Rogues Gallery Challenge

A radioactive oil spill creates a polluting monster similar to the pokemon Muk except underwater.

Surprised they haven't done it yet.

Ehh...all his villains either swim good or own a boat. How does one make something original out of that?

A Justin Hammer type Ceo who constantly pollutes the Ocean named Thomas Johnson

Do you expect Johns to deviate from his formula? Aquaman has been shallow as fuck since Brightest day. They can do so much with sailor myths and ocean based mythology of different cultures. There's modern day pirates if they want something modern.

I was actually expecting a Davy Jones style undead pirate to show up during the New 52.
I thought they were setting one up during that small scene of an old pirate killing an atlantean woman. I don't think it was relevant to anything.

Something something millennials, crummy, water, creatures

Give him a sad backstory where he grew up poor and his father drowned in the sea. Make him a Scrooge McDuck tier miser too.

The Marquis De-Salinator!

A French eco-terrorist who is accidentally exposed to waste from a desalination plant he attempts to bomb and gains the power to draw oxygen from water and turn salt water into fresh water and vice versa. He decides to blackmail the world's governments into giving into his reforms or he'll kill all the life in certain oceans, poison reservoirs, ruin fishing industries, trade etc. He also gives off electric blasts (oxygen can be derived from water through electrolysis) and is a freaky sadomasochist who would have made a dangerous foe for street level heroes even before gaining powers.

I'm surprised they didn't do Somali pirates with the success of Captain Phillips in the 2010s.

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Why not a villain that hates Aquaman just because and may or may not have autism
We can call him something associated with the sea. Like some sort of sea creature
Like a Stingray or something

Hadal: The Rebel of Xebel. Hates the monarchial systems of the undersea kingdoms, believing (rightly so) that the constant bickering and warring for the throne of Atlantis is what's keeping their societies from progressing. Has made it his mission to tear down and destroy all underwater monarchs by any means necessary.

That's already an Aquaman villain.

Bonus if he looks like this and not just a man
But seriously, I'm really surprised they haven't done this yet

The Human Sponge
A man who did radioactive experiments when one day it went wrong, and in the room were sponges. Now he is the human sponge and seeks to suck up all the water on Earth

this or some other undead pirate who combs ocean floor for shipwreck gold and naturally fights Atlanteans along the way.

Immortal pirate/relic hunter risen from the dead that was permanently buried at the bottom of the ocean in search of the greatest treasure of the seven seas: Aquaman's trident

Upon his mysterious disappearance, other pirates that followed on his wake slowly died out and soon ended the Age of Piracy.

He possess various other artifacts and relics that he has stolen that bestow upon him various abilities, one of note being his cursed whip that can choke and lash the will out of its victims and bend them to his will.

He has many names, but to most he is known as the Scourge!

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A villain that swims bad and owns a plane

What if he absorbed parts of the Rock of Eternity with the Legion of Sivana's help?

A couple of dockworkers, mad that Aquaman's not part of the union.

Tovar the Lava King

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Mr. Snow
He's a scientist who tries to halt global warming by killing everyone involved with companies that pollute the environment with his freezing gear.

Tardigrade

Literally just a giant tardigrade. Because it's so tough, Aquaman has to use his smarts to beat it.

Does he really not have a pirate themed villain? That seems like such a gimmie

Nyarlathotep-type character who "serves" Icthultu, the supernatural being who sunk Atlantis when Aquaman's ancestor tried banishing him from our realm. He serves him so he can get his master back into our dimension, needing Aquaman's trident to unbanish him, but he has his own agenda and likes screwing with him, wanting to challenge him for his trident but can take it if he wants or maybe he is limited by the form he is in. He can transform and is very charismatic. He looks like an Egyptian prince in his preferred humanoid form.

Possibly a Hawkman and Hawkgirl rogue too who just likes cucking Hawkman with Hawkgirl or vice-versa because he's a dick. Maybe a one-time Batman rogue a world famous inventor who dazzles Gotham with marvelous unexplainable inventions in Gotham Science Fair or something. And when i say dazzle I mean my control/brainwash/make people go insane. Batman with his mental training is able to resist and uncovers the guy's nefarious plot (to make Gotham City go completely insane to the point of destruction) and foils him--and presumably killed in an explosion but much to Bruce's horror finds that the man has been alive for centuries via various pictures and paintings and finds him living via video livestream with people seemingly unaware that the world famous man died back in Gotham, also maybe one of Bruce's ancestors just to go full Lovecraft/.

