Who Is The Little Mermaid? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

The Little Mermaid is a In the Public Domain comic book character, with over 57 comic issue appearances. From the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

Who is The Little Mermaid?

In Grimm Fairy Tales the character is used to show the dangers of exploiting the female body at the expense of their minds. The Little Mermaid is contrasted against a young woman whose mother is being manipulated by Belinda. The young woman has lived in poverty her whole life but her mother thinks it is time that she start paying her back for her own years of suffering. Despite the fact that the young woman is working hard in university, her mother insists that she try to seduce a professional basketball player. The story has some similarities to the classic fairy tale though with some changes. The Little Mermaid comes to shipwreck and while her fellow mermaids drag the victims to a watery death, she saves the prince from drowning and desperate to enter the world of men she makes a deal with the Sea Witch to exchange her voice for a pair of legs. She meets again the prince and is wooed by him but without a voice she cannot convey her love to him. She instead has sex with him to show her love, but afterwards she discovers that he has sex with any woman he can find.

Key facts

The Little Mermaid is of other origin. The character is published by In the Public Domain. With 57 recorded issue appearances, The Little Mermaid ranks among the most featured characters in comics.