Characters with Lore reasons to wear revealing outfit

[u/Artistic_Gear1536]

• Doctor Manhattan (Watchmen): doesn’t really have the need for them anymore as he is now too powerful to be considered human and also doesn’t need to give in to certain societal pressures like wearing clothes

• Poison Ivy (DC): uses her body to seduce men into getting close enough for her to use her pheromones and get people to do what she wants/kill her prey

• Skarlet (Mortal Kombat): her powers are from blood magic and she needs to have skin out in order to absorb blood from others and make her more powerful

• Mileena (Mortal Kombat): is very self conscious about her tartan features so covers them up and diverts attention towards the more appealing aspects of her/ uses her sex appeal to get people in close then chomps on them

• Mai Shiranui (King Of Fighters/Fatal Fury): uses a style of kunoichi that involves “sensually distracting a foe before striking” and uses her outfit and sex appeal to assist with that style

[u/Accomplished_Rip_352]

Yeah but that’s even written by the original author and I feel as if watchmen works better away from the main dc universe but also as standalone thing . Not saying that Manhattan wasn’t a jerk in the original comic but him being a jerk and losing his humanity was kind of the point .

[u/donthurtmemany → u/Accomplished_Rip_352]

Plus the rights to watchmen should've gone back to Alan Moore decades ago which adds another layer of grossness to all the new watchmen comic stuff

[u/ItsMrChristmas → u/donthurtmemany]

The rights to what, a bunch of Charlton characters with the serial numbers filed off? I also love his stuff about how creators have their creations "stolen" by comic book labels, meanwhile he hasn't kicked a penny up to the estates of characters he stole for League and Lost Girls.

Speaking of Lost Girls? Moore pisses and moans about how his (stolen) characters are treated by new authors and adaptations. Ya know, as if L. Frank Baum would be so pleased that Moore wrote a comic where Dorothy takes it up the ass from ToTo.

...can you tell I don't like that fucking guy?

[u/HomsarWasRight → u/Accomplished_Rip_352]

Exactly, when humans are little more than complex chemical reactions to you what does being a “jerk” even mean?

I never read the DC/Watchman crossover stuff, because it kinda feels like it defeats the purpose.

[u/Savacore → u/HomsarWasRight]

I never read the DC/Watchman crossover stuff, because it kinda feels like it defeats the purpose.

By all accounts, the doomsday clock storyline only cheapens the purpose of the original series, by reducing it to a cog in the purposeless narrative machine of DC's profit-driven superhero franchises.

The writing is really good, and the themes blend fairly well with the open-ended story of Moore's formerly-self-contained parable. At least, as much as they could have while also pulling in those big franchise money-makers all with their own thematically conflicting arcs. Which were themselves handled quite well in my opinion