HBO’s ‘Watchmen’ Reveals Doctor Manhattan’s New Secret Identity

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The latest episode of HBO’s Watchmen revealed a stunning twist that fans didn’t expect regarding Doctor Manhattan’s secret identity.

Major spoilers regarding Watchmen episode seven ahead!

While the seventh episode of HBO’s Watchmen revealed new developments in the nefarious conspiracy shrouding the series, it also unveiled a truly shocking secret about Doctor Manhattan’s secret identity and where the god-like being has been hiding ever since the ending of the original graphic novel. By the end of the episode, Angela Abar/Sister Night finally reveals that her husband Cal is secretly Doctor Manhattan – hiding beneath a human exterior.

The dramatic reveal came after Angela’s memories come flooding back to her in the aftermath of her overdose on the Nostalgia drug, hammering Cal’s skull in to pull out a metallic object in the shape of Doctor Manhattan’s symbol. Damon Lindelof spoke to The Hollywood Reporter before the episode aired about the shocking twist and how he wrote Doctor Manhattan’s secret identity into a role so integral to Angela Abar’s story in HBO’s Watchmen.

“Once we landed on Angela Abar as that center, the new rule became that any legacy characters we were using (Veidt, Laurie and Hooded Justice) could only be used in service of Angela’s story…she was the sun, everyone else needed to be orbiting around her. So how could Dr. Manhattan, a man with the power of God, be in service of Angela’s story as opposed to the other way around? Based on his past (and all the tropes of Greco/Roman mythology), the answer was intuitive…love. We knew this relationship could only work if Manhattan took the form of a human, and so, the idea of Cal was born. And yeah, it came early. Almost from the jump.”

What did you make of the incredible twist in HBO’s Watchmen? What do you want to see Doctor Manhattan do in the final two episodes of the show? Tell us your predictions in the comments!

Here is the official synopsis for Damon Lindelof’s Watchmen:

Set in an alternate history where “superheroes” are treated as outlaws, WATCHMEN embraces the nostalgia of the original groundbreaking graphic novel while attempting to break new ground of its own.

Watchmen stars Regina King, Jeremy Irons, Don Johnson, Jean Smart, Tim Blake Nelson, Louis Gossett Jr., Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Hong Chau, Andrew Howard, Tom Mison, Frances Fisher, Jacob Ming-Trent, Sara Vickers, Dylan Schombing, and James Wolk. The series is produced for HBO by White Rabbit in association with Warner Bros. Television, based on Alan Moore’s graphic novel co-created and illustrated by Dave Gibbons and published by DC.

Watchmen airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on HBO.

Source: THR

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