Doctor Jonathan "Jon" Osterman was a nuclear physicist who was caught in a radioactive particle test, which transformed him into a god-like being known as Doctor Manhattan. Initially a government controlled superhero who won the United States of America the Vietnam War, he eventually lost interest in the world and humanity, abandoning it for Mars. He returned to stop Adrian Veidt from causing his alien monster hoax that would kill three million people to stop the Cold War, but he failed and retreated to the stars.
After years of living on Europa with his created species, Phillips and Crookshanks, Jon traveled back to Earth to meet and marry his destined sweetheart, Angela Abar. After spending ten years with her under the alias Cal Abar, he was destroyed by Lady Trieu in another bid to save the world.
