The aspect of precognition aside, Dr. Manhattan's lack of freedom really comes from not being able to causally react to information he has when making his choices. If the average person heard Kennedy was going to be assassinated, they could try to do something about it.
Veidt hinders Doctor Manhattan with a tachyon generator that interferes with Doctor Manhattan's ability to see the future and then disintegrates him by subtracting his intrinsic field.
He is also capable of manipulating reality as he sees fit through the use of time manipulation, as seen when he erased ten years from the DC Universe when Barry Allen tried to bring his original universe back to normal.
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons invented the cast of Watchmen to evoke familiar superheroic themes that their audience would recognize. Everybody knows that all good superheroes have a secret weakness, so even the godlike Doctor Manhattan had one, too. To put it in Superman terms: Tachyons are his kryptonite.
He cannot stop the cannon blast because it already happened to him. Before he gets hit, he is already living the moment where he is hit. And he is also experiencing the future after he gets hit. So there is no such thing as stopping or avoiding something that will happen, already happened, and is happening.
When The Beyonder has full power, he could easily beat Dr. Manhattan. Everything that Beyonder proved he could accomplish — including destroying all multiverse — supersedes what Dr. Manhattan had even accomplished in DC's Rebirth.
By the end of Doomsday Clock, it was revealed the Doctor Manhattan had feared that he would either be destroyed by Superman or be forced to end the DC multiverse - this was a major factor in why he became so antagonistic as he tried to find ways to erase or alter Superman's story.. all of which failed.. he would be ...
Thanos should not be underestimated in any fight, but unless he's wearing the Infinity Gauntlet or has a literal sack full of Cosmic Cubes, he isn't beating Dr. Manhattan. Without the aid of any super powerful objects, or pants for that matter, Dr. Manhattan could easily snap Thanos out of existence.
Doctor Manhattan tried to erase Superman from existence yet he kept on coming back. Superman is the centre of all DC and without him nothing would exist. The metaverse forms around Superman.
However, other mainstream superheroes are probably mightier than him, since they can achieve feats he can't In short, in a straight-up battle, Dr. Manhattan could easily destroy Superman.
Thus, it seems Doctor Manhattan has the clear edge in even a fight that would literally shred the very fabric of reality. No matter what the Scarlet Witch did, Doctor Manhattan would retain clear perceptions of what was going on and be unaffected by Wanda's manipulations.
After several months, he manages to reconstruct himself as a super-human being with blue skin, no hair, and the ability to essentially manipulate time and space at will. Throughout the course of Watchmen, he seems to experience time in a unique "quantum" sense, allowing him to accurately predict the future.
New York's growth in the early nineteenth century was driven by the rise of manufacturing in the city, which itself depended on New York's primacy as a port. New York's growth in the late nineteenth century owed at least as much to its role as the entryway for immigrants into the United States.
Though born a white German-American, Dr. Manhattan spends a decade hiding in Tulsa as Abar's black husband, Cal. Like Hooded Justice, he uses blackness as a shield of anonymity in a world transfixed by white heroes.
Unfortunately, as formidable as the Hulk has been in all his incarnations, brute force may not be as effective against Dr. Manhattan as his other adversaries. Manhattan could conceivably split Banner from the Hulk as Onslaught did in the '90s, or disintegrate the Hulk from existence altogether.
Although he's obliterated by Lady Trieu's centrifuge, the process is destroyed by Adrian's frozen squids before it can be completed, killing Trieu and destroying the machine. Dr. Manhattan is most definitely dead, but the question of his powers remains unclear for a bit.
Manhattan is given godlike power but, at the same time, sees himself as powerless against the flow of time. As a result, Manhattan, much like Rorschach, sees life as a morally blank slate.
As long as he had his spear and ravens alongside him, Odin would be able to see all the versions of Dr. Manhattan and battle many of them. Although he could fall in battle, he'd certainly defeat Manhattan as he fell, eventually returning from Hell again good as new.
Originally Answered: Can Doctor Manhattan beat Rune King Thor or God Emperor Doom? I'd give the victory to Manhattan. He recreated the entire DC Metaverse with a wave of his hand.
Doomsday can resist little of Doctor Manhattan's power but their's no way that he can resist Dr. Manhattan's Soul Extracting- Can manipulate souls with his telepathy and trap them inside himself, which he has done with the souls of the entire Martian race for over a thousand years.
While Goku's Ultra Instinct takes him nearer to a God-level strength, Doctor Manhattan already has it and he is, pretty much, a God who can do anything he pleases. Teleportation, disintegration, creating stuff through his mind, and on top of that, time travel makes him almost impossible to beat.
We've only seen a brief glimpse of them but the Celestials are also probably more powerful than Dr. Manhattan. The Dread Dormammu could win against Dr. Manhattan.
The final straw in their romance came when Janey discovered he was having an affair with Laurie Juspeczyk soon after the Crimebusters meeting (an act she finds especially egregious when considering the jarring age gap between them).
