Dead Water
A new villain of Aquaman initially possessed of an innocent marine engineer corrupted by otherworldly substances, it can can teleport through water from location to location and psychologically attacks those who slighted it's previous host.
Name:
Dead Water
Publisher:
Real name:
The Alien Water
Aliases:
- Jonah Payne
- Jonah Kendry Payne
- Lawrence Quinn
- Arni Ajar
- Scavenger
- Peter Mortimer
Birth date:
None
Gender:
Other
Powers:
- Adaptive
- Agility
- Berserker Strength
- Chameleon
- Claws
- Density Control
- Feral
- Genetic Manipulation
- Magic
- Possession
- Sub-Mariner
- Teleport
First issue:
Jonah Payne; the first host of Dead Water was a sub diver who sold his talents to the Scavenger. He took the sub deep into the unknown areas of the ocean. When the sub became stranded he killed the two other men and was making his way back when he swam through the alien water. This substance took over Payne like a symbiote and taking in all the guilt and anger he felt, began to kill anyone whom Payne felt slighted during his life.
Now the possessing entity has returned and is terrorizing an oceanic study base deep within the amazon coast. The U.S. naval forces sent their Aquamarines to Arthur Curry's landside abode in order to help them deal with this latest resurgence of the creature.
Note: Dead Water first appears off panel in Aquaman #49 but does not appear fully formed until Aquaman #50 and is created by Dan Abnett, Vicente Cifuentes, and Brett Booth.
