History Characters / PreFlashpointAquaman

* ApparentlyHumanMerfolk

* BashBrothers: With ComicBook/MartianManhunter

* DisabilitySuperpower / MagicalAccessory: His grappling-hook hand, liquid-metal hand and later, his magical water hand.

*** DimensionalTraveler

** ElementalShapeshifter
** AnthropomorphicPersonification

* {{Bishonen}}

* EvilSorcerer

* OffingTheOffspring: His ghost kills his son, Dardanus, after the latter kills Orin I.

* KarmicDeath: Slain by the ghost of his father, Shalako.

* SmugSnake

* RetGone: In the New 52, there initially was never even ''one'' Aqualad. Subverted in DCRebirth.

* RingOfPower: Played with, a leg brace she enchanted and gave to Arthur which forms his water hand.
** MagicalAccessory
*** MagicJewelry

** HealingHands: Hand to be more precise, the waterbearer can heal most anything that ails ya if given direct contact

* DisappearedDad: Post-Crisis, Arthur returned to the lighthouse to find he's gone.

* AxCrazy: His mental state was questionable at best but after his transformation well...
** LaughingMad: Due to his deterioating mental state, he could give Joker a run for his money in this department.
* AnythingYouCanDoICanDoBetter: has all of Orin's abilities but many of which at a much greater degree.

* {{Telepathy}}: Got this from ripping off AC powers.

* WesternTerrorists

* HollywoodAutism: Manta's depiction bore next to no resemblance to genuine autism, especially once Aquaman started suggesting that his violence and sadism were caused by it. While autism sufferers can certainly become violent just like anyone else (and may suffer from high levels of frustration), they are not the empathy devoid lunatics that Manta is portrayed as.

* [[spoiler:HeroicBastard]]

* SuperiorSpecies: Much like aquaman though significantly weaker than him, Aqualad is at least four times stronger and faster than the average atlantean.

* AbsoluteCleavage
* ActionGirl
* BattleCouple: With Aquaman.
* TheBerserker: While in the Red Lanterns.
* BerserkButton: Calling her Aquawife.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Inverted, a spell cast by Hagen to spite Arthur and Co, turned her gills into lungs making her surroundings inhospitable to her.
* FieryRedhead: While Arthur can be pretty hot blooded himself, Mera is far less restrained with voicing her thoughts.
* HappilyMarried: Usually.
* HeroesWantRedheads
* HeroicBSOD: When her son was killed, she went insane for a time.
* LadyOfWar
* TheLancer: To her husband.
* MamaBear: Like her husband, messing with her kids or with Atlantis means that you'll have to deal with her very shortly, and odds are that you're not going to survive a confrontation like that.
* [[PuppetKing Puppet Queen]]: After escaping the Obsidian Age she becomes this to a trecherous consortiom of magic crafters, they even go the extra mile of getting her to exile their king and her husband.
* RoyalsWhoActuallyDoSomething
* SignificantGreenEyedRedhead
* StalkerWithACrush: Red Lantern Atrocitus is rather infatuated with Queen Mera.
* {{Telepathy}}: It allows her to communicate with other Atlanteans, but she can't [[SpeaksFluentAnimal talk with other marine life]].
* UnstoppableRage: To put it lightly, Mera is nowhere near as patient as her husband.
** To the point that she became a deputized [[Characters/GLRedLanternCorps Red Lantern]]!

A kindly benefactor who guards the [[MagicalLand Secret Sea]] along with her mystic sea nymph hand maidens who wait on her as well as doting seafarers who've passed on the oceans as servants and occasional concubines. Having had ties with [[{{TheLadyOfTheLake}} too Arthurian legend]] she aided then disposed king of the seas; Orin of Atlantis when his own people left him for dead and after [[NebulousEvilOrganisation a mystic cabal]] enchants the sea life against him, making Arthur her champion by gifting him with her particular seas power.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Coincidentally had the same first and last name as the first Aquaman's surface name.[[/folder]]

Lorena was once an ordinary inhabitant of the Californian city San Diego, but she was present when an earthquake sunk part of it. Aquaman retrieved her and nursed her back to health, discovering that she, along with every other resident present during the sinking, had the ability to breathe underwater. She adopted the name of Aquagirl, leading the effort to rebuild the sunken portion of the city as Sub Diego.

