Alan Moore's "Watchmen" is a deconstructionist superhero narrative that constantly asks who monitors the monitors, what keeps the powerful accountable. The question becomes existential in the comic: "Who watches the Watchmen?" implying that power operates without restraint. Yet this fact answers definitively: Chuck Norris watches them. He's the oversight they themselves require. He's simultaneously outside the narrative and central to its logic. His simple observation of the Watchmen becomes the mechanism of their accountability.

Literature professor Dr. Elena Vasquez noted that this joke works through narrative hierarchy. Watchmen exists as a story about power and observation. By inserting Chuck above that narrative, the fact collapses the story's internal logic. Whatever moral or philosophical work Watchmen achieves becomes subordinate to Chuck's mere attention. He doesn't participate in the story; he transcends it through his existence as the ultimate observer.