This was the first season to feature two villains appearing in the comic books, Black Manta and Gentleman Ghost.

Black Manta's costume was not black, and he was only referred to as " Manta "; both he and Gentleman Ghost only appeared in one episode this season, referred to as " Gentleman Jim Craddock ".

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Fall 2010 wave 2 was released-Batman, Two-Face, Aquaman, and Black Manta.

Black Adam, Black Manta, Calendar Man, Cavalier, Clock King, The Joker, Gentleman Ghost, Gorilla Grodd, Terrible Trio, Kite Man, Morgaine Le Fey, Kanjar Ro, Despero, Ocean Master, Shrapnel, Major Disaster, the Sportsmaster, Equinox, the Music Meister Weeper, and Zebra-Man.

Their two most notable foes are the Dirty Bubble, their arch nemesis, a sentient giant bubble, and Man Ray, a Manta ray-themed villain who is a parody of Black Manta, the arch nemesis of Aquaman.

* His friends and enemies are similar to Batman and Aquaman's friends and enemies such as: Barnacle Boy, Elastic Waistband, Miss Appear and Man Ray being parodies of Aqualad, Robin, Plastic Man, Elongated Man, Mr. Fantastic, Wonder Woman and Black Manta.

* Black Manta, a character in the American DC Comics publications

* TR-3A Black Manta, an American surveillance aircraft

His was the basis for the sinister voice of Black Manta, as well as Brainiac and several others on Super Friends.

* Michael Beach – Devil Ray ( Black Manta / David Reynolds )

Grodd later appears in the episode " Mayhem of the Music Meister " attempting to steal new communications satellite alongside Clock King and Black Manta.

", he helps Batman in his fight with Black Manta.

", having teamed up with Black Manta and Gorilla Grodd to hijack a communications satellite before falling victim to the title villain's hypnotic powers.

For most of his published history, Black Manta had no definitive origin story.

In this origin, the boy who would become Black Manta grew up in Baltimore, Maryland, and loved to play by the Chesapeake Bay.

In this origin, the boy who would become Black Manta was an orphan who has autism and was placed in Gotham City's Arkham Asylum.

As an adult, the man who would become Black Manta designed a costume ( primarily a black wetsuit with bug-eyed helmet, that was able to shoot blasting rays from its eyes ) and fashioned a high-tech submersible inspired by manta rays.

Taking the name Black Manta, he and his masked army became a force to be reckoned with, engaging in at least one unrecorded clash with Aquaman prior to his first appearance as a rival to the Ocean Master ( and before joining the short-lived Injustice League in the retcon Silver Age third week event ).

The fearsome Black Manta and Aquaman battled repeatedly over the next several years.

During one of these clashes, it was revealed that Black Manta was actually an African American, whose stated objective at one point was for black people to be dominant in the ocean after having been oppressed for so long on dry land ( though this goal was revealed to be a ruse he used to trick Cal Durham into following him, and this objective was not at all evident in either his earlier or later appearances ).

Black Manta was later transformed into a manta / man hybrid.

In a later confrontation, Aquaman, sporting the Lady of the Lake's Healing Hand, reverses the alterations to Black Manta, and rewired Manta's afflicted brain, making him normal for the first time in his life.

Eating breakfast in Henry's kitchen, Alec looks out the window to where The Black is standing and realizes that he is at home on the farm.

As Frank and his team of Delta Force operatives fly into the city in Black Hawks, Frank realizes that Vlady will probably be expecting their attack and tells the pilots to divert their course to an area where Vlady wouldn't be expecting.

However, Shiva realizes that the Black Lanterns feed on human emotion, and cuts herself off from all feeling through the use of meditation, rendering her invisible to Sage.

" " Naheo " is a tribute to Summer's Native American roots, while " Curious White Boy " is a Black woman's response to her white lover after she realizes he has become involved with her out of some sense of racial guilt: " Another housekeeper fantasy ?/ Coffee-colored remedy for your hangover from history.

