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Veidt Declared Dead
Veidt Declared Dead
In 1958, Mr. Veidt adopted the guise of Mr. Veidt gave up being a vigilante
Ozymandias and gained renown by taking in 1975 and revealed his identity to
down a network of crime syndicates led by the public. His voluntary retirement
Edgar Jacobi, the masked gangster known engendered considerable goodwill
as Moloch the Mystic. By bringing to just as public sentiment was turning
justice the last of the notorious rogues against others of his kind, a backlash
from the original era of self-styled that would ultimately lead to the Keene
“costumed adventurers” which began in Act of 1977 which once again made
the late thirties, Mr. Veidt inaugurated civilian vigilantism illegal. He made his
a new age of more ambitious and more first millions with his patent for spark
problematic masks that included a pair hydrants, and made many more by playing
commissioned military operatives, Dr. the stock market with great savvy. Guided
by his prescience and ingenuity, Veidt “Free Vietnam” movement, including the
Enterprises manufactured a wide variety United Kingdom and China.
of products—fashion, perfume, consumer More recently, in 2018, Roger Ailes,
electronics, toys, entertainment—that president of Newspaper Corporation
never failed to be on top of the moment of America (NCA), parent of New
or just ahead of the next. His iconic ad Frontiersman, filed a lawsuit against Veidt
campaigns for the “Nostalgia by Veidt” Enterprises and Trieu Industries claiming
lifestyle line in the eighties captured a “systematic campaign of harassment,
the spirit of the conservative era so intimidation, and sabotage” against him
memorably, they have their own display and his employees for publishing reports
at the National Museum of American that the Central Intelligence Agency had
History. He was a noted philanthropist, killed Mr. Veidt for secrets he possessed
donating millions to hospitals dedicated regarding the Dimensional Incursion
to treating post-D.I.E. PTSD and private Event. The lawsuit was dismissed and the
laboratories devoted to researching federal government subsequently ordered
experimental technologies and alternative NCA to either publish an apology to Mr.
energies. He once explained his passion Veidt or pay a $100,000 for violating the
for “Futorology” in a 1975 interview with Content Code Act. They chose to pay the
Nova Express: “[Y]ou get to be a superhero fine.
by believing in the hero within you and Mr. Veidt never married, nor did he
summoning him or her forth by an act have children. He is survived by no one.
of will…I would say without hesitation
that a new world is within our grasp,
filled with unimaginable experiences “You get to be a superhero
and possibilities, if only we want it by believing in the hero
badly enough.”
Mr. Veidt’s disappearance has produced
within you and summoning
its own dubious legacy. In 2017, Ronnie him or her forth by an act
Ngo Dinh, then the governor of Vietnam, of will.”
caused an international incident by — Adrian Veidt
claiming that the Vietnamese Liberation
Front had assassinated Mr. Veidt as an act
of terror against the United States. He
used the assertion to justify an escalation
of actions against VLF militants. The
ensuing police actions resulted in hundreds
of civilian deaths and condemnation from
nations who’ve expressed support for the