Captain Leonard McKenzie was on an expedition in the 1920's to Antarctica, looking for the mystical Helmet of Power. The ship was stuck in ice floes, so McKenzie used dynamite to break them up, not knowing that Atlantis was directly below. The city was severely hurt, and the Atlantean Emperor Thakorr sent his daughter Fen to investigate. She ended up finding the ship, surprising them with her blue skin, and staying for several weeks. Fen and McKenzie fell in love and married. But Thakorr was worried and sent a war party for her. Thinking they held her captive, the war party killed everyone on the ship(except Fen). Nine months later, Fen had Namor, a hybrid between a human and an Atlantean.
He grew up with a nasty temper and hate for the surface world, and when Thakorr found men in diving suits near Atlantis, Namor assumed it was the beginning of an invasion and attacked the surface world, fighting the original Human Torch. But when Nazis attacked Atlantis, he joined Captain America against them. After the war, a series of earthquakes rocked Atlantis, nearly destroying it and killing Thakorr, Fen, and much of the population. He went up to the surface and found a member of his father's crew, who had found the Helmet of Power and was causing earthquakes. The Helmet gave Namor amnesia, and he wandered around New York for a long time as a hobo. Eventually, Human Torch(the second, well-known one, Johnny Storm of Fantastic Four) found him and dropped him the harbor, giving him most of his memory. Namor assumed humans had destroyed Atlantis and went about warring with the surface world. He returned to Atlantis and became monarch and spent a long time as a Fantastic Four enemy, attacking the surface world to destroy the humans. Eventually, he made peace and started begrudgingly helping the surface. Although he spent most of his time as monarch of Atlantis, he helped the surface occasionally. He joined the Defenders and the Illuminati, although the latter recently disbanded. His only care in Civil War is the murder of the Atlantean Princess Namorita, who was killed by Nitro in the Stamford explosion. Namor currently resides under the sea, ruling Atlantis.
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