NITE OWL (Dan Dreiberg)
The gadgety playboy vigilante. Inherited his heroic persona from his
childhood idol, the WWII-era Nite Owl. Forced to retire by
anti-superhero laws, Dreiberg is depressed, paunchy, and impotent — ironic
for a gee-whiz character Gibbons created as a kid.
SILK SPECTRE (Laurie Juspeczyk)
The token sexy female. Moore initially struggled with Juspeczyk — who was
pushed into superheroing by her mother (the first Silk Spectre) — until he
found emotional richness by using her to comment on comicdom's history
of sexualized token females.
THE COMEDIAN (Edward Blake)
The secret-agent superhero — though he once was the quippy joker
superhero. Moore's inspiration for this ugly American: G. Gordon Liddy.
His bloody smiley-face badge — meant to evoke a doomsday clock — is one of
Watchmen's many densely coded visual motifs.
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