The Atlanteans - Earth -11 - Batman: The Drowned (2017)

A race of humanoid beings who adapted to live in the oceans of the world, the Atlanteans originated from the Kingdom of Atlantis, which had sunk many thousands of years ago. They were ruled by their queen, who was given the nickname Aquawoman by the surface world, spending an extended period of time in self imposed exile.

The Atlanteans followed their monarch to the surface world, under the banner of peace and cooperation between themselves and the surface dwellers. But these talks took a turn for the worse, breaking down and leading to a war. The Atlanteans used sea creatures and warships to conquer their enemy, forcing the Gotham vigilante Batwoman to target Aquawoman with the hopes that the army would disperse and retreat upon the death of their commander.

Viewing the Atlanteans as vicious and uncaring beings, Batwoman justified her actions to violently butcher Aquawoman, grabbing her trident half way through the fight and driving it through her chest.

The Atlanteans retaliated by unleashing a tidal wave that sunk Gotham City, forcing Bryce Wayne to take drastic steps to ensure that she could defeat their army for good. Batwoman and her new army of the Dead Water met the Atlanteans again in battle, this time vanquishing the soldiers. Many of the Atlanteans fell to Batwoman's Dead Water Infection, transforming them into new soldiers for her legion and turning on their former allies.

However, despite Batwoman's victory over the Atlanteans, the war had violent consequences, including the sinking of all major, towns, cities and settlements.


"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

Due to her participation in the war - having slaughter many Atlanteans on her own Earth, including Aquawoman herself - the Drowned believed that she could kill Aquaman and Mera and take complete control of Amnesty Bay for herself.


Appearances:

1. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" - First and Only Appearance 

Dead Water Possessed Mera - Prime Earth - Batman: The Drowned (2017)

Responding to reports that Amnesty Bay had been flooded, Mera and her husband Aquaman battled against the woman responsible for destroying their surface world home, The Drowned. She was quickly overpowered when the Dark Knight summoned her army of Dead Waters and was infected by her sorcery, transforming her into a loyal servant through prolonged physical contact to her opponent.


"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

With her body and mind in possession of the Drowned, Mera rushed towards Aquaman with the intent to kill him, ignoring his demands to know what Wayne had done to her. However before she can strike the killing blow, Aquaman is spirited away by a golden glowing Ankh symbol - the magic of the mage Doctor Fate.


Appearances:

1. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" - First Appearance

The Dead Water - Earth-11 - Batman: The Drowned (2017)

Following the destruction of Gotham City at the hands of the Atlanteans, Bryce Wayne used hybrid DNA to bio-engineer an army of loyal sea creatures, which she called the Dead Water. With the aid of her creations, Batwoman was able to win the Atlantean War, installing herself as the protector and ruler of what remained of the world - which had been sunk as a result of the fighting.

Throughout the war, Batwoman used the powers she had acquired through the Atlantean Trident and her own biological and technological enhancements to infect her enemies, mutating their bodies and transmuting them into Dead Water. These infected beings would flock to her side, growing the ranks of her army.

After Bryce became a warrior and servant to Barbatos, the Dead Water remained on their Earth, as the Drowned went on to conquer Prime Earth with her fellow members of the Dark Knights.


"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner",

During her battle with Aquaman and Mera in the flooded ruins of Amnesty Bay, The Drowned opened up a "conduit" between Prime Earth and Earth -11, summoning her army to help destroy the Atlantean heroes. Mera is shocked at the sight of them, recognising them from their counterparts on their own Earth. The Legion quickly overpower both Mera and Aquaman, allowing their leader to infect Mera and turn her into a Dead Water to. The infected Mera turned on her husband, almost killing him if not for the intervention of Doctor Fate, who teleported the Atlantean King away from the battlefield.


Appearances:

1. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" - First Appearance 

Aquawoman - Earth-11 - Batman: The Drowned (2017)

The ruling monarch of the Atlanteans, Aquawoman led her armies into a self-imposed exile, secluding in areas that could not be detected by humans.

However, eighteen months after Batwoman had hunted down and murdered the last of Earth's meta-humans, Aquawoman rose from the sea with her people. She wished to parley with the surface dwellers, promising them that she was suing for peace between the two nations. But those talks ended in disaster, resulting in a bloody war between the two races. Aquawoman went up against the Gotham City vigilante and was eventually defeated, impaled through the chest with her own Trident, which Batwoman took for herself as a trophy of her victory.

