Watchmen Transformation Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter in Roman Numerals.Page #.Panel #) or if the excerpt is from an interstitial section, then: (Chapter A-K.Page #)

Quote #4

“I’d hoped tonight might wake something inside you, but it sounds like it’s awoken with an appetite” (VII.28.6).

Each character in Watchmen undergoes a transformation, maybe even Rorschach.

Quote #5

“My mother, she eroded my adolescence, chipping me into the shape she’d have been if she hadn’t had me” (IX.14.3).

Tell us about it. Name a more relatable character than Laurie Jupiter… or Laurie Juspeczyk, as she’d prefer to be called, thankyouverymuch.

Quote #6

“In each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. Multiply those odds by countless generations, against the odds […] until your mother loves a man she has every reason to hate, and of that union [...] it was you, only you, that emerged” (IX.26.5).

Evolution becomes even more beautiful and complicated when you add human nature to the mix.