First five things I want in an Aquaman Movie

1) Orm as the antagonist.  If you look at the situations in the ocean in our own reality and it’s declining state from a realist perspective, Orm appears as a well-adjusted person trying to avert the apocalypse.  This guy is going to behave like the Americans in your typical alien invader movies.  Except that he’s attacking Americans.  So we get to see that kind of attitude from the receiving end.  

2) Orm as Aquaman’s villain.  While this might seem redundant, this is about Orm vs. Arthur as opposed to Loki vs. Thor.  Given Loki’s appeal, DC needs to compete with that and the only sibling rivalry in the Justice League movie lineup is arguably Aquaman and Orm.  

3) Where to fight.  This will be a factor, if not THE factor that really holds people.  People who liked “Man of Steel” liked the battles in Metropolis, though critics and displeased viewers panned Superman’s mass manslaughter and deliberate act of murder those battles.  Man of Steel has been called the Best episode of Dragonball Z there ever was (Angry Joe reviews).  Since battle scenes are all we know so far that we can look forward to in the Justice League movies (love or hate Man of Steel) any conceivable aspect pertaining to them must carefully conceived and explored for opportunities.  So far, between the two combatants I have imagined fighting on top of Cthulu’s head as he’s on a rampage, and inside the deteriorating ruins of Titanic.  As Orm shows the REAL horrors of underwater telepathy by summoning Cthulu to do only so much of his long suppressed mission on earth as the Atlanteans require him to do and can afford (from Orm’s perspective anyway) so Aquaman reminds whatever force can fly a plane that shoots missiles into the only canonical weak point shown in Cthulu shortly before him waking up.  His temple.  He also catches a ride on a jet plane to land on Cthulu’s head to battle Orm as their ride rampages.  After a battle where Orm calls Aquaman  out on his hypocrisy of using jet emissions to come to him Aquaman counters with the super felony Orm committed by incapacitating the magic users so he could illegally summon Cthulu in the first place.  He then stabs Orn with the trident of Poseiden, and drops him into the sea, thus cancelling his link with Cthulu so he can keep Cthulu still for the missile, before following after Orm, Who leads him into the ruins oil the Titanic, which they then destroy with their brawl.  During the Brawl Orm summons Sharks that Cannot harm Aquaman.  But Aquaman will have to harm them to get pas them as they congeal around him, unless he takes Orm, his own brother out of the equation.  Thus leading Orn to taunt him some more about being a hypocrite and part of a problem.  

4) How Cthulu fits into this.  As Aquaman explains this to the Air Force commander who’s been so afraid of his Aquatic Telepathy (more on that later and pretty rightly so, now) they’ve been keeping Cthulu asleep since a group of surface men accidentally woke him up and wounded him.  The political and legal ramifications of reviving Cthulu are so great and vast they’re not explicitly stated.  Ever.  

5) And speaking of an Air Force General gunning for Aquaman, he begins just scratching his head at a human looking man coming out of the water claiming to be from a city of legend that has long been sought yet never found.  He takes it all very calm and collected and relatively less curious than most (chalking up the Smallville precedent) until he learns of the aquatic telepathy.  Those without imagination, or having low intelligence, or the uneducated will not see the threat.  However, given that CENTURIES of observation, study, analysis, experimentation and verification place our origins as coming from the ocean, he has to ask himself “What if he CAN control us?”  The “What if” is being stressed here, rather than being launched into any side of the creationism debate.  Although when finally confronted by this, Aquaman simply replies “If I had the ability to remotely control you, do you really think I would be trying to reason with you when the end of my people is on the line?”