Atlanna

Queen Atlanna in Aquaman v7 #39.

Atlanna is a female comic book character that features in DC Comics.

Biography

Origin

Atlanna was the daughter of the monarch of one of the leading city-states of Atlantis with her being one of the foremost scientists and a leading chemist. Her sister was the beautiful Atlena who was the priestess of the Delphius Oracle. During this era, Atlena received a vision that showed a coming cataclysm that would destroy their homeland. Despite this warning, she stated that no steps be made to avert this upcoming disaster as the Oracle of Delpius told her that this upcoming destruction was for the greater good of Atlantis. However, Atlanna worked on a serum so that her people could survive this cataclysm. Upon learning of her experiments, Atlena attempted to dissuade her sister from her creation of the serum but Atlanna refused to do so. Instead, she took her findings to the Atlantean Prime Council and attempted to warn her father of the disaster but he refused to believe her. He instead sought to believe Atlena as her prophecies said that Atlantis would prosper for ten thousand years. As such, none believed in her when the first tremors began and led to her taking the serum herself which saved her as well as made her one of the few survivors of the cataclysm. (Action Comics v1 #519)

Over the years, she developed a constant desire to visit the surface world even though it was forbidden. On one such attempt, she was caught trying to escape with Atlanna being punished with exile from Atlantis. Around twenty years ago, she was on a raft during a storm by a lonely island when she was rescued by ex-sailor Tom Curry who had left his lighthouse and braved the weather to save her. It was said to had been love at first sight between the pair and within two weeks they had married whilst a year later she gave birth to their son Arthur Curry. Tom Curry had felt that there was something different about his wife who had not told him anything about her past and noticed that she sat for hours staring at the sea. During this time, their son from 10 months old to three years old had demonstrated unusual affinity for water allowing him to swim with sea animals not harming him. Eventually, she became fatally ill and on her deathbed she revealed her history to her husband and their son. (Adventure Comics v1 #260)

The New 52

Following the Flashpoint, a new version of reality was created with a different history of events.

Notes

• Atlanna was created by Robert Bernstein and Ramona Fradon where she made her first appearance in Adventure Comics v1 #260 (May 1959).

In other media

Film

Queen Atlanna in Justice League: Throne of Atlantis.

• In Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, the character made an appearance where she was voiced by actor Sirena Irwin. She was an Atlantean royal who lived in the underwater city of Atlantis when she was betrothed to the king. Unhappy in the union, she would flee and go to the surface where she met a human by the name of Tom Curry. The two would fall in love and she would bear his child who was named Arthur Curry. However, she could no longer deny her responsibilities to Atlantis and reluctantly returned leaving her son with Tom Curry. She would marry her Atlantean betrothed and have another son who was known as Orm. During these years, she would secretly watch her firstborn son Arthur as he grew up and unaware of his heritage. By the modern day, she ruled Atlantis as its queen after the death of her husband during the invasion from Apokolips where her bodyguard was Mera and she had to reject Orm's constant demands of conquering the surface world. To stop hostilities, she sought to bring Arthur Curry to Atlantis in order to serve as a bridge between Atlanteans and Humanity. This became even more important when a seemingly human submarine attacked Atlantis. In order to achieve this, she dispatched Mera to accomplish this task and rejected Orm's demands again of conquest where she revealed that she knew he along with his ally Black Manta were responsible for the attack. She would effortlessly defeat Black Manta with the power of her trident only to be murdered by her son Orm who took the throne before Arthur Curry could arrive at Atlantis.

Appearances

• Adventure Comics:
• Action Comics v1:
• World's Finest v1:
• Aquaman:

External Links

• DC Database Entry

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