* MentalHandicapMoralDefiency: When a writer in the early 2000s decided to give him a case of HollywoodAutism that left him totally incapable of communicating with anyone around him, then had Aquaman come to the conclusion that Manta's evil was caused ''by'' his autism. After being magically cured by Aquaman, Manta was, thankfully, still evil, but even the suggestion was pretty ableist.

* EvilCripple: When a writer in the early 2000s decided to give him a case of HollywoodAutism that left him totally incapable of communicating with anyone around him, then had Aquaman come to the conclusion that Manta's evil was caused ''by'' his autism. After being magically cured by Aquaman, Manta was, thankfully, still evil, but even the suggestion was pretty ableist.

* AssholeVictim: While a trusted adviser & confidant before dying in ''Day of Vengeance''. One can't forget he plotted with the other son to steal the throne or personally oversaw Orin's sentencing after escaping the Obsidian Age.

* InternalReformist: When Vulko found that the new regime under sorc rule after the Obsidian Age was built on the foundation of corruption and self gain. He turned to enlist the thought to be failed super soldier experiment to take back the throne of Atlantis from its sorcerous monarchs.

* CainAndAbel: With her sister Bres, resulting in the latter's death during the post-Crisis timeline.
* DistaffCounterpart: She has a lot in common with Aquaman, right down to her rivalry with Bres, which mimics his problems with Ocean Master. Post-Crisis the similarities only became stronger, courtesy of his loss of his hand.

* LadyOfWar

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure

* FreudianExcuse: He has two vague excuses. The first one was that he was kidnapped and enslaved for an unspecified amount of time. He saw Aquaman and called out for help, but Aquaman didn't hear him. The other one was that he was autistic and underwent experimental treatment that left him angry and hateful.

* MadeOfIron: His suit not only provides him protection from the crushing undersea depths, but allows him to take hits from Aquaman. He was even once hit by a semi, only to get back up a second later.

* BadassNormal: Pre-Crisis, when he was just a normal human being.

* AssholeVictim: While most had died when The Spectre ripped through the mermaid capitol, no tears were shed for this guys tattered remains at the end by the survivors who lived.

!Enemies

[[folder:Black Manta (David)]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Y'see, deep down, in my most secret heart of hearts, I'm still a totally depraved sonuvabitch whose main goal in life is to watch you die. Slowly and painfully. Just like your kid."'']]

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Black Manta is a longtime Aquaman foe and a prime candidate for the title of his worst enemy. A sociopathic PsychoForHire and pirate who's dedicated his life to ruining Aquaman's. Dressed in a combination scuba suit and PowerArmour, Black Manta's most infamous act was undoubtedly killing Aquaman's son.

* MalcolmXerox: In the 1970s, Black Manta revealed that he is African American seeking a homeland for his race, but that motive turned out to be a self-serving lie.

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* VillainousMakeover: Subverted. In the alternate reality Ocean Master created, Lorena was his right hand woman and wore a costume he'd granted her. When reality righted itself, Lorena stole that costume to become Aquagirl II.

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* BaldOfEvil

* CombatPragmatist

* EmpoweredBadassNormal: Neron turned him into a manta-man in ''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed''.

* FreudianExcuse:
** He has two vague [[FreudianExcuse Freudian excuses]]. The first one was that he was kidnapped and enslaved for an unspecified amount of time. He saw Aquaman and called out for help, but Aquaman didn't hear him. The other one was that he was autistic and underwent experimental treatment that left him angry and hateful.

* ScaryBlackMan: Upon hearing Aquaman is still alive, he butchers everyone in a fish market with a carving knife, burns the entire place down, silently wades into the ocean, and rises back up in his armor.

* TheSociopath

Black Manta is Aquaman's arch enemy. A sociopathic PsychoForHire and pirate who's dedicated his life to ruining Aquaman's. Dressed in a combination scuba suit and PowerArmour, Black Manta's most infamous act was undoubtedly killing Aquaman's son.

* CardCarryingVillain: ''"Y'see, deep down, in my most secret heart of hearts, I'm still a totally depraved sonuvabitch whose main goal in life is to watch you die. Slowly and painfully. Just like your kid."''

* BareYourMidriff