History Headscratchers / Aquaman2018

*** As for why Arthur has a claim without marriage, it’s never fully explained, but a lot of characters state it’s strong including king Nereus, mera, and possible Orm who accepts this when he baits Arthur into the “combat of champions” which is a fight for the throne. King nereus even says it's “stronger” well Mera calls it his “rightful place” to sit on the throne. The system could therefore be something like Agnatic seniority, where the oldest of a generation gets the throne or something like the ottoman empire where it just goes to the strongest Son, and where their half-brother’s were always considered a problem. Maybe even just primogeniture where marriage in Atlantis could be formal agreement to confirm heirs without any actual law binding only those children. We don’t see anyone, royal or otherwise, take a mistress and the one time someone does, in this case Arthur’s mother, it’s considered enough that she was executed. Maybe marriage just isn’t as important for inheritance. Essentially the laws are anything but the laws the UK has.

** Actually, it is likely Atlan's successor, considering Atlantis was already adapted to living underwater by that point in time, as seen when they put their Mother Box away in its chamber.

** As they're leaving the bar, just before Mera's appearance, Thomas talks about working on Arthur's ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C4%81_moko tā moko]]'', and that Arthur's grandfather would be disappointed in their lack of progress on it. So yes, it's a safe conclusion that the Currys have Māori heritage.

*** Well photosynthesis can only occur in the first 660feet of surface water, the average depth of the ocean floor is ~12000feet. Point is there would be no biological advantage to melanin so everybody should be very pale. However, very limited access to sunlight inhibits vitamin D production so perhaps their light sources give out UV rays. Or they have tanning salons; seeing as only the elite class could ever get a tan I imagine it would be appealing to be tanned. [[folder]]

*** Well photosynthesis can only occur in the first 660feet of surface water, the average depth of the ocean floor is ~12000feet. Point is there would be no biological advantage to melanin so everybody should be very pale. However, very limited access to sunlight inhibits vitamin D production so perhaps their light sources give out UV rays.[[/folder]]

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I know this is a really petty thing to get hung up on... but why do creatures who evolved well out of the sun have such hearty complexions? Shouldn't they, like, beyond-Scandinavian-pale? We can give Arthur a pass since he has a dark-skinned human father and darker genes tend to be more dominant and he probably gets out in the sun a lot more, but the rest of them?

I know this is a really petty thing to get hung up on... but why do creatures who evolved well out of the sun have such hearty complexions? Shouldn't they, like, beyond-Scandinavian-pale? We can give Arthur a pass since he has a human father and darker genes tend to be more dominant, but the rest of them?

*** Didn't Arthur say that they went to war with the Amazons when in route to the battle with Stephanwolf in the Justice League movie?

*** Nothing indicates that the DCEU's Amazons have been in any kind of conflict with Atlanteans. As far as we know, the Amazons have lived secluded on their island for thousands of years, not bothering with what's outside of it.

** It's just a BythePowerofGrayskull moment.

*** Didn't Arther say that they went to war with the Amazons when in route to the battle with Stephanwolf in the Justice League movie?

** As noted above the problem isn't a lack of power, it's stopping the war before it starts. Any of the League showing up would just give Orm further ammunition ("Look, the surface dwellers send their freaks to kills us!"). If the war actually openly began on the surface naturally they'd be involved but it never came to that and Arthur is the only Atlantean they know so any investigation into the tsunamis is going nowhere.

** Nothing really indicates that he knows her in ''Justice League'' (she probably recognizes him because his tattoos are obviously not Atlantean), but he somehow did know where the Mother Box was (not in Atlantis, as confirmed by James Wan recently). He is familiar with the surface world, so he's the most likely dude around her to go immediately after Steppenwolf, and he's the son of the Atlantean queen who raised her, those two reasons are enough to provide him with an armor.
** Also, nothing really indicates he didn't know her in ''Justice League'' despite not knowing her name. We know that Mera hangs around Vulko more than anyone else in Atlantis, and Vulko doubled as Orm's vizir and Arthur's teacher. Thus, we can safely assume Arthur knew Mera for as much as he knew Vulko, but as the "cute but crazy redhead hanging around Vulko and sometimes telling me useful stuff".