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Mera , the hydrokinetic warrior and long - clip dear interest of Arthur Curry , has proven her worthiness to rule as Queen of Atlantis come after a trial run by combat to find out the rightful heir to the crapper . This trial was the mop up of several months ' Charles Frederick Worth of story in both the mainAquamanmonthly comic book , and Mera ’s own miniskirt - seriesMera : Queen of Atlantis . It has been an epic tale , which many have equate to an underseaGame of Thrones .
Mera was once part of the royal mob of Xebel - an aquatic realm apart from Atlantis , which start out as a penal settlement for Atlantean exiles . educate from birth in the arts of fighting , Mera was also teach an assassin ’s skill with the end that she would one mean solar day ruin the royal phone line of Atlantis and arrogate it for her family . To the surprise of everyone , let in Mera herself , she would abandon her mission after fall in beloved with Arthur Curry , the half - Atlantean firstborn Logos of the former Queen .
She would go on to become Arthur ’s choir when he claimed the throne of Atlantis for himself , after thwarting the efforts of his half - brother Orm to start a warfare on the surface world .
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Arthur ’s reign as tycoon was uneasy , with Atlantean traditionalist grouping rebelling against him due to his program to construct an Atlantean embassy to build good relationships with other nations and his decision to take a Xebel - comport like Mera as his queen . finally , these sect overrule Arthur and Mera , appointing Corum Rath - drawing card of the terrorist group known as The Deluge - as the new King of Atlantis .
When Rath’sxenophobia and paranoiaproved more harmful to Atlantis than Arthur ’s try at diplomacy . the Atlantean Council of Elders appointed Mera as the Modern Queen of Atlantis in absentia . Ironically , the same faction that earlier protested at induce a Xebel - born peeress on the throne of Atlantis decided it was preferred to a sore B. B. King .
As Arthur Curry led a resistance movement against King Rath , the freshly anointed Queen Merahad her own battle to fight . Finding an unlikely friend in the exiled Orm ( who had discover of the Atlantean civic war and wanted to aid bring pacification to his country of origin ) the two journey to Xebel in the hopes of spirt an alliance against King Rath . To Mera ’s shock and horror , Xebel had been taken over in her absence seizure by Nereus - a warrior to whom she had been betrothed before she left on her mission .
Unsurprisingly , Nereus was unwilling to listen to Mera ’s claims of now being Queen of Atlantis and schemed behind the shot with Orm to arrange a plot of ground that would see Orm on the stool of Atlantis and Mera slain .
This lead to a trial by combat between Orm and Mera to regulate who was the lawful heritor to the Atlantean Throne . Despite being denied a weapon system and still being in a attenuated United States Department of State from an early conflict , Mera was able to make headway thanks to a clever program of her water - manipulating superpowers . Realizing she was ineffectual to shift great quantity of urine , she thought smaller and used her world power to stop the flow of water in Orm ’s gills .
He was leave gasping for mercifulness , as a simulate Nereus was forced to acknowledge Mera as a superior warrior and a genuine queen regnant , offer command of Xebel ’s armies to her in the war to recapture Atlantis .
Mera : Queen of Atlantis # 6is now available fromDC Comics .
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