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* BookEnds: [[spoiler:Bazil's friend Viro's first and last scenes come from being in danger while fighting a shark. The first time is PlayedForLaughs, but the second time, he perishes.]]
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* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: Convincing arguments are made to cast doubt on whether [[spoiler:Shalako's spirit returns as a champion of the Dark Gods, kills Dardanus out of revenge for his son exposing his crimes so many decades ago, and then is defeated when the non-evil gods make the recently slain Orin their champion]], or whether [[spoiler:Regin himself kills Dardanus to avenge Orin and then stages the scene and made up everything else to give the increasingly world-weary Atlanteans a new source of hope.]] On the other hand, in prior stories, even when the chronicler's narrative [[UnreliableNarrator diverges from what really happened]], the actual events are shown, and [[spoiler:the extent of Shalako's allegiance to the Dark Gods wasn't widely known to the Atlanteans.]]
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* StealthHiBye: Kordax vanishes from the battlefield when he is losing his duel with Fiona by having an octopus squirt out its ink, then being nowhere to be seen as the water clears.
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* GoodIsNotDumb: Downplayed with King Orin, who, despite some DudeWheresMyRespect treatment from some historians, is a good scientist and strategist who tends to be the "Abel" in the CainAndAbel dynamics with his brother. He gives iron to hostile neighboring tribes to try and make peace with them, but when they do attack, he has bigger weapons in reserve to drive them back.
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** Due to Shalako's magic and Kordax's control over sea life, the people of both cities Tritonis and Poseidonis feared anyone born with blond hair, including the future Aquaman.
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''The Atlantis Chronicles'' are a side story to the ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'' comics, published by Creator/DCComics in 1990. They were written by Creator/PeterDavid and illustrated by Esteban Maroto, Eric Kachelhofer, and Gaspar Saladino, and are presented as real-life documents.
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''The Atlantis Chronicles'' are a side story to the ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'' comics, published by Creator/DCComics in 1990. They were written by Creator/PeterDavid and illustrated by Esteban Maroto, Eric Kachelhofer, and Gaspar Saladino, and are presented as real-life historical documents.
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This series compares to ''ComicBook/TheKryptonChronicles'', a similar series detailing the history of Krypton, the home world of ComicBook/{{Superman}}.
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Detailing the history of Atlantis through its various chroniclers, all of whom have their own quirks and biases, it tells of the sinking of the city via meteor and the people's attempts to rebuild and forge new lives under the sea as the people of Poseidonis and Tritonis found separate ways to deal with the new situation. Also included are major historical figures, such as Arion, Orin the First, Shalako, Cora, Atlan, Atlanna, and the cursed Kordax, whose control over sea life made the people fear anyone born with blond hair.
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Detailing the history of Atlantis through its various chroniclers, all of whom have their own quirks and biases, it tells of the sinking of the city via meteor and the people's attempts to rebuild and forge new lives under the sea as the people of Poseidonis and Tritonis found separate ways to deal with the new situation. Also included are major historical figures, such as Arion, Orin the First, Shalako, Cora, Dardanus, Honsu, Atlan, Atlanna, and the cursed Kordax, whose control over sea life made the people fear anyone born with blond hair.
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* DeathFromAbove: A skull-faced meteor crashes down onto Atlantis, sinking it.
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* DeathFromAbove: A skull-faced meteor crashes down onto Atlantis, sinking it.it and killing countless people.
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* DramaticIrony: The comic gets a lots of mileage out of the fact that the text-boxes are directly from ''The Atlantis Chronicles'', but the events on-panel are what actually happened. This is generally played for laughs, but it turns horrific at the end of issue 3, where the chronicler notes that the princess was reportedly frigid on her wedding night, and chalks it up to nerves (it being her first time and all). The reader, however, knows that she had been raped the previous night.
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* DramaticIrony: The comic gets a lots lot of mileage out of the fact that the text-boxes are directly from ''The Atlantis Chronicles'', but the events on-panel are what actually happened. This is generally played for laughs, but it turns horrific at the end of issue 3, where the chronicler notes that the princess was reportedly frigid on her wedding night, and chalks it up to nerves (it being her first time and all). The reader, however, knows that she had been raped the previous night.
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* CallBack: The Cave of Death was last seen in ''ComicBook/Aquaman1962'' with its properties completely unknown. Here it's revealed it was the birthplace of Kordax and a nexus of magic for the sorcerer Shalako.
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* ColonyDrop: Atlantis was originally sunk by a massive asteroid. Shalako and his followers believed it to be this, sent by the Goddess of the Sky to punish the Atlanteans for forsaking her. But most assume it was just a natural event.
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Detailing the history of Atlantis through its various chroniclers, all of whom have their own quirks and biases, it tells of the sinking of the city via meteor and the people's attempts to rebuild and forge new lives under the sea as the people of Poseidonis and Tritonis found separate ways to deal with the new situation. Also included are major historical figures, such as Arion, Orin the First, Shalako, Atlan, Atlanna, and the cursed Kordax, whose control over sea life made the people fear anyone born with blond hair.
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Detailing the history of Atlantis through its various chroniclers, all of whom have their own quirks and biases, it tells of the sinking of the city via meteor and the people's attempts to rebuild and forge new lives under the sea as the people of Poseidonis and Tritonis found separate ways to deal with the new situation. Also included are major historical figures, such as Arion, Orin the First, Shalako, Cora, Atlan, Atlanna, and the cursed Kordax, whose control over sea life made the people fear anyone born with blond hair.
