and heading to the gymnasium for training before donning his badge and uniform. Adding a strict regime of going to bed at 9:00 p.m., waking at 5:00 a.m. Hollis spent the better part of three months designing his suit, trying to come up with a name for his vigilante persona and training as often as possible in the police gymnasium. Mason wondered if such heroes could really exist and then two weeks later, he heard of the exploits of the real-life vigilante Hooded Justice. After reading through it back-to-back eight times in a row, Hollis' childhood fantasies of grand heroism would return to him. He joined the New York City Police Department in the year 1938, at one point snatching a Superman comic from the hands of a neighborhood youngster. The sense of justice instilled in Mason by his grandfather along with this new idea of how the world should be, spurred him on to train as a police officer. Those who were wholly good punishing the ones who did evil, despite the violence depicted in these stories and supposed repressed sexual urges he thought it looked like a perfect world. Hollis was also fond of "pulp stories" involving Doc Savage and the Shadow, especially alluring to him was the world in which they lived where it seemed that morality, in his mind, worked as it was supposed to. He would fantasize about heroically saving her from kidnappers and then marrying her afterwards. Albertine, who was engaged to an English teacher at the same school by the name of Mr. Becoming a Police Officer Comic Book HeroismĪt 14 years of age, Hollis found himself stricken by his math teacher, Ms. Though they were quick to stop and apologize to the man for doing so, he in turn forgives them but ends up taking his own life later the same day. Mason and his father, most likely due to the bizarre nature of the scene before them, begin to laugh at him. One day they found Vernon sitting alone, listening to Richard Wagner, wearing a pair of fake breasts and tells them how his wife had left him and had cheated on him for two years. Ride of the ValkyriesĮven so, Mason assisted his father with work and at times ran errands for the owner of the repair shop, Moe Vernon, who in turn would come to enjoy the company of the young man. Longing to go back to Montana, where his grandfather had stayed, and knowing that his father felt guilty for leaving, he'd often say that he would rather return there than stay in the city whenever he ended up squabbling with his father. When Mason was 12 years old, his father decided to take him and his sister Liantha away from the family farm in Montana and move to New York City where his father found work at Vernon's Auto Repairs. Instilling in him a sense of what was good and just in the world which would be a part of him for the rest of his life. Named after his grandfather, Hollis Wordsworth Mason, who also saw to it that his grandson received a proper moral, conservative and god-fearing upbringing. Mason was born into a family of Irish immigrant farmers in 1916 who had settled in the state of Montana. After all this tvshow is titled the Watchmen and not Batman so it makes sense that they will get the first priority.Hollis T. It’s the kind of subversion which keeps things interesting for long time fans of the show as well as makes everyone chuckle a little. So if in the tv show universe, Batman is a spoof of Nite Owl then the show flips everything around. Mason, was a parody of The Phantom while the second Nite Owl, Dan Dreiberg, was a parody of Batman. Pic courtesy: įans who have read The Watchmen comics will know that Nite Owl character is a parody of many other characters. The Deep Inversion In The Batman Reference Batman and Nite Owl go way back. The memo also notes that there’s a Black Superman spoof of Doctor Manhattan, Tarantula about Mothman and, interestingly a Batman spoofing Nite Owl. Agent Petey’s memo reveals that Sister Night is itself a spoof of the Minutemen’s Silhouette and part of a genre of films referred to as Black Mask. The film hold significanace for Angela since it’s a movie she wanted to watch but wasn’t allowed to by her parents and she was told no right before they died. It is a Blaxploitation film about a “nun with a motherf****ng gun”. ![]() The inspiration turns out to be a movie called Sister Night. ![]() The Watchmen tie-in site Peteypedia has mentioned that Agent Dale Petey shares a memo in which he digs deep into Angela’s childhood and looks at the inspiration behind her masked police persona. Black Batman Was A Spoof Sister Night was a reference to a movie.
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