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Warning : SPOILERS forWatchmenEpisode 5
HBO’sWatchmenseries has only hand its fifth episode , but it ’s already proving to be a treasure trove of reference book and inside trick . eff just how manyWatchmenEaster Eggs have been foundalready , the 5th chapter shows there is no real sign of halt any time before long .
disclose the origins of Looking Glass and Brobdingnagian reveals , " Little Fear of Lightning " has plenty of references and Easter Eggs for fans to enjoy . Here are some of the cleverest , well hide , or most easily missed references that we could find .
9. One Minute To Midnight
The episode begins with young Wade Tillman in New Jersey in 1985 , attempt to commute the mountain after the Doomsday Clock is moved up to one mo to midnight ( account over the radiocommunication ) . For those who do n’t know , the Doomsday Clock is a real conceptual clock that counts down the minutes until a man - made doomsday . In theWatchmenuniverse , the Doomsday Clock was one moment from midnight the dayVeidt unleashed his giant squid on New Yorkin rescript to unify the world and preclude nuclear obliteration . Since he was present in nearby New Jersey during the onset , Wade is psychically moved , but last with lasting trauma and paranoia about a second invasion .
8. The Veidt Method
7. Knot Tops
When Wade lastly approaches a group to assay and convert , they are revealed to be member of the Knot Top gang . It ’s patent they are Knot Tops due to their hairstyles as well as the parole " Katies " all over one of the phallus ’s shirts . " Katie " is a nickname for KT-28 , a drug the crew was lovesome of using in the originalWatchmenseries ( responsible for more than one run - in with Nite Owl ) .
6. Looking Glass' Literal Tin Foil Hat
go back to the present day , see Glass is consultation by Agent Blake . During this audience , it ’s revealed that the cloth of Wade ’s mask is made from Reflectatine , a material reported to be able to block psychic attacks – like the unity that came from the original alien Squid . The obvious parallel of latitude is tin enhancer hats , with both materials hint that someone is not quite mentally stable . When Wade returns home , it ’s shown that he never take his mask off . When he ’s not operate ? His baseball game hat is draw with the cloth as well .
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5. Smiley-O’s Keep The Smiley Faces Going
Returning to his cover - job at a marketing house , Wade see a test group of children trying a nonsweet cereal grass called Smiley - O ’s . Of of course the box seat feature yet another yellow smiley expression , which feels like anotherobligatoryWatchmencomic Easter Eggcalling back to the Comedian ’s iconic smiley face badge . It would n’t beWatchmenwithout them .
4. Pet Replication
When Wade confabulate his ex-wife to move forward with the program to canvas the pills Angela find out on her recently - discovered grandfather , another strange science fiction concept is introduced . Wade ’s ex-wife works at an animal clinic promising to replicate pets , " so you never have to say goodbye . " It seem as though genetic pet sound reflection / cloning is now a uncouth recitation available to anyone , while in the original serial publication in 1985 , it was something only Adrian Veidt had achieve with hisgenetically qualify lynx Bubastis .
3. Nostalgia
The contraceptive pill themselves are unveil to be Nostalgia – a name that should be intimate toWatchmenfans , as a logical argument of scent and enhancive supplies from Veidt ’s company , looking to evoke pleasant memories of the past . However , it ’s revealed that these tablet go further , with their consumption actually containing one ’s past memories . It ’s imply that these exceptional Nostalgia anovulant turn back the memory of Angela ’s granddad .
2. Pale Horse
After Wade head a support group for people with special - dimensional anxiety , he meets with a char named Renee for boozing . She tells him about a film by Steven Spielberg made in 1992 entitledPale Equus caballus , name after the band that was playing at Madison Square Gardens when the giant squid attacked . Renee distinguish the picture as being in black and white , save for a short fille wearing a red coat , wandering the destruction and tentacles looking for her mother . The description mean that in this universe , Spielberg made this film about the squid attack instead of his actual 1992 filmSchindler ’s Listabout the Holocaust , also in black and white save for a small girl with a red coat .
1. Portals and Screens
Lastly , when Wade come across thelocation of the Seventh Kalvaryand is capture by them , it ’s revealed that the Kalvary are experiment with a hepatic portal vein . It ’s the same portal that was being experiment on by scientist in New York the day of the gargantuan squid attack ( a stark cover for its arriver ) . second , Senator Keene reveals the verity about " The Squid " to Wade in an effort to gather his aid in aim Angela Abar out of the way of his plan for the portal vein .
The style the truth is discover ( that Adrian create The Squid in Holy Order to join the world ) is via a movie Keene pirated from the government . Wade check on a bay of monitor screen not unlike the bay of screens Veidt used to watch his programme unfold from his arctic fortress back in 1985 . Veidt also shouted his famous"I did it!“in front of those very screens , which set out a like callback from Veidt elsewhere in the episode .
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