Aquaman

ℹ️️**Notice**This is a crossover character. Not canon

**Aquaman** is the ruler of Atlantis and the Earth's oceans, an Atlantean with incredible strength and speed as well as the ability to command all sea-life. His unique physiology allows him to survive on land and at the ocean's greatest depths of pressure and temperature. Given the names **Orin** through his royal heritage and **Arthur Curry** by his human upbringing, he fights to protect both worlds using his mighty abilities and political influence. He is a founding member of the Justice League of America.

## Aquaman

### Relatives

* Porm (adoptive mother)
* Mera (wife)
* Arthur Curry Jr (son)
* Aquaboy (son)
* Tom Curry (adoptive father)
* Atlanna (adoptive mother)

### Affiliation

Justice LeagueAquaman FamilyAtlantean Royal Family

## History

### Origins

Originally in Silver Age continuity Arthur Curry was the son of a lighthouse keeper named Tom Curry and a woman named Atlanna. Tom Curry lived in Amnesty Bay, Maine and raised his son with wife in the local Lighthouse. Arthur started to manifest incredible strength and speed at a young age, as well as the abilities to breathe underwater and talk to fish. On her deathbed, his mother revealed that she was an exiled Queen of Atlantis and he would someday inherit rule of the seven seas. His father gave him an education and taught him to control his powers, eventually allowing him to grow up and become the super-hero Aquaman.

His origins were changed when the universe was rebooted during the Crisis on Infinite Earths. Orin was born an heir to the Atlantean Royal Family. His mother Atlanna had been unable to conceive a child with her husband King Trevis, but she was impregnated during a dream by the immortal wizard Atlan. Atlan prophesized the child's future and named him after his ancestor Orin, promising that he would sire another son because two brothers must always struggle for the fate of Atlantis. Trevis immediately knew the child wasn't his because of the blond hair, a long-held superstition that a child might carry the curse of Kordax. The baby was announced as a miscarriage and left to die on Mercy Reef, where his ability to communicate with sealife allowed him to be raised by Dolphins. His adoptive mother was named Porm and she gave him the name *Swimmer*, although he left this new family after fisherman killed his adopted brother Drin.

His next encounter with humanity was a lighthouse operator named Tom Curry who took him in as a son, giving him the human name *Arthur Curry* before his death.

### Justice League

Aquaman would go on to become a founding member of the Justice League of America, although their origins have been altered several times in continuity. The original founding members included Batman, The Flash, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, Superman and Wonder Woman. They met for the first time during an alien invasion by the Appellaxians. This was later amended Post-*Crisis* to write Batman and Superman out of the story, with Wonder Woman replaced by Black Canary.

### Aquaman Family

Arthur met a youth abandoned at birth by the Idylists and took him in as his side-kick, the original Aqualad. He would later meet Mera, the Queen of Dimension Aqua. They would eventually marry. Their first child together was named Aquaboy and their second child was named Arthur Curry Jr.