Dr. Manhattan (Full Potential)

Shrinks from towering size to talk; tells Rorschach he must leave and teleports him outside into an empty field. Barely looks up from his experiments when Laurie talks to him.

Does not prevent Blake killing the woman.

Three bodies perform separate activities.

After Doug Roth's cancer accusations the interview is cut short; he teleports everyone else in the studio out to the parking lot (LitCharts: in anger; SuperSummary: his agitation does it accidentally).

Leaves after the cancer accusations: tells an officer he is going to Arizona, then to Mars; from a clearing in Arizona he teleports to Mars and walks there alone.

Human Jon is destroyed; formation takes months.

Disassembles rifles and destroys tanks.

Criminal opposition is overcome.

Nixon asks him to fight in 1971; the Vietcong surrender within two months of his arrival.

With Laurie, faces a 1977 mob protesting masked vigilantes and teleports the hundreds of people back to their homes; a few die of heart attacks.

Forms a large clockwork structure.

Shakes Kennedy's hand in 1961; when Janey is upset that he did not stop the assassination, he says "I can't prevent the future. To me, it's already happening."

Statement by Dr. Manhattan, not a demonstration

Initially forgets her air needs, then supplies oxygen.

Moves the structure through the air.

Tells Laurie that an end to human suffering "wouldn't bother him at all"; her discovery that Blake is her father leads him to call life a "thermodynamic miracle", and he agrees to return to Earth.

Veidt asks whether he did the right thing since it worked out in the end; Jon answers "Nothing ends, Adrian. Nothing ever ends", says he is leaving this galaxy for one less complicated, and disappears.

A flashback reveals Jon intervened in Veidt's attempt to kill the Comedian and moved him to Metropolis, in the DC Universe.

Moves the lantern out of reach; Scott dies.

Veidt uses Bubastis II and the lantern battery to summon him; he reveals Marionette is pregnant again, tells Veidt he came seeking a place in the world and is not returning to their world, and whisks the group away.

Sees a vision of Superman attacking him, which "results in the end of everything"; hints at a coming confrontation with "the most hopeful of them all".

Tachyon fog obscures temporal access.

Narration, not a demonstration

Stops the officers threatening Carver.

Appears human; temporal vision initially struggles, then adjusts.

Foresees Carver being dead "in ten seconds" and does nothing when he is killed; says the killing will never be solved.

Prevents the Justice Society from forming, which changes Superman's history again; says the power he feels from "chaining Superman" is intoxicating; foresees Superman destroying him.

Bubastis caused the explosion attributed to Jon.

Statement by Ozymandias, not a demonstration

Disappears as the changed history catches up.

Superman finds himself face to face with Jon, who says "It is time"; he had said he would speak to Superman in four hours and seventeen minutes.

Superman pleads with him to help people while fighting Black Adam's followers and other nations' metahumans; Jon watches, admits he caused the Kents' deaths, and closes his eyes when an enraged Superman charges. Pozhar attacks Jon from behind and Superman protects him. Jon then stops the battle.

Reverses the intervention and restores missing heroes.

Returns to his own world, bringing Rorschach II and Ozymandias; leaves Mime and Marionette behind.

Makes all nuclear weapons disappear; plants grow under his feet as he walks through the ruins of Veidt's headquarters.

Transfers remaining power/life force.

Moved by Superman protecting him even after learning what he had done, Jon reversed his earlier tampering, recreating the DC Universe's timeline and restoring the Justice Society of America, the Legion of Super-Heroes and Jonathan and Martha Kent, with subtle differences; the Multiverse was restore…