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The Unforgettable Truth About Dr Manhattan
John Osterman is not an African American. He's a German immigrant. And then when he becomes Dr Manhattan again, he retains Cal's essential like, you know, like physical features despite the blue skin. So like I feel like black Dr Manhattan. What did you guys make of that? It's blackface. This kind of appropriation is a bit iffy nowadays. But that in itself is just like the show acknowledging that what they chose to do is weird. We are actually we do we are done with the Vietnam story and Dr Manhattan when he says that he was sorry about the sort of conclusion of that arc right there. Isn't that enough? Yeah.
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