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* One of the absolute best, though, is one in which he isn't even present: at the end of [[Patton Oswalt]]'s ''Justice League: Welcome to the Working Week'', the [[Big Bad]], despite having just been beaten, is gloating that it nevertheless took the entire Justice League to do so. The [[Big Bad]] then laments, "I'm saddened... your Sea King isn't here". The response is "[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_bdVR-JIDi2g/R_BOSTnSALI/AAAAAAAAGD8/dVxvZJ9707g/s1600-h/you-tell-him-kid-1.jpeg You're lucky our Sea King isn't here!]", because if he had been, the beating would have been that much worse...
* Near the end of PAD's run, Triton has killed Poseidon and is kicking the crap out of Aquaman and friends. Aquaman lets Triton kill him, so he can get to the afterlife. Once there, he decks Charon, rallies the souls who didn't have boatfare, jacks Charon's boat, runs Charon over with his own boat, storms the literal Gates of Hell, cuts off one of Cerberus' heads, marches right up to Pluto and demands Poseidon back, ultimately convincing Hades with a very solid [[Batman Gambit]]. On his way out, Cerberus is back, and Aquaman has just one word for the titanic guardian of the underworld: {{spoiler|"Stay."}}
* Kind of meta, but in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130224083617/http://www.newsarama.com/comics/january-2012-comic-book-sales-charts-120203.html January 2012 Aquaman was the number ten bestseller, higher than every non-DC book published that month.]
* In the first issue of Aquaman since the relaunch, writer Geoff Johns ''destroys'' the Aquaman jokes and misconceptions throughout. This includes a group of bank robbers laughing at him when he pops in to save the day and trying to run him over with a van, only to get flipped over with the trident, smashed onto the road and tossed into a police car windshield. When Aquaman leaves, the cops joke about how they're going to get made fun of for being "upstaged by Aquaman".
** In the same issue, Aquaman is just trying to get some fish and chips (yes, really), only to be harassed by a blogger. From the blogger, we learn that Aquaman is constantly thought of as the Super Friends version in-universe, and therefore largely thought of as a joke. The blogger questions Aquaman's ability to speak with fish (they aren't smart enough to speak, he just telepathically "pushes" them), what he does for money (treasure he finds at the bottom of the sea), and, best of all, how it feels to be "nobody's favorite superhero", to which Aquaman just activates his trident in response.
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