There are, roughly, 7 billion moderately intelligent human beings on Earth. There are 8 billion intelligent Horizos in the sea. Ten billion intelligent Vertics as well. And 25,748,583,684 very intelligent tangleshocks. This is the premise of the novel I came up with when I asked myself what it would REALLY take for a viable undersea civilization to exist. Let's face it, such depictions of "Atlantis" as given in popular media are nonsensical. Completely ignored are the simplest aspects of pressure, temperature, acidity, salinity, light...and on and on. Less than 2% of the total oceanic mass of Earth has been explored by submersibles, submarines or other methods. Sonar mapping has proven crude and inaccurate. Nuclear subs don't go below 5,000 feet, but the average depth of the world's oceans in around 13,000 feet, and many vast offshoots are much deeper, down to 38,000 feet and maybe beyond. The oceans hold 300 times the living space of Earth's surface. See tangleshock.wordpress.com for my take on this. I'd love to see a well-done Sub-Mariner or Aquaman film, but the effort will have to exceed depictions thus far to be taken seriously.
What did you think of Water World? Then there was this not so long ago... "Aquaman is a television pilot developed by Smallville creators Al Gough and Miles Millar for The WB Television Network, based on the DC Comics character of the same name. Gough and Miller wrote the pilot, which was directed by Greg Beeman. Justin Hartley starred as Arthur "A.C." Curry, a young man living in a beachside community in the Florida Keys who learns about his powers and destiny as the Prince of Atlantis. The Aquaman pilot was expected to debut in the fall schedule of 2006, but following the merger of the WB and UPN, the resulting CW Network opted not to buy the series. After they passed on the pilot, it was made available online through iTunes in the United States and became the number-one most downloaded television show on iTunes. It received generally favorable reviews and was later released on other online markets, and aired on Canadian television network YTV." http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...1tzUCg&usg=AFQjCNGodWJcx12j9Q1EgxfF5wVpWf3bcA I don't believe that they would fight each other.
I think Aquaman has the edge with command of sea creatures and telepathy, which might even influence Namor. Then again, Namor is the Spartan warrior who might just hand Aquaman his brain. I do not believe that a whale dropped on Namor would suffice to kill him. Namor would claw his way through the creature's flesh and take Aquaman's woman.
