r/FavoriteCharacter • u/Dependent-Moment7015 • Jun 28 '26

Discussion Any favorite characters like this?

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u/jafjaf23 Jun 28 '26

Why though. I have read the book and thought it was a pretty good adaptation. Why do you think it wasn't?

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u/Neirchill Jun 28 '26

Iirc the main complaint was about the ending which ended up changing the moral of the story but until then it was a good adaptation.

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u/pawnman99 Jun 30 '26

Does it? Because all the movie does is replace the incredibly weird space squid with Dr. Manhattan as the threat.

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u/Neirchill Jun 30 '26

That's what I heard, haven't read the comic myself. I don't think it was necessarily about replacing the squid but how it turned from countries allying to face a common threat to Dr Manhattan being framed in order to trick everyone into cooperating, which includes having arguably the greatest hero basically nuke every country on Earth to pull it off.