20 Movie Reveals Nobody Noticed

Love it or hate it, Zack Snyder's Watchmen is absolutely filled with subtle details, and perhaps the most interesting reveal happens during the movie's magnificent opening credits sequence.

While it's little secret that the glimpse of Silk Spectre's (Carla Gugino) retirement party is framed to resemble Leonardo da Vinci's iconic painting The Last Supper, take a peek at the right-hand side of the frame and you'll see two heroes, Captain Metropolis (Darryl Scheelar) and Hooded Justice (Glenn Ennis), sharing an intimate conversation.

One might infer that their closeness is probably a bit too close for mere friendship, and that'd be because, as implied by Alan Moore's original comic, Captain Metropolis and Hooded Justice are actually secret lovers.

The body language says it all without Snyder having to spell it out, though the more recent HBO Watchmen TV series dispensed with the innuendo and directly confirmed the pair to be romantically involved.

Yet for 2009, when the prospect of a gay superhero on-screen was something studios would unfortunately balk at, Snyder had to settle for a fleeting visual implication.