Plot.
Watchmen is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes
are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the Doomsday Clock - which
charts the USA's tension with the Soviet Union - is permanently set at five
minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the
washed up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to
uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As
he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion - a ragtag group of
retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers - Rorschach glimpses
a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past
and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch
over humanity... but who is watching the Watchmen?