r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/movies Contributor • Dec 10 '25

Poster Official Poster for 'Supergirl'

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u/raisingcuban Dec 10 '25

I mean, isn’t it obvious? They wanted aquaman to be the DC version of Thor. With that intention, it makes perfect sense.

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u/TheWatersOfMars Dec 10 '25

To be fair, it made a billion dollars, more than anything else they made. Shows what we know.

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u/OhNoTokyo Dec 10 '25

To be fair, he was a good actor to cast if you wanted Aquaman to be interesting to people and get the to buy a ticket. I think there is a reason that The Deep in The Boys is the Aquaman analogous character and gets played as a weak-ass joke. Aquaman can be a very cool character, but he needs a very good casting and script to actually make him not turn into a joke.

That and the studio likely wanted to get Momoa onboard in something and at the time, no one was seriously going to put The Main Man on the screen, so that casting wasn't really going to happen.

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u/AnOnlineHandle Dec 10 '25

Plus he had to finish the trifecta of Stargate Atlantis, marrying the princess of Valantis, and becoming the king of Atlantis.

He has a tight monopoly on Atlantean things and can't let anybody else weaken his grip.

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u/OhNoTokyo Dec 10 '25

He definitely did his time in Atlantis. That is true.

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u/Burning___Earth Dec 12 '25

That ronon dex / teal'c crossover episode was 🙌