Oh right, yeah. For some reason I though she was involved in some murderous tryst just remembering Rorschach’s condemnation of her sexuality.
I wouldn’t ever have thought Rorschach had anything to do with their demises - bumping off fellow costumes really gets his goat in 1985, he’d have done a complete 180. Hooded Justice’s right wing views probably resonate a bit with him, I can imagine as the first masked adventurer he’d earn a bit of respect. Besides, he tolerates and even admires The Comedian, who’s far worse than either.
OK, I hadn’t realized the timing, or that the dysfunctional family in the opening credits was Rorschach’s. I still think it would have been in-character for him, though: He wouldn’t have regarded it as him killing her (making him a mask-killer), he would have regarded it as “She was a lesbian slut, therefore she had to die, and it’s her own fault she got killed”.
I think you’ve got Rorschach all wrong here. He was sick and he might’ve disapproved of Silhouette, but the people he kills in the book are a child murderer, a serial rapist, and a couple of people who try to kill him. (I forget what happens to the police officer.) He was very casual about torturing people, but he wasn’t the type to track a woman down and kill her just because he’d heard she was gay. He goes after criminals and punishes them according to his own moral views, but he doesn’t kill people for doing things he considers immoral.
One cop he shot with his grappling-hook gun was last referenced as being in hospital, in critical condition with a shattered sternum. Overall, I’d say Rorschach is known to have killed five people in the book, three of them in prison, and he wasn’t nearly old enough to have taken out Silhouette, nor would it be in character for him.
You know, I don’t think he was actually trying to kill Ozy; I think he was trying to capture and subdue him. Not that he wouldn’t mind breaking a few hyperintelligent neo-Alexandrian bones while he was at it.
The age issue aside, that doesn’t really read for me. Given his origins, I’d expect Rorschach to harbor a great deal of anger towards women, but it seems to me that his crime fighting is a way for him to redirect his anger towards “acceptable” targets. I’d be very surprised if Rorschach had ever so much raised a hand to a woman, let alone killed one. I think if he ever did, he would very quickly go from “unstable vigilante” to “utter, sadistic monster.”
He was trying to stop Ozy from sending the monster to NY, wasn’t he? Ozy hadn’t yet revealed that he did it half an hour ago.
Remember the scene where he heads back to his apartment to get his spare face & coat (which just happened to still have the bloodstains from the dogs)? He was acting very threatening to his landlady, since she lied about him trying to have sex with her when she was interviewed on TV, but then when he looked at her (multiracial?) kids, he just turned away.
I’m not sure he really even knew about that. He knew Ozy was up to something else, but seemed content to get the guy for having already murdered Blake and et cetera.
Yeah, that’s kind of what I meant. He was trying to capture & restrain Ozy, because he thought Ozy hadn’t finished whatever he was up to. If in the course of the fight, Rorschach found himself in a position where his only move left was to kill Ozy or be defeated, I think he would have killed him.
I don’t. The plan was to capture him and get him to talk the Rorschach way. They knew he was responsible for killing The Comedian (we know how seriously Rorschach took that) and for setting up the cancer allegations to drive Dr. Manhattan away, but they didn’t know much else or what he was trying to do. Rorschach certainly would have killed him in self-defense if he felt he had to, but it wasn’t the goal. Of course what Rorschach wanted didn’t matter so much - Ozy could have easily killed both of them if he’d felt like it.
Now, see, I thought he already had. The impression I got was that the incident with the dude feeding kids’ corpses to his dogs convinced him that all humanity was scum, and that he’d been basically a serial killer ever since.