#thakorr

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From Namor Vol. 2 #005, “The Orphan on the Throne”

Art by Paul Davidson, Alex Lins and Neeraj Menon

Written by Jason Aaron

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Submariner Summer 37

Many felicitations unto thee, Namor Nation! We gather for #SubmarinerSummer read through part 37 for another great milestone in the history of our sea prince-a series all his own. Yes, we are finally reading Prince Namor, The Sub-Mariner #1! We are kicked off by a legendary cover

And on the title page, Destiny gloats about killing Namor! How's *that* for a start to a series? Roy Thomas stays on scripts from Iron Man and Sub-Mariner #1, and we have John Buscema going all out on pencils. Frank Giacoia on inks and Sam Rosen on letters round out the team

Though victorious, Destiny is still filled with hate, so he gloats that this is his second victory. He then uses his mind powers to set Namor's brain to go over his past, so that he will finally remember the lost amnesia memories that apparently hide the first defeat by Destiny

As a plot device for a flashback issue, not the worst I've seen. So now, Oh ye faithful, thrill to the Silver Age retelling of Namor's origin. It begins with the US explorers led by Captain Leonard McKenzie causing (accidentally) a massive destruction and slaughter in Atlantis

Emperor Thakorr tells his daughter, Princess Fen, to select warriors to investigate; she says yes, but decides to do it herself. She goes to the surface and among the US expedition; soon, she ends up marrying Captain McKenzie! Weeks later, Thakorr DOES send a war party

They retrieve Fen and score some casualties on the Americans in the process, notably Captain McKenzie himself, or so Fen thinks, breaking her heart. But that brief love birthed Namor.

Fast forward to the 40s, and Namor rises to the surface, fighting war upon war

Though the wars ended, he fought still, both Atlanteans rivals like Byrrah and surface crime and enemies. Eventually, though, another destruction came to Atlantis seeming to repeat the one that led to Fen going to the surface. So Thakorr sends Namor to perform Fen's old mission

But this was not an accidental genocide by ignorant surfacers: it was Destiny with his Helmet of Power, killing and destroying just to test his abilities. He then uses them to mind control Namor, and forces him to see his Granfather and emperor, and his mother, die with Atlantis

So we finally see the cause of the destruction of "First Atlantis" that was alluded to way back in Submariner Summer part 30, covering TtA #96.

But Destiny's not done; he decides to turn Namor into his mind wiped pawn and sends him away while he hibernates one last time

So robbed of his mind and now in New York, Namor flails about a bit at first, before simply beginning to wander without identity or purpose. Y'all...this is nightmare fuel. What a godawful fate, and Destiny basically did it for kicks.

That is, of course, the state he's in when the Human Torch finds him in the classic Fantastic Four #4, which reintroduced Namor. So now we're basically back at the Silver Age, and Namor's memories are finally complete. This wakes him up from Flashback Land, where he's trapped

The ice melting on his body is the water he needs to recover his strength, and suffused with it he bursts free! And with that freedom, Namor plans to visit his wrath on the man called Destiny...and perhaps the entire surface. IMPERIUS REX!

Going to be honest, if I had to relive all that trauma all at once and wasn't just broken into a sobbing heap, I could absolutely want to destroy the world too.

But as a reader, what can I say, this was a fun if extremely truncated ride through Namor's history to that point, with some new additions and revelations in the typical Roy Thomas retcon fashion. It focuses on some key events relevant to the greater story, arc but basically this #1 was Namor 101. 👨🏽‍🏫

But NEXT, we get back to then-current events as Namor starts his hunt for revenge against Destiny as we cover Sub-Mariner #2: Cry...TRITON!

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King in Black: Namor (2020) #5

[imperiuswrecked]

Hello! This might be an odd question, but if you had the opportunity to make a namor movie how would you approach it with plot, what lore you'd use and even so what diractor you think could bring it to life!

(As a fan of comics and movies ive been trying to reimange superhero movies from a more faithfull and atristic perspective, but when it came to namor i could deside, that fish man has so much fun lore)

For a Namor movie; I am very bad at naming directors, as well as other people it would need to bring the movie to life, I would love Guillermo Del Toro as a director, he did the old Hellboy movies and I feel it was done with a lot of love/respect to the source material. Not to mention he is very good at working with monster characters, Shape of Water, etc. and showing their humanity vs human monsters which I feel a character like Namor would need because in the comics the biggest adversary Namor has is humans destroying his oceans. You can check out my dream Namor cast here & my dream Namor actors here. (I am of course in support of Tenoch Huerta as Namor if he is indeed going to be playing him in the upcoming Black Panther movie, but those lists were made before I knew of Tenoch.)

For plot, we have to start at the beginning, which is with Fen and Leo. Please excuse me if I get a bit descriptive as I outline this, some of this is from my own fanfic. I would have a trilogy:

[Opening Shot] [Antarctic Waters near the Weddell Sea] [Night]

A large ship comes into view, the camera pans over the bow to show us the name "The Oracle". We see shots of cold sailors/researchers walking the deck at night, men all going about their work, the camera pans along the ship with a brief stop at the Captain's Quarters showing Leonard McKenzie and one of his ship crew talking over maps, no sound is heard as we are viewing them from a porthole/window, The camera stops at the back of the ship, a moment passes, tension builds, a blue hand suddenly clasps the railing, and Fen's face appears, it is full of determination and suspicion, in her hands is her dagger, she quietly climbs over the railing, attired in royal Atlantean clothes, she sneaks around the ship, hiding from some passing sailors. Her dark eyes take note of all the equipment. She is suddenly found by accident, she uses her knife to harm one of the sailors, a loud call is sounded, a fight breaks out, she drops her weapon, fearing her being discovered she attempts to escape. She is captured and brought to the Captain. As everything is in her point of view the English words sound muddled and confusing, however Leonard is captivated by her, she watches the men speak and slowly begins to understand them using her advanced knowledge of languages she is able, within a few moments, to piece together enough to be able to attempt some halting words. She introduces herself imperiously. Leo introduces himself, and holds out his hand, she looks at it suspiciously but sees no weapon, she takes his hand, but rather it is a forearm to forearm clasp as is done by her people when two warriors meet one another.

