Shazam!
Warning : MAJOR SPOILERS in advance forShazam
Shazamis now in field , and while the trailer have present off some funny and epic moments , there are still plenty of surprises in store for audiences . Avoiding spoilers for upcoming picture is n’t always easy , and test screenings forShazamled to one major cameo in particular being unwrap early . However , from the secret villains of the movie to the reveal of the Shazam Family and their powers , the motion-picture show has managed to keep some of the cool second under wrapping .
Directed by David F. Sandberg , Shazamstars Asher Angel as Billy Batson , a troublesome surrogate kid who keep back hightail it away from homes in search of his biological mother . He ’s given another chance with a novel surrogate family , and after a here and now of braveness is whisked away to the Rock of Eternity , where a herculean wizard ( Djimon Hounsou ) gifts him with incredible might . By saying the word " Shazam ! " Billy is transformed into an adult superhero ( Zachary Levi ) , gross with a snazzy costume , super - speed , lightning power , near - invulnerability , and a host of other world power . With the service of his new foster comrade , Freddy Freeman ( Jack Dylan Grazer ) , Billy tries to get to clasp with his newfound ability and figure out what kind of superhero he ’s going to be .
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Unfortunately , the malefic Doctor Sivana ( Mark Strong ) has acquire some power of his own , and will now stop at nothing to vote out the mavin ’s champion and steal Shazam ’s exponent for himself . Here ’s our dislocation of the biggest spoilers , surprises , twists and turn inShazam .
The Movie Opens With Dr. Sivana’s Origins
While Billy Batson and the Shazam family are the heart ofShazam , we do n’t actually meet Billy until after the film ’s opening deed of conveyance . The very first scene inShazamisn’t Billy ’s origin news report , but Doctor Sivana ’s . We see a young Sivana playing with a Magic 8 formal in the back of a elevator car , with his bullying father and chum in the front buns , when all of a sudden he ’s transport to the Rock of Eternity . With incredible might within his grasp , immature Sivana fails a mental test to see whether he ’s pure of middle - reach out to try and steal the Eye of Sin when tempt by the Seven Deadly Sins . The necromancer sends Sivana away again , and his ensue junky - out resultant role in a car clank that depart his father paralyze .
The Seven Deadly Sins Are Shazam’s Real Villains
Shazam ’s trailers did a good job of hide the moving picture ’s real villains : the Seven Deadly Sins . These being are trapped inside statue on the Rock of Eternity , and are held captive there by ace - whose numbers have been whittled down until just one is left . When Sivana in the end return to the Rock of Eternity he set the Eye of Sin - a glowing eyeball to which the Seven Deadly Sins are connected - into his own headway . While Sivana retrieve that he ’s in control and has amassed great superpower , the world is that he ’s just a pawn being used by the Seven Deadly Sins . Each of these monstrous existence can emerge from Sivana and take on either a self-colored or smoky signifier , making them unmanageable to fight down . With each wickedness that get out , Sivana ’s powers become weaker , but the hardest Sin of all to separate from him is Envy . It ’s not until the terminal of the movie that Shazam is finally capable to draw Envy out - and go out Sivana helpless .
Black Adam Has a Flashback Cameo
It ’s now been more than a decade since Dwayne Johnson ’s name was first attached to the theatrical role Black Adam , and he ’s set to star in his ownBlack Adamsolo motion picture . However , while Black Adam was at one pointedness going to be the main antagonist ofShazam , his role in the motion-picture show is limited to a cameo appearance ( not performed by Johnson ) . The wizard explains that at many age ago the council choose a unlike champion , but that he mistreat his powers and used them for wickedness , loose the Seven Deadly Sins upon the world . He illustrates this story with a glowing hologram of a character that is surely Black Adam , setting the baddie up for a likely continuation show .
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Billy’s Mother Left Him on Purpose
Billy ’s primary destination for much ofShazamis to chase after down his birth female parent , from whom he was separated after he got lost at a carnival . Billy repeatedly runs forth from foster homes in search of his female parent , track down every Rachel Batson in the city , but he does n’t actually find her until he let help from his surrogate crony , Eugene . Billy finds out that his female parent retrovert to her maid name , which is why he was ineffective to find her , but when he finally tracks her down he gets an unpleasant shock : his female parent left him behind on design .
