In the '80s, Namor became a long-running member of the Avengers (opens in new tab) in a line-up that also included recent MCU inductees She-Hulk, Black Knight, Hercules, and Monica Rambeau. This title also introduced another spin-off character, Namorita, a clone of Namor's cousin Namora (there's a tongue twister…), as well as Namor's royal catchphrase "Imperius Rex!". Those stories focused on his quest to return to Atlantis and re-establish his rule, pitting him against villains such as Attuma (who is a fellow citizen of Talocan in Wakanda Forever), the mutated Tiger Shark, and other Atlantean schemers and traitors. When Namor got his own feature in the anthology title Tales to Astonish in 1965 and a subsequent 1968 Prince Namor, the Sub-Mariner (opens in new tab) solo title, his complicated nature as an anti-hero was reestablished. This, partnered with his ability to telepathically control sea life and even other Atlanteans, gives him a huge advantage against his foes.
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In the comics, he often uses them to burst out of the water and smash into enemies at full strength. Namor's ankle wings, which feature heavily in the new Black Panther: Wakanda Forever trailer, grant him the ability to fly at high speeds for indefinite periods. He also teams up with Magneto in 1964's Uncanny X-Men #6 (opens in new tab), the first story in which his mutant nature is revealed, with mutant powers of flight (granted by the wings on his ankles, which are actual wings), super-strength, and invulnerability even beyond the naturally enhanced physique of other Atlanteans. In his early Marvel Universe appearances, Namor was almost unequivocally a villain, going so far as to team up with the FF's nemesis Doctor Doom, forming a tenuous partnership that has continued off-and-on ever since. That appearance, in which Namor becomes enamored of Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman, set the tone for the fraught and ever-shifting relationship between Namor and the FF that continues to this day. But when Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created the Marvel Universe starting in 1961's Fantastic Four #1 (opens in new tab) - which included a new version of the Human Torch in its line-up - Namor was quick to follow, first encountering the team in 1962's Fantastic Four #4 (opens in new tab). Like many superheroes who debuted in the Golden Age of the '30s and '40s, Namor disappeared from comics throughout the '50s, when the superhero craze was at a lull thanks to public outcry over the perceived bad influences of comic books. He even had his own spin-off character, a cousin named Namora, who also appears in Wakanda Forever as a fellow Atlantean. More angry and violent than many other superheroes, Namor held a grudge against the surface world that led him to challenge the original Human Torch, who also debuted in 1939's Marvel Comics #1, in the first-ever Marvel crossover and the first fight between two Marvel heroes.Īfter the dust settled, Namor and the Human Torch joined forces with Captain America as the 'All-Winners Squad,' a team that was renamed the Invaders when their stories were revisited in a modern context in the late '60s. (Image credit: Marvel Comics) (opens in new tab)īack to comics, Namor debuted as something of an anti-hero right off the bat. Still, that similarity is likely one of the reasons Marvel Studios has changed Namor's home from Atlantis to a new sunken city named Talocan, based on Tlālōcān, the domain of the Aztec storm god in indigenous Mexican mythology. If that sounds like Aquaman's backstory, you're not wrong - however, Namor beat Aquaman to the page by two years, with Arthur Curry debuting in 1941, though Namor's home kingdom wasn't identified as Atlantis until 1961. (By the way, the name 'the Sub-Mariner' goes all the way back to Namor's first appearance, and literally means a person who travels underwater.) Born to a human father and an Atlantean mother, Namor learned of his heritage in his youth and retreated into the ocean where he learned to shun surface dwellers for their treatment of his home environment.
Introduced by writer/artist Bill Everett in 1939's Marvel Comics #1 (which was published back when the company still went by the name Timely Comics), Namor is the long-lost prince of the sunken Kingdom of Atlantis.
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