Ocean Master facts for kids
Ocean Master (Orm Marius) is a fictional character, a supervillain published by DC Comics, and the brother of Aquaman. He was created by Nick Cardy and Bob Haney.
Oceam Master was Aquaman's fully human half-brother, the son of Tom Curry (Aquaman's father) and a woman named Mary O'Sullivan. He becomes a villain because he grows jealous of Aquaman and how he becomes King of Atlantis. Ocean Master is full human. He later has amnesia and disappears. Several years later, the self-named Orm Marius reappeared as the Ocean Master, a high-tech pirate who initially attacked ships but quickly moved on to causing natural disasters in order to hold the world at ransom.
Ocean Master has been adapted from the comics into various forms of media. Patrick Wilson portrayed the character in his live-action debut in the 2018 DC Extended Universe film Aquaman, and will reprise the role in the upcoming 2023 sequel Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. Richard Green, Wallace Langham and Sam Witwer have provided the character's voice in animation.
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Powers and abilities
Throughout the character's history, Ocean Master's powers and abilities change.
Pre-Crisis version
The earliest version of the character, prior to the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths, characteized him as a high-tech sea pirate who utilized many innovative gadgetry and weaponry, including a special helmet that enabled him to breathe underwater and body armor that allowed him to withstand the pressures of the ocean. Ocean Master also had access to an array of stolen technology prior to the character's prominence of using magical, his arsenal including harpoon guns, sonic weaponry, nets, and lasers.
Post-Crisis version
After the events of Crisis on Infinite Earths, the character's being was changed; an extension of his original depiction, he is revealed to have garnered mystical abilities due to a hybrid nature involving being a descendant of Atlanteans although unlike Aquaman, the character is descended from both a homo magi and a human woman (instead of being descendent from the result of a homo magi and modern atlanean). This heritage blessed Ocean Master with mystical potential.
Magical abilities
As a result, Ocean Master possessed powerful magical abilities, having gained power from study of Atlantean lore and drawing from ancient Atlantean talismans. Over time, he became more proficient in various schools of sorcery and could perform acts such as conjuring energy blasts, telepathy, illusions, and manipulation of sea life. Using his mystical powers, he endowed himself to be able to be breathe underwater, swim at greater speeds, and allow him to be unaffected by the deep ocean pressures similarly to modern Atlanteans in the DC Universe. At the height of his magical powers, Ocean Master's hydrokentic abilities was portrayed to be powerful enough to hold back both Superman and Wonder Woman at bay while in Atlantis, the latter speculating his power is more fortified while in his native place of power. He also managed to alter the timeline with his magic and trident, switching his life with his brother and taking mental control of his protege, Aquagirl.
Other skills
In addition to his powers, Ocean Master is considered a master tactician, nautical genius, and is considered a skilled hand-to-hand combatant, able to match most humans in physical combat although he possesses no enhanced strength. His study for the ancient Atlanteans magic also made him proficient and apt in aspects of Atlantean history conisdered long forgotten, drawing from the era relating to one of the most powerful mystics in Atlantean history.
Technology and equipment
Like his previous version, he had access to stolen technology. Due to his sorcerous nature, he began maintaining a collection of artifacts, including a helmet that allows him to breathe underwater indefinitely (later supplied by his trident too or by magic due to being homo magi). For a time, he possessed a collection of the Zodiac Crystals, including ones imbedded into an Atlantis Royal Seal carried by a previous king and the Lia Fail, an artifact from the city-state, Thierna Na Oge.
Post Flashpoint version
Physical abilities
In the New 52 onward, Ocean Master is able to breathe underwater indefinitely, possesses superhuman strength that allows him to freely move underwater and withstand the pressures of the deep ocean, superhuman speed, superhuman durability, and enhanced senses that enable several abilities such as being able to see deep within the depths of the ocean. A drawback of his heritage, however, is that he dehydrates at a faster rate on land than a human. Because he is of the royal bloodline, he exhibits physical abilities greater than the average Atlantean. Ocean Master is also a skilled warrior, attaining a high degree of skill at a young age and is considered a superior fighter to any normal human being with similar training.
Other skills and abilities
Ocean Master also sports a genius-level intellect skilled in a multitude of fields;an apt politician and leader, Ocean Master proved to be charismatic among his people, possessing enough influence to found his own underwater city-state of Atlantean mutants where he was considered to be a competent ruler. Ocean Master also demonstated knowledge in medicine, having once devised a means of treating and curing a illness in Atlantis which proved difficult for chief scientist and advisor Vulko, whose abilities Orm was compared to. In addition, he is a capable military commander whose attack on the surface world proved effective against the United States military and the Justice League, designating him an "alpha-class" Justice League threat and one of the most dangerous men on Earth. He is also an inventive and technology expert, having upgraded the Scavenger's armor with Atlantean technology to include a more advance computer interface, teleportation, an increase of superhuman strength, and the ability manifest at will; such upgrades and skill were compared to Black Manta's own, whose technology is derived from the lost Atlantean tride known as the Deserters.
Technology and artifacts
In this version, Ocean Master has access to o both mystical weaponry and Atlantean technology; chiefly, his main weaponry includes a special magical crown that enables him to perform hydrokinetics powerful enough to match the natural abilities of other Atlantean-related hydrokinetics (i.e. Mera). The character also has access to Atlantean technology that allows him to exhibit control over more powerful creatures of the sea and upgrade the Scavenger's suit with a myraid of equipment including teleporters, hacking systems, and scanners.
Orm's Trident
Both his Post-Crisis and Post-Flashpoint versions utilize a trident as his main choice of weaponry throughout his publication history, including different abilities and power-sets; he Post-Crisis version of Orm's trident is one granted to him by Neron in which increases his magical abilities and discharge mystic energies, the limits in which have been said to be unknown. This trident also makes him able to breathe underwater indefinitely much like his special helmet.
Post-Flashpoint introduces a different version and history of the trident; forged since the days of ancient Atlantis prior to its sinking, the trident is seen as a symbol of Atlantean royaly and possess various powers: the trident allows the user to manipulate weather patterns and manipulate the magnetic field, allowing control over magnetism. The trident is also similarly powerful much like Aquaman's Trident of Neptune, being one of the few weapons able to fight against the entity known as the Abyssal Dark, as shown when Mera temporarily used it, having procured it from Ocean Master during a fight. In an alternate story, Batman and the Justice League Manga, Orm's trident (in which said story shares a similar history to the Post-Flashpoint universe) also possess a special link to the Trident of Neptune.
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In Spanish: Amo del Océano para niños
