AQUAMAN

This skit always breaks my heart a little bit
(Sorry about the video quality.)

Yeah, talking to fish is kind of funny. But give the guy a little respect! On a planet that’s 2/3 water, the fact that Aquaman deigns to hang out with the surface-dwellers at all is pretty remarkable. It’s probably quite boring for him with no fish to pal around with, and hardly anywhere to swim. He might just as easily leave us to our own ends and dive back into the depths of his kingdom, never to be seen again.

Have any land heroes dedicated their lives to defending the ocean? I doubt it. I bet none of the Super Friends could even name 5 prominent mer-people from Atlantis history. Yet it’s a given that when bad stuff goes down in Anycraptown USA, Aquaman is there to help, usually arriving via some convenient canal system, enlisting the aid of a local octopus to rescue Susie Helpless and her puppy out the window of a burning lakeside trailer. And you know, as soon as he’s gone it’s calimari for dinner. 

So, let the heroes laugh. He talks to fish, and I guess that’s funny. No doubt they have few nice things to say about humans. It’s likely that every other sentence out of a sea creature’s mouth is “Humans are assholes,” so the fact that Aquaman still looks out for us is pretty noteworthy. Maybe someday we’ll deserve it.

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