Not that I’m a fan of Aquaman or anything, but people are really fucking ignorant about him. He is not weak and he is not useless. Think about being able to withstand the pressure on the bottom of the ocean with no gear, pressure that would collapse your skull, then think about Aquaman.
Yeah thanks alot family guy, so fucking funny.
Not to dismiss your hate of Family Guy, believe me I loathe it, but the jokes go farther back than that. Most people cite Superfriends being the root of problem.
Yotomoe
yeah. Super friend’s aquaman was kinda dumb…then again…superfriends was kinda dumb.
Andiemus
Yeah, that’s what I’ve always thought. South Park made fun of aquaman via seaman in “Super best friends.”(one of the best episodes, I might add).
Fish don’t survive those depths by being super strong and tough, they survive by being porous and letting the internal and external pressures equalize. They pop and disintegrate into goo if they come up to the surface.
Anyway, yes, they tacked on generic flying brick powers to make aquaman into a serious character, but the *core concept* was supposed to be the king of the sea who can talk to sea creatures, and it’s fair to criticize based on that conception.
Icalasari
But Aquaman can survive on the surface as well
That kind of requires that he just has sheer toughness to withstand the crushing pressures
Somebody
There are fish that can dive and rise. Whales aren’t porous, yet some of them can dive deep. Also, no human being could handle the currents…yet Aquaman does. He doesn’t freeze to death either.
And recently it was discovered that sea creatures have an effect on tides.
Somebody
And his lungs don’t explode. He’s gotta have several secondary powers.
Having read the very first Aquaman story ever written, I will tell you that “really strong guy that also swims” is the character’s core concept. He started controlling sea life about five or six years into the character’s existence. See also Superman’s ability to fly.
BigCheese
Seeing how even in his super-friends days he was shown as having super-strength, it’s only fair to criticize him on that concept if you choose to ignore reality and go only by your biases.
I agree that Aquaman isn’t nearly as bad as most people seem to think he is. Even so, he’s still nothing compared to Namor. Even when Aquaman is all moody he’s nowhere near as big of a dick as Namor is either.
Brian Lynch
But no one mocks Namor, despite him being a slightly older character, having the same powerset, and having objectively a far sillier costume.
Aras Pabedinskas
Well the thing about Namor is that he is less well known than Aquaman. Most of what I can tell you about Namor is he is usually the most lightly dressed male superhero, he’s an a**hole, and he is usually potrayed as obsessed with Invisible Woman.
Reepicheep-chan
I mock Namor all the time.
DarkVeghetta
YARRRR
Patrick McGraw
People don’t mock Namor because he doesn’t have the same power set as Aquaman – he’s a top-tier “flying brick” comparable to Thor. He has repeatedly demonstrated feats of strength and durability far in excess of Aquaman.
Plus, he’s an arrogant prick.
Reepicheep-chan
He is aquaman with a vulcan face and itty bitty ankle wings.
Alls I am sayin is everyone who does not mock him is objectively wrong.
He has repeatedly demonstrated feats of strength and durability *comparable to* Aquaman. The difference is that Aquaman’s first and most lasting mainstream-visible media was Superfriends, where no one was allowed to hit things. This meant that Superman used his cold breath, Batman used his batline to tie things up (and other utility belt silliness), Wonder Woman used her lasso, and Aquaman (whose other powers mostly revolve around strength and hitting things) sent fish to do his bidding.
If Namor had been on a show with the same visibility with the same restrictions, I guarantee you’d be seeing Namor jokes on Family Guy instead.
PS: Namor also has the “control sea life” powerset. He’s just not well-known for using it. It’s also not built-in; he has a magic trumpet that calls to them.
LiamKav
Namor doesn’t need telepathy to control sea life. They’d do what he said because he’s fucking Namor, and he will shout at them in faux-Latin if they don’t do what he said.
Namor looks ridiculous, but he does not give any number of shits about that. He’s the closest thing the Marvel universe has to Mike. He will fuck your mom. And then stop a martian invasion.
DarkVeghetta
You sir, made me laugh – out loud even. But you forgot he’d also fuck Invisible Woman while doing your mom… somehow.
dimonite
Fun fact – in the brief “DC vs. Marvel” series, Aquaman did fight Namor. And won by pinning him underneath an orca whale.
Also, this is a lot of discussion about what was essentially a joke about the common perception of Aquaman. A poorly executed joke, but a joke nonetheless.
