Why didn't he try to become a god like Jon?

He wasn't a physicist.

>>90766481
But he had money.

Money buys things and people.

>>90766472
Jon could only become a living god due to a combination of many factors including his knowledge of physics, his patience with putting broken shit back together, autism and luck. The chance that Adrian would be able to recreate that feat himself was so small that it simply wouldn't be worth the risk. In all likelihood he'd just be vaporized and never come back.

>>90766499
It doesn't buy being a physicist.

>>90766530
But isn't he the smartest man on earth?

>>90766554
So what? He doesn't have all those other things that that guy just mentioned.
Being super smart doesn't mean you can just will yourself into being exactly what you need to do something.

>>90766742
Well, it doesn't until the writers say it does.

>>90766742
But it means that you have the tools to learn how to do that something.

>>90766554
So smart in fact, that he couldn't influence politics away from WW3 which was triggered by a proxy war in one of the shittiest countries in the world.

If he spent all his dish on politics he probably could have just bought off enough politicians on each side to hold off until disarmament could be engineered.

But no, giant fake space monster and genocide.

>>90766472
Jon's transformation was a freak accident. The conditions were not carefully observed or logged, so it would be impossible to recreate without a chsnce of bwing vaporized.

Maybe it was the air composition of the chamber at that given moment, or the metal on his watch, the fabric of his clothes, what he had for breakfast, etc.

>>90766787
How could he have fixed it? Tell America to build more nukes so they wouldn't be so utterly dependent on Dr. M for defense right up until the point he left?

>>90766472
He had the device in his little lair, and it was functional and running when he tried to use it on Jon so we can assume he's at least ran test.

I don't think he liked the results though.

>>90766861
Bankroll a ton of politicians who are anti-war and pro-disarming nukes on both sides.

Maybe develop an anti-missle system that would nullify one type of nuke deployment, sell it to both sides.

Invent a fake Dr Manhattan to fool Russia (didn't have to work). Invent something similar and give it to Russia.

>>90766554
Adrian is also clearly psychologically unstable.
He couldn't put himself back together when he was still flesh, I doubt he'd be able to as trillions of particles.

>>90767003
Russia would never agree to disarm with America having an actual god on their side and American disarmament is half of the problem.

>>90766861
Build a private army above any nation, even the US.

>>90766554
That's why he's smart enough not to throw away his life like that.

>>90767044
What would that accomplish aside from having your assets seized?

>>90767135
You could get a nuke of your own?

>>90767299
Again, what would that accomplish beyond labeling you a traitor, terrorist, and maybe even a communist extremist turncoat and having your assets seized?

>>90766787
>in one of the shittiest countries in the world.
Australia?