Even though I have not completely finished chapter ten, I was so excited to see that the Minute men had the same hypothesis that I did, being that Adrian Veidt was behind the murders. My reasoning began when I recalled that earlier in the minute men's career he, Adrian, ditched them and went off on his own. I have since wondered what his reasoning for doing so was, but after the last few pages, the idea of ultimate power comes to mind. If Adrian is the leader of a huge corporation and has all of this power and basically his own continent, being probably the only powerful person to live on Antarctica, all that is left standing in his way of doing what he wants are those who might be equally as powerful as him or more so. The only people that fit into this category of people who might be able to stop him are the minute men or other masked heros. I further believe that Adrian does not care what he has to do to make money and achieve power. One letter to him addresses him wanting to merchandise other figures, including Night Owl, Rorschach and Moloch who all have no copyrights and are thus legal to create. I however wonder why he wants to create this figurines if they are only to represent enemies, or are they to represent those he has defeated? I am going to go with the idea that he is trying to sell those he has defeated by the following statement in the pamphlet "Night Owl, With removable cowl and belt, this fully posable model of the former nocturnal adventurer offers hours of exciting fun"(Watchmen). It states former nocturnal adventurer, which makes me jump to the conclusion that Adrian is planning on killing him. The letter below also notes that I was correct in my assuming that Adrian is planning on making the minute men the villains in this plot.
In closing, Adrian is a business man, his strive is for power and money and owning a successful cosmetics company is not enough, he now will have his own daytime cartoon and is starting a fitness program which both likely seem to be some sort of brainwashing techniques he has developed to get people on his side.
Since I am posting this without having finished the story, I have no idea what will happen next, all I know is that I cannot wait.
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