![]() ![]() Laurie was 35 in the book, and has lived nearly the same amount of time in the ensuing years. At the conclusion of the original Watchmen story, they were living under new identities.īut the book ends in 1985 and HBO’s Watchmen moves the story forward to 2019. The pair violated the Keene Act (and a number of other laws) by putting on their costumes to rescue the residents of a burning building, and then busting Rorschach out of jail. Manhattan left Earth (thanks to a smear campaign led in secret by Adrian Veidt) Laurie became romantically involved with Dan Dreiberg, the hero formerly known as Nite Owl. Manhattan began to deteriorate as the immensely powerful superhuman began to lose touch with his humanity, which was a constant source of frustration for Laurie. Manhattan for a significant portion of her costumed career, and officially retired when the Keene Act was passed in 1977, outlawing masked vigilante activity. ![]() Laurie was romantically involved with Dr. Manhattan, and the pair soon became crime fighting partners and, eventually, lovers. It was at that meeting where she also met Dr. She was present at the failed attempt by former Minutemen member Captain Metropolis to start a new hero group (the Crimebusters) in 1966, where she first encountered her real father, the Comedian. But at the age of 16, Laurie made her crime fighting debut as the new Silk Spectre. Sally groomed her daughter from an early age to take over the Silk Spectre mantle as a legacy hero, something which Laurie seemed to embrace early on, but ultimately resented as she got older. The Comedian began his career as a member of the Minutemen, alongside Silk Spectre and Hooded Justice, but was kicked out after he sexually assaulted Sally. In reality, Laurie’s father was Edward Blake, the Comedian, although she didn’t learn this fact until much later in life. It was an unhappy marriage, and Laurie grew up assuming that her real father was Hooded Justice, since her mother publicly acted as that hero’s “girlfriend” to avoid the bad press that would come in 1940 if it was revealed that he was homosexual. When the Minutemen disbanded in the late 1940s, Sally retired from adventuring and married her business manager, Laurence Schexnayder. A far cry from her daugher, the hardened, mask-hating, straight-talking FBI agent we see on the screen now. The original Silk Spectre was a glamorous figure, into crime fighting both for the thrill of adventuring and the promise of fame that could follow. Laurie Blake is the daughter of the original Silk Spectre (Sally Jupiter, who changed her last name from Juspeczyk to hide her Polish heritage). ![]()
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