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Warning : SPOILERS forWatchmenEpisode 8 .
The Doctor Manhattan - centricWatchmenepisode 8 , " A God walk Into A Bar " , tease an intriguing possibility : Are Adrian Veidt ’s servants on Europa actually clones of his parents ? The straight nature of Veidt ’s Samuel Butler Mr. Phillips ( Tom Mison ) and maid Ms. Crookshanks ( Sara Vickers ) was revealed back in Watchmen episode 2 ; there are multiple clones of Phillips and Crookshanks and they exist only to loyally serve their master Ozymandias . But there may be an even greater link between Veidt , Phillips , and Crookshanks and , for that matter , Veidt andDoctor Manhattan(Yahya Abdul - Mateen II ) .
Watchmenepisode 8 clarify that the clones were the new lifeforms created by Doctor Manhattan in theyears between the vivid novel and TV seriesbut he desert them to return to Earth ; instead , he teleported Adrian Veidt to the Shangri-la he create and Manhattan ’s clone gladly accepted Ozymandias as their master . Based on the identification number of candle on Veidt ’s anniversary patty , which his servants prepare for him every year , Adrian has live on Europa for 7 class and has been actively try toescape his idyllic prisonfor about 5 year . Veidt deal nothing for his cloned helpers ; he call up them"simpletons"and Adrian ruthlessly slaughter them before catapulting their stiff out of doors of his haven , where he used their soundbox to spell out an SOS . Veidt was captured by the knockoff in charge of Europa , the Game Warden , who was the original Phillips clone Manhattan built ; Ozymandias was essay by the clones and put behind bars for the crime of prove to exit paradise ( although one of the clones in secret gave Veidt the means to escape his cell inWatchmenepisode 8 ’s post - credits scene ) .
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But the aspiration behind Doctor Manhattan ’s knockoff could tie into Adrian Veidt ’s origin taradiddle as well and the possibility exists that the bluish super being is playing a cosmic put-on on his old colleague / resister because of who the original people were that the quantum - powered demigod based Phillips and Crookshanks on .
Phillips And Crookshanks Are Based On Real People
As Doctor Manhattan state Detective Angela Abar AKA Sister Night ( Regina King ) at their first meeting in 2009Vietnam , when he was a piddling boy named Jon Osterman , he and his father Hans flee Nazi Germany in 1936 . They take refuge in a country manor house in England where Jon met the ( unnamed ) Lord and Lady of the manor , who kindly gifted him his first Bible and introduced the estimate of Genesis and"creating something beautiful"in his young nous . The Lord and Lady were altruistic masses who helped many Europeans fly the coop the threat of fascism to America .
The British Lord and Lady allow a lasting impression on Jon and 7 decades later , asDoctor Manhattan , he modeled the clones on Europa after them - but the superhuman hoped to make them"better"than humans by designing Phillips and Crookshanks to give care only for others and not themselves . This made them idealistic servants but not very interesting or challenging as citizenry - a definite flaw in Doctor Manhattan ’s pattern .
Are Phillips And Crookshanks Veidts?
But could the Lord and Lady of the manor really be Adrian Veidt ’s parents ? Thetimeline ofWatchmen ’s preceding synchs up : Jon and Hans Osterman arrived in America in 1939 , the same year that Adrian Veidt was born . Even more curiously , Jon initially " come across " the Lord and Lady when he accidentally watched their sexual love so we experience they were actively trying to conceive a child . If the Lord and Lady were Veidt ’s parent then it ’s fitting that unseasoned Jon , the future Doctor Manhattan , was present for Adrian ’s birth ( or at least invention ) , because Ozymandias was born in 1939 , the same yr Jon emigrate to America .
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Working against this possibility are the known facts about Adrian Veidt : His parent were German immigrants named Freidrich Warner Veidt and Ingrid Renata Veidt but the Lord and Lady were British . However , plenty of the British upper social class in the 19th and early twentieth century were in reality of German descent ( including Queen Victoria and the current Royal House of Windsor ) and the Lord and Lady of the manor house could be no different . The Lord and Lady could very well be the Veidt family who also emigrated to America in 1939 as World War II began .
So , didDoctor Manhattanactually pin Veidt 390 - million miles from Earth with doppelgangers of his parents ? In turn , was Veidt ’s sweeping slaughter of the clones and his intense desire to escape maybe driven , at least in part , by resentment against his parents ? As cold and distant as he can be , Doctor Manhattan is capable of laugh and can appreciate a cosmic joke , which is as much a cornerstone ofWatchmenas thermodynamic miracle .
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