10 Controversial Changes Movies Made To The Comic Book Source (That Actually Improved It)

2. No Alien Squid - Watchmen

Watchmen was about as faithful an adaptation of the acclaimed graphic novel as you could hope for, which was a good and bad thing. It was visually stunning and recreated famous images from the comic, but it was also curiously hollow and not everything from Watchmen translated well to the big screen.

People who loved the graphic novel were also upset the big Lovecraftian squid thing didn’t turn up in the finale, which was created by Ozymandias to save humanity from nuclear destruction, by uniting them against an alien threat. In the film version, he instead creates some bombs using Dr Manhattan’s signature to frame him for the destruction, uniting the world against him.

It’s a smart twist on the material, and some have argued it works better than the ending from the comic.