Piloting, Unarmed Combat and Manipulation.Black Manta's fate along with everyone else in the New-52 is currently unknown. The rest of the Suicide Squad don't last much longer before they are forced to self destruct the LexCorp Tower, killing everyone and all the Paradooms in and near it.Īfter Darkseid was defeated, Flash erased the timeline. Black Manta and the rest of the Suicide Squad stay in Lex Luthor's tower to guard the portal leading to Apokolips but are attacked by Darkseid's Paradooms.īlack Manta holds off several Paradooms by himself with his own arm blades but is quickly killed by the Paradooms when he misses a Paradoom's neck who grabs Black Manta from the head, stabbing him in the stomach, and raises his body into the air before ripping his torso in half after Bane gets overwhelmed and eaten by the Paradooms. Thankfully, Black Manta is finally getting the respect hes due with an epic cosplay from Reddit user BasiliusKrane. He helps the Suicide Squad and the surviving heroes fight off all of the guards with his laser-shooting helmet, and by propelling bullets with his bulletproof metallic suit. They invade Lex Luthor's tower but deal with Luthor's heavily armed guards. To be added Justice League Dark: Apokolips Warīlack Manta is seen to be part of the new Suicide Squad now led by Harley Quinn 2 years after Darkseid's successful invasion on Earth. Just as he is revealing his scheme, Aquaman summons a megalodon shark from the harbor to attack Black Manta, biting the villain and bringing him into the ocean. Black Manta reveals to have manipulated Orm into starting a war with the surface, and plans to claim the treasures of Atlantis for himself when the time is right. Black Manta later faces off against Aquaman and has the upper hand until the end of their fight. After Orm becomes the 'Ocean Master' and Arthur becomes 'Aquaman', the Atlantean army wages war with the surface and the Justice League. After his men fail to kill Orm's half brother, Arthur Curry, Orm kills Queen Atlanta, and usurps the throne of Atlantis, once again framing the humans for killing his mother. However, Queen Atlanta still refuses to strike and tells Manta to arrange a meeting with the Justice League to discuss a peace treaty. Orm and Black Manta then demand that the Queen launch a war for the alleged act of terrorism from the surface.

After she rejects their idea to attack the humans, Black Manta uses missiles (that his men stole from a nuclear submarine earlier) loaded into his submarine to attack Atlantis, framing the surface world. Later in Atlantis, he and Orm meet with Orm's mother, Queen Atlanta, to persuade her into starting a war with the surface world. While the doctor tries to approach Curry immediately after witnessing his strength, Black Manta advises him to talk to Arthur in the morning. Shin, a scientist with theories that Atlantis exists. Out of costume, Black Manta first appears observing Arthur Curry with Dr. Biography Justice League: Throne of Atlantis

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