Should Watchmen be made in to a DCnU Ongoing?

Now hold on before I'm burned at the stake for bring a heretic, I'm not saying that Rorschach and Co should be incorporated in to the main DC Universe but how about a team comprising of the modern day versions of the original characters Moore based his characters off of so instead of having the Comedian, Rorschach, Dr Manhattan, Silk Spectre, Night Owl ect we would have the Guardian, the Question, Captain Atom, Phantom Lady, Blue Beetle ect. I think this would be a good way to shine a spotlight on the less used characters while also capitalizing on the Watchmen brand without sullying it's name also it's a good homage to the original team Sentinels of Justice. So what do you think?

I wouldn't want to read spin-off characters from the Watchmen.I care'd more about the main cast but they're all gone and finshed.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@moywar700: These aren't spin off characters, they are the originals

The first watchmen chacters weren't the main cast.If they were to get their own title,it would be consider a spin-off.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@moywar700: These aren't spin off characters, they are the originals

The first watchmen chacters weren't the main cast.If they were to get their own title,it would be consider a spin-off.

I prefer dc reboot Watchmen into the main earth. I like to see Ozymandias vs Batman, Dr Manhattan vs Superman, etc. Currently, dc has lost the rights to Peter Cannon Thunderbolt who is being published by another company.

@moywar700: Is Dr. M really dead? In the movie at the end did he really die? How can he die?

@InnerAssassin said:

@moywar700: Is Dr. M really dead? In the movie at the end did he really die? How can he die?

@moywar700 said:

@InnerAssassin said:

@moywar700: Is Dr. M really dead? In the movie at the end did he really die? How can he die?

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he left left earth and went to a different world. he didn't die

Okay thaank you cuz the movie kinda made it seem like he killed hisself.

{Resisting urge to talk about Watchmen}

So...um...why don't you guys have a wiki page for Multiversity?

I'm just going to assume that it's got something to do with the style guide around here.

So yeah Multiversity is basically all those characters in a separate continuity coming together to form Grant Morrison's version of the DC universe.

I would love to see it and the interrections between Watchmen and DCnU universe, but out of respect for Alan moore, I think they should just leave the watchmen alone.

No.

@MadeinBangladesh said:

I would love to see it and the interrections between Watchmen and DCnU universe, but out of respect for Alan moore, I think they should just leave the watchmen alone.

I love Moore, but he needs to stop complaining and start producing. I heard DC offered him the rights back if he just wrote some prequels. Any further use of his characters is kinda his fault. If Marvel offered Kirby a similar deal he would have jumped on it in a heart beat.

i'd like to see the early adventures of the minutemen and watchmen, before the corruption and betrayal

A large part of the Watchmen story is actually the Watchmen in relation to the rest of the world. For example, what makes Dr Manhattan so important is that he is the first and only superpowered human.

Guys like Rorschach, Nite Owl II, and Silk Spectre II are possessed of a key element that their vigilante activity is highly illegal and that the government formally denounces superheroes. How do we reconcile that with a world where Superman is a worldwide symbol of hope and heroism and where Flash gets a museum dedicated to his accomplishments?

To run with a team made up of the original Charlton characters could be done, yes, but it would lose the entire feel of Watchmen by placing it into the DC Universe where superheroes are accepted and celebrated instead of feared and outlawed, the characters won't be able to act or develop even remotely similar to their Watchmen counterparts.

I'm all for more Watchmen stuff; I've been loving the Before Watchmen series and I could totally sub myself up for a Rorschach, Nite Owl II, Comedian, and Minutemen ongoing titles (Silk Spectre, I did not enjoy the writing or the art). But rebooting the team as the Charlton originals wouldn't do much for me to play off of Watchmen, because it wouldn't be anything like Watchmen.

Dc has tried something like sentinels of justice in Justice League Quarterly before and they still had the rights to Peter Cannon Thuderbolt at that time. DC also did a limited series Law which did not include Peter Cannon Thunderbolt bec dc lost the rights to the character Peter Cannon. In the New 52, Captain Atom was inspired by Dr Manhattan. In the New 52, we have Blue Beetle Jaime Reyes who is now more of a space hero in Threshold, Question is now related to the Trinity of Sin and Circle of Eternity, and Sarge Steel is in Checkmate. For a group like watchmen on the main earth, the most likely leader could be Captain Atom or Question. Hopefully, dc can get back the rights to Peter Cannon Thunderbolt who can help form a group similar to Watchmen. I do think it is much easier to just reboot the real Watchmen into the main earth bec. I am a fan of Ozymandias and would like to see Ozymandias more often in the dc main earth interacting with the dc super heroes. Silk Spectre on the main earth can also be used to compete with Marvel's Black Widow. Even Rorchach and Comedian would make interesting Batman villains.

@Jonny_Anonymous: I think a show in this format is something we can all get behind

Maybe have the Watchmen cartoon right after the Justice League cartoon.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@InnerVenom123: Why not?

No.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@InnerVenom123: Why not?

No.

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@InnerVenom123 said:

@Jonny_Anonymous said:

@InnerVenom123: Why not?

No.

are you going to elaborate on that?

@JediXMan said:

No. Just... just no. That's a terrible idea.

Might as well, they've already sullied the crap out of the Watchmen name anyway.    Might as well squeeze a few more dollars out of the franchise while people still care about it.

@Jonny_Anonymous: Yes.

ITT: Nobody reads the OP.

It's not an awful idea except its giving Watchmen too much credit, several of the characters that would be in this book would actually be demoted in the relevance they worked hard to gain themselves. Captain Atom, The Question and Blue Beetle all became standout DC characters in their own right (sure B list at best but a book like this would relegate them to C listers).

Plus, the problem with this is the Watchmen wasn't about a team of superheroes so just grabbing the characters that were meant to be in that book and making them into an actual team, you would lose the entire spirit of the Watchmen. Characters like The Question/Rorschach aren't interesting in a team format.

Comedian was partly based on Peacemaker and I think Peacemaker has not yet appeared in New 52. I am ok with dc doing a team title called Sentinels consisting of illegal vigilantes willing to sacrifice humans to save more humans. There are many geniuses like Ozymandias, Ras Al Ghul and even Leonardo da vinci who worked as a weapons engineer with maybe the hidden purpose of reducing the human overpopulation.

Wikipedia says comedian was also partly based on Nick Fury. DC needs more team books to compete with marvel and I think Sentinels acting like Watchmen can be a good team title. Who are the sentinels for the sentinels ? While waiting for Peter Cannon to come back to dc, possible leaders for the Sentinels can be Michael Holt, Ras Al Ghul or Lex Luthor.

If this Sentinels title featured Lex Luthor, I would subscribe in advance and write a letter for the monthly column at the back of every issue.

The idea of tacking Ted Kord with Vic Sage is less than ideal for me though. If we're going to get back the Ted Blue Beetle, then there's only one man who belongs as his partner, and it's not the Question.

Blue and Gold, baby. Blue and Gold.