2012 CBM FightClub WEDNESDAY SUPERBATTLE LXXVIII (78)

Batman vs Crow: With prep time, sure, I could see Batman taking this. But this is a no prep fight; he's be oblivious to the fact that Crow's powers and abilities are tied to the actual crow. Crow is superhuman and basically unkillable; despite Batman's resourcefulness, without prior knowledge or prep he'd lose this one, and badly, I'd think.

Doc Manhattan vs Aquaman: Doc Manhattan. Doc can erase a dude from existence with the casual wave of a hand. Anybody short of a Celestial or God himself stands about as much a chance against Doc as a tadpole does a grizzly bear.

Beast vs Hawkman: Beast takes this one. He's too strong, too fast, too agile, and way too smart for Hawkman. The only way Hawk would have a fighting chance here would be if he were to fly out of reach -- but then he wouldn't be within range to do Beast any kind of damage, anyway. Beast's got this.

Raze -- at the end of Watchmen, Doc states he's going to go off somewhere and create life. Dude wouldn't have said something like that if he wasn't capable of it, y'know? And while he can't tell anyone else's future, he knows his own because he exists on a quantum level and can see his past, present and future simultaneously. Basically, anything the guy can think of, he can do. That sounds pretty God-like, I'd say.

Raze, to answer your questions (sorry, this could be a long one):

He killed Rorschach because that was the only way to stop Rorschach from going back to the world and revealing the truth. Rorschach himself was a slave to his own compulsions and sense of justice; even he knew the only thing that would keep him from ruining the newfound peace was if he himself were killed. Like he said, "Never compromise, not even in the face of Armageddon." He knew he had to die, just like Doc. Doc, as he stated at one point, is capable of just about anything, but he can't change a person's nature. He had no choice but to kill Rorschach.

As for resurrecting Comedian or saving his friends who died of cancer, keep in mind that by that point Doc had lost interest in humanity. You can literally gauge Doc's interest in humanity by the size of his "uniform." When he first starts working for the government, when he's still relatively "new" to his powers, he wears a full body suit. As the decades wear on, the suit becomes smaller and smaller. From a body suit to a pair of shorts. From a pair of shorts to something resembling bikini briefs. From bikini briefs to no uniform at all. By the time we're introduced to him, when he's walking around naked, he has become completely indifferent to the human race. No sense of shame, doesn't care if his nudity makes anyone uncomfortable. The only reason he stays on earth is for Laurie's sake, but once she leaves him for Dan, the last string holding him to earth is severed, and that's when he leaves for Mars. Anyway, the point is, the reason he didn't do anything to save Janie or his old science geek buddy or even Comedian, is because he quite simply didn't care to.

As for not being able to see Ozy killing him in the future, remember Ozy was able to generate tachyons, which are particles which travel backward in time, scrambling Doc's ability to see his own future.

I can only guess why it took him so long to build the machine for Ozy, because that's never really addressed. I would imagine it was just him dragging it out and hanging around for Laurie's sake, or it could be that, though he may have mastery of all matter, it still takes time to arrange all those molecules and energy patters and what-not. But again, that's just a guess. :/