Ozymandias

Ozymandias ( /ˌɒziˈmændiəs/ oz-ee-man-dee-əs) (real name Adrian Veidt) is a fictional character in the acclaimed comic book miniseries Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons, published by DC Comics. Named Ozymandias in the manner of Ramesses II, he is a modified version of the comic book character Thunderbolt from Charlton Comics. His name recalls the famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, which takes as its theme the fleeting nature of empire and is excerpted as the epigraph of one of the chapters of Watchmen. Ozymandias made it to number 29 on Wizard's Top 200 Comic Book Characters list and also number 25 on the Top 100 Villains list. Adrian Veidt was born in 1939, the son of rich German immigrant parents. As a child, he received high...