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Since when is he a hypocrite, terrible detective, or manchild? Or even a psychopath? There are a lot of things wrong with him, but not those particular things IMO. But maybe it's been too long since I read Watchmen and I'm forgetting something?
He doesn't try to prevent crime, he simply delights in the sadistic act of beating up criminals, which is ironically a crime.
He instantly judges people based on which side of the law they stand on, but when he is declared a criminal himself, he doesn't even attempt to reflect on it. He just keeps punching.
When his own friend is revealed to be a rapist, murderer and war criminal(?), he has no interest ["I'm not concerned with speculating on the moral lapses of men who died in their country’s service"], because he doesn't actually care about crime, he just uses 'fighting crime' as an excuse for his real passion, beating up those he considers undesirables.
He's a hypocrite (and a fascist).
If I remember correctly he was a pretty good detective in the sense that he figured shit out as fast as literal supernatural humans
He figured out Ozymandias was going to do something terrible. He beat the smartest man in the world. He is a terrible "hero" for a variety of reasons but that isn't one of them.
Aye, arguably he's the only one of the heroes who sticks by a moral code, albeit a brutal one. Even at the very end, knowing it would kill him, he sticks to it, and dies for it.