EcstaticGrace
Senior Member
Originally posted by Stoic
No problem, I stand corrected. However Namor can survive lightning strikes as well, but has trouble with heat in general, or at least he used to before becoming an aquakenetic. I just assumed that temps that exceeded the heat of our native star would be too great for him. I mean in case you missed the part Jupiter's heat being able to melt tungsten. My comment wasn't really about tungsten, but about Jupiter's temperature in general.
Yeah I definitely understood that and definitely get what you meant. Tungsten probably wasn’t the best element to bring up given it’s melting point being so below the temperature of Jupiter let alone some of the stuff Aquaman has shown to take.
New52 onwards Aquaman’s heat resistance has been pretty impressive the only time he’s necessarily been to the point of being taken out by heat was when he was having blood loss in the desert and there’s an instance in Metal where something that was channeling the heat of Apokoliptan fire pits to weaken him was used. There’s also a priest instance but it’s not really as consistent or on par with his heat resistant feats.
Namor also has a history of being able to absorb lightning apparently akin to an electric eel and Redischarge it. It’s possible that lightning isn’t something that harms him due to the properties of it or it’s even possible that the heat of lightning is disregarded by writers which could be the case for Aquaman as well.
I’d mention though Aquaman took a prolonged lightning attack from his brother that lasted several panels. It could be possible the writer didn’t factor in the heat but Geoff Johns is also a guy who had him swim in lava with no Ill effects.