Hollis Mason

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Hollis Mason
Aliases:	Nite Owl Hollis T. Mason
Continuity:	Watchmen
Notability:	Supporting character
Type:	Superhero
Occupation:	Business owner
Gender:	Male
Race:	Human
Location:	Montana New York City, New York
Associations:	Minutemen New York City Police Department
Relatives:	Robert Mason Eleanor Mason Liantha Mason Hollis Wordsworth Mason
Status:	Deceased
Born:	March 11th, 1916
Died:	October 31st, 1985
First:	Watchmen #1
Actor:	Stephen McHattie Clint Carleton

Hollis T. Mason is a fictional police officer, super-hero, and author and a supporting character featured in the Watchmen multimedia franchise. He first appeared in Watchmen #1 in September, 1986. A version of Hollis Mason also appeared in the 2009 live-action Watchmen feature film where he was played by actor Stephen McHattie. Actor Clint Carleton played a young Hollis Mason in flashback scenes.

Abilities

Powers

• None: Hollis Mason is by all accounts a normal human being with no superhuman abilities to speak of.

Skills

• Acrobatics
• Boxing
• Firearms
• Police procedure
• Unarmed combat

Adversaries

• Captain Axis
• Screaming Skull
• Spaceman

Body Count

• Hooded Justice

Notes & Trivia

• The character of Hollis Mason was created by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons.

• Hollis T. Mason, Nite Owl I, and Nite Owl (Hollis Mason) all redirect to this page.

• Hollis Mason voted in favor of keeping Ursula Zandt in the Minutemen although she was ultimately voted out.

• The death of Hollis Mason is not presented in the theatrical cut of the Watchmen movie.

• Excerpts of Hollis Mason's autobiographical tell-all book Under the Hood is presented at the end of select issues of the Watchmen comic book series.

• In his retirement years, Hollis Mason had a pet dog named Phantom.

See also

Watchmen media

Watchmen Watchmen pages Watchmen images

Watchmen comics Watchmen chronology Watchmen appearances

The World of the Watchmen

Watchmen items Watchmen organizations

Watchmen characters Watchmen miscellaneous

External Links

• Hollis Mason at DCDP
• Hollis Mason at Wikipedia
• Hollis Mason at Comic Vine
• Hollis Mason at the Watchmen Wiki

Appearances

Comics

• Watchmen 1
• Watchmen 2

Film

• Watchmen: The Movie

Other

• Under the Hood