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Watchmencould have one more gravid twist up its sleeve : it ’s quite possible Adrian Veidt AKA Ozymandias ( Jeremy Irons ) may have been on Earth all along during the HBO series ' independent storyline . As Damon Lindelof ’s challenging and provocative subsequence and " remix " of Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons ' classic graphical novel heads to its season 1 last , Watchmencould be toy one last trick on audiences with the true whereabouts of Ozymandias .
Adrian Veidt ’s storyline has been the most eccentric panorama ofWatchmen ; far removed from the independent action set in 2019Tulsa , Oklahoma , Ozymandias ' unique predicament was gradually let out : Veidt is a prisoner on Europa , the moon of Jupiter , where he was sent by Doctor Manhattan ( Yahya Abdul - Mateen II ) in 2009 . Distraught at how hisgiant squid hoaxthat saved the universe on 11/2/1985 did n’t usher in the halcyon Zion he envisioned , Ozymandias retreated to Karnak , his Antarctic fort , where Manhattan visited him . In exchange for Veidt give the superhuman being a gadget he built to pluck him of his retentiveness and fundamentally make him a simple human being namedCal Abar , Manhattan outright teleported Adrian to Europa , where he had build an idyllic paradise populated by dead ringer the Doctor built to serve whomever their lord is .
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Ozymandias relished being Lord of a country manor and ruling a perfect mankind on Europa - for a while . But after a twosome of years , Veidt grew bored and plotted to get away and repay to Earth - break the one rule of Europa set up by the Game Warden ( Tom Mison ) , the original clone built by Doctor Manhattan , which is"thou shall not leave"Europa . After his outflow attempt , Veidt was beguile , endured a farcical trial , and was imprisoned .
However , one of the clone give way Veidt the way to give way spare from his confines inWatchmenepisode 8 ’s end - deferred payment panorama , which indicate that Ozymandias did escape and somehow made the 390 - million sea mile journey back to Earth . And here is where it gets interesting because there are many clues that indicate Adrian Veidt successfully hark back home . And , similar to how Doctor Manhattan was hide in apparent sight as Cal , the husband of DetectiveAngela Abar AKA Sister Night(Regina King ) , it ’s possible Ozymandias has also been in Tulsa and image by viewers all along .
Ozymandias Went To Europa In 2009… And He’s Only Been There 7 Years
The main thing that ’s important to infer about Ozymandias ' plight on Europa is that all of it happened inWatchmen ’s yesteryear . Adrian Veidt was formally declare " bushed " in 2019 and as far as the populace knows , he vanished in 2012 . But that was only when Ozymandias wasreportedmissing ; as fans saw inWatchmenepisode 8 , " A God Walks Into Abar " , Doctor Manhattan nuke Veidt to Jupiter ’s lunation in 2009 . In fact , the first metre Veidt is control inWatchmen ’s pilot installment when his servant Mr. Phillips and Ms. Crookshanks ( Sara Vickers ) submit him with an anniversary cake with a unmarried taper , marked one year of Ozymandias as Europa ’s overlord .
It may not have been bluntly stated during the course ofWatchmenbut eachappearance by Adrian Veidtin subsequent episode happened one year after the last . In year two , Ozymandias denounce his play , the disaster in five act titled " The Watchmaker ’s Son " about Doctor Manhattan ’s origin , and in yr three , Veidt mow down all of his clon servants , originate a novel pair of Phillips and Crookshanks , and then begin try out his catapult . By the meter Veidt is imprisoned and mounts a new escape at the very end ofWatchmenepisode 8 , he had spent 7 years on Europa because there were 7 candle on his day of remembrance patty . Since Adrian was post to Europa in 2009 , this means the end - credits scene chance in 2016 . If Ozymandias escaped Jupiter ’s lunation , he would then require the necessary clip to make the 390 - million nautical mile journeying back to Earth .
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Something Crashed Into Lady Trieu’s New Land In 2017
Lady Trieu(Hong Chau ) , the trillionaire genius behind Trieu Industries , was inaugurate at the commencement ofWatchmenepisode 4 , " If You Do n’t care My Story , Write Your Own " . Trieu makes a childless couplet an offering they ca n’t turn down : a baby cloned from their transmitted material and a huge cash payout in exchange for their acres of land in Tulsa , where Trieu at last built her sprawling facility and her inscrutable Millennium Tower .
However , this scene was a flashback dress in 2017 and it ended when a flaming physical object came from outer space and crash on Lady Trieu ’s newly - acquired ground . Watchmenhas yet to address what this unnamed object from space was but it ’s possible that this could be Adrian Veidt , in whatever transport he was using , get in back onterra firma . If it was Veidt who crashed , this mean that as soon has Ozymandias give to Earth , his comer was met by Lady Trieu . This would be fitting since it was Lady Trieu who purchased Veidt Industries after Adrian vanished from the planet , basically replacing Ozymandias as both the World ’s Smartest Woman and as the next self - appointed Jesus Christ of humanity .
Lady Trieu Captured Ozymandias… And He’s In The Statue
If Veidt indeed return to Earth and his comer was intercepted by Lady Trieu , where is the World ’s Smartest Man now and where has he been all along ? It ’s quite possible that Ozymandias is put behind bars in the statue that stand in Lady Trieu ’s vivarium . The fact that theVietnamesetrillionaire even has a vivarium is a luxury adopt from Adrian Veidt himself and it would be ironically fitting if Lady Trieu displayed him in her interlingual rendition of his private haven .
There are also sly clues that Veidt is his presently enclose in or has been transmute into his own statue , such as when Agent Laurie Blake ( Jean Smart ) noticed the body structure and she was confused as to why Lady Trieu made her tribute to Ozymandias look"so old",to which Trieu respond it is in her culture to"honor her elder " . Another clue that the statue is actually Veidt came after Lady Trieu saved Angela Abar ’s spirit from aNostalgiaoverdose inWatchmenepisode 7 , " An Almost Religious Awe " . After Trieu profess that her girl Bian ( Jolie Huang - Rappaport ) is in reality a clon of her stagnant mother , Angela asked whether her dad will also be present to see Trieu complete her life ’s work , to which the trillionaire replied,“He will be " .
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It ’s potential that Lady Trieu was referring to Adrian Veidt as her father , whom she could free from the statue when she activates the Millennium Clock . While some fans hold to the theory that Edward Blake AKA The Comedian is Lady Trieu ’s biological Father-God , which is involve inWatchmen ’s draw - in websitePeteypedia , Trieu might also consider Ozymandias to be her ' father ' in the sense that all of her life ’s work and maven is modeled after his and she is stick with in his footsteps .
However , another theory that must be considered is that Trieu ’s Ozymandias statue is just a statue , which would then beg the interrogative of where in Tulsa Adrian Veidt really is . In this scenario , there ’s a hazard that Ozymandias is work for theSeventh Kavalry . After all , it has yet to be explained on the button how a radical of Midwestern livid supremacist could have access to the technology they have , like a transdimensional teleporter and a tachyonic cannon - all invention of Adrian Veidt . Perhaps Ozymandias supplied the 7 K with this technical school , whether voluntarily or not . Whatever the answers about Ozymandias ' true whereabouts in 2019 are , all will be revealed inWatchmen ’s time of year 1 finale .
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Watchmen ’s season 1 finale airs Sunday , December 15 @ 9 postmortem on HBO .
