How Adrian Veidt became Ozymandias (Watchmen)

How Adrian Veidt became Ozymandias in the Watchmen comics
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[@theconsciousobserver6829]

If he's the smartest man in the world he doesn't have a superiority complex, he is superior

[@ivanfl962]

"For being branded the smartest man on the world, at times I feel a little stupid". - Adrian Veidt

[@manuelmateo3392]

It mainly shows in how he considers eveyone around him to be his intellectual inferior, and to show how he doesn't value people necessarily as much as he purports. Of course, it is worsened by the fact that he more or less is correct.

[@enderis526]

"Sometimes it's hard being superior to every single other person on the planet. It's isolating."

[@anothergingeronthetheinternet]

“Smartest man on the cinder”-The Comedian

[@poweroffriendship2.0]

_"The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than the world's smartest termite."_ *~ Dr. Manhattan*

[@nont18411]

“What is that? Another ultimate weapon?” “Yes. You could say that.”

[@jayson42056]

Nirawit Karnjanasomwong Veidt won and altered history just like Dr Manhattan did with Vietnam but Veidt did it in a Thanos like fashion so therefore he’s a “villain”. Yet Manhattan and Dreiberg were stunned to realize what Adrian had done. Sure, Manhattan was a God, but that God was outsmarted by a man. Watchmen is the best!

[@nont18411]

Jayson The smartest man on earth for a reason. Ozymandias and Rorschach are my two favorites.

[@Se7enDsinSGaming]

Ozy: No u.

[@harumasikuchannel]

@@jayson42056 thanos did it in adrian fashion

[@MaharoMaharo]

1:08 Clearly, Ozymandias is a fellow Rick-&-Morty-watcher

[@DoratTheKiller]

To be fair, you need to have a very high IQ to understand Ozymandias' character

[@Zoki4444]

Watchmen intentionally blurs the lines of morality in the superhero world. Ozymandias is my favourite character because he is cultured, understanding, empathetic and passive, but deadly nonetheless. He wasn't, as he said, a comic book villain, doing something evil because of selfish reasons (okay, maybe a bit selfish, to boast to Alexander). He put the weight of all those deaths on his shoulders so the world could be united in peace. Was it wrong to kill millions to save billions? That is the question that Watchmen leaves up to the reader. In my opinion, I think Ozymandias did what had to be done to prevent something worse from happening.

[@chadtuffey3813]

I remember being asked once if I would murder a puppy to save a thousand 😅 good question

[@ChasseurKGB]

0:08 I know it’s a bit pedantic, but Veidt is NOT an antihero, he’s an Antivillain.

[@ivoryas1696]

Vaulkgb I don't actually recall what the latter means. 😅 But honestly, I buy it...

[@ludwigthewhite3535]

so i should've been eating my hashish instead of smoking it ? who could've guessed !

[@stevenpayne984]

he doesn't have a superiority complex, he's just superior.

[@QuantumElectricians]

Jeremy Irons was great, although maybe a little too expressive and theatrical. Veidt in the comics was a little more reserved and stoic.

[@AudioAndroid]

As we age so do our tastes and those tastes have more of a effect on us, on who we are or think we are then we like to admit, regardless if we want it or not. When we first see Mr. Irons I like you felt that Mr. Irons was really adding fuel to Ozymandes personality and before the big reveal "Spoiler Warning: The Game Warden vs Ozymandes" I wasn't a 100% sure that he was playing our Ozymandes and maybe this was a trick of the writer and director but lucky for us it was Mr. Irons giving us a 80 year Old Ozymandes and I really think the Writers, Directors and Mr.Irons hit a home run and came up close or spot on what Adrian would really be like at age 80 in this particular ⌚ 👨 Universe.

[@jayson42056]

How can you compare drawings on paper to an actor on a tv? The artist can only convey so much emotion, an actor is what they are. Irons was awesome , GOOD DAY TO YOU!

[@P.W.N.ed_9000]

He also wasn’t a egotistical, psychotic maniac, that had no problem with killing.

[@kellycapone7243]

I realize this comment was made a year ago but I've only just started watching the HBO series. I agree with your assessment of the character. I like to look at it this way, Being imprisoned for so long, alone, I think he would have grown even more narssictic and possibly more theatrical in his sociopathy. I think it's an interesting take on how his mind would, could have evolved.

[@xxlukexx08]

You had to google hash? That's adorable

[@kellycapone7243]

I laughed at the too. Ha! It's kinda nice to know innocence is still out there. 😁

[@yousefalbarq3271]

Hahaha my dude needs to get out his house live a little wtf 😂

[@mattlongenecker2759]

Simp king, weed is from the devil!! Hahaha

[@Gaybraham.Lincoln]

Yeah its because not everyone is a scruffy dirtbag

[@_bakz_3682]

@@Gaybraham.Lincoln you're a weirdo for sure

[@gryphon9507]

2:50 Hash behaves differently when eaten then when inhaled. Processed in the liver it releases compound that can be psychedelic in large quantity.

