Namor
Character » Namor appears in 4967 issues.
Namor the Sub-Mariner is the ruler of undersea Atlantis. The offspring of a sea captain and an Atlantean princess, he has been both a hero and a villain to the surface world. Namor is one of Marvel's oldest published characters with his origins in the Golden Age of comics.
not a rip off
i was reading an article the other day online that referred to namor as an aquaman ripoff apparently ignoring the fact that namor came out about 2 years before aquaman not to mention namor has always been the better of the 2 characters if you ask me
i dont hate aquaman tho i do think namor's the better character it just irratates me to hear people call something a ripoff of something that came after it, itd be like calling the original spartacus a ripoff gladiator
" @joshmightbe: Ow sorry, I did not mean you. I should have quoted the person above me ;-) "
But he is a bad ripoff
Not as powerful
Not as regal
Nothing unique looking about him
I don't think they're rip offs of each other. There's enough differences. I think writers just start running out of superpowers to use. Like Plastic Man/Elongated Man/Mr. Fantastic. I guess what really matters is which character is written better.
" @StrongestOneThereIs: You expect him to be the same as Namor?.. Of course you'll be disappointed then... Unique? magic water hand, hook, control sea life. All things Namor can't or hasn't got. Only thing similar powerwise is that they have super strength (like most of the superheroes), and are sub-mariners (also quite common). "
Not the same. If you are going to be a ripoff, be better than the original.
That's why characters like Hyperion are crap
But others like Majestic are great in their own way
technically, Atlantis proceeds both.
i like Namor alot more, but Aquaman is a fine character.
he just has the downside of being written poorly alot of
the time. He's also dead.
i do hear you however about people saying Namor is the rip-off,
when in fact Namor came first. people also say the same about
Namor being a rip-off of Black Adam and theyre wrong as well.
Namor = 1939
Aquaman = 1941
Black Adam = 1945
ive never understood calling black adam a ripoff of namor(aside from the ears) he has a completely different power set, and if you ask me adam is alot more cold hearted than namor the only similarity between the 2 is they are kings and both are kind of a$$holes
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