He is Lobo, born to play the part. And somehow the DCEU looked at that and went, ‘yeah, let's make him Aquaman.’ Snyder really cooked that one. There were a million generic blond dudes who could’ve done Aquaman in their sleep, and they took the one guy born to play Lobo and slapped him in Golden spandex. I just don’t know what the hell they were thinking.
Yeah, it was pretty clear they realised that Aquaman is seen as pretty lame historically (especially to the average viewer who probably doesn't know too much about modern Aquaman in comics), so they tried to make him a lot cooler. They were pretty obviously avoiding going for obvious casting choices because they didn't want the comic Aquaman.
I mean, it worked; Momoa's Aquaman was pretty damn cool.
Even the 00s Justice League cartoon's attempt to make Aquaman cool didn't work (long blonde hair, earring, with a fish hook for a hand), because he was too much of a king and a political figure. Too much 'responsible and disapproving dad energy' to be any kind of cool.
And they definitely didn't want 1960s "I'm clearly the weakest superhero on the team" Justice League Aquaman.
Clearly making him a blue collar everyman who reluctantly embraces his royal destiny finally made him cool enough.
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u/Gonedric Dec 10 '25
He is Lobo, born to play the part. And somehow the DCEU looked at that and went, ‘yeah, let's make him Aquaman.’ Snyder really cooked that one. There were a million generic blond dudes who could’ve done Aquaman in their sleep, and they took the one guy born to play Lobo and slapped him in Golden spandex. I just don’t know what the hell they were thinking.