History Recap / WatchmenS01Ep09

** "Reeves" is not Will's real last name. He just took it because he was a big fan of Bass Reeves and wanted to be just like him -- a symbol of Justice. We never find out his actual surname.

** Veidt's side-story in Europa actually took place over his ten year stay there after Manhatten dropped him there and the events of his rescue happened approximately a year ago when Trieu's transportation pod finally returned from Europa. [[HumanPopsicle She did, however, leave him frozen awhile.]]

** Veidt's side-story in Europa actually took place approximately a year ago and while the events of the previous episode were happening, Trieu's transportation pod finally returned from Europa and her henchmen were [[HumanPopsicle getting him out of suspended animation]].

** "Reeves" is not Will's original last name.He just took it after the massacre because he was a big fan of Bass Reeves and wanted to be just like him -- a symbol of Justice. We never find out his former surname.

** "Reeves" is not Will's real last name. He just took it because he was a big fan of Bass Reeves and wanted to be just like him -- a symbol of Justice. We never find out his actual surname.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: Jane is the only one not freaking out when the group realized they've been played and are about to die. Instead, she merely tells Trieu to can it with Will's speech and just kill them already.

* GratuitousLatin: Veidt tosses a “Opus esse uno, unum cognoscendi” as he rants about how Trieu is a bitch [[EvilerThanThou even more megalomaniacal than he]]. Translation: “It takes one to know one”.

* ImpaledPalm: The first of the frozen squid that [[DeathFromAbove literally rains down on Trieu's parade]] punched straight through one of her hands and she spends a long time staring right through the hole in shock.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Keene get liquefied in his attempt to steal Dr. Manhattan's powers and the whole leadership of Cyclops/the Seventh Kavalry (a White Supremacist group) get vaporized by Lady Trieu (a Vietnamese woman) afterward.

* MaleFrontalNudity: Doctor Manhattan. As usual. Pointedly averted with Senator Keene, who undresses [[MythologyGag to the same kind of briefs]] that Doctor Manhattan wore when he started to get rid of wearing clothing and [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] that walking around like a living god showing his penis to the whole world [[EveryoneHasStandards would be "overkill"]].

* PoliceAreUseless: The Tulsa Police's only role at the climax is to become collateral damage to all of the crazy that is going on.

* SuddenSoundtrackStop: "Lacrimosa" (Veidt's {{Leitmotif}}) gets an abrupt stop when Tillman knocks out Veidt with a wrench.

** "Reeves" is not Will's real last name. He just took it because he was a big fan of Bass Reeves and wanted to be just like him -- a symbol of Justice. We never find out which is is actual real name.

* DeathFromAbove: After Dr. Manhattan teleports Adrian (and Laurie and Wade) to his Antarctica lair, he has the idea to directly target Treiu's location using his squid fall machine to thwart her machinations. The normally flaccid dead squids are frozen before delivery, turning it into a torrent of tiny kinetic kill bomblets.

* FaceDeathWithDignity: June is the only one not freaking out when the group realized they've been played and are about to die. Instead, she merely tells Trieu to can it with Will's speech and just kill them already.

* GetItOverWith: Aware that Trieu intends to kill all the members of Cyclops present after reading Will's speech to them, Jane's ShutUpKirk to Trieu is this.

* WorthyOpponent: Averted for one more KickTheDog act: Veidt explains to the Game Warden why he gave him the mask and put him in his role, which was to have someone to call this while he had his stay in Europa. And when the Warden asks if he was this, Veidt immediately says that he wasn't, but "[he] gave it a hell of a try". He does considers Trieu this, though, which is one more reason he's okay with helping save the world.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Veidt says that he's never given himself to a woman "like Alexander the Great" so as not to be distracted by hedonistic pursuits. Alexander the Great was married three times and had at least one confirmed son.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: Veidt says that he's never given himself to a woman so as not to be distracted by hedonistic pursuits, "like Alexander the Great". Alexander the Great was married three times and had at least one confirmed son.

