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* [[In a Single Bound]]: Being fully adapted to live in the pressure of the deepest sea trenches, Aquaman and Mera while on surface are both able to leap miles at at time through the air, with [[Incredible Hulk]]-like jumps.
* [[In-Series Nickname]]: While Mera found that amusing during the '60s run, a slight annoyance in the '90s, she's now shown as completely fed up at the amount of people calling her ''Aquawife'' or ''Aquawoman'', and ready to snap towards them whether they use the unwanted fan nickname in her presence.
* [[Jerkass Has a Point]]: A couple of the more antagonistic entities in the world of Aquaman tend to list the faults and flaws of both humanity and the mariner races of Atlantis. Usually, they tend to be spot on about them too.
** The Abyssal Dark, a malefic arcane force spawned by pre-history Atlantean sorcerers who became overly reliant upon magic as opposed to science. Jabbed at the Atlanteans for being a stagnant pack of idiots too the hideously mutated King Rath whose dabbling in it's power put all of his hideousness out in the open for all too see.
** Namma, A.K.A. Mother Salt, a [[Jerkass Gods|powerful and hideously vindictive]] Primordial Deity. Held endless contempt for her own divine spawn and all of their creations for murdering her husband eons prior to the dawn of man. She spited them all as fools and malcontents for wasting their energy garnering the faith in [[Humans Are Insane|worthless mortals]] whom eventually forgot about them over the millennia.
* [[Kraken and Leviathan]]: He's been called on to fight these things a few times. For obvious reasons, Aquaman can deal with them on a much more level playing field.
* [[Love Redeems]]: Mera, post [[Brightest Day]]. Raised as little more than an assassin, her only purpose in life enacting her people's revenge towards Atlantis, she was meant to get close to the then-current Atlantis' king and start tearing apart the undersea kingdom from behind. However, she found Aquaman noble, gentle and likeable, [[Becoming the Mask|becoming an affectionate wife]] and a heroine on her own.
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* [[Thematic Rogues Gallery]]: Most of Aquaman's enemies are involved with water and the ocean in one form or another.
* [[To Hell and Back]]: 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: [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|Stay.]]
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: Atlanteans, again, in full. Every time they try to elect a new leader over [[The Good King|Arthur]] due to their fascist narrow mindedness and equally simpleminded hatred, fear and petty racism of the surface world. They're penchant for electing bigoted, ignorant, self-serving jackasses who [[Unfit for Greatness|cause twice as much damage to their crapsuck nation]] in a few seconds than most of mankind has done to the world in billions of years really begs the question how the people of these assbackwards nameless nations have survived for so long.
* [[Ungreatful Townsfolk]]: Pretty much everybody. From the jerkwater citizenship of Atlantis whom Arthur has to save from their own cack-handed attempts at democracy time and time again, to the equally asinine homo sapiens who aren't much better off but are a lot more disrespectful to the jaundiced hero and the world they call home. Nevermind the fact that he saves these jerks from themselves on a weekly basis, given all the flack they've given him? They are all lucky that Arthur is a [[All-Loving Hero|kindly]], [[Humble Hero|decent]] [[Friend to All Living Things]] who's big enough to ignore their yap. And not as unforgiving, conniving or ill-tempered as another [[Sub-Mariner|Nature Hero]] who'd no sooner drown or fillet them than put up with crap from either side of the idiot coin.
* [[Upbringing Makes the Hero]]: In some continuities.
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