In an alternate reality, it's 1985, costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday
society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is
permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered,
the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to
kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-
fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers -
Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and
catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity...but who is
watching The Watchmen?
In an alternate reality, it's 1985, costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday
society, and the "Doomsday Clock" - which charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is
permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered,
the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to
kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-
fighting legion - a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers -
Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and
catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity...but who is
watching The Watchmen? (less)
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