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InJupiter ’s Legacy , the superheroes of the Union of Justice refuse to interfere in or influence government unlike the superheroes inWatchmen . Adapted from Mark Millar and Frank Quitely ’s graphic novel , Netflix’sJupiter ’s Legacycenters on a Superman - similar Heron named the Utopian ( Josh Duhamel ) and his equally powered and costumed folk and friends . LikeWatchmen , Jupiter ’s Legacyis also a generational tale with a young mathematical group of hoagie toiling in the phantom of their parents and predecessors . By theending ofJupiter ’s Legacyseason 1 , the Netflix show is increasingly political , echoingWatchmen .
In the originalWatchmen , the handful of superheroes living in 1985 New York City investigate the murder of one of their own as the public braces for nuclear war . Watchmenalso is about how the original generation of costumed heroes in the 1940s impacted political relation and deepen the course of the world . For illustration , the Comedian was a covert government activity assassinator ( Snyder ’s 2009 film made him the assassinator of President John F. Kennedy ) and the lone truly superpowered being in the world , Doctor Manhattan , singlehandedly won the Vietnam War for America . The superheroes were in the end unable to quit a plot by Ozymandias to ' save ' the public by making everyone believe New York City was attacked by an exotic animal , which ended the Cold War .
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InJupiter ’s Legacy , there are far more beings with actual superpowers than there are inWatchmen , yet their world more closely resembles world thanWatchmendoes . This is thanks to the Union of Justice creating a Code that bans superheroes from taking lives or using their powers to influence politics . Despite the Union debating the direction of the United States and the merits of using their might to bend the nation to what they think is ' correct ' , the Code stopped them from doing so . Skyfox ( Matt Lanter ) break the Code in the 1960s turned him into the world ’s greatest supervillain . And , by the end ofJupiter ’s Legacyseason 1 , the Utopian ’s older brotherBrainwave ( Ben Daniels ) is also revealed as a villainwho intends to implement his own plan to ' define ' what ’s wrong with America and the world .
However , there is merit and honor in the Code that theUtopian cling to inJupiter ’s Legacy , despite the toll it takes on the younger superhero generation , including his own children : Brandon ( Anthony Horton ) , who goes by the codename Paragon , and Chloe ( Elena Kampouris ) , who has refuse being a superhero entirely . The present - mean solar day ofJupiter ’s Legacyhas grown more and more fierce and many immature superheroes are pop by villain that grow ever more ruthless . The Utopian ’s organized religion in the Code is severely tested ; although he does n’t separate it , he begins to recede faith in his long - held beliefs .
And yet , theUnion of Justice uphold their Codefor 70 years likely kept their world from falling into even peachy chaos . InWatchmen , Doctor Manhattan ’s powers vary ball-shaped engineering but his bare existence as an American deterrent escalated global tenseness so that when he left the Earth for Mars , the world ’s nuclear king apace behave aggressively against the United States . Ozymandias assume it upon himself to ' carry through the world ' but his insane programme included murdering one thousand thousand of people to make his ' exotic attack ' credible . Watchmenis a cautionary tale about superheroes asserting their will on the mankind .
By direct contrast , the restraintthe Utopianand the Union showed by not using their powers to affect World War II , Vietnam , or any other global battle , and confine their bodily function to write the existence from supervillains , actually maintained a sense of relative pacification and stability . The Utopian may be progressively unhappy with the agency society has rejected his older - fashioned values butJupiter ’s Legacyargues that he was largely right to rent the world decide its own course of action politically and socially . Watchmen ’s world is more chaotic and uncertain thanJupiter ’s Legacyso far but season 2 could see the speculative mistakes ofWatchmen ’s superheroes repeated if Brainwave capture his way .
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