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* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Arguably, the Peter David series.

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]. Out of necessity during his Peter David run, or he'd go nuts with grief.

* [[Democracy Is Bad]]: Atlantis and its adjacent hidden kingdoms have a horrendous track record in regards to its own politics and leadership choices. A running staple in Aquaman Comics is that whenever Arthur is deposed and left for dead by his doofus people is that he ends up having to save them from themselves and their cackhanded attempts at choosing a new monarch.

* [[Depending on the Writer]]: Whether he outright ''controls'' fish, or if they just do as he says because he's the king of the ocean. For example, [[Geoff Johns]] explicitly states the former in the first issue of latest series.

* [[Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?]]: Constantly. Aquaman throws down with Gods and Lovecraftian Horrors on the reg. Starting in his teenage years, when he messed up Triton's attempts to, um, "claim" Wonder Woman, through Peter David's run where he threw down with Poseidon, Hades, [[Eldritch Abomination|Tiamat]] and others, all the way up to the more modern stories where he's "only" picking fights with Lovecraftian Horrors at the bottom of the Ocean, or the [[The Spectre|living embodiment]] of God's wrath.

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** [[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.

* [[Never My Fault]]: Atlanteans tend to have a nasty little habit of turning on one another or blaming someone else for their faults whenever Atlantis is destroyed their their lives end in ruins as a result of the peoples own poor choices. Case in point, after Atlantis was destroyed during '''Day of Vengeance''' the survivors turned their anger on the magicians who lost their powers. Thinking it was they're dabbling in the forbidden craft that drew the Spectre's ire. As if letting a [[Fantasy Axis of Evil|arcane shadow government]] takeover whom motivated them into [[Ungrateful Bastard|having Arthur exiled and death sentenced for saving them from being enslaved by their jerkass ancestors]] in the Obsidian Age. And that was just the latest in a long, [[Punctuated for Emphasis|LONG]] list of misguided blunders on they're account due to appointing blind, selfish leaders.

* [[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]].