10 Things You Learn Re-Watching Watchmen Episode 1

There is only one Minuteman whose fate and identity was never clear. The others have all conclusively died or been otherwise revealed to the reader of the original work. While it is certainly rumored that Hooded Justice was murdered, there is never any conclusive evidence given to the audience that the murder was actually carried out. For a book that was unabashedly violent, a 'death' that was never explicitly depicted seems fairly anomalous.

The old man from the bakery and Judd's death has some curious ties to Hooded Justice. For one, the ages match up quite nicely. The man claims to be 105 years old, meaning he could have been inspired by the Black Marshall film at seven-years-old, been in his late twenties and thirties during Hooded Justice's active crimefighting days in the 1940s, and retirement/death-faking age during the eighties, when the original comic took place.

Not to mention, the new racial element of the series could explain a lot about Hooded Justice's backstory. A man who dresses in a hood and lynching noose might be deliberately referencing the Ku Klux Klan. He has always completely covered his skin too, as his race would have made him a high-profile target when he was an active vigilante.

This, coupled with the episode's repeated allusions to the Minuteman, the old man's clothing colors, and the fact that Judd was hung by a noosed rope, all make the man a suspiciously good candidate to be the Hooded Justice of yore.