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With Black Adam, Dwayne Johnson is at last entering the DCEU. Although the character has been existing for more than 75 years and is included in the movie's promos and the actual film, he isn't one of DC's most well-known figures. Black Adam has been the protagonist of some of DC's finest stories over the past 20 years and is undoubtedly the most complicated (and brutal) Shazam character to emerge. He has grown to be one of DC's greatest anti-heroes—a deity with a fierce sense of honor and a limitless capacity for violence.
But why is one of today's top action performers so keen to play Black Adam, and what makes him so tough? This is due to the fact that he also possesses the Shazam magic word, which endows him with a powerful personality and a unique set of skills.
Black Adam Powers and Abilities: The Shazam Connection
A collection of gods and heroes, largely from the Greco-Roman tradition, are represented by the acronym Shazam. When Billy Batson utters the fabled magic phrase, he is endowed with the knowledge of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the stamina of Atlas, the might of Zeus, the courage of Achilles, and the speed of Mercury, on the more conventionally heroic end of things. These are fairly self-explanatory, however when Black Adam uses the magic phrase, he draws strength from a different pantheon.
For Black Adam, the magic word of Shazam stands for the Stamina of Shu, the swiftness of Heru, the strength of Amon, the wisdom of Zehuti, the power of Aton, and the courage of Mehen. We'll just assume that "stamina" manifests as near-invulnerability for the purposes of superhero fiction, which means that Adam (or other Shazam family members) can withstand roughly the same amount of harm as Superman.
For the record, the gods of Ancient Egyptian mythology aren't as closely associated with certain functions as their Greek or Roman equivalents. Shu, however, has a reputation for being compared to Atlas (perhaps because he is linked to the area between the ground and the sky), which explains the "stamina" that he bestows to Black Adam.
Heru's agility—well, you may be more familiar with Heru as Horus, the sky deity of ancient Egypt. Though perhaps not in the same way as Mercury, Adam was designed with speed in mind, so that is what we have. In any event, Black Adam's moniker bestows the usual superhero super speed. But neither he nor Shazam are as quick as the Flash, and they could be about as quick as Superman. It's frequently said that his "swiftness" is what also allows him to fly.
One of the most significant deities in the pantheon of Ancient Egypt was Amun, who bestows Adam with his superhuman power. The power of Black Adam? He can, in fact, compete with Superman, at least in the comics, and Dwayne Johnson frequently makes reference to it.
If you consider of Zehuti as Thoth, who was the god of wisdom, science, writing, and other things, the wisdom of Zehuti makes more sense. Anyway, similar to Billy's "knowledge of Solomon" attribute, it's difficult to define what this all means for Black Adam, but there is some truth to it as he has been "smart" enough to dominate the country of Kahndaq (he is, as you might guess, a bit of a strongman).
Aton is essentially the sun deity, a more abstract version of the Greco-Roman Apollo. The Shazam counterpart of this is "the power of Zeus," which is typically portrayed as the character's new addition of lightning powers and resilience to magical assaults. And sure, as we see in the film, Black Adam isn't afraid to burn his opponents alive with his lightning-based skills.
Shazam's "courage of Achilles" is analogous to the "courage of Mehen." Of fact, the serpent deity Mehen is less frequently linked with bravery than the Greek hero Achilles, especially in war. Even though Black Adam isn't exactly a decent man, he does have a set of moral principles that he follows, even though they probably don't exactly line up with those of other heroes. Nevertheless, don't expect him to back down from a battle.
Black Adam Weaknesses
From a distance, Black Adam could seem like an absurdly powerful character. For crying out loud, the guy is about as powerful, fierce, and quick as Superman! He can however, be defeated. He can be defeated by a stronger person, for starters. There aren't many of these, but it is possible.
He is furthermore prone to magic, to start with. Given that his abilities are based on magic, it makes logical. He has frequently had his abilities stripped away by crafty wizards, heroes, and sorcerers throughout DC history, as you can see from the history section below. Sometimes, all it took was fooling him into speaking his magic phrase, which turned him back into a human and left him open to assault.
Adam found himself on the wrong end of none other than Darkseid himself in the most recent (and seriously awesome) Black Adam comics series by Christopher Priest and Rafa Sandoval. Darkseid's cosmic power left the antihero with a kind of cosmic necrosis that is eating his physical form and killing him. So yes, Black Adam is challenging, but it is defeatable!
What about the background of the character? We appreciate you asking!
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The Early Days of Black Adam
Black Adam initially debuted in a story written by Otto Binder and C. C. Beck, the man behind everything Shazam, in 1945. Adam was introduced as an ancient pharaoh in his debut tale and the first mortal to be endowed with Shazam abilities. Teth-Adam, who the Wizard renames "Mighty Adam," becomes corrupted by the Shazam abilities. After wreaking havoc over Ancient Egypt, the Wizard renames him "Black Adam" and banishes him into space.
The Shazam powers had been given to Billy Batson, Freddy Freeman, and Mary Batson when Adam returned in the present day. A genuine epic ensued as Black Adam was eventually fooled into speaking the Shazam magic word and transformed back into Teth-Adam. Unfortunately for old Teth, he is now 5,000 years old and quickly disintegrates into dust. Yikes!
