of WWII. Osterman started in Princeton in 1948 and finished his PhD in 1958. By May of 1959, he was involved in research at the Gila Flats. During this time he became romantically involved with colleague, Janey Slater. In August of 1959 he went to retrieve a watch he had fixed for her he accidentally became trapped in an intrinsic field separator. All he could do was watch the countdown until his atoms were smashed, but eventually, and methodically, he reconstructed himself. At first it was thought that the base was haunted as on November 10th a disembodied circulatory system was seen walking through the kitchen, then four days later a partially muscled skeleton screamed at the edge of the perimeter fence for thirty seconds and then vanished. Finally on November 22nd a nude blue skinned man reconstituted itself right in front of Janey Slater, she recognized him immediately.

By February of 1960 he was dubbed Dr. Manhattan by higher ups in Washington for the ominous associations it will raise in America’s enemies. Unveiled to the world in March of the same year he quickly shows himself capable of disassembling a rifle with his mind or melting tank armor with blasts from his hands.

Within two years the US is benefiting from his ability to produce any element as needed as he agrees to regularly produce lithium for mass-production of polyacetylene batteries for the production of electric automobiles, which become the norm, by 1963.

By May of 1966 He attends what was to be the first meeting of the Crimebusters, the meeting ends in arguing, he does however meet and begin an elicit affair with Laurie Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre II) which quickly and bitterly ends his relationship with Janey Slater.

In January of 1971, President Nixon personally asked Osterman to intervene in Vietnam. By March of the same year he meets Edward Blake (The Comedian) in Saigon. By June North Vietnam surrenders, many of the Vietnamese want to surrender personally to Osterman himself out of terror and religious awe. On V.V.N. Day he watches stoically as Blake murders the Vietnamese mother of his unborn child.

On August 3rd 1977, the emergency Bill proposed by Senator Keene is passed making vigilantism illegal as it was before they altered laws to accommodate strategically useful talents such as Osterman who is exempt from the Bill, as is the Comedian. Others, such as Laurie Juspeczyk and the rest are not so lucky. Rorschach alone remains active illegally.

In 1981 Osterman is asked to move into new quarters at Rockefeller Military Research Center in New York, Laurie moves with him at his request as she is quickly becoming his sole link with humanity.

Watchmen

On October 12th, 1985, Osterman and Juspeczyk were informed of Edward Blake’s murder by their government contact. Rorschach arrives the next day and explains his theories on the subject, believing there is a serial killer on the loose. Juspeczyk reacts badly to not only Rorschach’s presence, but she is apparently quite happy that Blake is dead, citing that he had attempted to rape her mother at one point.

Osterman attends Blake’s funeral a few days later along with Dan Dreiberg (Nite-Owl II) and Adrian Veidt (Ozymandias).

Less than a week later, Laurie walks out on him after an argument triggered by Osterman’s obvious loss of understanding of humanity. She quickly ran into the arms of Dan Dreiberg. Later that night he appears on a live interview program in which a reporter for Nova Express accuses Osterman of causing cancer in several of his close associates, including is old enemy Moloch and Janey Slater. In a fit of rage Osterman teleports everyone in the studio to the parking lot and he exiles himself to Mars after finding a photograph of Janey and himself before he changed.

Several days later, he returned to Earth to talk to Laurie, interrupting their escape from the police for helping Rorschach escape from prison. He takes her back to Mars where he explains that the time has come for her to convince him to intervene again in humanity’s affairs. After a long conversation Laurie realizes that Edward Blake is her biological father; seeing her sobbing and broken causes Osterman to re-think his conclusions about turning his back on humanity.

On November 2nd, they returned to Earth in time to see the culmination of Ozymandias’ plot to save the world, half of all the people of New York City dead. Seemingly killed by an alien who had attempted to breach our dimension and sent out a psychic shockwave killing millions in an instant. Osterman was able to trace the tachyons back to Ozymandias’ Antarctic base.

Teleporting there, he confronted Ozymandias who retreated passed a subcontractor atom separator, which when Osterman followed him through it, Ozymandias activated the machine seemingly killing Osterman.

Less than two minutes later Osterman had reformed was quite angry.

Ozymandias scrambled to his communication/multimedia display to find that he had succeeded. Tensions between the United States and the USSR had ceased in light of the tragedy in New York City.

Quickly realizing that they all had to stay quiet about what had really happened or risk World War III, Osterman, Dreiberg, and Juspeczyk pledged to keep Ozymandias secret that he had manipulated the whole thing over the last ten years, and had faked the alien attack. Rorschach alone does not agree and vows to tell the world. Osterman is forced to disintegrate him.

After this episode, he decides to leave the known universe and contemplates creating human beings of his own--given his renewed appreciation for humanity.

Appearance

John's body is humanoid and its composition is similar to that of a normal human, with a build similar to a tall muscular male in great physical shape. His height and relative size vary depending on his needs, but generally remain that of an average human. He is completely blue and has no hair. On his forehead he has etched a nucleus and an electron orbiting around it. He did this when he was prepared by the military for unveiling to the general public. They presented him with a hat as a part of his uniform when had a group of crossing ellipses which they intended to look like an atom (John did not see the resemblance). He told them that if he were to have a symbol it should at least be one that he respects.

As Dr. Manhattan his costume started out as a sort of black leotard, which presumably he created. As time progressed the costume shrank progressively to a pair of shorts, then a speedo, to a thong and finally to nothing. He would eventually go on to wear nothing because he could not comprehend the need for clothing. His original costume was only created because it made those around him (including the general public) more comfortable.

Powers

Dr. Manhattan seems to have complete mastery over the manipulation of matter and energies around him, as well as a complete understanding of their make-up on the most fundamental level. This control extends to complete control of his physical person, which was generated instinctively by his mind after the accident.

Manhattan also has a unique perception of time, seemingly perceiving all events that occur in his life simultaneously. This is with exception, for certain events blur or distort his perception of certain sections of time until he becomes closer chronologically to those events. Despite his perception of time he finds himself a slave to predetermination, understanding the sequence of events that will occur as well as his own involvement in them but unable to alter the events in the past or future that he will be a part of.

It is also worth mentioning that because of his unique perception of time, energy, and matter Dr. Midnight does not view life or humanity in the same way that normal sentient beings would. Midnight may also be incapable of normal human emotions, as he exhibits none of the emotional traits of a normal human.

While the true extent and nature of Manhattan's power is not known (and those powers he has exhibited could be best described as god-like), here is a list of some of the powers, abilities, and traits that he has exhibited:

• Complete awareness and control of basic atomic particles.

• Size alteration.

• Can change the coloration of his skin, as well as the composition of his clothing.

• Density Control.

• Can reverse entropy.

• Precognition/Postcognition (in terms of his perception of time).

• Can augment his strength to unknown limits.

• Does not appear to age.

• Does not seem to require food, water, or air.

• Immortality.

• Invulnerable.

• Can create copies of himself which act independently of each other, but operate in an intelligent collective fashion.

• Creation of Force Fields.

• Can transmute matter into different states or even different types of matter.

• Can create matter.

• Teleportation.

• Telekinesis.

Inspiration
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He is primarly  inspired by Captain Atom though there are also clear similarities between him and silver age Superman, Spectre and Martain Manhunter.

Watchmen movie
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Jon is set to appear in the Watchmen movie. It has been noted that has private parts are blured though this may be for the trailer only.

Other appearences
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