| Typology Aquatic |
| Total Entries 83 |
| Representative Hydroman |
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The Marine Marvel. The Water Warrior. The Aquaman of every “Super Team”. They are always Aquaman, including the ones that aren’t. Making a hero of this type isn’t that hard, though not all of them have to be exactly the same. Most have the usual “Combo Platter Powers”, including “Super-Strength” and being able to “survive being shot at with bullets thanks to living with the intense pressures of rock bottom”. They have “Super Swimming Skills”, or at least “Super Not-Drowning Skills”, capable of outpacing even the fastest of sea cheetahs. They can talk to sea life, though the specifics of how this power works — be it mind controlling all life in the ocean or just being able to verbally speak with fish at Sea World — differ between examples. Some of the more powerful examples have “Making a Splash” powers, making them a “Person of Mass Destruction” in their element. Their arsenal includes the “Prongs of Poseidon” and repurposed harpooning technology they found on sunken ships. Many examples also share characteristics with the “Lord of the Ocean”, most examples drawing inspiration from the likes of Poseidon and Neptune from Classical Mythology. Their origins can vary just as much. They could have been humans who were mutated from a freak accident involving fish-DNA, a race of humans from Atlantis who evolved to adapt to the abyss’s extreme pressure, alien Fish People who found a home in our oceans, an envoy of a “Token Aquatic Race” that joined the hero’s party, “Apparently Human Merfolk” that just happened to evolve adjacent to humanity, a “Semiaquatic Species Sailor” and so on… Compare “Electric Black Guy”. See also “The Cape”, “The Cowl”, “Captain Geographic”, “Captain Patriotic”, “Propaganda Hero”, “Shark Man”, “Token Wizard”, “Unscaled Merfolk”, and “Water Is Womanly”… ~ Captain Fishman – TV Tropes
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