1. Just like the beginning of the first episode, the beginning of the second episode also reproduces a real historical event: During the First World War, a German officer ordered an English-speaking typist to make a document to persuade black American soldiers to surrender. In the TV version of "Watchmen", this document is the same piece of paper that says "Take care of this boy" on the back of the first episode. The same echoes again and again.
2. The title of this episode is called "The Martial Arts of Comanche Horsemanship". The data prompt refers to a related painting painted by George Catlin, a well-known painter in American history. This painting appeared in the house of the sheriff in the play. In the painting, a Comanche tribe riding a black horse used equestrianism to escape a lot. A man of his tribe on a white horse attacked. It may refer to Will Reeves, a young boy who survived the Tulsa genocide. At the same time, this episode mentions the Hooded Judge. In the comics, the Hooded Judge disappeared mysteriously and is suspected to be a circus of similar size who died at the same time. Lux, but never confirmed in the original. Therefore, many fans on the Internet now suspect that Will was the hooded judge of the year. Combining his Tulsa genocide and the mysterious disappearance of the anti-masked hero in the heyday of the year, it is indeed possible that the identity in the play is mysterious.
3. The shadow of the Hiroshima lover appears on the street corner, which appears many times in the comics. At the same time, Rorschach's mask also has an outline of the Hiroshima lover.
4. Two newspapers, Nova Express and New Frontierman, appeared on newsstands. The former is a left-wing newspaper in the comics, and has done an ad hoc report on Pharaoh at the end of Chapter 11; the latter is a right-wing newspaper, with its articles published at the end of Chapter 8 of the comics, supporting the Ku Klux Klan, anti-Communist, Luo Summer often buys. It also reflects the diametrically opposed political positions of the Pharaoh and Rorschach, one extreme left and the other extreme right.
5. The reporter who flew and took pictures alluded to the mothman, a former militia member in the cartoon, who later became mentally ill and was admitted to a mental hospital.
6. Angela's watch time points to the doomsday, which is reflected many times in the comics. At the same time, the direction of the joker's bloodstain also highly coincides with the doomsday pointer.
7. Sheriff Judd suffered a scar on his right arm in the White Night attack. The White Night Incident is the incident in which the Seventh Knights collectively attacked the police at the same time in Angela's recollection in the second episode. Since the White Night Incident, national legislation requires the police to wear masks to enforce the law.
8. The old American flag below Nixon is still the same as the 50-state flag in reality, and 2019 in the play is the existing American flag in the parallel world of the 51 states after Vietnam was colonized.
9. The Greenwood Heritage Center where Angela went to test Will's DNA actually exists in Oklahoma. The building in the background of the center exists in the Dreamland Theater, and a man's clothes also appear in the first episode. And she went to understand that the U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Louis Gates Jr. on the screen of the machine that Will used is a real person, but not the Secretary of the Treasury. He is an American literary critic, educator, scholar, writer, editor, and public intellectual. First African-American to receive an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Fellowship, receiving numerous honorary degrees and awards for teaching, research, and research into black cultural development. At the same time, he hosted a CBS TV show to help people understand their own life experience, which is the same as his work guiding Angela in the play.
10. After Angela came home, two children were playing, one played the owl, the symbol of the night owl, and the other played the pirate, alluding to the comic "Black Cargo Legend" that appeared in the comics.
11. Another child is playing with a building block toy inspired by Dr. Manhattan. The pile of toy castles is very similar to the one where the pharaoh lived and Dr. Manhattan built on Mars in the first episode. Like Dr. Manhattan, she finally put the toy The blocks are ruined, most likely hinting at what's to come.
12. In "American Hero Story", the first masked hero introduced in "Under the Mask" by the first generation of night owls in the comics - the hooded judge. In the comics, he was introduced as the first masked hero, and he was a pair of gays with Captain Metropolis. Later, after the promulgation of the Keen Act, when the anti-masked heroes became the most popular, he mysteriously disappeared. At the same time, there was a man who was very similar to him The circus Hercules was killed and drowned in the river. It was suspected that he was the hooded judge, and the killer suspected that he was a joker who worked for the government at that time. But in fact, the comics have never confirmed this speculation. So now many external fans on Twitter speculate that the mysterious black Will Reeves in the play is the hood judge of the year.
13. The Pharaoh is obviously writing a scene of Dr. Manhattan's accident in 1959 - Joan Osterman, a doctor of atomic physics who had just met his girlfriend Jenny Slater, was locked in the book where he was about to experiment in order to pick a watch. In the field laboratory, the body was completely destroyed in an accident, and he became Dr. Manhattan. Several details were reproduced in the comic scenes. Also appeared in the comics mentioning Wagner's opera "The Ride of the Valkyries". The staff in the play are all clones, and the pharaoh's remarks that "everything never ends" is also the original words that Dr. Manhattan told him after the pharaoh succeeded in the comics.
14. There is a "Goldi knot" in this play, which refers to a knot that cannot be untied. Historically, it was untied by Alexander the Great with violence. In the comics, there is a scene of a locksmith's clothes invited by Night Owl. "Goldie Lock Company" is printed on the back. Like Alexander the Great, Rorschach also used violent means to destroy the lock of the second generation of Ye Xiao's house and broke into the door to find the second generation of Ye Xiao.
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