Where did Black Manta get his armor? Did he make or steal it?

>>89254809
He made it in his basement, its powered by his pure undying hatred for aquaman.

>>89254809
This is the only one thing that really bugged me in Johns' New 52 Aquaman run. Seriously, What the fuck is that suit? Who made it?

>>89254809
>Where did Black Manta get his armor? Did he make or steal it?
He made it, remember he has autism

>>89254944
he bought it off the internet

Why this nigga hate Whitefish so much?

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A criminal is just a man lost in the scramble for his own gratification. He can be destroyed, or locked up. But if he makes himself more than just a man, if he devotes himself to an ideal, and if they can't stop him, then he becomes something else entirely.

>>89254944
>>89254809
I think the mystery and ambiguity helps keep Manta scary and imposing. A lot like how he's at his best when his hatred of Aquaman is all encompassing and only partially or vaguely elaborated on, like he's just this thing powered by the sheer concept of hatred.

He's just this ordinary guy who inexplicably manages to go toe to toe with a Justice Leaguer and the literal king of the sea just a few tiers below someone like Supes, and apparently he owes it all to how he just fucking despises him.

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>>89254809
Black Manta suit is a mistery as his name.
We know he made it himself(which create more questions than answers), it offers some degree of enchanted strenght and it's perfect to fight Aquaman

>>89255114
>Manta doesn't get to kill Aquaman
>Manta doesn't get to kill evil Aquaman
>Manta settles for killing everyone instead
It's too bad he didn't get a big victory like Quick and Cold or Lex and Alex.

>>89255114
desu Manta should have red text in addition to his black speech bubbles.

>>89255166
Aren't they using that textbox coloration for their poorly-done deadpool knockoff? That is dating Harley who has also become a deadpool knockoff

>>89255598
Nah his are black text on yellow just like Deadpool but they're shaped like tools such as saws and hammers

>>89254809
How does he not get crushed into a pulp when he's at the bottom of the sea?

>>89256381
The suit is just that good. Which again begs the question of just how he made it.

>>89254987
Because Ahab vs Moby Dick.

People seem confused by his suit, but what about his manta men?

>>89256463
They are his stand, duh

>>89256503
Do you have pictures of JoJo poses to back this up?

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I like to think he built it. Hes a very capable man who manages to be a threat to earths strongest natural lifeform and could do SO MUCH more if he ever escaped his desire to ruin Arthur

>>89256600
But without his hatred driving him, he'd have no ambition, nothing to strive toward.

There's absolutely no reason that he can't just be a super genius who is so focused on destroying his hated enemy that he doesn't apply himself elsewhere.

Him building his own suit is fine, people have done far crazier shit.

>>89256633
Oh Im not saying he should, I like the Captain Ahab thing hes got going on and its refreshing to see a villain not intent on domination or worldwide slaughter. He and Thawne stand out in that regard.

How Powerful is Black Manta? Unlike the other Villains you almost never find him outside of fighting Aquaman.

>>89256707
Why would he fight other people unless they were between him and aquadunce?

>>89256707
Well lets see
>Can survive the deepest depth of the ocean like his adversary
>Can take a punch from Aquaman, who on occasion has been shown to take hits from both Superman and Wonder Woman
>Skilled hand to hand fighter
Also I think he fought Deathstroke once

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>>89256782
Ooh! Second time today I get to post this.

>>89256782
Don't forget how his DCAU counterpart nearly murdered Wonder Woman with blowfish toxin.

>>89256729
Really, he does the whole "Obsessed with a single hero" thing without being a massive fag like the Joker.

He has no time for petty goals like "conquering the world" or "becoming a god".

He's a man with a simple goal who shows total commitment to carrying out, its pure and doesn't need a reason.

>>89256911
There's no pretentiousness from Manta.
Writers don't need to spend time writing sob stories or some deep bullshit for him to be entertaining.
They just need him to be an asshole.

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So that chick that was running with him (Blackjack?), any chance of her becoming his hate driven Mera/waifu? HATEFUCKING

>>89254944
Well he is like a hired assassin.
So he prolly had some tech build it for money, like Deathstroke.

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Who hates Aquaman the most? Orm or Manta?

>>89256844
That wasn't Manta, that was DEVIL RAY yee haw

>>89257016
How is this a question? Manta. Also they couldnt use the name Black Manta on the show because at the time a live action Aquaman show was being made but ultimately dropped. They actually were considering bringing in Manta had another season been approved.

>>89257016
Seeing Diana's bosom makes me sad for the movie that's coming up.

