Comments on: Rorschach

By: Molly

Molly — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 05:23:59 +0000

I absolutely ADORE this.
I am hoping to get a smaller version of this on the back of my neck soon :)

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 23:57:18 +0000

I love that tattoo! I’d really consider having a rorscach signature myself. And I agree fully on the character’s discription. “Never compromise, not even in the face of armageddon.” Standing behind your beliefs is so important.

What is so great about R as a character, is that he demonstrates, though in a pretty extreme way, that nobody’s perfect, and that everybody can have attributes both good, evil and something in between. You may be able to find something to admire in a person whose actions are not always something to be proud of, or who isn’t even exactly “stable” in mind. It may terrify us, but hey, life isn’t black and white.

By: Ali

Ali — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:41:22 +0000

i think it’s great…what you wrote of rorschach is exactly what i was thinking when i was watching the movie…
i think he definitely has the most depth of the movie characters…
by the way i was actually searching for a wallpaper with the same logo and i stumbled upon this pic…it seems hard to find one…
anyway i still think it’s really great

By: Mary

Mary — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:52:30 +0000

I didn’t meant to offend anyone, I ahven’t read the Watchmen, it’s on my bookshelf but I haven’t reached it yet (and refuse to see the film until I have). I was not trying to be little your tattoo at all, I’m a firm believer in having tattoos for your own absolute personal reasons & that you should not have to justify yourself, it is your skin afterall. I was simply trying to suggest, if you get any more flack (of course, you can always tell them to mind their own business) that a quote like that from Hamlet sums up your feelings of what this character represents. :-)

By: Candy O

Candy O — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:29:43 +0000

My favorite fictional character is Richard St. Vier from the Swordspoint series; yet I am not friends with any hired killers in real life. So am I a hypocrite too? Am I not allowed to like him, because I’m not like him myself, or because I don’t seek out the society of assasins? Learn to separate fiction from real life, guys. As readers, we’re allowed & encouraged to admire fictional people who inhabit grey areas, who might alarm or repulse us in real life..that’s part of the great fun of living vicariously inside a book! Show me a completely morally upright character and I’ll show you someone I wouldn’t want to read five pages about..

By: Denise

Denise — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:01:42 +0000

Reading these comments, I highly doubt that any of you who are critical of this tattoo or its owner have either read Watchmen or have any real idea of who Rorschach is. If you do know/understand Rorschach, and don’t care for him, that’s fine & your business. If, though, you don’t have a clue about him, which is certainly what it sounds like, why comment about him?

In Watchmen, Rorschach – an admittedly flawed, troubled human being – manages to rise above his own faults & prejudices in his diligent & continued pursuit of crime against ALL peoples. Yes, he’s homophobic & misogynistic, but his childhood horrors explain the origins of those attitudes; he’s also supremely brave, resilient, and a good friend. No, he isn’t Superman – a morally perfect, cookie cutter archetype of a hero – he’s dark, disturbed and vulnerable. And that’s exactly why I like him.

And I’m definitely not alone. There are MILLIONS of us who admire Rorschach WITH all of his faults…and who would KILL for a gorgeous, super cool tattoo like this.

By: Mary

Mary — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:13:34 +0000

Perhaps Shakespeare’s “To thine own self be true” might have been more appropriate to express what you’re trying to say.

By: ElleVee

ElleVee — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:04:40 +0000

Homophobia is not a quirk by any stretch of the imagination (in my original post, I was referring to his habit of sugar cube eating as a quirk). I wouldn’t be surprised if he was a racist as well. I’m sorry if you felt I was diminishing the character’s faults in any way.

I think you can have characters who are reprehensible in some ways, but still admirable in others. It was the positive aspects I was trying to extract from the character, and NOT his deeply flawed social attitudes. That’s my long-winded explanation.

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By: Anym

Anym — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:11:40 +0000

F’reals. It’s like, if Rorschach had been racist, would you still have gotten the tattoo… ? ‘Cause homophobia’s just one of those things you can overlook, but racism… that shit’s bad.

By: Onym

Onym — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 07:06:43 +0000

I don’t mean to be rude, but it really bothers me that the girl who got this tattoo would likely NEVER be friends with anyone who wasn’t open-minded enough to accept gay people for who they are, but because the guy is a super-cool underground comic book character, suddenly homophobia is just a quirk and he’s admirable for never backing down from his ideals.