Arthur Curry

Arthur Curry was the king of Atlantis and the superhero known as Aquaman. Following the defeat of his half-brother, Orm he becomes a member of the Justice League.
==Biography==
=== Justice League: The Flashpoint ParadoxPre-Flashpoint ===
The Justice League gathered at the Flash Museum after an alert about a breaking and entering was flagged. The perpetrators, the Rogues, were planted with futuristic bombs by Professor Zoom and left to die, all to kill the Flash. Aquaman took custody of Top and tossed him into the harbor nearby. He then summoned a million microbes to eat away at the bomb's wiring.
===Flashpoint===
In the Flashpoint timeline, instead of being a superhero, Orin became King of Atlantis. When he and Diana had an affair, Mera tried to intervene and was killed. Feeling betrayed, Orin declared war on the Amazons. In the war, he captured Captain Atom to power a doomsday device with which he intends to kill the Themyscirans. He also sank Western Europe into the ocean but the Themyscirans were protected by magic renaming the occupied British Isles New Themyscira.
As Deathstroke and Lex Luthor attempted to look for Aquaman's weapon, Aquaman led his Atlantean forces to kill the crew, however, Lex transmitted coordinates to the United States Government. In a bid to try and end the war, Hal Jordan attempted a kamikaze run with an alien spacecraft and a powerful explosive, but Aquaman had a sea dragon eat Hal Jordan's craft and the payload. Aquaman and his fleet were unaffected by the blast and prepared for the invasion.
On New Themyscira, Aquaman launched an immense final battle and was surrounded by Grifter's resistance who were trying to call off the war. Aquaman simply resisted and fought with the heroes. In the end, Aquaman mortally injured Cyborg before his right arm was blasted off by Superman's heat vision. Seeing his Atlanteans dead, Aquaman was ambushed and pierced by Wonder Woman's sword. He refused to surrender knowing full well his people will be slaughtered by the Amazon Queen. He boasted for the greater good, he would not let Wonder Woman have the final victory and activated his doomsday device, vaporizing the Flashpoint Earth.
===Post-Flashpoint===
=== Justice League: Throne of Atlantis ===
Arthur Curry was born to Thomas Curry, a lightkeeper in Mercy Reef, Maine, and Queen Atlanna of Atlantis. He was conceived out of wedlock, during Atlanna's time on the surface with Thomas. Atlanna loved Thomas and Arthur Curry but she could not ignore the fact she was promised to the next king of Atlantis. Unable to wed Arthur or raise a half-breed son, Atlanna left them at Mercy Reef and returned home. At a young age, he once dove into the sea despite his father's warning. He briefly encountered his mother, whom he shared a brief, yet precious moment with her, where she gently whisked away without hurting her son, after she fondly kissing his forehead. Arthur instantly recognized his mother, and told his father about how he encountered, but Tom Curry didn't believe the story. Arthur insisted Atlanna was gone for good and it was just the two of them. At some point, Arthur saw Dr. Stephen Shin, a theoretical marine biologist, on the news talking about Atlantis. Tom wrote to Shin and asked for help with his half Atlantean son. Arthur grew up his whole life thinking something was wrong with him.
At adulthood, Arthur went through a period of grieving following his Thomas' recent death. After his father's passing and burial, Arthur drowned his sorrows at a local bar. He picked a fight with other patrons over a lobster he was talking to. As the fight went on, it became apparent he had inherited the enhanced attributes of an Atlantean. After throwing the last assailant into the sea, Curry released the lobster back into the wild. He never noticed he was being watched by both Mera, Atlanna's bodyguard, and Dr. Shin. He staggered back home to the Curry Lighthouse. Curry focused on a frame of his parents.
In light of current events, Queen Atlanna came to believe her people craved a new perspective of the surface world. She believed her first born would be the beacon to lead Atlantis into the next century. Arthur Curry awoke the next morning with a hangover and was visited by Shin. After Shin revealed his father asked him for help, Curry agreed to let him in. As soon as he opened the door, Shin fell over with a sickle in his back. The Drift One team surfaced and attempted to assassinate Curry. He fought back and made his way to the top, throwing the floodlight at his attackers. The soldiers outside destroyed the lighthouse with their energy weapons. As Curry fell, he was saved by Mera and taken to ancient ruins. After Curry awoke, Mera explained the circumstances of his birth and showed him the king's royal garbs in the Royal armory. Dressed in them, Curry was overwhelmed and took to the surface to get his bearings. However, he and Mera were attacked by Trenchers. The Justice League came to their aid.
Superman's words about meeting his own people convinced Arthur Curry to go to Atlantis. When they arrived to a nearly deserted city, it was revealed Atlanna was dead. While they paid their respects, Orm appeared and "welcomed" his half brother. He boasted of his involvement in killing Atlanna then easily took everyone out using the magic of the trident. Curry used his royal blood to control his confines and disintegrate the pod conjured by the trident. He freed Superman, who dealt with the giant monster they were offered to, and summoned a whale with telepathy to carry the others to safety. Once Mera awoke, Curry told her he was going to stop his half brother from destroying the surface world. After Curry made his way to shore and fought some Atlantean soldiers, he was attacked by Black Manta. As Manta laid out his true plans, Curry summoned a Great White Shark to deal with him. He made his way into the city and challenged Orm to a one-on-one battle. While Curry held his own, he was ultimately no match for the trident.