Strangely, this was Black Adam's sole appearance for decades, considering how significant a villain he was. When DC Comics brought back Shazam in the 1970s, Black Adam made a comeback courtesy to Dr. Sivana's Reincarnation Machine (why not? ), joined the DC Universe, and occasionally made cameo appearances in publications like DC Comics Presents to fight Shazam and Superman. But Black Adam wouldn't understand his entire potential until 1994.
Power of Shazam
In Jerry Ordway's The Power of Shazam, which established that Teth-Adam was one of the finest warriors serving Pharaoh Rameses II and capturing the notice of the Wizard who grants him abilities, the contemporary Black Adam makes his debut. For many years, Adam guards Egypt before becoming perverted by the demonic force known as Blaze. After the whole "seduced by a demonic succubus" incident, the Wizard takes Adam of his power and encases Black Adam's power in a scarab (as one does).
The main lesson from this is that the writer/artist was the first to establish Black Adam as a once-honorable soul, apart from the fact that Ordway's Shazam was beyond great. Black Adam was Egypt's greatest champion, and in the early days of the DC Universe (DCU), up until he was corrupted by Blaze, he was the epitome of valor. As he rises as a champion and falls as a depraved soul who murders the family of a little kid who is meant to be a hero, Black Adam's story has nearly biblical proportions. Although it's a different perspective from what we see in the film, it's still a significant turning point for the character.
Black Adam-A True Anti-Hero
Under authors Geoff Johns and David S. Goyer and illustrator Marcos Martin in the pages of JSA, Black Adam would finally enter his time as a sinister guardian, murderous ruler, and multifaceted anti-hero. Adam teams up with JSA bad guy Johnny Sorrow (if Sorrow stares at you, you die, it's serious) and nearly overthrows the JSA until Teth-Adam, Black Adam's natural nature, makes a comeback. He aids the JSA in defeating Sorrow, and a contrite Adam requests to join the first super team ever.
You can understand why the JSA characters were chosen for the film; after all, at this point in the character's backstory, things start to become very fantastic. Black Adam demonstrates that he is all about the strict biblical justice of old as the head of his own country. The location of Adam's origin is changed from Egypt to the hypothetical North African country of Kahndaq in this narrative, which retcons a few details from The Power of Shazam. Additionally, the authors link Adam to Hawkman because he served with Prince Khufu, a character from one of the hero's previous lifetimes.
Additionally, they change Adam's origin story, removing the "corrupted by Blaze" components and substituting Ahk-ton and the immortal Vandal Savage's conquest of Kahndaq. Adam's family is killed when Kahndaq is captured. Black Adam returns to Kahndaq and exacts retribution on the invaders out of a desire for revenge and the welfare of his people. The Wizard is shocked by the intensity of the violence, so he kills Black Adam and takes his abilities. That kind of material is gloomy. By changing his birth story, Black Adam lost his genuine wicked nature and became more like Magneto or Namor, two Marvel heroes who will stop at nothing to defend their communities.
As a result of Adam's greatest flaw, his ego, relations between him and the JSA eventually get strained (you can see this even in the trailers for the new movie). Adam disagrees with the Justice Society because he thinks that in order to stop potential dangers, the heroes should just murder the bad guys they encounter. Eventually, Adam does establish permanent bonds with JSA members, notably Atom Smasher.
The Black Adam Family
While Billy Batson has always had his own Shazam family, Black Adam acquires a family of his own in the Grant Morrison, Geoff Johns, Greg Rucka, Mark Waid, and Keith Giffen series 52 (2006). But boy, does the Black Adam narrative finish tragically, as do many of its chapters.
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In episode 52, a band of outlaws known as Intergang offered Adrianna Tomaz, a slave lady, to Black Adam, the king of Kahndaq. Black Adam brutally murders the group because he doesn't like slavery. He falls in love with Tomaz and even gives her access to his superhuman abilities, turning her into the Isis hero (a nod to Saturday mornings of yore as the character Isis used to share a live action programming block with Shazam back in the 1970s).
The couple eventually comes across Tomaz's brother Amon, who has been beaten horribly and is now dying. Black Adam imparts his abilities to the youngster who would become Kid Osiris. Everything seems wonderful until a talking, bipedal crocodile eats Kid Osiris (comics are amazing). Later, Isis is also slain, and as she passes away, she tells Adam that he should exact revenge on her because she was wrong to attempt to soften him. And Black Adam accomplishes exactly that, unleashing a global killing spree that includes a number of foreign heroes, until the DCU's mystic heroes drain Adam of his abilities as Billy modifies the magic phrase that gives Black Adam his mystic strength.
That has all changed, of course, with Adam being in authority in Kahndaq in more recent comics, such the phenomenally successful Black Adam series currently running by Christopher Priest and Rafa Sandoval. He spends a lot of time here in human form, and his Teth-Adam is a mysterious, worldly character with a definite Dracula aura. In addition, he is once more dispersing his powers, but that is an other tale.