Aquaman’s Nemesis Has a Twisted Way of Repeatedly Killing Him
As the longtime adversary of Aquaman, Black Manta would love nothing more than to be able to dispatch his foe for good. However, doing so would rob the villain of his life's purpose, leading him to create an interesting alternative.
Few villains are as committed to destroying the lives of their archenemies as David Hyde. Black Manta has terrorized Arthur Curry for years and is one of the few villains to repeatedly harm him. Black Manta has actually killed Aquaman's infant son, cementing himself as one of the King of Atlantis' most evil rogues. Hyde has practically turned hatred into a way of life, but in spite of his torment of the seafaring hero, Manta has never been able to put Aquaman down for good.
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As it turns out, a very good reason for that is provided in New Suicide Squad #7 by Sean Ryan, Tom Derenick, Rob Hunter, Vicente Cifuentes, Blond, and Dave Sharpe. Manta and his fellow members of the Squad embark on a mission to track down and kill an escaped metahuman clone created in a Chinese facility. The team comes under attack from the clone and, amid the chaos, Black Manta confides in Captain Boomerang that unlike the others on the team, he signed up for the Squad of his own volition. Hyde tells Boomerang that when he briefly believed Aquaman to be dead, he felt devoid of purpose and found a way of getting it back by joining the Suicide Squad. While some comics show Black Manta's helmet as ridiculous, it's anything but in this issue. Thanks to an alteration to his helmet, he can see anyone he desires as Aquaman and he endures Amanda Waller's Squad so he legally kill his archenemy as many times as he wants.
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