From there we have a montage of Fen and Leo getting closer, mostly in picture form, some words breaking through the music as they learn each other's languages. Leo asks Fen to marry him. She tells him she needs a night to think it over. Fen is show slipping away and returning to the water, there we see the first shot of Atlantis as she swims home. She is greeted by her people, she goes into the throne room and bows before her father, Emperor Tha-Korr. There we see a heavily tensioned scene where we get some exposition, a flashback is shown of her people's city being bombarded by the humans, Tha-Korr's insistence that she return and find out more information to kill the humans. Her emotions war on her face due to her conflicting feelings. She returns to the ship and marries Leo, however Tha-Korr has sent a spy to follow her, the spy returns and informs him of Fen's betrayal. Leo and Fen sleep together, and are resting in their bed when the alarm sounds, Tha-Korr's men have arrived, they slaughter everyone, including Leo, who dies in her arms. The guards take a heartbroken (and secretly pregnant) Fen back to Atlantis, she is berated by her father and thrown into prison, time is show to be passing, Fen gives birth to Namor, the final shot of the opening is Fen pressing a small baby with pointed ears and human skin tone to her chest in a hug and looking joyously down at him while Tha-Korr looms over her, words are spoken by Atlanteans clad in court/vizer clothes about how the child is the new heir to the throne, Tha-Korr is less than pleased, but asks his daughter what name she has chosen. Fen looks her father dead in the eye and states loudly, "His name shall be Prince Namor, the Avenging Son."

Opening title credits roll, we see the title card and opening stuff as we follow Namor along in his growth from small child to a man of about 17-18 ish. We see shots of Namor gaining his wings while saving his mother, with his mother saying "Look, small wings on your ankles!" With music covering the whole montage. The next scene is of Namor at court, watching his grandfather rule, he is shown the be thought of as less than by his cousins and other Atlanteans with only Dorma and his mother as his companions. Namor gets a heart to heart from Fen who gifts him the same dagger she had when she was first shown on screen. Namor then goes off to attempt to show some bravado to his cousins by exploring a sunken ship that has the name of "The Endurance", his cousins ditch him. Namor later hides when he sees two sub sea divers come from the surface. He kills them, thinking they are robots, and brings their corpses back to the throne room, hushed whispers, the reveal by Tha-Korr that he had killed humans not robots, Namor's anguish, then his acceptance of the joy by his fellow Atlanteans, then the order by his grandfather to go off to the surface to wage war.

This would take up about the first half of the movie, with the second half focusing on Namor's first appearance in the surface world, Namor meeting Betty Dean, joining in to fight against the Nazis, maybe with the original human torch Jim Hammond if we have the rights to him, and ending with Namor being very badly hurt and losing his memories. The final shot is of Atlanteans musing over Namor's disappearance, Dorma's despair, and his mother's refusal to believe her son is dead. Namor is shown in the final shot to be an amnesic homeless man wandering the streets of New York. That would conclude the first movie.

[second movie]

The second movie would be of Namor regaining his memories, we don't even need a big shot of Johnny Storm or anything if we can't get the FF in there but rather just Namor someone being shoved into the water/ocean, maybe by criminal men who want to kill/hurt him. He regains his memory, and returns to Atlantis, upset at finding it abandoned he goes on a search for his people, finally finding them and realizing that his throne has been usurped by Krang. Namor would have to prove himself, he goes on the quest for the Trident of Neptune. Lots of court stuff with Dorma, Krang, and Namor, Namor finds the trident with the help of Vashti. It ends with Namor on the throne and being crowned king, with Dorma by his side.

[third movie]

The third movie would be about a dark magical threat, I would love to see the 90's Lee run with Suma-Ket & Artys-Gran as threats, or even something to do with The Black Tide. This would be a very high stakes, all of Atlantis is at stake threat in a way the first two movies weren't because I don't want to see Atlantis be destroyed constantly throughout three movies, just save it for the last movie. Someone Namor defeats everyone and the movies end on a good note with Namor being protector of the oceans. No dead wives please, so Dorma gets to live too. Of course there would have bene some other threats over the movies, like Attuma, Llyra, etc.

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Marvel Mystery Comics

Volume: 1 #4

New York Hit by Green Flame And other Stories

Writers: Carl Burgos, Paul Gustavson, Ray Gill, Bill Everett, David C. Cooke, Stockbridge Winslow

Pencils: Carl Burgos, Paul Gustavson, Bill Everett, Harry Ramsey, Irwin Hasen

Inks: Carl Burgos, Paul Gustavson, Bill Everett, Harry Ramsey, Irwin Hasen

Covers: Alex Schomburg

Featuring: Human Torch (Jim Hammond),  Angel (Thomas Halloway), Sub-Mariner (Namor), Betty Dean, Thakorr, Masked Raider, Lightning, Electro, Ferret (Leslie Lenrow),  Ka-Zar 

Timely Comics

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Day 7: Shy

I imagine that meeting your grandfather/king for the first time since you were born (especially when it’s obvious he doesn’t like you) can bring out the insecure in anyone.

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From Namor Vol. 2 #004, “The Feeding of the Beast”

Art by Paul Davidson, Alex Lins and Neeraj Menon

Written by Jason Aaron