
Could she be talking about a literal meltdown, as in melting the ice caps? We don’t know what larger threat he’ll pose to the world, but Atlanna warns he must be stopped or global meltdown is imminent. He was just a normal dude in the first movie, but now he has superpowers that will let him go fin to fin with Aquaman.
BLACK MANTA AQUAMAN SUIT MOVIE
IGN attended a Q&A with director James Wan, and he said, quote, “In search to try and fix the power suit that he had in the first movie that was all banged up and destroyed, he stumbles across something much bigger.” That something is this mysterious Black Trident, and we can see Manta is infused with its magic, giving him glowing green eyes (sorry, he's not a Green Lantern).

Black Manta's New Powers and the Black Trident He’s hitting Arthur everywhere it hurts, from all angles. We then see Manta using his giant helmet lasers to blow up some poor fish people who were just in their fish cars trying to get to work in the morning. That’s the last place we saw his dad and his child, so Manta seems to be making good on his word. Manta says he wants to murder Aquaman’s family and burn his kingdom to ash, and we see his ship attacking Atlantis and going after Queen Atlanna, and up on the surface Arthur finds his father’s home destroyed and on fire. He had a facial wound bandaged up in that scene, and now we see the resulting gnarly scar across his face. Manta promises to share the secrets of Atlantean technology with him in exchange for help finding Aquaman. The last time we saw him, his suit was destroyed and he got his butt kicked by Aquaman, and in the post-credits scene he was rescued by Dr. Black Manta was a side villain the first time around, but now he’s the main villain of the sequel. He wants to destroy Aquaman and everything he holds dear because he blames him for the death of his father, as seen in the first movie. Inside this menacing hammerhead submarine is none other than David Kane, aka Black Manta. We take a tour of Arthur’s new kingdom, seeing the people of Atlantis go about their lives and watching an underwater sporting event? (Our guess is water polo.) But, as Arthur says, not everyone is a big fan of his. They do say a good king makes the trains swim on time. We see him defending Atlantis from what looks like a mechanical water serpent or perhaps just a runaway Atlantean train. On top of being a father, Aquaman is now king of Atlantis, after defeating his half-brother Orm at the end of the first movie and taking the throne. Luckily, it seems like movie-Aquababy is amphibious and won’t suffer that exact fate, but this film is all about Black Manta’s quest for revenge against Aquaman, so don’t be surprised if he winds up in some sort of peril. is kidnapped and murdered by Black Manta, who suffocated him with oxygen due to his aquatic physiology. Longtime DC fans may be triggered by the word “Aquababy” because there’s an infamous comic from the ‘70s where little Arthur Curry Jr.

We pick up nine months after the events of the first movie, and we all know what takes nine months to make… an Aquababy! That’s right, Aquaman is now an Aquadad, presumably with Mera as the mother.
