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Said [[Superfriends]] persona also appears in a [[Needs More Love|highly-unknown]] ([[No Export for You|only released in]] [[Latin America]]) official parody series called [[Aquaman and Friends Action Hour]], which resembles [[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]].

Aquaman now has a [[Aquaman/Characters|developing Character sheet.]]

 

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* [[This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman]]: the [[Trope Namer]], most noticeable in the ''Superfriends'' cartoon.

 

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* [[A Nazi by Any Other Name]]: Atlanteans, [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|In SPADES]]. No matter how they preach about wanting nothing to do with the surface world, it always boils down to them returning to [[Kill All Humans]] and/or anyone in their society with [[Hates Everyone Equally|marine life deformities]] somewhere down the line given their unstable and flimsy way of life. {{spoiler|It is any wonder how they survived themselves for ass long as they did}}. Either thinking they are [[Entitled Bastard|at liberty]] to retake a world they'ed long since abandoned. Or are simply a prideful, narcissistic and war mongering sort with a fascist hatred of anything not of they're culture.

* [[Gullible Lemmings]]: Atlantean culture is mired in an atrocious history of [[Unfit for Greatness|following the wrong guy]] down a dark path. Usually after a cabal of racist jerks supporting him or her work [[Apathetic Citizens|said ingrates]] into ousting [[The Good King|Arthur]], only to lead them all down the path to isolation and ruin.

* [[Hair of Gold]]: Aquaman

** Aquaman's mother Atlanna (pre-Crisis)

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]

** [[Memetic Mutation|PLATE]][[Large Ham|LET!]]

** And no one can forget Tusky the Walrus in the [[Filmation]] series (who even made a brief appearance in the [[New Titans]] comic) — though God knows I've tried.

* [[Our Mermaids Are Different]]: There are pretty much three different distinct varieties of Atlantean in Aquaman's oceans. Poseidonians - the [[Apparently Human Merfolk]] like Aquaman and most of the other Atlanteans. Tritonaians - your mermaids and mermen like Lori Lemaris. And an unnamed race of [[Fish People]] like Lagoon Boy, the animated version of Triton, or the revamped Topo. In ''[[Superman]] #129'', [http://superman.nu/tales2/lori/?page=9 it was established] that when scientists learned that Atlantis was sinking, they built a giant dome over the city, then later found a way to convert the populace into merfolk. As to why this has anything to do with Aquaman, ''[[Adventure Comics]] #280'' [http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_rLV-ZuNPwJ4/S4OS6tRoq7I/AAAAAAAAGwc/t8U5w2aqgac/s1600-h/Adventure280_06.jpg tells] that not everyone became merfolk successfully, thus a domed city remained necessary. This origin was later retconned in ''The Atlantis Chronicles'', where is clearly stated that the acquatic serum was never meant to convert Atlanteans into merfolks, but rather to merely give them the ability to breathe water and thrive in the ocean. The merfolk came to be much later as an accident, when Shalako, a villainous wizard-prince of Atlantis, just to spite his scientist brother, [[A Wizard Did It|tampered with the special serum used to achieve the transformation]], turning his denizens into frog-legged humans, who later gave birth to the current merfolk. So, while every Atlantean city was originally domed, some of them got the domes dismantled for the benefit of the merfolks. Curiously, the [[Fish People]] of Atlantis have yet to be given either an official name or origin story in the entirety of the franchise's history.

* [[Overshadowed by Awesome]]: For all the grief that pop culture gives him, Aquaman is by no means a lightweight - command over all sea-life, de-facto leader of the oceans and super-strength among other qualities. Problem is, he regularly hangs out with powerhouses like [[Superman]] and [[Wonder Woman]].

* [[Required Secondary Powers]]: Due to being adapted for life deep underwater as well as dry land Aquaman has basically won the [[Superpower Lottery]]: He's strong and tough to the point where he can lift around 20 tons, has several [[Super Senses]], is very fast, and his telepathic abilities are as strong as (if not stronger than) the [[Martian Manhunter]].

** Aquaman is actually far above twenty tons, both in and out of water. And he's even admitted J'onn is the more powerful telepath

* [[Rogues Gallery Transplant]]: The Shark and King Shark started out menacing Green Lantern and [[Superboy]], respectively.

* [[Running Gag]]: Aquaman's love of hot dogs. This led to a hilarious moment when he was forced to see a doctor for an unrelated issue, and told he should be eating more fish.

* [[Sidekick]]: The Aqualads and Aquagirls.

* [[Straw Hypocrite]]: A lot of that going around within the oceanic cultures of the world. In the ''Sink Atlantis'' arc the very same hateful people of the now risen Atlantis, whom spent the better part of 20-30 issues. As well as thousands of years before that, holding the Ninth Tride slums in contempt for being a nesting ground of criminals and undesirables; e.i. The Sea Changed, people who were physically altered by magic and years spent adapting to life under the sea resulting in they're resemblance to the local fauna. A great many of the more fearful lot of the population fled in terror to these lower trides because [[Dirty Coward|they were so afraid]] of the open air and the light of day, even though they can breath air just fine.

* [[Speaks Fluent Animal]]: Only a few amongst the seafarer population possess the ability to commune with marine life, for Atlantean royals, like Aquaman. It is they're birthright.

** [[Technology From Magic]]: In other cases, both humans and Atlanteans have replicated Arthur's marine telepathy through a form of advanced science or [[Magitek]] to control the various sea creatures of the DC universe.

** Used in [[Geoff Johns]]'s run to show just how serious Aquaman and Mera can get.

*** Just as a warming up, Aquaman lifts with ease an armored truck on his own head, impaling it on his snazzy trident.

* [[The Chew Toy]]: In more than a way.

** Aquaman's life, after the ''Superfriends'' screwed his reputation, has spiraled into a long series of blunders and humiliations. In order: he lost his beloved son, was left by his wife (who, by the way, started to openly loathe and hate him, berating him for A.J.'s death with every breath), was exiled again from Atlantis with no apparent reason, got his left hand eaten by piranhas, pursued a relationship with a [[Cute Mute]] aquatic girl who later became noticeably less mute and somewhat less cute (trying to kill him because of a major [[Mind Screw]], leaving him for Tempest), became king again and got back Mera just to be later exiled, cursed and left to die by Atlantean Wizards, became the Champion of the Lady of the Lake and major of a city of modern waterbreathers just to be forced to trade his humanoid looks and sanity for keeping them alive, died while grooming his successor, was called back as a soulless inanimated corpse, was resurrected to have his hand lopped off (again) and was unwillingly turned into the new Water Elemental. He got better every time, but that's not the point.

 

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