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It is TOO obvious Blake did it. i'd like to see this get some time in the movie with a fight scene.

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Does it make you happy you're so strange
And in your darkest hour, I hold secrets flame
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He wasn't a Nazi, that was a front, he was a communist, and the communists killed him. I like to imagine it that way anyways as a) its cool to think there is a minuteman with similar political views to mine and b) and its wraps up nicely all the different political/moral viewpoints.

The Mayfair Roleplaying Game that Moore and Gibbons oversaw and contributed to, confirmed that Rolf Mueller was HJ and that the Comedian was the culprit.

If this is true, then the Nazi thing was a front. Heck, why hadn't I thought of that before. He was communist, yes, but wasn't killed by the commies, but by the comedian. If he did get killed by the comedian (I still like to analyse the comic only), then he still could have been commie.

IIRC, Blake threatened to blackmail HJ with knowledge that he was engaged in a gay relationship with Captain Metropolis. Take that with a grain of salt though. I don't have the RPG, and only played it a few times. Google isn't giving me anything.

[NOTE: This post was merged here from an "Ozymandias" thread in the Watchmen movie section. --"Curiosity Inc."]

"Nelly called last night, upset over another tiff with H.J. ... Nelly says he's always out when Nelly calls out with boys, and there's a lot of rough stuff going on." - Lawrence Schexnayder
"Researching my masked predecessors, I investigated the mid-fifties disappearance of Hooded Justice." - Adrian Veidt
In the mid-fifties Veidt would have been a teenager...
was Blake's murder payback for Hooded Justice ?

http://thefishshow.com/Archive/WM%20UM.htm

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"Hitler said people swallow lies easily, provided they're big enough."

- Adrian Veidt

He said he investigated the mid-fifties disappearance. He doesn't say he investigated it in the mid-fifties. Clearly it was later... as he researched his masked predecessors.

Or are you suggesting that Veidt was one of HJ's boy toys back in that time? Hurm.

Might explain the "O" face on Adrian as he kills Blake.

And why Veidt lingered after the Crimebusters fiasco... to comfort poor Nellie.

Interesting.

I was right about Avenging World cutting and pasting his posts from a single source. If you click on his link, you'll find all of his quotes come from one post. It's actually pretty interesting when read as a single piece.

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"The street's are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over all the Vermin will drown"- Rorschach

Blake was insinuating -- correctly -- that Hooded Justice had a thing for BDSM (or maybe just SM).

You seem to be positing that Hooded Justice and Captain Carnage were the same person. I consider this unlikely. Certainly, there is some ambiguity about when exactly HJ was murdered, but HJ would have to be upwards of 65 years old if he lived to 1985. On the other hand, Captain Carnage's age was never mentioned. However, HJ shows a clear predilection for the dominating role. I don't know if he'd get off the same way, being submissive as Captain Carnage was.

Looking at the evidence, I would say "no." There is more and stronger evidence to suggest that HJ was killed long before Captain Carnage ever came on the scene.

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This is truly a madhouse. And I'm the lunatic running it. I've spent three years wondering if I should be proud or ashamed.

Eddie Blake is totally the sort of person to carry a grudge for that long,

"my first crush was on Eddie Blake does that make me twisted?"

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"My first crush was Eddie Blake, does that make me twisted?"

well that's the thing about Edward Blake, no matter how big of a bastard he is, you can't hate him, for some reason you can't. Blake will always be the charmer, He's the life and soul of a party. He tells a good joke. Blake always tells it as it is, he can look at any man, square in the eyes and knows him better than the man knows himself.

on another note, Hooded Justice and Captain Carnage, talk about a match made in heaven.

ps. PackieMcRearysGirl, glad to see another fan of GTA on the forums.

*Imagining HJ and Cap. Carnage doing stuff*

Oh hell yes!

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There is an interesting article up at the Watchmen Wiki called The Fate of Hooded Justice and Captain Metropolis.

It points out another theory, that HJ just took off his mask and CM faked his own death, and they were alive in the current story. This theory contends that they are actually in a panel of the comic, and that there are enough clues that indicate they are still alive. Or should I say WERE alive, because if they were in the city, they were probably killed by the Squid when it materialized.

In any case, check out the link above for an interesting theory!

I saw that a while ago and I do have to wonder. If it's a coincidence, it is one hell of one. I'd be curious to ask Gibbons/Moore about it.

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That would be a great question to ask if channels of communication were open still to Mr. Gibbons! I agree that Mr. Moore would be unlikely to comment...

Huh, that's interesting. I had noticed the same thing sometime before 2000, when I published my additions and corrections to The Annotated Watchmen on Usenet. It looks like the guy that wrote that article noticed it a year earlier, since he says he "brought it to the attention of various Watchmen fan groups and commentators since at least 1999". So I feel like my observations were not totally out of left field, since this guy independently made them too.