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** The viewer also gets very obvious hints that Marilyn's life is very depressing; she lives in a subsidized housing complex, is implied to be a low-income food worker and her partner is at least verbally abusive. Abandoning Billy didn't help her turn her life around.

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** Even though what Marilyn did to Billy was pretty awful, it's hard not to pity her. She was left to raise a child as a teenager without any support, with her boyfriend out of the picture and her parents having kicked her out. The viewer also gets very obvious hints that Marilyn's current life is very depressing; she lives in a subsidized housing complex, is implied to be a low-income food worker and her partner is at least verbally abusive. Abandoning Billy didn't help her turn her life around. around at all, and really, all it did was leave her life without real love.
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* Thaddeus Sivana didn't have the happiest of childhoods. His [[AbusiveParents father]] and [[BigBrotherBully brother]] constantly talking him down made him insecure enough to fail the test of the Wizard Shazam, and his confusion at said failure caused a car accident that crippled his father, causing further estrangement from them and [[DrivenToVillainy driving him to villainy]].
** Later, Sivana [[LampShading lampshades]] to Shazam the Wizard the [[DeconstructedTrope cruelty]] of telling a bullied little kid with low self-esteem that he's "unworthy".

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* Thaddeus Sivana didn't have the happiest of childhoods. His [[AbusiveParents father]] and [[BigBrotherBully brother]] constantly talking treating him down with mockery and scorn made him insecure enough to fail the test of the Wizard Shazam, and his confusion at said failure caused a car accident that crippled his father, causing further estrangement from them and [[DrivenToVillainy driving him to villainy]].
** Later, Sivana [[LampShading lampshades]] to Shazam the Wizard the [[DeconstructedTrope cruelty]] of telling a bullied little kid with low self-esteem that he's he'll always be "unworthy".
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** The viewer also gets very obvious hints that Marilyn's life is very depressing; she lives in a subsidized housing complex, is probably a low-wage worker and her partner is at least verbally abusive. Abandoning Billy didn't help her turn her life around.

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** The viewer also gets very obvious hints that Marilyn's life is very depressing; she lives in a subsidized housing complex, is probably implied to be a low-wage low-income food worker and her partner is at least verbally abusive. Abandoning Billy didn't help her turn her life around.

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