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Doctor Manhattan ’s human camouflage inWatchmen , Cal Abar ( Yahya Abdul - Mateen II ) , could have actually been a real person whose eubstance the superbeing took over . Watchmenepisode 7 , " An Almost Religious Awe " , concluded with a surprising whirl that Doctor Manhattan has been in spare sight all along as the unassuming husband of Detective Angela Abar AKA Sister Night ( Regina King ) . Fans had come to acceptWatchmen ’s constant account that the world ’s most powerful being has been be on Mars since 11/2/1985 , so it was a genuine shock when Angela bring out thatCal was Manhattanthe whole time .
Angela and Cal perpetuated an elaborate Trygve Halvden Lie for be merrily together as a dyad in Tulsa , Oklahoma . Meanwhile , the eternal rest of the world was altogether unaware that Doctor Manhattan AKA Jon Osterman was actually back on Earth and grand of people have spent years calling the blue demigod on Mars with supplicant viaTrieu Industries ' Blue booth . According to the Abars ' deception , Cal have an stroke in Saigon that get total amnesia - but Cal in reality wiped his own memory of being Manhattan , which was his approximation . Cal / Manhattan and Angela then make a motion to Tulsa to start over ; Angela became amasked Tulsa PoliceDetective ( with a cover story of possess a bakeshop ) while Cal stayed home to follow over the three kids they take up after the White Night tragedy . It was a perfect ruse , but somehow , both Angela ’s grandad Will Reeves AKA Hooded Justice ( Louis Gosssett , Jr. ) and the Seventh Kavalry / Cyclops bloodless supremacist cult discovered Doctor Manhattan was secretly live in Tulsa .
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But where did the physical trunk of " Cal Abar " come in from?Watchmen ’s tie - in websitePeteypediafurthers the closed book of Doctor Manhattan ’s human camouflage by uncovering Cal ’s medical records from his ' fortuity ' in Saigon . Despite Angela reminding Cal that"there was no accident , it was a lie"before she released Doctor Manhattan from his physique - and - pedigree plate , there is an literal infirmary chart from when Cal was admit into Rampart Memorial Hospital in Saigon on 12/23/09 , where he was treated by Dr. K. Brackett . Even more curious is the fact that Cal was admitted under the name " Cal Jelani " ( which has n’t been remark inWatchmen ) , not Abar , which seems to be the surname Angela follow after the death of her family . Further , the sheer amount of screen background details in Cal Jelani ’s medical chart indicate that Cal was a real person who Doctor Manhattan grade his knowingness into in the form of his ikon , the hydrogen atom , which was inter in Cal ’s frontal bone ( and Angela subsequently retrieved to revive Doctor Manhattan ’s truthful blue form ) .
accord to Cal ’s intake signifier , he was born in Philadelphia on 11/22/76 , he worked in building for Pyramid Global but was unemployed and without policy , and Cal had get in Saigon a calendar month before his ' accident ' . Supposedly , Angela incur him wandering Bom Laird Plaza in a " mazed body politic " . There was a " minor contusion " on his frontal bone ( from whereDoctor Manhattan ’s symbolwas inserted ) that vanished . The chart also lists Cal ’s family medical history ( include that he is circumcise ) and Dr. Beckett mark that Cal was specially interested in a Doctor Manhattan bobblehead .
With so much medical background about Cal Jelani useable , how could all of it have been misrepresent ? It ’s quite possible there really was a Cal Jelani ( who may or may not have been in an chance event in Saigon ) and that Angela andDoctor Manhattan convey over Cal ’s bodyfor Jon Osterman to obscure in . After all , Angela is only a cop and she would n’t have the resources to fabricate a individual ’s intact medical account to facilitate her big lie .
However , Doctor Manhattan ’s powers include creating nearly anything from matter so it ’s quite possible he built the torso of Cal himself . If that ’s the case , a clue to how Cal has such a elaborated fake medical history readily available could be who he worked for : Pyramid Global , one of the foot soldier of Adrian Veidt ( Jeremy Irons ) . It ’s possibleOzymandiashimself helped manufacture " Cal " to avail Doctor Manhattan lively incognito as a ' normal human ' . Hopefully , the answer to the closed book of where Cal Abar come from will be inWatchmenepisode 8 , " A God Walks Into A Bar " .
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