Somebody
An orca is a dolphin, not a whale. And his strength depends on water contact…so that’s bs. Not saying you made that up, just that the comic fails.
DarkVeghetta
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Megatron
Namor, you mean the 90s anti-hero from 1939? On one hand, that sounds like he designed to be mocked. On the other, he’s a freaking bad ass. No bad for a fleshling.
LiamKav
Namor wears tiny swimming shorts because he has an awesome body, and he wants the ladies to admire it and the men to feel akward about it.
Hope to Namor: “You’re not just a pretty face, are you?”
Namor: “No. A complete compilation of Namor’s virtues would be a far lengthier list.”
Hope: “Would it include ‘great abs’?”
Namor: “Yes, they would be documented.”
Namor is the guy who will punch the Hulk, save the Earth from giant space monsters and then hit on your wife, all while talking down to everyone. Aquaman is the guy who whines that “No-one takes me seriously! I am tough! I am! I really, really am!”
Reepicheep-chan
OK I will grant you his abs are pretty great.
BigCheese
Truly spoken like someone who has never read an Aquaman comic in his life…
Also, humans evolved from sea creatures. The kind that Aquaman has a psychic link to. We’re too distant for his usual telepathy, but that doesn’t man he can’t reach into your head and twist.
Cartoon Network already have mocked Aquaman several times, and before that, Hanna Barbera had ridiculed him, paintig him as an useless piece of scenary, in the Superfriends series.
StClair
“My ability to talk to fish is of no help, Wonder Woman!”
[‘oy’ expression]
Somebody
How the heck would the ropes hold Wonder Woman? =/
LOL. Sorry, Aquaman is weak. It’s not because of Family Guy that people think so. They think so because he is. You know how you beat Aquaman? Don’t get in the ocean. Pretty simple 🙂 Of course, most of DC is pretty useless anyway save for Batman.
Somebody
Did you read ANY of the other comics? A humanoid would not be able to survive under the ocean if that were true.
And, again, sea life has a significant effect on tides. Taken to its logical conclusion, he has the potential to wield more power than the moon. I’m not even a big DC fan and that made my jaw drop.
BigCheese
Yeah, anyone who says most of DC is useless save for Batman automatically forfeits any right to any discussion of comic book heroes.
He WAS weak and useless, and then people talked so much shit about him that DC did what they always do and arbitrarily powered him up to Superman levels. Same thing happened to Wonder Woman.
BigCheese
that’s complete revisionist history, repeated by people who can’t comprehend their image of the character has ALWAYS been wrong and when they find out the truth, they have to tell themselves that it’s surely a new development, when it’s really not.
Name me a point in time wen you think Aquaman was useless and I will show you examples from even before then to prove you wrong.
155 thoughts on “Came”
Yotomoe
I woulda been here sooner, but y’know…traffic.
AgentKeen
I lost my shoes, and they got mounted… You know how it goes.
Ivan
What’s the rush? Jacob’s Cantaloupe Lipstick has lasted two strips so far!!
Lord Geovanni
Had to start from the balls and travel the ureta road until I reached the main urethra high way and then it was only a matter making it to the end
pisshorse
I bet he did, too.
Resne
You’re on! Ten bucks!
dimonite
Is this just Walky’s superpower? I feel like even Aquaman has a more useful one than that…
Brando
Not that I’m a fan of Aquaman or anything, but people are really fucking ignorant about him. He is not weak and he is not useless. Think about being able to withstand the pressure on the bottom of the ocean with no gear, pressure that would collapse your skull, then think about Aquaman.
Yeah thanks alot family guy, so fucking funny.
Plasma Mongoose
Also, Aquaman can control Cthulhu, now that’s an awesome power in of itself.
Yotomoe
Also He can swim as fast as superman can fly. Even half that speed would kill the shit out of you.
Aras Pabedinskas
I really hope you can cite your sources because that S*** SOUNDS AWESOME and I want to see it!
Rex Hondo
http://dc.wikia.com/wiki/Aquaman_(Arthur_Curry)
Powers and abilities are near the bottom.
He’s not as fast as Superman underwater, but he sure as heck is faster than anybody or anything else.
toddtr
That doesn’t sound right
Superman flies within spitting distance of the Flash’s speed.
Doctor_Who
Although at least one issue claimed Flash is WAY faster.
Superman: I’ve raced you before, Barry. I even won some of those races.
Flash: Those were for charity, Clark.
tbf
Well, of course. If the Flash isn’t faster than Superman, he becomes redundant.
