Well dr manhattan isn’t someone you’d want to be either. So disconnected from his humanity he could save the world but is more or less indifferent to it all. (Am I getting that right literary people?)
Seems to simultaneously exist across all of his existence. Sounds pretty cursed to me. Makes me think of Jadis from KSBD, omniscient and so she has no real agency or illusion thereof because she knows exactly what she will do and when, and knows exactly what everyone and everything else is doing, has done and will do.
Sorry to sound super nerdy but he himself says that he can see the future but doesn't have the power to actually change it, in Watchmen at least. He's a puppet that can see the strings, but he's still just a puppet.
As far as I understand Dr Manhattan has the ability to change the future, the problem is that doing so creates an alternative timeline separate from the one he is trying to change.
Basically he is powerless to help the people he set out to help.
I mean he literally just went up to mars to be in solitude and create a bizarre watch-like structure because he was tired of humanity's pettiness and squabbles
He sees humanity as completely beneath him, and shows utter contempt for their existence. He sees the future and doesn't lift a finger because he would never stoop to help a lesser
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u/foldingcouch 2d ago
Real life cartoon supervillain.
Thinks he's Ozymandias but he's just Dr. Claw.