A fraction of a fraction of Dr.M’s power was given to Diana, who stalemated Perpetua and almost beat her. TDK with Batmanhattan powers beat up perpetua and took her powers. Diana beat up TDK. Perpetua is tasked by the source to create multiverse and then die. The source, the presence, and Dr.M have connective energy, which is a power above perpetua. Dr.M>perpetua>coie monitors, mismatch.
The comic Deathmetal came out decades after the original watchmen comic. So no, it didn’t ruin the original intent story of Alan Moore. Death metal happens in DC universe, watchmen is an abstract reality to that and exist far away from DC.
Also, Dr.M powers were never fully explained or what his limitations are in the original comic. Nobody knew how strong he was because Dr.M wasn’t a main character and the plot of the story revolves around something else, not the limitations of Dr.M and we still have yet to see that actually.
Originally posted by DeadpoolXXXThis was sort of addressed in Before Watchmen.
i dont think it ruined the original story.but one question i always had is why the current manhattan was written so much more powerful then he was in the original story? was that powerup ever explained?
Essentially, Manhattan really never had a need to explore to depths of his power within the Watchmen-verse, as he was surrounded by peak humans.
...But when he began flexing his power a bit, Jon realized that there was really no limit to what he could do.