Nite Owl comes home to find his door broken, it appears somebody has broken in. He walks into the house, on the look for an intruder.
Dr. Manhattan transports an entire group of people out of a room. Before this event, Dr. Manhattan becomes very angry and yells.
Ozymandias and his master plan's outcome involves showing the event, and we also see the city before the event takes place, knowing it is about to happen.
A man is beaten brutally and thrown out a window. His body is then shown on the sidewalk in a pool of blood.
In the opening montage, a superhero character is shown dead from several gunshot wounds to the torso and head; some blood is seen.
In the opening credits montage, two women are shown to have been murdered; one by a gunshot to the head, another by slashed throat. They are covered in blood and lay on a bloody bed. Words written on the wall with their blood indicate it is a hate crime.
In the opening credits montage, we see the John F. Kennedy assassination from a short distance.There are no close-ups, but gunfire is heard, and the injuries are immediately obvious, as we see blood and guts splash the back of the car. We also see people running for safety, after noticing what has happened.
Also in the opening credits, a young girl from among a crowd of student protesters is shown inserting a flower down one of several soldiers' rifle barrels to signify peace during the Vietnam war, when suddenly the soldiers open fire on the students at point-blank range (off-screen) and the flower is seen blown to bits in a cloud of blood and petals.
Once again in the opening credits, we see two dead men tied to a fire hydrant. Their faces are bloody and bruised, suggesting that they were brutally beaten.
Rorschach attacks a cop. The other one manages to shoot Rorschach in the back before escaping through the window.
We see a man kill another man with a flamethrower.
A pregnant woman is shot off-screen after attacking a man with a broken beer bottle. The bloody body is seen after the gun is fired; we see the woman has been shot in the chest. This scene is more confronting and dramatic than violent.
A woman almost gets raped after being beaten. She is shown bleeding from her mouth and nose.
A man prevents a rape by severely beating the rapist, punching him and breaking his nose.
A man's finger is dislocated or broken on purpose as a form of torture.
A man and a women are seen on the surface of what seems to be Mars when a close-up shot of each one of them are shown with their outer skin being peeled off. We see the inside of the outside skin but what lies beneath is simply the characters in their costumes.
At least two men are shot in the chest with powerful, nonlethal projectiles. They appear to suffer intense pain.
A man turns a can of aerosol and a pair of matches into a flamethrower and lights an attacker on fire.
An assassination attempt results in a man almost getting shot, and the assailant being hit into a fountain, and beaten to a pulp. He then swallows a cyanide pill, foams at the mouth, and dies.
A woman's fingers are blown off by a gunshot during the assassination attempt. The incident is shown close up and is very bloody.
A character is found dead from a gunshot to the face some time after it happens; some blood is shown.
A man is punched in the arm with enough force to cause a compound fracture; squirting blood and the man's bones are shown.
A man has his leg broken in half, no blood is shown.
A thug shoots a fellow thug in the back three times; it is shown in slow-motion and the bullets are seen flying through the man with blood sprayed as a result.
A man who has cancer is shown dying in a hospital bed.
A man's organ and inside body parts are shown.
A skeleton and disconnected veins are seen.
A man fires several bullets into a group of people in slow motion: one woman is shot in the leg, another man is shot in the torso and again between the eyes; blood is shown.
Two dogs are seen chewing on the leg of a dead child. There is no blood and only the bones and the child's shoe remains. Is very disturbing to viewers.
A man splits a dog's head with a cleaver. We do not see the act, but see the dog's body. Its head has a large bloody wound on it.
A character hacks a man's head repeatedly with a cleaver. Blood is shown spurting everywhere, with some of it getting onto the character's face.
A young boy is beaten by his prostitute mother after walking in on her with a "client".
In a surreal dream sequence, we see a nude couple caress each other. They neatly peel off each other's skin, which has a red lining, to reveal the same people wearing costumes. A nuclear explosion occurs in the background and, as the shockwave hits them, we see their bodies explode to pieces (without blood), leaving only their skeletons.
A man's arms are chopped off with a chainsaw. Black blood sprays on the wall, and on a man's face. When he is dead, his fellow jail mate pushes him down on the ground showing a motionless face. This results in the fact that the man is dead and more blood drains out of his body. This is very gruesome.
A fight occurs in which at least a dozen men are beaten, some may have been killed. No blood is seen aside from some nosebleeds and the like.