Pages 4 and 25

Here the layout switches to a seven-panel page featuring one large panel at the top of each page. Panel 1 holds an unpleasant surprise, first for Jacobi, then for Rorschach. The light/dark pattern is receding; on 4 it is only noticeable on Rorschach's suit. Panels 2-4 on both pages juxtapose the gun in Jacobi's hand with the bullet wound in his head. Panels 5-7 juxtapose Rorschach putting Jacobi into the fridge (page 4) against him removing the can of (Veidt) hairspray from Jacobi's cupboard (page 25) to use as an improvised weapon.

The chapter title, "Fearful Symmetry" comes directly under the picture of Jacobi and Rorschach. Their faces, one masked and the other unmasked, underscore a basic division in the book. Jacobi represents not only the former costumed adventurers (or their adversaries), but also the public who ask, "Who Watches the Watchmen?" Rorschach's presence suggests that the "masks" must police their own society; though given the reversed context of page 25, where he is the target of the police, it also suggests that the categories of hero and villain are apt to reverse.