Questionable Questing

Very. Kindred the dual aspected God of death has visited her and she fights Pantheon, a Champion in the lore, ergo named character, who represents war and conflict here. She battles him and later takes from Lamb, the tall skinny blue thing with the wolf mask, some symbol of the Wolf Aspect of Kindred's power and becomes a champion of war of some kind. Its hard to tell how much is magical vs surreal vision.

The ending is that she for the sake of her family will become a great matriarch of war. And the lamb is symoblic of her son or her children in general

And in the process of becoming that warrior, she will no longer become recognized by her family as the blood shed and killing fundamentally changes her as a person. Cool. Kind of reminds me of the Black Freighter symbolism from Watchmen.

What sort of symbolism there and League with that Zed comic and this has some good lore amid a sea of bad boring shit

Have you ever read Watchmen? Well, if you haven't only some light spoilers here. Basically through the comic in between focusing on the superhero characters slowly unraveling a conspiracy that's going to kill a bunch of people, we get these small interludes basically where it's either flash backs and world building or we see these two reoccurring characters.

This nerdy black kid, who likes collecting comic books, and this older white man who runs a newspaper stand and in between selling old comics he collects as well to the kid, since real life superheroes have caused comic companies to go bankrupt, the two talk and it acts as a good way to show how the outside world and normal people are responding to the events the superheros are dealing with.

Ah. Only saw movie. Never read the comic

And throughout the story, they are particularly obsessed with finding this one specific comic called the tales of the Black Freighter. It makes an interesting situation with a comic within a comic. Which is about a man whose crew gets killed by pirates, so he goes on a roaring rampage of revenge against them and in the end accidentally destroys the village he was from with his family in it.

And the tale of the Black freighter is significant in the story, because it mirrors what Veidt the main villain is doing. He thinks he's saving the world, but really he's only killing a shit load of people mindlessly. And that black kid and old white man, I mentioned their races specifically since the story is set in a time when racism was very alive,

The older man tried to shield the kid from the blast with his body. Which was real heroism. And what the world actually needed, not more blood and destruction like Veiid thought. And throughout the whole story the Black Freighter represents destroying yourself and the people around you, despite your intentions.

Very interesting that the comic is about how this guy's vengeance kills everyone he loves in his violence

The ominously named Black Freighter was this ghostly vision the guy had, which was a warning of bad things that were about to happen and in the end in a very cheesy way he realized he was the Black Freighter all along.

Veiid is the guy who had the vision?

The main character of the Black Freighter comic, but interestingly Veidt does actually quote the Black Freighter Comic in his last conversation with Dr. Manhattan, when he starts to realize it was all for nothing.

And so he finds out he's wrong?

Which is actually good character writing in this case and not just an excuse for the Author to tie everything up in a bow, Since Viedt is actually a super comic nerd and in-between the conspiracy and running a billion dollar company, he likes collecting them and I think there's a scene in his office where a Black Freighter comic book can be found in the background in a bookcase.

But yeah, Veidt finds out he was wrong. Dr Manhattan specifically tells him, which are his last lines in the book, nothing ever changes. As in, the conspiracy won't change war or human nature and eventually everything that's happened will happen again. And remember Dr. Manhattan can see the future, so that's a fucking promise. lol

Interesting way to humanize this guy by making him like comics too

Yeah, one of my big complaints in the movie is that Vedit is a super nerd in the comics. He's a little more awkward. His speeches he gives are less cold and a lot more emotional and despite the big words he uses almost childish at times. It's like he can't accept the idea he's wrong or it'll just kill him.

I think the warmer colors, and simpler more stylized drawings they used for the faces and characters, in comparison for the very dark and overcast setting for the movie also played a role.