>>113808816But he did not get away with it.
What could they have done, put him in prison? Execute him?
But he has to live on knowing what he did.
>>113808853The 'villain' is humanity itself. Similar to the Mahabharata, where everybody at some point has the opportunity to pull the breaks and stop the ultimate disaster from happening - but everybody unfailingly takes the wrong choice.
Ultimately God himself steps in and says with a smile "You don't have the power to stop this."
The fact is Ozymandias did not have a choice. It is stated outright he is the smartest man in the world, and who is anyone else to question his decisions?
Like in Hickman's Avengers series: If the choice is between killing a million people and letting everybody, including the people you refused to kill, die - how is that a choice?
Ozymandias did the least terrible thing. And he is still torn up about it. He is not the villain.
That realization destroyed the Comedian, and it destroyed Rorschach as well when they understood the dichotomy. They despised people, but this was beyond the pale... and yet, it was the only alternative to something even worse. At least according to the smartest man in the world.
