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One ofShazam ! ’s Easter eggs lays the rap on Lex Luthor ( Jesse Eisenberg ) for the exotic encroachment inJustice League ! Director David F. Sandberg ’s superhero fantasy will go on the more fun and hopeful DC Universe that begin whenJustice Leaguepivoted away from the sour tone establish by Zack Snyder . Now , it seems the in - world scapegoat for Steppenwolf ’s encroachment is the DCU ’s number one Big Bad , Lex Luthor himself .
ostensibly crazed when jug in Arkham and shave bald at the end ofBatman v Superman , Luthor warned Batman ( Ben Affleck ) that"the toll can not be unrung … he ’s coming!“As it turned out the ' he ' who did arrive was Steppenwolf ( not Darkseid ) , who sought to collect the three Mother Boxes and terraform the Earth into another interlingual rendition of his homeworld Apokalips . The Justice League resurrect Superman ( Henry Cavill ) and stopped Steppenwolf ’s invasion in an unnamed Russian town , but the ace team was unaware that the denuded billionaire staged an escape from Arkham . InJustice League ’s post - credits scene , Luthor recruits Deathstroke ( Joe Manganiello ) and unwrap his design to build"a conference of our own . "
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Shazam!is full of quotation toJustice Leagueand all of the DC movies that precede it . In fact , Freddy Freeman ( Jack Dylan Grazer ) , the foster brother of Billy Batson ( Asher Angel ) - who can become Shazam ( Zachary Levi ) when he says the witching word - is a superhero fanboy who has his owncollection of Justice League merch . One of Freddy ’s prized possessions is a framed copy of the Daily Planet boasting the headline"SUPERMAN IS BACK " . It ’s a very compelling Easter ball because his " Weekend Edition " of the Planet is a composite of articles identify the event of Zack Snyder ’s films .
However , the schoolbook is the really fascinating part ! In the sidebar , underneath"Alien Attack on the World"and"Russia Cleans Up " , it reads:“The Top Suspect : As a worldwide lookup begins for those responsible , specializer say other signs point to Lex Luthor and his associates . "
Laying the inculpation for Steppenwolf ’s invasion on Luthor and"his associates"sheds twinkle on some ofJustice League ’s aftermath . Luthor ’s escape was of course news ; he was alsoveryvocal about alien come when he was incarcerated so it realize gumption he is linked to the invasion . cite Luthor’s"associates"indicates that enrol for theLegion of Doomis further along than just Deathstroke ( and these are matter Batman and peradventure Cyborg must be tracking - they are in all likelihood the"specialists"noted ) .
manoeuvre the finger at Luthor and never name Steppenwolf also illustrate certain decisions that were made regarding what aspects of the trueness the League desire publicly known ; Lois Lane and Clark Kent would have known everything that happened in Russia , yet the trueness is skew . pick out to omit Steppenwolf and his Parademons ’s gens may be a choice made for security cause : it protects the closed book of Themyscira and Atlantis . To recognise the Mother Boxes means bring out the chronicle ofSteppenwolf ’s first invasionthousands of years ago , and that two of the foreign power source were cover by the Amazons and the Atlanteans - hidden culture the world does n’t even experience exists ( yet ) .
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in the end , while it may seem unfair to blame Luthor for the intrusion when he had no real bridge player in it ( that fans know of ) , this could also be strategy on the part of the League : it puts the malevolent billionaire and his malevolent friend on posting that the bomber are onto them .
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All this enjoin , it ’s deserving noting that all of this is gleaned from aShazam!prop that will likely not see more than a few seconds of blind time ; and that other excerpts of the newspaper use old and repeated copy ( the main story habituate the same text about the effect ofBatman v Superman : Dawn of Justice ) . Ultimately , Freddy ’s Daily Planet is merely a nerveless background point , but it does suggest at some potential counseling for the wider DCEU . fan wo n’t really be intimate what will really depend as canyon until Luthor and the Legion of Doom emerge inJustice League 2- but at least the groundwork for that continuation is clearly being base .
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