Was Ozy a bad guy?

He did annihilate an entire city of innocents just to try and make everyone unite against a common enemy, so I want to say yes. Plus, even from the beginning he had a "bad guy" vibe, he just seemed like your typical villain to me.

Considering Ozymandias doesn't seem to have normal human morality, it's hard to judge him.

He murdered a ton of a people to save the lives of even more.

Does being a super genius give him the right to make those decisions?

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and he killed his own cat

You could say he is more of an anti-hero than villain, doing the wrong things for the right intentions

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I think Ozymandias was a bad guy for the fact that he put himself above the rest of humanity. Granted, he wanted to get rid of the problems the world faced like pollution, poverty, lack of resources, etc. so in that sense he is noble for being almost like Bruce Wayne and wanting to use his massive resources to solve such problems. However, the problem is that he didn't remain humble, and I kept getting this vibe throughout the movie that Ozy saw himself (maybe without realizing it) as superior to the rest of humanity and especially the other business tycoons for wanting a better world.

Plus the major factor is that Ozy thought he could bring the whole world together, and yes the disaster will unite the world but BRIEFLY. No matter what happens, humanity will eventually begin to fight each other and it will always be over the same things. Race, water, oil, dirt, etc. As smart as he is, Ozy will ultimately fail and the whole attack will have been for nothing.

And remember that Rorschach recorded the whole affair in his journal and sent it to a right-wing paper, and if it happens to get published (which it probably will since they have "nothing to write about anymore") all it will take is some investigation and eventually Ozy will get found out. Even if none of the other Watchmen talk, there was a whole group of scientists Ozy annihilated and the giant outpost in Antarctica, and Ozy has been talking about uniting the world for some time. Ozy will fail, but he had too much hubris to see it and that's why I think he's a bad guy. Just my opinion though.

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If the novel has a point then it is that its characters do not fall into simple categories like "bad guy". Not one of the protagonists (Oz, Manhattan, Rorschach, Comedian) is morally simple. That is an important part of the novel's appeal and a main reason why it's so revered and influential.

In fact, it may be one of the first pieces of popular fiction with this position. I would be surprised if it turned out that George R. R. Martin did not know Watchmen before he started writing A Song of Ice and Fire.

He killed millions to save billions.

Look at this way, those people he killed would have died anyway along with most of the rest of the world.

What he did was ultimately good.