So why is Aquaman disliked so strongly?

[Yami Daimao]

Now I'm definitely not an Aquaman fan, and my reason is the same as most others; because his superpower involves talking to fish. But a few years ago, I was surprised to find out that I wasn't the only one who thought the same thing.

So I would like the opinions of my fellow 'Crappers. Why don't most people appreciate Aquaman? Is it the whole talking to fish thing? Or am I missing something else here?

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I dunno, I don't follow comics. I just thought of this.

[El Cokehead del Knife Fight]

It's partially because of Superfriends. He was even less than useless on that so it kinda adjusted peoples view of the character.

[Koda, Master Crunchyroller]

It is because, most people don't read comic books, so what they have for Aquaman is the old cartoons where they pretty much show him as just being able to talk to fish.

Of course, Aquaman is actually quite a badass character now. And yeah, so he can talk to fish, but thanks to the Blackest Night and Brightest Day crossovers, right now Aquaman can talk to freaking ZOMBIE FISH! That's badass!

[Bake Or Die]

Aquaman having his series canceled & relaunched a 100 times doesn't help any.

[Kevin Hamilton]

It's become a sort of meme, to dislike Aquaman because you're supposed to dislike Aquaman; kinda.

He's ok, though Namor's the better character in pretty much every way in my opinion; but really, the hate is odd as ol' Arthur's never been more than a second-tier guy anyway.

[Evilution E5150]

watch him in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited and tell me hes not bad ass

[Yami Daimao]

Aug 30, 2010 0:53:27 GMT -5 Evilution E5150 said:

watch him in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited and tell me hes not bad ass

I've been actually trying to rewatch the episodes again online (I haven't really seen all of the episodes and I wanna catch up), but it's insanely difficult to find all of the episodes online for some reason, and when I find a selected few, it's usually streamed on megavideo, which has that retarded time limit rule. >_>

And I really don't have the cash to buy any of the DVDs right now.

[Orange]

Because he's Aquaman ;D

Honestly though, I guess when compared to other superheroes and their powers, he is the odd man out.

[hajimenoippo]

OUTRAGEOUS!

Batb Aquaman is the best rendition ever

[Cela]

Honestly probably had him being shoehorned into solving the crisis of the week on Superfriends.

Personally I'm a fan. Hes a specialist superhero, which can come in very handy.

As opposed to the guy who's power is dead parent motivation that turned much of the population into mindless superhero-killing cyborgs because he didn't trust people with powers.

[Evilution E5150]

Aug 30, 2010 1:21:39 GMT -5 hajimenoippo said:

OUTRAGEOUS!

Batb Aquaman is the best rendition ever

Aquaman's Outrageous Adventure maybe the greatest thing ive ever seen

[Kev The Omniscient]

Aug 30, 2010 0:46:59 GMT -5 Kevin Hamilton said:

It's become a sort of meme, to dislike Aquaman because you're supposed to dislike Aquaman; kinda.

Okay, I'm confused. Is Cena Aquaman now, or still Superman?

[MiLo Duck]

Haven't been as up on comics lately, but Aquaman used to be my favorite when it was helmed by Peter David. That series had him declare war on Japan and kick the Justice League's butts for trespassing on his kingdom. Great series, a lot more rocking than Superman or Batman's books at the time for sure. The entire thing with him as a world leader was simply fascinating to me.

It, to me, was exactly what comics SHOULD be but never are. Evolution and progression of a character. Some real three dimensions.

Surely it will all be erased and "fixed" like always. Heck I'm sure it already has, but it was a great read in the 90's and into the 00's during the David to Larson days.

[celticjobber]

When I was a little kid, he was my favorite character on Super Friends aside from Superman.

[YAKMAN is ICHIBAN]

I love how in Justice League: The New Frontier...

SPOILER: Click to show

{Spoiler}he just randomly appears at the end.

[neal]

In my pre-teen days, the kid who got beat up the most in our neighborhood always wore that underoo's Aquaman t-shirt. If he wore the Hulk one, or even the Yoda one, maybe he would have been better off.

I never understood the dislike for Aquaman. Cool powers, smoking wife, great arch-foe in Black Manta...the dislike, like others here have concluded, may have everything to do with his Superfriends rendition. He was pretty much useless there, always riding shotgun on Wonder Woman's Invisible Jet. How manly is that? May as well have had Aquamom drive him to the scene of the crime in her Aquamini-van.

[Welfare Willis]

Aug 30, 2010 0:46:59 GMT -5 Kevin Hamilton said:

It's become a sort of meme, to dislike Aquaman because you're supposed to dislike Aquaman; kinda.

And there we go. Really, it's been a running gag or meme since the superfriends tv show. I don't know if it's hate. It's just a misunderstood version of the character from the tv series.

[CuJ0 Will Keep Dancing]

Aug 30, 2010 0:53:27 GMT -5 Evilution E5150 said:

watch him in Justice League and Justice League Unlimited and tell me hes not bad ass

Exactly what I was going to say. Superfriends was before my time and I don't really read comics, so all I know him from is JL/JLU and he was sweet on those shows so I don't understand the hate at all.

[Jiren]

I think he's badass