What do you guys thinkYeah I could see a possible connection.Hooded Justice was Nazi supporter how can he be a black man who survived a race massacreI think that he might have an odd stance on Germany due to this.Ahhh okay. Lastly, it is just as unbelievable to me that a black man in 1930's America is going around fighting crime with no actual super powers or even a weapon.
I think he is Moore's allegory for race. Jesse Owens had nice things to say about Germany even though he competed in the Nazi olympics with Hitler in the audience., and oddly enough some sectors of the black panthers sought common ground with the kkk because they agreed on separation of the races.We thought he was gay... We thought he was a wrestler... We thought he was German...You might remember that in panels he appears the skin around his eyes that is shown is white. I had a thought about Will and Hooded Justice here - https://www.reddit.com/r/Watchmen/comments/drqs3k/i_dont_think_watchmen_is_really_hiding_anything/f6mrr7n/?context=3 There’s another way that Will could be Hooded Justice, one alluded to by his being in a wheelchair. I like the show, I think it’s a cool twist, but Moore did not write it that way.In other words, by Watchmen canon, he could be any race.I don't remember much about Hooded Justice so I went on some wiki pages and read the Under the Hood part of some of the comics and realized that Moore wrote Hooded Justice as a black man, and the new show just picked that up before everyone else.> It's mentioned a few times that Hooded Justice is extremely right-wing and a fascist sympathiser, and has made comments expressing support of Hitler.It's mentioned a few times that Hooded Justice is extremely right-wing and a fascist sympathiser, and has made comments expressing support of Hitler. Well you were right about the showReally? AND the timelines add up. The extremely high chances of him getting caught and straight tortured before being killed would just be too much of a deterrent. I thought it was just a theory that Hollis Mason had.Wouldn't be the first time a comic book adaptation changed the race of a character. Also the true identity of Hooded Justice was never revealed. It's described as purple, a color often associated with blackxploitation films, and he wears a noose around his neck. It's mentioned a few times that Hooded Justice is extremely right-wing and a fascist sympathiser, and has made comments expressing support of Hitler. That's why he is the only hero who's identity and eventual fate are never revealed. Hollis Mason said that no one on the team had ever seen him without his costume except presumably Captain Metropolis who he had a homosexual relationship with.
Not that there's anything wrong with that. Attitudes an African-American in the 1940s would be unlikely to support. It's just a retcon for the TV show.All my evidence essentially comes from the Under the Hood portion of issue 1 and 2 of the Watchmen comic.The first superhero in the Watchmen universe was black, and that was always Alan Moore's intention.No.