The second name-check went to King Mob, a villain whose lone reference is an ape mask that appears in the background of the scene when The Comedian assaults Silk Spectre. During the opening AHS sequence, a trio of comic-specific antagonists were mentioned as having been taken down by Hooded Justice and the Minutemen.įirst was Captain Axis, a WWII Nazi operative who had a feud going with Nite Owl Captain Axis was one of the villains that Hollis Mason visualized himself fighting whenever he was attacked by Knot-Tops in the eighth issue. The Seventh Kavalry currently serves as the most obvious overarching threat within HBO’s Watchmen, but the group definitely isn't this universe’s first batch of theatrical baddies.
As well, the opening interrogation scene loosely references the government's attempts to keep an official record of vigilante identities, something brought up in both Before Watchmen (with local police) and in Under the Hood (with Senator Joe McCarthy). We’ll get into more specifics as we go on, but it’s worth pointing out up top that episode writers Damon Lindelof and Cord Jefferson did play around with the mythos set up by Hollis Mason’s Under the Hood. That it started with American Hero Story’s familiarly heightened interpretation only served to remind comic viewers that there are more than enough blanks in the vigilante’s backstory that could be filled in interesting ways for TV. It feels necessary to start by pointing out nearly the entire runtime is devoted to giving Hooded Justice a TV-specific backstory that stays mostly faithful to the Watchmen comic while still twisting the heck out of it.
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