The Watchmen comics presented readers with a collection of characters that, at best, walked the line between good and evil, and at worst, were some of the worst superheroes in the history of comics. With Rorschach making Batman look sane, Ozymandias a narcissist who had no problem killing for the greater good, and Doctor Manhattan as an amoral superhero who didn't know right from wrong, it was an eclectic cast of characters at best.
When Watchmen came to HBO, it created some characters that at least acted like they had morals, even though the shades of grey were still there. At least some of the characters on the small screen at least appeared to be good guys. Here is a look at the D&D Moral Alignments of the characters on HBO's Watchmen.
ANGELA ABAR - LAWFUL NEUTRAL
From the start of HBO's Watchmen, Angela Abar seemed like a lawful neutral character. That is only half of it. See, when she lost her mentor Judd Crawford, she took the man who claimed the murder to hide him to find out what he knew.
Angela, also known as Sister Night, followed the law but had no problem breaking it to get to the bottom of the situation. She finally went guns blazing to take on the Seventh Cavalry on her own after fans learned she had a long dark secret Angela was hiding — she was married to Doctor Manhattan.
DOCTOR MANHATTAN - NEUTRAL
The fact that Angela was married to Doctor Manhattan was the biggest twist of the entire Watchmen series on HBO. While Kal seemed like a good, honorable man through most of the series, when he had the chip in his brain removed and became Doctor Manhattan again, he once again became the amoral man without the knowledge of right or wrong.
At least in this version, he did the right thing at the end, where he was an accomplice to murder in the original Watchmen series.
ADRIAN VEIDT - CHAOTIC GOOD
Adrian Veidt was the most complicated man in the Watchmen comics and the most confusing in the HBO series. As Ozymandias in the comics, he killed millions of people to stop World War III from happening.
When he came back in the finale of the HBO series, he claimed no one should be a God, but still seemed to consider himself above the law and working for the better good.
LOOKING GLASS - LAWFUL GOOD
If there is one person in HBO's version of Watchmen that parallels the character of Rorschach, it is Detective Looking Glass, Wade Tillman. See, while the Seventh Cavalry took up Rorschach masks, it is because they arrogantly mistook his journal as a call for fascism.
As unbalanced as he was, Rorschach wanted to keep the law and stop the actions of those who consider themselves above it — men like Adrian Veidt. Looking Glass is the same man, and as he showed at the end when he helped arrest Veidt, he was there to uphold the law.
LAURIE BLAKE - NEUTRAL GOOD
Laurie Blake was a complicated character on HBO's Watchmen. As Silk Spectre in the comic books, she never seemed to have her heart in working as a superhero, especially one that just mimicked her mother's persona. In the TV series, she forced her way into the FBI and set out to stop vigilantes, calling them jokes.
It seemed hypocritical, but she proved as the series went on that she didn't care about the letter of the law, and did anything she wanted to reach her goals. When she shot a man point-blank just for stopping a bank robbery, it showed her lack of care about the actual law.
JOE KEENE - LAWFUL EVIL
Joe Keene was the worst when it came to the bad guys on Watchmen in HBO. His father banned all superheroes while in the government, and Joe went one step further. He put masks on the cops awhile at the same time, running the Seventh Calvary in the name of white supremacy.
Joe did what he did out of his sense of the law. But, he was a bad man and deserved to become a pool of goo by the end.
JUDD CRAWFORD - LAWFUL EVIL
When the Watchmen comic books started, a hero died in The Comedian. However, this hero had secrets hidden in his closet and turned out to be a despicable man. In the HBO series, a seemingly good man died at the start.
However, Police Chief Judd Crawford also had secrets and was secretly a white supremacist put into place to help eventually lead the Seventh Cavalry to victory. Judd always came across as a good man, so he never reached "evil" status as far as the show was concerned, but he was likely as bad as it gets.
JANE CRAWFORD - CHAOTIC NEUTRAL
While Judd Crawford came across as a nice and decent man, his wife was another story. She seemed to be a good woman for much of the series until Laurie Blake went to visit her and ended up unconscious in a pit in their house. Yes, Jane was part of the Seventh Cavalry too.
Jane Crawford proved to be as evil as Judd might have been if he had lived in the HBO series. She even became unhinged at the end and told Lady Trieu to kill all of them if that was her plan, something the other Cavalry members didn't appreciate as they all ended up blown to dust.
LADY TRIEU - CHAOTIC EVIL
While Joe Keene was the most despicable bad guy on the HBO Watchmen series, he wasn't the final boss for the heroes to defeat. Instead, that was Lady Trieu, someone who seemed like an eccentric and neutral person for much of the series.
Trieu wanted to do good, but she went at it in the worst way possible. Her plan was similar to that of Adrian Veidt. She wanted to save the world. However, she tried to kill Doctor Manhattan to do it by stealing his powers for herself. She was self-centered, believed only her way was right, and was on her way to becoming a monster until Veidt himself brought her down.
WILL REEVES - NEUTRAL GOOD
Will Reeves started his life as a Lawful Good person. He was a survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre and grew up to become a police officer. He then saw all the racial maneuverings inside the police force and the start of what would become the Seventh Cavalry. Will later became the first superhero ever in Hooded Justice.
However, it was when he took on the identity of Hooded Justice that he changed from Lawful Good to Neutral Good. He killed people, sometimes unarmed men, sometimes leaving mass graves. Will lost his soul when he became a vigilante and sometimes believed the only way to enforce the law is by any means necessary.