The ending to Doomsday Clock #3 was pitch perfect, and while it might have come as something of an anticlimax for Bats to steer this new Rorschach wrong, it makes sense in the context of Moore's original text.
Rorschach was, at his core, a satire of the modern day superhero. He's this extreme representation of a vigilante and, were he to come into contact with someone from the mainstream DCU, they'd be liable to lock him away in Arkham any day of the week. Yes, this might not be the original Rorschach, and Batman himself has believed stranger people (and things) in the past, but it's a fitting end to a meeting that was destined to end in frustration anyway.
One wouldn't expect Rorschach to stay behind bars for long, and this could all be a tactic from Batman to draw Manhattan out, but it was still a fantastic twist to see play out in the issue's closing moments.
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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
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