Walter Kovacs (Earth-3221)

"This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the criminals and politicians will look up and shout "Save us!"... and I'll look down and whisper "No." They had a choice, all of them. They could have followed in the footsteps of good people like my father or my wife. Decent people who believed in a day's work for a day's pay and peace. Instead they followed the droppings of the so called "men of the people" and didn't realize that the trail led over a precipice until it was too late. Don't tell me they didn't have a choice. Now the whole world stands on the brink, staring down into bloody Hell, all those liberals and intellectuals and smooth-talkers... and all of a sudden nobody can think of anything to say."

- - Rorschach

Walter Kovacs is an former Wash-up Boxer and aspiring actor who became the vigilante known as Rorschach, after his wife and son were slaughtered by gunmen hired by Manhattan crime boss Roman Fisk.