However, when Security realizes that Black Bear also has all of Horne's secret knowledge, and considers him a security risk, this sets off a chain of events where their mirror image identities will lead both Black Bear and Horne to " East Wing " in Russia.

Stunned that Black Doom knew his name, Shadow realizes that he must find the Chaos Emeralds to learn his past.

At the same time, one of the Aes Sedai from the delegation suddenly realizes that two members of her group irrationally insist on staying in the Black Tower, after which she notices the same symptoms as those affecting the Asha ' man.

Sean realizes that Black Tom planned to send the team to the sentient island Krakoa.

The narrator fights off the transfer, but realizes that in doing so he has allowed Black to take over one of the others, who are all in Wing Null.

Amnesia: Reeling from the realization that his partnership with White was a lie, Black realizes that he doesn't know who he is and is suffering from amnesia.

Following his death in Aquaman: Sword of Atlantis and resurrection at the end of " Blackest Night ", Aquaman has regained his natural hand, but seems to have retained some of his altered powers from the Black Lantern Corps, such as the ability to control undead sea-life.

" where he, along with Doctor Fate, Aquaman, Black Canary, Black Lightning, Fire, the original Flash, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Plastic Man, and Red Tornado temporarily gave their powers to Batman, turning him into Bat Monolith so he could battle the omnipotent Equinox.

The voice, commands him to bring the Central Power White Lantern Battery to the voice as well as an army, at which point Deathstorm brings back the Black Lantern versions of Professor Zoom, Maxwell Lord, Hawk, Jade, Captain Boomerang, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Deadman and Osiris.

Adam Strange, Aquaman, The Atom, Batman, Black Canary, Black Lightning, Blue Beetle, Booster Gold, Captain Marvel, Deadman, Doctor Fate, Fire, Firestorm, Flash, Green Arrow, The Green Lantern Corps, Guy Gardner, Hal Jordan, Jonah Hex, Kamandi, Katana, Huntress, Metamorpho, Red Tornado, Plastic Man, Hawk and Dove, The Question, Bat-Mite, OMAC, Vixen, Jay Garrick, Bronze Tiger, Hawkman, Wildcat, and Superman.

It is said that he used to go by the name of Super Volt before Aquaman suggested his present name, which Black Vulcan believes is due to racism ; Black Vulcan responds that maybe they should just call Aquaman " White Fish ".

They are confronted by Green Arrow, Aquaman, and Black Canary, but are forced to sing and dance due to the Music Meister's harmonious hypnotics.

He also prevented Deathstorm, the Black Lantern version of Firestorm, in his attempt to destroy the White Lantern Battery and instead commands him to bring the lantern to him as well as an army, at which point Deathstorm brings back the Black Lantern versions of Professor Zoom, Maxwell Lord, Hawk, Jade, Captain Boomerang, Martian Manhunter, Aquaman, Hawkman, Hawkgirl, Deadman and Osiris.

The Justice League members, Black Canary, Aquaman, Cyborg and Impulse, come online one by one on the monitors surrounding Chloe in the control room.

The heroes Grant shares DNA with are: Atom ( Al Pratt ), Flash ( Jay Garrick ), Green Lantern ( Alan Scott ), Wildcat ( Ted Grant ), Hawkman ( Carter Hall ), Hawkgirl ( Shayera Hol ), Hourman ( Rex Tyler ), Black Canary ( Dinah Lance ), Doctor Mid-Nite ( Charles McNider ), Starman ( Ted Knight ), Miss America ( Joan Dale ), Johnny Quick ( Johnny Chambers ), Liberty Belle ( Libby Lawrence ), Martian Manhunter ( J ' onn J ' onzz-John Jones ), Flash ( Barry Allen ), Aquaman, Black Canary ( Dinah Laurel Lance ), Green Lantern ( Hal Jordan ), and Atom ( Ray Palmer ).

This succeeded and since then Black Manta has returned to the oceans to face Aquaman once again.

Aquaman summoned various predatory sea-life to attack Black Manta and left him for dead.

When Aquaman died at the end of the 2003 series, Black Manta went to work for Libra as part of the Secret Society of Super Villains.