" Unfortunately, the freeing of Rorschach indirectly results in the brutal murder of Hollis Mason, which Dan learns of only when he and Rorschach go to interrogate suspects.

Rorschach was named the 16th Greatest Comic Book Character by Empire magazine, 6th Greatest Comic Book Character of All Time by Wizard magazine, and 16th on Top 100 Comic Book Heroes by IGN.

The most widely used scoring system for the Rorschach is the Exner system of scoring.

In this book, Money ( 1988: 127-128 ) suggests that love is like a Rorschach ( ink blot ) test, where, if projections ( shaped by a bodymind's lovemap ) on the other are mutual, pair-bonding occurs, typically in a courtship phase of mating.

Rorschach ( born Walter Joseph Kovacs ) is a fictional character and an antihero of the acclaimed 1986 DC Comics miniseries Watchmen.

His mask displays a constantly morphing inkblot that is based on the ambiguous designs used in Rorschach inkblot tests.

Rorschach is the only vigilante who remains active after the passage of the Keene Act outlaws masked vigilantes ( aside from the Comedian and Dr. Manhattan, who both serve in the employ of the US government ).

The police, tipped off anonymously over the phone, surround the house and arrest Rorschach after a fight, in which Rorschach tries to escape by jumping through a window, but is unmasked.

Rorschach is sent to a prison, where many of its inmates are criminals he put away, including the Big Figure, a dwarf crime boss who is hungry for Rorschach's blood.

Rorschach refuses to cooperate and sets out to return to America and expose the truth ; Doctor Manhattan confronts him outside, and is forced to kill Rorschach to prevent him from doing so.

Rorschach is extremely resourceful, adapting ordinary household objects into tools or weapons, such as pepper to blind a police officer and the use of hairspray in combination with a match to set fire to another police officer, during a confrontation at Moloch's house.

Rorschach is well versed in street combat, gymnastics, and boxing.

Despite his mental instability, Rorschach was described as " tactically brilliant, and unpredictable " by Nite Owl, and possesses surprisingly good detective skills, as displayed when he is able to locate the Comedian's costume in his apartment when the police could not.

Rorschach has deep levels of hatred for ( perceived ) immoral behavior and is openly derogative of any other vigilante who does not share his unwavering views, deriding them as " Soft ".

A four part series on Rorschach is due to be released in the summer of 2012, written by Brian Azzarello and with art by Lee Bermejo.

Question is briefly inspired by the comic and the character of Rorschach, leading him to take a more physically aggressive style of crime fighting.

At the end of the issue, having been overpowered in hand-to-hand combat by a pair of villains, he is asked if he has any final words, and Question remarks, " Rorschach sucks.

" Rorschach is featured in a dream sequence experienced by the Question in that issue.

* Rorschach was featured in promo artwork by Art Adams for the Countdown to Final Crisis: Arena mini-series, where he is being beaten by Batman from Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns.

* In the four-part " Deadpool " miniseries written by Mark Waid in 1994, Deadpool's mask is removed, at which point the character parrots Rorschach by saying, " My face!

Rorschach is also shown to openly disapprove of Dan and Laurie's relationship, mockingly stating " Should have known all it would have taken you to come back was nice pair of legs " and being condescending toward Laurie for " being unfaithful to Jon ", asking if she " just got tired of being patriotic or did somebody put you up to it?

" Unlike in the book, Dan is present for Rorschach's death ( whereas in the book, Rorschach dies without anyone save for Dr. Manhattan watching ).

The 2009 video game Watchmen: The End is Nigh and Watchmen: The End Is Nigh Part 2 features Rorschach and Nite Owl as partners.

Rorschach presents his views on right and wrong as starkly black and white with no room for compromise, with the exception of his respect for the Comedian causing him to excuse the attempt of rape of the first Silk Spectre as a " moral lapse.

He supported the idea of costumed vigilantes forming a group to fight crime strategically, but Rorschach and the Comedian rejected the idea.

These were the same subjects who were given the Rorschach test.

Some of the works are simple abstracts of black ink on white paper, similar to a Rorschach test.

* 1884 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist ( d. 1922 )

In the upheaval following the end of the war a disconcerted Pacelli sought Benedict XV's permission to leave Munich, where Kurt Eisner had declared a socialist republic, and he left for a while to Rorschach, and a tranquil Swiss sanatorium run by nuns.

Pacelli was summoned back to Rome at this time – the call coming by telegram when he was resting at his favourite retreat, the Rorschach convent sanatorium.

In 1487 he built a monastery at Rorschach on Lake Constance, to which he planned to move.

Initially, he protested to the abbot and the representatives of the four sponsoring Confederate cantons ( Zürich, Lucerne, Schwyz, and Glarus ) against the construction of the new abbey in Rorschach.

He motivated the clerics from Wil to Rorschach to discard their loyalty to the Abbey and spoke against the Abbey at the town meeting at Waldkirch, where the popular league was formed.

In 1487 he built a monastery at Rorschach.

* April 2 – Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist ( b. 1884 )

Foucault adopted many of the theories of the psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud ( 1856 – 1939 ), undertaking psychoanalytical interpretation of his dreams and making friends undergo Rorschach tests.

The limit between the Alps and the plateau runs from Vevey on the shores of Lake Geneva to Rorschach on the shores of Lake Constance, passing close to the cities of Thun and Lucerne.

In one experiment, subjects read a set of psychiatric case studies, including responses to the Rorschach inkblot test.

At the beginning of the 1990s, bands such as Born Against, Rorschach, Burn and Drive Like Jehu took the 1980s styles of hardcore and pushed them into more contemporary sounds.

The Shadow appears in the nightclub scene standing in the background next to The Question and Rorschach.

Research using Rorschach test blot 03 finds that the number of ‘‘ unique responses ’’ to this random figure links to larger sized amygdalae.

The family's first home in exile was Wartegg Castle in Rorschach, Switzerland, a property owned by the Bourbon-Parmas.

The New Jersey hardcore band Rorschach samples some of the lines from the ending narration on the song " Lightning Strikes Twice " from their album Remain Sedate.

An example of this would be the Rorschach test, in which a person states what each of ten ink blots might be.

During a Rorschach inkblot test, he told the psychiatrist that one blot card revealed a sexual encounter complete with lurid detail.

The metal band Rorschach have a song titled " Pavlov's dogs " ( the title being an obvious reference to Ivan Pavlov's experiment ) whose lyrics also treat about classical conditioning.

Shortly after receiving his Ph. D. in 1947, Ellis began a personal analysis and program of supervision with Richard Hulbeck ( whose own analyst had been Hermann Rorschach, a leading training analyst at the Karen Horney Institute and the developer of the Rorschach inkblot test ).