History Characters / DCEUPhiladelphia

* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Credited as "Breyer", while the comics previously spelled their surname "Bryer".

!!! '''Dubbed by:''' Eri Miyajima (Japanese) | Masamichi Kitada (superhero form, Japanese) | Jared Mendoza (Latin-American Spanish) | Javier Olguín (superhero form, Latin-American Spanish) | Simon Faliu (European French) | Raphael Bleau (Canadian French) | Enzo Danneman (Brazilian Portuguese) | Gil Mesquita (superhero form, Brazilian Portuguese)

!!! '''Played by:''' Jovan Armand | D.J. Cotrona (adult superhero form)

* ChivalrousPervert: Mild example. He has Billy go inside a strip club as Shazam so he can tell him what he saw. However, when he's gently lead out with a complementary basket of wings with Freddy eagerly asking if Billy saw any boobs, Billy blankly says that they'd need more money which disappoints him. Later when Billy teleports them to the strip club away from Sivana, Freddy is happily walking out covered in glitter.

* DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou: {{Deconstructed|Trope}}. Billy believes this for a large portion of the film (or rather, that it was his fault that they got separated and Marilyn had a good reason for not finding him). But when he finally finds her and moves to hug her for the first time in ten years, she doesn't return the gesture, seems more upset that this is an inconvenient time for her than happy to see the child she supposedly loved, and overall gives the impression that her claims of abandoning him so he could have a better life without her are more to justify her actions to herself. However, rather than being a heartwarming gesture, Billy is emotionally crushed and no longer sees her as his mother since he searched all those years for her for nothing.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Marilyn was a pregnant teenager who was kicked out by her parents. Her boyfriend abandoned her within three years, claiming he no longer wanted to be part of their lives and was later jailed. Overwhelmed with the stress of raising a young boy with no support, she impulsively abandoned him after seeing he was found by the police. And for the last ten years, she has apparently been in loveless relationships and a dead-end job.

* KickTheDog: When Billy meets up with her after spending the past ten years looking for her, she awkwardly refuses to engage with him as he tries to hug her.

* MissingMom: To Billy, as they've been separated for ten years.

* MultiEthnicName: His first name is American while his last name is Korean.

* ParentsAsPeople: Billy's memory of her is that of an ideal, if not perfect mom. But when he reunites with her, she has to set the record straight by telling him the harsh, yet understandable truth: she abandoned Billy due to the combined toll of a deadbeat partner, teenage pregnancy, and getting kicked out of her house for said pregnancy. While Billy is [[BrokenPedestal heartbroken by this revelation]], he magnanimously doesn't call her out on her behavior but instead leaves her behind to embrace his new family.

* HeroicWillpower:
** In ''[[Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods Fury of the Gods]]'', he is the only person shown onscreen who successfully resists Kalypso's CompellingVoice.

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* AmbiguouslyGay: He says the strip club is "not his thing", but given the context of the conversation, he could be replying to Darla claiming she liked the music in there. ''Shazamily Matters'' seemingly confirms this when Pedro fawns over a player's looks, with Pedro coming out to his family in ''Fury of the Gods'' .

!!! '''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]'' | ''Shazamily Matters'' | ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods''

!!! '''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]'' | ''Shazamily Matters'' | ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods''

!!! '''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]'' | ''Shazamily Matters'' | ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods''

!!! '''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]'' | ''Shazamily Matters'' | ''Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods''

* CultureBlind: He mistakes Freddy for Superman. To be fair, they do have a strong resemblance.

!!! '''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]''

!! Other Philadelphia Residents

[[folder:E.B. Glover]]
!!''E.B. Glover''

!!! '''Played by:''' Andi Osho
!!! '''Dubbed by:'''
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''[[Film/Shazam2019 SHAZAM!]]''

A social worker tasked with finding Billy Batson a foster home.

* CharacterOverlap: While he might have been joking, [[https://twitter.com/ponysmasher/status/1076956013306306570 according]] to David Sandberg Andi Osho's character is Emma from ''Film/LightsOut2016''.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: Arranging for Billy to live with the Vasquez couple introduces him to Freddy Freeman and the other foster kids. When Billy goes to school with them, he ends up helping them deal with two bullies, which gains the attention of Shazam and leads to Billy gaining superpowers. Billy would then hone his powers thanks to Freddy's guidance and Billy would then share his powers with the other foster kids, leading to the defeat of Dr. Sivana and the Sveen Deadly Sins. On a smaller note, this decision ended up accelerating Billy's quest to find his biological mother and redefining his character for the better.

[[folder:Marilyn Batson]]
!!''Marilyn Batson''
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!!! '''Played by:''' Caroline Palmer
!!! '''Dubbed by:''' Sayaka Kobayashi (Japanese) | Rosalba Sotelo (Latin-American Spanish) | Priscila Amorim (Brazilian Portuguese)

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Billy Batson's biological mother.

* NoodleIncident / RiddleForTheAges: How he got disabled is anyone’s guess. The only scenario that is ruled out is Freddy being thrown out a window by his foster siblings, which was a joke he told at Billy's expense.

** To Kalypso's shock, he is also able to resist Ladon's fear-inducing ability. She says that it should be impossible, indicating that no one has done so before. Given that Ladon has likely interacted with gods, demi-gods, and other superpowered beings, it's all the more impressive that Freddy, in just his human form, had the strength of character to resist.

* HypercompetentSidekick: Played with. There's no clear hierarchy among the siblings, but they are generally see Billy as their nominal leader because he was the one chosen by the Wizard. However, everyone acknowledges that Billy usually asks Mary what she thinks he should do.

