The death of the Comedian caught the attention of Rorschach, who investigated the crime and mistakenly theorized that there existed a conspiracy to murder masked adventurers. When the Comedian inadvertently learned of Veidt's plans, Veidt personally murdered him as well.
To prevent Doctor Manhattan from interfering, he hired old associates of the superhero and secretly exposed them to radiation to induce terminal cancer in them, then engineered a rumor that Manhattan was responsible, causing Doctor Manhattan to exile himself to Mars and thereby setting off a chain of events that threaten to start a global war. Upon completion, he arranged the murder of all of his accomplices to maintain the illusion. He also invents a limited form of teleportation based in part on the studies of (and studies by) Doctor Manhattan. To that end, he employed geneticists to clone the stolen brain of a murdered psychic and use it to create such a creature with a group of artists and creative personnel to help create the illusion. This helps bankroll his scheme of creating a catastrophic event and deceive the world into uniting against a common enemy, in Veidt's case, a horrific alien invasion. In 1975, two years before vigilante crime fighters were banned by the "Keene Act," Veidt retired from superheroism, marketing his image for money. This was brought to a head when an abortive attempt to organize a new superhero team was disrupted by the Comedian, who noted in his brutally apt way exactly how petty the doings of the costumed heroes were in a world where the threat of nuclear war hung overhead, and how powerless they were to stop it. Returning to America, he named himself "Ozymandias" and became a costumed vigilante, focusing particularly on organized crime and earning a reputation as "the smartest man on the planet." However, his own cases robbed him of the idealistic belief that battling crime would truly lessen evil and suffering in the world.
It was during this journey that he consumed a ball of hashish and decided to become a superhero. Veidt then embarked on a vision quest, following the route of Alexander the Great - a childhood idol - throughout the Mediterranean, Asia Minor, and former ancient Persia. After his parents' deaths, he inherited their substantial fortune at age 17, but chose to give it all to charity. After his parents and his teachers became suspicious of his grades, he successfully hid his intelligence by deliberately achieving average grades. Adrian Veidt was born in 1939, the son of rich immigrant parents, he was found to be incredibly intelligent.
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