Did not know of the poem.

Did not know of the poem.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock'd them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

…Now if this was some other film forum I'd be ducking for cover after copy&pasting a poem, but I'm sure it'll be taken in the right spirit here. :)

I have no other point to make, but it's nice just to consider the relevance of the poem to the character in Watchmen I think.

You mention Dr. Manhattan as being the “God-like” character – I was flipping through the book in a barnes & noble and noticed toward the end he says something to the effect of “I think I'll go and create some life” – thought that was interesting, and don't remember if this line was in the movie.

Also – in the movie Ozy had this statue or something and on it was the inscription (again I'm kind of paraphrasing) “behohd Ozymadias, king of kings….” and remembered from the bible when Jesus was crucified they nailed up a sign that read “behold the king of the jews” + Jesus also being referred to as “King of Kings, Lord of Lords” quite often. Was he supposed to be some kind of Christ figure, “sacrificing” the superheros (instead of himself, though, he killed many civilians) for the better of mankind?