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Plot (Warning: Spoilers Included)

The son of rich immigrant parents, Adrian Veidt was found to be super intelligent at a young age. He inherited his parents' substantial fortune at age seventeen, but chose to give it all to charity. Veidt then embarked on a vision quest, following the route of Alexander the Great - a childhood idol - throughout the Mediterrarrean, Asia Minor, and ancient Persia. It is during this journey that he consumes a ball of hashishHashish consists of the tetrahydrocannabinol-rich resinous bulbs known as trichomes as well as other minute plant material from the female flowers of the cannabis plant. It is separated from the plant via various sieving methods, cold-water extraction, or and decides to become a superhero. Returning to America, he names himself Ozymandias and becomes a costumed vigilante, focusing particularly on organized crime and earning a reputation as "the smartest man on the planet." However, an abortive attempt to organize a new superhero team that the Comedian disrupts noting that they cannot prevent the seemingly destruction of the world by nuclear war. That inspire Veidt to do just that.

In 1975, for his first move, two years before vigilante crimefighters (superheroes) are banned by the "Keene Act", he retires from superherodom, marketing his image for money. This helps bankroll his scheme of creating a catastrophic event to deceive the world that there is a horrific alien common enemy to unite against. To that end, he employed geneticists to mutate a psychic into such a creature with a group of artists and creative personnel to help create the illusion. Upon completion, he arranged the murder of all his accomplices to maintain the illusion.

To prevent Doctor ManhattanDr Manhattan is a fictional superhero who is a central character in the classic comic book series, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and published by DC Comics. He is a modified version of the character Captain Atom created by Steve Ditko for Charlt from interfering, he hired old associates of the superhero and secretly exposed them to radiation to induce terminal cancers in them to allege that Manhattan is inadvertantly responsible. By chance in 19851985 is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January events January 1 Creation of the Internet's Domain Name System. January 17 British Telecom annouces they are going to abolish the famous red telephone boxes. January 23 A debate in the House of Lor, The Comedian spotted the island where the creative staff was working and, heavily distraught, likely planned to alert his superiors. Veidt personally murdered the Comedian, which unfortunately caught the attention of Rorschach who investigated the crime on the mistaken conspiracy theory to murder superheroes. Although, Veidt arranged an assassination attempt on himself to throw off suspicion, he decided to frame the wanted investigator on a murder charge to get him out of the way. In addition, Veidt started the accusations against Manhattan which drove him from the planet and set off a chain of events that threaten to start a global war.

Unknown to him though, Nite-OwlNite Owl is the name of a pair of fictional superheroes who are central characters in the classic comic book series, Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons and published by DC Comics. They are modified versions of the different Blue Beetles created by Fo and Silk Spectre grew to believe that Rorscharch's investigation had merit and sprung him from prison to investigate the matter. In addition, Manhattan took Silk Spectre to Mars where she convinced him to return to Earth.

However, the superheroes were not able to stop the fulfillment Veidt's scheme which led to the deaths of 3 million in New York City and the world governments falling for the ruse to agree to a union to oppose this new menace.

Ozymandias is also a fictional supervillain in Marvel Comics' X-Men. He has been a servant of Apocalypse since the days of the fictional Pharaoh Rama-Tut. He is virtually immortal and has minor precognitive powers, and has on one occasion demonstrated the ability to mentally animate stone.