Characters of Aquaman

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The Characters of Aquaman are characters in the comic book Aquaman.

[edit] Supporting characters

Aquaman's companions over the years have included:

• Aquababy: Son of Aquaman and Mera, Arthur Curry, Jr., he inherited Mera's water-controlling powers. He was killed by Black Manta as a young child.
• Aqualad: An outcast orphan from the Atlantean colony of the Idylists whom Aquaman took in and who became for a time Aquaman's crimefighting partner and a member of the Titans. He currently goes by the name Tempest.
• Cal Durham: An African American hero who befriended Aquaman. He once served as Black Manta's lieutenant and was given the ability to breathe underwater.
• Dane Dorrance: Leader of the Sea Devils, a team of underwater adventurers.
• Deep Blue: Also known as Indigo, Debbie Perkins was thought to be the daughter of Neptune Perkins and Tsunami, but Atlan (Orin's father) was revealed to be her true father, meaning that she is Orin's half-sister. She cannot live out of the water. She can control sea life if she touches it, and can even change the size of creatures once she touches them.
• Dolphin: An amnesiac with alien-enhanced Atlantean-like physiology who was briefly Aquaman's love interest.
• Elsa Magnusson: The widow of Mark Merlin and an accomplished sorceress.
• Hila: Mera's twin sister, even Aquaman cannot tell them apart. Hila is married to Kandor, a former crook. She is less responsible than Mera and a little more wild. Current whereabouts unknown.
• Iqula and S'ona: The king and queen of Tritonis, sister city to Poseidonis, which is populated by mer-people.
• Jim Lockhart: Golden Age hero formerly known as the Red Torpedo.
• King Shark: Former enemy of Aquaman. Only living son of the God of Sharks.
• Koryak: Aquaman's illegitimate son by Kako, an Inupiat woman. Koryak, who possessed powers similar to Aquaman's, plotted with Vulko to take over Atlantis and was exiled, but was pardoned after the events of the Obsidian Age storyline. He died during an attack by the Spectre.
• Lagoon Boy: A green-skinned aquatic teen and sometime member of Young Justice.
• Letifos: Member of a race of shark-finned merfolk called the Sher'Hedeen. Assisted Tempest through some tough times. For awhile Garth thought she was the reincarnation of Tula. She is the only Sher'Hedeen who will willingly assist outsiders.
• Lorena Marquez: Also known as the second Aquagirl, Lorena was a regular human from San Diego, California, who was changed into a water-breather during the disaster that befell that city.
• Mera: Aquaman's ex-wife who possessed the power to form structures made of hard water.
• Mupo: A self-styled Poseidonis revolutionary who began an uprising against Narkran, who took over the city while Aquaman was searching for Mera. He was a close friend of Tula and Garth, who were around the same age as he.
• Neptune Perkins: A Golden Age water-breathing hero and later U.S. Senator. Died during Infinite Crisis.
• Nuada Silverarm: A powerful sorceress and friend of Aquaman who is queen of the Atlantean underwater city named Thierna Na Oge.
• Porm: A dolphin that acted as a surrogate mother for Aquaman. Killed during the events of Final Night
• Quisp: A "water-sprite" with magical powers who was Aquaman's friend but more often simply a nuisance. Later revealed to be a Fifth Dimensional Imp named Qwsp, like Johnny Thunder's Thunderbolt and Mister Mxyzptlk.
• Richard Mission: Aquaman's advisor during the time he was Poseidonis' ambassador to the UN.
• Spought: Went to Thierna na Oge when Aquaman freed him from his guardianship duties. He is long-lived and has some magical abilities.
• Topo: An octopus who was Aquaman's trained pet in various 1950s and 1960s stories.
• Tsunami: Japanese heroine, ex-wife of Neptune Perkins.
• Tula: Also known as the original Aquagirl; for a time, she was Aqualad's girlfriend. Died during the Crisis on Infinite Earths.
• Vulko: Nuidis Vulko was the chief scientific advisor of Poseidonis and onetime king; he was killed during the attack by the Spectre, and his ghost recently appeared in the current series.

[edit] Aquaman villains

Enemies of Aquaman include:

• The Awesome Threesome: A trio of robotic villains made up of Claw, Magneto, and Torpedo-Man (Torp).
• Black Jack: Modern-day pirate adversary of the Golden Age Aquaman.
• Black Manta: A would-be conqueror of Atlantis from the surface world and the murderer of Aquaman's infant son, Arthur. Possibly killed by Aquaman.
• Charybdis: The villain responsible for the loss of Aquaman's left hand.
• Fire Trolls: Gigantic enemies of the water sprites (Quisp's people) who have fire-based abilities.
• The Fisherman: A villain who uses fishing gimmicks to commit crimes.
• Kordax: An immortal ancestor of Aquaman's who commands all sea life.
• Marine Marauder: A villain with mental control over undersea life (a later villainess who fought The Outsiders had the same name, costume, and powers).
• Ocean Master: Another long-time foe of Aquaman. Ocean Master was revealed in the 1960s to be Aquaman's fully-human half-brother, Orm Marius, who had grown up in the shadow of his heroic half-brother and was jealous of his powers.
• O.G.R.E. Agents: Huntress, Krako, Black Manta, and Typhoon were agents of O.G.R.E.
• Piscator: A renegade Atlantean and self styled Janissary whom Aquaman fought while protecting president Marlo of Qurac. Member of the Onslaught.
• The Scavenger: He once wore an armored exo-skeletal diving suit and used high tech weapons. After a supposed reformation he was exposed as a pedophile called the Barracuda and killed by Hawkman.
• The Shark: Originally one of Green Lantern's enemies, Aquaman fought this mutated tiger shark on various occasions.
• Thanatos: An otherdimensional villain who repeatedly menaced Aquaman in his dreams. Killed by Major Disaster, who mistook Thanatos for Aquaman.