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Watchmen fans find Henry Winkler’s viral tweet about what’s needed to bring the country together to be eerily similar to Ozymandias’ plan in the comic
A viral tweet by actor Henry Winkler has led to some Watchmen fans thinking that Winkler sounds an awful lot like Ozymandias, the main villain of the Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons comic book classic.
Specifically, Winkler’s reference to the only thing that could bring our divided society together was a “cataclysmic Event”
Winkler, the Emmy Award-winning co-star of HBO’s Barry (as Gene Cousineau, the self-obsessed acting coach of Bill Hader’s hitman turned actor, Barry) and an icon of 20th Century television due to his role as Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzarelli (also known as “The Fonz”) from the hit ABC sitcom, Happy Days, from 1974-1984 tweeted out the following on Saturday, “We are So divided as a country .. only a cataclysmic Event , that makes us depend on one another again , can bring us back together.”
One of the first things many people pointed out is that it is a strange sentiment to share when the country literally just went through a global pandemic last year, so if the country is still “So divided” after that, then why would you think that a cataclysmic Event would change anything.
However, the next thing that fans on social media pointed out was how similar Winkler’s position sounded to Adrian Veidt in Watchmen, where the United States and the Soviet Union are at the brink of nuclear war at the start of the comic book (the famous Doomsday Clock is at one minute to Midnight), so Veidt creates an elaborate plan to fake an alien invasion and then murders his former superhero colleague, The Comedian, when the Comedian uncovers his plan.
The other former members of the Minutemen try to solve the Comedian’s murder and they uncover Ozymandias’ plan and get him to confess…thirty-five minutes after the plan had gone into effect. In the comic book, the plan worked, but another one of the heroes, Rorschach, had to be killed to keep him quiet (but Rorschach’s journals, detailing much of the plot, had already been sent to a newspaper).
Social media had some fun with the similarities…
I did not have Henry Winkler revealing himself as Ozymandias on any sort of card, forget bingo, what the hell has 2021 done to us all https://t.co/f2bVcu08n1
— Shiv Ramdas (@nameshiv) July 3, 2021
Winkler has not yet released a follow-up comment on his original tweet.
Source: Twitter
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