Her death enraged the Atlanteans, who unleashed a tidal wave that flooded Gotham City, an act of retaliation for the loss of their queen.


"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

The Drowned remembered killing Aquawoman, musing that she had murdered many Atlanteans before and therefore could overpower her Prime Earth counterpart Aquaman, as he and Mera tried to incapacitate her in the flooded ruins of Amnesty Bay.


Appearances:

1. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" - First and Only Appearance

Sylvester Kyle - Earth-11 - Batman: The Drowned (2017)

The lover of Bryce Wayne, the Gotham City vigilante Batwoman, Sylvester Kyle was a source of happiness and joy in her life. However at some point during her career, he was murdered by a group of criminals with meta-human abilities.

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

His death sparked a mental breakdown in Bryce, making her resentful of all meta-humans and setting out to kill them all. She began to see her world as a vile and lawless place that could not be saved by anyone. Eventually eighteen months before the arrival of the Atlanteans and the start of the War, Batwoman had hunted down the last of the meta-humans, stating that Sylvester's memory was honoured and his soul avenged.

However Bryce's cynicism convinced her that their was no such thing as an afterlife and that Sylvester had not moved to a better place as she wanted to believe. Bryce even contemplated dying, wishing to have died seconds after her lover so that she did not have to go through the pain of living life without him.


Appearances:

1. None

Mentions:

1. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" First and Only Mention

The Crimson Heart - Once Upon a Time Season Six (2016)

A mystical artefact crafted from red glass, the Crimson Heart had the power to drain the magic from a persons body upon contact, removing any ties they had to the practices of the mystic arts. The Heart could also be transplanted into a living host and cure them of any curse inflicted upon them.

To ensure that it did not absorb the magic of a person by accident, it was kept sealed in a wooden box.

Located in the heart of the woods of Oz, the Crimson Heart was guarded by a ferocious lion who attacked all who entered.


"Where Bluebirds Fly"

Having learned of the Heart and its potential to cure him of the Wicked Witch of the North's curse, Stanum persuaded his old friend Zelena to help him claim the heart and break the enchantment placed on him. Managing to fight their way past the lion, Zelena prepared to place the object within his chest, however began to realise that her power was being snatched away with prolonged exposure.

Placing it back into the wooden box, Zelena declared that the item was useless and needed magical energy in order for the Heart to work properly, calling it a "worthless piece of glass". In her anger and desperation to continue her work and complete her Time Travel Spell, the Wicked Witch of the West took the Crimson Heart for herself and left Stanum to transform into a tin statue of a woodsman.

Keeping the Crimson Heart locked away in the Emerald City, the object remained undetected for the time in which the three curses were enacted.

Years later, after the Black Fairy manipulated events and used Zelena's magic transform the Fairy Crystals beneath the mines of Storybrooke into dark magic weapons, Regina ordered her sister to return to Oz and live out her life away from the town. However Zelena defied these orders and returned to the realm she ruled for the sole purpose of retrieving the Crimson Heart, realising that the only way to prevent the Black Fairy from starting the Final Battle with the crystals was to remove all of her magic, reverting them back to sources of Light Magic.


Travelling to Regina's vault, Zelena willingly allowed the Crimson Heart to absorb all of her power, taking the object in her hands as it drained her of every last bit of magic. After the Heart had finished the process of subsuming her magical abilities, the item exploded in a burst of green energy, which cascaded throughout the town and rendered the weaponised crystals inert.


Appearances:

1. "Where Bluebirds Fly" - First and Only Appearance

"The Wicked Witch of the North" - Once Upon a Time Season Six (2016)

Following the banishment of Glinda and the breaking of the Sisterhood, the Witch of the North slowly began growing malevolent, until she would earn the name "The Wicked Witch of the North" by the people of Oz.

She would go on to use her powers for terrorising, torture and cursing, punishing people for transgressions.


"Where Bluebirds Fly"

Enraged by the act of the woodcutter Stanum, who cut down one of her trees in the Northern Wood, the Wicked Witch of the North cursed the man with a spell that would transform his whole body to tin. The only cure to this spell would be to find Stanum a new heart that could successfully integrate with his body -  a powerful magical artefact known as the Crimson Heart.

In the end, the Witch's curse claims its victim, reducing Stanum to nothing more than a tin statue carrying an axe.


Appearances: 

• None

Mentions:

1. "Where Bluebirds Fly"