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one of my friends was trying to tell me that Aquaman was the best superhero ever, and he was like, "name someone that could beat aquaman in a fight!"

 

I practically screamed "ANYONE"

 

but I've always liked either Hulk or Wolverine best, even though I don't dislike really any superhero (except aquaman )

one of my friends was trying to tell me that Aquaman was the best superhero ever, and he was like, "name someone that could beat aquaman in a fight!"

 

I practically screamed "ANYONE"

Dude. Aquaman commands the creatures of the deep. That includes these dudes:

 

And, my personal favorite,

 

(the Kraken, the Leviathan, and Cthulhu, for those not in the know.)

Aquaman's main problem is that he lets the animals do the work for him. Superman's powers are at least cool. But Aquaman has a bigger problem adapting to the audience.

 

Lemme' see. Superman can clobber anyone except Doomsday, Darkseid, Thor, and the Hulk. Batman can beat anyone by looking at them and growling. Wonder Woman is essentially a female Superman. Green Lantern can use his ring to pull Aquaman out of the water, where he's even more useless. The Flash is just to fast for any sea critter to catch. (Speaking of which, why does the Flash even bother fighting. He's too fast for opponents to even see. He should be able to beat the tar out of anyone who's not equally fast or invulnurable without being touched.) He can probably beat Green Arrow. Martian Manhunter is pretty much equal to Superman. Spider-Man might have some trouble with him. Wolverine would tear him up. The Hulk smashes everybody. Thor smashes everybody too. Captain America may have trouble, until he has a US Naval ship lauch some depth charges. Iron Man probably has a submersible suit that he could clobber Aquaman with. For crying out loud, half the Teen Titans could probably beat him on their own.

 

Yeah, Aquaman is about half as useless as a dead goldfish.

Yeah, but again, CTHULHU.

 

In all honesty, almost nobody there would actually fight Aquaman anyway, but assuming the dragon-octopus-god from R'lyeh exists in the DC universe, Aquaman can drive anyone he wants functionally mad.

 

He's no good out of the water, or without animals, no. But you don't judge Captain America on his theoretical physics skills or Green Lantern on his immunities to bananas. If we're going to play to the strengths of everyone who isn't Aquaman, give the fishboy a fighting chance.

Cthulhu is far more likely to control Aquaman, rather than the other way around. If looking at the critter makes you mad, can you imagine making telepathic contact?

 

And that yellow weakness thing has been reduced greatly over the years. Even so, that means that versus Aquaman, the only thing a GL couldn't do is pull his hair. Aquaman gets more limited the more you take away his home field advantage. All those other guys keep their strengths no matter where they are. Except Spider-Man. If he's not in a city, he'll have a hard time swinging from skyscrapers. Green Arrow is pretty useless underwater though, Hard to shoot arrows underwater.

Okay, so let's rule out the Lovecraftian horrors. That still leaves god knows how many abominations in the oceans.

 

As for nuts weaknesses, how about the other one Hal, at the least had? Wood.

 

But yeah, take Aquaman out of the water (~75% of Earth, there.) and he's less useful than he would be in his home element. But it's still not exactly fair to limit someone to only where they're not at their prime.

 

(never thought I'd see the day I was defending Aquaman.)

Most of the ocean's more monstrous critters have to stay too deep to be useful. Though a whale can do a lot of damage easy, but then again, it has to stay in the water.

 

And just cuz a weakness was silly never stopped it's use from being rampant. (See kryptonite)

 

So Aquaman could beat Superman if he had some kryptonite. But that's something anyone could do. (Wasn't kryptonite supposed to be uper-rare originally?)

 

Point is, Aquaman's weakness (being a fish out of water) is one that makes him useless against any supervillain that doesn't decide to stay underwater. Kryptonite, yellow objects, and wood are pretty easy to avoid, or overcome, Land is not. This makes Aquaman useless against nearly all landlubbing crime.

Until we get more Sharktopodes in everything. Then nobody will stand in his way.

 

Until that day, though, ludicrously contrived circumstances to cause usefulness will have to suffice.

All these things you post pictures of look more like what Aquaman would fight. And would clobber.

 

What they need to do is make him something like a Toa, so that he can not just control, but create water.