Summary

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The late issue of J. Michael Straczynski’sCaptain Americarun for Marvel pull back a fascinating parallel betweenWatchmen’sDoctor Manhattan and Steve Rogers . reader ofWatchmen , by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons , will recall that Doctor Manhattan experiences time all at once . His past times , present , and hereafter all pass off congruently to each other as far as he is concerned . As it turns out , the clock time - displaced Cap shares a similar temporal perspective .

Captain America#3 – by J. Michael Straczynski , Jesus Saiz , Lan Medina , Matt Hollingsworth , and VC ’s Joe Caramagna – suggests that Steve Rogers , having time - travel in his own unique fashion , experiences time in a less - than - additive means . Captain America has always been portray as a man out of time , but the narration he provides in this issue makes that twin even more seeming .

Featured Image: Captain America’s shield, with a stern and shadowy looking Captain America in front of it

The direction that Steve describe his perception of time in this effect is spookily standardised to how Doctor Manhattan key his own perception of clip inWatchmen . The exact nature of their temporal experience may be dissimilar , but the lap provides fascinating brainstorm into Cap as an individual .

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Captain America Experiences Time In An Idiosyncratic Way

security guard build that ever since acquire his powers , Doctor Manhattan ’s understanding of time was not linear . Instead , he perceived the entirety of his past , present , and future as befall simultaneously . After the JFK assassination , his better half at the time , Janey , involve Manhattan why he did n’t prevent it from happening if he knew it was going to happen . He replied that he could n’t prevent the future when the future is already bump to him . Throughout the series , Manhattan express how he experiences moments from twelvemonth by at the same time as those that are happening in next age , and in the present .

Steve Rogersexpresses something similar inCaptain America#3 . The Word opens with Steve explaining how being born in a different sentence stop , only to be frozen for decades , gave him a new perspective on time . borrow approximation from Iron Man , Bruce Banner , and Thor , he pronounce that time does n’t precisely live , so much as the perceptual experience of time exists . In his percept , he recollect being born , dying , and being injected with Super Soldier serum all at the same time . He conclude that all of his experience are come about at the same moment,“we just ca n’t see it . Or at most , we feel only the echoes of those minute . "

Captain America And Doctor Manhattan Share The Same Disconnect

Both series showcase how Captain America and Doctor Manhattan experience clip very similarly , though they connect their experiences in different ways , and accordingly , are motivated by it differently . Neither man can genuinely encompass how time passes , because they are so time - give notice . ForDoctor Manhattan , his perspective of sentence disconnects him from those around him . Captain America has praiseworthily refuse to succumb to the same ennui . By the same steel , this connection between the two characters helps readers to make sentiency of how and why , over the years , Captain Americahas struggled to tie in with mod smart set in his own direction .

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Featured Image: Doctor Manhattan from Watchmen film adaptation (left); MCU Captain America (right)

panels from Captain America #3, Cap experiences time in a jumble, not unlike Watchmen’s Doctor Manhattan

panels from Captain America #3, Cap experiences time out of sequence