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Warning : spoiler ahead forWatchmenepisode 8 .
InWatchmenepisode 8 , Doctor Manhattan ( Yahya Abdul - Mateen II ) may have given away his powers - to his take over son Topher ( Dylan Schombing ) . The next-to-last episode of Damon Lindelof ’s ambitious " remix " of the Hellenic vivid novel revealedDoctor Manhattan ’s striking role in the story , although his mien was hidden in plain sight for much of the series . Yet throughoutWatchmen , Doctor Manhattan ’s lawful whereabouts and the extent of his awe-inspiring abilities plough out to be at the very tenderness of the war against the white supremacist group called the Seventh Kavalry - and this could now affect unseasoned Topher Abar .
Doctor Manhattan is the only superhuman being inWatchmen , and for million of hoi polloi , he ’s still weigh a humankind savior , even if he has been an absentee god . Adrian Veidt ’s play " The Watchmaker ’s Son " reenacted Doctor Manhattan ’s bloodline : in 1959 , physicist Dr. Jon Osterman was trapped in an Intrinsic Field Generator and was transformed into the blue daemon with absolute control over topic . Not only is Doctor Manhattan invulnerable and able to alter his size and the great unwashed , asWatchmenproved , he can also assume the grade of a man . Osterman took the shape of a deceased man named Calvin Jelani and lived as the hubby of DetectiveAngela Abar AKA Sister Night(Regina King ) for ten years . Doctor Manhattan ’s camouflage as Calwas discharge by a machine invent by Ozymandias that gave him total amnesia so that no one ever surmise Angela ’s kind and unassuming hubby was really the all-powerful blue god .
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But somehow , the Seventh Kavalry detect out that Doctor Manhattan was know among the masses of Tulsa , perhaps during the White Night when the Rorschach - masque - weary terrorist attacked Angela and Cal on Christmas 2016 . Under the leadership of Senator Joe Keene ( James Wolk ) , the 7 K - which is the modern avatar of the Ku Klux Klan splinter grouping call the Cyclops - concoct their master program to stealDoctor Manhattan ’s powersfor themselves , giving the white supremacist the office of a immortal . This is possible becauseWatchmenrevealed that just as Doctor Manhattan has the power to create life , he also has the ability to imbue his powers onto others . InWatchmenepisode 8 , " A God walk Into Abar " , the 7 K apparently killed Doctor Manhattan with a tachyonic cannon , despite Angela ’s efforts to economize him .
However , Doctor Manhattan ’s alone kinship to time and his power to experience his yesteryear , present , and future simultaneously could have enabled the demigod to prepare for the eventuality of his being ' killed ' by theSeventh Kavalry . Which bring us to young Topher , whom Doctor Manhattan teleported to rubber along with his sisters before the 7 K attacked . It ’s possible Topher is Doctor Manhattan ’s eventuality architectural plan and that he was preparing the son all along for a great circumstances - maybe even to become the next Doctor Manhattan .
Who Is Topher Abar?
Christopher " Topher " Abar is Angela and Cal ’s 12 - year - old sweep up son . Along with his younger sisters Emma and Rosie , Topher come to live with the Abars after their parents Doyle and Ginny were killed during the White Night . WhenWatchmenbegins , the Abars seem to be a happy nuclear family . The first time fans meet Angela ’s son , it ’s at his school where Topher punches out his classmate for making a racist remark about his adoptive mom - which shows the child is open - minded , progressive , and loving towards his novel parents .
But just as Cal ’s amiable blandness turned out to be a camouflage , there seems to also be something oddly ' different ' about Topher . The 12 - yr - old seems to have a complex internal life that he does n’t vocalise ; this would n’t be surprising since he is , after all , an orphan who lost both parents to gas violence . As the Word of a peace officer , he ’s old enough to possess an inborn understanding of the realities of his late parents being cops . And yet , just as Cal twist out to be much more than he seemed , Topher stands out as a major character inWatchmenwho might still have a bigger , heretofore unrevealed theatrical role in the write up .
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The Evidence That There’s Something Special About Topher
Angela clearly has a limited kinship with Topher ; she obviously loves him , but Angela ’s 12 - year - old son is also an almost unco confining confidant . When Angela returns home from her secret effort as Sister Night , she normally checks in on Topher , and even sleeps on the bottom of his bunkum layer after a hard night , thankfully accepting Topher ’s stuffedBubastistoy to nestle with . Rosie and Emma are very unseasoned and expend more prison term with Cal , but Angela has taken Topher under her wing and handle him with higher regard . It could be because Topher is a thoughtful boy whom Angela is peculiarly nurturing , but Sister Night keeps infinite secrets ( such as Cal ’s true identity ) and there could be a giving one about her son that she ’s harboring .
