He first made his public appearance in the autumn of when he violently stopped a gang from assaulting a young couple. A week later, he intervened in an armed robbery at a supermarket. It was his second appearance in which the public gave him his name, Hooded Justice. In , Hooded Justice joined the Minutemen. He was secretly homosexual and in love with Nelson Gardner aka Captain Metropolis. But in order to hide it from the general public, he pretended to be in a relationship with Silk Spectre.
He later rescued the Silk Spectre from the Comedian's sexual assault, which led to the Comedian's expulsion from the team. Hooded Justice was a brutal vigilante who would beat criminals to a bloody pulp, this was suggested by the Comedian to be a part of his sexual fetishes.
His controversial talent for brutal treatment made him infamous in local newspapers. His true identity remained unknown to his fellow Minutemen. Even his lover Nelson Gardner did not know his real name. It is established that he was of German descent. After he was kicked off the team, the Comedian continued the Silhouette 's investigation of a series of child murders. Nite Owl and Mothman fell for the Comedian's ruse and went after Hooded Justice, who was hiding in the Minutemen's former headquarters.
This is what these people would say. The room was half black and half women. Damon did his due diligence and sought out voices of color and women. He took it very seriously. Damon also said that he sought out writers who were skeptical of the idea of Hooded Justice being black. Were you skeptical of that idea? I was not. I have to admit, I was not familiar with the comic book before I met Damon.
Damon and I went to dinner before he hired me — it was basically the job interview — and then I went out and bought the comic book. When I read it, I was immediately thrilled at the idea of having a black Hooded Justice. It made me feel closer to the material. It opens up the world of Watchmen in a way that allows readers of color to experience it on a deeper level.
I have to ask about American Hero Story: Minutemen. As a show-within-the-show, it skewers a certain brand of superhero media while giving non-comic readers an understanding of the Watchmen world. How did you craft the tone and style of American Hero Story? We wanted it to feel like the opposite of what we were doing. We wanted it to feel cheesy. We were also very, very serious about making sure that they got Hooded Justice wrong, and that they, like everybody else, assumed that Hooded Justice was a white man.
They were getting it dead wrong the way that everybody else got it dead wrong. The actual Hooded Justice is this year-old black man in a wheelchair in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The show aligns him with Superman, when his parents put him in the box leaving Greenwood.
How did you decide to include that? I knew the story of Superman, I knew the story of his parents putting him in the spaceship and sending him to Earth, but I totally missed the comparison.
He needs to abandon his trust in the law. Can you talk about the decision to use white makeup, and its psychological effects on Will? That was another argument in the room. In the comic, Hooded Justice has Batman eyes, where his eyes fall flush perfectly with his mask. You can see around his eyes that his skin is white.
Some people in the room thought that we would be pulling punches. And so, it makes sense that underneath his one mask is another mask entirely. When he finally sees his son, Marcus, wearing the facepaint and pretending to be him, he has to have a real reckoning with what it means for him to suppress who he actually is. Why did that feel important to include? It goes back to what I was saying about generational trauma. So much of this episode is about the trauma that we carry with us and the trauma that haunts us and the trauma that we pass down to our family.
You see the ghosts that haunt Will from his childhood, when this horrible thing happened to him and his family and his community. We see what he does with that trauma and how he tries to get rid of it.
And then we see that his son is the next in the line to take on that trauma. Does Will still wrestle with that in the present day? We had a long discussion as to what Will did, post-episode six, what he went on to do with his life after Hooded Justice.
The fact that he is there to try to help Angela not make the same mistakes suggests that he has worked out a lot of what bothered him when he was a younger man, and he has realized the mistakes that he made.
Hooded Justice's presence was felt throughout Watchmen and was continually referenced thanks to the show-within-a-show, American Hero Story: Minutemen. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' Watchmen comics introduced Hooded Justice as the first costumed vigilante who debuted in by saving a couple from a mugging in Queens, New York. Soon, there were enough costumed heroes to form a team called The New Minutemen of America shortened to The Minutemen and they were a brief fad in the s.
When all of the superheroes were forced to unmask to the House of UnAmerican Activities in , Hooded Justice refused and disappeared. In Watchmen , American Hero Story: Minutemen turned Hooded Justice's life and career into sordid tabloid fodder but it adheres to the "accepted" version that Hooded Justice was a disturbed white man obsessed with justice, a precursor to Rorschach.
The truths told in "This Extraordinary Being" blow that out of the water and reveals that Hooded Justice was secretly a black man posing as a white man who retaliated after a lifetime of injustice that started with young Will Reeves surviving the Tulsa massacre of Watchmen recontextualized everything fans knew about Hooded Justice from the Watchmen comic - in ways some fans will likely find controversial - yet it still feels true to the story and themes of HBO's "remix" of Watchmen and its world.
It was already theorized that Will Reeves was somehow Hooded Justice - and that is indeed the case. But Officer Reeves' authority was continually undermined by both criminals and his fellow police officers and he was warned to "beware the Cyclops", which turned out to be the Klu Klux Klan operating in NYC and counted several members of the NYPD in its numbers. Reeves was lynched by those corrupt cops but he survived; it was while walking back home and finding a couple being mugged in an alley that Will snapped - Reeves donned the hood with the noose still around his neck and saved the couple.
Hooded Justice was born, just as his first appearance was described in the comics, and, at last, Lindelof provided an explanation for HJ's unusual costume. Angry about the injustice he found all around him, Reeves became Hooded Justice with June's encouragement - but he painted the top of his face so that anyone who saw his eyes would assume he was a white man under the hood.
HJ tracked "the Cyclops" to a supermarket in Queens and discovered a nationwide plot by the Klansmen involving mesmerism. The supermarket brawl between Hooded Justice and the Cyclops was also described in the Watchmen comics although the KKK's involvement is an amendment by Lindelof.
0コメント