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'''''Shazam!''''' is a 2019 superhero comedy film in the [[DC Extended Universe]], directed by David F. Sandberg and starring |
'''''Shazam!''''' is a 2019 superhero comedy film in the [[DC Extended Universe]], directed by David F. Sandberg and starring Asher Angel and Zachery Levi as Billy Batson/Shazam. It is based on the DC character of the same name. |
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It's Christmastime in Philadelphia. Billy Batson -- a fourteen-year-old orphan stuck in the foster child system, dedicated to finding his birth mother, from whom he was separated ten years earlier -- is brought to the extradimensional Rock of Eternity by an ancient wizard, who has chosen him to be a champion and the inheritor of his power. To gain the use of this power, Billy must speak the wizard's name -- Shazam. Doing so empowers him but also ends the wizard's life. Billy returns to earth with no guidance for his new powers, and does little of worth with them until he comes face-to-face with a Thaddeus Sivana, a rejected former candidate as the wizard's champion, who has allied himself with the embodied forces of evil once imprisoned at the Rock. |
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* [[Big Bad]]: Doctor Sivana. |
* [[Big Bad]]: Doctor Sivana. |
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* [[The Cameo]]: [[Dwayne Johnson]] appears briefly as a hologram of Teth-Adam, an earlier champion and the main character of the spin-off film ''[[Black Adam]]''. |
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** Averted with Superman, who was played by Zachary Levi's stunt double. |
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* [[Cluster Bleep Bomb]]: A mall Santa was so excited that he swore |
* [[Cluster Bleep Bomb]]: A mall Santa was so excited that he swore about the Seven Deadly Sins. |
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* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Billy asked his family to say his name, but instead of saying Shazam |
* [[Comically Missing the Point]]: Billy asked his family to say his name, but instead of saying "Shazam", they yelled "Billy" instead. |
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* [[Denser and Wackier]]: The film is more cartoony than the previous DCEU films given it has a wizard and a size-changing boy. |
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* [[Continuity Cameo]]: Superman appears at the very end with Shazam and Freddy at school. Unfortunately, you don't see his face. |
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* [[Denser and Wackier]]: The film is more cartoony than the previous DCEU films. |
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* [[Reconstruction]]: Of the Superman mythology. |
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* [[Mythology Gag]]: The [[John Williams]] ''Superman'' theme was heard during Superman's cameo. |
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* [[Say My Name]]: Billy has to say the wizard's name to change his form. |
* [[Say My Name]]: Billy has to say the wizard's name to change his form. |
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* [[Shout-Out]]: |
* [[Shout-Out]]: |