Except for his love of Alexander the Great and how he wants to be him. In the comic book, I argue that his sexuality is underdeveloped due to his personal skills being put on hold for his brains and his love of TV isolating him from human interactions. He’s also obsessed with ancient emperors, especially Ramesses II and Alexander the Great. So much so that he sells action figures of himself. He’s one of the only characters who’s secret identity is publicly known. In both, he’s given roughly the same background: wants to fix the world, neglected by his parents, largely raised by the television, brilliant, and head of a vast commercial empire. In the comic, he is only portrayed as either asexual or most like anti-sexual, in how morally reprehensible he finds any notion of sexuality.Īdrian Veidt (Ozymandias) is interesting in how his sexuality is portrayed in the comic book compared to the movie. This all said, there is no conclusive evidence to know where Rorschach fits on the Kinsey scale. This is perhaps the only moment in the comic where Rorschach almost seems happy, determined to find the bad guy, but happy all the same. There’s a bit where the two of them are investigating Adrian and both Moore and Gibbons draw from the buddy-cop genre: a genre full of homoerotic innuendo. Rorschach trusts Dan in a way that he does not with the others and follows his lead. Everyone else dismisses Rorschach as crazy, a jerk, or pity him. Dan’s perhaps the only person in the book who genuinely likes Rorschach and is the one who suggests he and Laurie break Rorschach out of jail. One of the biggest undertones that Rorschach’s gay is his friendship with Dan Dreiberg (Nite Owl II). And since he lives and dies by his strict morals, he is also not going to hire a prostitute (of any gender), which would no doubt just remind him of his mother. There is no way Rorschach could make friends with a woman, much less engage in any sort of sexual or romantic relationship with her. Even Laurie Juspeczyk (Silk Spectre II) who fights on his side and helps rescue him from jail still gets called a whore. This was deeply traumatic for him, so much so that he freely calls any woman he meets a slut or a whore. Rorschach’s sexuality largely centers around witnessing his mother’s prostitution at an early age. This is no doubt part of his appeal to us readers. While Rorschach’s the most naive and child-like of all the characters, it’s also literally his way or the highway if you cross into the black hat wearing zone, he (as a white hat) will kill you and often brutally. His inability to self-express is worsened when he’s forced to take off his mask (in Chapter 6) and Moore passes along the narration to his psychiatrist, Dr. Rorschach also completely lacks any psychosexual development and in general, is psychologically immature. He is extremely socially conservative, homophobic, and misogynist. He serves as narrator for a lot of the comic. As probably the most popular Watchmen character, Rorschach is an anti-hero with a black and white sense of right and wrong.
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