[@cottagecheese2481]

Yeah I found out the hard way lol

[@F1rstWorldNomaD]

The movie is probably the most underrated superhero movie of all time. Znyder is really hit or miss imo but when he *does* hit, he knocks it out of the friggin park... The TV series is an abomination tho.

[@MrNickfuse007]

Complete FACTS, I cannot believe how watchmen isn’t held as one of THE BEST hero films of all time,

[@charlesrainey1076]

Great delivery on this vid. You got my subscribe.

[@lucamckenn5932]

Great content. That still image from the movie where ozy and comedian are shoulder to shoulder looked like a shot from The Office and i chuckled. :b

[@phantom_troubadour]

It could be argued that Ozymandias didn’t really save the world. If we look at our own dimension, we survived the Cold War. So maybe those deaths weren’t necessary, especially since Dr. Manhattan was gone.

[@raulcasarez2150]

Me too because at the end when Veidt asks Dr. Manhattan “if it was worth it in the end” and Manhattan replies “nothing ever ends Adrian “ and Adrian looks at the globe and that’s the last we see him and honestly I feel like that implies that even if Adrian didn’t do anything nothing would’ve happened the world would’ve been like ours.

[@phantom_troubadour]

Raul Casarez I am so glad you agree with me. Some bitch tore me to shreds about this idea.

[@acborec6139]

love u dude, nice video

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

so ozymandias is like a mixture of batman and lex luthor?

[@Ironwalrus8989]

Yep. For a marvel comparison, Ozymandias is very much like Tony Stark and Norman Osborn.

[@Lexsheraton]

He had to Google what hash was..

[@johnsorzano]

I giggled a bit. Lol

[@nikitaalekseyeva4533]

There's just something in the way you tell stories man.. truely masterful.

[@jamesmccool503]

This character is seriously misunderstood... He is the only one WILLING to stop the world from committing suicide.

[@EclecticPotpourri]

Very soothing voice. More Watchmen videos please

[@Brandonhayhew]

Well the TV watchmen will they someday expose the truth of Adrians false attack.

[@Lalvon_Zelpharr]

Man I've seen you all over the place

[@Brandonhayhew]

Lalvon Zelpharr so does you

[@michaeljosephjackson2364]

In HBO series they exposed it I think

[@jayson42056]

Awesome video. Does anyone remember what Dr Manhattan said about the threat the smartest man in the world posed to him was? I don’t think the 10,000 times I’ve seen it quoted is quite enough for me to remember it. Dag Nabbit!

[@bruceleroywayne]

“The world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does its smartest termite” some of the most gangster shit I’ve ever heard in a superhero film

[@matshomanemalebana6688]

"I have walked across the surface of the sun, I have witnessed events so tiny and so fast they can hardly be said to have occurred at all. But you Adrian, you are just a man. And the world's smartest man poses no more threat to me than does it's smartest termite"

[@jameswilhite9561]

Well done sir. Very helpful

[@warmachine11X]

Dude legit ate some weed and then went ham

[@danijelnakic2825]

Will you do an video on the battle of ice and stannis storyline in winds of winter?

[@MtheAtheist]

From your 30 second Google search???? SURE .... ;)

[@magico2132]

I think he meant 32nd

[@kenyanr1]

The movie made it appear as though ozy had physical super powers.

[@mralabbad7]

Just like batman

[@kenyanr1]

@@mralabbad7 No, more like Blade.

[@mralabbad7]

@@kenyanr1 the vampiah?

[@kenyanr1]

@@mralabbad7 Maybe not the best example, but yes.

[@ElusiveMysteryMan]

"An ancient Greek King" *Thousands of history nerds rush down to the comment section*

[@Mrjmaxted0291]

*Angry Macedonian noises*

[@Death_Korps_Officer]

*angry history nerd typing noises*

[@ellehjames5809]

Can confirm.

[@JohnSmith-qk6pd]

@@Mrjmaxted0291 I am neither Greek nor Macedonian , but the Macedonian "noises" as you call them have every right.

[@alexandroskantounis2020]

@@JohnSmith-qk6pd I am Greek. Please explain why they have every right

[@williamgrottano736]

That's some good hashish!!

[@kellycapone7243]

I want some of that!! Ha!🤣

[@mcl12]

Hashish is the pollens of weed , very different from weed in taste and effects, and is usually smoked with tobacco not eaten, eating raw hashish can cause serious harm

[@magico2132]

Thanks my man ive been eating so much hash up until now but because of you i wont die

[@kellycapone7243]

Maybe that's why it had the reaction on him that it did. Ha!

