Shazam!
Six heroes obtain the powers of god inShazam ! , but the moving-picture show may be hide a seventh champion . This character ’s identity was never been suggest at in the pic , but the comic script and future plans for the DC Extended Universe could indicate that the seventh ace is Dwayne Johnson’sBlack Adam .
Shazam!introduced magic to the DCEU in the commencement of the movie when a youngDr . Sivana ( Mark Strong)is summoned to a mystical realm where he encounters the wizard , Shazam ( Djimon Hounsou ) , who explain that he ’s searching for someone pure of heart to become his hotshot . Sivana is finally refuse , but eld later he hark back and releases the Seven Deadly Sins . Afterward , Billy Batson ( Asher Angel ) is choose by Shazam to be the new maven . The process transubstantiate him into a A-one - powered , costumed fighter , played by Zachary Levi .
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The DCEU may soon explore the mythology a bit deeper when it releasesBlack Adam , a pic star Dwayne Johnson as the titular character . While Shazam is typically depicted as a righteous Heron , Black Adam is much less heroic . Originally arrange to come along inShazam ! , Dwayne Johnson ’s character will now welcome his own solo motion picture . direct by Jaume Collett - Serra from a book written by Adam Sztykiel , Black Adamhas been in developing for yearsbut has finally been fall in a departure day of the month . In what wayBlack Adamwill connect toShazam!hasn’t been confirmed , but it could relate like a shot to the presence of a 7th throne at the Rock of Eternity inShazam ! .
There’s A Missing Seventh Champion In Shazam!
Shazam was n’t the only Wizard guarding the Rock of Eternity . He told Billy that there were seven of them , and that the others were killed over the years by the Seven Deadly Sins . This explain why there areseven can at the Rock of Eternity . Each throne is meant for a unlike Wizard . Interesting , the number " seven " is repeat numerous times and for a wide variety of reasons . However , despite the importance of the number there are only six admirer who fight Sivana in the climax of the film .
When Shazam select to create new champion , he dedicate his power to the other child in his foster home . Just as the Wizard did for him , Shazam grant the powers of Solomon , Hercules , Atlas , Zeus , Achilles , and Mercury to Freddy ( Jack Dylan Grazer ) , Darla ( Faithe Herman ) , Mary ( Grace Fulton ) , Eugene ( Ian Chen ) , and Pedro ( Jovan Arvand ) . This only sum up to six champions in amount , so who ’s think to sit in the seventh throne ? It ’s potential that there may never be a seventh adept , since Djimon Hounsou ’s character is dead . Or , it could think of that the 7th whiz has n’t been create . A third potential explanation is that this person already exists . If so , why did n’t he fall in the Wizard at the Rock of Eternity or aid Shazam fight the Seven Deadly Sins ?
Black Adam Was The First, Rogue Champion
As a Wizard who has subsist for millennia , it makes mother wit that Billy Batson would n’t be the first person he could find who was pure enough to be yield thepowers of Shazam . There was a prison term in ancient Egypt when Shazam found a young mankind who he wrongly believed was the perfect candidate . This was even hinted at towards the start of the film , when the Wizard was briefly explaining the history of the Council of Wizards .
In the pages ofMarvel Family # 1 in 1945 , Black Adam first appeared as Teth - Adam , an ancient Egyptian who was choose by the Wizard Shazam to become his heir . Like the current Shazam , Adam was selected due to being pure of heart . After being granted super powers , Adam went through a shift like to Billy ’s , except Adam hold out a inglorious costume . He also possess the mogul of the Egyptian divinity , instead of the Grecian gods . alas , the powers had a negative upshot on Adam ’s ethical motive . Adam appropriate his raw abilities to corrupt him . feature access code to such unbelievable power led Adam to believe that he should rule the world . Adam vote out the Pharaoh of Egypt and seized control of Egypt . As a result , Adam pull in the wrath of Shazam , who was disgusted by the activeness of the soul who he hop would become his successor .
Shazam agnize that Adam was the wrong choice , but it was too tardy to take back the power he had give Teth - Adam . Shazam understood that the power transfer could n’t be undo , so he banish Adam to a distant galaxy . It remove Adam thousands of yr to make his way back to Earth . When he last returned , his competition with the new Shazam commence .
Is Black Adam The Seventh Champion?
It ’s possible that the lack seventh champion is Black Adam . This would neatly tieBlack AdamtoShazam ! , with the Wizard Shazam being the reference that connect them together . In fact , it may even be necessary for Black Adam to be the seventh champion , especially if DC Films has any design of accurately adapting Black Adam ’s bloodline account . Unless for some reasonBlack Adamdeviates from the comics in a Brobdingnagian way , the character reference will receive his power from Shazam , just like Billy Batson . It ’s been hint thatDwayne Johnson ’s take on Black Adam will be a paladin , but it could be that this was n’t always the sheath .
If the DCEU ’s Black Adam did anything that made him fall out of the Wizard ’s adept graces , he could have been punished in a mode that ’s similar to what happened to his comic similitude . The comical account book version of Black Adam was banished so far from Earth that it conduct 5,000 years for him to fly his fashion back home . If this were to happen in the movie , it would explain why the seventh Wizard was never around and why he was never put back like the others . As it is with the comics , it could be that Shazam could n’t take aside Black Adam ’s powers . If Black Adam is immortal and already exists in the DCEU - which seems likely , based on his history in the comics - then Black Adam should still be one of the seven champions .
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