- Early in the movie, as US-USSR tensions escalate, the 1983 song "99 Luftballons" plays. This song by German singer Nena originates from one of her concerts in Berlin, when her guitarist noticed a mass of balloons being released. He wondered if the balloons drifted over the Berlin Wall to the Soviet (East German) side, whether something so innocent could trigger nuclear war. Both the German and English version "99 Red Balloons" were massive hits. The song is now one of the most famous "one hit wonders" in music history as most of Nena's later recordings were only modestly successful.
- SPOILER: One of the inkblots that appears during Rorschach's examination, which he perceives to be two lovers (but which he describes as "some nice flowers"), appears twice during his final confrontation with Dr. Manhattan: on his mask, and in the blood pattern on the snow.
- Of all the Watchmen, Rorschach and Dr. Manhattan are the only two that never curse.
- Author Alan Moore (III) preemptively disowns all filmed adaptations of his work. When asked in an interview with ReelzChannel.com about original 'Watchmen' writer Alan Moore (III)'s dismissal of his movie, Zack Snyder was quoted as saying "Worst case scenario - Alan puts the movie on his DVD player on a cold Sunday in London and watches and says, 'Yeah, that doesn't suck too bad.'" When this was brought up with Moore himself in a later interview in the British Tripwire comics fanzine, the writer commented "That's the worst case scenario? I think he's underestimated what the worst case scenario would be... that's never going to happen in my DVD player in 'London' [Moore very famously lives in Northampton]. I'm never going to watch this fucking thing." Still, Snyder has said that his ultimate hope is that someday Moore will actually see the film and feel it to be a decent representation of the original graphic novel.
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