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Sometime after his father's death, David was contacted by King Orm Marius, who paid him for the staged attack his crew launched on Nereus. David demanded that Aquaman should be killed, as he was responsible for Jesse's death, but Orm shrugged it off and assured David that Aquaman wasn't one of them.
In David's early life, Aquaman killed Black Manta's father Jesse Hyde by accident in retaliation for attacking Aquaman's father Thomas Curry at the time when Stephen Shin contracted David to obtain the DNA of Aquaman who later mistook Jesse for David when exacting vengeance.
David tried to free Jesse, who tasked him with killing Aquaman, opting to activate a bomb to kill himself to save his son and reluctantly, David left the Stalnoivolk, crying over Jesse's death, swearing revenge against Aquaman.
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Black Manta's backstory closely follows his New 52 origin, with the character being a former mercenary by the name of David Kane who seeks vengeance against Aquaman for killing his father.
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