[@riptaway]

It's not "pollens", it's compressed trichromes and resin glands with leaf and bud matter. "The resin reservoirs of the trichomes, sometimes erroneously called pollen (vendors often use the euphemism "pollen catchers" to describe screened kief-grinders in order to skirt paraphernalia-selling laws), are separated from the plant through various methods."

[@kunknown2340]

@@riptaway lol this is so weird. I have my "pollen" box and "pollen" presser on my lap as I stumbled upon this comment.

[@tarn1135]

Alexander wasn’t as great as everyone thought he was. He was ambitious and smart enough to utilize the army and organization his father created. So, in a way he was great but in so many others he wasn’t. I argue that many other people deserve that title more.

[@michaeljosephjackson2364]

Genghis khan would make alexander a toddler

[@hollywoodpineapple8337]

@@michaeljosephjackson2364 I came here to type GKhan the real GOAT conquerer.

[@kalebrunton527]

I'm telling ya right now that wasn't hash lol and that's not how you pronounce ozymandias

[@tylernilson7021]

word

[@jayson42056]

Kale Brunton who EATS hash? That’s not how it works!

[@axelgunnar6431]

@@jayson42056 I think you can trust Alan Moore to have a basic grasp of drugs. In fact, its rumoured that he has blood in his drug stream.

[@herpydepth1204]

For a second I thought I saw Giorno in he thumbnail

[@KitsunoIRL]

I thought one of them was Kira

[@justopher8487]

Herpy Depth I, Adrian Veidt, have a dream

[@Ali01699]

Been a while since I've heard his voice

[@shitslikebear]

1:24 He was Macedonian

[@riptaway]

Alexander actually didn't conquer Egypt. When he went to Egypt after defeating Darius at Issus and successfully sieging Tyre, the Egyptians welcomed him as a liberator(from the Achaemenids) and proclaimed him pharah. He never fought against any Egyptian state backed military forces

[@sloansizzle4023]

Adrian is the hero

[@4817Indian]

Alan Moore wanted to write a "Charlton comics" story and DC prevented it. So,he created this limited series.

[@royzaarour2429]

Ozymandias aka Walter White

[@kevincroughan4112]

More watchmen content please!! Focus on the original graphic novel

[@TheNuzt]

Ozy-man-dais ?🤔

[@eblair7414]

So basically evil Batman.

[@jacek107ify]

more like giving understanding to Lex Luthor...

[@bartbarnes9596]

Suspicious probably means he wasn't cool to his peers who wernt trying to succeed corporate government level

[@TheDictismiT]

It's not 'ozzy-man-d-eye-as' its 'ozzymandeeas'

[@SHARKVADERS]

WC!!!

[@lucifchristo]

You honestly had to search to find out what hashish was?

[@joegahan7055]

So what became of the owl

[@chrisvellner3922]

Why does everyone mispronounce this name? It is not "ah-zee-mon-dye-as" it is pronounced "aa-zuh-man-dee-uhs" It is a Greek name. Not German.

[@robertomedina8977]

Alexander of Macedonia a greek king ?

[@riccardocanziani2497]

I prefer the italian version of Adrian, the Adriano Celentano one

[@dbchoobie1924]

Yo am I the only one who think Jeremy Irons looks nothing like the original Ozymandias from the comics.

[@albertoperusquia6044]

I don't think any writer besides Moore gets Ozymandias right

[@kellycapone7243]

Yeah, but Jeremy is soooo good looking! Ha!

[@benburns4980]

For me the biggest failure of the watchmen and what makes me not interested is the fact that everyone claims none of them except Manhattan doesn't have and superpowers. When everything they do requires massive amounts of suspension of disbelief. Adrian is just a guy and yet he can catch a bullet with his bare hands. They can punch through concrete with their bare hands and not break the skin. Bullshit! Just bullshit! That's lile saying the agents from the matrix are just normal cops. What made it good was the humanization of superheroes. They can't leap the higest building or take a bullet to the eyeball. But that's what makes it exciting. Although there strong as fuck and kick ass they're always vulnerable. That's why superman is boring as fuck unless he goes toe to toe with a god

[@charlespuruncajas9663]

The comic itself shows Ozymandias as the “peak of human capacity” and The Comedian is said to be “buff as a bodybuilder in his 60’s”. Also neither Rorschach or Silk Spectre and Nite Owl are superhuman but damn in the context they are supposed to be trained with different fight styles (so Dan breaking a gangster’s arm whit his punch is not so far fetched)

[@carsoncasmirri3874]

Alexander the Great was actually Macedonian

[@alduinthepimpmaster7251]

Macedonia is Greek

[@Death_Korps_Officer]

@@alduinthepimpmaster7251 *the entire Macedonian population wants to know your location*

[@sithjohn80]

First

[@Lord-Darkness]

No need to talk he German No more needed 😅😅😅😅😅

[@manualbatt1648]

This version of the Watchmen is horrible 😂😂😂