Watchmen Characters

Silhouette is the only other woman in the Minutemen besides Sally Jupiter. Little is said of her except that the public discovers she is in a lesbian relationship, which causes such a furor that Laurence Schexnayder convinces the Minutemen to force her out to preserve their public image.

The news vendor, who eventually reveals his name is Bernard, stands on the street corner, selling newspapers, chatting with passersby, and commenting on the headlines. The news vendor represents the average citizen in the story, since most of the characters are vigilante heroes.

Gloria Long is Malcolm’s wife, who resents the fact that her husband’s work takes his attention away from her. Gloria wants Malcolm to choose between helping the world and being with her.

Big Figure is a crime boss who tries to get revenge on Rorschach while Rorschach is in prison. However, Rorschach kills Big Figure’s goons and presumably him as well.

Rorschach’s landlady prostitutes herself, but falsely claims to reporters that Rorschach sexually propositioned her after he is thrown in jail and his identity is revealed. When Rorschach escapes, he considers punishing her for the lie until he sees her frightened children and takes pity on them.

Bubastis is Adrian Veidt’s giant, genetically altered pet lynx.

Byron Lewis is one of the first-generation vigilantes. He loses his faculties in his old age due to dementia and alcoholism.

Steven Fine is a detective who appears occasionally throughout the story, first at Edward Blake’s apartment, though he does not reveal his name until he investigates Daniel Dreiberg on suspicions of resumed vigilante work.

Max Shea is the author of the pirate comic, whom Adrian Veidt hires to help him design his “alien.” Max Shea dies when the ocean liner is blown up.

Hira Manish is an artist whom Adrian Veidt hires to help him design his “alien.” Hira Manish dies when the ocean liner is blown up.

Milton Glass is one of Jon Osterman’s research associates.

Hector Godfrey is the editor of the “right-wing” newspaper New Frontiersman. Godfrey is a firm patriot and a vigilante supporter, and he accuses his liberal opponents of being Communists.

Seymour works for Hector Godfrey on New Frontiersman. In the last scene of the story, Seymour considers looking through Rorschach’s journal, which the vigilante mailed to the newspaper, suggesting that Veidt’s plot may or may not be revealed to the world.

Doug Roth is the editor of the “left-wing” newspaper Nova Express. Roth opposes most vigilantes—though he likes Adrian Veidt—and starts the rumor that Dr. Manhattan gives people cancer.

Sylvia is Walter Kovacs’s abusive mother. Someone murders her when Kovacs is a teenager, to which he responds, “Good.”

Jon’s father is a watchmaker until the atomic bomb convinces him that the modern world needs physicists, not watchmakers.

Joey is a woman who visits the news vendor. She is Aline’s girlfriend.

Aline is Joey’s girlfriend.