Was Ozy a bad guy?
I didn't really view him as evil, just amoral.
Well to be fair, they all seemed amoral.
I Came, I Saw, I Conquered.
He has the bad guy vibe but I can't put my finger on it
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he was like the dude in "the black freighter". he tried to save those he loved and went insane in the process, while ending up destroying everything he wanted to protect.
on top of that his vanity was a part of his downfall. he desperately wanted to alexander the great, that he did everything to keep up the illusion, that he somehow could, but the time he lived in was not in demand of such a person andbthe circumstances could not have been different.
once there was a hero in him. a hero like rohrschach that followed a naive, yet pure path, but he changed. i am not saying, that this was the beginning of his insanity, but when the comedian expressed to him that all of his effords were ridiculous and set up to fail, something broke in him. you can see that clearly in the film.
in a way he is a classic comic book villain. just look at lex luthor, doc oc, twoface ...etc. they all start with good intentions. for most of them their good intentions also lead to their eventual downfall.
Not for the sake of being evil. He felt he was doing the right thing. Remember he said that he would kill millions to save billions.
shareYes, he was bad, very bad. He killed millions of innocent people.
Schrodinger's cat walks into a bar, and / or doesn't.
There's a clue running through the whole of the movie:"who watches the watchmen?"
He's defending mankind against itself but his solution can be seen as monstrous.
I think he was the worst of them, although they were all flawed. Ozy believed his own hype and whether or not he was trying to save the world, a) I think he was doing it at least partly to satisfy his own ego, and b) it wasn't his right to kill all the people he did, regardless of the reason. And to so easily kill the Comedian, someone who had once been a friend, shows a great lack of morality.
The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.
Was Ozy a bad guy?
Not at all. He saved the world. share
But did he? If you accept "The Tale of the Black Freighter" as a foreshadowing, then he didn't. Not in the end. In "The Tale of the Black Freighter" it turns out that all the protagonist's struggles, while thoroughly well-intentioned -- were not only in vain, he caused very horror he sought to prevent (the death of his family) because he was operating with a flawed understanding of reality. By the same token, it could turn out that all Adrian Veidt's efforts will fail, and indeed perhaps even precipitate the apocalypse he sought to prevent because he too didn't really understand things as accurately as he thought. And the fact that Rorschach's journal survives and looks like it's about to go to print at the end of the story would seem to indicate that this may turn out to be the case.
shareNot evil. He believed he did the right thing and weighed the alternative. Not amoral, rather idealist. Yes, this type of person can be extremely dangerous to the world...
Alexander The Great wanted the same, a better world, no matter the price, how many people had to die for his dream?