Luckily, Batman and Cyborg broadcast a recording of the latter's earlier encounter with Orm admitting to Atlanna's murder. While Orm tried to convince his army the footage were lies, Curry recovered and decked him into a car. Curry addressed the army and promised he could bridge both worlds in peace. One by one, soldiers in the army removed their helmets and kneeled to Curry. With the war over, Curry took Mera in his arms and they kissed. Curry was formally coronated as king of Atlantis Where Arthur takes his place as king, wanting to bridge the surface and Atlantian worlds in peace and joined the Justice League as Aquaman, after the name given to him by people online that Shazam gave him much to his annoyance. King Arthur and Mera swam to the edge of the city and headed off an incursion by the Trenchers. He summoned all marine life nearby to aid them. Together, they defeated the Trenchers in short order and he and Mera shared a passionate kiss.
===Justice League vs. Teen Titans===
Arthur Curry was not involved in Trigon's invasion attempt, possibly because he was in Atlantis.
===Justice League Dark===
Aquaman makes a non-speaking cameo appearance in the animated film Justice League Dark while he attended the League meeting at the Hall of Justice to go over the global outbreak of nightmare and fear crimes caused by Destiny and the Dreamstone.
===The Death of Superman===
He advises that Kal/Clark should not wait to reveal to Lois that he is Superman. Him, Mera, and some other Atlantean guards go to investigate the other atlantean guards that went to get samples from the meteor crash and covered up there dead bodies when they got there. He seemed sad and mad about there deaths. He sees a shark that takes him to the shore of a beach next to a forest. He sees the footsteps of Doomsday, the creature that killed his guards. He tells Cyborg on his comm that he thinks he found the murder and that there was no sign of it. Aquaman says that he needs to get back to the guards and Mera. Cyborg tells him that he will tell the other members of the League and that he is sorry for his loss. 
When Batman asks for backup for fighting Doomsday, he is with the other Leaguers to help. He surprises Doomsday by jumps on his back and impaled him with trident, while Martian Manhunter kept hitting Doomsday. He hit Manhunter aside and with no other distractions, he grabbed Aquaman from his back, which caused him to drop his trident. Then he hit Aquaman into a building, which caused him to be knocked out. 
He is seen near the crater where Superman “died” and was also at the funeral with the other Leaguers.
===Justice League Dark: Apokolips War===
Aquaman is present during the Justice League's meeting to wage war against Darkseid. While not having any lines, Aquaman accompanies the Justice League on their raid on Apokolips while the Teen Titans remain on Earth as a home-guard. Upon arriving, the League is attacked by Paradooms, the kryptonian parademon supersoldiers and genetic hybrids of Parademons and Doomsday. While the Justice League fought their hardest to defend themselves, they are utterly taken down by the Paradooms, and Aquaman is killed when Darkseid bifurcates his body with his omega beams. After Darkseid was defeated, Flash ran into the Speed Force to create a second Flashpoint, leaving Arthur's fate in the new timeline unknown.
==Personality==
Always having felt out of place, Arthur spent most of his life feeling like an outcast, and his only major source of comfort being the close relationship he had with his father, Thomas. As a child, he was eager to reunite with his mother, and was overjoyed after seeing her again. As he got older, however, Arthur became disillusioned with her ever returning, and bluntly stated she ran out on him and his father years ago, when spoken to about her. After his father's death, Arthur drowned his sorrows in alcohol, his intoxication showing his defensive and combative side. After finding out that he was the son of Atlantis's queen, everything that had eluded him suddenly made sense. When his half-brother confessed to murdering their mother, Arthur's righteous fury showed, and displayed a wrath that bordered on murderous and homicidal, though understandably justified. He also showed a flirtatious side to him as well, such as his interactions with Mera, who reciprocated his advances with obvious enthusiasm.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
Atlantean/Human Hybrid Physiology: As an Atlantean, Arthur was both stronger and tougher than ordinary human beings and could indefinitely breathe underwater as well as in the air. His body is biologically adapted to survive the extremes found in the depths of the ocean.
*Superhuman Strength: Arthur is able to throw things over an extreme distance, further than any human.
*Superhuman Durability: Arthur is unaffected when he's hit by sharp objects, and they do not pierce his skin.
*Accelerated Healing: Arthur is able to recover from wounds far quicker then any human.
*Superhuman Speed: While underwater, Arthur can swim at supersonic speeds.
*Marine Telepathy: Arthur can control vast numbers of sea creatures through the use of telepathy.
*Hydrokinesis: Arthur can manipulate water in order to propel himself through it.
*Aquatic respiration: Due to his Atlantean heritage, he can breath underwater just as well as he can on land.
===Abilities===
*Expert Combatant: Curry is a highly skilled fighter.
*Trident Master: Curry is highly skilled in using a trident.
*Expert Swimmer: As an Atlantean, Curry is an astonishingly good swimmer.
==Equipment==
*Atlantean Royal Armor
*Mera's Trident 
==Appearances==
===Films===
*Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox
*Justice League: Throne of Atlantis
*Justice League Dark (no lines)
*The Death of Superman
*Justice League Dark: Apokolips War
===Comic Books===
*The Death of Superman: Part 1
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