Watchmen

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• Movie Goof (incorrectly regarded as a mistake): SPOILER: The particle accelerator is used to kill other characters, but why wouldn't they come back like Dr. Manhattan did? The other scientists had been killed by poison before being disintegrated. Dr. Manhattan was alive and conscious when he was disintegrated. His backstory also makes it explicit that he was taught how to recreate complex structures starting in his youth.
• Zack Snyder cast actors younger than their characters because of the large number of flashbacks in the story. Snyder decided that make-up and special effects artists would have an easier time making actors look older, rather than younger. Carla Gugino (born 1971), 37 while filming, plays the 64-year-old mother of Malin Akerman (born 1978), who in turn is supposed to be younger than the character of Laura Mennell (born 1980). Jeffrey Dean Morgan, however, was not deemed able to play a 16-year-old, so it was decided to change the Comedian's birth year from 1918 to 1924. Jackie Earle Haley, 47, played Rorschach, 45 in the book. The Rorschach newscast gives his age as 35, but this is a character error, as all other chronology in the film indicates that Rorschach is 45, not 35.
• SPOILER: While Veidt talks to the press, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center can be seen outside his office window. A blimp is also in the background, and appears to be flying towards the towers very slowly. At the end when New York is in ruins and Veidt Enterprises is rebuilding the city, the towers still stand, unharmed.
• Moloch has a copy of Allen Ginsberg's "Howl" on his bedside table. In this poem the word "moloch" appears several times.