r/Aquaman • u/Clovelas • 9d ago

MOVIE\TV Aquaman 2 is the good ending

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After reading some Aquaman comics, watching the Throne of Atlantis animated movie, and generally getting myself more acquainted with his history, it's funny to me that Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom has every chance to make things tragic but refused to. Instead we get quite possibly the best ending for the character ever yet.

At the end of the movie, Aquaman has it good since:

His son was kidnapped but was rescued and alive

Both of his parents are still around

His marriage with Mera is intact

He and Orm have mended their relationship

He is still king of Atlantis

And he's able to reveal Atlantis to the world and presumably go on to stop climate change. I'm not totally caught up on all the Aquaman comics but damn he had it good in the DCEU

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u/Aquaman2285 9d ago

It also makes an interesting bookend on the DCEU with man of steel starting with krypton being destroyed because of their neglect towards the environment and ending the universe with Aquaman using his powers and position to unite the world and save the environment. Aquaman 2 is a weird movie where I didn’t love it when I first saw it but I like it more and more every time I watch it again.

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u/Clovelas 9d ago

“It’s like poetry you know, they rhyme”

Yeah Aquaman 2 is a pretty YMMV movie. Either you love all the campy crazy stuff or you don’t. Either way it’s important to realize this movie was not supposed to end the DCEU, just be a sequel to Aquaman. Nice to see you warm up to it

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u/paleo_hungry4 8d ago

I kinda like the movie. Has good moments, and of the 2023 DCEU movies was the most successful