Nobody cared who i was until i put on the mask

('NO! MY FACE! GIVE ME BACK MY FACE!') Later averted see Dying as Yourself.

Becoming the Mask: Initially played straight.

He feels the complete opposite when New York is destroyed.

Be Careful What You Wish For: His quote above.

While his gut instinct that Blake's murder was the start of a larger conspiracy proves correct in a sense, he fails to consider the sheer scale of it until it's far too late. Every person he tries to warn points towards more obvious and compelling answers only for them to be ignored. While we are initially led to believe that Rorschach may be some kind of master pulp detective with a great gut instinct, it quickly becomes clear that he bases his prevalent 'mask-killer' theory entirely on assumption rather than evidence. Bat Deduction: Deconstructed quite conclusively.And then, after the big reveal but before his death, he starts to walk out into the same Antarctic weather, in the same clothes and with no easy route home, with his intention to reveal Veidt's crime even if he has to walk home to do it. Badass Normal: He is, among other things, more badass than the Antarctic itself, enduring the bitter cold and what had to be some severe wind chill on one of Nite Owl's hoverbikes with no superpowers and no more protective equipment than the same overcoat and hat that he wore around New York.Badass Longcoat: More evocative of pulp heroes.

On top of that, he's not even all that smart, acting mostly on hunches and assumptions instead of seeking out actual evidence or questioning his own theories. He's a mental basketcase, a ruthless and violent sociopath with a rigid and arbitrary moral code, has strong reactionary views and is homophobic and sexist, is plain looking at best if not ugly and takes poor care of his physical health, and is clearly not a people person in any sense of the word. Anti-Role Model: You would think from the Watchmen fanbase that he's an intelligent badass to aspire toward, but many new readers were taken by surprise at how the story goes out of its way to subvert how the story sets up how Rorschach sees himself - far from being a master detective, he's made as repulsive, disturbing and ineffective of a protagonist as possible without making him outright unsympathetic as a way of spelling out how unglamorous, dangerous and insane a real life Vigilante Man would be.Alternatively or overlaps with Гњbermensch. The Anti-Nihilist: Rorschach believes that rules and principles are the most important in life because the world has no more meaning than the one we impose on it.Anti-Hero: Rorschach is one of the best and most famous examples in comic books.In the comic, it's more heavily implied that he Used to Be a Sweet Kid, and the various traumas he endured as the years rolled on transformed him into what he is today. Ambiguous Disorder: He has No Social Skills (and, apparently, incredibly poor hygiene), is extremely rigid in his thinking and prone to fixation on narrow interests, and has an extreme dislike of physical contact and bizarre monotone syntax.All of the Other Reindeer: Some bullies show this to Rorschach and he goes berserk on them.How bad was she? When informed of her death, Walter only had one thing to say: 'Good'. Abusive Parents: His mother was certainly a horrible parent.He speaks in fragments and lives like a bum, having devoted his life almost entirely to fighting crime - and it's his devotion that allows him to pick up the trail of a man's mysterious death.Д«ack to the main Watchmen character page. The only non-government superhero still active as of the beginning of the book, Rorschach is a ruthless, disturbed vigilante who believes the world to be falling apart around him.

Nobody cared who i was until i put on the mask