The Aquaman Movie's Coolest Monsters Are Being Turned Into A Total Joke
Warning! Contains spoilers for Aquamen #6!
The terrifying Trench monsters from the Aquaman movie are being turned into a joke in the comics. Despite being a horde of horrifying fish-monsters, they are now seen as barely a threat, quite different to how the movie portrayed them. This is also a vast change from how they were originally portrayed in the comics.
The Trench were first introduced in Geoff Johns and Ivan Reis’s ground-breaking Aquaman run, which was largely seen as an attempt to make Aquaman seem cool again after decades of being ridiculed in pop culture. As such, the Atlantean’s enemies needed to be intimidating enough to measure up to Aquaman's badass reimagining in the first issue. The Trench certainly satisfied this need, being terrifying monsters from the deepest and darkest part of the ocean, and sharing the horrific appearance of many real-world creatures who dwell there, like the angler fish. Perhaps the scariest thing about these man-eating monsters is that they were once Atlanteans just like Aquaman who evolved into the Trench after years of living in the Marianas Trench. This raises an interesting dilemma for Aquaman, as instead of just being a mindless swarm of dangerous monsters he can eradicate, they are relatives of his own species and offshoots of his own empire. All of this terror and nuance is being lost in the latest issue of Aquamen.
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In Aquamen #6, written by Brandon Thomas and Chuck Brown with art by Max Raynor, two of Aquaman's oldest allies Garth and Tula are spending some quality time together in the Curry family training grotto fighting off some of the Trench. Despite the horde of monsters they face, they barely give
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