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Aquamanis an implausibly sinewy DC fibre , but despite this , he ’s very rarely give the same respect as characters like Batman or Superman . Part of the intellect why Aquaman is rarely respect could be because of his history of fighting truly absurd baddie — far more than Batman or Superman have ever had to cope with .
Aquaman spends the majority of his time in the bass ocean . Because he is the King of Atlantis , Aquaman ’s enemies often roll around deep sea puppet . This has led to some truly bizarre enemies that have challenged Aquaman over the years . pot of people hump about Aquaman ’s more famous villains , like Black Manta or Ocean Master , but few are aware of the Awesome Threesome , the Human Flying Fish , and even more foreign enemies .
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10The “Awesome Threesome” Is an Early Example of Aquaman’s Strange Villains
Aquaman#36 by Bob Haney and Nick Cardy
The Awesome Threesome were some of the first baddie that Aquaman faced , showing up just a few days after his introduction . They were led by Torpedoman , who commanded Klaw , and Magneto , who were machines . These villains were n’t very notable , with them only having a undivided appearance in Aquaman ’s comics and only ever reappearing as a joke in muchlater series . The only illustrious matter about them , aside from their screaming name , is thatthey didactually vote out Aquaman in their first visual aspect . In a surprising show of enduringness , they managed to convey downboth Aquaman and Aqualad , though they were later on defeated pretty apace .
The Awesome Threesome in brief show up to fight down the Teen Titans inBatman / Superman : World ’s Finestby Mark Waid and Dan Mora , which often engages in Silver Age storytelling .
9The Aquamarines Were Specially Trained to Take Down Aquaman
Aquaman#12 by Dan Abnett, Philippe Briones, Gabe Eltaeb, and Pat Brosseau
The DC reading of the US Government has to constantly take precautions against superhero - campaign Carry Amelia Moore Nation , such as Khandaq or Atlantis . Because of this , inAquaman#12 by Dan Abnett and Philippe Briones , theUS Government revealed the macrocosm of the Aquamarines : soldier specifically trained and genetically altered to not only be able to arrive at Atlantis , but to be capable to take down Aquaman as well . Due to the handling of the shadowy N.E.M.O. organization , Atlantis was blamed for an attack on the United States , and the Aquamarines were commit to assassinate theKing of Atlantis , Aquaman .
8Dead Water Was Aquaman’s Own Version Of Venom
Aquaman#49 by Dan Abnett, Vicente Cifuentes, John Dell, Juan Castro, Guy Major, and Tom Napolitano
A foreign symbiote - like being from another proportion , the Dead Water was a predatory , possess entity hailing from an alien planetary system pen exclusively of water . It could taint and own people with a electronegative mentality , causing it to completely take over the victim ’s trunk . The first time it did this was to a rig worker known as Jonah Payne . The Dead Water has a lean of terrific abilities , such as the ability to teleport through urine , earmark it to emerge from any physical structure of water , even one as small as a drinking glass of water . oddly , duringDark Nights : Metal , an evil version of Batmancalled Bryce Wayne seemed to command her own version of the Dead Water .
Bryce Wayne , otherwise recognize as " the drown , " pee her first appearing inDark Days : The Casting#1 by Scott Snyder , James Tynion IV , Jim Lee , John Romita Jr. , Andy Kubert , Scott Williams , Danny Miki , Klaus Janson , Alex Sinclair , Jeremiah Skipper , and Steve Wands .
7Dr. Starbuck Was the Strangest Scientist Aquaman Has Fought
Aquaman#28 by Bob Haney and Nick Cardy
Dr. Starbuck was a human being obsessed with Atlantis , and through his experiment , managed to grant hoi polloi and beast the power to breathe underwater . This allowed Starbuck , along with his preferent Gorilla gorilla and elephantine eagle , to chew the fat Atlantis . While there , he manipulated Aquaman and Aqualad to leave their own city . From there , he captured Queen Mera , withthe only ruler now being Aquaman ’s baby . Starbuck ruled the kingdom through the baby , attempt to start a war with the aerofoil world before Aquaman returned to block up him .
