Watchmen: Chapter I

Strong bloody violence, gore, and brutality. Characters get into fights, get shot, break a man's fingers, shoot people in the head, make people's heads explode in gory, bloody bursts, decapitate people, punch, kick, slap, throw, stomp, beat, and stab people. A man sexually assaults a woman (he's stopped before it happens), punches her in the stomach, breaks her ribs, and hits her in the face. The woman later in life downplays the event, saying it wasn't a big deal. A man shoots a woman in the head after she tells him she's pregnant with his baby. A man is annihilated by particle canon beams, his body exploding into thousands of pieces, revealing his screaming skeleton before it too is annihilated. A man uses a flame thrower on people. He admits to killing children and "doing bad things to women." A character shoots tear gas canisters into a crowd of protestors. A man is thrown out of a high-rise window, and he falls to his death. A character kills himself by biting down on a cyanide capsule, his mouth foaming as he dies. In a comic that a character reads through, various panels and pictures show severed heads, dead bodies, and bloated corpses a man uses as a raft. "Pieces of dead men" also make the rest of the raft craft. The comic also shows seagulls eating dead bodies, one pulling an eyeball out of a man's face. A man eats a seagull raw, ripping at its flesh with his teeth. A man is also attacked by sharks.

A few scenes imply sex. One scene shows two naked bodies (but no nudity is shown) having sex very briefly. A woman's bare breasts are shown in a comic book picture (she is a ship's figurehead statue). A man stands naked showing full-frontal nudity (bare flaccid penis). Characters pass by sex workers on the street. Strip clubs advertise "lap dances," "the hottest showgirls," and "all nude dancing." Romantic kissing.

Strong language includes a few instances of "f--k," "s--t," "whore," "ass," "prostitute," "hell," "damn," "butt," "freak," and "butt."

Characters are often shown smoking cigarettes. One character constantly smokes a cigar. Adults drink alcohol, beer, bourbon, and wine. A few characters are drunk in some scenes. Side characters briefly mention "doing Katie's," which refers to some kind of illegal psychotropic drug.

All main characters are White. Men and women are superheroes, but this alternative world in 1966 and in 1985 is still quite traditionalist and conventional.