may have survived, along with the young Cerdian. One Year Later Further evidence of her survival is given by the ghost of Vulko. Able to sense the passing of Atlanteans, he claimed never to have felt the passing of Garth, Dolphin, and Cerdian, so the three are possibly alive. However, despite having spent months researching his beloved ones, Garth eventually reveals that he had found the bodies of his wife and son and reasons that Dolphin and Cerdian may have died during the evacuation of Atlantis, buried in the rubble while searching for shelter. Slizzath, his necromantic uncle, confirms this version, hinting a possible return of Dolphin as a Black Lantern Blackest Night In Blackest Night #2, Dolphin, Tula, and Aquaman are raised at Mercy Reef as Black Lanterns tasked with killing Tempest and Mera. Tula and Dolphin contend for Tempest's affection and mercilessly taunt him for being unable to save either of them. At the conclusion of the conflict, Tempest is killed and subsequently raised as a Black Lantern. Dolphin appears to battle the Titans. Her body is destroyed by a burst of white light emanating from Dawn Granger. Rebirth Dolphin made her return when she joined Aquaman in defending seachanged Atlanteans from persecution and harassment in the Aquaman Rebirth series. She is currently on the run with Aquaman as they hide from the underwater authorities. In the new series, Dolphin is a mutation which is contemptibly referred to as a taintblood in the various tribes of Atlantis, having triggered it while facing segregation from the drift out of self-defense. She and a clutch of other 9th tride denizens were rescued by a ghost of the locale whom was none other than the believed to be deceased Arthur Curry. Powers & abilities Pre-Post Crisis Dolphin's anatomy had been tampered with by an unknown alien race at the biomolecular level, resulting in various oceanic-adapted capabilities, such as gills, webbed fingers and toes, shining white hair, superhuman physical conditioning, resilience to deep water pressures, and a slowed aging process. She is an adept yet untrained hand-to-hand combatant who was psychologically programmed with an aptitude for high-powered artillery. The biomolecular tampering and psychological programming resulted in Dolphin being strong, fast, and abled enough to match Mera in a straightforward fist fight while underwater. During the Blackest Night run, she'd been reanimated by the Black Lantern Ring, turning her into an all but