aquamans writers explain how they shook off his goofy past and the underwater potty scene they cut /

A runt more than a decade ago,Aquaman was a punch line — a phony blockbuster for a phony film star on the television show Entourage. Even as another member of the future DC Extended Universe, Batman, or was virtually redefining the way audiences looked at superheroes on the silver screen,the half-man, half-Atlantean Arthur Curry was far from ready to be taken seriously.

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