Before Watchmen: Comedian #3

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[mrstatham]

This. I think the way he basically yells about Manhattan losing his own humanity in that scene in Vietnam serves two purposes; One, it's a warning sign about exactly where Manhattan's going, and two, it's meant to be a sign of how far gone the Comedian actually is. It reads exactly like an argument a real person might make where, irrationally, everyone's to blame but him.

[jlroberson]

And you could even interpret it as a cry for help. "If it's wrong, why won't you STOP ME?" And remember, this all comes after Manhattan has basically taken away a whole country's free will. And probably killed lots and lots of Vietnamese(while American soldiers remained unharmed). So you could say, "Well, you just basically committed genocide but you wouldn't stop me from killing one innocent woman?" Which is a point only someone so far gone to the dark side--and aware of it--like Blake could make. Someone, too, who's more an assassin, a symbol of a tactical, black ops kind of war--kill a few key people to prevent greater slaughter. Manhattan is more representative of wholesale megadeath like the Bomb.