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Doctor Manhattan (Dr. Jonathan Osterman) is a fictional character featured in the DC Comics series...

Doctor Manhattan (Dr. Jonathan Osterman) is a fictional character featured in the DC Comics series Watchmen. Accidentally locked inside a test chamber during a nuclear physics experiment, Jon Osterman is completely disintegrated. But rather than dying, Osterman gains godlike powers, the first use of which involves re-constituting his own body. Manhattan's powers include superhuman strength, the ability to teleport himself or others, the manipulation of matter at a subatomic level, and near total clairvoyance. While his military backers market him as a superhero, he grows increasingly uninterested in and detached from human affairs, despite his importance in the Cold War, and is unable to connect with others, except for an increasingly tenuous bond with his love interest Laurie Juspeczyk, the second Silk Spectre. Dr. Manhattan was created by Watchmen writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons but, like many main characters of the series, he is a modified version of a Charlton Comics character, in this case Captain Atom, created by Joe Gill and Steve Ditko. Doctor Manhattan was born as Jonathan Osterman in 1929. His father was a watchmaker, and Jon planned to follow in his footsteps.