Talk:Particle Manipulation/@comment-27775853-20161130204619/@comment-4867780-20170103235558

Good point ^ ^ To be fair he's a pretty old character, at the time "Molecule" was the hypest concept matter-wise and there's nothing harder to change in a character than its hero/villain name (usually identical decades later).

Dr Manhattan was lucky enough to have a visionary writer, and while his first appearence goes bacl as far as 1986, he was based on the quantum idea that is still quite trendy 30 years later.