>>89256978
>Be part of a secret organization called N.E.M.O.
>It greatest tool is its secrecy
>Try to recruit Manta
>He kills the Fisher King and takes over N.E.M.O
>Turns the whole group into a tool for his petty hatred against Aquaman
>This leads to N.E.M.O's reveal
>Manta blows up the base and you narrowly surviive

>>89257058
>How is this a question?
Orm hates Aquaman with a passion too.

>>89257099
It could still happen. Get her in that diving suit and give her a helmet

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>>89256978
If she does, she should get those manta fins that background female Manta in Kingdom Come had.

>>89257182
She probably hates Manta for ruining everything

>>89257139
Orm has a shitty costume and sucked off demons for power

Manta's hate is pure and true, and his helmet is much bigger and blacker

>>89257197
Most likely. If writers wanted to they could twist it where she eventually blames Arthur for the whole thing. But yeah shes probably going to go after Manta

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didn't manta quit his job when he learned aquaman was alive?

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>>89257299
That would be fitting. Black Manta hates Aquaman for no logical reason. And his partner would hate Aquaman for no logical reason too, when it ironically would make more sense to hate Manta.

>>89257197

>She becomes Black Manta's Black Manta

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>>89257375
FUCKING WHY?

>>89257414
Dude really hates Aquaman

>>89257375

This is his whole character summed up in a single page.

>>89257375
>kill everyone and burn the place down, then just walk into the sea
If I didn't know anything about him I'm pretty sure I'd fall in love with him here.
>>89257414
He was right miffed his old adversary was back in town, old boy.

>>89257414
He takes his revenge/hate vendettas seriously

>>89257414
Black Manta hates Aquaman and that's it. He has no motivation besides that. The only reason he got the job was to keep himself alive for the slim chance Aquaman could come back so he could have something to HATE again. Once that happened he had no more use for his surface life

Why doesn't Manta just get a Red Lantern ring and use that to take down Aquaman?

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>>89257375
That last page always gets me.

>>89257532
His level of hate would overpower the ring, be like a nuclear bomb going off

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>>89254809

>>89257605
>he has the speech bubbles even without the helmet
Fuck yeah, Black Manta!

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>>89257574
that did it. he's my favorite villain cause he jobs as a hobby. he has shown he could take him out so many times.

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>>89254809

'Member the '90s?

>>89257412
Except she has a good reason

>>89257788
I do my best not to remember the 90's. It was a silly time.

>>89257375
Does he store his suit...underwater?

>>89255114
I laughed so much when he killed the outsider. It was so sudden and so brutal.

>>89257882
Who'd look for it there?

Reminder that the DCEU Aquaman movie is going to fuck him up

>>89257016
Orm loves him in a somewhat messed up way. Manta's hate is unparalled. When he became a member of the suicide squad he made himself hallucinate in order to see aquaman whenever he killed someone.

>>89257950
Is he even in it?

>>89257950
>implying DCEU won't be cancelled after WW and JL

>>89258027
Even if that happened they'd prolly have enough set up to start making the movie.
They'd just say "none of the movies are connected, we're back to stand alone movies"

>>89256677
Thawne tried world domination once. He won, immediately.

Then people started a revolution with the Flash as a symbol, and he got butthurt about the Flash again and left his empire to go ruin the Flash some more.

>>89257605
What's the context?

>>89257633
I think it's meant to denote he has a deep, manly voice, like Michael Clarke Duncan.

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>>89257925

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>>89257788
Totally forgot.

>>89257532
Manta isn't angry, just hateful.

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>>89257788
Fucking stupid as shit.

>>89261537
That's right. Thank God there are no rings powered by hate yet

>>89262482
Black Manta could probably wreak some havoc with a red ring though

>>89261667
...what.

I can grasp most of that 90's redesign, but why does his shirt say Eat Quiche?

>>89254907
>rage powered scuba suit

>>89264876

It's an incentive to stay angry, since if he starts to calm down he'll drown.

>>89257375
LOL His job as a fish salesman always kills me.

>>89258301
What issue(s) was that? I don't remember that.

>>89261603
Nice

Am I the only one who thinks Black Manta would look great with the Venom Symbiote on?

>>89257375
It's so retardedly over the top, I can't help but love the man.

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The issue this week was really good

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>>89267839
RIP

>>89268742

There's no body. He'll be fine.

>>89254809
Serious question, /co/.
You are always fawning over dis nigga, but does he actually have any good stories?
He had some moments in Brightest Day and Forever Evil, but both stories were dull as hell.

>>89270438

Um, read some Aquaman comics? Most of his appearances are in those as he's - you know - an AQUAMAN villain?

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>>89270785

Fuck, this shit is great!

>>89254965
You can buy underwater power armor off the internet irl.

>>89254809
Internet.

The strength thing is kind of backward; you're assuming movement underwater is as simple as it is in atmosphere, but there's much more resistance.

