How is he an "Aquaman-copy"?
He wouldn't use a trident. He would use the long daggers and the multitude of other weapons I listed.
I know it has already been stated but just because he's underwater doesn't mean he's an Aquaman copy. Nothing of what he listed sounds like a copy to me.
Hal Jordan, Kyle Rayner, John Stewart.
Three Green Lanterns, basically all one and the same, yet they're still different, because where Hal tends to create airplanes and stuff like that, Kyle goes fully out with his imagination, since he is an artist and then there is also John who concentrates on various kinds of contructs, since he is an architect.
Does that mean, that just because you can make them feel differently that you should come up with these characters in a game with a limited amount of characters?
Why not offering the spot to someone who comes from somewhere else in the DC universe and brings in far more than just hard light constructs? Why not coming up with Scarecrow, Poison Ivy or Clayface - yes, who are all Batman villains and that was my intention - yet they offer you a completely new and unique playstyle?
The game might have too many Batman characters so far, but they're still better than copies from already existing characters and yes, in the end of the day Sinestro and Atrocitus would offer you the exact same idea as a Green Lantern, simply because of their power set.
Would they play differently? Yes, they would. If Cashcom can pull it off with Hulk / She-Hulk, Wolverine / X-23, then NRS can pull it off as well.
But is there a desperate need to do that? Fuck no.
And especially not when it comes to
someone like Aquaman who doesn't have that many memorable villains - with Black Manta actually being the only one who is even worth being talked about and that also only because he killed Aquaman's son.
Putting characters into the game just so that one hero could have a counter part, or hell ... even demanding these characters is really stupid in my opinion.
That was also one of my main concernes for UMVC3. Why would I be happy about She-Hulk and X-23, if I could have a character who could offer me an entirely different playing experience and who would also be more badass like Sentry, Venom or Black Bolt?
And yes, there are MUCH better choices for the Injustice roster than Black Manta.