Shazam!
Warning : This article control SPOILERS forShazam !
TheShazam!movie has rise a hit , and a sequel is already on the sensible horizon . But before fans get delirious to seeBlack Adamas the baddie ofShazam 2 , the first movie show that he might end up play the hero instead .
Since the pic slay theaters without Shazam ’s most iconic bane , the reasons for his exclusion have become clearer . Simply put , The Rock is the rationality Black Adam missedShazam ! , after Dwayne Johnson implied that he work out it was the best move . He has also reassured fan thattheBlack Adammovie begin shootingsooner rather than later , telling the rootage story of the villain / antihero . And while some fans might claim that Billy has finally proven himself capable of take on Adam in his second film , the existent result ofShazam!say otherwise . Billy Batson does n’t need a baddie – he ’s plausibly going to require Black Adam’shelp .
Shazam Reveals Black Adam’s Origin Story
Dwayne Johnson may not appear in the movie , but that does n’t entail his character Black Adam is n’t a key players in the events that lead to the film . Just in slip casual fans missed the references , we ’ll remind them of the chronicle lesson offer to Billy Batson by the thaumaturge Shazam . With a shaft of his faculty magical sparkle flesh out the world that was , as Shazam recount the fall of the Council of Wizards :
" Long ago we chose a champion … and we chose recklessly . He used his great power for revenge , release the Seven Deadly Sins into your cosmos . billion of lives were recede . Entire civilizations erased from beingness . "
It ’s a obscure reference , but those who fuck the laughable book upon which the film is based also have intercourse that the poorly chosen champion is none other than Black Adam . However , fans should do some thinking before they take the Wizard Shazam at his word . Not necessarily on the fact of his report – Black Adam did result in the destruction of the Council of Wizards in every version of the account – but the morality and judgment he passes may not be unflawed . After all , the movie demonstrates how his fell discourse of an abused tike shew to be his untying .
Not to name that Black Adam ’s betrayal is specifically relate to as ' retaliation . ' That demand an explanation , and his solo picture is almost sure enough fit to deliver . In the process , showing that the Wizard Shazam was n’t enjoin the whole story .
Black Adam’s Movie Can Make Him an Antihero
The version of Black Adam waging wars in the DC Comics Universe may be grueling to stamp into anything but a supervillain … but that ’s not just the same Adam that Geoff Johns write into his newShazam!origin comic . In that version of the story Adam returned as the premature maven , being see as brutal and extremist only due to the world he had know in before being engage away for millennia . His criminal offense ? He want retaliation upon the peasant who had conquered , enslaved , tormented , and slaughtered his Carry Nation ’s the great unwashed … including his crony and babe .
To get it , he became a despicable villain . But the mvoe interpretation of his story would n’t have to change much to get the point across . The wizard Shazam was right : Adam sought revenge , and unfreeze the Sins to get it . But if his motives persist the same – to take retaliation for the deadened , and subject those who would enslave the innocent to the horror of their own sins – well , quite a little of retaliation movies and iconic antihero are based on less stately or understandable movement .
Assuming that ’s the level tell in The Rock’sBlack Adammovie , it would n’t make much common sense for him to come forth as the villain of Shazam 2 . At least not when the biggest threat to the world is n’t himself , Dr. Sivana , or even illusion … it ’s Billy Batson and his new family of superhero sibling .
pageboy 2 : Shazam 2 ’s Biggest Threat is n’t Black Adam , It ’s Billy
Billy Doesn’t Understand His Own Magic
It wo n’t be news to any watcher to say that Billy Batson does n’t have the first idea about how his powers work out , where they amount from , or the true range of their abilities . In fact , a good chunk of the motion picture is devoted to Billy and Freddy cataloging his mightiness based purely on trial and error . And along the way , Billy cease up causing as much trouble as he resolve .
block wipeout of prop , inflicting harm on criminals without even deciding to , and the worked up torment of seeing a humans come flying into the windows of an business office edifice . Billy shoots a bolt of lightning forthwith from his bridge player into the sky , only to watch it discharge onto a bus filled with rider ( whose lives he technically saves ) . So as thrilling as it may be to see him share his world power with a family of wizard paladin … that seems doomed to leave in six times the risk and accidental disaster .
By the end of the moving picture Billy comes to interpret the dead on target aim of his powers , sharing them with his family by " opening his centre " and produce almost enough champions to take the seven empty Thrones . But even if Billy instruct a great lesson , he never actually learns therules . And from the tone of thing in the Rock of Eternity , the necromancer was doing a lot more than just sitting and waiting . If the surprisal cameo ofthree classic Crocodile Men inShazam!is the unmediated tease of the Wildlands – one of seven other magical region Billy and his siblings must oversee – then the sequel history is starting to take form . There ’s just one problem : Billy and his foster sibling have no idea what they ’re doing .
Black Adam May Be Their Only Hope
When the kids run through the dateless manor hall and doorways of the Rock of Eternity , the surprises they find make one thing utterly clear : the world of deception existing out of persuasion of the quietus of the DC picture universe is wide , weird , and wildly beyond the understanding of Billy , Mary , Freddy , Darla , Eugene , and Pedro . In the comic ledger version of their origin , the kids only had to worry about the death of the wizard Shazam allow Black Adam to escape his yr of imprisonment . Now that the movie makes the Rock of Eternity not only a nexus , but the " source of all magic " in the DCEU , all bets are off .
Interestingly enoughShazam!makes a direct connection toSuicide Squad , and it was in that pic that Enchantress warned about trick returning to the world bit by bit . If the death of the ace has founder the dam in film as it did in the strip , audiences can take their selection for the next threat . Will it be Dr. Sivana ? The newly escaped Mr. Mind ? The terrible inhabitants of the Monsterlands ?
Whatever the answer may be , Black Adam will know more about how to set things right than Billy ever could . As hellbent on his revenge , or as brutal in his penalty of those who enslave as Adam may be , he is n’t malevolent for immorality ’s sake . And certainly not compared to the other threats that would put his own magical big businessman in jeopardy . Threats that only survive because Billy and his siblings do n’t truly grasp the power they ’re consider with … ca-ca him the only fortune they have , and as far from a villain or enemy as one can get .
At least , that ’s the choice that the movie maker could make . But we wo n’t know more until Black Adam makes his debut in a movie of his own . But if other word starts to draw Adam as misunderstood , misguided , or but mistaken more than evil , unlettered , or homicidal ? Then the studio may see the electric potential for an unbelievable squad - up inShazam 2 , as match to another lightning - fueled fistfight .
MORE : Everything We Know About Shazam 2
