Sea King
19 years ago (dream realm memory) - Arthur Marius stages a coup, claiming the throne of Atlantis from his stepfather Orm. He becomes the Sea King.
16 years ago (dream realm memory) - Sea King, Jack B Quick, Power Ring, Scream Queen, and Martian Maneater come together as the Crime Syndicate to defeat the formation of the Justice Underground.
12 years ago - The Justice League are attacked in their dreams by Doctor Destiny. They follow him back into the Dream Dome defeating him and disabling his technology. The Dream Dome builds a dream reflection of the world and populates it with nightmare mirrors of the Justice League. They remember their own history, coming together as the Crime Syndicate and dominating their world.
9 years ago - Morpheus returns to the Dreaming. While reclaiming his realm, he disabled the Dream Dome, the technology built by Garrett Sanford while lost in the Dreaming. The dream reflection of the world that is home to the Crime Syndicate, no longer protected by the Dome, is set adrift in its own corner of the Dreaming.
7 years ago - The Crime Syndicate confirms that their world is in fact merely a dream reflection of the real world. They escape, and attack the Justice League to take their place. The League is defeated, and has to regroup. They are assisted in finally defeating the Crime Syndicate by Owlman.
The Crime Syndicate is really one collective storytelling entity. While Grant Morrison's take on these characters did give them a little more backstory, the point has never really been for any of them to have a lot of story of their own, so making character specific timelines becomes kind of beside the point.
Because of the way we did this, with the Syndicate being dream reflections of the League, the timelines of these characters are deliberately pretty esoteric. These characters remember a past, and that past is a sort of mirror universe mélange of the histories of the characters they are reflections of, but none of those histories actually happened, so we they're not going to link out to the timeline at large. They only exist on these pages.
Because of the way we did this, with the Syndicate being dream reflections of the League, the timelines of these characters are deliberately pretty esoteric. These characters remember a past, and that past is a sort of mirror universe mélange of the histories of the characters they are reflections of, but none of those histories actually happened, so we they're not going to link out to the timeline at large. They only exist on these pages.
Sea King's StoryThere is absolutely, 100% comic precedent for Sea King as Aquaman's doppelganger in the Crime Syndicate, but before we get there there's a few other references we should get through. First is actually an episode of the classic Super Friends cartoon called "Universe of Evil" that featured an evil alternate universe version of the team called the Super Enemies. The evil variant of Aquaman had an eyepatch. This will be important later. During a story in JLA by Kurt Busiek set in the Anti-Matter universe, we see the Crime Syndicate being attacked by Atlantis and their ruler Barracuda, who is clearly their version of Aquaman.
Sea King, however, has one major appearance. When the Crime Syndicate was breeching our universe in the New 52, the first person through the portal is an awesome variant of Aquaman (back to the beard and warhook!) who immediately collapses dead. He would later have a whole adventure with his corpse being piloted by Deadman. We wanted to create our own spin on Sea King, but since our Aquaman is the long-hair, beaded, hooked variant, we decided to make our Sea King look more like the traditional Aquaman. We gave him an eyepatch... an a giant harpoon gun. |
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