I'd just skip to the part where I fuck off into space forever.

IIRC it took him three years to come to grips with even using those powers. So, probably that.

Honestly Dr.manhattan was kinda dumb. "Oh I need to stop humanity from nuking itself" meanwhile I demonstrate easy ability to travel to other planets. Meaning I coooooooould of made humanity interplanetary, which would greatly reduce the likelihood of any humanity killing apocalypse.

So I'd get human colonies on the Moon, Mars and maybe Venus. Then focus on unfucking the Earths biosphere. Then focus on eliminating world hunger and bringing a higher standard of living to all mankind.

Then I'd fuck off to space and let humanity kind figure it out knowing they proooooobably won't kill themselves anymore.

I'd go straight to Google and look up "Dr. Manhattan".

I'd probably want to use his powers of clairvoyance and superhuman intelligence to decide on what to do next.

But with my average human intelligence, I'd materialize money so I can retire. Wait...Dr. Manhattan is immortal...yeah I'm really going to want to use the brain power thing to come up with something better.

Hang blue dong, of course

Teraform Mars and Venus and do my best to setup a truly democratic post scarcity society.

I think the hard part will be creating systems to keep any one person or group from gaming the system for power and getting them to eventually become self sufficient so I don't need to babysit humanity for all eternity.

realize I'm just a puppet who can see the strings

First thing, I'd probably solve practical fusion power and distribute that info worldwide... make it as available as the knowledge for building a fission reactor is today. Then, I'd set out away from humanity, into space. I'd start by visiting the nearest several dozen solar systems to begin the terraforming process on a handful of planets. Once started, I'd signal back to Earth that I'd done this and that the planets would be ready for settlement in about two hundred years. I would then go on to build an Expanse type "ring space" pocket dimension with wormholes connecting all these star systems, but put the "Sol gate" to this network in orbit of Saturn. Hopefully this would limit humanity's settlement rush to some unmanned probes for the first dozen or so years, possibly only seeing manned missions in about a century, but not make it impossible that humans could spread amongst the stars using the gates. Once most of the systems wirh gates are settled, I'd return to gift the knowledge of gate building along with several dozen more star systems all with ready terraformed planets.

Need some cliff notes of what the powers are.

Learn a second language, see Paris, convince billionaires that for enough money I can take them to mars.

Perform blood soaked reenactment of Event Horizon/Titan submersible.

Make a human centipede of Crowder, Shapiro and Walsh. Give back women their rights and hand them power.

Go to mars and watch shit play out.

Maybe ask Christina Ricci is she'd like lunch or something.

Destroy Mercury. I don't like the look of what it's planning.

You know, #justgirlythings

I would put myself into a lamp and be a genie. It would be fun to see what people wish for. It would also be fun to be like " hmmm are you sure you want that specific wish"?

Gangbang the Baroness (my wife).

Honestly? Probably go back to sleep.

Pretty sure myself with doctor Manhattan powers would be a death fest. Like i would want to make war illegal, but how would i do that? just start killing leaders who wage war. i'd also be tempted to try to 'fix' society starting with US congress and senate. lobbying would be made illegal and i'd probably have to kill some people for them to get the message. the problem is that i am just some guy who doesn't know the intricacies of the verycomplicated matter of US federal law. so i probably kill way too many people and probably a lot a good people. it is for the best i dont have this power.

Lets be real here, I wake up, realize I have powers, masturbate, switch myself to the opposite sex, masturbate, clone myself, sex myself, masturbate .... 53 vile acts later ... get out of bed, maybe give poor people a bunch of money or something

Fix the world.

I'd probably explode every billionaire and oil exec, and everyone who works at the c-suite level and above for nestle, Walmart, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Disney, Fox, and every famous person who is largely agreed by the majority to be an asshole.

I would remove all nuclear weapons, rockets, tanks, and large weapons from the Earth. You want to war? Here's a stick, have at it.

I would then go through the prison systems, release the dissidents and political prisoners, free everyone on non-violent charges, and kill everyone there for sex crimes, murder, and who has otherwise violently earned a 20+year prison sentence.

Everyone else can serve out their time in a safe and clean environment.

Then I'd fix the atmosphere, land, and oceans, clean up all the toxic waste, all that jazz, and I would find the owners of every mining and foresting company and round them up, show them the exploded remains of the other executives ive killed, and let them know that if they polute the planet, or extract too much to the point of causing harm to the earth, that they and their families and their children and their friends and their friends families and children will end up exactly the same as musk and zuck and gates and all the rest of them.

Then I would go to every other person on the planet, remove all toxins and plastics from their bodies, skim off any excess fat, cancers, rebuild any missing organs or teeth, and make everyone as young and beautiful as they could naturally be.

Then I would proclaim myself emperor of the world

I would be scared of giving everyone cancer. Probably create a suit of some sort to contain my energy so I am safe to be around. Then I’d create mad cool settlements and stuff on other planets for humans to maintain.

Fix the climate change issues we are currently having.

I would be very careful with how I used them, and I would be extremely mindful of my desire to help people, because my lifelong sense of personal responsibility came from a mortal’s level of power.

This is coming from someone who actually has superpowers incidentally. I’ve learned that it is very easy to misuse them, with good intentions, in a way that goes directly to shit.

Use your powers sparingly. And don’t fall into the trap of thinking you’re the only one. There are millions of us.

The very first thing I do is use my cosmic intellect and power to explore the limits of my knowledge and abilities, determine whether it is permanent or not, and then if I determine that it is not permanent...use my current abilities to make it permanent.