Shazam!
Warning : SPOILERS forShazam !
Here ’s every ( forged ) codename Freddy Freeman ( Jack Dylan Grazer ) calls the superhero fiddle byZachary LeviinShazam!DirectorDavid F. Sandberg ’s DCEU film has a lot of fun with what it ’s like for 14 - year - sometime Billy Batson ( Asher Angel ) to unexpectedly receive the magical might of an ancient sensation ( Djimon Hounsou ) and become a mighty superhero , but one of Billy ’s challenges is come up with a worthy superhero name .
In the strip , Shazam has gone by legion names . When he was produce in 1940 , the superhero was first called " Captain Thunder " before it was changed to " Captain Marvelous " and then shortened to Captain Marvel - and yes , the hero cognize today as Shazam was the original Captain Marvel decade before Marvel Comics’Captain Marveladopted the name . The original Captain Marvel was also nickname " The large Red Cheese " .
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When DC Comics acquired the rights to Shazam tenner afterward , they dub the zep " The World ’s Mightiest Mortal " to help severalize him fromSuperman . When he was boot by Geoff Johns and Gary Frank in 2012 , the superhero ’s name was formally changed to Shazam . Amusingly , theShazam!movie has its variant of playfulness with the puzzling ordeal over what to call the red - raiment superhero .
After he get his power , Billy naturally turns to Freddy , the only somebody he fuck who ’s an expert on superheroes - Freddy collectsJustice League merchand is a true fanboy . Along with staging multiple screaming tests of Billy ’s powers , which he then upload onto YouTube , it became Freddy ’s commission to come up with Billy ’s superhero name . At one point , Billy lamented that he did n’t get to choosehis costumeor his power , but he also never quite settle on a memorable codename . For his part , Freddy turns out to be a great sidekick and even serves as Billy ’s moral ambit , but Freddy simply never comes up with a catchy codename for Billy - not that he did n’t try out .
Freddy terminate up leaning into gross fatuousness when trying to give Billy a codename and no self - prise superhero would actually go by most of Freddy ’s name suggestion . Meanwhile , Shazam!winks at how these names are n’t just what a kid would woolgather up , but the motion-picture show is also subliminally conscious that the best supernames are already engage , not just by the superheroes that already exist in the DCEU but also by whatever characters survive in the fabrication of their public ( Captain America , for lesson ) . While the Wizard ’s Champion is call just that by his nemesisDr . Sivana(Mark Strong ) , here are the hilariously awful public figure Freddy came up with :
Most of Freddy ’s ideas are inspired by the glow lightning dash on Shazam ’s chest and his electrical energy . Red Cyclone is one of the basal gens Freddy used when he upload the YouTube clips of their various tests of Shazam ’s powers ; it ’s the codename the kidskin at Fawcett High School know Shazam as and it ’s candidly the plectrum of the bedding . Meanwhile , Freddy rattle off some of the really bad name like Sir Zaps - A - good deal stream - of - consciousness - style while he panic in front of the school bullies , and Captain Sparklefingers is asubtle joke aboutCaptain Marvel . To others in Philadelphia , however , Shazam is broadly speaking known as that " Superhero Guy " .
Strangely , Shazam is never referred to by other of his comic book nicknames , " The Big Red Cheese " or " The World ’s Mightiest Mortal " . Meanwhile , one of the best jokes inShazam!is when he asks the rest period of the kids in his group home to hold onto the Wizard ’s wizard staff and,“Say my name!“Naturally , Mary ( Grace Fulton ) , Darla ( Faithe Herman ) , Eugene ( Ian Chen ) , Pedro ( Jovan Armand ) , Freddy all say"BILLY!“And now that Billy has been joined by theShazam Family , it seems like all of them will continue to contend with what superhero names they ’ll be known by as well .
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