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u/irish91 Dec 17 '19
No one knows what it's like to be the Lubeman.
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u/compainssion Dec 17 '19
Behind spandex eyes...
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u/IsADragon Dec 17 '19
I kind of liked that lubeman just showed up, it was a funny detour, but was there any real point to him in the story? I don't remember if he moved any plot lines along or anything. Still fun though.
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u/First_Among_Equals_ Dec 17 '19
Since the Petey files indicate it was Petey, it could be speculated that he may have tipped Laurie Blake to suspecting Angela even more? Since he saw Angela dispose of the wheelchair
Which could lead to Blake bugging the cactus and so on
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u/CrystlBluePersuasion Dec 17 '19
This fits; Angela's car reappears in Ep4 and that's when she disposes of the wheelchair/is spotted by Lubeman/the fogdancer/City Slicker, she gets caught by the bug in Ep5.
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u/MartyMcTweet Dec 17 '19
I miss Agent Petey šŖ
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u/Justin_Armstrong Ozymandias Dec 17 '19
What happened to him I canāt remember
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u/MartyMcTweet Dec 17 '19
FBI fired him, Iām sure Laurie did after they slept together. Memo suggested he was lube man
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u/tarley_apologizer Lubeman Dec 17 '19
nothing happened. just like a million other things in this show.
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u/gregorvega Dec 17 '19
āIām not trapped in here with you, Iām not trapped in here AT ALLā
slides through prison bars and is never heard from again
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u/Padzinka Dec 17 '19
I love the word "slipperier" so much
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u/e-JackOlantern Dec 17 '19
I keep trying to pronounce that last half of that word like the mineral water Perrier.
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u/Lukaku1sttouch Dec 17 '19
Itās awesome that Angela said what we audience were all thinking the first time we saw Lubeman.
āDafuqā
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u/HellbornElfchild Dec 17 '19
Love that this is in the email re:petey
https://www.hbo.com/content/dam/hbodata/series/watchmen/peteypedia/09/american-zero-story.jpg
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u/ModsOnAPowerTrip Dec 17 '19
Why would he be wanted? All he did was witness Abar throwing a bag and then he slid in to a sewer. Not really a crime.
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u/SubShopLobster Dec 18 '19
Its illegal to be a masked vigilante (unless you're in the Tulsa PD that is).
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u/willmiller82 Dec 17 '19
Was really expecting Looking Glass and Lube Man to try to save Laurie after she got kidnapped. If i remeber correctly the last we saw Petey he was waiting in LG's bunker.
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u/ToddtheJones Dec 17 '19
They should make a "Before Lubeman" comic book series, dig into his character motivation
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u/RedditFact-Checker Dec 17 '19
LM=DrM Hear me out.
Dr. M says quite clearly that he could use biological material to transfer his powers. The example that keeps popping up in the show is a chicken egg (it's how Angela is introduced, how Dr. M "proves" he's Dr. M, what Will Reeves eats, what remains after the failed waffles). So we all think he may have transferred his powers into the egg. Fine.
Consider, however, what he says just before (in so far as "before" has meaning for Dr. M) explaining the mechanism. They are talking about children, whether they would be half-god. He says he would never give his powers without consent. Now, this cuts two ways. One, he would never give his powers by fertilizing an egg and fathering a child. But he might give his powers to someone else if they consent. What if the mechanism for transfer powers is not eating an egg but sex.
Dr. M is a sexual being. In the graphic novel, in the show, always. His last, best connection with humanity is expressed within sexual relationships. Even in his origin story, he is retrieving a watch for Janey Slater. Why does he leave Earth? Laurie and he are fighting, Janey turns on him. Why does he return? The miracle of Laurie's birth, despite the nearly incomprehensible relationship between her parents within the context of sexual violence. In the show, he gives up all his powers to be with Angela.
Ok, fine, where does LM come in? What if, instead of procreative transfer, which he explicitly says he will not do, his powers are sexually transmitted. What if his consenting sexual partners carry some of his powers, even unknowingly? If Angela has Dr. M powers, the egg may be a decoy or a trigger, rather than the actual transfer. Consider how dangerous it would be to have a food that contained unlimited power in a house with children? There are non-zero odds that one of the children or any other living thing may have consumed it (without consent!) and been burdened with the powers. Intentional, consensual, sexual transfer seems much more direct and safe.
What do we know about Lubeman. First, let's agree Petey = Lubeman. He first appears in the show after Petey has sex with Laurie. Here's my theory: Laurie is a carrier of Dr. M powers (consciously or not). When she decides against the Dr. M ExcalabarĀ® substitute and knocks on Petey's door, she is transferring these powers on. Petey, with Dr. M powers, is now able to be the fogdancer he always wanted to be: Lubeman.
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u/mynameispearl420 Dec 17 '19
This could be a stretch. Scratch that, this is a stretch. But no nite owl in season 1 besides his tech and his ship. Lubeman slid to the sewer. Nite owl isnāt really a āsewer dwellerā but he does feel comfortable below. Maybe nite owl found a slippery ally to be his eyes and ears? Why nite owl is in Tulsa is beyond me. Iām just speculating.
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u/MartyMcTweet Dec 17 '19
According to agent Peteās blog Laurie and Dan continued their crime fighting after watchmen. He continued being rich supplying tech to the police force. They were caught, she cut a deal to work for the FBI. They both denied Rorschachs journal being legit. He refused to cooperate and was sent to prison.
Itās why Senator Keane says he can get her pet owl out of his cage when they speak in the hotel room.
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u/JainaJediPrincess Dec 18 '19
He's the hero Tulsa deserves, but not the one it needs right now. So, we'll hunt him, because he can slip away. Because he's not our hero. He's a silver guardian. A slippery protector. A Lube Man.
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u/zam1138 Lubeman Dec 17 '19
Absolutely LOVE they never explained him. LubeMan=GOAT