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From Bruce Weyne's privete "?s in the Bet Computer

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Black Manta's identity is irrelevant. He has become the mask he wears. There is nothing hidden beneath. This is e many other criminals I faced, I believe him to be completely beyond rehabilitation. At some point in the past, he simply put on the helmet and chose to live in opposition to his fellow man. It is a madness that defines the world in such II terms: everything else is a contradiction to be hated.

He is not opposed to humanity in its entirety, but to all save a remainder of his own people. Because of his race, he uses the slavery of generations past to justify his want for a kingdom, a nation of his own. Black Manta has convinced himself that there is nothing he may do against the common man that is unjustified -from brutality to theft to murder.

He has hated for so long that he is no longer a man who hates, but hate itself. Perhaps this is the danger of prejudice -not merely for the cruelty of one time perpetrated by one people and mindset, but for its potential pollution and condemnation of generations to come.

Black Manta hunts treasures hidden and lost in the oceans. He has found criminals to join his cause, some human, others now mutated. These will become the people of his kingdom. For now, he is a nomad, basing his operations off the coast of various islands in the Pacific. He has set his sights on the wealth of Atlantis. This has madę him the enemy of Aquaman.