History[]
Golden and Silver Age[]
The daughter of an Atlantean man and a surface woman, Aquaria Neptunia was nicknamed "Namora" in honor of her cousin Namor. Like Namor, she is a hybrid mutant with superhuman strength and the power of flight by using the wings on her ankles. When her father was killed by treasure-hunting surface-dwellers, she fully changed her name to Namora, the Atlantean term for "Avenging Daughter", as Namor means "Avenging Son". She was Namor's cousin (though not by blood), and became his companion for a period of several years.
Namora was ultimately shown to have been fatally poisoned by the Lemurian terrorist Llyra. She was survived by her clone, Namorita, whom she had passed off as her birth daughter because of Atlantian taboos against cloning.
Modern Age[]
Namora's body was left in the ruins of Atlantis for many years. During this time Namor had been recovered and restored Atlantis. He discovered the fate of his cousin after being lured to the Antarctic where the ruins of old Atlantis were located. There he found the body of Namora still sealed in the coffin of ice. Thinking Namora to be dead, the Sub-Mariner rescued her daughter Namorita from the clutches of Byrrah and Llyra.
Resurrection & Agents of Atlas[]
When Jimmy Woo, now a member of the Atlas Foundation began forming his Agents of Atlas team consisting of old G-Men members and associates, M-11 calculated that Namora was still alive, due to her unique Human/Atlantean genetics and had been in a state of suspended animation over the decades. The team then sought out her coffin but were shocked to find the decomposed remains of Namora in the coffin.
However, the Uranian known as Marvel Boy uncovered that the "decay" was really a hologram and disabled it showing that Namora was alive and well. While fighting off the crab creatures that guarded Namora's tomb, M-11 released Namora who then saved the lives of her rescuers. Namora then agreed to join the Agents of Atlas. Feeling that he has taken his team away from their lives, Jimmy tries to send the rest of the team home but they all refused and plan to continue helping him investigating. While taking down some pirates, Venus used her Siren Song powers to lure the pirates into the ocean, at which point Namora realized the true nature of Venus. The team was then attacked again by Yellow Claw and his terracotta army, in the fight, Yellow Claw escaped and not even Grayson could detect his presence.
During the search, Namora revealed the secret about Venus' true nature, having known of the legend of the Siren. Venus fell into depression and filled all of her companions with despair. This caused Marvel Boy to reveal the fact that Jimmy suspected M-11 of being the traitor in the midst. Feeling betrayed Marvel Boy attacked and seemingly destroyed M-11 due to the fact he had abandoned the Uranians forever just to be used as a puppet. This angered Namora who felt M-11 had cared enough to track her down and free her and destroyed Marvel Boy's spaceship and attacked Marvel Boy himself. Gorilla-Man jumped to Marvel Boy's aid so Namora attacked him as well. While the rest of the team began to fight each other, Woo calmed Venus and was able to help her rediscover her confidence. Venus then proceeded to sing, soothing the rest of the team and they returned to their mission to take down the Atlas group.
Woo and his team go back to the San Francisco branch of Atlas and re-enter the hidden room. This time, they survive and confront Yellow Claw and Mr. Lao. It turns out that Yellow Claw was waiting for Woo to come, to claim the mantle of Genghis Khan. With the title of Great Khan, Woo also assumed control over the holdings of The Atlas Foundation. Jimmy then asked Khanata to lie to S.H.I.E.L.D. and tell them that they actually perished in the temple so they can continue in secret.
The transition away from being a criminal organization was not easy however as one of the early missions after becoming the Atlas Foundation involved a rogue faction of the organization who did not want to stop their criminal activities. Using a theater production they would use the audiences life force, combined with totemic vessels to create an army of Monsters. The group teamed up with Spider-Man to stop them, after him and the group were attacked. Initially, unsure which side the group was on Spider-Man fought with Gorilla Man until Siren used her song to calm him down. Teaming up, they stopped the rogue faction when M-11 destroyed their power source at the Rockefeller Center. In order to keep their existence a secret, Marvel Boy wiped everybody but his teams' memory of the incident including Spider-Man's.
World War Hulk[]
During World War Hulk, angry over the death and subsequent vilification of her daughter at the onset of the superhero Civil War over government registration, Namora joins Amadeus Cho, Hercules, and Angel to aid the Hulk. During the crisis, Hercules ends up holding the entire locality of Manhattan on his shoulders.
Secret Invasion[]
During the Secret Invasion, Namora killed a Super-Skrull and was captured by other Skrulls. She was later rescued by Gorilla Man and M-11 and returned to the Marvel Boy's Ship with a Skrull as a hostage. After their location is discovered Namora helps defend the ship before M-11 wipes out all the attacking Skrulls.
Amazon-Atlantean War[]
In the course of her membership in Cho's group, she shares a genuinely romantic kiss with Hercules. Sometime later, following the Secret Invasion, Hercules and Amadeus Cho vacation near an Atlantean city, and she and Hercules have a romantic fling. This is interrupted by an Amazon attack. Namora aids Hercules in repelling the Amazons and rescuing Cho from their amorous and ultimately fatal attentions. Namora later calls off any further relationship with Hercules due to her heart vying for Namor and Hercules' sordid romantic history of seducing super-heroines and overall impulsiveness.
