http://www.unm.edu/~ithomson/Hero.pdf

The university of New Mexico had this really awesome PDF file of a short article written about Watchmen and the superheroes within it. It displays the de-familiarization of the normal superhero in our eyes and shows how Watchmen in a way made superheroes not only slightly more popular but also more uncanny and real version of these superheroes. The article hits on points of the deconstruction of the “normal superhero” but also the unhappy realization of fantasy and and fantasy characters.

one of the best points of the articles is that the philosophy of “idea is destroyed by its own realization” can be shown in the superhero, and the realization of the superheroes in Watchmen where “the hero is destroyed by the superhero, who is more heroic than any hero, but whose extreme heroics are no longer recognizable as heroics ” which all in all is the basic concept of Watchmen.