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Mime and Marionette seem to have convert a fundamental face of theWatchmenuniverse inDoomsday Clock # 3 . The two villains were introduced inDoomsday Clock # 1as being part of the same earthly concern that is the set ofWatchmenand were enrol by Adrian Veidt ( aka the hero Ozymandias ) to assist him with a plan to save their world from nuclear destruction by site the absent Dr. Manhattan .
Mime and Marionette were apparently introduced as analogs to the Hellenic Charlton Comics villains Punch and Jewelee . Punch and Jewelee were in the beginning puppeteer on Coney Island , as well as petty stealer , who falter across a box full of alien applied science they decided to use in their criminal offence . The two comical scoundrel frequently sweep course with Captain Atom and Nightshade , who were re - imagined inWatchmenas the Italian sandwich Dr. Manhattan and Silk Spectre .
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It was assume that Mime and Marionette were , like Punch and Jewelee , ordinary humans with fantastic athletic skills but no actual power . This seemed a safe assumption given that Dr. Manhattan was stated to be the only topnotch being in theWatchmenuniverse . That seems to have changed , however , asDoomsday Clock # 3features a fight scene in which the invisible weapons Mime seemed to be sham to be holding in other issues prove to be quite real and quite deadly .
This tantrum sustain what had merely been hint before - that Mime has some sort of power to create whatever objects he imagines through sheer force of will . This was first suggested inDoomsday Clock # 2 , where Marionette asks if Mime brought his lockpick with him after the two are securely will locked up by Ozymandias and Rorschach . The two are depict to have escaped inDoomsday Clock # 3 , indicate Mime ’s powers even before the fight fit that confirms them .
It is wholly potential , however , that Mime just has entree to a hardening of unseeable weapon and cock . The two criminals are insistent that they be set aside to retrieve their gear before escaping from prison house inDoomsday Clock # 1 . This leave to a uproarious tantrum in which Mime is find out order on his invisible weapon system knock and wave an unseeable artillery before a dumbfounded Rorschach . This solicit the question - what if he really DOES have a bunch of marvelous unseeable toys ? This conception for certain would be more in - line with the original construct behind Punch and Jewelee and make them more of a lucifer for The Joker , whom the duo are now seeking out .
There is a third possibility to be look at - that the journey between Earths may have awakened Mime ’s metagene and given the madman a power that he and his equally crazy wife always thought he had before . Mad as that idea may sound , there is a precedent in previous DC Comics stories . Dinah Drake , the first Black Canary , enigmatically develop her transonic scream power after traveling from Earth Two to live on Earth One during The Bronze Age of Comics . Further , metagenes have been shown to play upon subconscious trigger in the past times , causing a person to develop force based on whatever was on their intellect at the clock time .
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