He later caused a disturbance in Sub Diego, during which Captain Marley was seriously injured. Manta was later used as a test subject to create water breathers using genetic manipulation. Despite this, Manta remained a murderous criminal. He was later reversed back into a human by Aquaman, using the Lady of the Lake's Healing Hand, and cured Manta's autism. In this new form, Manta indulged in drug smuggling in Star City. Aquaman spared Manta's life, however, and had him arrested instead.īlack Manta later sold his soul to the demon Neron, who mutated him into a manta-human hybrid creature. He left Aquaman obsessed with revenge, and he engaged in another battle with Black Manta, ending with the supervillain defeated. During the clash with Aquaman, Black Manta entrapped Aquaman's son, Arthur Curry, Jr., in a globe filling with air, suffocating the infant to death. This was later revealed to be a ruse to manipulate his lieutenant, Cal Durham. Under the moniker of Black Manta, the supervillain and his army would engage in multiple clashes with Aquaman over the course of several years.ĭuring one such confrontation, Black Manta revealed he was African American, and claimed he wished for his people to rule the seas after being oppressed on dry land. He finally defended himself against his captors, killing one of them with a knife.Īs an adult, the man who would become Black Manta created a costume and fashioned a high-tech submersible inspired by manta rays. This resulted in the boy developing hatred against the sea, and Aquaman, who he saw as its representative. During his time held prisoner on the ship, the boy attempted to call Aquaman for help but was not seen. Once an autistic child who loved to play by the sea, the child who would be known as Black Manta was abducted and forced to work on a ship for an unspecified amount of time. In the current Brightest Day miniseries, it has been revealed that Black Manta is the father of the new Aqualad, Jackson Hyde, and his true origin may come to light. But Manta has proven to be just as heartless as the scientists who tormented him as a boy and has frequently fought Aquaman.īut now their war became personal after Manta killed Aquaman's infant son by trapping him in a chamber that suffocated Arthur Curry Jr., despite Aquaman's best efforts to save him, an act that truly proves that not all sea monsters are animals. One such experiment increased his knowledge but made him a sociopathic madman in the process.Įscaping from Arkham, Manta decided to take over the seas, seeing it as a safe haven from the cruelty of the surface world. Manta currently claims that he was an autistic boy who grew up in Arkham Asylum, where he was subject to many unethical experiments. This involves strategic attacks and murders on his people, specifically his close loved ones.īlack Manta is one of many mysteries of the sea. Out of all of Aquaman's foes, Black Manta is the one that holds the strongest grudge against him.īlack Manta's hatred for Aquaman has varied over the years, due to the changes of his origin, but he has consistently gone out of his way to be cruel and sadistic as possible to make his life miserable.
I don't hate you for siding with my greatest enemy, Jackson.but I fear that I have become your greatest enemy.ĭavid Hyde, better known as Black Manta, is one of the main antagonists of the DC Universe and one of the two arch-nemeses of Aquaman, along with Ocean Master.
The world is afraid of you.and it should be. You want to bring the land and sea together? You raise this building to your own vain ambition? You're deluded. Y'see, deep down, in my most secret heart of hearts, I'm still a totally depraved sonuvabitch whose main goal in life is to watch you die.
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