Aquaman (DCAU)
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Aquaman is a DC Comics superhero. Created by Paul Norris and Mort Weisinger, he first appeared in More Fun Comics # 73 (November 1941).
The character made an appearance in one episode of the 1990s animated television series Superman: The Animated Series, where he was voiced by Miguel Ferrer. He was drawn in the "classic" Aquaman appearance as having an orange shirt, green gloves, green pants with green boots, a gold belt with gold "A" insignia belt buckle, short hair, and a clean-shaven face, but he had a fairly intense personality. In the episode, Aquaman, regarded as an urban legend, comes into conflict with Lex Luthor when an undersea construction plan of Luthor's starts causing damage to Aquaman's home, Atlantis. He tries to stop the tests peacefully but his "peaceful" attempts to stop them are "met with violence and capture." Lois Lane finds him a prisoner of LexCorp's institute, and she is in turn captured and taken to be killed with him, but Aquaman manages to escape with Lois and returns to stop the tests under the ocean. He almost attacks the surface world with his army, but Superman dissuades him from doing so. When Aquaman tries to leave peacefully, one of Luthor's men tries to shoot him in the back, unsuccessfully, and Aquaman's army in turn destroys Luthor's vessel. Aquaman advises Superman to make sure the "surface dwellers" show more respect to the oceans in the future before disappearing.
As seen in the Batman Beyond episodes "The Call: Part 1" (airdate November 11, 2000) and "The Call: Part 2" (airdate November 18, 2000), Aquaman's daughter Aquagirl is a member of a future Justice League. During the episode, Terry McGinnis/Batman goes over profiles of the current Justice League members. According to Aquagirl's profile, Aquaman is currently missing.
Aquaman has guest-starred in several episodes of the animated television series Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, where he was voiced by Scott Rummell. This version was based closely on the hot-headed anti-hero persona of the 1994 – 2001 Aquaman comic book series, with the Viking-like appearance and hook, but some feel it gave him even more depth than his Viking phase had given him. Here, he sacrificed his hand to save his infant son from being killed in a plot against his life by his evil brother Orm (Ocean Master). Though he was a founding member of the Justice League in the comic books, he was left out of the main line-up for the animated series in favor of the tomboyish Hawkgirl so that the team could have another female character opposite Wonder Woman. While the Justice League series remains popular, a number of Aquaman fans were genuinely disappointed that their hero was not included as a regular character. According to the website Television Without Pity, producers changed Black Manta's name to "Devil Ray" and removed Aquaman from the series before the episode "To Another Shore" because the rights to Aquaman were no longer available (see The Bat-Embargo for more information).
