god damn,aquaman

you just went up a few pages in my book.
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Aquaman. Wall Of Text here. I'll attempt to separate them into the three obvious conclusions of his abilities, then follow with the Dancing Bears:
Conclusion 1: He lives at the bottom of the sea. He can swim like a fish and punch people while under 500+ atmospheres of pressure. That's Superman level asskickery.
Conclusion 2: We CAN'T live at the bottom of the sea. War with him would be the height of futility because he can come apply that asskickery anytime, but attempting to invade his kingdom would be impossible. Why? Because you don't put a corpse exposed to 500+ atmospheres of pressure in a coffin, you put it in a PLASTIC BAGGIE. ONE plastic baggie.
Conclusion 3: We have no idea what the hell ELSE lives at the bottom of the sea! Who the hell are his neighbors? Start at Great Cthulhu and work your way up.
In one Superman story he and the other Atlanteans are being driven mad by undersea technology created by Lex-Corp and attack Metropolis. Aquaman brings with him a giant green...thing◊ that looks like a cross between a whale and Godzilla, and can level entire city blocks. When Superman asks what the heck that creature is, Arthur simply points out that humanity has yet to explore so much of the ocean and has no idea what's down there, implying that there are even worse creatures. So yeah, apparently Aquaman literally has Kaiju at his beck and call. And as of Blackest Night, he is now able to command The Undead creatures of the deep. Awesome and (more) scary. He might be mocked in the fandom, but when Etrigan needs help to stop The End Of The World As We Know It who does he call? Aquaman. Who are they saving the world from? Another unspeakable horror from beyond. How do they do it? Well, apart from Aquaman just beating the ever living hell out of the uncounted hordes of lost souls that are enslaved to the villain, he also summons a little help◊. Against the enemy coming to conquer the world◊. Oh, not a big deal, you say? Just another Cthulhu knockoff? Yeah, that is not the whole thing, that is its face. Aquaman vanquishes the whole thing◊ without much trouble.
"He could control every creature that lives in the sea. But I don't think either of you know what that really means. Do you know, do you understand, do you have any idea how much life there is in just one single square mile of sea? I don't think you do... and if you multiply that by lots of miles in every direction... I'd never seen anything like it in my whole life... and God as my witness, I hope to never see it again."
As Hitherby Dragons put it in Ragnarok:
"Greater art?" [Aquaman] laughs. "I can imagine none. There are things in the deep you know not of, that answer to my call; and powers I may wield through them that none have seen before."
Dancing Bear 1: His aqua-telepathy. All of the above sea-life HAS to obey his commands.
Grant Morrison's run on JLA took this Up To Eleven; Yes, Aquaman can communicate with and telepathically compel fish. But we evolved from fish, and we retain certain features of our piscine ancestors, such as the basal ganglia. He uses this property to telepathically induce a seizure in an enemy. Aquaman was using this way back in the much-maligned Detroit League era. As the leader, he would sometimes "push" obstinate teammates into following his orders. That is, until fellow telepath Martian Manhunter called him out on it...
Dancing Bear 2: To top it all off (although Dan Jurgens is really the only writer who ever properly addressed it), we mustn't forget that Aquaman is also the king of a lost civilization with its own military force full of super-technological weaponry. The kingdom of Atlantis is not only nine times bigger than all the other nations on Earth combined, but is so advanced it makes Eagle Land look like a third world country!''
To sum up? In his JLA special Welcome to the Working Week, Patton Oswalt openly declared how awesomely awesome Aquaman truly is when the Big Bad, freshly beaten but still gloating that it took the entire Justice League Of America to put him down, opines that "It's too bad your Sea-King isn't here." The response from an innocent bystander? "You're LUCKY our Sea-King isn't here!"