In the Golden Age, he had Black Jack, who was not only one of the most frequently appearing villains in Golden Age DC outside Luthor & Joker, but for a long time, Aquaman's only supporting character as well.

I imagine him being much friendlier with Arthur than his other Rogues. But still being a bloodthirsty pirate.
>"My condolences for yer son, Mr. Curry."

Big Boss. He is angry because Aquaman destroyed Mother Base.

Is his hideout a pineapple under the sea?

>Team Magma vs. Team Aqua

While I do love the motif of Aquaman fighting the wealthy dude from gilligans island, I was kinda looking for someone with the traditional pirates garb of the tri cornered hat big red feather and maybe a parrot

How very Star Trek: Discovery!

Underrated

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Do the classic DC trope and make a literal god of a similar background a villain.

Posiedon - Olympian God of the Sea
Neptune - Roman equivalent
Sobek - Egyptian Crocodile God
Triton - Posiedons son
Riyujin - Japanese Sea God
Ægir - Norse Personification of the sea

Prewar Steel
An amalgam made from the hull plates of several WWII vessels, filled with the bones of sailors that stalks the ocean, carrying out brutal retribution to anyone who disturbs war graves.

>Linux

He wants to use all the water in the world to power every computer in the world.

Why not turn the ocean into a computer?

Hairdrier man. 25000 btu dual hair driers and dry him out. His signature is large buffont hair on his victims.

I think Brainiac is more likely to do that.

I was waiting for a Flying Dutchman-type Pirate Ghost to fight Aquaman.

It writes itself, a Pirate searching for the Lost City of Atlantis, only for the ship to be sunk with its crew by Atlantis’ superior tech.

Now they’re undead, and they want their revenge, and their gold too.

Aquaman and Etrigan already has a yearly ritual where they fight and banish a n old one.

Nah. Brainiac would shrink Atlantis and bottle it to add to his collection.

Nessy, the literal Loch Ness Monster. She ate Triton, son of Poseidon, and as a result Arthur is tasked to murder her.

Apparently, Nessy has been the scourge of most divine water spirits for a while. Never notable enough to warrant atention from Poseidon himself, but formidable enough that whichever being, be they deity or not, has always failed to strike her down.

Her entire belly is essentially another dimension. Oddly enough, she’s also not hostile to Arthur, and can converse with him quite eloquently.

She then opens her maw, and Arthur sees his long dead son’s spirit inside her stomach, emitting light...

Sea-Monkey: A gorilla in an old timey diving suit. Aquaman needs an ape villain

This.

>Gorilla City's only oceanographer

Then why hasn't he done that already

So the Lex to Aquaman's Superman?

How is there not a character using this name already?

He's in the 30th century

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I like the names, but why does it feel like the 30th century heroes just didn’t really care about their code name?

Take Grodd and Weather Wizard from Flash's rogues and give them to Aquaman.

the hell is weather Wizard gonna do under water?

draw Aquaman out with tropical cyclones and then unleash the electronics

he turns all the sea water into a hurricane and then bombards atlantis with it

the moon spirit is mad with all human poluttion and creates giant tidal waves all over the continents, and the only way to make it stop is aquaman on person speaking with her to negotiate since her former lover is his ancestor

full on Underwater Politics. There should be other cities/nations that would contest Arthur's claim as King of the Sea. Put in the man sized Aqua Woman from Earth-2 as the ruler of the Pacific ocean. Put in a Talking Walrus as the President of an Arctic nation. heck, bring back the Ancient Atlanteans and relocate them away from Atlantis.

Carnivorous sapient algae that can hide inside the flesh of its victims and puppeteer them.

Lusca
Literal sharktopus

Manaqua!

