After going through several candidates, he finally chose Billy, who helped him realize that no one's heart is truly pure, but knew that the boy has potential to be good. In the present day, he is the only member of the council who hadn't been killed by Black Adam, and knowing he was near death, he attempted to find a person with purity of heart to inherit his power. In the New 52, the wizard is one of seven beings who controlled magic in ancient times. ![]() Though dead, his spirit remained connected to his lair the Rock of Eternity (where he safeguarded the Seven Deadly Sins and other captured mystical threats), and he served as a mentor to Billy and the rest of the Marvel Family. That person was Billy Batson, but soon after he transformed the boy into Captain Marvel, he was killed by a falling granite block. Centuries later, now going by the name Shazam!, the wizard passed along his power to Teth-Adam, but when Adam abused his powers, it wasn't until millennia later that he decided to trust another with his power. In a story from the 1980s, it was explained that 5,000 years ago, he was a shepherd who was chosen to be the ancient superhero the Champion. The origins of the entity who gave Shazam! and Black Adam their powers are steeped in mystery. Levi also played Fandral in the last two Thor films, but this will be his first time leading a superhero movie. This isn't his first foray into the world of superhero movies, either. Though Armie Hammer had expressed interest in playing Shazam! following a social media post from The Rock, who is set to portray villain/anti-hero Black Adam, though not in this film (more on that later), we finally found out who would step in to play the odd hero for his first solo film in October 2017: Chuck star Zachary Levi. This eliminates the pesky problem of him accidentally transforming back into his child self when introducing himself in his superpowered form. Now Billy shares the same name as the being who gave him his powers, and now it's been retconned so that Billy has to say "Shazam!" with good intentions to become the superhero rather than simply say it. When the character was rebooted in 2012 as part of the New 52, writer Geoff Johns decided to rename him Shazam! since many already associated that word with the superhero. So when DC got ahold of Captain Marvel and his supporting cast in the early 1970s, although they could still call him Captain Marvel within their published stories, they couldn't publish a comic book called "Captain Marvel." As a result, the various series over the years starring him have had titles circling around the word "Shazam!" During this interim period, Marvel created their own Captain Marvel and trademarked the name. Due to a copyright infringement lawsuit from DC Comics over Captain Marvel's similarity to Superman, Fawcett Comics agreed to stop publishing stories featuring him and the other members of the Marvel Family, and they weren't seen again for nearly 20 years. The recent name change for the superhero goes back to legal troubles the character faced in the early 1950s. Each letter in "Shazam!" corresponds with one of the magical abilities Billy inherited from various Greek and Roman characters: S for the Wisdom of Solomon H for the Strength of Hercules A for the Stamina of Atlas Z for the Power of Zeus A for the Courage of Achilles and M for the Speed of Mercury. To transform back into Billy Batson, Captain Marvel just has to say the same word. Whenever Billy says the word "Shazam!", a magical lightning bolt strikes him, and he becomes the adult Captain Marvel, though he still has Billy's intellect and personality. Brought before the ancient wizard Shazam! in the Rock of Eternity, he is chosen to receive the powers of Captain Marvel because of the goodness in his heart. ![]() Orphaned at a young age, young Billy was led by a mysterious stranger through a subway tunnel. Like most comic book characters, Billy's origins have been retconned several times, but the basic premise remains the same. Shazam!, Previously Known As Captain Marvel (Zachary Levi)īilly Batson, a.k.a Captain Marvel, was created by Fawcett Comics in 1940, and at one point was considered the most popular superhero of the 1940s.
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