10 Times DC Comics Tricked You
5. Mera's Secret Job - Brightest Day #6
While it is technically a retcon, one of the coolest things about the Brightest Day series is that it shows us that everything we knew about Mera before was, in fact, a trick.
As, in the comic, we learn that the wife of Aquaman and queen of Atlantis was in fact supposed to kill him when they first met, as she was at the time a Xebel assassin. Despite being sent specifically to murder Aquaman, she refused to do so upon meeting him, which would then result in the two growing closer and eventually getting married.
Wildly, Aquaman doesn't seem to mind this revelation, despite the fact that it means that she's been concealing this pretty important fact from him for actual years. Love conquers even lies from assassins, it seems.