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Doctor Manhattan may be the most powerful superhero ever . Doctor Manhattan , antecedently known as Jon Osterman , received his powers during a scientific chance event involving an intrinsic field of operation subtractor . Osterman became a blue , burn deity - like being with the power to pull wires topic at an atomic level , and adopted the nickname Doctor Manhattan . Manhattan can transport himself nearly anywhere in the universe , and he know the yesteryear , present , and future at the same time . just put , Doctor Manhattan does not feel fourth dimension as a regular human .
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In " A God Walks Into Abar , " two new powers are confirmed by Doctor Manhattan . The first and most obvious power is thatDoctor Manhattan can hide in plain sightby turning into other people . " A God Walks Into Abar " spotlight the passion story between Angela and Doctor Manhattan that date back to their first meeting in Vietnam , 2009 . Because he wanted to experience a normal life with Angela , Doctor Manhattan suggests that he survive in a normal human consistency . After much deliberation , Angela chooses Cal , who had antecedently die from an accident and has no next of kin . Adrian Veidt , formerly known asOzymandias , provide Manhattan with a gimmick that could erase his retention ; without the knowledge of his powers , Manhattan would not be able to habituate them . So Doctor Manhattan takes on the form of Cal , then buries the machine in his head , wipe out his memory . Angela tells him that heisCal Abar , and that he suffered amnesia after a railroad car accident . They then move to Tulsa , Oklahoma , to start a unexampled life .
While talk with Angela at the bar , Doctor Manhattan also reveal another previously - strange power : that he cantransfer his baron to another individual . Doctor Manhattan uses an egg to explain how it ’s possible . If Doctor Manhattan wangle an ballock to include his exponent and someone assimilate it , then that person could have the same abilities as Doctor Manhattan . However , Doctor Manhattan drinks the testis because he state Angela that he would " never pass his powers to someone without their consent . "
With Doctor Manhattan ’s power to channelise powers to someone else , this pray the question : did Doctor Manhattan extend on his power before the oddment ofepisode 8 ? Despite Angela ’s last - ditch effort to modify the hereafter , Doctor Manhattan is captured by the Seventh Kavalry via a tachyonic shank work stoppage . However , second before this happened , Doctor Manhattan recalled having call Angela ’s grandfather , Will Reeves , aka Hooded Justice ( Louis Gosssett , Jr. ) , in New York ten years prior ; because he experience the past , present , and future simultaneously , Manhattan was able to relay information from Angela in the present tense to Will in the past . Doctor Manhattan mentioned form an bond with Reeves beforecreating a time paradox between Angela and Will . Is it potential that Doctor Manhattan excrete his powers to Will before being captured ? For now , this remain a theory that will hopefully be answered in Sunday ’s season finale ofWatchmen .
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Watchmen ’s time of year 1 finis airs Sunday , December 15 @ 9 pm on HBO .