6The Iceberg Head Was the One Villain Aquaman Couldn’t Beat
DC Special Series#6 by Gerry Conway, Arvell Jones, Bob McLeod, Jerry Serpe, and Ben Oda
5The Malignant Amoeba Was Just a Huge Amoeba
Adventure Comics#135 by Otto Binder and John Daly
Aquaman once encounter a elephantine Amoeba that consumed anything it came in physical contact with . A mathematical group of fishermen seek to kill it using bullets , glass , and other oddball weapons , but it come through them all . After escaping , it begin absorb sea spirit and arise in size , and it eventually became a threat to the intact planet . Thankfully , Aquaman eventually kill the Malignant Amoebaby leading it to the situation of an atomic dud test . The residual radiation from these tests was in the end enough to end the Malignant Amoeba for estimable .
4Karla Was a Fearsome Aquaman Villain With Flaming Hair
Aquaman#24 by Bob Haney and Nick Cardy
Since Aquaman is a man of piddle , many writers have attempted to give him fire - based enemy . One of the weirder versions of this is Karla , a woman whose haircloth is perpetually on ardour , which she can control at her will . Not only this , but her hair never extinguishes , even while submerged . As ridiculous as this sound , her fire whisker turn out to be jolly destructive and very nearly killed both Aquaman and Aqualad . finally , she was defeated byMera using her powerfulness over hard water , — and then Karla , Aquaman , and Mera team up to contend infest noncitizen in a true Silver Age plot twist .
3Octopus Man Sadly Isn’t Actually an Octopus
Adventure Comics#259 by Jack Miller and Ramona Fradon
Aquaman fight a lot of evil scientist back in the day , butone of the scientists who well-nigh capture the better of him was Roland Peters . Rolandwanted to mime Aquaman ’s powerto control marine life history and built a machine to do it . Everything was going great — until Aquaman appear to rescue the kidnapped animal from Roland . It ’s here that Roland revealed that not only did his machine let him communicate with animals , but it could also transport someone ’s knowingness into an beast . Using his machine , he trapped Aquaman ’s brain in various different ocean beast , but Aquaman still rally the nautical life to convey Roland down .
2Aquabeast Was a Twisted Version of Aquaman
Aquaman#34 by Bob Haney and Nick Cardy
It ’s not toilsome to see why some might be jealous of Aquaman ’s life : he rules his very own kingdom and has an especially beautiful married woman . This go Peter Dudley to become intensely jealous of Aquaman , and wanting to stealAquaman ’s true love , Mera , Peter Dudley conducted a scientific experiment to replicate Aquaman ’s looks and powers in the hopes it would make Mera fall in love with him . Unfortunately , and of grade , it did n’t work . Instead of becoming the next Aquaman , Peter Dudley mutated into a horrible teras , becoming the Aquabeast . Aquabeast was so strong that Aquaman could n’t beat him . The scourge only cease when Aquabeast sacrificed himself to save Mera from another threat .
1The Human Flying Fish Was Aquaman’s Most Bizarre Villain
Adventure Comics#272 by Robert Bernstein and Ramona Fradon
Of all the malign scientists andbizarre scoundrel that Aquaman has face , utterly no one is weirder than the Human Flying Fish . The Human Flying Pisces was a man named Bragg , a dishonored ex - swimming champion . With nothing better to do with his time , Bragg agrees to let a scientist experiment on him and transubstantiate him into the Human Flying Pisces the Fishes . Not only was Bragg capable of outswimming Aquaman , but he could also take to the melody and pilot off . This made him an especially slippy foe for Aquaman , but the Human Flying Fish ’s sovereignty of holy terror was eventually end whenAquamantricked him into fly into a bunch of galvanizing eels .