Yotomoe
Superman’s inclusion in the Justice league makes most of them redundant unless he gets nerfed and they get buffed.
Cheryl
rofl on nerfing/buffing
Andiemus
Wasn’t the Spectre on the justice league for a while? That’s even sillier.
Najar
well, there’s always kryptonite
Oruncrest
And Supes should’ve responded:
“And those were Foot races, Barry.”
Andiemus
Saying you can fly faster than someone who can’t fly is not really good bragging material.
das-g
@Andiemus: Thus, don’t say it like that. Instead just say you’re faster at racing, if it is freestyle.
Darwin2500
Pretty sure that would vaporize the ocean and kill everything on the planet.
Icalasari
Going that fast would require more power than going that same speed on foot (no idea on energy requirements for flying), so that’s pretty fast
The1exile
I refer you all to Ryan North’s seminal work on better uses for fictional superheroes http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=2230
BigCheese
Shows what he knows. Flash IS a scientist (forensics)!
Somebody
It wasn’t cthulu, but still pretty big
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Mustachio
contrary to popular opinion, cthulhu is not an aquatic life-form, despite his current location under the sea.
Aras Pabedinskas
Not to dismiss your hate of Family Guy, believe me I loathe it, but the jokes go farther back than that. Most people cite Superfriends being the root of problem.
Yotomoe
yeah. Super friend’s aquaman was kinda dumb…then again…superfriends was kinda dumb.
Andiemus
Yeah, that’s what I’ve always thought. South Park made fun of aquaman via seaman in “Super best friends.”(one of the best episodes, I might add).
Darwin2500
Fish don’t survive those depths by being super strong and tough, they survive by being porous and letting the internal and external pressures equalize. They pop and disintegrate into goo if they come up to the surface.
Anyway, yes, they tacked on generic flying brick powers to make aquaman into a serious character, but the *core concept* was supposed to be the king of the sea who can talk to sea creatures, and it’s fair to criticize based on that conception.
Icalasari
But Aquaman can survive on the surface as well
That kind of requires that he just has sheer toughness to withstand the crushing pressures
Somebody
There are fish that can dive and rise. Whales aren’t porous, yet some of them can dive deep. Also, no human being could handle the currents…yet Aquaman does. He doesn’t freeze to death either.
And recently it was discovered that sea creatures have an effect on tides.
Somebody
And his lungs don’t explode. He’s gotta have several secondary powers.
Jeff K!
Having read the very first Aquaman story ever written, I will tell you that “really strong guy that also swims” is the character’s core concept. He started controlling sea life about five or six years into the character’s existence. See also Superman’s ability to fly.
BigCheese
Seeing how even in his super-friends days he was shown as having super-strength, it’s only fair to criticize him on that concept if you choose to ignore reality and go only by your biases.
Revil Fox
I agree that Aquaman isn’t nearly as bad as most people seem to think he is. Even so, he’s still nothing compared to Namor. Even when Aquaman is all moody he’s nowhere near as big of a dick as Namor is either.
Brian Lynch
But no one mocks Namor, despite him being a slightly older character, having the same powerset, and having objectively a far sillier costume.
Aras Pabedinskas
Well the thing about Namor is that he is less well known than Aquaman. Most of what I can tell you about Namor is he is usually the most lightly dressed male superhero, he’s an a**hole, and he is usually potrayed as obsessed with Invisible Woman.
Reepicheep-chan
I mock Namor all the time.
DarkVeghetta
YARRRR
Patrick McGraw
People don’t mock Namor because he doesn’t have the same power set as Aquaman – he’s a top-tier “flying brick” comparable to Thor. He has repeatedly demonstrated feats of strength and durability far in excess of Aquaman.
Plus, he’s an arrogant prick.
Reepicheep-chan
He is aquaman with a vulcan face and itty bitty ankle wings.
Alls I am sayin is everyone who does not mock him is objectively wrong.
Jeff K!
He has repeatedly demonstrated feats of strength and durability *comparable to* Aquaman. The difference is that Aquaman’s first and most lasting mainstream-visible media was Superfriends, where no one was allowed to hit things. This meant that Superman used his cold breath, Batman used his batline to tie things up (and other utility belt silliness), Wonder Woman used her lasso, and Aquaman (whose other powers mostly revolve around strength and hitting things) sent fish to do his bidding.
If Namor had been on a show with the same visibility with the same restrictions, I guarantee you’d be seeing Namor jokes on Family Guy instead.
