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Watchmen
Movie Watchmen (2009)

10/19/1985

On October 19, 1985, Dr. Manhattan teleports himself to Mars after a television interview in which former colleagues claim he caused their cancer. His departure strips the Western alliance of its nuclear deterrent at the height of Cold War tension, sending Laurie Jupiter to Mars to plead for humanity's future and accelerating the catastrophe Ozymandias has been engineering in the background.