You might have thought the greatest secret of DC Comics ’ Doomsday Clock had something to do with Doctor Manhattan ’s whereabouts or the new Rorschach ’s mystical indistinguishability . It does n’t . The dotty thing chance in the DC / Watchmen crossing is all about the supervillains Marionette and the Mime .
Since they recently arrived in DC ’s universe , Rorschach and Ozymandias have been running around Gotham City and beyond in an attempt to happen Bruce Wayne and Lex Luthor — the two hoi polloi on the major planet they distrust might be able to lead them to the missing Doctor Manhattan . That ’s all very nice and precious , and if you want to see Rorschach wander around Wayne manor house while Alfred mutely judges him from a space , this workweek ’s issue will probably ravish you .
But Doomsday Clock # 3 , written by Geoff Johns with illustration from Gary Frank and Brad Anderson , dead fall during its setting have Marionette and the Mime , two criminals Ozymandias needed so as to cross the dimensional barrier to arrive in Gotham . There ’s no better a place than Gotham for a pair of circus - themed villains to suddenly break apart land , and the married distich quickly take advantage of their new milieu .
His . Imaginary . Gun . Works .
Not only do the Mime ’s guns work , he also pulls out an imaginary sword which he discombobulate into a man ’s cervix , much to Marionette ’s delight . It ’s a lurid and frankly horrifying explanation of how he was capable to become such an effective criminal back in his own reality , and it carry a couple of significant potential implications .
Historically , there have never been metahumans in the Watchmen universe and it ’s left indecipherable whether the Mime ’s abilities are new or if he ’s had them antecedently . There ’s a prevailing hypothesis that Doctor Manhattan may have played a key role in the world of the DC multiverse and the macrocosm of its infinite superpowered beings — and the Mime ’s ability may bestow credence to that thought . Even if he did n’t have them before , being enthrall to a universe where world power are a common thing awake something within him that was always there .
Or maybe this is all in his point . Who eff ? This is Gotham after all .
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