* StandardizedLeader: Mary fits the trope more than Billy does, being older, wiser and more grounded with an evenly-balanced powerset, while everyone else specialises in one particular power.

*** The first time, Freddy is used as a hostage by the Daughters and then kidnapped and brought back to their realm, locked in a cell with the Wizard, forcibly interrogated with MindControl by Kalypso, and then he and the Wizard are thrown into a pit to be devoured by the dragon Ladon, surviving solely thanks to Anthea rescuing them. He's freed when his siblings show up to save him and briefly gets his powers back, only to lose them ''again'' shortly after Darla and Eugene lose theirs.
*** [[spoiler:Later, after Anne as also been BroughtDownToNormal, Kalypso and Ladon have her and Freddy cornered and are about to kill them both, if not for Billy intervening JustInTime]].

* HypocriteHasAPoint: Regardless of his own motives or actions, Freddy was right in pointing out Billy endangered civilians by showing off his powers.

* MotorMouth: He's pretty talkative and loves to gush about superheroes and other nerdy things.

* SecretlySelfish: During Billy and Freddy's fight, Freddy calls out Billy for letting his powers [[SmugSuper go to his head]] while Billy in turn calls out Freddy for trying to use his association to his powers to get popular with his classmates.

* ToxicFriendInfluence: A mild example, but he doesn't exactly discourage Billy's standoffish behavior with all those viral videos and indeed gleefully enjoys the perks of Billy's Shazam form; he doesn't start getting snippy until Billy decides he wants to go solo after being told he's like the Shazam form better than Billy.

* BodyguardingABadass: Freddy tries protecting Anthea from a dragon without his powers. Keep in mind she's a Daughter of Atlas and has powers of her own.

* HeroesLoveDogs: Freddy busts up an animal trafficking ring and befriends one of the dogs, which he names Blue.

* TheLancer: The sibling Billy is closest with, but also the one he argues with the most. Freddy is genre savvy with no powers, where Billy is powerful but [[HowDoIShotWeb directionless.]]

* MythologyGag: Freddy has apparently taken the superhero name of "Captain Everyman" and falsely calls Shazam-Billy his sidekick, "Captain Everyman Jr.". This is both a reference and reversal of how, when Billy's superhero form was originally known as Captain Marvel, Freddy's was Captain Marvel, Jr.

** Eugene, the gamer, quickly displays the [[ShockAndAwe Power of Zeus]], and zaps the Sins with it several times (while delightedly [[CallingYourAttacks calling his attacks]] with video game references). Notably, while all the Shazamily members can presumably use this by the sequel, Eugene's the only one besides Billy himself who does so regularly. (Mary only uses lightning onscreen once, and Freddy, Darla, and Pedro don't at all.)

*** The first time, Freddy is used as a hostage by the Daughters and then kidnapped and brought back to their realm, locked in a cell with the Wizard, forcibly interrogated with MindControl by Kalypso, and then he and the Wizard are thrown into a pit to be devoured by the dragon Ladon, surviving solely thanks to Anthea rescuing them. He's saved when his siblings show up to save him and briefly gets his powers back, only to lose them ''again'' shortly after Darla and Eugene lose theirs.

* DistressedDude: Is subjected to this the most out of all the foster kids, and is the ''only'' one of them to directly end up in this position in both movies. It doesn't help that, thanks to his disability, he can't exactly flee from danger nearly as well as the rest of them.

* HeroicWillpower: In ''[[Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods Fury of the Gods]]'', he is the only person shown onscreen who successfully resists Kalypso's CompellingVoice.
** To Kalypso's shock, he is also able to resist Lidon's fear-inducing ability. She says that it should be impossible, indicating that no one has done so before. Given that Lidon has likely interacted with gods, demi-gods, and other superpowered beings, it's all the more impressive that Freddy, in just his human form, had the strength of character to resist.

* FlyingBrick: Freddie's default powerset when Billy shares his power with him. He specializes in flying, but his other physical attributes are not as emphasized.

* SecretlySelfish: During Billy and Freddie's fight, Freddie calls out Billy for letting his powers [[SmugSuper go to his head]] while Billy in turn calls out Freddie for trying to use his association to his powers to get popular with his classmates.

* TurnTheOtherCheek: While Freddie does have his limits, he's actually rather patient with a lot of Billy's early antagonistic attitude.

-->'''Freddie:''' [[BluntYes No.]]

* NiceGirl: Possibly the nicest person in the whole ''SHAZAM!'' movie. When Freddie's hesitant to call Billy "a dick," he instead says that Billy was "the opposite of how Darla is," and Billy immediately understands what he meant, showing that Darla's practically synonymous with niceness.

* BullyBrutality: They hit Freddie with their truck, and use the fact the impact was severe enough to leave a scratch on the paint as a reason to beat him down.

* WatchThePaintJob: They hit Freddie hard enough with their truck for him to leave a scratch and use it as an excuse to beat him up. This is returned by Billy completely wrecking their truck.

** In the second film, Mary was the most effective at saving people from the collapsing Benjamin Franklin Bridge - Billy was busy bantering with civilians, Freddy was busy flirting, Darla spent some time distracted by (and stealing) some kittens, Pedro tried to lift one of the cables to relieve stress on the bridge, and Eugene was trying to fuse the broken cables together. Meanwhile, Mary by far saved the most civilians and took an accurate headcount of the people saved.

* HeroicWillpower: In ''[Film/ShazamFuryOfTheGods Fury of the Gods]'', he is the only person shown onscreen who successfully resists Kalypso's CompellingVoice.