"Everything is preordained. Even my responses."

"The door slams behind her. I Look at Dr. Glass, but he looks away. I can hear the shields sliding back from the particle cannons."

"There's something in my pocket. I take it out to examine... Good as new. The air grows warms, too quickly. I want very much for a beautiful woman to hand me a glass of a very cold beer..."

"All the atoms in the test chamber are screaming at once. The Light..."

"The light is taking me to pieces."

Doctor Jonathan "Jon" Osterman is a former nuclear physicist who was caught in a radioactive particle test chamber, which transformed him into a god-like being codenamed by United States government as Doctor Manhattan. Initially a government controlled superhero who help the U.S. win the Vietnam War, he eventually lost interest in the world and humanity, abandoning it for Mars.