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* FantasticRacism: Once the Tritonians gained fish legs, and later tails, it wasn't long before the Poseidonians looked down on them as fish-heads.
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** Once the Tritonians gained fish legs, and later tails, it wasn't long before the Poseidonians looked down on them asfish-heads.fish-heads.
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** Due to Shalako's magic and Kordax's control over sea life, the people of both cities feared anyone born with blond hair, including the future Aquaman.
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* IJustWriteTheThing: Peter David steadfastly rejects any suggestion that he was ultimately in control of the plot and claimed events came to him as they happened in 'real life'.
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[[caption-width-right:398:The rise and fall of Atlantis.]]
''The Atlantis Chronicles'' are a side story to the ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'' comics, published by Creator/DCComics in 1990. They were written by Creator/PeterDavid and illustrated by Esteban Maroto, Eric Kachelhofer, and Gaspar Saladino, and are presented as real-life documents.
Detailing the history of Atlantis through its various chroniclers, all of whom have their own quirks and biases, it tells of the sinking of the city via meteor and the people's attempts to rebuild and forge new lives under the sea as the people of Poseidonis and Tritonis found separate ways to deal with the new situation. Also included are major historical figures, such as Arion, Orin the First, Shalako, Atlan, Atlanna, and the cursed Kordax, whose control over sea life made the people fear anyone born with blond hair.
Elements of this series were included in ''ComicBook/Aquaman1991'' and to a ''much'' greater extent in David's ''ComicBook/Aquaman1994'', which he used as a stepping stone for much of his worldbuilding.
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!!These Chronicles contain examples of:
* AwesomeUnderwaterWorld: When Orin takes the serum allowing him to breathe underwater, he happily dances among the sea creatures, and the art takes pain to show how beautiful it is.
* DeathFromAbove: A skull-faced meteor crashes down onto Atlantis, sinking it.
* DramaticIrony: The comic gets a lots of mileage out of the fact that the text-boxes are directly from ''The Atlantis Chronicles'', but the events on-panel are what actually happened. This is generally played for laughs, but it turns horrific at the end of issue 3, where the chronicler notes that the princess was reportedly frigid on her wedding night, and chalks it up to nerves (it being her first time and all). The reader, however, knows that she had been raped the previous night.
* FantasticRacism: Once the Tritonians gained fish legs, and later tails, it wasn't long before the Poseidonians looked down on them as fish-heads.
* GenerationXerox: A basic theme of the series is feuding royal brothers, dating back to the founding of Atlantis; the present day Aquaman and Ocean Master are just the latest generation.
* MetafictionalTitle: The series explores Aquaman's ancestry through ''The Atlantis Chronicles'', the collected archives of Atlantean Royal Historians.
* MysticalPregnancy: Atlan visits Atlanna in her dreams to have sex with her, with Aquaman being born from their union.
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[[caption-width-right:398:The rise and fall of Atlantis.]]
''The Atlantis Chronicles'' are a side story to the ''ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}'' comics, published by Creator/DCComics in 1990. They were written by Creator/PeterDavid and illustrated by Esteban Maroto, Eric Kachelhofer, and Gaspar Saladino, and are presented as real-life documents.
Detailing the history of Atlantis through its various chroniclers, all of whom have their own quirks and biases, it tells of the sinking of the city via meteor and the people's attempts to rebuild and forge new lives under the sea as the people of Poseidonis and Tritonis found separate ways to deal with the new situation. Also included are major historical figures, such as Arion, Orin the First, Shalako, Atlan, Atlanna, and the cursed Kordax, whose control over sea life made the people fear anyone born with blond hair.
Elements of this series were included in ''ComicBook/Aquaman1991'' and to a ''much'' greater extent in David's ''ComicBook/Aquaman1994'', which he used as a stepping stone for much of his worldbuilding.
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!!These Chronicles contain examples of:
* AwesomeUnderwaterWorld: When Orin takes the serum allowing him to breathe underwater, he happily dances among the sea creatures, and the art takes pain to show how beautiful it is.
* DeathFromAbove: A skull-faced meteor crashes down onto Atlantis, sinking it.
* DramaticIrony: The comic gets a lots of mileage out of the fact that the text-boxes are directly from ''The Atlantis Chronicles'', but the events on-panel are what actually happened. This is generally played for laughs, but it turns horrific at the end of issue 3, where the chronicler notes that the princess was reportedly frigid on her wedding night, and chalks it up to nerves (it being her first time and all). The reader, however, knows that she had been raped the previous night.
* FantasticRacism: Once the Tritonians gained fish legs, and later tails, it wasn't long before the Poseidonians looked down on them as fish-heads.
* GenerationXerox: A basic theme of the series is feuding royal brothers, dating back to the founding of Atlantis; the present day Aquaman and Ocean Master are just the latest generation.
* MetafictionalTitle: The series explores Aquaman's ancestry through ''The Atlantis Chronicles'', the collected archives of Atlantean Royal Historians.
* MysticalPregnancy: Atlan visits Atlanna in her dreams to have sex with her, with Aquaman being born from their union.
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