Mera (DC)

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Mera in Aquaman v7 #6.

Mera is a female comic character that features in DC Comics.

Biography

Origin

Encountering Mera in Aquaman v1 #11.

The New 52

Overview

Personality and attributes

Powers and abilities

Notes

• Mera was created Jack Miller and Nick Cardy where she made her first appearance in Aquaman v1 #11 (September 1963).

Alternate Versions

• In Justice League v3 #27 (2017), it was shown that in an alternate timeline that Arthur Curry and his wife Mera had a daughter named Eldoris Curry who went by the nickname Dory. She operated under the codename of Serenity where she became the Queen of Oceania and sat on the throne of Atlantis with her uniting the Seven Seas. Around 22 years in the future, the world was conquered by the Sovereign with Serenity going with her friends that were the children of the Justice League members in order to go back in time to get the aid of their missing parents.

In other media

Television

• In The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, Mera appeared in the animated television series and was voiced by Diane Maddox. The opening narration referred to her as "an Atlantean woman".
• In Young Justice, Mera made an appearance in the animated series in the episode "Downtime" where she was voiced by actor Kath Soucie. She was the wife of Aquaman and Queen of Atlantis with her teaching Atlantean magic such as combat sorcery at the Conservatory of Sorcery with Garth, Tula and Kaldur'rahm being her students. During Kaldar'rahms visit to Atlantis, the royal couple revealed that Mera was pregnant with Aquaman's child who would have a royal heir. At this time, Black Manta staged an assault against Atlantis with Mera participating in the defense by producing hard water constructs to attack the Manta Men.

Films

• In Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox, Mera appeared in a minor non-voiced in the animated movie. She was shown in an alternate timeline where she was in love with Aquaman but a marriage was arranged between him and Wonder Woman. This was meant to unite the two kingdoms of Atlantis and Themyscira. However, Mera grew angry at seeing the two together and later confronted Wonder Woman and attacked her. Wonder Woman responded by killing Mera where she cut of the Atlantean woman's head and took her crown as a trophy that she wore. Her body was later given back to the Atlanteans whete Aquaman grieved fir her and swore vengeance. This led to him declaring hostilities against Themyscira and started the Amazon/Atlantean War thar ravaged the world.
• In Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, Mera made an appearance in a supporting role where she was voiced by actor Sumalee Montano. This version was shown as being an Atlantean who was a warrior and operated as the royal guard for Queen Atlanna. She was dispatched by the Queen to go to the surface and recover her half-human son Arthur Curry where she helped stop an assassination attempt by rogue Atlanteans. Mera later provided Arthur with Atlantean gear as he became Aquaman and helped fight off the Trench. She later took Arthur to Atlantis to meet his mother but Atlanna had been killed by her younger son Orin who had become the Ocean Master after staging a coup to take the underwater city. Mera participated in stopping Ocean Master from his war against the surface world and by the end of the film she was shown to be romantically involved with Aquaman.

Video games

• In DC Legends, Mera appeared as a playable character in the iOS video game. Her backstory mentioned her as being an inhabitant of Xebel who was sent by her people as an assassin to kill the ruler of Atlantis. Mera was on her mission but ended up falling in love with her target who was Aquaman.

Appearances

• Aquaman:

External Links

• Wikipedia Entry

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