Thresher (comics)
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Fictional Character Biography

Thresher is the son of Neptune
Neptune (mythology)
Neptune was the god of water and the sea in Roman mythology and religion. He is analogous with, but not identical to, the Greek god Poseidon. In the Greek-influenced tradition, Neptune was the brother of Jupiter and Pluto, each of them presiding over one of the three realms of the universe,...

 and a mermaid
Mermaid
A mermaid is a mythological aquatic creature with a female human head, arms, and torso and the tail of a fish. A male version of a mermaid is known as a "merman" and in general both males and females are known as "merfolk"...

, thus he is not human at all. He is approximately 70 years old, and comes from the underground city of Aquatania, which belongs to a dimensional universe divergent of Earth. His mother still lives in Aquitania, yet Thresher is unaware of her actual identity. Thresher's home is a fortified fortress hidden in the Atlantic Ocean.

Powers and abilities

Thresher can breathe underwater and on land, and withstand extreme depth pressures of the ocean. He has telepathy with sharks, and is able to cast illusions of water into desired shapes. He can also see underwater clearly, even in almost pitch-black darkness that some trenches provide.
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