7 Most Powerful Aquaman Villains

A founding member of the Justice League and king of the underwater city of Atlantis, Arthur Curry, aka Aquaman, is one of DC Comics’ most prominent superheroes. With his incredible strength, durability, speed, and control over all marine life, weather, and water, Aquaman is indeed a force of nature. Yet Aquaman’s potent abilities are matched by many of his villains who have similar or even greater levels of power. Although Aquaman possesses one of DC’s lesser-known rogues’ galleries, the roster contains terrifying monsters and literal gods of the deep. Many of these villains can submerge continents or destroy entire planets, making them mighty challenges for Aquaman to overcome.

The ocean is mostly unexplored, and in DC Comics, it is home to unimaginable horrors capable of wiping out all life on Earth. It’s these horrors that Aquaman, as the King of Atlantis, has sworn to fight.

7) Ocean Master

The half-brother of Aquaman, Orm Marius, aka Ocean Master, challenges Aquaman’s right to the throne through sheer force. Ocean Master is one of the most powerful Atlanteans on Earth, with physical strength equal to that of his half-brother. What really makes him dangerous is his incredible arsenal. Ocean Master’s crown gives him hydrokinetic powers that can match Mera, who has the ability to control entire oceans and can flood cities. Ocean Master also has a trident that can manipulate the weather and generate lightning bolts strong enough to incapacitate simultaneously Superman, Wonder Woman, and Aquaman. With terrifying abilities like these, Aquaman’s half-brother has truly earned the title of Ocean Master.

6) Dead King

Atlan, aka the Dead King, was the original ruler of Atlantis thousands of years ago. When his brother killed the royal family, Atlan went insane and used his scepter to sink the continent-sized nation of Atlantis beneath the waves, killing himself and almost all his subjects. After several millennia, Atlan was resurrected as an undead tyrant by the Atlantean Vulko. Vulko wanted to create a catastrophe that would force Aquaman to take the throne of Atlantis. The Dead King who wanted to destroy Atlantis, was that catastrophe. He united the Trench and Xebel armies to achieve his goal. The Dead King also possesses potent cryokinetic powers that lets him freeze everything in his path, including Mera and Aquaman. The villain was only destroyed when he was melted by magma.

5) Triton

The son of Poseidon, Triton is a mighty ocean god in Greek mythology who seeks to replace Aquaman as King of the Seven Seas. Triton possesses Olympian abilities, including super-strength, immortality, size alteration, energy projection, hydrokinesis, and telepathic control over marine life. He’s strong enough to overpower Wonder Woman and has nearly killed Aquaman several times. Triton’s abilities increased when he killed Poseidon and took his powers for himself. With this power boost, Triton commanded a dragon larger than Atlantis to invade the underwater country. Triton defeated the Atlantean Royal Guard, an army of marine animals, and killed Aquaman. Although Aquaman managed to pull himself and Poseidon out of the Underworld and remove Triton’s power-boost, the ocean god is still a scourge to Atlantis.

4) Namma

The primordial sea goddess of Mesopotamian mythology, Mother Salt, aka Namma, created the Earth, the ocean, and the first generation of gods alongside her husband, Father Sea. When her children killed Father Sea, Namma swore revenge and threatened to destroy all life on Earth. Although the gods initially bested Namma, she eventually returned in the modern day to complete her mission. As the goddess of salt, Namma can create giant spikes and poison the world’s oceans by overflowing them with salt. She can also turn into an enormous dragon or even split up into multiple monsters strong enough to battle gods. It took the combined might of Aquaman and nine ocean gods to defeat this creator goddess.

3) Triumvirate of Sea Gods

Earth isn’t the only planet with oceans. The Triumvirate of Sea Gods is an alliance of three sea gods from different alien worlds – Fleet Admiral Tyyde, Commander Drogue, and Captain Gall. They were imprisoned by the ancient Atlantean wizard Arion, but the Legion of Doom released them to cause chaos. Enraged by their captivity, the Triumvirate of Sea Gods sought revenge against Atlantis and the world. They flooded the planet and contaminated the oceans with a pathogen that turns anything that touched into horrific mutants. Most of Earth’s population and heroes were afflicted. If all this wasn’t enough, this alliance of gods controlled the Death Kraken, which could wipe out all life on Earth. It was only though Aquaman’s message of peace that these gods stopped their rampage.

2) Dagon

The Blue is the primordial force that connects all water in the multiverse, and Dagon is its supreme ruler. Using the remnant energy of Darkseid, Dagon selfishly hoarded the Blue for himself. This act caused Atlantis to be transported into Dagon’s dimension, along with most other beings who have direct access to the Blue. An eldritch being with complete control over the Blue, Dagon commands legions of monsters and effortlessly slaughters sea gods by the dozen to turn them into undead soldiers. He can also morph into a gigantic monster, which allowed him to kill both Aqualads as well as overpower the newly formed Justice League Blue. Only by Aquaman becoming the new master of the Blue did he manage to defeat Dagon.

1) Qwsp

Superman has Mr. Mxyzptlk, and Aquaman has Qwsp. A Fifth Dimensional imp, Qwsp’s species is one of the most powerful races in existence because these imps can reshape all of time and space with a thought. Although Qwsp mainly uses his powers for harmless pranks, during the ‘90s, he transformed himself into much more fearsome being to match the more serious version of Aquaman. This transformation backfired immediately, as it caused Qwsp to become insane and one of the most malevolent imps of the Fifth Dimension. He imprisoned Green Lantern and Shazam in a piece of paper and tricked two Fifth-Dimensional beings into nearly destroying the Earth. It took the combined forces of the Justice League and the Council of Interdimensional Imps to imprison this maniacal reality warper.

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