Black Manta
Though Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) was in the first movie, the plan was always for him to be the villain in part two. “My plan with the first movie was always to kind of set up a relationship with him,” Wan said. “He was kind of like a glorified side character in the first one, but we knew that was going to be okay because we knew that the second movie was where we’re going to go into with him in a much bigger role.”
