Tachyons connect with the past of Doctor Manhattan in the Watchmen Universe
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons have invented the cast of Watchmen to highlight familiar superhero themes that their audience would recognize. Everyone knows that all good superheroes have a secret weakness, so even the godlike Doctor Manhattan had one. To say it with Superman: Tachyons are his kryptonite. And in the eighth episode of Watchmen,…