Ozymandias, The King of Kings

The connection between the ¨Watchmen¨ and ¨Ozymandias¨ is the character Ozymandias. In ¨Watchmen¨ the character Adrian Veidt is supposedly the smartest man in the world, and he becomes the superhero Ozymandias. He believes that he is better than all the other superheroes. He has an attitude of superiority towards everyone, no matter who they are. Adrian Veidt runs a very powerful business, and uses this to create a platform for himself as ¨Ozymandias, the King of Kings.¨ He believes that he is so much above everyone else that he even makes action figures of Ozymandias which he sells in his companies. The poem ¨Ozymandias¨ refers to the great Egyptian Pharaoh who ruled Egypt for 66 years and he was extremely powerful. He also thought he was the ¨King of Kings¨ so he built a huge statue of himself in the desert. The poem says that ¨nothing beside remains,¨ basically stating that nothing lasts forever. The Pharaoh thinks that he is so powerful that he will last forever, but no one can last forever. In both the novel and the poem Ozymandias is so obsessed with himself that he forgets that no one immortal, and everyone must die eventually. All of the superheroes are trying to do the right thing, but they do believe that they are better than everyone else and they want to live above everyone else. To be a superhero you need to have a certain attitude of superiority of towards everyone else. The poem tells us that we are human and will eventually die, even if we think we rule the Earth. The so called ¨superheroes¨ don't realize it but everyone is at the mercy of time, and time controls everything and everyone.