the Dead King's relic Scepter and the Trench. When the Dead King grabbed the relic Scepter and struck at Aquaman, Vulko tried to prevent the Dead King from killing him, saying that Aquaman was the rightful king of Atlantis, causing the Dead King to become so angry that he attempted to destroy all of Atlantis, but Aquaman stopped and destroyed the Dead King, along with the relic Scepter. The battle was over when Aquaman reclaimed the throne once again. Atlan in other media Atlan appears in the film Justice League and the reproduced four-hour director's cut Zack Snyder's Justice League. portrayed by Julian Lewis Jones, but is referred to only as the "ancient Atlantean king" in the end credits. He is first seen in statue form holding his three-pronged trident (this scene is only in Zack Snyder's Justice League) and later as the commander-leader of the Atleanteans in the flashback sequence of the first Apokoliptian invasion of Earth by a young Uxas. He reappears in Aquaman, portrayed by Graham McTavish. Referred to as the Dead King holding the real Trident of Atlan, his body is guarded by an ancient sea creature named Karathen. Later through flashbacks he is shown as the first King of Atlantis who is the ancestor of Atlanna, Aquaman and Ocean Master. Atlan will appear again in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, portrayed by Vincent Regan. Atlanna Atlanna is the mother of Aquaman in the Silver Age of Comics and the Post-Crisis on Infinite Earths comics. In Post-Crisis on Infinite Earths continuity, Atlanna was retconned as the Queen of Atlantis. After a dream-affair with Atlan, Atlanna became pregnant, but died in prison from illness. Afterwards, she was resurrected as a mermaid by Charybdis. In The New 52, Atlanna is the jaundiced queen of Atlantis and mother to both Arthur Curry and Orm Marius. Post-Flashpoint Atlanna is a runaway from home after an arranged political wedding to much hated Orvax Marius of the Atlantean navy was decreed by her nation's parliament. It was during her great escape she met and fell in love with a lighthouse keeper named Thomas Curry while witnessing his bravery during a harsh storm out at sea. The two cohabited and would parent the future king of Atlantis; Aquaman. When young Arthur Curry began to manifest a rapport with the native marine life in the sea around their ocean side home early on, Atlanna