Every Watchmen Origin Story You Need to Know
Watchmen Will Make a Whole Lot More Sense If You Read This Before the Premiere
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Laurie Juspeczyk (Akerman) is the daughter of the original Silk Spectre, Sally Jupiter (Gugino). She and her mother always had a strained relationship because Laurie suspected the man she was told was her father growing up, Laurence Schexnayder, was not actually her biological father. But she still followed in her mother's footsteps and took up crimefighting, working with Doctor Manhattan (and becoming romantically involved with him) before teaming up with Rorschach and Nite Owl II.
Over the course of the Watchmen movie, Laurie figures out that The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is her biological father, which she grapples to understand because he sexually assaulted her mother before the two of them slept together consensually; it was always hard for her to comprehend how her mother could sleep with her would-be rapist.