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Aquaman in the Media
Television
[edit] The Filmation animated series
Aquaman in The Superman/ Aquaman Hour of AdventureAquaman's first media appearance was as the star of his own animated series, The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, from 1967 until 1968; the series failed to find a large audience. The series featured Mera, Aqualad, a pet walrus named Tusky, and Aquaman and Aqualad's large seahorses, Storm and Imp. In addition to his usual array of abilities, this version of Aquaman had the power to throw "water balls" which had considerable concussive impact. Aquaman was voiced by Marvin Miller, better known as the voice of Robby the Robot from Forbidden Planet.
[edit] Super Friends
Aquaman with fellow Super Friends.He was also a major character in the original season of the animated television series Super Friends (1973). Super Friends is often credited with having exposed Aquaman to a much wider audience outside of the comic book community. In this series, Aquaman was shown to display superstrength and encyclopedic knowledge of oceanography and oceanology, in addition to his more familiar water-breathing power and aquatic telepathy.
However, the various successor series (e.g. Challenge of the SuperFriends, The World's Greatest SuperFriends) have been blamed for making Aquaman unpopular and even laughable alongside other heroes. They are accused of having portrayed him in an unflattering light, as they focused almost exclusively on his water-breathing and telepathic powers, thus reinforcing a weak image of the character.
During his Super Friends tenure, he was often paired with Wonder Woman, leading some fans to speculate on a possible romance between the Atlantean King and the Amazon Princess. When Grant Morrison took the JLA title, it was specified that both characters share a special friendship bond.
[edit] DC animated universe appearances
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).
[edit] Smallville
Alan Ritchson played Arthur Curry in an episode of the television series Smallville.Arthur Curry appeared in an episode of the television series Smallville titled "Aqua," which aired on October 20, 2005. The episode features Arthur investigating the devastating effects on marine life from a project Lex Luthor has been developing for the U.S. military. Like his Filmation counterpart, this version of the character is shown to have the powers to throw water-based energy balls at his opponents; he could also swim faster than Clark Kent. It is also revealed that Arthur wears an orange and green costume because he attends the University of Miami, whose Miami Hurricanes team colors are green, orange, and white. Arthur was played by former American Idol contestant Alan Ritchson. In an allusion to the HBO program (below), when Arthur is asked which environmental group he is working for, he responds "I don't travel with an entourage." "Aqua" was Smallville's highest-rated episode that season [1].
Ritchson will reprise his role in the 2006 episode "Justice", as a member of Green Arrow's Justice League.[1]
[edit] Mercy Reef; Self-titled TV series
The CW Television Network had announced a live action Aquaman television series called Mercy Reef (or Aquaman), but on May 18, 2006, it was confirmed that CW did not pick up the show for the 2006/2007 schedule. Recent reports (beginning after the upfronts) say The CW is still considering Aquaman for midseason due to interest piqued by the leaked promotional trailer. The pilot episode is available at Apple's iTunes Music Store.
[edit] Entourage
The Aquaman plot has become a central theme for the popular HBO drama Entourage. The show has movie star Vincent Chase playing Aquaman/Arthur Curry in a big-budget film production of the comic book. In the episode "One Day in the Valley", Aquaman premieres to much fanfare and, because the movie is well-promoted, well-made and directed by James Cameron, it opens with a three-day weekend record of just over $116 million (barely beating Spider-Man's $114.8 million). The promotional people at HBO even took out a very realistic looking two-page ad in "Variety" magazine after the episode, promoting the show by saying Aquaman earned $116 million in its first three days. It even features realistic-looking credits. This appeared enough to fool CNBC, which reported that the three day weekend box office gross of Pirates of the Caribbean 2 had beaten the previous record of Aquaman [2], but Joe Kernan later stated he was a watcher of Entourage and was completely aware that it was fake [3].
Aquaman as seen in the upcoming Justice League Heroes game.
[edit] Video game
Aquaman also appeared in the Justice League Task Force Super Nintendo and Genesis video game as well as in Aquaman: Battle for Atlantis for Xbox and GameCube.
Aquaman has been revealed as a playable character in the upcoming Justice League Heroes game.
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