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Any buff ofWatchmenknows that with stories likeDoomsday Clock , DC are consciously making the effort to meld Alan Moore and Dave Gibbon ’s masterpiece with the mainstream DC Universe , but inFuture country : The Next Batman # 1 , the Dark Knight ’s Modern status quo is rendering those campaign pointless , since theconditions that created Watchmen ’s Americaare already come in dependable .
InFuture State : The Next Batman # 1by John Ridley , Nick Derington and Tamra Bonvillain , a orphic organization called the Magistrate has somehow leverage a great spate of power over Gotham and create an first step that ’s kindred to passing a new interpretation ofWatchmen’sKeene Act , which banned masked vigilance man . Enforcing this " no mask " authorization is a heavily armed militia call the Peacekeepers , though the name is horribly misleading , as the Peacekeepers keep a deadly peacefulness predicate on summarily execute anyone in a mask . This mentality make major problems for thenew Batman of Gothamas he attempts to save young recruits of a violent mob called Bane - Litos whose members endure masks .
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In comparison , the Keene Act from theWatchmendidn’t make extensive changes to policies and procedures unlike the Magistrate ’s mandatory , especially when it came to the formation of a whole fresh militia . The Keene Act just highly encouraged citizens to inform the law if they ever saw individuals donned in masks or ness , arm with experimental gadgets or weapons , riding unlicensed vehicle , or , peculiarly , enact vigilante justice . to boot , the law allowed some superheroes to continue run as such so long as the government sanctioned them . The select few heroes who fall under this jurisdiction included hero such asDoctor Manhattanand , ironically , the ultra - violent Comedian .
Accosting a dangerous crook too soon in the issue , Batman pass up to save up him from the Peacekeepers , but does rip off his masquerade , informing the man he ’s save his life , and implying that formally or not , Peacekeepers do n’t extend anyone in a masque due process ( or even the chance to survive . ) The most insidious part is that in the Gotham of Future State , facial - recognition television camera are a ubiquitous feature of the urban center , meaning that the vehement answer to masks force police - abiding citizens to be constantly line and monitor .
Hypocritically , the Peacekeepers themselves have mellow - technical school headdress that obscures their faces , and again this is a part ofWatchmencanon , mirroring the Defense of Police Act amendment to the Keene Act , passed in 2017 , which allows the police to protect their identity element by wearing masks , as depicted in theWatchmentelevision adaptationthat continued on from the in writing novel . Though save in 1986,Watchmen ’s idea of an over - policed future gong with that of writers in 2021 , albeit with even more technological aspect to this sci - fi dystopia to take into write up . Here ’s hop that as theFuture Staterollout continues through February , heroes likeBatmandon’t have to go to the same lengths as Ozymandias to jell the world back on an even keel .
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