* TwentyThree: The sperm sample Lady Trieu's mother uses is numbered #2346 -- 23 and two times 23.

* ShutUpKirk: Jane Crawford interrupts Lady Trieu when she reads Will Reeves' speech listing the crimes of Cyclops, bluntly saying that Trieu is obviously going to kill them, so [[GetItOverWith she should just do it already]].

* GetItOverIt: Aware that Trieu intends to kill all the members of Cyclops present after reading Will's speech to them, Jane's ShutUpKirk to Trieu is this.

* ChekhovsGun: The horseshoe (again); the Adrian Veidt statue; the squid showers; the DVD of Veidt's speech, the egg carton.

* VillainBall: Trieu, for all that she is trying to be Veidt's SuperiorSuccessor and actually gets pretty damned close to it, ultimately [[NiceJobFixingItVillain has everything go to hell]] because she is holding onto this very tight. Even when Veidt's own doom was eventually sealed by making a video for President Redford gloating about his accomplishments, he still was [[NoNonsenseNemesis no-nonsense enough]] to launch the squid attack immediately and thus [[YouAreTooLate the other Minutemen were too late to stop him]]. Trieu wastes a bit too much time gloating to everybody that she's about to win and spilling the goo that the late Senator Keene had turned into for the sake of being a show-off backfired on her greatly.

* WorthyOpponent: Averted for one more KickTheDog act: Veidt explains to the Game Warden why he gave him the mask and put him in his role, which was to have someone to call this while he had his stay in Europa. And when the Warden asks if he was this, Veidt immediately says that he wasn't, but "[he] gave it a hell of a try". He do considers Trieu this, though, which is one more reason he's okay with helping save the world.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Kenee get liquefied in his attempt to steal Dr. Manhattan's powers and the whole leadership of Cyclops/the Seventh Kalvary (a White Supremacist group) get vaporized by Lady Trieu (a Vietnamese woman) afterward.

* PleaseDontLeaveMe: The reason Jon doesn't send Anglea with Laurie, Wade, and Vedit is because he doesn't want to be alone when he dies.

* YouAreNumberSix: In the flashback where Trieu and Veidt meet, Veidt mockingly calls Trieu "(sperm) Sample 2346" at one point to showcase how little he cares that she's his biological daughter ([[GlorifiedSpermSample and that he's more pissed that her mother broke into his sperm vault]]).

* WorthyOpponent: Averted for one more KickTheDog act: Veidt explains to the Game Warden why he gave him the mask and put him in his role, which was to have someone to call this while he had his stay in Europa. And when the Warden asks if he was this, Veidt immediately says that he wasn't, but "[he] gave it a hell of a try". He do considers Trieu this, though, which is one more reason he's okay with helping save the world.

* SuddenSoundtrackStop: "Lacrimosa" (Veidt's {{Leitmotif}}) gets an abrupt stop when Tillman knocks out Veidt with a crowbar.

* WorthyOpponent: Averted for one more KickTheDog act: Veidt explains to the Game Warden why he gave him the mask and put him in his role, which was to have someone to call this while he had his stay in Europa. And when the Warden asks if he was this, Veidt immediately says that he wasn't, but "[he] gave it a hell of a try".

* ConcealmentEqualsCover: The squids will tear through flesh like a bullet, but is easily stopped by car roofs, outdoor kiosks, and a briefcase.

* DeathFromAbove: After Dr. Manhattan teleports Adrian (and Laurie and Wade) to his Antarctica lair, he has the idea to directly target Treiu's location using his squid fall machine to destroy her machine. The normally flaccid dead squids are frozen before delivery, turning it into a torrent of tiny kinetic kill bomblets.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Kenee get liquefied in his attempt to steal Dr. Manhattan's powers and the whole leadership of Cyclops/the Seventh Kalvary get vaporized by Lady Trieu afterward.