Attuma

**Attuma** is an Atlantean Warlord, former member of the Cabal, and an enemy of the Avengers. He is one of the tertiary antagonists (alongside Dracula and Hyperion) of Season 1 of Avengers Assemble and a minor antagonist of Season 3: Web-Warriors.

A warlord of Atlantis, Attuma was given an offer to join Red Skull's Cabal, but he rejected the offer. In an effort to conquer the surface world, he led his Atlantean army and invaded New York, coming into conflict with the Avengers. Initially outclassing the Hulk in combat, the gamma monster was empowered in his rage and defeated him, so he joined the Cabal(consisting of Red Skull, M.O.D.O.K. and Dracula) to destroy the Avengers. After he helped the Cabal retrieve the Trident of Poseidon, they discovered Iron-Man and Captain America undercover and fought them. However, the captain then tricked them into arguing amongst each other, and the Cabal were left to be swallowed by the raging seas by the heroes after the arguing villains broke the trident. When Red Skull got an upgrade, the Cabal began strategizing to find a way how to beat the Avengers. When Red Skull was imprisoned, the Cabal attacked the Tri-Carrier to save him. After a fight with Hulk, they rescued Red Skull and fled. For Doctor Doom refusing Red Skull's offer to join the Cabal and stealing from him, the Cabal attacked the U.N. embassy in an attempt to destroy him in revenge. He briefly fought the Avengers before they left with Doom. When both the Cabal and the Avengers detected the Tesseract and raced to it, Attuma and the Cabal planned to outsmart the Avengers. He defeated Captain America and regrouped with Red Skull and the Cabal, who left with the Tesseract in their possession. Red Skull built a machine to utilise the Tesseract's power, and after fighting the Avengers, portals were made for each of the Cabal's members to go to a world and conquer it. As Attuma and his Atlantean army prepared to conquer an oceanic world, Iron-Man revealed going in the portals would destroy them, as Red Skull intended, and he turned into the Cosmic Skull with the Tesseract and left both teams to their fate at the destabilizing machine. However, they managed to escape to Avengers Tower. Cosmic Skull took over the world with his power, but the Cabal arrived in the final battle against him and assisted the Avengers to hold him long enough to be depowered and banished into space by Thor, Iron-Man and M.O.D.O.K.

## History

### The Avengers Protocol - Part 2

Attuma was offered to join Red Skull's Cabal, a team of super-villains meant to destroy the Avengers.

### Depth Charge

Attuma leads his fellow Atlanteans into riding a tidal wave into Manhattan as part of his plot to conquer the surface world. Iron Man fights Attuma while the other Avengers fight his soldiers. Attuma then heads into the flooded subways as Iron Man changes into his underwater armor to follow Attuma. Captain America and Hawkeye discover strange devices as Iron Man detects a lot of them underground as they are set off in a plot to sink Manhattan by destabilIizing the bedrocks of Manhattan. Attuma and his soldiers ends up fighting Captain America, Hawkeye, and Hulk while Iron Man, Falcon, and Thor hold back the tidal wave with an energy barrier. Hulk charges towards Attuma as Thor helps to fight Attuma's soldiers.

Hulk then engages Attuma where they are evenly matched until Attuma punches Hulk through the energy barrier that Iron Man and Falcon created to hold back the tidal wave. Thor and Iron Man then attack Attuma where their attacks couldn't harm them. When Attuma and his soldiers retreat into the oceans to find out why Manhattan is rising, they alongside Iron Man find Hulk holding up the island. While Hulk is buying the Avengers some time, the other Avengers fight Attuma who then escapes into the ocean from Thor to prevent Hulk from succeeding. Attuma has the advantage in the water over Iron Man and Thor until Hulk gets angry enough to prevent Manhattan's sinking as well as throwing a boulder at Attuma. Attuma is thrown onto land beaten up as Hulk manages to defeat him.

## Personality and traits

Attuma is a proud and arrogant warrior loving to lead his troops into battle, or conquest.
He believes very few can match his power, and calls Thor and the other Avengers weaklings, while taking a personal liking to the Hulk and attempting to prove he is stronger than him nearly every encounter they have. Attuma believes the surface dwellers inferior to him, and thinks the world in water would be perfect for all life

## Powers, Skills, and Abilities

**Atlantean Physiology:** As an Atlantean, Attuma possesses a fully amphibious physiology suited for extreme undersea pressures, superhuman strength, speed, agility, durability, flight, and longevity. Attuma is seemingly more powerful underwater, as the water amplifies his natural strength by strengthening his muscles, skin, and bones, allowing him to be nearly unchallenged while fighting opponents.

* **Superhuman Strength:** Attuma is by far the strongest of all the Atlanteans and has demonstrated several acts of high superhuman strength, such as matching the Hulk while the ocean was sinking into Manhattan, their blows destroyed windows and created powerful force waves that effected the waves. Attuma effortlessly overpowered and defeated both Thor and Iron Man's powerful armor set while underwater, as it seems his strength is increased while underwater. He flipped over a SHIELD jeep, and launched the Hulk with a powerful punch which caused the Hulk to break his teamates' energy barrier which was blocking any more water from coming into Manhattan.
* **Superhuman Speed:** Attuma can move much faster than the finest human athlete, and swims with fine grace and agility. He out-speeds all Atlanteans while underwater, as well as Iron Man's armor and Thor
* **Superhuman Stamina**
* **Superhuman Agility**
* **Superhuman Durability:** Attuma's body is several of times denser and more resilient to pain than a normal human's. He has withstood multiple blows from Thor's hammer Mjolnir, and the Hulk's physical strikes with no damage, as well as nearly no-selling Iron Man's repulsor blasts.
* **Superhuman Endurance**
* **Superhuman Reflexes**
* **Superhuman Longevity:** Like all Atlanteans, Attuma's lifespan is greater than a human's, and he can live up to 140 years old, as well as he ages somewhat slower than a human as well.
* **Superhumanly Acute Senses**
* **Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant**

## Paraphernalia

**Equipment**

* **Crown**

**Transportation**

* **HYDRA Submarine: *(Formerly)***

**Weapons**

* **Attuma's** **Sword:** In combat, Attuma wields a longsword which is extremely durable and well built.
* **Attuma's** **Trident:**

## Background Information

In the comics, Attuma originally possessed class 40 strength while completely dry, and class 60 while underwater, but in the show he has shown class 100+ strength. He would become severely weak also while separated from being underwater for over an hour, but now he requires no such need.

## Appearances

### Ultimate Spider-Man

##### **Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man: Contest of Champions**

* Marvel Universe Ultimate Spider-Man: Contest of Champions #3

## References

1. ↑ "The Avengers Protocol, Part 2". Man of Action (writer) & Eric Radomsky (director). *Marvel's Avengers Assemble*. Disney XD. May 26, 2013. No. 2, season one.
2. ↑ "Depth Charge". Man of Action & Jay Faerber (writers) & Jeff Allen (director). *Marvel's Avengers Assemble*. Disney XD. September 15, 2013. No. 9, season one.

* http://thedailybugle.wikia.com/wiki/Attuma

## Trivia

* Attuma returns in Season 5, Black Panther's Quest. Presumably, due to Marvel Animation's poor continuity to appeal to audiences, Attuma is no longer a warlord but a disciplined, reformed leader who is at peace with the surface world, and discusses treaties with the Avengers. After multiple conflicts he agrees to help Black Panther overthrow the Shadow Council but is shot with his own trident by Erik Killmonger in front of his daughter, Ellana, who swore revenge.