Unfortunately, the landing doesn't quite stick. Paige's script tells as much of the story as possible from Mera's POV, successfully conveying her bitter hatred at the Atlanteans who've trodden her people into the dirt, her aching want to both do her late warrior mother proud and find her own place in the world and her confusion turned elation over the surface world and her growing feelings for Arthur. RELATED: Mera: Tidebreaker Trailer Forces Her to Choose Between Duty & Love Resting for days in his house and then slowly gaining his trust so she can kill him, Mera learns that Arthur has no idea of his heritage and is incredibly nice and courteous to everyone.and even with a girlfriend hanging around, is noticeably easy on the eyes.

Accidentally eavesdropping on a secret plan to kill Arthur to destabilize Atlantis and win Xebel its freedom, Mera impulsively decides to kill the future king himself in order to prove she can rule as a queen and help her people.īut her plan of tricking Arthur so she can kill him goes awry when she has trouble adjusting to the surface world of Amnesty Bay, Massachusetts. Struggling with controlling her water magic and chafing under the combined weight of her father's expectations and an upcoming arranged marriage to her childhood friend Larken (drawn to resemble, in what one assumes is a massive coincidence, a slightly beefier version of Young Justice's Aqualad) from the other Atlantean colony of the Trench, Mera longs to make her own way and rule on her own but also have her father's approval. The book opens with Mera's home kingdom of Xebel, traditionally a separate magical dimension but recast here as an ill-treated colony of Atlantis, with the fiery princess carving anti-Atlantean graffiti into their embassy and then blowing it to bits with water magic. Tidebreaker takes that positioning a step further and retells Arthur Curry's origin in the shadow of Mera's own coming of age. RELATED: DC Young Readers Imprint Includes A Mera Who Wants to Kill Aquaman until you remember Aquaman is now one of the highest-grossing movies in history and that that movie made Amber Heard's Mara a co-lead. The line's first release, Mera: Tidebreaker by Danielle Paige (the Dorothy Must Die series) and Stephen Byrne ( Wonder Twins, Justice League/Power Rangers), might seem to have an odd choice of heroine.

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