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Hollis Mason is the original Nite Owl and one of the Minutemen. Hollis becomes a masked avenger while he is a police officer, after he finds himself enamored by children’s comic books and reads about other costumed vigilantes in the newspaper. Hollis retires decades before Watchmen’s story takes place in 1985, passing the identity on to Daniel Dreiberg and opening an auto shop. However, during his retirement he writes an expose of his experiences as one of the Minutemen in a memoir called Under the Hood, which reveals that the Comedian (Edward Blake) tried to rape Sally Jupiter, among other grim details. Hollis dies on Halloween night after a local gang breaks into his house and bludgeons him to death in a random act of anarchic violence.
Hollis Mason (the original Nite Owl) Quotes in Watchmen
The Watchmen quotes below are all either spoken by Hollis Mason (the original Nite Owl) or refer to Hollis Mason (the original Nite Owl). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2: Absent Friends
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Yes, we were crazy, we were kinky, we were Nazis, all those things that people say. We were also doing something because we believed in it. We were attempting, through our personal efforts, to make our country a safer and better place to live in. Individually, on our separate patches of turf, we did too much good in our respective communities to be written off as mere aberration, whether social or sexual or psychological.
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Chapter 7: A Brother to Dragons
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Looking back, it all seems so… well, childish, I guess. Just a schoolkid’s fantasy that got out of hand. That’s, y’know, with hindsight… on reflection.
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Hollis Mason (the original Nite Owl) Quotes in Watchmen
The Watchmen quotes below are all either spoken by Hollis Mason (the original Nite Owl) or refer to Hollis Mason (the original Nite Owl). For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
Chapter 2: Absent Friends
Quotes
Yes, we were crazy, we were kinky, we were Nazis, all those things that people say. We were also doing something because we believed in it. We were attempting, through our personal efforts, to make our country a safer and better place to live in. Individually, on our separate patches of turf, we did too much good in our respective communities to be written off as mere aberration, whether social or sexual or psychological.
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Page Number and Citation:
Explanation and Analysis:
Chapter 7: A Brother to Dragons
Quotes
Looking back, it all seems so… well, childish, I guess. Just a schoolkid’s fantasy that got out of hand. That’s, y’know, with hindsight… on reflection.
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Page Number and Citation:
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