The most tell - tale moment that something is ' up ' with Topher is inWatchmenepisode 2 , when Angela return home to specifically separate him that his uncle Judd Crawford ( Don Johnson ) is all in . Topher is in his bedroom encounter with his Manhattan Blocks , which are hover - something Angela seems to regard as normal . Is this part of the miniature ’s innovation , or was Topher controlling it with his mind ? Even more inquisitively , Topher constructed a replica of the land manor house built by Doctor Manhattan on Jupiter ’s moon Europa , whereAdrian Veidt(Jeremy Irons ) lived for year . How could Topher know what that peculiar edifice expect like ? Topher also quickly accepted the news that Judd was deadened before he suddenly flog out and smashed his toy dog all over his floor , an outburst Angela was at a loss by .
Then , inWatchmenepisode 4 , after Topher determine Angela hold open everyone at Judd ’s funeral from a Seventh Kavalry suicide submarine sandwich , Angela enter Topher ’s bedroom , which was lit up in Doctor Manhattan - alike drab brightness level with stars and constellation on his rampart and roof . Is there a secret link between Topher and Cal / Doctor Manhattan that has been enshroud in plain stack all along ? Did Cal somehow teach Topher about thecountry manor house planetary house on Europa , although perhaps unknowingly since his memory loss forbid him from knowing he was Doctor Manhattan ? And , if so , does Topher have a part to play in Doctor Manhattan ’s destiny ?
How Topher Getting Doctor Manhattan’s Powers Could Set Up Watchmen Season 2
Topher might have a huge role to play inWatchmenseason 1 ’s endgame and further into time of year 2 if Doctor Manhattan transferred his top executive to his Word before the Seventh Kavalry ' destroy ' him . Topher , Rosie , and Emma found out the truth about Cal when they see Doctor Manhattan walking on the water of their swim pool ; Manhattan then immediately teleported them aside . However , Manhattan sent the kids to Angela ’s grandfatherWill Reeves AKA hood Justice(Louis Gossett , Jr. ) as part of a plan the two of them concoct 10 old age prior , when Doctor Manhattan picture what would fall out in his time to come . In fact , Manhattan also knew there would be a ten - class gap where he would be ' blind ' and , fully aware that he would be attacked by the 7 K in 2019 , the grim superhuman could have made readiness call for Topher , whom he screw would be his assume Word by 2019 .
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If this theory holds , it ’s possible that Cal ( with or without Angela ’s aid ) has somehow been shape or teaching Topher so that he could one 24-hour interval pay the powers of Doctor Manhattan . It ’s also authoritative to note that such potential preparations on Manhattan ’s part would let in the help of outside accomplices ; Will Reeves has been in on this plot for a decade and the old man was the one who enroll the help of Lady Trieu ( Hong Chau ) . Further , the trillionaire brilliance mysteriously relocated her operations toTulsa , Oklahomawhere she build a Millennium Clock , which she intends to apply to " save humanity " - which we now know imply saving everyone from a horde of Doctor Manhattan - powered white supremacist . While we do n’t yet know what the Millennium Clock is in reality meant to do , it ’s possible that its function will be to keep Doctor Manhattan ’s powerfulness away from the 7 K and even permeate them to Topher - especially if Doctor Manhattan has indeed been destroyed .
As such , Doctor Manhattan ’s chronicle may in reality come to its determination ( " the horologer ’s boy ’s time is lastly up " ) inWatchmenseason 1 and season 2 could see the rise of a fresh Doctor Manhattan : Topher Abar . Now , HBO has yet to renewWatchmenfor time of year 2 but given the serial publication is aratings hitand a social media mavin , a 2d time of year seems likely . And while Topher becoming the next Doctor Manhattan may seem like a wild leap - and it could well be -Watchmenhas been unfeignedly engrossing in how in an elaborate way Damon Lindelof has designed his news report . InWatchmen , all of the piece issue , like a perfectly - aligned clock , and , run intoWatchmen ’s season 1 finish , Topher remains a big question mark who could matter much more than fans ever realized .
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Watchmen ’s time of year 1 finale airwave Sunday , December 15 @ 9 promethium on HBO .