PS: Namor also has the “control sea life” powerset. He’s just not well-known for using it. It’s also not built-in; he has a magic trumpet that calls to them.
LiamKav
Namor doesn’t need telepathy to control sea life. They’d do what he said because he’s fucking Namor, and he will shout at them in faux-Latin if they don’t do what he said.
Namor looks ridiculous, but he does not give any number of shits about that. He’s the closest thing the Marvel universe has to Mike. He will fuck your mom. And then stop a martian invasion.
DarkVeghetta
You sir, made me laugh – out loud even. But you forgot he’d also fuck Invisible Woman while doing your mom… somehow.
dimonite
Fun fact – in the brief “DC vs. Marvel” series, Aquaman did fight Namor. And won by pinning him underneath an orca whale.
Also, this is a lot of discussion about what was essentially a joke about the common perception of Aquaman. A poorly executed joke, but a joke nonetheless.
Somebody
An orca is a dolphin, not a whale. And his strength depends on water contact…so that’s bs. Not saying you made that up, just that the comic fails.
DarkVeghetta
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Megatron
Namor, you mean the 90s anti-hero from 1939? On one hand, that sounds like he designed to be mocked. On the other, he’s a freaking bad ass. No bad for a fleshling.
LiamKav
Namor wears tiny swimming shorts because he has an awesome body, and he wants the ladies to admire it and the men to feel akward about it.
Hope to Namor: “You’re not just a pretty face, are you?”
Namor: “No. A complete compilation of Namor’s virtues would be a far lengthier list.”
Hope: “Would it include ‘great abs’?”
Namor: “Yes, they would be documented.”
Namor is the guy who will punch the Hulk, save the Earth from giant space monsters and then hit on your wife, all while talking down to everyone. Aquaman is the guy who whines that “No-one takes me seriously! I am tough! I am! I really, really am!”
Reepicheep-chan
OK I will grant you his abs are pretty great.
BigCheese
Truly spoken like someone who has never read an Aquaman comic in his life…
Cybersnark
Also, humans evolved from sea creatures. The kind that Aquaman has a psychic link to. We’re too distant for his usual telepathy, but that doesn’t man he can’t reach into your head and twist.
Totz the Plaid
His psychic abilities have been used in the comics to cause migraines and seizures in human opponents.
Marcos Dantas
It’s not Family Guy’s fault.
Cartoon Network already have mocked Aquaman several times, and before that, Hanna Barbera had ridiculed him, paintig him as an useless piece of scenary, in the Superfriends series.
StClair
“My ability to talk to fish is of no help, Wonder Woman!”
[‘oy’ expression]
Somebody
How the heck would the ropes hold Wonder Woman? =/
Manamana
LOL. Sorry, Aquaman is weak. It’s not because of Family Guy that people think so. They think so because he is. You know how you beat Aquaman? Don’t get in the ocean. Pretty simple 🙂 Of course, most of DC is pretty useless anyway save for Batman.
Somebody
Did you read ANY of the other comics? A humanoid would not be able to survive under the ocean if that were true.
And, again, sea life has a significant effect on tides. Taken to its logical conclusion, he has the potential to wield more power than the moon. I’m not even a big DC fan and that made my jaw drop.
BigCheese
Yeah, anyone who says most of DC is useless save for Batman automatically forfeits any right to any discussion of comic book heroes.
Scott
He WAS weak and useless, and then people talked so much shit about him that DC did what they always do and arbitrarily powered him up to Superman levels. Same thing happened to Wonder Woman.
BigCheese
that’s complete revisionist history, repeated by people who can’t comprehend their image of the character has ALWAYS been wrong and when they find out the truth, they have to tell themselves that it’s surely a new development, when it’s really not.
Name me a point in time wen you think Aquaman was useless and I will show you examples from even before then to prove you wrong.
Dibullba
He is like Tucker from RvB. He knows when he is needed.
ProjectXa3
Haa!
Kernanator
Why am I flashing back to Pokemon?
AgentKeen
You want to be the very best?
Yotomoe
Because Walky has to catch ’em all? (ie. all the Monkey Master episodes)
Mickey
Like no one ever was…
ProjectXa3
To catch them is my real test…
6Qubed
To train them is my cause!
(damn you all that song is in my head now)
SUGauthor
Try traveling across the land, it helps.
Kernanator
No. Well, yes, but that’s not it.
Plasma Mongoose