As a young single female parent ( Billy ’s father was in prison house ) , Rachel felt ill - equipped to recruit untested Billy , and though she searched for him frantically at first , when she saw him being ask care of by police police officer at the carnival she make he had a luck for a good future … and just walked aside . Instead of receive him with open weaponry , Billy ’s female parent nervously keeps him out of sight of her angry boyfriend , and does n’t even think back the compass she gave him . Though he is obviously upset that his dreaming of coming home to a loving , caring female parent did n’t descend lawful , Billy is capable to make serenity with being allow for behind . He give her the reach as a part giving , and returns to his foster household .
Billy Shares His Powers to Create the Shazam Family
Doctor Sivana ’s goal inShazamis to squeeze Billy to channel his powers using the wizard ’s staff , so that he can add the powers of the star to his already formidable abilities as host of the Seven Deadly Sins . In the moving-picture show ’s last struggle scene , Sivana threatens to kill Billy ’s foster siblings unless he hand over his power - but this give Billy an idea . Instead of throw his power to Sivana , Billy gets his newfound family to invest their hands on the wizard ’s faculty and say " Shazam ! " - thereby stagger his world power among them and creatingthe Shazam Family(or " Shazamily , " to adopt the movie ’s official hashtag ) . Each of Billy ’s siblings specializes in one of his powers ; for exercise , Freddy can vanish , Darla gets tops - speed , and Pedro flummox super - strength . At the end of the movie , the Shazam Family embrace the Rock of Eternity as their superhero lair , with each taking up a seat at the Council of Wizards .
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Shazam Locks Up The Seven Deadly Sins
Once the Shazam Family has guide out and distracted six of the Seven Deadly Sins , Shazam and Sivana take part in a fly battle across the city and end up on a rooftop . There , Shazam figures out that the only Sin that never comes out is Envy , and rag it to draw it out of Sivana , before hitting it with his transformative lightning bolt to stupefy it . Dragging Sivana back to the funfair , Shazam pulls out the Eye of Sin , take in all of the Seven Deadly Sins back into it . He restores it to its original situation in the Rock of Eternity , and the statue of the Seven Deadly Sins reconstruct themselves , locking the monsters up once more .
Superman Has a Cameo at the End
This freebooter unluckily receive out beforeShazam ’s loss , but if you manage to avoid it , it ’s one of the best moments of the movie . After Billy forget to show up at school in costume to prove that Shazam is friends with Freddy , leaving Freddy humiliated , Billy makes it up to him - and then some . Not only does Shazam show up to have lunch with Freddy and his foster family , he alsobrings along a champion : Superman!We do n’t really see Superman ’s brass , just his body from the neck opening down , but Freddy is course tout away to see one of his favourite superheroes in the flesh . The movie stop on this Superman cameo , then skip over into the inspire credits sequence .
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The Credits Feature Justice League Members
There are references to theJustice Leaguemembers throughoutShazam , since Freddy is a superhero mega - fan . He possess a slug that bounced off Superman ’s body ( until Billy accidentally send away it down a drain ) , has a replica batarang , and a wide survival of the fittest of MT - shirts with superhero Word on them . The Justice League themselves show up in animate form in the movie ’s renovate end - credits sequence , which feature a number of sport phantasy scenarios - from Billy using the Batmobile to take Wonder Woman to the prom , to Darla having a race with the Flash . But , as with many superhero movies , thing are n’t over just because the credits are rolling .
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Aquaman is Referenced in the Post-Credits Scene
If you stick around to the very end ofShazam ’s credit you ’ll get a post - credits fit that was actually show ( in part ) inthe Taiwanese laggard for the movie . In another one of Freddy ’s tests of Billy ’s Shazam superpowers , Billy pretends to be speak telepathically to a goldfish . After a while , though , he admits that he was just kid , and interview what coolheaded things they could maybe do with the world power of sing to Pisces . Freddy , pointing out the Aquaman T - shirt he ’s currently wearing , comeback , " peradventure command an United States Army of trillion in the ocean ? " - and Billy concedes the point . Batman also mock Aquaman for talk to fish inJustice League , and young Arthur Curry was mocked by his schoolmates inAquamanfor spill the beans to fish as well . The poor bozo just ca n’t get a break .
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