Ergo any suit which could give him even the ability to move underwater with the same ease as on land would make him fabulously strong on land.

>>89270785
I've never read black manta, but this thread makes him seem interesting. I hope he'll be in the Aquaman movie

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>>89257984
I think it was confirmed for Ocean Master as the big bad. If I was casting manta though I'd probably choose Djimon Honsou based on his body aline

>>89271842

Aquaman is great you should check it out.

You can begin with either New 52 or Rebirth as both are good jumping on points if you don't want to go back to the beginning to start.

>>89265472
And his customers.

>>89271260
Manta predates the internet by a good 20 years.

>>89254809
Does his Helmet gives him a wide wrap-around view, enhancing his field of vision?

>>89257788
For every bit that 90s Aquaman was cool, 90s Manta was just as shitty.

>>89274070
No, it just shoots lasers

>>89255012
>with a Justice Leaguer and the literal king of the sea just a few tiers below someone like Supes

The berth between those tiers if the gap between the sun and pluto bro.

>>89264470
Two possible answers:

-90's Fate believes everyone should eat quiche

-90's Fate was ahead of the curve, and is wearing the shirt ironically, making him the first canon hipster in comics

>>89257574
>>89257375
Holy shit, I get it now. Black Manta is the ultimate fisherman and Aquaman is the greatest fish he could kill. It all makes sense now.

>>89256633
Remember after Aquaman died when Manta worked at a fish market and then immediately killed everyone after finding out Aquaman came back to life?

>tfw you fucking love Manta's helmet but think the rest of him should do more to resemble an actual manta

>>89257788
Remember when Aquaman had that magic water hand and cured Manta of being a mantaman and also cured Manta's autism, and Manta STILL tried to kill him?

>>89276808
A tail?!

>>89254809
we all agree he is just yandere for aquaman.
and lashes out since he wasn't born a xebel redhead that won the bowl, right?

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>>89257375
That smug old fuck was asking for it

>>89254809

The manta suit makes him go toe to toe with Aquaman.

But it's also been noted in its construction. When the atom tried to penetrate it, she said she couldn't even at a microscopic level. WTF was that.

>>89257299
>Black Manta gets his own Black Manta
>she constantly stalks him and throws herself into his schemes against Aquaman with Thawne-tier pettiness because she knows that's the only thing that matters to him
>she always escapes him and Aquaman to do it another day

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>>89272979
yeah like five reboots ago

get with the times, grandpa

>>89270438
>he actually have any good stories?
Read the Aquaman comics
You're talking about an autist that hates aquaman so much he hunts down and kills his kid via air exposure, just to piss off Aquaman

>>89279875
Imagine what 4chan could accomplish if we had some of that magic water.

>>89279875
So wait did Manta lie about the autism the whole time to fuck with Aquaman or does he still hate Aquaman even after being cured of the autism which originally made him hate Aquaman?

>>89280179
None of the 'reasons' or 'origins' for why he hates Aquaman are true, he's got more backstories than the Joker.

He hates Aquaman because he hates Aquaman, that is his purpose.

>>89279875
>Just like your kid
Why is this so funny, it's such a petty thing to add on

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>>89280179

I think it's something like, "I wasn't an asshole because I was autistic, I'm just an asshole who happened to be autistic, and you're an idiot for thinking that removing that is all it would take cure me of my criminal inhibitions and hatred of you".

>>89280270
It's probably why he's so great. It's just a primal instinctive unjustified hatred. I mean fuck, even Zoom has a reason to hate Flash. Black Manta's like Captain Ahab if his hatred of Moby Dick was totally unprompted and he wanted him dead for its own sake rather than for vengeance.

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How hard was Manta's dick at this exact moment

>>89280361
>implying Manta was ever happy at any point in Forever Evil, even when he got Arthur's Trident
Dude didn't get to kill Aquaman AND he didn't get to kill evil Aquaman.

>>89270785
>>89279875
>>89280313

Feels like we could make a montage out of all the times Manta has bragged about killing the baby.

If Aquaman had cancer Manta would cure cancer to make sure he lives long enough to kill him himself.

>>89280313
I imagine that at some point aquaman must have gotten used to it and now the memory of his dead son doesn't upset him at all.

>>89258454
Murmaider

>>89280527
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I53HDr0-Qew

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>>89281575
What are his blades made of? Aquaman is almost as tough as superman and wonder woman.

>>89270785
>Do fish believe in god?

kek

>>89281627
They were made of plotonium. Like plot armor, but with knives.

>>89281627
Shouldn't you be asking how an arrow was able to pierce his helmet?

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>>89280470
Manta likes to brag about every shitty aspect of Arthur's life.

>>89281703
One of Green Arrow's Villain Killin' arrows

>>89281627
anti-aquamannite

>>89282385
This