As an adult, because he was a violent killer who only truly felt at peace underwater, it was apparently just a matter a time before he came into conflict with Aquaman. These experiments did allow him to became verbal but they also turned him violent. He only felt truly calm when submerged in cold water but that didn’t stop the Arkham staff FROM CONDUCTING EXPERIMENTS ON A CHILD.
His second origin states that he was a mostly non-verbal autistic child who was being treated at Arkham Asylum for some reason. Since then Manta developed a hatred for the sea and by extension Aquaman. He once spotted Aquaman swimming nearby and called out to him but the hero seemingly didn’t hear him. Originally, Black Manta was a kid who was kidnapped by sailors who forced him to work on their ship where they apparently physically, and sexually, abused him. When they did finally tell us they would eventually heavily retconned this origin two more times.
BLACK MANTA AQUAMAN DOES FULL
Despite being created in 1967, and being Aquaman’s archenemy for decades, it wouldn’t be until 1993 that DC Comics ever bothered to give us any of the character’s backstory or motivation for why he hated the king of Atlantis (we didn’t even get a full name for another twenty years, and even then “David Hyde” might just be an alias). More on the scourge of the seas after the jump.īefore we can get into a deep dive into Black Manta I should first point out the origin listed in the “History” section of this page is actually one of three origins for the character. And that’s awesome.Ģ) He looks super cool. He does evil because he is a psychopath who’s only thinks about his vendetta against Aquaman and his being black doesn’t figure into it at all. Black Manta does not do evil for the greater good, nor does he do it because of injustice faced by his people. The number of villains who happen to black is very, very low and when they do show up they are almost always racially motivated and the whole thing ends up being incredibly awkward at best and racists stereotypes at worst. The reason we’re looking at this guy is twofold: 1) he represents something far more rare than black superheroes in comics black supervillains in comics. Unlike Amanda Waller or Bronze Tigers, characters who either have altruistic motives or were forced to be villainous due to brainwashing, Manta is as evil as they get in DC Comics and would happily kill any number of innocent people in the world so long as his nemesis was one of them. He’s a card-carrying villain, one that wouldn’t be interested in redemption if it was on the table (unless it somehow included killing Aquaman, of course). Swearing revenge, Black Manta gave up treasure hunting and instead dedicated his life to one singular purpose: kill Aquaman and destroy everything he holds dear.īeta Says: Obvious we’re doing something a little different with Black Manta, as he is in no way a hero. Enraged, Tom’s son Arthur Curry, who would one day became the superhero known as Aquaman, swam out to Manta’s boat and murdered who he thought was David…except it turned out to be David’s own father. Taking the job, David and Tom had a struggle which resulted in the older man dying from a heart attack. Shin hires Black Manta to steal a blood sample of the half-Atlantean son of his acquaintance and lighthouse keeper Tom Curry.
At some point he was approached by a scientist named Stephen Shin, a man obsessed with proving the existence of Atlantis. History: David Hyde aka Black Manta was a treasure hunter who operated with his father on the high seas. (#spoilers "Clark Kent is Superman.")Ĭomments in tagged posts do not need to be hidden.Let this be a lesson to those who insult his helmet
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