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Aquaman.
As an infant, Aquaman was left to die because he had blond hair. He survived because of his powers and because he was adopted by a pod of dolphins. He was later adopted by a lighthouse keeper, who eventually abandoned him.
His worst enemy turned out to be his half-brother.
He was continually being tossed out of his own kingdom.
He married, but kept breaking up with his wife.
His hand was eaten by piranha.
His girlfriend was stolen by his former sidekick.
His first son was murdered as an infant.
His second son was murdered as a teenager, when Atlantis was completely destroyed.
He got turned into a squidfaced creature half made of water.
And he’s currently dead, killed by his son brought back from the dead.
All the while, he’s been derided as lame, mostly because the writers for the Superfriends didn’t know what to do with him.
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AND his worst enemy killed his first true love and framed him for it.
And, while in prison on his first adult visit to Atlantis, his sees a striking older woman for the first time pass by his cell. This happens several times, until one day he doesn’t see her. Asking around, he finds out that it was his mother. So he breaks out and leaves Atlantis. He’s hailed as their hero…after he leaves, and never gets to see his parents at all or tell them he lived (not that they would have cared).
And didn’t he have to kill his wife, in fact?
