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When he first appeared on the scene in the early 40s, Namor helped fight the Axis powers alongside Captain America and the original Human Torch. Unfortunately, due to the erratic mood swings caused by his body chemistry, Namor found himself fighting against his allies as much as he fought alongside them. Then, after the war, Namor battled the psychic Paul Destine (AKA Destiny - not related to Destiny) and his memory was wiped. The former King of Atlantis became a bum living in the Bowery in New York City.

Namor remained there until Johnny Storm, the third Human Torch, happened to find him in a flophouse and saw him use what appeared to be super-strength. Johnny felt bad for the amnesiac and offered to help him get back on his feet. He shaved the "bum" with his flame and saw Namor's true features. Johnny then dumped Namor into the river in the hopes of restoring his memory, which it did. Unfortunately, Namor tried to return to Atlantis, but he found an outpost that had been destroyed by nuclear testing during the years he was an amnesiac and assumed that all his people were scattered where he would never find them. He immediately vowed vengeance on the surface world and attacked it. The Fantastic Four were able to stop Namor, and he became enamored of Sue Storm, a crush that he would carry with him for years. Namor also joined The Hulk in an attack on the Avengers, but was repulsed when the tempermental Hulk left the fight.

Shortly thereafter, Magneto approached Namor and asked him to join his first Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Namor fought against the X-Men in a battle alongside Magneto, but refused to kowtow to the Master of Magnetism and ultimately rejected the offer.

Namor returned to Atlantis and was supposed to marry his cousin Dorma, with whom he had fallen in love. However, Llyra, an evil princess of Lemuria, another submarine culture, kidnapped and replaced Dorma at the wedding hoping to usurp Namor's kingdom in that way. Legally, though, Dorma was the one Namor had married, but he still had to find his wife. Unfortunately, Llyra had taken Dorma to the surface world in a tank as bait, and when Namor arrived, she smashed the tank to distract him. Namor was unable to save Dorma, and nearly went insane from grief.

Later on, Namor, flying near the Savage Land, spotted Magneto lying unconscious near a volanic eruption (Magneto had just fought Sauron and some X-Men). He picked Magneto up and brought him to Atlantis to recuperate. Namor then left Atlantis to join the FF on a mission, and returned to find that Magneto had usurped his throne. The FF and Namor made short work of Magneto, and Namor regained his kingdom.

Unfortunately, trouble brewed often for the Avenging Son of Atlantis, and his lost his kingdom a number of times. He also married the Alpha Flighter named Marrina, another sea-dweller, but lost her when she turned evil and was killed. During some of his exiles from Atlantis, he joined super-teams like the Avengers and the Defenders. He also was a member of the short-lived undersea team of Deep Six. It was during his tenure with the Avengers that Namor helped recover the cocoon in which the Phoenix Force had placed Jean Grey years earlier. He also fought against Magneto when Magnus tried to rescue his students from the White Queen, and recovered his lost giant horn, which was found by the X-Terminators. Not long afterward, rogue elements of Atlantean society declared war on the surface, and Namor was presumed killed in the battle, though the Atlantean barbarians were defeated.

However, Namor had actually survived, and surfaced months later in the South Pacific. Nearly mad from his ordeal, he was found by Caleb and Carrie Alexander, a father-daughter team who quickly nursed Namor back to health. It was Caleb who revealed to Namor the truth about his blood chemistry and his "rages," and who equipped him with a monitor that warned him when he had to seek air or water. This allowed Namor to control his metabolism for the first time in his life. Determined to continue to preserve the oceans and his people, but without revealing himself, Namor raided sunken treasures to finance his purchase of an international company he renamed Oracle, Inc., using the Alexanders as proxy buyers. Shortly thereafter, however, Namor was forced to reveal his survival when a terrorist bomb detonated on an Oracle submarine super-tanker, threatening the lives of everyone in New York. Then, Namor lost his ankle wings when he unleashed a mutagenic scrambler inside the animated garbage dump called "Sluj" in order to stop the monster. He dealt with the world of high finance thereafter, though it brought him into conflict with the Super Skrull, and then to the dimension of K'un L'un, where he found the hero Iron Fist, who had been presumed dead for many months.

Returning to Earth and investigating the apparent invasion of Earth by the K'un L'un sentient plant race called the H'lythri, Namor was forced to fight Wolverine, who had been captured by the H'lythri and their associate Plant Man days before. The battle was fierce, but it was interrupted by the sorcerer Master Khan, who destroyed the plant people and returned Wolverine to his place. Khan then wiped Namor's memory and dumped him in the American MidWest, as punishment for interfering in his plans for Iron Fist. Namor was "missing" for almost a year, and was known as "Rex," until his cousin Namorita was able to track him down using a psychic link to him that she had recently discovered. However, Namor didn't recognize her and rejected her. He didn't regain his memory until a while afterwards, when he and the apparently-resurrected Princess Fen (his mother, who had saved him when he was thrown into the ocean by an explosion) were captured by Dr. Doom's new sonic ram fishing vessel. The boat itself was then magically imprisoned in a bottle by Master Khan, and Khan assumed Namor's form and sold off much of Oracle's holdings. Namor soon broke the bottle and the spell, and then ripped Khan's head off.

Immediately thereafter, Namor was called to Atlantis to deal with attacks by the ancient "Faceless Ones" on Atlantis's borders. Fen attempted to usurp the throne, and it was soon revealed that she was really the witch-queen Artys Gran, who had stolen Fen's body in order to release her hisband Suma-Ket, a pagan sorcerer-king who had been banished by Namor's ancestor thousands of years earlier. Namor soon confronted Ket and was killed, impaled on Ket's spear. Fortunately, Father Neptune, the deity worshipped by Atlantis, appeared to resurrect Namor to fight Suma-Ket, whose religion threatened Neptune's existence. In the process, Namor's wings were restored and he was given the sacred golden armor of his ancestor in which to fight. With the help of his people and comrades, Namor defeated Suma-Ket and his forces, though the real Fen, trapped in Artys Gran's body, died defending her son from a final attack from Socus, the villains' servant. Namor eventually returned to both ruling Atlantis and running Oracle, but has remained generally out of the surface world in recent days. Oracle, Inc. was also funding the charitable super-group Heroes for Hire, and the team used an Oracle facility as its headquarters.

Afterwards, Namor was involved in an international dispute with Wakanda and its King T'Challa (AKA Black Panther), and had to deal with Attuma's uprisings again. He was also brought back to the Defenders team, this time by a curse that forces the team members to be teleported to the site of tragedy and evil.

Most recently, a mystical curse from an old foe, the sorcerer Yandroth, bound Namor and the three other senior members of the Defenders--Doctor Strange, Hulk and the Silver Surfer--to be transported to scenes of danger and trouble around the world, forcing them into the midst of one deadly crisis after another. Namor and his fellow Defenders eventually freed themselves from this curse, but not before they attempted to take over the world as "The Order," figuring that if they ran the world there would be no crises. The world's heroes tried to stop them, and eventually the curse was lifted. Namor has now allied himself with the new Invaders team, bringing the full might of his Atlantean army to bear wherever needed.

King Namor of Atlantis (along with his wife Dorma) rule the oceans. Though allied with the House of M, Namor seems to disagree with the segregated nature of Magneto's kingdom. After a secret teleconference with T'Challa of Wakanda, Namor assisted in stopping Apocalypse from killing the Black Panther, ripping open Apocalypse's submarine. However, he was knocked out by Apocalypse, who grew gills underwater.

Note: Due to the focus of this site, Namor's full and rich history cannot be chronicled here. Go to Imperious Rex! - It contains a good rundown of Namor's history.

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