Dark Reign[]
The Atlas Foundation hindered the Skrulls' activities on the West Coast during their Invasion. Afterward, however, the world had changed, and Woo and his team took a surprising step: to use Plan Chu's villainous reputation to present themselves as the Agents of the Atlas Empire. Their first act was to steal all the gold in Fort Knox, which Norman Osborn had earmarked for special weapons programs. After some time, the group became aware of Norman's Cabal to find out that a member of the group was none other than Namora's cousin, Namor. Upon finding this out, the Agents confronted Namor for his involvement in the group. Initially, at odds with each other for their recent decisions, Namora and Namor ended up kissing and began a relationship. Namora contemplated staying with Namor until it was revealed that it was Atlantean elders that plotted for them to start a relationship and mate a long time ago as human/Atlantean hybrids are so powerful. Namor and Namora decided to part ways as they were unsure how much of their feelings for each other were genuine and how much was due to the secret plotting of the elders.
Infinity[]
Namora's Atlantean School was chosen as one of the institutions set to do battle in the new Contest of Champions. However, Atlantis was attacked and decimated by the forces of Thanos before the competition could begin. Namora sent a desperate plea for help to Hank Pym, but the kingdom was destroyed before action could be taken.
Secret Empire[]
When Namor began ruling Atlantis as a tyrant, Namora led a rebellion against Namor's rule and attempted numerous assassination attempts against him. Namora and her rebels later triggered an explosion to act a distraction to rescue their fellow rebels from imprisonment as well as Namor's fellow Invaders the Human Torch and Toro who Namor imprisoned so Atlantis didn't incur the wrath of Hydra. Namora, her rebels, and the Invaders went to a location where Namora planned to use a machine to put an end to Namor. However, Human Torch and Toro decided to destroy the machine so both sides would stop fighting with one another, but this caused a jellyfish-like monster to escape, forcing the opposing sides to work together to subdue the creature. After the creature was subdued, Namora was captured and brought before Namor. Namora requested to Namor that she be publicly executed as she preferred it over being imprisoned, which Namor agreed to.
Namor personally took up the role as Namora's executioner. When he asked her if she had any last words, Namora replied that she loved Atlantis and Namor and had hoped he would see the error of his ways. Before Namor could kill Namora, a trident was unexpectedly thrown at Namor, which pierced his right side. The crowd that came to witness Namora's execution then swarmed Namor demanding that he end his tyranny.
Namor was unexpectedly saved by Human Torch and Toro after Torch created a cloud of bubbles with his heat powers. Namora then had the mob stand down and revealed that everything that she had done was set up so Namor could realize that he had shut himself away from his people, causing him to become a dictator, and learn the error of his ways. Namor admitted that he was wrong for imposing authoritarian measures on Atlantis and agreed to end them.
Religion[]
Namora was seemingly a devout worshiper of Poseidon, whom she addressed to with great reverence.
Attributes[]
Powers[]
- Human/Atlantean Physiology: Namora's powers came from being a hybrid of Atlantean Homo mermanus and mutant Homo superior physiologies.
- Amphibious Physiological Adaptation: Namora's body was specially developed for underwater conditions, granting her specialized blood circulation to withstand freezing temperatures and highly developed vision to see clearly even in murky ocean depths. This hybrid physiology meant she could survive indefinitely underwater or on land, though she would still need occasional contact with water to survive.
- Superhuman Strength: Like all Atlanteans, Namora was superhumanly strong. While Namora was immersed in water she was capable of lifting at least 75 tons (although prolonged surface activity could reduce her strength significantly).
- Superhuman Speed: Namora could run and move at speeds greater than even the finest human athlete. Her speed was greatest, however, while swimming.
- Superhuman Stamina: Namora's advanced musculature produced considerably fewer fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of normal human beings, and most other Atlanteans for that matter. Namora's stamina, much like her strength, steadily declined the longer she was out of contact with water and would diminish to the point where she only had slightly greater stamina than the finest human athlete.
- Superhuman Agility: Namora's agility, balance, and bodily coordination were enhanced to levels that were beyond the natural physical limits of even the finest human athlete.
- Superhuman Reflexes: Namora's reflexes were similarly heightened and were superior to those of the finest human athlete.
- Superhuman Durability: The tissues of Namora's body were much harder and more resistant to physical injury than those of normal human beings and most other Atlanteans. She could withstand tremendous impact forces, high caliber bullets, falls from great heights, exposure to temperature and pressure extremes, and powerful energy blasts without sustaining injury though it was still possible to injure her.
- Aquatic Healing: If injured, Namora's body could heal damaged tissue faster and more extensively than an ordinary human or most Atlanteans. Namora's accelerated healing was at its peak while she was immersed in water and diminished the longer she was out of contact with water or if she was completely dry.
- Extended Longevity: Atlanteans aged much slower and lived much longer than human beings with the average Atlantean lifespan being about 120 years. Namora ages extremely slowly, even by Atlantean standards; nearly a half-century old, she appears to be in her twenties. She could live atleast tenfold of an average Atlantean lifespan.
- Amphibious Breathing: Like all Atlanteans, Namora could breathe indefinitely underwater due to having gills located behind her ears. Unlike most Atlanteans, however, Namora could also breathe on land indefinitely as well without the aid of breathing devices (whereas most Atlanteans could only survive being out of the water for a matter of minutes).
- Flight: Namora also possessed vestigial "wings" on both of her ankles, by which she seemed to fly. As these tiny wings were insufficient to keep her aloft it was theorized that her flight capacity was a mental power akin to telekinesis, and the wings merely assisted in the process of "steering" her flight.
- Mental Detection: Namora could sense when her cousin, Namor, was in danger within an undefined radius of herself by perceiving the distinctive mental radiations emitted by him.
- Acute Hearing: Namora has really sensitive hearing.
Abilities[]
Namora is trained in Atlantean combat methods and fluent in English, Atlantean, and Lemurian.
Weaknesses[]
Like all Atlanteans, toxic waste and dehydration causes her problems.
Trivia[]
- Namora and Namor are not genetic cousins due to her father being adopted into the Atlantean Royal Family instead of being Princess Fen's biological brother.