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Gibbons had created the blue character [[Rogue Trooper]], and reused the blue skin motif for Doctor Manhattan as it visualised electrical or atomic energy while still resembling human skin tonally and "reading as Jon Osterman’s skin would’ve read, but in a different hue." Moore incorporated color into the story, and Gibbons noted the rest of the comic's color scheme made Manhattan unique.<ref>{{cite web|title = Watchmen Secrets Revealed|url = http://www.watchmencomicmovie.com/110308-watchmen-movie-dave-gibbons.php|website = watchmencomicmovie|access-date = November 11, 2015|archive-date = July 18, 2011|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110718003531/http://www.watchmencomicmovie.com/110308-watchmen-movie-dave-gibbons.php|url-status = dead}}</ref>

Moore recalled that he was unsure if DC would allow the creators to depict the character as fully nude, which partially influenced how they portrayed the character.<ref name="TCJ116">"A Portal to Another Dimension". ''The Comics Journal''. July 1987.</ref> Gibbons wanted to tastefully depict Manhattan's nudity, selecting carefully when [[Nudity|full frontal]] shots would occur and giving him "understated" genitals—like a classical sculpture—so the reader would not initially notice it.<ref name="SeqTart">Kallies, Christy. "[http://www.sequentialtart.com/archive/july99/gibbons.shtml Under the Hood: Dave Gibbons]". SequentialTart.com. July 1999. Retrieved on October 12, 2008.</ref> Dr. Manhattan's forehead is marked with the atomic structure (specifically the [[Bohr model]]) of [[hydrogen]], which he put on himself, declining a helmet with the [[Rutherford model|atom symbol]].

==Fictional character biography==