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Hey, I just realized. In Watchmen... if everybody wanted world peace so much, couldn't they just have gotten Dr. Manhattan to do it? True, he couldn't just wave his hand and magically solve all the world's problems (he controls atoms, not attitudes), but he had the power to overthrow anybody who disagreed with him. For instance, he could have made Russia fall all by himself. All he'd have to do is teleport over there and exert control over all the key people. It'd be a one-man coup. Afterwards, he could simply install trustworthy people to ensure that Russia remains a friendly country.
Now, there's a counterargument that maybe Dr. Manhattan wouldn't have wanted to be used in this way, but they did use him as a superweapon in Vietnam, so I don't see why not. (Hell, why didn't he do that to the Viet Cong, for that matter?)
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