He's a man who merged his consciousness with the ocean. How can Aquaman defeat the literal water he breathes? lol

why does the moon give a shit about the earth's air quality?

that's like every aquaman third aquaman arc, nephew. most recently was Corum Rath.

this has happened to arthur before. example i'm thinking of is a 90s justice league arc where we was turned into water and kept that way for like 3000 years due to time travel shenanigans

I'd give Atlantis its own Atlantis, a rival civilization that was long ago accidentally magically teleported into alien city deep underground, under the bottom of the ocean. The Atlanteans assumed that they'd all been killed. A few hundred of the city's inhabitants survived adapted to their surroundings, kind of like Atlantian drow, and used their magic and the alien tech to enhance themselves. After centuries, their descendants eventually escape, and their King and Queen blame Atlantis for whatever happened to their ancestors and want to wipe it out.

xebel?

Yeah but we're gonna call it Lebex and introduce a character named Arem to act as Mera's love interest

Cool! Time travel sure is wacky. lol

Undersea Vampire
Sealab 2020 but led by an evil billionaire
The Tranch but intelligent, worshipping Dagon
Tiamat, the sweet water ocean

God DAMN it Bendis stop doing that!

Hmm..What about White Mako

The undersea politics is mostly just within atlantis. Even xebel has been atlantisized. I want to see a full living community of nations.

The Joker is already Btman's villain.

Guy who wants to pee in the ocean.

You forgot to mention that Black Jack is still around. Though a female now

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Why? Black Manta and crew are already high-tech pirates.

Queen Clea, a Golden Age WW villain, is exactly this.

>Plasticmanolith
Astray piece of plastic man that was trapped in the oceans for Millenia gained separate sentience a has merged with the plastic mass of garbage in the ocean.

Hi main goal is to “replace the sea with plastic” as he sees the ocean as his enemy; because he’s just crazy.

Honestly Grodd would be better Wonderwoman villain. Gorila city would be good place to show Diana skills as a diplomat

I can dig it

Landshark

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This is honestly the best one yet

An old irresponsible beast keeper that rears rare but dangerous and invasive species under insufficient security, so they always escape. He also crossbreeds and finds ways to collect new ones by either purchasing them off-world illegally or from spooky hocus pocus people. He's a complete cunt who only really cares about his pets, and gives no fucks about how they damage the ecosystem, infrastructure and endangers lives, throwing a bitch fit whenever Arthur puts down any one of his escaped krakens.

Seconded
We need undead magic lovecraftian cronenberg pirates

Get this
>Gorilla City's own Andrew Ryan

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Don't forget whalewolf
Hell, they should bring in all those weird syfy ocean movie monsters

Forgot pic

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Bump

This seems more like it would be a Lex Luthor rogue

He's stolen and pillaged from ancient tribes, lost cities, sacred fountains and many other forgotten places the world never knew existed. It is there he claims the greatest treasures the world has ever seen. Gold meant nothing when it meant you can own the hearts of mutinous men with a crack of his legendary whip.
Pirate hunters from all over the globe searched for the fabled man that sailed the seas with impunity, of how his crew always grows in number and how he could never fall in battle. Like the treasures he discovered, he was woven into myth, whether to scare children or to inspire every cutthroat to follow in his wake, nevertheless ushered in an age of chaos. A golden age for piracy. As for the immortal captain, he earned many names but the one the struck the most in dread is Scourge, etching his name in infamy across the seven seas.

The last voyage he undertook was to find the sunken city of Atlantis and its greatest prize, the trident of Neptune, and with it the power of dominion over the seas. It was said he would dive into the depths for days only to resurface angrier and bitter, much as the black clouds that soon formed to torment him. There grew a storm that roared like never before but despite this he would resume his search amid the the consuming waves and crack of lightning, with the tempest growing with each trespass. The ocean roil soon proved too much and swallowed his entire ship, dragging it and his band into the darkest depths. His crew laid dead, crashed and scattered along the seabed but not for Scourge as he continued to swim out of madness and desire in pursuit of his treasure. For the following weeks he scoured the waters in the harshest squall that could submerge the tallest mountains but he did not relent. He even did battle with immense monsters with jaws the size of islands and long arms that could crush ten ships in a single clutch. All he claimed in victory, amassing a new crew. A crew of beasts from below.

ZEHAHA! AQUAMAN!

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Based

Actually, there should be more subterranean civilizations. Not for Atlantis to go to war with, but just in general.

That's just Black Manta bro

Isn't that just The Fisherman?

He can't swim. This will end badly for him.

DC's Earth is already hollow though

Is that that much of a problem?