I would then immediately show him ceremonially placing his helmet over his face, and never show him without it again or reference his past. I would show the light in his eyes slowly being eaten away with them until the light is gone, leaving dead, pitiless eyes and he sits emotionless until he was rescued. Just open with his as a young boy already trapped in this wreck with no context, sitting with his hands on his head trying to ignore the sounds of his friends being consumed slowly and emotionlessly by the creatures of the same uncaring sea that killed them. That's what I've always liked to imagine how I'd introduce Black Manta in a story. I remember reading this story about a man who survived three days in the wreck of a sunken ship inside of an air pocket, where he had to listen to fish devour the bodies of his crewmates before being rescued.

The fact that his true origin is purposely obscured makes him even more striking as a shapeless force of nature. He has the same all consuming hatred for Aquaman that Captain Ahab had for the white whale He is to Aquaman what a hurricane is to humanity, who he sees as responsible for taking this reckoning upon himself as Lord of the oceans.

Black Manta has made himself into the very same pitiless, irrational and savage force of hate that the earth lays upon humanity from the seas. He is the living manifestation of human hatred brought upon him by the cruel Poseidon like forces of wrathful nature, represented by the ocean. 318KB, 736圆49px Black Manta is a man that both philosophically and symbolically with his suit has encased himself in hate.

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